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Ghost Recon Phantoms features three unique classes of soldier: Assault, Recon and Support. Each class has access to its own combination of weapons and technological devices with a strategic role to play.
Suppress the enemy to allow your squad to advance or muscle your way through hardened enemy positions
Gather intelligence, use stealth to outsmart the enemy and protect your team
Master electronic warfare to disrupt the enemy team, while packing serious firepower
In addition to protecting you from incoming rounds, cover improves your accuracy, reduces recoil, and increases your health-regeneration rate. Press [SPACE] to enter or slide into cover.
Your HUD will alert you when an object on the map can be used for protection. While in cover, you can change stances, peek around the sides or top to view the battlefield and even lean around to target an enemy on the opposite side.
Capturing control points is the true objective of any GRP match. The team that coordinates best and fights as a unit is the victor. Every map features 1-5 control points which represent the objectives of the mission. A control point is captured over time by the team with the most players within the capture zone; the more players on the point, the faster it will be captured. Accumulating points for kills won't win games – only capturing points will.
Teamwork is the essence of GRP, but there are many different types of teamwork: From the satisfying precision of a well-coordinated strike, to the adrenaline rush of point defense. GRP features three game modes – each with unique objectives and challenges. Each map has a specific game mode and each game mode requires teamwork to succeed.
Both teams attempt to capture and hold a series of five strategic points across the battlefield. The team with the most captures at the end of the match wins.
The attacking team attempts to take three capture points from the defenders. Defenders cannot reclaim lost ground. At the end of the round the teams swap sides and begin again.
Two teams rush a single capture point to see who can maintain control until the end of the round. Victory goes to the team who holds the point for two out of three rounds.
Ghosts deploy cutting-edge technology to secure a strategic advantage on the battlefield. Each class has two unique, upgradeable devices which fill specific roles for the team.
Knock down your enemies with intense speed and the blunt force of your combat shield, which also provides passive protection
Detect enemy units across the battlefield and temporarily reveal their location to your teammates; even through walls
Deploy an advanced projectile deflecting system, capable of deflecting bullets for you and any teammates within the protective sphere
Suppress your enemies with microwaves which cause damage over time and prevent them from using their weapons
Blend into your surroundings with active camouflage and render yourself nearly invisible
Disrupt your enemies with an EMP blast that not only depletes enemy devices, but also briefly disorients them
Being part of a team includes providing technological superiority to your squad. Squad Supports are secondary devices that provide passive benefits to you and nearby teammates, with additional benefits for members of your Tactical Team.
Increase your capacity to withstand enemy fire for you and nearby teammates
Locate enemies within the vicinity when they fire their weapons and highlight them for your team
Keep your team's guns firing longer with more bullets for you and nearby allies
Speed up your health regeneration even away from cover and help nearby teammates heal faster
Identify moving enemy targets within short distances, even through walls and highlight them for your team
Charge your own device and those of nearby teammates faster to maximize the effectiveness of your team
Team play is essential to Ghost Recon Phantoms victory and there is no greater teamwork than between those united under a common banner and purpose; A clan. With dedication, skill and the will to win, a clan can leave a lasting legacy.
Once you reach level 10, you have the ability to create your own clan, which includes your own clan name, tag and crest. After establishing your clan you can invite your friends or other players online and assign them ranks – Commander, Officer, or Soldier.
In order to join an existing clan you'll need to receive an invitation from a clan Officer or the clan Commander. Clans are often looking for new members in public matches. If you enjoy playing with members of a particular clan you can whisper to them and ask if they're recruiting new members. Clan invitations will appear as a popup similar to fireteam invites.
Clan matches are the highest level of Ghost Recon Phantom gameplay. Any member of the clan is able to challenge any member of another clan to clan match, but each clan will require an agreed number of members to compete. Organizing a clan match often takes planning in advance to make sure that each side has sufficient clan members ready and to select which map you wish to play.
Should you get disconnected or quit a clan match, you are allowed to re-join the same match so long as it hasn't ended. Bear in mind that in doing so your score will be reset to zero upon returning.
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Maybe we could elaborate the topics and describe how it should work in detail. Maybe SDN team will not like that but will have an outline about what is needed, how long will it take to implement it and what are the reasons for the certain details to have. We could even estimate how much would it take to implement for us. We all are the programmers here so we could estimate the cost in some standard JSP, PHP, .NET. Would be better than nothing, wouldn´t it? Regards Otto
Mylene your wishlist TOC is excellent compilation of many of the ideas raised here by other community members. Thanks for doing that diligence and consolidating and linking. We for our part are also evaluating how to make the process of idea exchange, evolution, implementation more structured and transparent.
I'd have to do a bit of archeology and pinging of fellow colleagues and ex-colleagues to reconstruct the complete illustrated history of the forums on SDN/SCN and perhaps even with all our strategic ppts and strategy contents that still might be a somewhat less-than-satisfactory exercise.. Understand that the entire website is and was an evolution. And, despite the fact that there were many stages of planning and execution (and learning from other communities and environments) a great deal of what happens here and in any healthy community is based on dynamism, diversity and density (to quote a heroine of mine Jane Jacobs) and the idea of spontaneous and sprawling growth is not necessarily a negative thing. One can over-engineer and over-structure a community to death (Read about Jacobs community theories in Life and Death of Great American cities). She is considered one of the grand architects of healthy, intelligent community growth and I think there are many important corollaries.
To those that are concerned about the "listening" and the participation of SAP in these dialogues, trust me, best to know that we are hear listening, thinking fast and hard how to assimilate some of these ideas, raising others to offer and counter but perhaps it might not be in the community's best interest if we were constantly over-vocal or too vocally engaged in this conversation in that it seems to understand the needs we need first and foremost to tap into your community responses and opinions and yes, evolving wishlists and requests.
Quiet doesn't mean uninterested and inattentive. It may simply denote listening.
There are new members of our SCN team who are in the process of learning as well.
You might be interested to see that much of what you are thinking and feeling here is also reflected in the recent Survey results which will soon be posted publicly in the form of a blog by editor Keith Elliott.
Thank you, Marilyn, for the post. It is a nice feeling to be pleasantly surprised like this.
I have one question: I understand the work is being done inhouse and the real-time involvement of the Community members is not probably possible. But, i hope, there is a way we can increase our changes - how can we spare your time, how can we formalize the suggestions to help the in-house-hard-workers deal with the output of the Community with less effort.
There must be something we could do. If we would have to wait passively, stand in the corner, it would ...tear apart the spirit that has created these suggestions/ this value (for me that is a real value, even if that is not yet implemented).
You can see and feel the potential, the energy, the time and the brains here, there must be a way you could use the energy. I am sorry for the word "must", but that is how we feel it (I do feel it this way and dare to speak in the name of the others as well). Regards Otto
For those who didn´t know this way of co-operation has a name, note this is called the crowdsourcing.
If you would like to learn more about it, check the presentation here: http://www.icclab.com/content/what-we-do
Regards Otto
p.s.: SAP has a crowd of people here with a great energy, knowledge and enthusiasm here and needs to learn how to utilize it
pp.ss.: also check this one: http://www.asset-sbit.nl/images/stories/ego/jaargang9_editie2/ego_jaargang%209_editie%202_artikel%20boons.pdf
Edited by: Otto Gold on May 11, 2010 3:01 PM
Edited by: Otto Gold on May 11, 2010 3:14 PM
The must is an imperative for us as well. I'm fairly confident you will soon see a platform for ideas more publicly exposed but before that happens, we here on the SCN team also need to be confident that such a mechanism is properly resourced, engaged with and implemented in a way that will be satisfactory and productive to both sides (community and SCN team). At the moment I am left saying thanks to all of you here for your drive and determination to push the must forward positively and assure that suggestions here are not only viewed but being incorporated into that strategy that Mylene asked about in a previous part of the thread.
I noticed some possible inconsistencies regarding naming conventions, for example the term "BI" refers in SAP lingo as far as I am aware to the SAP BusinessObjects front-end tools such as Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, Xcelsius.
The term "BW" refers to the backend, therefore it is called "BW Accelerator" (BWA) (instead of BI Accelerator/BIA)
Are there plans to update SDN according to the official naming strategy?
Another question, sometimes I see Xcelsius referred to as "Crystal Xcelsius", I am not sure why is that, just seems inconsistent, as the downloads etc. all refer to "Xcelsius", and it never was a Crystal product.
Hi Andreas,
Over the past few months we've been aligning SCN with the technology map, to be more consistent with the way solutions are communicated. You may have noticed that the pages and navigation have been updated. The next step is to update the forums structure to address the inconsistenices, including the ones you have identified. BI refers to the SAP BusinessObjects BI portfolio of solutions, including Enterprise, Xcelsius, and BI OnDemand among others. As for Xcelsius, its former name was Crystal Xcelsius which is why you may see it referred to as such.
Please stay tuned for more information about the forums restructuring. We hope to finalize the plans soon.
Hi everyone,
I've been listening as well, as part of the SCN Collaboration Team. I am one of the new members that Marilyn mentions so yes, I am still learning! And I appreciate all your comments in this forum and the thread, it helps me understand the community needs better.
A couple of comments from my side:
- We listen to all the suggestions given by the Community and take the time to discuss them internally, evaluate their priority and then we make a formal request to IT for a new feature or an enhancement. This takes some time and sometimes, it's true, we have to prioritize. Sometimes as well, changes can be part of a bigger project and that leads us to rethinking the overall picture
- An example of us listening and taking action: I recently found out about the limit of characters in the forums and want to see if it is possible to increase the number of characters allowed. I've taken this to the team and we will contact IT to find out if the circumstances have changed, if we can increase the limit without burdening our servers too much.
- I would like to repeat here that we see the upcoming Idea Place as a good platform to collect ideas from the community, in a structured way, and to act on them and provide feedback back to the community.
- Yes we have moderator guidelines and moderators have the possibility to interact with each other, on a private forum, to exchange tips, best practices, ask questions, etc. There are already doing a great job for content quality and abuse management, I think we can thank them for that.
- About the ability to see how many people follow a thread, what would be the value for you? I mean, if you don't see if it's SAP people or other, what does it bring to you? Doesn't the number of views give you an indication of the attention given to the thread? I am trying to understand the request here.
- I saw you comment on abuse categories, could you maybe specify here what additional categories you would like to see? And hopefully the words will not be filtered by the system...
Thank you for engaging with us and for your help to improve the forums.
Edited by: Laure Cetin on May 13, 2010 9:38 PM
Hello Laure,
Great to see that members of the official SCN team are directly interacting with the forum members for suggestions and improvements and thank you for providing the examples of the steps being taken for the suggestions given. I think you missed to give feedback on one of the other main suggestion which has been going rounds for quite sometime. The addition of the new option to close a thread as unanswered. Any decision or outcome on that yet?
Because the purpose is to find an answer to your question, right? We don't want the question to be flagged "couldn't be answered" and fall in the "oubliette",
This is not necessary. You play play around with such threads.
1) a space (forum??) accessed from any forum, where all such questions will be moved. Answering question from this void would be challenging. People like us (the enthustics:)) could try to answer the questions without caring where did the question come from (what forum).
2) could be challenging like you can get double points by answering the question or something. or any other mechanism that would... indicate one is active in this particular area (like a contrbutions tab for this purpose)
3) or any other ways the people could come us. Well, guys (girls), what do you think?
Regards Otto
Hi Laure,
We raised this point within the team a while ago, and we started discussing a way to have these questions answered. Because the purpose is to find an answer to your question, right? We don't want the question to be flagged "couldn't be answered" and fall in the "oubliette", which in French literally means "forgotten place".
Excellent point, but to me the goal find an answer to my question is not only applicable to questions that I posted, but also to the ones that I didn't post yet. So let me hijack the thread once more...
I'd prefer if we look beyond the needs of the original poster and also consider that the lifetime of a thread goes beyond the time where people actively post to it. What arguments speak against considering the forums as a knowledge base?
For a knowledge base any feature that allows us to identify and retrieve valid information quicker (and mark wrong/outdated information) is useful. I know I'm belaboring old points, but I like to point again to the [stackoverflow site|http://stackoverflow.com/], which has many interesting features that support the knowledge base aspect:

Possibility to vote on questions/answers and different sorting capabilities to make finding the proper information easier

Tags instead of fixed structures to account for the fact that questions are often in more than one category (e.g. like it's done already for blogs)

A more useful point system, yet full open access (e.g. I think it's great to keep the site open by allowing anybody to post, but having [some features only available to more seasoned users|http://stackoverflow.com/faq]; and of course much more like the [bounty|http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/reputation-bounty-for-unanswered-questions/] feature...). As a sidenote, if SAP would really want to make this more of an expert forum, why don't they limit posting questions to users with a certain minimum number of points? (I personally prefer "open" sites, but that's just me.)

Consider editing of answers without any restrictions (i.e. now impossible if somebody replied) - this would require further adjustments to keep a consistent and reasonable structure, but would be a great benefit for later searches, because one would not need to wade through all postings in a thread

Cheers, harald
One more thought:
One of the problems that I see is that some members treat the forum as a consulting service. They ask and ask and ask questions, but are not willing to give anything back to the forum by helping others out by answering there questions, blogging or adding to the WIKIs.
We already have some controls in place to ensure that users cannot have more than ten open questions at a time, but I really don't think this helps much. But since some treat the forum as a consulting service, we could force them to actually pay for the service they receive. Monetary payments wouldn't work but we could do something like this:
When a new user joins, he or she is given say 100 complimentary points (not the same as point system points). Every time a user asks a new question or responds to his or her post, a point is deducted. Every time someone else responds to his or her post a point is deducted from the OP's total.
But every time a user responds to a post, the responder has a point added to his or her total.
This would encourage (force) users to be more active in the forum by helping others out.
It would also encourage people to think their questions through before posting and discourage FAQs, because their point totals would go down if they get too many answers (FAQ) or have to repeatedly explain their problem.
One of the problems that I see is that some members treat the forum as a consulting service.
My support! My opinion: For me anything would be better than nothing. At least I hate situations like: no point received, 100 posts/ questions asked. Even 1:1 would be better than nothing (of course for more than like 10 posts for example).
When a new user joins, he or she is given say 100 complimentary points (not the same as point system points). Every time a user asks a new question or responds to his or her post, a point is deducted. Every time someone else responds to his or her post a point is deducted from the OP's total.
Such approach seems seems to be based on the underlying assumption that posted questions and comments to own questions are kind of parasitic. However, consider the nice posting from Hermann DELETE WHERE sample case that i would like to share with you, which is a good counter example.
Also, I'd like to repeat that I don't see anything wrong with posting only questions without answering some as long as the posted questions are interesting. I do agree though that questions that haven been answered before (where the answer should be easy to find) and especially questions stating just requirements and asking for a solution are annoying.
Possible approaches for this problem and forum rule violations in general:

Enforce compliance via point system, by requiring a minimum number of points for postings and deducting points for forum violations. This should at least slow down people with questionable intentions and be quite effective if one could also prevent point farm schemes (i.e. people creating multiple user ID's and using them to accumulate points).
I would refrain though from introducing several point systems (what would be the goal of each and why do they have to be separate). I prefer one point system indicating (to some degree) proficiency, which can be increased or decreased based on some posting evaluation scheme (and obviously here's plenty of room for improvement on SDN).

Have a powerful voting/filtering system in place that allows users to mark/suppress rubbish postings.

In the end I think it would make sense to have different user classes (not all are equal) and gradually increase capabilities within the forums to trusted/proficient users. Right now we only seem to distinguish between moderators and all others. One example might be that users with a given level of proficiency can vote on postings with forum violations and a certain number of votes would automatically move the posting to a hall of shame forum (kind of a spam folder, thus keeping references intact and serving as a reminder to think before posting)...
Cheers, harald

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Watch out for the deer ... and good luck
November 15, 2010 - Neil Rudel
I am not a hunter. I feed the door, not shoot them.
But I appreciate the outdoors and think it would be a peaceful and challenging experience to track down one down and, I guess, shoot it.
And though I don't see myself ever actually doing it, my acceptance toward the sport grows each time I drive our nation's highways, particularly at this time of the year.
En route to Columbus for the Penn State massacre, er, game, Cory Giger and I witnessed one dead deer after another along Route 70 in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio.
I lost count after 30 and can safely say I have never seen that many dead deer on one stretch of road.
If deer must live such an existence that results in tragic death -- that jeopardizes the lives of drivers and passengers -- having them shot and ultimately harvested is a better alternative.
I have hit a couple of deer. Proceeding North on Logan Boulevand one year following a Thanksgiving meal (mine, not hers) a deer charged out of the woods and slammed into my vehicle.
Neither of us ever had a chance. I hit the deer hard but did not kill it. Instead, her legs were broken, and she had to be shot by state police, which arrived shortly thereafter.
Very sad.
Buck season starts two weeks from today. Good luck.


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It's Fall – Time to Eat to the Beet!JulieVR
Fall means harvest season, which means root veggies like beets are at their peak – bundles of earthy purple (and orange, and zebra-striped) roots are piled high at the farmers' markets. They keep well, as long as you trim their greens, and are fantastic to cook with if you think beyond simply roasting them. (Not that there's anything wrong with that!) From red velvet cupcakes to roasted beet salads to borscht – here are ten ways to eat to the beet.
Roasted Beet Hummus 1 of 10Roasted beets whirl beautifully into hummus, giving it a brilliant Barney-purple hue. It looks stunning on a holiday table!
Make roasted beet hummus
Red Velvet Cupcakes 2 of 10Yes, these are red velvet cupcakes — made with beets! A delicious creation from Catherine McCord of the popular kid-food blog, Weelicious.
Make red velvet cupcakes
Roasted Beet and Orange Salad 3 of 10In this pretty plated salad, the sweetness and heartiness of beets is tempered by the brightness and acidity of the oranges and champagne vinegar. So nice presented on a platter!
Make roasted beet and orange salad
Red Velvet Hot Chocolate 4 of 10It's a red velvet cupcake — made sippable! Beets give it a rosy red color, without the need for artificial food coloring.
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Beet Chocolate Cake 5 of 10This dense chocolate bundt cake gets some of its moisture from grated beets — they disappear into the cake, much like zucchini or carrots!
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Raw Beet Salad with Oranges 6 of 10Yes, you can eat beets raw! Bright winter oranges make a perfect pairing in this simple salad.
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Eva's Heritage Borscht 7 of 10Could we do a beet round-up without including borscht? This hearty classic is loaded with good things — everything you'll find at the fall farmers' market!
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Roasted Beet Salad with Goat Cheese and Candied Pecans 8 of 10It's a classic - the beet-goat cheese-pecan combo atop spring greens with balsamic vinaigrette is a winner every time!
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Roasted Beet and Butternut Squash Soup 9 of 10The combination of purple beets and orange butternut squash produces a devilishly pure red soup - mug of blood for Halloween, anyone?
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Pickled Beets 10 of 10One of the best ways to preserve beets for winter is to pickle them - it's easier than you might think!
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A week ago, San Antonio Spurs free agent center Aron Baynes and the Australian National team took down Spurs forward Boris Diaw and France 76-74. Sunday in Strasbourg, France, Diaw and Les Bleus used a 23-10 scoring advantage in the fourth quarter to get their revenge on Australia with a 73-50 victory in exhibition play.
Both Diaw and Baynes led their countries in scoring with 17 points apiece, as here were their stat lines from the match.
Diaw: 17 points (3-of-4 from three), 5 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals, 1 block in 26 minutes
Baynes: 17 points, 11 rebounds, 1 steal, 3 blocks in 25 minutes
Portland Trail Blazers forward Nicolas Batum scored 12 points and grabbed six rebounds for France, while Utah Jazz rookie Dante Exum only played seven minutes off the bench for two points and three rebounds.
According to the FIBA exhibition match schedule, this was the last friendly game both squads will play before the actual 2014 World Cup begins on Saturday, August 30. Diaw and France will open the World Cup against Spurs center Tiago Splitter and Brazil on Saturday. Baynes and Australia will face Slovenia in their opening cup matchup.


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Transatlantic: Whirld Tour 2010 Deluxe Edition
Whirld Tour 2010: Deluxe Edition
Radiant Records/Metal Blade Records
When Transatlantic wowed a Montreal, Canada audience back in April 2010, as part of its Whirld Tour in support of the 77-minute progressive rock epic, The Whirlwind (Radiant/Metal Blade, 2009), a few things stood out. First, for a group who, in the course of over three hours, played only six songsfour in excess of 30 minutesTransatlantic's ability to not just navigate, but remember a seemingly endless slew of complex arrangementsfilled with irregular meters, mind-numbing stops and starts, and sound worlds ranging from the near-ambient to the ear-shattering and anthemically transcendentseemed almost impossible to recreate, night after night. And yet, based on web reports and Whirld Tour 2010: Deluxe Edition, clearly they did.
Second, while Transatlantic's primary singing voice is that of keyboardist/guitarist Neal Morseco-founder of Spock's Beard, but leaving both that group, and Transatlantic, at least for nine years, when he became a "born again" and decided to pursue a kind of progressive Christian music on albums like the recent So Many Roads (Radiant, 2009)it became clear just how democratic the band really is, and that now ex-Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy is as much, if not more, a spokesperson for the group.
Third, at least based on the Montreal performance, if there is any single star in the groupdespite everyone, including Pain of Salvation singer Daniel Gildenlöw (recruited as a member of the touring band playing guitars, keyboards and percussion), playing at an incredibly high level of energy and commitmentSwedish guitarist Roine Stolt stood out, with solo-after-solo of tasty tones and remarkable invention that transcended his own fine projects, including his flagship The Flower Kings and, most recently, Agents of Mercy, which released Dramarama (Reingold Records) in the fall of 2010.
And now, with the 2010 tour but a memory, comes Whirld Tour 2010, a document of the group's Shepherd's Bush, London show, released in three versions: a double-DVD, triple-CD (of the same show, but remixed) and the Deluxe Edition, with all five discs. Watching the show, and reliving the Montreal show through it, a couple more impressions dominate. First, this is a band that, despite playing for over three hours, is having fun, each and every night; in fact, everyone appears to be having the times of their lives, and why not? As great as their individual projects arePete Trewevas, a thrilling bassist/vocalist, gets the opportunity here to play in ways that his work with Marillion only intimatesTransatlantic surpasses all of them. If there's ever been a case of the whole being larger than the sum of its parts, Transatlantic is it. Second, while there are plenty of bands that exude energy, there's an unmistakable sense of optimism that's felt throughout the show. There's plenty of talk about the spiritual nature of the lyrical content, and looking into the backgrounds of most of Transatlantic's playersnot just Morseit's clearly a driving force.
But what makes Transatlantic work where other groups might fail is that, as much as the lyrical content is about transcendent glory and deeply religious sentiments, the group never proselytizes; it's personal, autobiographical and somehow more reporting than preaching. This is still rock and roll, after all, albeit of the most challenging nature, and when Portnoy crowd surfs in the middle of the group's "Stranger in Your Soul"which, combined with the shorter ballad, the title track to the group's Bridge Across Forever (Radiant, 2001), forms an encore that runs nearly 40 minutesit's not something you'd expect to see from groups singing about surrendering to God.
Transatlantic's Roine Stolt
As long and complex as the episodic epics are, and as many traps as the group sets itself to fall into self-indulgence (there's no shortage of instrumental pyrotechnics and bombast: this is prog rock, after all) Transatlantic completely avoids the bloated sense of self-importance which has scuttled legacy groups like Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Instead, when it breaks into snippets of Santana's "Soul Sacrifice," Deep Purple's "Highway Star"even a little Star Wars and the McDonalds' "I'm Lovin' It" themeit's all playful and fresh, even though it's something the group does each and every night. Everyone switches instruments near the end of "Stranger in Your Soul" and, instead of being impressive in just how good, for example, Neal Morse is on drums, it's more just good fun. Smiles, nods and eye contact are definitive throughout the show, and when it's all over, it's an emotionally uplifting experience...something few concert DVDs manage to impart.


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It's Muslim Day at Six Flags Magic Mountain on Saturday and Santa Clarita resident A.J. Jones is curious to know if the park hosted other religious events in the past.
This is Magic Mountain's first year hosting Muslim Family day. It is far from its first time hosting a religious event, said park spokeswoman Sue Carpenter.
"I think it's great as long as they open it up to everyone," said Jones, whose friend works at the park.
Jones is concerned the park's supervisors asked the employees to wear pants Saturday to cover their legs despite the unusually high heat. "I think its kind of strange," Jones said. "It's been so hot for pants."
But Carpenter said not to worry.
"Out of respect, we request the employees wear their uniform pants, instead of their shorts," Carpenter said. "It is only a request, it is not mandatory."
The Islamic Circle of North America requested the day as a celebration for end of Ramadan. Muslim Family Day comes just five days after the end of Ramadan, a Muslim religious observance in which participating Muslims fast from dawn until sunset.
Park officials will try to meet the Muslim group's needs as it does with any other group, Carpenter said.
"There will be a plethora of things to do for the youth and the entire family including halal food stalls, ethnic bazaar and family entertainment" the event's Web site states.
The group is hosting Muslim Family and Youth Days in seven other United States cities this fall.
All those who attend will take part in what the group claims is "The largest American Muslim event."
The theme park expects a busy day Saturday and the park will remain open to the general public and host the first day of its annual Halloween Fright Fest, Carpenter said.


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> 1911 education
June 17, 2004, 11:18 PM
I know almost nothing about 1911 type pistols...lets start with basics some tell me about the different sizes...commander/officers/etc. I am sure there are others
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June 18, 2004, 01:22 AM
Kruzr gave you a good place to start.
There are various versions of the 1911 gun made in calibers from .22LR all the way up to .50 caliber. Barrel lengths run from 3" for micro compact type guns to 6" for long slide versions.
Government Model - full size frame, 7-8 round mag, 5" barrel
Commander Model - full size frame, 7-8 round mag, 4.25" barrel
Officers - shortened frame, 6-7 round mag, 3.5" barrel
Defender - compact version, 6 round mag, 3" barrel
The names given are specific to the Colt brand and the ammo capacities are for the 45ACP. However, these are the most common sizes and each manufacturer will have something comparable, with slight variations. Springfield for example calls their mid size gun the Champion an the barrel is 4" rather than the 4.25" of the Colt.
Those are the basics. For more details go to the site Kruzr suggested and read everything.
Then start saving your money, because after you understand them, you'll want one.
June 18, 2004, 08:21 AM
Three of my preferred 1911 sites in addition to the above mentioned site:
June 18, 2004, 12:46 PM
Thanks...I will start tonight
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Cat Survives 35-Minute Washing Machine Cycle
The sixth-month-old feline spent 35 minutes trapped inside a washing machine cycle but managed to make it out alive.
Having emerged with a severe case of hypothermia, Natasha was brought to an animal hospital by her owner, Daryl Humdy. Her reason for admission led her to receive the "Most Unusual Claim Award" by the company Veterinary Pet Insurance.
"My roommate was loading his laundry and left the lid to the washing machine open while he went to the next room to grab more clothes," Humdy said in a statement. "He came back, threw his clothes in and shut the lid to the washing machine without realizing that Natasha had jumped into it while he had been away."
Despite the mishap, Natasha made a full recovery and is now back to her usual tricks in the pair's apartment – with one exception.
"My roommate and I are much more cautious around the house now, because we would hate for her to have to go through something like that again," Humdy said, admitting that Natasha "had always been very curious about the washing machine."


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WEST CHESTER — Less than 15 percent of registered voters turned out for Tuesday's primary election in Chester County, in what some close to the election called one of the lowest turnouts in memory.
"It seemed to be a very light turnout," Sally Weil, president of the county's League of Women Voters, said yesterday. "But there were a lot more write-ins than we have seen in a long time."
Linda Cummings, director of county Voter Services, said on Tuesday that a turnout of 15 to 20 percent was average for primary elections. Initial numbers suggested that just more than 13 percent of the county's registered voters turned out Tuesday.


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Readers' Reflections: What is your favorite faith-related website?
We asked readers this month about their favorite faith-related websites. Here is what you had to say:
I have been extremely blessed by the Daily Audio Bible podcast that began Jan. 1, 2006, by its founder, Brian Hardin. It started with 250 listeners, and it now reports that on Jan. 26, 2013, there have been 56,675,511 downloads of the DAB from all over the world! Listeners read the Bible through in a year with Brian by reading a section of the New and Old Testaments along with a Psalm and Proverbs each day. There is also a brief commentary and prayer at the end, which I have always found to be excellent. People call in literally from all over the world with prayer requests and praise reports. I have listened over three years and have found Brian Hardin to be very humble and accountable to the family of listeners. I highly recommend this podcast. Dailyaudiobible.com is the website.
-- Nancy Lechtner, Erie Christian Fellowship Church, Millcreek Township
My favorite faith-related website is Awmi.net. It is Andrew Wommack's home page and, of course, the reason anybody goes to a ministry's website is because they like what they find. And I like anything I find on his website, because I agree with almost all of his teaching and preaching. I mention teaching because his ministry is more of a teaching ministry than a preaching ministry. There is a lot of showmanship out there, and Andrew is definitely not one of them. That is why the website is my favorite, because I can learn as if in a school from most anything that is there. It is not just a store, but a huge database for Bible information. He has most of his 40-year ministry archived, and you can get it for free (like Jesus charged).
-- Bill Morrison, First Church of the Nazarene, Millcreek Township
It doesn't seem, immediately, like this would be a faith-related website. I go to Inspire.com, to share, care, and receive information about my own disease, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, and get messages from others with the same disease and their caregivers.
We just lost a couple of people, who were a part of this website. The messages of condolences to the families, and referencing the people, themselves, almost exclusively include faith messages, inspirational thoughts and prayers, and continue to press forward with messages of faith, inspiration, compassion, understanding, hope and desires for those still dealing with their diseases on a daily basis.
Faith is prominent throughout topics of discussion, journal messaging and personal messages sent. This website is for many diseases, but I am most familiar with IPF. I'm certain faith filters throughout the various other degenerative disease discussions as well.
-- Patricia Barron, Millcreek Community Church, Millcreek Township
Two of my favorite sites are Adf.org, the official website for Ar nDraoicht Fein, a Druid Fellowship, and Witchvox.com, which is one of the most visited sites for pagan news and articles from around the country.
-- Rev. Christopher Temple, also known as Grollwynn, Whispering Lake Grove, ADF
My favorite faith-related website is currently Studylight.org. It offers me wonderful Bible study tools that I have not found anywhere else. You can look up a passage and then select any word in the text and find its Hebrew or Greek origins. From there you can learn the definition of the word as well as where else in the Bible that word appears.
This site also has devotionals like Oswald Chambers that open to today's date, There are many other resources like commentaries, dictionaries and encyclopedias, and concordances. It is pretty much one-stop shopping for the believer who is trying to be a faithful disciple. Speaking of shopping, they have that also.
One other site bears mentioning. Fln.org is the home page of Family Life Network -- a ministry that includes 70 radio signals in northern Pennsylvania and western New York. They have a link to all of their radio personalities as well as links to multiple radio streams.
-- Rev. Darrell Greenawalt, Saegertown
What is my favorite faith-related website is a good question. It really depends on what sort of information and material I'm looking for. My focus tends to be on Catholic sites. For basic news and analysis, I like Catholicculture.org. For non-Catholic sites, I read mostly the print version, but a good site for more academic analysis is Firstthings.com. I like these sites because their articles and blog posts are both intellectual and helpful to the spiritual life. They educate, enlighten the mind and enrich my faith.
-- Deacon Dennis Kudlak, St. Mark Catholic Center, Erie
The website that I visit most frequently offers Bible studies, daily inspiration, resources for help with health, relationships, personal challenges and problems of all kinds, as well as information on how to directly reach people trained to answer questions and offer help through prayer. This site is called Christianscience.com.
From this website, one finds other spirituality-oriented sites formulated to answer the needs of anyone, of whatever age, language or religious background, links to the Christian Science Monitor, and many other inspirational and informative resources.
BibleGateway.com is also a very useful tool for Bible study. It allows the student to look up a verse or a chapter in several English translations of the Bible, and in many other languages.
-- Claudette Bedard, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Erie
Editor's note: The Christian Science website Claudette Bedard wrote about ends with .com and is not to be confused with a similarly named site.


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Hansel & Gretel, Witch Hunters: Unrated Cut
$39.99 (Blu-ray/DVD/digital copy), Paramount
Fairy tales are frequently macabre — they can be like horror tales for kiddies — but the story of Hansel and Gretel is downright sick.
A brother and sister are attracted to a house made of cake; they are captured by the witch within, who fattens them up for the oven; but the tykes turn the tables, throwing the witch in the oven. Imagine the screams. Imagine the stench. Imagine the PTS suffered by Hansel and Gretel.
The twist concocted by Norwegian writer-director Tommy Wirkola is that H&G grow up to become, to witches, what Van Helsing is to vampires.
This sort of update is hardly groundbreaking; it's merely part of a bleak trend that includes "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012) and "Red Riding Hood" (2011).
As Hansel, Yankee movie star Jeremy Renner heads up a we-are-the-world cast: British Gemma Arterton as Gretel, who specializes in head-butts; Netherlander Famke Janssen as Muriel, a dastardly witch who covets Gretel's heart (literally); Finnish Pihla Viitala as Mina, a "white witch" with the hots for Hansel; and Swedish Peter Stormare as Sheriff Berringer, whose nose takes the brunt of Gretel's fury.
Final answer: The setup is cool; the concept is cool; the execution is an FX-laden mess.
The unrated cut has enough gore to warrant coverage in Fangoria, and plenty of vulgar language. Extras include a making-of featurette on the creation of Edward, a sympathetic giant troll.
$39.99 (Blu-ray/digital copy), Summit Entertainment
You've gotta hand it to Ric Roman Waugh, director of "Snitch." He delivers an action movie that never goes over the top, never tumbles into "Die Hard" territory. And he coaxes an understated performance from Dwayne Johnson.
But there's much you can't buy. We're told "Snitch" is based on "true events"; this is reiterated in an accompanying featurette. But, seriously, would a state's attorney green-light an untrained civilian dad to go undercover among murderous drug dealers? If it did happen this way in real life, the movie fails to convince us so.
Johnson plays John Matthews, successful owner of a construction company whose son from a previous marriage, Jason (Rafi Gavron), makes a big mistake. As a favor to a friend, Jason accepts delivery of a box of dope. Some "friend"; busted while shipping the box, he fingers Jason. Under a tough new law, Jason will do 10 hard years.
Thus, John makes a deal with the state's attorney (Susan Sarandon) to reduce Jason's sentence if he can bring in usable evidence on real-deal dealers. These include Michael Kenneth Williams (unforgettable as Omar in "The Wire") as local dealer Malik and Benjamin Bratt (unforgivable as some dude in "Catwoman") as a cartel kingpin known as "El Topo." John Bernthal (Shane in "The Walking Dead") is intense as an ex-con employee of John who is drawn into the sting.
Extras include a making-of featurette, audio commentary by Waugh and deleted scenes.
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In tribute to Officer Jason Schneider
UPDATED 1:18 PM EDT Aug 29, 2013
On Wednesday morning, a Baltimore County police officer just doing his job was tragically killed.
Officer Jason Schneider leaves behind a wife and two children and a police community left to mourn a life lost too soon.
Officer Schneider's death is a reminder of the sacrifice police officers and all other first responders make every hour of every day. Their heroism is often overlooked and thanks is seldom rendered.
So we want to take a moment now to thank the family of Officer Schneider for his sacrifice and service, and to all other first responders, we offer our humble gratitude.
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Of all things to crochet, flowers can be some of the most rewarding. Who doesn't love flowers? Especially ones as nice as the Columbine flower. Follow this pattern for great results. This flower has 5 petals in light lavender with dark lavender center and yellow stamens.
- Red Heart Yarn, Center – Lavender #584 2 yds.
- Red Heart Yarn, Petals – Light Lavender #579 7 yds.
- Stamens – DMC #973
- H hook
Center of Flower:
With H hook and lavender [leave 30" for behind petals], ch 5 and form a ring, 10 sc in ring, join to beg sc and fasten off leaving about 6" of yarn to close up center hole.
Join light lavender *(sc, dc, 2 trc) in sc, (2 trc, dc, sc) in next sc to form a petal, rep from * around, join to beg sc and fasten off. (5 petals)
With 6" of yarn left weave to close up center hole.
With 6 strands DMC #973 work 8 french knots in very center of the flower.
(Continue with Rnd 1 as established in general instructions.)
General Instructions:
- If sewing flower directly to crocheted item omit instructions between [ ].
- If continuing a pattern behind the petals of a flower, use all instructions for the flower then crochet the following:
Rnd 1 – (Behind Petals)
With H hook and 30" strand of yarn (left behind flower) work in center of the
flower *sc between any 2 sc, ch 3, cont from * around evenly spacing 3 more
ch 3 sps, join to beg sc and fasten off. (4 ch 3 sps)
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I like the simplicity and size. It is nice for a little girl or a cluster of them for a headband.
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It seems I start most posts with an apology for silence, sorry! :P
Here's an old article (original drafts) on Bersih for archival purposes. First published:
Objective Bersih
Objectivity and objective oriented thinking are among the first things we should hope to instill in any child, scholar or citizen.
In that spirit, this article will in two parts attempt to examine the following: what matters most about this rally (versus what does not), an analysis of both the police car that ran into protestors as well as the barricade breach incident, and what Saturday tells us about the government, leaders, and people of Malaysia.
What matters most
While I cannot resist commenting on the two incidents analysed below, I would like to agree with commentators who observe that harping on these issues are a distraction from what really matters.
What is a distraction is spending hours trying to interpret hand signals. What really matters is electoral reform.
The fundamental principle of democracy is that people should have the full power to decide how their lives are run. When all is said and done, this and only this is the objective of Bersih.
With an electoral system that is dirty and getting dirtier with amendments passed a few weeks ago that actually makes it easier for the ruling party to cheat in an election, citizens are being deprived of the very essence of liberty and freedom.
In short, you no longer control who controls you.
Without a clean and fair electoral system, the powers that be have obtained ways to remain the powers that be forever.
After the rally last Saturday, I made my way to KLCC for dinner with my loved one.
Business was going on as usual, nothing seemed particularly out of place, despite the mayhem on the streets a few hours earlier.
Should the government continue to cheat its way into power, I think that on the surface, most of Malaysia would look more or less the same, just like it did in KLCC.
The insidiousness of the authorities are such that they find ways to cheat, plunder and abuse the powerless while continuing to feed their opiate to the masses, hoping they won't notice.
Bersih is about not letting this happen – and that's what matters.
Violent Bersih supporters?
That said, we are already experiencing no end of spin about how violent these Bersih people are, how the opposition wants to plunge the nation into violent chaos just to gain power, and so on.
In the face of overwhelming video and eyewitness evidence however, lies are exposed, and the truth is laid bare.
In the aftermath, the truth behind two incidents in particular seemed unclear. Again, while mindful that we shall not fall into the government's trap of getting caught up in red herrings and missing the bigger picture mentioned above, let us just for a moment attempt to objectively examine what happened.
An important note: where people cannot or have not been identified, I maintain an open view as to who any one individual may be – a genuine Bersih supporter, a party member, a hooligan along for the 'fun', an undercover policeman, and so on. Without concrete evidence, one cannot as of yet say for sure – thus they shall be referred to merely as individuals.
I came across three videos documenting the incident where a police car smashed into some protestors and ran into a wall.
At first, some of us were suspicious about the confusion that reigned in the immediate aftermath. Some even asked if it was a staged event of some sort, designed to make the protestors look bad.
Only one video shows an aerial view of the moments before the crash. Here, individuals can be seen jumping up and down on the car, and things are thrown continuously at the police vehicle.
It appears that this is in angry response to heavy handed police action the crowd had been experiencing just prior. In my view, attacking the police car as seen just before the crash is still a reprehensible act, whoever the perpetrator.
The police car then swerves off the road to the right, running down what appears to be two or three individuals, and slamming into the wall. The individuals hit fly into the air like bowling pins, one of which can later be seen unconscious lying on the ground to the right of the vehicle, in an area where blood can be seen on the floor.
The crowd rushes to the car, including an individual in a grey t-shirt, shorts, motorcycle helmet and video camera. I am fairly certain this is cameraman Azri Salleh, who works for Al-Hijrah.
Azri is often mistaken as the driver of the car, but careful examination of the video footage clearly shows him running towards the car after the crash.
Piecing together the different video angles, it appears Azri approaches the driver's window, at which point another individual dressed in yellow approaches from his left to do the same.
It is extremely unclear whether this second individual has good or bad intentions. What we can see however is that Azri is for whatever reason extremely agitated and reacts violently, shoving the man in yellow aside angrily.
This seems to set off the surrounding crowd who then proceed to assault Azri briefly, during which he falls to the floor and is beaten and kicked for a few seconds, after which the individuals doing so seem to stop. Azri is then seen walking away slowly completely unaccosted.
The video then shows two more individuals (one of which was later interviewed in a video by Free Malaysia Today), approach the car, open the door, and then carefully escort the single policeman driver inside away to safety. The policeman is identified as Mohamad Kamil Paimin.
Throughout this incident, there is someone off screen who is screaming repeatedly that there is someone trapped under the car. The nearby individuals then decide to turn over the car, which shows that there was in fact no one underneath.
A number of things surrounding this incident appeared odd at first viewing. Some of us poured over it trying to understand what was going on, and whether there were hidden hands at play.
Having watched the videos multiple times and reading the accounts that later appeared from those involved, I am personally satisfied that there is no conspiracy behind what happened here.
My view is that Mohamad Kamil most likely lost control of his car after it was attacked. For reasons manifestly unclear, Azri Salleh got into a fight with and was beaten by individuals around him. The car was overturned because people thought there was someone underneath.
Chaos always leads to confusion, and in times of tension and high strung emotion, things play out in unpredictable ways. I feel there is little more to be said about this incident, an incident that is regrettable all around.
The Barricade
The incidents moments prior to the breach of the Dataran Merdeka barricade seem equally unclear.
The question on most people's minds seems to be: who was it that was directly responsible for the first few people breaching the barricade?
The theories range from: the police themselves who surreptitiously opened the barricades in an effort to entrap the protestors, Azmin Ali and or Anwar Ibrahim, and random people in the crowd.
I have watched videos, I have read testimonies, and my conclusion is, well, inconclusive.
Political circles now fervently debate the meaning of hand gestures, conspiracy theorists insist the cops planned this all along, and people less than fond of Pakatan Rakyat insist this was hijacking and/or instigation to unruly behaviour.
While it's certainly possible, I am not optimistic we will get to the bottom of this. Proving it was a police trap will be difficult, and Azmin and Anwar have both explained that they made no instigation for the crowd to breach the barricade.
In Anwar's case, there appears to be clear documentation of him asking the crowd to disperse. As for the rest – there are things I perhaps might not put past certain people, but this is really not the same as saying we know for sure that X did Y.
Not having been made in some established sign language, we cannot interpret hand signals for sure. Not having clear evidence of who it was exactly that opened the barricades, whether police or Bersih supporters, we cannot say for sure one way or the other.
At the end of the day, it basically comes down to who you believe is telling the truth, and who you believe is lying. I myself tend to find that whether we believe someone is truthful or not probably tells us more about how we feel about that person than it does about whether that person is telling the truth.
People do love to speculate, I've certainly been guilty of that myself. After the dust settles however, and when most of the evidence that is likely to emerge has emerged, we must try to take an objective view of things. Thereafter, we conclude for ourselves whatever is fair to conclude, and admit uncertainty where the evidence is contradictory or insufficient.
Having taken a microscopic view, the second part of the article will return to the bigger picture – What are the implications of violence, whoever the perpetrator, for future rallies? How does it reflect on civil society and/or Pakatan Rakyat? And my personal favourite, what the hell was Najib Razak doing all this time?
Bersih & Najib, Our Francesco Schettino
Videos of the police car being overturned during the Bersih 3.0 rally must have been a wet dream come true for BN spinmeisters the likes of Tan Keng Liang.
What can we say objectively about the violence at the rally?
Some posit that all the "violent protestors" were in fact agent provocateurs planted by the powers that be.
This is of course entirely possible, but it cannot be confirmed or denied entirely at this point, based on available evidence. I deem it probably unlikely that every single person who exhibited violence at the rally did so at the secret behest of the authorities.
If there were indeed supporters of Bersih who turned violent at the rally, what does that tell us about Bersih?
I posit: very little indeed.
The people who turned up at the rally are not Bersih "members". There is no such thing.
A rally like this attracts all sorts. I would estimate 99% in attendance (not counting policemen or saboteurs) are fervently committed to a culture of non-violence. Then there is the 1% who, as Batman's butler tells us, "just want to watch the world burn".
In terms of proportions, saying rallies should be banned because violence sometimes occurs would very much be like saying we should ban motorcycles because snatch thieves use motorcycles (although, sometimes the behaviour of some motorcyclists on the road get me thinking this may not be such a bad idea).
Room for improvement?
Could there have been better crowd control on the part of the organisers?
I think the simple answer is yes. I take this view partly because I always believe there is room for improvement. There are very few exceptions indeed to this.
I understand and appreciate the severe constraints and challenges the organisers faced.
I would nonetheless humbly recommend expanding considerable effort in vastly improving the lines of communication from organiser to participant. When hundreds of thousands of people gather, they are looking for firm decisions to be communicated firmly to everyone.
Chaos and confusion are after all always attendant to the absence of clear lines of communication, command and control.
What about the other end of the spectrum?
While we cannot yet say for sure who is responsible for the violence that appears to have been perpetrated by people in yellow shirts and such, there is no doubt regarding extensive video footage of police brutalising unarmed, often helpless citizens.
In many instances, a pack of policeman descend upon an individual who had been separated from the crowd, and beat him mercilessly, without any reason at all. The sight of it curls the stomach, and shows the very worst excesses of people abusing their power and their uniform.
If and when a more systematic collection of this visual evidence is compiled, I believe what we find will be extremely damning.
A measure of last resort
In conclusion to this part of the discussion, two fundamental things:
Firstly, there appear to be no recorded incidents of violence prior to the police firing tear gas and water cannons upon the crowd. A popular theory posits simply: If they had just let us in, none of this would have happened. I generally believe this to be true.
(Of course, if you believe the conspiracy theory about the barricade, then we were "let in" precisely for this to eventually happen).
Secondly, we must examine the hyphothesis: had there been no rally, there would have been no violence.
Indeed, empirically speaking this may seem irrefutable.
At the same time, I think there is no doubt that had there been no rally, there would be even less hope for electoral reform – paving the way for the nightmare of a democracy stolen from the rakyat.
Without resistance, the unjust will always reign unchallenged and supreme.
I have always said no one likes going out in the dead of the afternoon to face tear gas and water cannons (ok, almost no one); but Malaysians will not sit by and watch their fundamental right to chose their own government fairly heinously usurped. That is the simple truth of it.
Seeing how all other measures have so clearly failed to result in meaningful action or reform, hundreds of thousands of Malaysians saw no available alternatives left to ensure the government took notice.
In the end, ordinary Malaysians went out there and risked their all because they believed a line has to be drawn somewhere – and together as one people, we drew that line at Dataran Merdeka.
What was Najib doing?
The government handled Bersih 2.0 and Bersih 3.0 very differently.
In the former, every minister and his/her mother came out to condemn Bersih. This time, the evidence suggests a complete gag order.
Only Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein was sent to do the dirty work, and he didn't seem to have a clue what he was really saying – a feat he seems to have successfully extended post-Bersih.
The other peon sent to the lonely and dangerous front was KL Mayor Ahmad Fuad Ismail. While last year the Prime Minister was at the forefront of discussions about Bersih, this time he sent someone not at the federal level, not at the state level, but at the municipal level.
Who then is responsible for the police violence?
In cases where dogs attack humans, we hold their owners legally responsible.
Equally, I am of the school of thought which believes that when something goes wrong in a ship, there is no point in going after the sailors – ultimately, the captain must always bear final responsibility.
In this respect, Najib's captaincy in this situation most resembles that of Captain Francesco Schettino of the Costa Concordia – the man who refused to return to his sinking ship after he abandoned it, despite being ordered by the Coast Guard to do so to help with the rescue efforts.
This spectacle gave rise to the meme, Vada a bordo, cazzo!, which translates roughly to "Get back on board, you !#$@!"
Imagine the scene.
On the same day that hundreds of thousands of Malaysians went down to the streets and faced tear gas and water cannons to demand clean and fair elections as their fundamental democratic right, the Prime Ministers sits and thinks about an appropriate course of action.
He ponders.
He wonders.
He decides: "I know, I should go to Bukit Tunku and get a hair cut."
Has our Prime Minister gone mad? Does he fancy himself a Nero amidst a burning Rome? Vada a bordo, cazzo!
Having learnt from Bersih 2.0 that the more they tried to suppress Bersih, the worse they looked (a classic case of being trolled), the government – and especially Najib himself – chose to remain utterly quiet this time.
Of course, someone had to be fed to the lions. Hishammuddin, Ahmad Fuad, and the Inspector General of the Police all probably found themselves facing the firing squad with dead silence from the top. I can't imagine how much they must resent the Prime Minister's cowardice.
The trickle down effect of cowardice
This absence of leadership goes a long way in understanding how things happened on the 28th of April.
It seems the only clear instruction to the police from the IGP was: don't do anything unless they breach Dataran.
A number of things: Firstly, this could be why the protesters were "allowed" to breach the barricades, if that was what indeed happened. Secondly, there does not seem to have been clear instruction as to what to do after action began to be taken.
Reviewing the videos and eyewitness accounts of violence, I find myself thinking of a popular song by the Baha Men.
On Saturday evening, I spoke to someone on the train to KLCC who told of how the police were breaking the peace and forcing their way into restaurants, roughing up anyone in a yellow t-shirt (video evidence has since emerged of such instances). They were chasing Malaysians around town late into the evening, for no apparent reasons whatsoever.
As seen by the way they fired tear gas after people were already dispersing, their motivation seemed to be one of vengeance – vengeance devoid of any real purpose or leadership.
Too long have we endured a culture of police brutality, and too long have we abided those who are truly responsible.
Najib's cowardice in failing to deal with the entire Bersih matter maturely is nothing short of disgusting.
The wise thing to do would have been to let the people gather peacefully at Dataran Merdeka, listen to what they have to say, and then let them disperse peacefully.
If he thought he could happily let some other fall guys take the rap while he shut up for weeks, and then crawl out of the woodwork to whine and spin after the fact (after, of course, his 'urgently needed' haircut), he has another thing coming.
Courage in our final lap
Ultimately, all this is about nothing more and nothing less than the right to choose our leaders fairly.
It was on the last day of parliament that the government – in a move that can only signal truly malicious intent – enacted amendments to electoral laws that actually make it easier for the government to cheat and steal an election.
Some ten days before Bersih (either arrogance or pure desperation), and literally in the dead of night, amidst stopped clocks – they eroded yet another fundamental liberty that is the human right of every Malaysian.
Not until that moment did I realise how serious the ruling party is about cheating, how close they are to the edge, and how desperate they are not to fall off.
One way or another, I feel we are in for some truly challenging months ahead. It may not be long before we can be compared to the worst tyrannies and dictatorships in the world.
Nevertheless, I refuse to let my fear restrain me from taking a stand against injustice.
On the 28th of April, the 9th of July, and the 10th of November before it, Malaysians came together and said Ya basta! Enough is enough.
No more power through corruption, no more apathy through ignorance, no more oppression through tyranny.
The powerful will use every last measure at their considerable disposal to corrupt the democratic process, and we, the rakyat, will have to use every last measure of our considerable strength to resist it.
If ever you despair, you remember that commitment and resolve that was written on the face of every one of your brothers and sisters that came out to walk with you that scorching Saturday afternoon. You remember and you take heart.
Remember, and know this – it may take days, it may take a lifetime; but armed with nothing but our integrity and our conscience, believe me, we shall overcom


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Two people were injured, including one critically, in an early morning fire at a southwest Huntsville home.
Lisa Gail Cooper, 42, received second- and third-degree burns over 90 percent of her body, according to investigators with the Huntsville Fire & Rescue Bureau of Fire Prevention. She was treated at Huntsville Hospital and transferred to the University of Alabama in Birmingham Burn Center, where she is in critical condition, a news release said.
Brianna Lynn Prince, 16, had first- and second-degree burns on her lower legs, the release said. She was treated at Huntsville Hospital and released.
The fire happened about 1 a.m. Tuesday at 2201 North Rose Drive, which is off Ninth Avenue and east of Jordan Lane. The fire was on a deck of the house and caused by careless handling of a flammable liquid near a grill, authorities said.
Brianna Lynn Prince lives at the house with her father, Joseph Lee Prince, fire authorities said.


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Tell the cofounder of Backyard Brains to stop selling live animals and cruel surgery kits.
Tell the cofounder of Backyard Brains to stop selling live animals and cruel surgery kits.
Please, speak up for abused, exploited elephants today by urging Classic Journeys, Goway Travel, and SITA World Tours to stop offering elephant rides!
PETA's eyewitness video shows how chicks suffer before they are killed at a chicken supplier to Kroger, Arby's, and others. Take action now!
Tell this roadside zoo to stop stealing cubs from their mothers!
Please urge the superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy to replace the use of animals in expeditionary survival and evasion, or "sustenance," training exercises with non-animal training methods.
Urge the university to release to the public complete records on all taxpayer-funded animal experiments at the University of Utah.
Torn from the wild to be sold as trinkets, delicate hermit crabs were dumped into crowded, barren pens and even thrown in the trash while still alive in this …
Gentle rabbits scream in pain as their fur is ripped out or their skin is torn off while they're still conscious. We CAN stop this.
Please urge Summer Wind Farms to put animals first by retiring them to a reputable sanctuary where they can receive the space and veterinary care that they need!
Please urge CBS' executive vice president of production to make animal welfare a priority by leaving live animals out of all future episodes of 'Zoo' and all other CBS …
Please join us in calling on the USDA to do its job and ban bear pits now!
Please take a moment to urge officials in Argentina to reconsider PETA's evidence immediately and file appropriate charges against all culpable parties.
Please join us in urging Harbor Foundation to ditch butterfly releases and instead ensure that future commemorative activities are responsible and humane.
PETA's video exposé reveals that sheep suffer and die for wool in Chile. Take action now!
Please urge the California Horse Racing Board to not amend the current three-strike rule.


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The idea sounds simple enough: Compile recordings of female singers from New Orleans performing original material in hope of promoting individual artists to one another's fan bases and calling attention to the overall scene. Except no one did it until Ingrid Lucia, an accomplished singer of hot jazz and more, took it upon herself to produce "Ingrid Lucia Presents New Orleans Female Vocalists."
In the liner notes, Lucia explains her motiviation: "I felt it was important to make a marker in time in New Orleans' musical present, and not just the past, and show the public that these ladies are not just singing covers, but writing their own material, too."
To that end, Lucia, Kristin Diable, Margie Perez, the Pfister Sisters, Linnzi Zaorski, Sinead Rudden, Sarah Quintana, Trisha Boutte, Sophie Lee, Meschiya Lake, Vanessa "Gal Holiday" Niemann and Alexandra Scott, among others, contribute original recordings.
Many join Lucia for her New Orleans Female Vocalist Revue at d.b.a. on Sunday. Show time is 10 p.m.


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The Amarillo Symphony today announced its concert schedule for next year.
The 2007-08 season will be the Symphony's first under the direction of its new music director and conductor, Kimbo Ishii-Eto.
A seven-concert line-up is planned, packed with classical works.
"The orchestra is always hungry for more big symphonic works, and this season supplies that," said Nathan Newbrough, executive director of the Symphony.
"People need to sit forward in their seats and listen to how things change under Kimbo's direction," he said.
2007-08 Amarillo Symphony Concerts
Sept. 21-22: "Opening Night!"
Conductor: Kimbo Ishii-Eto, Amarillo Symphony music director
Guest artist: Steven Doane
Program: Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto and Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7
Oct. 19-20: "Hollywood Nights"
Conductor: Emil de Cou, associate conductor of National Symphony Orchestra
Guest Artist: Karl Shymanovitz, piano
Program: Pops concert with movie score selections including "Gone with the Wind," "Dances with Wolves," and others
Nov. 9-10: "Mendelssohn's Best"
Conductor: Joel Smirnoff, first violinist of the Juilliard Quartet
Guest artist: Joan Kwuon
Program: Felix Mendelssohn's Rue Blas Overture, Violin Concerto in E minor and Symphony No. 4
Jan. 18-19: "Tour De Force"
Conductor: Ishii-Eto
Guest artists: Annie Chalex Boyle, violin; Jean-Michel Fonteneau, cello; and Arthur Rowe, piano
Program: Beethoven's Violin and Triple Concertos
Feb. 8-9: "Bizet & Brahms"
Conductor: Ishii-Eto
Guest artist: Maro Shinozaki
Program: Georges Bizet's Carmen: Suites No. 1 and 2 and Carmen Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra; Pablo de Sarasate's Ziguenerweisen (Gypsy Airs); and Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 2
March 28-29: "Young Artist Spotlight"
Conductor: Allen Tinkham, conductor of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra
Guest artists: Winner of Young Performers Competition and Amarillo Youth Symphony
Program: Giuseppe Verdi's Overture of La Forza del Destino, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Suite, and unannounced works with the Amarillo Youth Symphony
April 18-19: "Ode to Joy!"
Conductor: Daniel Hege, music director of the Syracuse Symphony
Guest artists: West Texas A&M University Choirs; Amarillo Civic Chorus; Barbara Shirvis, soprano; Barbara Rearick, mezzo-soprano; Robert Zimmerman, tenor; and Peter Van De Graaff, bass-baritone
Program: Beethoven's Ah, Perfido and Symphony No. 9 (finale); Jean Sibelius' Symphony No. 7; and Ralph Vaughn Williams' Serenade to Music.
Note: All concerts begin at 8 p.m. in the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts.
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*I wrote this Sunday night…
I still go to Arkansas to see family and friends. Now I just have to go visit most of them at the cemetery.
I am not a cemetery kind of girl. I just don't need to go to a spot to remember someone. But, if I am going to Arkansas anyway, I am going to always stop by.
The last thing I did on my way home today was drive a couple of miles out of my way to go say hi to my grandparents and my mom. It's been well over a year since I went last. I had a hard time with the drive. I had a hard time turning into the little white church's parking lot. I had a hard time walking down to the spots where my grandparents and mom are. I always do.
Then, as usual, I just stood there and got pissed because no one takes care of the cemetery and the dirt has eroded in spots on mom and there are huge holes. I always promise her I will bring dirt next time and fix it. I never do.
It's been a long time since I have cried over the loss of my mother. I mean, I cry. But not the sobbing, hysterical, give myself a headache kind of cry. Today I was reminded that it still hurts and I can still be hysterical about the absence of my mother. After standing over my mom's grave, talking to her like an idiot, I sat in my car and sobbed. and sobbed. and sobbed. Then I accidentally honked the horn with my head. So I quit sobbing and laughed. I gathered myself and headed toward the interstate. It took me about 150 miles to shake the absolute sadness that had engulfed me. And as I write this now, it comes back.
I say the same things over and over when I write about mom. I really don't know what else to say. I miss her. I love her. I don't wish for her back, because I wouldn't take her back one day sick. But I sure do fucking miss her.
I can't write anymore. I really have a hard time seeing through these stupid tears.
This is the saddest place in my world. When I see that name with those dates underneath, I am reminded that the pain is still as fresh as it felt on that last day.
(I promise to have many more uplifting, less depressing blogs from my fantastic weekend! This one just needed to be written first I think.)


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WHO: Portugal. The Man plus Guards
WHERE: House of Blues – French Quarter
WHEN: Wednesday, June 26th – Door 7pm, Show 8pm
Fresh off their latest album release, Evil Friends, Portugal. The Man is headed back to the House of Blues to present a suffusion of psychedelic ear-plasm for our giddy indulgence. Read more…
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11/13/2012 • WHO: Winter Circle Productions presents Big Gigantic plus Crizzly WHERE: House of Blues WHEN: Friday, November 16th – Show at 8:00 TICKETS: $17.50... more
11/05/2012 • WHO: Bonnaroo Buzz Tour presented by Samsonite featuring White Denim with Maps and Atlases plus more WHEN: Wednesday, November 7th @... more
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10/21/2012 • Saturday at Austin City Limits is historically the big day out, when EVERYONE with a 3-day pass makes the pilgrimage... more
10/19/2012 • Austin City Limits kicked off this year with a bang, and while it's impossible to see everyone you'd like and... more
10/09/2012 • Brooklyn's thunderous afro-beat orchestra aptly known as Antibalas (Spanish for "Bulletproof") are bringing their "vault of esoteric sounds and knowledge"... more
10/08/2012 • Musical sons of the Louisiana boot, The Revivalists, have just announced some new tour dates for this Fall. Are... more
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08/16/2012 • WHO: Railroad Revival Tour featuring Willie Nelson, Band of Horses, Jamey Johnson, plus John Reilly and Friends WHEN: Sunday, October 21,... more
08/16/2012 • The wheels for BUKU 2013 are in motion and organizers announced the dates for next year's festival today on their... more
07/30/2012 • WHO: Live Music Blog: NOLA presents: Father John Misty WHERE: One Eyed Jacks WHEN: Wednesday, October 17th - Doors at 9:00 TICKETS: $12.00... more
07/20/2012 • No need to elaborate further on why this is a must-attend event. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSN7WOPkQ0
07/19/2012 • WHO: Toadies and Helmet with UME WHERE: Tipitina's Uptown WHEN: Sunday, July 22nd - Doors at 9:00 TICKETS: $12.00 (PURCHASE) Seminal 90's rock gods,... more
07/18/2012 • Yes, ladies and gentlemen of the deep-soul-baring-blues-guitar-music-loving masses, New Orleans engine of rock, Anders Osborne, now rules the World. Just... more
07/18/2012 • WHO: Local Skank, Mighty Wookiee Fiyoship with DJ SpyC, Eat Moby dick Moby, and more! WHERE: Tipitina's Uptown WHEN: Saturday, July 21st... more
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Lindsay Sloane Joins 'Weeds'
Well alright, alright, alright. Lindsay Sloane has joined the cast of Weeds for a few episodes this summer as Andy Botwin's potential love interest. She'll play Maxine, a "quirky conceptual artist in New York who takes a liking to Andy." And since Sloane happens to look ALMOST EXACTLY like Nancy Botwin (or does she look like Mary-Louise Parker? Doesn't matter! They're both hot!), Andy will of course go head over heels for her.
Weeds has always done a damn decent job of utilizing its supporting cast and Sloane should be a good addition. She's in two movies that have been on my radar for a while: Horrible Bosses and A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, and I really enjoyed her episode on How I Met Your Mother. Now that we've got a decent guest star for this season on Weeds let's see if it'll continue on its track of improving. Remember when this show used to be about a suburban mom selling weed to keep up her lifestyle? Those were the days.
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Welcome Sep 15th, 2010
Welcome, welcome, welcome. So this is it. It's taken a while to finally get some time to work on this site. We've been crazy busy with several other sites, but wanted to make sure we got this one up and had some things for you to look at. It's pretty basic here. What you see is what you get. We've added a little info about the folks we work with, an "About Us" section so you can get to know us, and yes, we've added the store. Right now we've only got the one t-shirt design we are calling the 2010, but you know what that means? There's going to be a 2011. Aren't you excited?
Anyway, Jordan, Chris and I have worked hard on getting this thing right and we've got some big ideas for how to use this site in the future so make sure you're adding this blog to your RSS and all that. Also if you look at the bottom of the site, you'll see where you can "Like" us on Facebook, though, we'd rather you like us in real life.
Last order of business in this whole 'welcoming' post. When you get a second check out some of the amazing testimonials from our clients at the bottom of the "About" page. I think you'll find those inspiring. Spread the word and spread it fast. This is next level SkörInc stuff here. We'll see you soon.


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Sony has announced a new addition to their Ultrabook lineup, Sony VAIO T. This Ultrabook was first introduced in the Europe and now it's finally heading out to the markets in the US. VAIO T comes powered by the Intel's Ivy bridge processors, with the choice of either 3rd gen Intel Core i7-3517U or a Core i5-3317U. Core i7 model costs about $1000 while the Core i5 model is priced at $770.
Both models feature a 13-inch display with a resolution of 1366 x 768, 4 GB DDR3 RAM expandable up to 8GB, over 7 hours of battery life and comes pre-loaded with Windows 7.
Ultrabooks go on sale in this month. Check out the Product page for more details.
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ambilineal descent
The rule of descent that affiliates individuals with groups of kin related to them through men and women.
avunculocal residence
A pattern of residence in which a married couple settles with or near the husband's mother's brother.
bilateral kinship
The type of kinship system in which individuals affiliate more or less equally with their mother's and father's residence.
bilocal residence
A pattern of residence in which a married couple lives with or near either the husband's parents or the wife's parents.
bride price
A substantial gift of goods or money given to the bride's kin by the groom or his kin at or before the marriage. (bride wealth)
bride service
Work performed by the groom for his bride's family for a variable length of time either before or after the marriage.
A set of kin whose members believe themselves to be descended from a common ancestor or ancestress but cannot specify the links back to that founder; often designated by a totem (sib)
cross cousins
Children of siblings of the opposite sex. One's cross cousins are father's sisters' children and mother's brothers' children.
double descent
A system that affiliates an individual with a group of matrilineal kin for some purposes and with a group of patrilineal kin for other purposes.
extended family
A family consisting of two or more single-parent, monogamous, polygynous, or polyandrous families linked by a blood tie.
group marriage
Marriage in which more than one man is married to more than one woman at the same time; customary in any known human society.
incest taboo
Prohibition of sexual intercourse or marriage between mother and son, father and daughter, and brother and sister.
A socially approved sexual and economic union, usually between a man and a woman, that is presumed by both the couple and others to be more or less permanent, and that subsumes reciprocal rights and obligations between the two spouses and between spouses and their future children.
matrilineal descent
The rule of descent that affiliates individuals with kin of both sexes related to them through women only.
matrilocal residence
A pattern of residence in which a married couple lives with or near the wife's parents.
A unilineal descent group in a society that is decided into two such maximal groups; there may be smaller unilineal descent groups as well.
neolocal residence
A pattern of residence whereby a married couple lives separately, and usually at some distance, from the kin of both spouses.
parallel cousins
Children of sibling of the same sex. One's parallel cousins are father's brothers' children and mother's sisters' children.
patrilineal descent
The rule of descent that affiliates an individual with kin of both sexes related to him or her through men only.
patrilocal residence
A pattern of residence in which a married couple lives with or near the husband's parents.
postpartum sex taboo
Prohibition of sexual intercourse between a couple for a period of time after the birth of their child.
rules of descent
Rules that connect individuals with particular sets of kin because of known or presumed common ancestry.
A plant or animal associated with a clan as a means of group identification; may have other special significance for the group.