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quote: "No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space. ... We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
quote: Question is: Where is Obama's plan for the USA?
quote: They still pay in to social security, they still pay for a myriad of other federal, state, and local taxes. They just don't pay income tax.
quote: 47% of Americans just don't pay one tax, the federal income tax.
quote: The point of my post was to point out that the particular statistic that gets copied and pasted everywhere is a falsehood. It simply isn't true as it is written, and that minor omission was done to intentionally make the statistic sound much worse than it really is.
quote: The discussion was about federal taxes, however his "fact" did not specify federal taxes, and his post did not mention them specifically.
quote: @chµck: Tax rate isn't the problem. 47% of people not paying taxes is the problem.
quote: @name99: Congress has shown zero interest in ever raising US taxes. Until that changes, stop wasting our time complaining about what Obama is or is not doing.
quote: Personally, I don't think that that particular hole in the federal budget is insignificant, but at the same time I can't believe that it accounts for even 10% of overall individual income in the US.
quote: I hate to point out the obvious, but playing this game requires money...
quote: Congress has shown zero interest in ever raising US taxes.
quote: "It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now … Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus."– John F. Kennedy, Nov. 20, 1962, president's news conference
quote: You don't get to spend four years complaining about the expanding federal debt AND refusing to ever raise taxes, and then propose a brand new MASSIVELY expensive government program.
quote: If you have so much faith in capitalism and libertarianism, why does the government have to be involved anyway?
quote: While I'm not American (just someone looking from the outside), I notice the current US President doesn't have leadership qualities. He has charisma. But not the genuine leadership stuff USA needs when the chips are down. The more I watch and read of his election campaign, the more I notice he isn't really suited to stay for another term.
quote: I notice the current US President doesn't have leadership qualities. He has charisma


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An article posted by Shane Blackmon Friday on the Seeking Alpha Site seemed to cause an upheaval in the trading of stock of Arena Pharmaceuticals stock. Mr. Blackmon cited that the stock was overvalued and should be sold. Many took his advice. But upon reflection of his article I noted that this type of situation has occurred in the past with many biopharma stocks and the onion must be peeled back to get a real understanding of what took place on Friday.
According to who you follow and what you read many reasons caused Fridays Flash Crash. Many hedge funds who placed their bets against approval of Lorcaserin, Arenas candidate obesity drug to be approved on June 27th, were losing a great deal of money. These big boys are not supposed to do that. So how do they get out of these losing positions so close to approval date? The answer ofcourse is what is called a "Bear Raid" or a "flash crash". Many not so savvy traders placed "stop orders" on their stock so that if the price drops to the selected level, their shares sell based on that stop order.
When Mr. Blackmons article hit it was used to incite a chain reaction that took millions of shares away from people who had stop orders in place. Within a 10 minute period Arena Stock dropped from $12.00 to $7.80 before rebounding to close at $9.88.
What is interesting to note is that a similar article was written on Thursday on Seeking Alpha which had to be removed because of the inaccuracies that were stated. Mr. Blackmon stated that the move up in Arena Stock from $2 to $12 in such a short period of time could not continue and the stock should be sold. Well Mr. Blackmon got his wish along with all those hedge funds who were able to escape their short positions because of the well timed article.
Meanwhile, Ted Tenthoff Piper Jaffray, stated "Our expectation is for approval this year" and expects an outright approval of Lorcaserin on June 27th or after a short delay by the FDA to finalize clearing the drug.
Throughout this last 48 hours nothing at Arena or at the FDA has occurred to cause these wild gyrations. What is true is that institutional ownership of Arena stock has skyrocketed along with the share price. Arena has not received any notice of delay with only 3 trading days left before the FDA decision. It is highly unlikely that a delay would occur so close to the voting date. This was the result of games played by rich people who feed upon retail investors to ensure they win. To be sure investing in biotechs is like betting in Las Vegas. The house usually wins. However, if you were smart enough not to allow these games to trick you out of your shares you should be well awarded with an FDA approval.
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IMHO Mr. Shane is just a part of the game that hedgefonds are playing. He is the "talking puppet" of the hedgefonds like Cramer and others imho. So they can tell us that the bear raid was caused by Shanes article. We all now the games of the hedgefonds. This was a well orchesrated bear raid, in order to steal money from retail investors imho! Is there no one to stop this "criminal" games?
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Megan Fox on Speaking in Tongues
Celebrity gossip isn't exactly RELEVANT's wheelhouse but, every now and then, you chance upon a story of that goes a little beyond "who wore it better" or who's getting "dangerously thin" and into something that actually has a little substance. Case in point: Megan Fox. In you're familiar with her at all, it's as Shia LeBouf's perennial damsel-in-mass-destruction in the first few Transformers movies. In a new interview with Esquire, she opens up about the church she's been attending. She says she's seen "crazy things happen," like people being healed, and has spoken in tongues.
I've seen people be healed. Even now, in the church I go to, during Praise and Worship I could feel that I was maybe getting ready to speak in tongues, and I'd have to shut it off because I don't know what that church would do if I started screaming out in tongues in the back.
Just as interesting are Fox's musings on being a sex symbol. While her photo shoot for the magazine suggests she hasn't exactly turned a corner, she talks like she has. "I didn't feel powerful," she says of her time spent as Hollywood's go-to teen-boy bait. "It ate every other part of my personality, not for me but for how people saw me, because there was nothing else to see or know. That devalued me. Because I wasn't anything. I was an image. I was a picture. I was a pose" ...
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Good for her!
Her comments on tongues were interesting, but they were grouped in alongside mad comments on aliens, witches and Bigfoot.
As for the comments on image, it's great to say that, but it seems a little curious to then pose as that same image on the front cover?
Thanks for sharing. Great story. It's a beginning for her. The more she seeks God the more He will continue to work in her life and create her more into His image. Keep seeking - keep going to the church that teaches the Bible as truth & Jesus as Savior. Proud of you & will pray for you! Stay open to what you feel God will do in you and through you. Read your Bible, Pray, & ask God to fill you with His Spirit! Your on the right path - keep walking!
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Beretta Cougar ... Opinions?
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September 24, 2006, 08:53 PM
I would like to know the opinions of those who know the Beretta Cougar 8000F in 9mm. I've got only one Beretta, a 96. If it's as reliable and smooth I'll be pleased.
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September 24, 2006, 09:29 PM
No longer manufactured: Parts and magazines are already an issue from what I understand.
My guy at the gun shop said they're great, reliable, and eerily accurate guns if you can find one. Emphasis on the if.
September 24, 2006, 09:43 PM
No longer manufactured: Parts and magazines are already an issue from what I understand.
Not so fast there. ;) Beretta has stopped manufacturing them under the Beretta name,however they shifted the production over to their Stoeger factory. Same great quality and yes the Cougars are really sweet soft shooting guns. I own or have owned every Cougar model at one time or another.My Cougar L was my daily carry untill the new Px4 came out.I still have my 8045 and although I don't shoot it very much since it's a Cat-Pac/limited addition,it's a pure orgasmic experience.
September 24, 2006, 10:12 PM
They aren't just making them in Turkey, from what I understand it is made on the same equiptment. They just shipped it over.
September 24, 2006, 10:40 PM
In the Beretta line up, I prefer the 92 series of guns (including the 96) but I've never had any problems I'd consider a deal breaker if I were considering another one of their guns. The Cougar should be a good performer.
September 25, 2006, 02:02 AM
After inspection of a Beretta Cougar 8040 mini, and the new Steoger Cougar in 9mm i cant see any real differences in fit and finish. They appear to be the same gun with a different logo on the grips.
September 25, 2006, 02:23 AM
Any links to a Stoeger 8000 picture/ article?? and , do they make a 357 sig version like beretta did?
September 25, 2006, 12:25 PM
I fired the Cougar in 9mm and .45 and liked the both. I was going to buy one in 9mm, then the PX4 came out and I liked that a little better than the Cougar, even though they are similar, the PX4 had a better feel to it for me. Both Cougars I fired were rental guns and not well cared for, I put 300rnds through each one and both never failed in any way and were very accurate and soft shooting. I have looked at the new ones from Turkey and have mixed feelings on them. The samples I've seen had a different\cheaper look to them than the original Cougars I've handled.
September 25, 2006, 10:04 PM
The PX4's mechanics are based in part on the Cougar, though the trigger mechanism is said to be improved, as is accuracy. That was from the Beretta factory rep, so take it for what it is worth.
I like the Cougar over the PX4, though it is heavier. I actually like each, but like the smaller size of the Cougar.
September 26, 2006, 10:08 AM
I love my 8000. It's been as reliable as my 92fs which is perfect. I like shooting it as much or more than any gun I own. A 8045 has been on my short list for a while now.
Flame Red
September 26, 2006, 10:46 AM
I have an 8045, and it is totally reliable, eats any ammo and is pleasant to shoot.
September 26, 2006, 11:26 AM
Less expensive now?
Snake Eyes
September 26, 2006, 11:33 AM
Does the PX4 use the same, rotating barrel lock-up as the Cougar?
September 26, 2006, 07:39 PM
I own a Beretta 8000F Cougar INOX 9mm (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/Gixerman1000/Handguns/Beretta8000FINOX.jpg) that has been a great shooting pistol, it's accurate, has light recoil and has functioned 100% perfectly with every thing I've put through it.
September 26, 2006, 08:19 PM
Does the PX4 use the same, rotating barrel lock-up as the Cougar?
Yes, the Px4 uses the same rotating barrel locking system as the Cougar. The Px4 is a very nice pistol.
Jon Coppenbarger
September 27, 2006, 08:28 AM
I picked up a Beretta cougar in 357 sig over the weekend. I have not shot it yet but should take care of that shortly. It seems to be a very well built handgun that I would like to use as a carry gun sometimes.
I sold my glock 30 about 3 years ago when I bought my Styer M40 and have carried the Styer ever since. But I am always looking for something better.
would of bought the Cougar in any caliber but the 357 sig came up.
Will go out and put a few rounds threw it and repost later in the week.
September 27, 2006, 09:56 AM
When the Couger was first introduced, my dept. tested them in 9mm against the Beretta M92SB-F 9mm's(124 gr HydraShok) that we were carrying for possible adoption for officers with small hands (that was a main selling point that Beretta was making about them at the time) But we found with 4 examples of that early manufacture that we tested,
that they were noticably LESS accurate than our 92's were...and were rejected from adoption.
I assume they improved that in later produced pistols judging by the positive comments by the membership here.
Cousin Mike
September 27, 2006, 10:02 AM
I have the 8000D - DAO 9mm. It's an excellent pistol. It's an especially wonderful pistol for teaching new shooters. I find I don't care for DAO triggers much, so it's mainly a range gun... but every once in a while it'll slip itself into a holster and ride along with me somewhere. I'd love to get my hands on an 8045, or the .357Sig version - but the 9mm is fine by me for SD/carry. Seems to kick a little to the right due to the rotating barrel, but it's nothing to worry about.
September 29, 2006, 02:26 AM
Any links to a Stoeger 8000 picture/ article?? and , do they make a 357 sig version like beretta did?
Try this thread...
Link: Stoeger 8000 (http://www.berettaforum.net/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=013583#000000)
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Foolproof family video chats direct to TV?
My elderly relatives live far away, and I would like to find a way to set up a completely foolproof video chat solution. We use skype and facetime, but they don't like crowding together on the couch, their computer doesn't have a great screen, and their lighting is really poor. They are not terrible with technology, but the solution needs to be really simple. [more inside]
Video chat phones easy enough for anyone?
Are there any great single-purpose video phone devices of the kind that people used to think would be everywhere -- i.e. a device whose sole purpose is to do video chat? In particular, something that would be dead simple, and easy enough for kids and computer-unsavvy people to use easily.
Foolproof app for video chat between a Samsung Galaxy Tab and an iPad?
After a demonstration with Facetime, my dad would like to regularly video chat with his grandson. Grandson owns an iPad 2. I've tried to talk Dad into buying an iPad too but he's attracted to the lower price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. [more inside]
How to entrance toddlers over videochat?
What are some great ways to spellbind 2- or 3-year-olds over Skype/videochat? Really simple magic tricks? Other cool things?
Skype hacks?
How can I have the best video chat experience? [more inside]
How to set up video chat on iPad with Hotmail
How do I set up my iPad for video chatting with Hotmail? I just recently reconnected with some former deaf students of mine, after about 25 years (thank you, Facebook). We have been communicating by email but written language is not optimal. One of my former students has asked that I video chat with him via Hotmail. I have created Hotmail account, now what? I'd like to be able to do this directly through my iPad, as well as by connecting my iPad to a PC and using it as a webcam. Also any tips for placement of the iPad for use while signing would be appreciated.
Video chat US/China?
What is the best US/China video chat option? [more inside]
Professional videochat site
I'm doing a kickstarter art project in which I paint portraits over videochat. I've been testing and demoing primarily with Google Hangouts, which allows mute observers, but I'd really like to be able to have a permanent address at which I can meet subjects and observers. I need to be able to allow multiple users in, but have all but two as observers, or at least the ability to focus on one user. It also would help if you didn't necessarily need to have a google+ account, or a skype or an AIM account, or any particular OS or browser, beyond having a webcam and mic. It should also be free to use, although I might be willing to pay a little to keep the url permanent. The ability to record would be a plus, but I can always use a screencap program to do that. Does anyone know if there's a good client or site that fulfills these needs, that's a little classier than camwhoring? Any experience with tinychat - would it work? Or would you be up for developing something?
Please help me find a group video chat solution that works better than Skype!
Please help me find a group video chat solution that works better than Skype! [more inside]
We just want to have a three-way on video (chat)...
Free three-way video chat that isn't a Flash-driven video chat website? [more inside]
video chat between android and ipod touch.
video chat between android and ipod touch. [more inside]
Webcam suggestions for Grandma?
What webcam/video chat setup would you recommend, if you had to set one up for a technophobe grandma, in order to let her see her grandchildren? [more inside]
Seeking international video chat "penpals"
I used to love corresponding with overseas penpals that I'd been matched up with at school, or whatever. Do people do this via video chat these days? Where and how? [more inside]
It's like the perfect chat program WITH THE MOST ANNOYING FLAW IN THE WORLD.
Is there any way whatsoever to stop those annoying gray semi-transparent status updates ("John Smith went idle" "Karen Black became available") in Ichat? [more inside]
Is therapy via video chat available/a good idea?
Does anyone have experience with therapy via video chat? A friend is living in a foreign non-English speaking country and seems to be suffering from crippling depression and anxiety. [more inside]
How do I set my mom up with a webcam for chats with the grandkids?
How do I set my mom up with a webcam for chats with the grandkids? [more inside]
Baby's first webcam.
Please help me buy a webcam! I don't know anything about webcams. [more inside]
Videochat with strangers in foreign languages
Is there a site, or link within Aim or iChat, where you can videochat in different languages? [more inside]
Webcam Options For The Painfully Separated
Mac/PC webcam options (hardware and software)? [more inside]
Do take our business plan and talk with "an angel" now?
Three years ago, a friend and I began developing a web app that allows for instant video conferencing. It uses 15kbs, and uses Flash to achieve its internet goodness. It just works, no problem. And we have had success with it - as a product at two separate companies, no less, building it from scratch both times. Up until now we have been charging for it, month to month, as a service for businesses that can want something better than IM chat. (It has a lot of extra "bells and whistles.") But now we want to switch it up. We want to go Web 2.1. [more inside]
VideoChat with WebCam
I have a webcam and want to do video chat... Is MSN my only alternative? I've been VERY impressed with the quality of the VOIP calls I can make using Skype; is there something similiar for video conferencing with a webcam?
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I just finished reading Susan Stamper Brown's piece about not trusting our government (Santa Clarita Valley Signal, 2-18-14); and, while I could not agree more with you on some of your points, I could not disagree more with you about your reasons for making those points.
The first point about "shortsighted Republicans" and "thickheaded blowhards" in the Democratic Party indicates to me that you are willing to cast a plague on both of their houses, if they disrespect the Constitution and are not "in sync with the American people." You also write that a "good leader" should respect the will of the people and roll up his sleeves "to join the team, including recalcitrant conservatives." Again, I could not agree with you more.
Think of some of our greatest leaders: Have they not transcended party politics and worked together for the good of the American people?
I agree with you that Barack Obama has not lived up to many of his promises and his rhetoric—about things like "social justice," "racial and gender equality," "toleration of same-sex relationship and marriages," and most importantly, things like "ending the wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan, "standing up to Wall St. for the benefit of Main Street," and addressing perhaps the greatest threats to humans--pollution of the planet, global warming and climate change, as well as the threat and danger of nuclear war and proliferation of nuclear weapons.
I wonder what in the world you mean by the words "preaching the secularist gospel of social justice and income inequality"? "Secularist"? "gospel"? I wonder what Jesus, or, for that matter, the Pope himself, might say about this as a "secularist gospel"? What could be more "spiritual" than working together with our fellow citizens to redress the increasing income inequality in this country and the world?
And what could be more in keeping with the "spirit" of our Constitution than a government working on behalf of the people to check and balance corporations, like Comcast and Time-Warner right now, who want nothing more than to concentrate even more wealth and power in the hands of very few. As most Americans know in their pocketbooks, when mammoth corporations become even more gargantuan, who suffers the most? The consumer, for whom service declines in quality, and whose costs for Internet and cable will inevitably go up?
Susan, who cares whether Barack and Michelle have state dinners with finery and expensive food? And who cares whether they both prate about bullying, nutrition, and gay/lesbian equality? Isn't the proof in the pudding? I voted for Obama in 2008, I admit, because I believed he represented necessary change we "could believe in."
Today I continue to get solicitations for contributions with a lovely picture of Barack, Michelle, and their daughters, looking like the quintessential American family. What I want to say to them as I look at that picture would be something like this:
Michelle and Barack, how could you even dream of accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, when you have the power of life and death in your hands with your Drone policy of killing human beings, including American citizens, without so much as a nod to our Constitution and international law? How could you sit by and allow some of the largest energy companies in the world pollute the environment seriously, without so much as a slap on the wrist (as the most recent case of the Virginia energy company paying a measly fine of $99,000)? Why would you allow a corporation like Walmart, one of the wealthiest in the world, to not pay its employees a living wage, forcing so many of them to have to rely on government hand-outs to get by? Why haven't you used your presidential power to put millions of Americans to work on the infrastructure of this country, which is sadly deteriorating, as your predecessor FDR did to alleviate the suffering of Americans after the collapse of the economy in the 30s? And why have you allowed so many hard-working Americans to lose their homes to the sub-prime shenanigans of bankers and mortgagers, while I read in the Wall Street Journal of juicy profits being made by speculators from rents from those lost homes? (WSJ, 02/10 /14).
Susan, with your columns appearing across the country and your influence, why are you not doing what Aristotle said was the task of any great writer—to entertain and to educate—and address the real problems facing this country?
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SPRINGFIELD – Two district attorney candidates and four candidates for two state senate seats were quizzed Wednesday on what they will do about problems that affect seniors.
A candidates forum, held at the Hobby Club in Springfield and sponsored by the Massachusetts Seniors Action Council, featured Hampden district attorney candidates state Sen. Stephen J. Buoniconti, a Democrat, and independent candidate Mark G. Mastroianni.
After those two candidates fielded a number of questions, most on safety for seniors, the stage was turned over to 1st Hampden and Hampshire District state Senate candidates incumbent Gale D. Candaras of Wilbraham and challenger Thomas A. McCarthy, Republican, of Springfield.
Also answering the same questions were Democratic state Rep. James T. Welch and Republican Agawam City Councilor Robert A. Magovern, both vying for the Hampden District state Senate seat.
Buoniconti said he wants to get more engaged in the community and a lot more aggressive in the community, "to take it to the criminals out on the street, take it to the criminals who might be coming into senior housing complexes."
Mastroianni promised to create a specific unit within the victims advocate group for vulnerable victims, which would include seniors.
He said it is a responsibility of the district attorney's office "to give special protection and special attention to those types of cases."
Buoniconti said "there's nothing more disgusting" than people "preying on seniors."
"I'll keep them behind bars so they're not coming out and coming after you," he said, referring to people who commit crimes against seniors.
He said that everyone has the right to feel safe. "You shouldn't have to lock your doors to feel safe," he said.
When it came time to hear from the state senate candidates, Candaras said she has been lead sponsor on a number of bills aimed at helping seniors stay in their homes and not go into nursing homes.
She said she has opposed any efforts to impose unfair limits on seniors as drivers.
McCarthy told the seniors taxes have been increased during their lifetimes and the resources have not gone to public safety.
Magovern said that systems have to be put in place so people can take care of themselves. He said as a city councilor he championed the building of a new senior center in Agawam.
Welch said he will continue to fight for funding for programs that help people stay in their homes, such as a program aimed at providing counseling to seniors about their options when they are looking at nursing homes or other facilities.


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While the Supreme Court did not offer any new guidance on the application of § 101, discussions in both the Kennedy and Stevens opinions raise policy issues that biotech companies should take under consideration.
Justice Kennedy, in a portion of his opinion that does not form part of the majority opinion, recognized that the machine or transformation test may not be well-suited for "determining the patentability of inventions in the Information Age." Kennedy noted that the test "would create uncertainty as to the patentability of . . . advanced diagnostic medicine techniques," citing the amicus brief of BIO.
Kennedy emphasized "the larger object of securing patents for valuable inventions without transgressing the public domain," and warned that "the patent law faces a great challenge in striking the balance between protecting inventors and not granting monopolies over procedures that others would discover by independent, creative application of general principles."
Justice Stevens raised a different balancing issue in his concurring opinion, which was joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor. Stevens considered the "dynamics of cost, risk, and reward," and noted that "scholars generally agree that when innovation is expensive, risky, and easily copied, inventors are less likely to undertake the guaranteed costs of innovation in order to obtain the mere possibility of an invention that others can copy."
Stevens reasoned that "whether a patent monopoly is necessary to motivate the innovation" is a subject matter-specific inquiry, and suggests that deciding whether a process can be patented under § 101 likewise requires a subject matter-specific inquiry into whether granting a patent "would, on balance, facilitate or impede . . . progress."
Biotech companies may not be concerned about these policy issues, assuming that the high costs and high risks of innovation in the complex fields of biotechnology will always weigh in favor of patent protection. However, the BRCA1 breast cancer case brought by the ACLU against Myriad Genetics' gene patents has many arguing that patent protection is not needed to promote genetic research.
The ACLU and others believe that government entities will undertake the research necessary to identify genetic markers and develop related diagnostic methods, and argue that patents hinder, not help, innovation in these fields. Those on the other side say that these arguments underestimate the complexities and costs of the research required to identify and validate genetic markers, and translate that research from laboratory bench to patient bedside.
The district court determined that Myriad's patents are invalid under § 101 because they claim "products of nature" and "abstract mental processes". Myriad appealed to the Federal Circuit, which may consider this case together with Prometheus.
The remand of Prometheus and the appeal in Myriad give biotech companies an opportunity to have their voices heard on these issues, through individual and group amicus briefs to the Federal Circuit. In the meantime, those seeking patents in this field probably will be advised to pursue claims that pass the machine or transformation test and include concrete language to minimize the risk of being found to be an abstract idea or natural phenomenon.
Courtenay C. Brinckerhoff ([email protected]) is a partner, member, and vice-chair of the chemical, biotechnology & pharmaceutical practice of Foley & Lardner and editor of Pharma PatentsBlog.com. The views expressed herein are the author's own and may not represent those of Foley & Lardner or its clients.
Courtenay C. Brinckerhoff ([email protected]) is a partner, member, and vice-chair of the chemical, biotechnology & pharmaceutical practice of Foley & Lardner and editor of Pharma PatentsBlog.com. The views expressed herein are the author's own and may not represent those of Foley & Lardner or its clients.
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Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 7, 2012.
Summary: Ford is recalling certain model year 2013 Fusion vehicles, manufactured from February 3, 2012, through October 20, 2012, for failing to conform to the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment." The affected vehicles may not have had the low beam headlamp projector coating properly cured during its manufacturing process.
Consequence: An improperly cured projector coating will become hazy through operation, over time, reducing the brightness of the low-beam lamp. This may decrease driver visibility and increase the risk of a vehicle crash.
Remedy: Ford will notify owners, and dealers will replace the headlamp assembly. The recall is expected to begin on December 10, 2012. Owners may contact Ford Motor Company Customer Relationship Center at 1-866-436-7332.
Notes: Ford's recall campaign number is 12C27. Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
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HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie says there should be a review of elections oversight after primary polls on the Big Island needed to stay open 90 minutes later because some of the county's polls opened late.
The extension delayed release of election results statewide.
Abercrombie said that he will look at whether elections oversight should return to the lieutenant governor's office. As of 1995, county clerks have local jurisdiction over voting.
Hawaii County Clerk Jamae Kawauchi has been criticized for a lack of communication with the state before the primary. State elections officials said they don't yet have definitive answers about what happened Saturday. Elections spokesman Rex Quidilla said officials plan to meet with county clerks this week.


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A two-layered arrangement of phosphate and lipid molecules that form a cell membrane, the hydrophobic lipid ends facing inward and the hydrophilic phosphate ends facing outward.
the movement of molecules from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration
active transport
movement of molecules across a membrane requiring energy to be expended by the cell
Phospholipid bi-layer
1.Separates a cells content from the exterior environment 2.Regulates the transport of materials in and out. 3. Aides in the protection of the cell
Integral Proteins
Transports materials across membrane (Salts, Oxygen, Water, Sugar and Amino Acids)
Selectively Permeable
Letting certain substances diffuse through, while at the same time preventing other substances from entering the cell.
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As Edmund Kean once said, "Dying is easy; comedy is hard."
Thankfully, there were no deaths at the Youngstown Comedy Syndicate's All-Teen Comedy night at the end of March at the Funny Farm Comedy Club, located in Mojo's Pub & Grille.
The show, titled "It's Not Your 'Regular Show,'" was hosted by Tim Wolfe and featured the comedy stylings of Tim Neshidol, Lane Kerr, Braxton Stein, Paul Tatar, Mitchell Thompson, Ryan Sullivan and Devin Stambo.
The night's jokes focused on a wide variety of topics, ranging from political satire to innuendos. When asked about what comedy is, Tim Wolfe said, "Comedy is the last form of individual expression. You just have to find the courage to do it."
This courage was displayed by many of the performers who confidently came up onto the stage to entertain the eager crowd. Each had his own reason for performing, and when asked why he does comedy, Tim Wolfe responded, "I just like the fact that I don't have to get up until 6 p.m. and only have to write one sentence to make people laugh."


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Why was Savannah first, Jews in other communities wanted to know. Congregations in New York, Philadelphia, Charleston, S.C. and Richmond, Va. soon remedied the matter, sending a joint letter of congratulation to Washington. But not before the Jews of Newport, R.I., had sent a letter of their own. The rest is history.
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This is a guest post by Carol Tice.
Have you ever wondered how some freelance writers seem to shoot to success?
Here's how it happens.
I know because it happened to me.
Once upon a time (in a decade far far away), I was a starving songwriter living in Los Angeles. Then I entered a couple of essay contests and won them.
The next thing I knew, I was writing features for the L.A. Reader (R.I.P.) and the Los Angeles Times real-estate section.
I was terrified and excited all at the same time. This article-writing thing seemed really fun. And it paid money, a nice change from my songwriting life.
I had no idea what I was doing.
I had been writing prose for about five minutes.
How did I go from there to a six-figure freelance writer?
One word: Mentors.
Two incredibly generous editors at these two publications took me under their wing and taught me how to be a reporter. From scratch.
They liked my writing. They thought I had potential.
I was willing to work my rear end off for cheap, and was thirsty to know
I'd come in the day after a Reader piece of mine came out and say, "I see you changed my lede from this here to that. Why""
He loved that.
When I started, it took me six weeks to write a 600-word feature for the Times. I kept asking if I shouldn't know more about real estate, maybe be a former Realtor or mortgage broker. I felt really in over my head.
"Perish the thought!" said my editor. "Those people can't write. You're funny!"
The Reader editor helped me write a 3,000 word feature for the first time. My first draft was 10,000 words long.
For reasons I'll never understand, this generous man was willing to show me how to sculpt it into a compelling feature that fit in the paper.
I did mention I had no idea what I was doing, right?
After he helped me and the story came out, I sold a one-year movie-rights option on that story for $10,000. True story. (No, it never did become a movie, darnit.)
Without these two mentors, I might have floundered around for years and years, slowly figuring out how to write an article on my own.
I might have just given up.
Mentors help you keep the faith that you can do this.
Mentors are your career's rocket fuel.
Ask any successful writer you know how they got started and somewhere in the story, there will be mentors.
If you're struggling to launch your freelance writing career right now, ask yourself: Where are your mentors?
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Well it has been around 8 hours since I ate last and I have been starving since noon -- about 4 hours! haha.. so I sat down and had a small salad with ground meat and olive oil and some berries w/ nuts. No big. I know per 'primer' that is will take me a while to move my meal to night time. I won't be able to eat until 930 tomorrow -- I am going to try a little harder to suck it up until bed - I am not trying to restrict, but moving from 2 meals to 1 means I did restrict this morning - there was really no way I could have eaten anymore than I did.
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Hi, as i read you figured it out in the end. It is a flashable zip as we say. Glad it worked out
Didn't have to do a full wipe...yet. wifis been working fine. It seems to only work when it wants to.
But I have a bigger issue. This happened once before, but I ignored it. But it just happened again. Sometimes, when I click a link from inside an app, ie Twitter or Tapatalk the browser opens up but it's just a black screen as if it's unresponsive. Then my phone just restarts itself.
It's not as if the browser has 637393 tabs open and is overworking. In both incidents I've only had 1 or two tabs open.
[Sent from my HTC Inspire via Tapatalk 2.0 Pardon errors.]
This never hapened so far.. Yet, not wiping old installations prior to flashing could be still the problem. Try to clear the data on the browser, and check again. If you still have the same issue, you may have to make a clean install again.. Sorry
well same thing... once a day i receive a popup that a new simcard has been inserted into phone..need to restart...i restart it..but i need to restart it 4 times for my phone contacts and messages to work.
also...when i shut down the phone...it restarts...
did a full whipe twice...same thing happens ... only with this rom
the rom is great...smooth and good looking but this is very annoying
For the problem with "new sim card inserted" i don't know why it shows, it should be ok with this new build. Did you try to delete your google account and re-add it? If not, try to do that.. Otherwise there is nothing to do except tell you to try and reinstall with full wiping in advance, and NOT restore any system files or apps..
For the reboot-instead-of-power off try one of the new kernels from OP, like 9.5 BFS or CFS.. Then, report here the results..
Well the thing is when i install a new rom i don't restore anything... is just install the apps all-over again
i've removed the account and re-add it again...still the same... it's not that big of an issue because i'm restarting the phone once a day... and this happens once...or twice a day..
I really don't know, since here all is working ok and i tried to reproduce the problem you have, but with no success..
Try to flash different kernels, like 9.4.1 CFS, since the BFS is included in the ROM by default i think, or the new 9.5 CFS or BFS..
I have an issue since the first flash, and everytime i reboot the phone it tells me to move the data to SDCard. I can not get rid of that either, and no one else has that issue So, beta is beta.. But improving the right way
Here is a solution someone tried and it worked. Maybe you will be lucky to keep those contacts onboard
delete google account
clear contact data
add google account
Okay, at at this point, every time I open a link from an app, the browser crashes.
When you say to do a full wipe and fresh install...that means I'd lose all of my stuff right? Since you said not to restore anything? Does that include my pictures, contacts, and texts?
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When you formal all your data and other partitions, it means you delete all of the OS parts. The SD Card remains untouched. The contacts should be backed up automatically by your google account. If not, then just export contact data from your people app and it will be as one .vcf file for further use. Then when you install new rom, just open people app and import one file contacts. For the texts, there are plenty of options on the Play Store, including MIUI's own backup, which can be usefull. But, bear in mind that if you get FC after restoring contacts from MIUI backup, you will have to clear the data and try again.
And i said don't restore any system data or apps, since most of them are changed from one build to another. Just restore your user applications and some other non-system related content.
But, in order to reprot bugs and to test the new build, you have to make full wipe and a clean install. This is the beta procedure! And trust me, like this you will have minimum, if any, problems with your phone
So, is there's a full wipe script in the zip right? So all I have to do is flash that, Then flash the rom and reboot?
[Sent from my HTC Inspire via Tapatalk 2.0 Pardon errors.]
Yeap, flash the .zip, then without exiting Recovery flash the rom and reboot.. And voila Then please, report your new rom if it behaves better, or has the same bugs..
I flashed the wipe script, then the from, and everything seems to be fine. I only backed up my 8-10 non-system apps and the only system apps I backed up was Messages and Notes.
The browser has been working like a charm, and is opening twitter links breezily.
I feel as if everything is cleaner and fresher now lol...feels good. Thanks guys!
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You are welcome, glad you did it That is the difference, and why we always say, between having a clean system and some upgraded beta..
Is it already a known bug that the camera doesnt work? I keep getting a "camera is not responding" popup.
Also, is there a way to alphabetize the apps in the folders like gingerbread? If so, i cant seem to find it.
I hate being so annoying
[Sent from my HTC Inspire via Tapatalk 2.0 Pardon errors.]
No problem First, the camera works as it should. The camcorder is not functional. If you have problems with the stock camera app, go to apps and clear camera data, it should work. You are among the rare users that have problems with camera. Did you install any camera software?
The apps can not be re-arranged in the folders, yet. We have to wait for miui to implement that feature in ICS..
with this version..everything is smooth and working...well except the camcorder and ota updates...but i really don't need them..no more bugs
good job on this one
Thanks, glad you enjoy it
hows the 2.4.20 build? i played around with the 2.3.13 for a lil bit. Whilst i love the slickness of the new UI i felt the ICS build to be kinda buggy and quite unoptimised. I really dislike the new browser, seems to gltich out if i try to do anything. and the camera just felt unresponsive.
can anyone tell me if the new new build has fixed these problems otherwise i'll just stick to GB
So far all perfect.. just try it, and follow the instructions posted in these last pages or from the OP. Post your experience later..
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Beef Tostadas
The spicy meat for this tostada recipe is prepared in the slow cooker. Layer the beef with your favorite fixings on warm tortilla shells to finish off this main dish.
Slow Cook: 6 hrson HIGH or 8 hours on LOW
Microwave: 1 to 1 1/2 minutes
- 1 1/2 pounds boneless beef round steak
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 jalapeno, seeded and finely chopped
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1/4 teaspoon cumin
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 12 packaged tostada or hard taco shells
- 3/4 cup fat-free refried beans
- 1 1/2 cups shredded iceberg lettuce
- 1 cup reduced-fat shredded Mexican-blend cheese
- 3/4 cup salsa
Make It
1. Sprinkle steak with salt and pepper. Place 3 tablespoons of the lime juice, the garlic, jalapeno, onion, chili powder, cumin and cayenne in a slow cooker. Place beef on top and cook on HIGH for 6 hours or LOW for 8 hours.
2. Remove beef to a cutting board and when cool enough to handle, shred with fingers or using two forks. Place shredded beef in a large bowl.
3. Strain remaining liquid in slow cooker over a bowl or measuring cup, discarding solids. Add strained liquid and remaining 1 tablespoon lime juice to beef in bowl and stir to combine. Cover; keep warm.
4. Warm tostada shells in oven according to package directions. While tostadas are baking, heat refried beans in microwave for 1 1/2 minutes on HIGH, stirring halfway through until warm and spreadable.
5. Spread each tostada with 1 tablespoon refried beans. Place 1/3 cup beef over beans and divide lettuce equally among tostadas. Top each with 1 heaping tablespoon cheese and 1 tablespoon salsa.
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DOCTORS are refusing to take WorkCover SA patients, forcing people to travel from as far as Murray Bridge to the city for treatment.
The Australian Medical Association president Peter Sharley said it was an ongoing and significant issue.
"I think if you have any system that requires that the GP involved invests above average time commitment on forms or meetings with case managers, that isn't efficient and that all needs quantum improvement," Sharley told Indaily.
He said although all emergency situations would be treated regardless, the red tape and potential court hearings involved with WorkCover were deterrents.
"There is a willingness to improve the system from WorkCover, but we believe that as far as output that you can display it is harder to show improvement.
"There is significant bureaucracy and red tape and the burden of commitment needs to be reduced so that particularly GPs and others can engage with WorkCover patients without compromising other parts of their service delivery.
"As far as GPs or other specialists go, to attend court to be an expert witness... adds a whole level of complexity that doesn't match the day-to-day working of a GP."
Sharley said the AMA had an "ongoing conversation with WorkCover" and was aware of financial constraints within the organisation.
"[But] that doesn't mean we can't have a more efficient machine and efficiency doesn't always equal putting in more money."
Indaily understands that some doctors that treat injured workers can spend up to three hours out of a 10-hour working day on paperwork for WorkCover, as well as attending three-to-four hour long meetings per week with case managers.
A WorkCover SA spokesperson said the organisation was aware of the challenges faced by some injured workers in accessing appropriate medical services, especially in regional and remote areas.
"WorkCover is working with the Australian Medical Association to improve the experience medical practitioners have within the WorkCover Scheme," the spokesperson said.
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Nike Inc. is the largest manufacturer of athletic footwear, apparel, and equipment worldwide, by sales, with close to $26.9 billion in revenues in 2013. The company sells its products under several brands which include Nike, Nike Golf, Converse, Hurley, etc. It typically outsources manufacturing of its products to Asia, and focuses on innovation and designing of products. Previously, Nike offered its products through two additional brands, i.e. Cole Haan and Umbro. It later sold these two brands as they were not complementing Nike's brand image.
The primary sources of Nike's value are footwear and apparel sold under the Nike brand, and together they contribute about 80% of Nike's value. Nike Brand Footwear is more valuable than Nike Brand Apparel and Converse Brand Footwear for the following reasons:
Nike branded footwear commands about an 18.7% share in the $78 billion global sports footwear market. As the economy improves in the U.S. and Europe, and demand increases in China and emerging markets, we expect this share to continue to rise. With aggressive marketing and innovation, Nike branded footwear has been able to capture a significant chunk of the global sports footwear market, which we expect to increase to $87 billion by the end of the Trefis forecast period.
In comparison, the global sports apparel market stood at about $141 billion in 2013 continuing the growth it experienced in 2011. Nike, with its approximate 5.5% share, generated close to $7.8 billion in revenues in Nike branded apparel in 2013. We expect Nike to continue gaining share in this market driven by innovation, heavy marketing, and capitalizing on sports events to create higher demand of its products.
Nike Brand Footwear has a share of 18.7% versus a mere 1.6% for Converse Brand Footwear. This is because Nike Footwear is a more established brand with more than 40 years of experience. Converse still has a long ways to go before achieving Nike's popularity. In addition, the company does aggressive marketing and advertising for its Nike brand footwear by signing endorsement deals with famous athletes that gives high visibility to its flagship brand.
In the footwear business, producers and distributors jointly earn a profit per shoe of about 12% while retailers earn a profit of 13%. By selling through its own retail stores, Nike is able to capture both margins. The total number of company owned stores for Nike has increased from about 486 at the end of fiscal year 2007 to 858 at the end of 2014.
In the last few years, demand for low-performance footwear in the U.S. and Europe has grown significantly. Low-performance footwear refers to footwear that is not intended for athletic use. In this segment, Nike faces competition from low cost manufacturers that are trying to establish a foothold in the U.S. and other international markets. Nike has gradually increased its focus on selling low-performance footwear through its Converse and Hurley brands.
With the rapidly growing economies of China and other emerging markets such as Brazil, these regions have emerged as key markets for Nike. The company is experiencing strong growth in virtually every one of its business segments in these regions, and the trend is expected to carry forward.
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am a homeschooler. That means that I do my schoolwork at home, but I also take classes.
Here are some of the classes that I am taking, and activities that I'm participating in: tap dancing, softball, ceramics, art, P.E., Lego robotics, math games and voice lessons.
You are probably thinking, "How can you afford all of those classes?"
That is a question I can answer. I belong to Sky Mountain Charter School.
The Charter School gives us funding to pay for my education, including classes.
My family can afford to pay for softball and dance, and the charter school pays for all of the rest.
Some of the classes I take are only for homeschoolers. Many of those classes are at a homeschool learning center called Learn Beyond the Book.
My P.E. Class is also just for homeschoolers, conveniently just before my homeschool park day.
All of the rest of my classes and activities are with both homeschoolers and school kids. Sometimes I am the only homeschooler.
One of the things I really love about homeschooling is that I get to spend a lot of time at home with my family.
Being with my parents, and playing with my brother and little sister is fun!
However, I really like going to classes too because I feel independent and more grown-up.
I look forward to all of the classes that I'll be taking in the future. Maybe I'll see you there. Keep on learning!
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MINERAL RIDGE - Joyce S. Grubbs, 72, passed away Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at Vista at the Ridge Care Center.
She was born Aug. 11, 1940, in Clearfield, Pa., the daughter of Lou and Eleanor Bennett Sneddon.
She served our country in the U.S. Navy from 1958 to 1959. Joyce worked for Packard Electric as a laborer for 30 years, retiring in 1994. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Mineral Ridge.
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Survivors include son, Donald (Karin) Allen of Lithia, Fla.; daughters, Vaunda (Carmen) Speziale and Roxana Russell, both of Mineral Ridge; grandchildren, Darin Allen, Kayela, Amber, Alexis, Heather, Andrea Maron, Samatha Moore, Nina and Donald Russell; great-grandchildren, Kaytlynn, Steven Marsh and Sophia Maron-Brady.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a granddaughter, Katelyn Maron.
A celebration of Joyce's life will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at New Hope Methodist Church.
Arrangements were handled by Lane Family Funeral Homes, Mineral Ridge Chapel.
Family and friends may view this obituary and send condolences at www.lanefuneralhomes.com.
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Tuesday, 12 February 2013
New Zealand Politician Applies Probability and Statistics, Proposes Limited Application of Precautionary Principle re. Muslim Males and Air Travel
As reported by Australia's ABC this evening.
'NZ Politician Wants Muslims Banned From Airlines'.
Actually, it's not all Muslims, just (presumed) Muslim males of military age, that one Mr Prosser, MP, would like to keep from travelling on planes full of defenceless Infidels. But even that perfectly sensible suggestion - perfectly sensible, given the sheer number of Muslim males of military age who have hijacked planes, blown up planes, or attempted or plotted to blow up planes, in the latter decades of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first - is giving certain people conniptions. - CM
'New Zealand politicians have rounded on a colleague who has suggested that young men who are Muslim or "look like Muslims" be banned from "Western" airlines.
He's on the right track. Where there are Muslims you do tend to get Jihad. Of course, the trick is to identify, and to exclude, those most dangerous Muslims who, in order to engage in Jihad, are pretending to be what they ain't, or who have become Muslim but are not advertising the fact; one might screen out all the ladies in Slave Rags and the gents with zebibas, Muslim beards, Arab-type robes or 'pyjamas', and trousers above the ankle, and overlook a beardless white convert to Islam dressed in normal western clothes. - CM
'In a column for "Investigate" magazine, New Zealand First MP Richard Prosser said he accepted that the majority of Muslims were not terrorists (he might rather have said, that in western countries many Muslims do not appear, at the moment, to be interested in personally engaging in active combat Jihad, Jihad of the sword; though they may be waging jihad - the struggle to establish Muslim dominance both locally and globally - by all kinds of other methods, by pen and tongue and by the purse - CM) but added it was "equally undeniable" that "most terrorists are".
True dat. - CM
"If you are a young male, aged between say about 19 and about 35, and you're a Muslim, or you look like a Muslim (does he mean, 'you are dressed like a Muslim', or 'you look like you belong to one of the ethnicities that predominate within the 'Muslim world'? Profiling by 'ethnic appearance' alone would make life difficult for Jews, for Lebanese and Egyptian and Assyrian Christians, and for South and South-East Asian non-Muslims, and for Ethiopian and Nigerian Christians; it needs to be combined with judicious use of other screening devices - CM) or you come from a Muslim country (again, one does need to ask him how one would make allowance for Copts, or for Iraqi Christians, or for Hindus and Christians from Pakistan and Bangladesh, desperately fleeing Muslim persecution - CM) then you are not welcome to travel on any of the West's airlines", he wrote.
He should perhaps consult with the Israelis on methods of profiling that do not rely merely on appearance but combine it with judicious use of other indicators. - CM
"If the greatest identifiable threat to modern aviation security is posed by young Muslim males, then surely the answer is to prohibit young Muslim males from flying on our aeroplanes".
The greatest identifiable threat - not just to our planes and trains and buses and ferries, but to synagogues and temples and churches, to the lives and property of Non-Muslims worldwide - is posed by Muslims, period. Muslims who take Islam to heart. And any Muslim, no matter how harmless he or she may be or seem to be at a particular point in their lives, may one day cease to be harmless and become dangerous, dangerously mass-murderous, once he or she decides to take Islam fully to heart.
It was not lone Muslim males but a sweet young-married Muslim couple, husband and wife, who plotted together to bring down airplanes over the Atlantic by bringing powerful liquid/ chemical explosives on board plane concealed inside bottles of baby formula. They were prepared to take their infant on board the doomed plane with them, to die with them both and go to 'paradise', slaying and being slain in the cause of 'allah'.
Girls and women have carried out murder-'martyr' raids, wearing explosive vests; if one were to prevent Muslim males of military age from boarding Infidel planes - and why not also keep them from boarding trains, buses, ferries? - then the jihad gang bosses would merely use those other Muslims - the elderly, minors, women - who were being allowed on board.
The nettle that even Mr Prosser is not yet grasping is one simple fact: that it is the Muslim 'community', the Ummah as a whole, that forms the sheltering and nurturing sea within which the jihadis, the sharia-pushers, Allah's Enforcers, swim and from which, ceaselessly, they emerge. Wherever there are Muslims, there - sooner or later - you will have Jihad. If we had never allowed any Mohammedans to settle within or to visit 'the West ' - Europe, or Australia or New Zealand or the Americas - our collective security 'headache' would be a great deal less, and so would our security bills. - CM
'He also claimed New Zealand's rights were being denigrated by "misogynist troglodytes from Wogistan".
Any number of ex-Muslim women, such asTaslima Nasreen, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan, and Nonie Darwish, would concur with him about the deep misogyny of classical Islam and indeed of Islam-on-the-ground, Islam as lived in dar al Islam and in the Muslim colonies in Europe and elsewhere. - CM
'Since the article was published, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has distanced himself from Mr Prosser's views but confirmed he had spoken with him about the irresponsibility of such a one-sided view.
Mr Peters needs to read Rosemary Sookhdeo's 'Secrets Behind the Burqa' and Nonie Darwish's 'Cruel and Usual Punishment' and Ayaan Hirsi Ali's 'Infidel' and Sultan's 'A God Who Hates'; he might discover that Prosser's views are not 'one-sided' but rather, constitute a brutally true assessment of Islam as such. - CM
"I've told him you cannot go and generalise in the erroneous way he did", Mr Peters said.
Spend a few hours browsing what's on offer, nicely translated, on MEMRI TV, Mr Peters, and you might find that Mr Prosser's generalisation is ...all too terribly accurate. - CM
"He wrongfully impugned millions of law-abiding, peaceful Muslims.
But how do we distinguish those who might really be harmless and 'peaceful' (and will remain so) from those who may be harmless now but will become dangerous later (or whose children or grandchildren, as is happening in France and the UK, will become dangerous); or from those who merely seem harmless but are in fact deadly dangerous, now? What of those who are pursuing the strategy articulated by one Muhammad Taqi Usmani who argued that "Muslims should live peacefully in countries such as Britain, where they have the freedom to practise Islam, only until they gain enough power to engage in battle"? 'Our followers must live in peace until strong enough to wage jihad'. As was reported by Andrew Norfolk in an article in the Times Online, September 8, 2007 (I cannot provide a link, as the original link is no longer active). And then there was Hamza Yousuf , an American convert to Islam, who argued - in a lecture at a Muslim gathering in Dubai in 2004, said, "There are times when you have to live like a sheep in order to live in the future like a lion". As mentioned here:
'Mr Prosser agrees that the article did not have balance and does not represent the views of New Zealand First".
'Mr Peters added that Mr Prosser had written the article as a journalist and were from an extreme point of view "which we don't share as a party".
But how, Mr Peters, do you propose to distinguish the Muslim who is harmless and will always remain harmless, from the one who looks harmless but isn't, and from the one who is harmless now but is going to 'flip' and embrace the Sixth Pillar and Go Jihad on you tomorrow, or next week, or next year, or after five or ten years...and will, when he or she does, murder hundreds or thousands of people?
Ali Sina, apostate from Islam, has some grim things to say about the 'myth of the moderate Islam'.
He says, flatly: "Every 'moderate' Muslim is a potential terrorist. The belief in Islam is like a tank of gasoline. It looks innocuous, until it meets the fire. For a 'moderate' Muslim to become a murderous jihadist, all it takes is a spark of faith. It is time to put an end to the charade of "moderate Islam". There is no such thing as moderate Muslim. Muslims are either jihadists or dormant jihadists - moderate they are not".
Probability and statistics, probability and statistics. Ockham's Razor. Precautionary principle. Why should not New Zealand/ Aotearoa, the Land of the Long White Cloud, opt to stop playing what might be called 'Muslim Roulette' and...stop importing identifiable Muslims altogether? Don't just keep them off the planes. Keep them, en masse, out of New Zealand, from this day forward; for if you keep on letting them in, and the Ummah grows larger, and stronger, and perceives itself to be strong, then I guarantee that there will be an attack, or a series of attacks, steadily escalating, and many New Zealanders will be murdered, just as at Madrid, or in London, or in Mumbai. - CM
'Ethnic affairs minister Judith Collins described Mr Prosser's comments as extremely disappointing and feared they could embarrass the country internationally.
'Ethnic affairs'. Islam is not an ethnicity. Islam is a belief system. It is correlated strongly with certain ethnicities, yes, but it is not coterminous with them - many black people, many south asian people, and even quite a few persons of malay and 'middle eastern' descent are not Muslims at all - and it is not transmitted genetically. It is taught, by parents to children and by da'wa artists to gullible new recruits - or by sharia assassins to terrorised new recruits (such as kidnapped Coptic Christian girls or Pakistani Hindu or Christian girls, too many of them minors), willy-nilly. And although it can truthfully be seen as the Arab Imperial Cult, or the Arab National Cult, and Arabisation accompanies thoroughgoing Islamisation, the majority of Muslims today are not ethnically Arab. As for embarrassment: I see nothing embarrassing about stating what is plainly factual; many males belonging to what Churchill called 'the religion of blood and war' have plotted, or attempted, or actually carried out jihad attacks of various kinds on board planes or at airports. Meanwhile, males belonging to other belief systems have carried out rather fewer such attacks. - CM
'New Zealand values diversity and prides itself on being an inclusive society", she said.
Ms Collins needs to inform herself on the subject of Dar al Harb and Dar al Islam and the war that the latter is obliged to wage upon the former until all non-Muslims are converted, or dhimmis, or dead; she needs to read Quran 9: 29, and 9:5, 'the verse of the Sword', and Surah 48: 29 which states that 'those who follow him [Muhammad] are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another"; and she needs to find out about al-wala wa al-baraa, loyalty, which is owed only to Muslims, and enmity (whether passive or, preferably, active) which must be maintained toward non-Muslims unless and until they become Muslims. She might also like to find out what leading modern Muslim 'clerics' such as Al-Tantawi and Yusuf al-Qaradawi have said about Jews - not just Jews in Israel, but about all Jews, everywhere and always. And then she should ask herself: "Do I want to include in New Zealand society people whose cult teaches them to hate and despise and attack Jews? Whose cult explicitly instructs them to hate and war against and seek to subjugate me?" How can one 'include' those whose ultimate goal, 'religiously' defined, is to conquer and subjugate? Who would put an end to the music and art and sculpture, the pet dogs and roast pig dinners, of Pakeha and Maori alike? -CM
"Muslims in New Zealand are also a diverse community - it is simply appalling to profile people based on their religion, skin colour, country of origin or a perceived stereo-typed look, as Mr Prosser has done".
'A diverse community'. But they are all Muslims. They all read the same Quran, Sira and Hadith; they are all obligated to imitate the example of Mohammed. If a cult - an ideology, a belief system - permits and prescribes and sacralises and practises, inter alia, wife-beating, forced marriage of minors, and the taking and sale and use (including the sexual use) of slaves, and if it instructs its followers to wage war upon all non-members until they are converted, or subjugated, or killed - and a significant percentage of its followers are seen doing just that - then looking askance at people whose clothing or country of origin suggest strongly that they may be adherents to that cult is nothing more than commonsense. - CM
"Mr Prosser's anti-Muslim rant has let New Zealand down and as a member of parliament he should know better.
"The Office of Ethnic Affairs (here, again, is this misclassification of Islam under the 'ethnic' rubric - despite the previous claim that it is so wonderfully 'diverse' - CM) works closely with the Muslim community in New Zealand - a community that denounces terrorism and has vowed to work with authorities to counter any terrorism threat".
Oh, I'm sure they've said all the right things, smiling winningly.
But, Ms Collins, you might like to find out a bit more about something called taqiyya, and something called kitman, and something called tawriyya, and you might also like to ask yourself exactly what Islamspeak defines as 'terrorism' and what it does not.
For Muslims 'jihad' - even violent jihad that butchers infidels right and left - is not, strictly speaking, 'terrorism'. Above, I quoted one Hamza Yousuf on the necessity for the Muslim ummah, while it gathers its strength within a host society, to 'lie low', so that it may later 'live like a lion'; the same article reports that he said, "Jihad is actually considered a Rahma (mercy) in Islam". Because, you see, it stops 'oppressors' from 'oppressing'.
And if one carefully examines what Islamspeak means by 'oppression' one discovers that so long as Muslims are not the Top Dogs, and the state within which they live is a non-Muslim state, then ipso facto they are 'oppressed'. For more, see this excellent piece by Daniel Greenfield, 'The Dangers of Legitimising Muslim Grievance',
Excerpt: "The fundamental Muslim grievance is that they are not in power, not just in Israel, where the world has accepted their demand to be in power as a wholly moral and legitimate demand, or throughout the Muslim world, where Western governments have helped bring the Islamists to power with bombs and political pressure. The fundamental grievance is that they are not in power...everywhere".
Abul Kasem, Bengali apostate from Islam, makes exactly the same point at greater length and in detail in his 2005 essay, "When Is Islam Oppressed?"
It is worth noting that he opens the essay by citing a statement made by a Muslim resident in Australia, one Abdul Nacer Benbrika/ Abu Bekr, spiritual leader of a group of Jihad plotters, in an ABC interview: "I am telling you that my religion doesn't tolerate other religion. It doesn't tolerate. The only one law which needs to be spread, it can be here or anywhere else, has to be Islam".
Do you think you can include people who think like that, Ms Collins, New Zealand 'Ethnic Affairs Minister'? Can you 'include' people who have no intention, ultimately, of including you, except as a convert to Islam, or as a despised, exploited and degraded dhimmi near-slave? The thing is, no matter what the smiling taqiyya-masters have told you, that agenda isn't extreme, it isn't an aberration; what Benbrika articulated is bog-standard Islam, Islam, Islam. That's what Islam is all about; it's the grand project that all members of the Ummah are supposed to be engaged in. And that's why, instead of heaping scorn on Mr Prosser's sensible suggestion that it might be prudent, in light of recent bitter experiences, to keep Muslim males of military age away from airplanes full of Infidels, you should be asking yourself whether, rather, it fails in not being anywhere near what is, alas, required. - CM
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13 Feb 2013
Christina McIntosh
Post scriptum.
After putting up this story, based on the bare-bones version that appeared in Australia's ABC, I checked out how the story was being reported in the New Zealand press. It was a madhouse and a media feeding frenzy. Frantic shrieks of 'racism!' and 'Islamophobia' were rising on all sides (the talkbacks were, on the whole, even worse than the newspaper articles, with only a few Islamosavvy folks manfully trying to uphold the cause of commonsense and civilisational survival in the face of a tsunami of dismally predictable nonsense) and sinister Muslims hastening to pose as poor, persecuted victims (while hinting obliquely that all kinds of nasty things might happen if anybody in New Zealand dares to emit even the tiniest whimper of complaint about Islam or Muslims).
And, alas, poor Mr Prosser has buckled under the pressure of the virtual lynch mob and has issued an abject apology (though he clings to a fragment of commonsense and insists that NZ still needs to think about targeted profiling of air passengers).
But if New Zealanders think that forcing Mr Prosser to shut up and kiss the feet of all those highly-offended Muslims will reduce the likelihood of New Zealand suffering a mass-murderous jihad raid at some time in the future, they are sadly mistaken. Caving in to Muslim whining and threats has made violent jihad attacks more - not less - likely. And all those New Zealanders busy condemning Mr Prosser, and forcing him to recite the mantra that the vast majority of Muslims are just nice, sweet, peaceful folks who want to fit in and get along with their neighbours, are at some point, probably sooner rather than later, going to find out that they were wrong.
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Interactive Entertainment Industry set to pass the Movie Box Office
There is no greater indicator of the massive change our society is undergoing than the startling fact that the World Interactive Entertainment (aka Video Game) Industry gross last year exceeded the Movie Box Office gross: a landmark in the history of civilization.
Once characterised as the past-time of adolescents, interactive entertainment has come a long way in the 25 years since Space Invaders first entered our way-of-life.
As computing power has become cheaper, game consoles such as the Playstation and Xbox have developed capabilities beyond the first supercomputers, and the games which they run have become more compelling with each year as the industry has matured.
And the rapid quest towards photo-realism and believable virtual reality will continue unabated for many years to come - each successive game release pushes the boundaries further and as each generation of computer consoles hits the market, capabilities take a quantum leap towards convincing synthetic reality.
When Sony releases the next generation console, it is expected to have 1000 times the graphics processing power. Sony's PS2 was released in late 2000 - since then it has sold more than 60 million units worldwide (one million in Australia) and gained the early mover advantage over its prime competitor, Microsoft.
The next generation of consoles will land in 2005 by which time Sony will be locked in combat with Microsoft for top spot in the netwroked world - where you can play with everyone's next door neighbour all at the same time. Microsoft has a massive advantage in this marketplace, already reaching the majority of the world's online population each month via its MSN network.
It would be easy to dismiss the game industry as a teenage phenomena, but in reality, teens of the nineties have grown up. The average game player gets older every year, and is currently 29.
And the next generation coming through is likely to be even more comfortable with computer games - interactive digital media has become an integral part of children's lives. A recent study of American children showed children under the age of six spend as much time playing video games as they do playing outside.
Two-thirds (68%) of children under two already use screen media, for an average of more than two hours A DAY!
More importantly than larger gross revenues, the game industry has a larger audience, commands a lot more of the audience's time and enjoys a very pro-active relationship with that audience - so proactive that many parents who have witnessed the phenomena would term it addictive.


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In October, when it isn't quite cold enough for a fire but I crave that warm glow, we usually use candles in our fireplace. I never would have thought to fill it with pumpkins, but these two photos make me want to give it a try. Aren't they cute? I am thinking of using the top design, but the bottom image would be perfect for those who have non-working fireplaces.
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