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Jewish World Review Nov. 7, 2005 / 5 Mar-Cheshvan, 5766 Wonder Why the Republicans Are So Depressed? Look Left By James Lileks
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Perhaps it's good the Bush administration is getting the third year of the second term out of the way in the first. Soldier up, learn from the mistakes, and move on. But move on they can't. Not yet.
The Alito bump notwithstanding, a peculiar sort of depression affects many Republicans these days. Indictments both grave and specious? Sigh. The Harriet Miers internecine death-match? Alas.
But there's more. The Valerie Plame imbroglio suggests merely suggests, mind you that the left's true objective is to undermine the rationale for war to cripple a wartime president for short-term political gain.
A shocking charge. Almost unimaginable! But look at the history. Five years of pessimism and defeatism from the chattering class has made conservatives wonder why they bother. From the quagmire of Afghanistan the brutal winter looms! to the quagmire in the first week of the Iraq operation, every action is seen through a dark, cracked prism of fear and defeat.
Never mind the constitutional vote; there were graphic designers who spent a nice, comfy workday sifting through their collections of fonts, looking for the right typeface to herald the 2,000th casualty. (Hmm. Helvetica Bold? No, used that for the 1,000th death.) Prime example: an editorial cartoon by Mike Luckovich, which had 2,000 soldiers' names forming the word "Why?"
You have to ask? Well, one more time:
Because we've been told by all the root-causers that the lack of freedom in Arab nations breeds desperate terrorists. Because it's better to leave a country with a democracy and a constitution than nuke it clean and walk away whistling. Because the United States has been at odds with Iraq since 1990, and the alternative was more oil-for-food corruption and porous sanctions until Saddam was free to romp about untrammeled.
Because upsetting the precious "stability" of the Middle East gave Libya a case of the yips, helped mobilize the occupied Lebanese and even made Egypt pretend to hold a good election. Because it gave the United States bases right next door to Iran, the leader of which has announced that Israel and the U.S. should be destroyed. With nukes.
Because after 9/11, leaving rogue states to their own devices and hoping Kofi Annan and Jacques Chirac would talk down our enemies seemed a rather weak definition of defense.
Oh, sorry. Mentioned 9/11. That's not permitted. Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11. Iraq is about Halliburton and oil, just as the invasion of Sicily in World War II was about cannoli and Chianti. According to some, Bush just threw a dart at a map in 2002; it hit Iraq, and off we went. According to others, he came into office determined to invade Iraq sure, the Clinton administration had made regime change the official U.S. policy, but at least it wasn't foolish enough to do anything about it.
Point out to the critics that Saddam gave refuge to the man who planned the first attack on the World Trade Center, and you'll get a dismissive wave of the hand: That was '93.
Point out the constant assertions in the Clinton years of Saddam's WMD capabilities and connections with terrorist groups points made by the mainstream media and accepted as fact by all and you get another wave: Well, we found no WMDs.
Why waste time connecting those dots? Those are old and boring dots. What matters most is whether the lies about yellowcake Bush's lies, of course, not Joe Wilson's led to the outing of a double-secret CIA agent.
Point out how the left used to regard the revelation of covert agents' names as a civic duty, and eyes roll. This is now, please.
Once upon a time you could count on both sides to have the same set of assumptions and facts. Now you have Howard Dean's favorite singer, Wyclef Jean, rapping about "Father Saddam."
Of course the Republicans are depressed. The media and the Democrats appear to have improved on the old description of the Bourbon monarchy: They have learned nothing. And forgotten everything.
Letter-writer talking points: The above was a transparent attempt to shift attention away from Scooter. Because that's really the biggest problem the nation has faced in the last five years. Osama bin Libby.
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I upgraded my local computer to Ubuntu 13.10 today and revisited my Drupal development environment (this guide is also available for Ubuntu 12.04). Here is a simple and fast guide how to configure Ubuntu for development. There are a number of installation documentation pages on this topic on drupal.org, but they suggest to use the packaged Drupal installation and to run Drupal in subfolders (e.g. http://localhost/drupal6). They also do not cover some other important development tools like Phpmyadmin or php.ini settings. During development we want to edit files and we want to do that somewhere in our home directory to avoid any permission problems. There is also Drubuntu, but it is outdated and does way too much magic in my opinion. So here is a more transparent tutorial that highlights the key development configuration settings for Drupal development on a local computer (do not use this for a production server!).
To install a web server and MySQL and PHP and all the dependencies we simply install the default Ubuntu drupal7 package:
The installation will probably prompt you for a few things: Set a password for the MySQL root user. For the Postfix configuration you can select the "Local only" profile, so that no outgoing mail will be sent by PHP from your computer. For the postfix system mail name you can just leave it at your default hostname. The installation will probably prompt you to configure a default drupal database, but we will do that manually afterwards, so skip it.
We don't want to expose any of our sites to the outside world, so we limit Apache to only listen on the localhost interface. Edit /etc/apache2/ports.conf and replace "Listen 80" with "Listen 127.0.0.1:80".
We want Apache to run as our own user account to avoid any permission problems or conflicts when running drush or editing config files. Edit /etc/apache2/envvars and change the user to your account name. Example:
Enable the Rewrite mod and restart Apache.
Now we would like to have Phpmyadmin to easily create, inspect and manipulate MySQL databases.
The installation will probably prompt you for a few things: Confirm that you want to automatically configure a database with dbconfig-common. Select Apache as web server to configure automatically.
Now your Phpmyadmin installation should be reachable at http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ .
We will need some tools for development:
It is important to tune your /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini for development purposes to show all PHP warnings. I changed the following entries:
Folder setup
The next step is the setup of a workspace environment in my home folder where I will develop my Drupal projects. Example for my "drupal-8" development environment:
- Drupal root: /home/klausi/workspace/drupal-8
- Apache config: /etc/apache2/sites-available/drupal-8.conf
- Browser: http://drupal-8.localhost
- Database: drupal-8
Checkout Drupal 8:
Apache config
Create an Apache configuration for your drupal-8 folder at /etc/apache2/sites-available/drupal-8.conf:
Enable the configuration and restart Apache:
You might wonder why I do not use an Apache wildcard/catchall configuration, here is the reason why: unfortunately the VirtualDocumentRoot directive requires that you modify your .htaccess in your Drupal installation (you have to enable the RewriteBase /). This is bad because then you always have local changes in that file if you are working with a Drupal core git checkout.
localhost DNS
Create the domain entry for drupal-8.localhost in /etc/hosts. Add "127.0.0.1 drupal-8.localhost". You will have to add each new project name in this file (you could also install Bind to automatically resolve this, but seems like an overkill to me).
I wrote a simple bash script that automatically creates the Apache site config and the site's hosts entry for me. Make sure to change the WORKDIR to your directory and run it like this:
Create the database in Phpmyadmin: Go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin , then "Privileges", then "Add a new User". Fill out the user name with "drupal-8", host localhost and generate a password (copy that password to use it later during the Drupal install process). Use the "Database for user" section and select "Create database with same name and grant all privileges".
Install Drupal
Now your Drupal installation should be reachable in your browser at http://drupal-8.localhost and you can start the installation. Done!
You can also use drush to install Drupal from the command line:
Development tips
- I highly recommend using an IDE for source code editing such as Netbeans or Phpstorm. Drupal is spread over thousands of files and shortcuts to jump to other files are a real time saver, same for code completion as you type. And having a debugger to step through the code is very helpful.
- You want to speed up MySQL because you don't care about your local development databases anyway? Put MySQL on a RAM disc that syncs back to your hard drive on start/stop.
- You want to examine mails that Drupal sends out? Configure PHP to write outgoing mails to temporary files.
- You like the command line? Check out drush to do all sorts of Drupal administration tasks faster.
- You want to know what's going on in that stupid function? Install the devel module for debugging purposes and insert
anywhere you want. It will pretty-print the variable in the browser for inspection.
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A typo:
A typo:
/etc/apache2/site-available/drupal-8.conf > /etc/apache2/sites-available/drupal-8.conf
Fixed, thanks!
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Fixed, thanks!
For those not familiar with aptitude: note that Ubuntu 13.10 (at least with the way I installed it), didn't come with aptitude installed by default, so I needed to run this before I could follow the instructions:
sudo apt-get install aptitude
You can alternatively use "apt-get" instead of "aptitude" in the commands of this tutorial.
Also, your link to deploy-site.sh contains a # fragment at the end.
Yes, of course apt-get works
Yes, of course apt-get works as well. Removed the link fragment, thanks!
I have got most of this working, but I can't import existing data bases either through phpMyAdmin or mysql command. In phpMyAdmin it gives the following error: "Warning: Unknown: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/tmp) is not within the allowed path(s): (/usr/share/phpmyadmin/:/etc/phpmyadmin/:/var/lib/phpmyadmin/:/usr/share/php/php-gettext/:/usr/share/javascript/) in Unknown on line 0"
Also I'm now on ubuntu 14.04 not 13.10. Any ideas would be great. After reading around it looks like the problem may have something to do with apache using my own name and group. But I'm not shore how to resolve this as I would like to use the setup you posted above. Also thanks for the bash script it works great.
http://klau.si/sites/default/files/deploy-site.sh_.txt > 403 Forbidden
First of all thanks for this
First of all thanks for this tutorial it was verry helpful.
In order to work for me I changed start of drupal-8.conf from VirtualHost *:80
to VirtualHost drupal-8.localhost:80
and add ServerName drupal-8.localhost
Otherwise it shows default apache2 homepage instead of the virtual host home page. Also in order to be able to edit files in IDE (PhpStorm in my case) I added the user I used to www-data group and change user:group of files to :www-data
. The last part was a real bummer since I come from Windows background
Hello, thanks for this
Hello, thanks for this article. I made a few modifications to deploy-site.sh so that it can have a different hostname and folder name. This is useful because a lot of people I collaborate choose to have Drupal in a sub "docs" folder of the git root. It's hosted in this repo: https://github.com/molenick/kubuntu-drupal-dev-setup.


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In this short paper, you will recommend a type of business entity for the client described in the final project. In explaining your recommendation, discuss liability issues, tax effects, and the economic impact on the client's personal returns. Justify your recommendation regarding whether the client's daughter should have an ownership interest in the new company with details related to the transaction
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
A. Recommend a type of business entity for the client to consider based on your tax research. Consider justifying your recommendation using the code and regulations that relate to the business entity.
B. Justify whether or not the client should choose a business entity that has limited liability protection. Be sure to include possible future liability issues based on the potential economic impact and appropriate IRS code and regulations.
C. Describe the tax effect on the recommended business entity and the impact it will have on the client's personal tax return. Consider addressing how the business entity affects the completion of the 1040 tax form.
D. Evaluate the economic impact on the client's personal returns based on the recommended entity. Justify why the client would not choose the other business entities by informing the client of the differences.
E. Justify your recommendation regarding the client's daughter having an ownership interest. Provide details supporting the recommendation taking into consideration the jargon and mechanics of the transaction.
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When Brian Kidd walked into the press room it felt like part anti-climax/part Roberto Mancini evasion strategy. But it turned out to be a breath of fresh of air as the assistant manager gave voice to what Manchester City fans will probably admit they wish their team's manager had been saying for weeks.
The title race is not finished, as a matter of fact, claimed Kidd. "We are champions and we want to fight until the end. There will be jittery moments [for Manchester United] As champions you go out with pride. If you going to lose it you are going to lose it by getting knocked out, like a great boxer would – not on his stool."
Yes, of course it is a ridiculously tall order. The jitters Kidd alluded to were United blowing the title when eight points clear with six to play last season. Now they lead by a whopping 13 points with City six games from the finish and United five. If City lose at Tottenham tomorrow, United can regain the championship by winning at Aston Villa on Monday evening.
But let's give thanks for someone – a someone who won four titles as a manager and one as a player at Old Trafford, don't forget – coming out to give it a bit of noise, in the way you imagine Sir Alex Ferguson would. Kidd neatly sidestepped the question when asked whether Ferguson would ever publicly concede the title race over before it was over. "You talk about Alex…" he said but did not proceed to do so himself, swerving into another train of thought in the way he is in inclined to do.
But the answer is almost certainly: 'No. Fergie doesn't quit. Or not in public, at least.'
The oratory continued. As he offered a tour of all those "flair" players he wanted to name-check for delivering in spades – Gareth Barry was quite rightly up there, along with James Milner and Matija Nastasic – you could not help but think what a restorative effect it would have if Mancini tried this more often. The Italian only says nice things about his players when asked a leading question about how good they are and his habitual honesty about their weaknesses often makes things come out all wrong. There was a baffling comment on Wednesday after the win over Wigan about Micah Richards still not being fit enough, which sounded like another put down about a defender who had just played his first game since October. Mancini was given the benefit of the doubt.
It is stretching things somewhat to discuss Sunday's game, as Mancini has, in terms of City sealing second spot. The position is theirs. They have a far better squad than Tottenham – and so they should, with the resources at their disposal – albeit that in Gareth Bale Spurs have an impact player of width and pace. But Kidd's talk, using the word "champions" rather than delivering that whining appraisal of United being "lucky" and "five yards ahead" that Mancini takes recourse in, exposed one area in which they often do trail Spurs. Motivation.
Kidd, who said City will probably be without David Silva but should have Sergio Aguero fit to play, ranged off-message, treating Mancini's suggestion that United had been "lucky" with almost as much incredulity as his old boss Ferguson did, a week or so ago.
"I've been there and I keep hearing these stories that it is luck," he said of United. "It is not luck. It is ingrained in them." A contradiction between manager and assistant to rejoice in.


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Where its assembled is irrelevant. by Gary Witzenburg (2007-02-27) So what is an "American" car? If it is simply one built inAmerica, as most foreign makers and U.S. media would have you believe, then vehicles built in Canada are Canadian, those assembled in Mexico are Mexican and Porsches built in Finland are Finnish. But we know intuitively that's not the case. And yet in this global age of autos, some people insist on sticking to the idea of purely "American," or "German," or "Japanese" cars - when in many cases, today's vehicles are polyglots, products of the same global industry. But that doesn't change the political nature of the question. Say General Motors decides to build Chevrolets in Japan . If the cars are competitive (could happen), that might make sense to escape expensive barriers the Japanese government puts in the way of imported vehicles to protect its own automakers. So GM buys some land outside Nagoya , builds a plant and hires some local workers and managers to run it. Say it builds a GM Powertrain plant next door, hires more locals and - since it would be cheaper to source parts and components locally than import them - sources most of them with Japanese suppliers. Say it starts cranking out enough appealing and carefully assembled cars to put a meaningful dent in the Japanese market. This would be good for the local economy in and around Nagoya. However, assuming that the Japanese new-car market was not growing, it would displace sales of cars built by weaker Japanese makers and hurt employment elsewhere in Japan. And as those companies' sales and shares declined, the jobs displaced would not be limited to factories; a lot of better, higher-paying headquarters jobs would be lost as well, most of them in and around Tokyo. Would the Japanese people and media see this displacement, and net loss, as okay because "home-built Chevrolets are as Japanese as anything from our own makers"? Would they see profits from increasingly popular Japan-built Chevys going back eastward across the Pacific as okay for their own (currently struggling) economy? What do you think? Protection or barrier? Let's carry this scenario a few steps further: Say GM's success with its first Japanese plant and its growing penetration of the Japanese market leads it to build more plants there. Say Ford and Chrysler Group follow, and their American suppliers are encouraged to build parts plants there to support them and to win business away from Japanese suppliers. Japan 's highly protective government, of course, would never allow any of this to happen. And even if it did, few highly nationalistic Japanese would buy American-brand vehicles at the expense of their own coveted makers regardless of where they were built. But say, just for a moment, that they would. Would those Japan-built cars and trucks - most designed and developed in North America -- qualify as "Japanese?" Would those parts built in American-owned Japanese plants be considered "Japanese?" Would the assembly and sales of those vehicles in Japan be perceived as good for Japanese jobs and the Japanese economy? Could their U.S. makers get away with advertising them as such? Would the Japanese media endorse and recommend them as such? What do you think? So why has exactly this scenario evolved in the U.S.A., where nearly every Japanese automaker and some Europeans and Koreans assemble cars and trucks for the American market and beyond? Because, once import vehicle makers began achieving serious penetration of this market during the fuel-crisis 1970s, our government essentially forced them into it by imposing quotas on imported vehicles. Because our domestic makers during the 1980s and '90s were not especially worthy of protection. Because enlightened off-shore makers saw huge PR and some business benefits in building vehicles here despite our much higher business costs. And because our governments (federal and especially state and local) and most media encouraged, enabled and welcomed them here as job "creators." Job creation - or job death What they did not see, or chose to ignore, is that "creation" of a few thousand plant jobs here and there would eventually destroy many more and better jobs elsewhere. So while some (mostly southern) states continue to battle each other with big incentives to attract new foreign-maker plants to gain two or three thousand jobs, other (mostly northern) states lose tens of thousands. While import companies will "create" about 3000 U.S. jobs in 2007, raising their total to 106,000, U.S. automakers will lose nearly 43,000 this year, falling to about 378,000, according to Jim Doyle, president of the Washington, DC-based Level Field Institute, which tracks and reports auto-company U.S. employment. Doyle further predicts that U.S. industry-job losses will total some 95,000 (from 2005 employment) by 2010, and even then the three U.S.-based companies will employ 71 percent of all American auto workers - four times more per car sold than Hyundai, 2.5 times more than Toyota, and nearly twice as many as Honda. "Reporters tend to focus on plant jobs and miss the headquarters jobs," Doyle asserts. "Foreign automakers spend millions around the country promoting their new plants and U.S. investment," he says. "We welcome their investment, but Americans should know that each Ford, GM, or Chrysler Group purchase supports nearly 2.5 times the number of U.S. jobs of foreign automakers, on average." What's more American? Some say a Japanese car bolted together in America with a fair amount of U.S. content is more "American" than a U.S.-brand car assembled in Canada or Mexico with some foreign-sourced parts. Nonsense! Ask yourself, again, where are the bulk of the better jobs and where do the profits go? DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler Group, by the way, still qualifies as "American" because it is an entire self-contained car company based in America and employing tens of thousands of Americans at all levels that happens to be owned by a German company, just as Opel is a self-contained German company owned by General Motors. "Toyota spends huge sums of money promoting the idea that they 'support' 368,000 U.S. jobs," Doyle says, "but those include supplier, dealership and other peripheral jobs. Using the same multiplier, GM supports 1.9 million U.S. jobs and Ford 1.2 million. Toyota also says it builds here most of the vehicles it sells here. That may be its eventual intent, but Automotive News reported that 48 percent of the vehicles Toyota sold here in 2006 were imported. "Is it more important to the U.S. economy for someone to buy a Ford Fusion, although it's built in Mexico, from a company that employs 105,000 Americans," Doyle asks, "than a Honda built in Ohio from a company that employs 27,000? Domestic makers also purchase nearly 80 percent of the parts made here, and domestic vehicles average 76 percent U.S. content vs. 48 percent for U.S.-built imports. That represents billions of dollars in spending." No, an "American" car or truck is one built by a U.S.-based company that supports primarily U.S. jobs and the U.S. economy, regardless of its parts content and especially its point of assembly. And should Americans buy "American" out of patriotism. No, but they should carefully consider U.S.-brand vehicles - now that most are competitive or better in design, engineering, quality, and fuel economy - out of their own economic self-interest. Because whatever business they are in, every time "Detroit" and its struggling U.S. auto suppliers shed another 10,000, or 20,000, or 30,000 American workers, that multiplies to hundreds of thousands who can no longer afford whatever goods or services their own employers sell. Think about it. |
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I have been for years trying to convince people of these very facts. But I could never put it into the correct wording. Now I have some Ammo...... |
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Great Article!! It encompases all of the points i use when arguing with my dumba$$ friends who say its built here so its american.
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Im too lazy to read that... oh well Ill read it anyways...
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Call me "stubborn", "bull headed", "blind", "clueless", whatever.... .......in my mind......
Chevrolet, Chrysler, and Ford - AMERICAN %^&$# Toyota - N.O.T. !!! (Going to find shelter now before the rocks, profanities, etc. fly my way) |
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no shelter needed that is fact anyone who disagrees obviously knows nothing and didnt read the article all the way through.
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Like they say, buy American, the job you save could be your own. Another well written article. People need to get their heads out of their collective a$$es and think they don't negatively impact our economy when they buy a rice burner. It not only applies to new cars but used cars as well. If people didn't buy these used piles of sh!t too, then people would think twice about buying a car they couldn't sell at a later date. Our future and our children's future are at stake here. On a somewhat related note, I'm done watching NASCAR if/when a Toyota wins. Let's teach NASCAR a freakin lesson too! Too much greed and not enough concern for the common good in this country these days. It'll catch up to us sooner or later. USA #1.
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On a somewhat related thought, driving 2 days to and from Florida provided me with alot of time to notice the numbers of Toyota's, Honda's, etc., on our highways.
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GM, FORD, and CHRYSLER are indeed AMERICAN. That article encompasses everything that I argue.. including the fact that Toyotas and Nissans and their cronies are, in fact, built here in the US. But THAT DOES NOT MAKE THEM AMERICAN AT ALL!!!!!!! but unfortunatley some people are as hard-headed as I am... And refuse to here this. The hardest part about arguing this point to people is that then people think that I don't want them to buy any foriegn vehicles at all... I would prefer it this way but I know that some people have a need that the foriegners fill, and the Big three can't. I accept that and support it. However these needs are few and far between. |
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I think that is an excellent article, and I have throughout my life supported American made autos (with the exception of my wife's Civic, but that was her car, so I let her make the decision)
I have said this before, and will say it again. The American automanufacturers enjoyed a time when there was very little competition and throughout that time they developed the reputation of building unreliable, gas guzzling cars. I think that GM has gone to great ends to try and change this stereotype (I can't speak for Ford or Chrystler as I know little about them). However, the stereotype remains. It really is amazing how strong stereotypes are in people's minds. I mean, look at Toyota. Last year they had how many autos recalled?!?! That is just unacceptable by any standard. IMO it is going to take a lot more than just GM stepping up and backing their products to finally start to change people's perceptions about American cars. I also think forming some kind of a marketing joint ventue between the Big 3 to launch a new campaign "re-educating" the general public about American cars. |
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It seems to me, whenever there is a recall by Chevrolet, Ford, or Chrysler, it's "front page" news, while when the same thing occurs with Toyota, which happens quite frequently, it seems it's "hush hush". And the auto-rags. I feel like canceling mine. They are becoming more and more Toyota & Honda oriented. ie; Autoweek has a full-page story on how wonderful Toyota is on the 3rd page. Granted its a paid ad. by Toyota, but I don't want to see it every week! (I'm starting to rant, so I will stop now) Bottom line; GM is on the right track, hopefully Ford and Chrysler follow, and hopefully the publics perception will begin to change. If GM and the others continue to improve, eventually the public will have to accept that American cars are reliable and of a good quality and the &*^% media can give them the same coverage/praise as they do to the imports. (OK I'm really done now) Ed |
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I say the maro will pull gm up considerably. They starved the public of mid class performance vehichles for a while and we are hungry now.
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The typical asking rate per listing is in the $10's per square foot per year. The Burlington submarket is experiencing a decline in rates. In the last 3 months, the median rate fell $4 per sqft per year. That's a 20% decrease in rent.
In the last 90 days, 17 listings have been listed, which means new availabilities are probably going fast. You'll want to be prepared to tour spaces as quick as possible. There aren't many listings below 2,000 square feet posted, so finding a space for a small business might be tough.
Even though the median size is 3,050 sqft, there are still 0 listings below 2,000 sqft. Most buildings in this region are close to 2 floors. Most buildings in this market were built in 1985 and are Class B.
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Bow Valley
Bow Valley is a valley located along the upper Bow River in Alberta, Canada.
The name "Bow" refers to the reeds that grew along its banks and which were used by the local First Nations people to make bows; the Peigan name for the river is "Makhabn", meaning "river where bow weeds grow".[1]
Bow Valley Provincial Park (part of the Kananaskis Country park system) is established east of the Canadian Rockies in the arch of the valley, while the upper course of the Bow River flows through the Banff National Park. The Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park is located between the Banff National Park and Canmore in the Bow River Valley.
Numerous other recreation areas dot the valley. Provincial Recreation Areas are established at Three Sisters, Gap Lake, Grotto Mountain, Lac des Arcs, Heart Ridge, Heart Mountain, Ghost Reservoir and other locations.
Many lakes, glacial and artificial, are found in the Bow Valley:
- Bow Lake
- Hector Lake
- Vermilion Lakes
- Lake Louise
- Gap Lake
- Lac des Arcs
- Ghost Lake
- ^ Bow Riverkeeper article about the river.
Coordinates: 51°10′02″N 115°28′46″W / 51.16711°N 115.47953°W
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Aerothermal investigation of tip leakage flow in a film cooled industrial turbine rotor
Krishnababu, S. K., Hodson, H. P., Booth, G. D., Lock, G. D. and Dawes, W. N., 2010. Aerothermal investigation of tip leakage flow in a film cooled industrial turbine rotor. Journal of Turbomachinery: Transactions of the ASME, 132 (2), 021016.
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A numerical investigation of the flow and heat transfer characteristics of tip leakage in a typical film cooled industrial gas turbine rotor is presented in this paper. The computations were performed on a rotating domain of a single blade with a clearance gap of 1.28% chord in an engine environment. This standard blade featured two coolant and two dust holes, in a cavity-type tip with a central rib. The computations were performed using CFX 5.6, which was validated for similar flow situations by Krishnababu et al. (2007, "Aero-Thermal Investigation of Tip Leakage Flow in Axial Flow Turbines: Part I-Effect of Tip Geometry," ASME Paper No. 2007-GT-27954). These predictions were further verified by comparing the flow and heat transfer characteristics computed in the absence of coolant ejection with computations previously performed in the company (SIEMENS) using standard in-house codes. Turbulence was modeled using the shear-stress transport (SST) k-o) turbulence model. The comparison of calculations performed with and without coolant ejection has shown that the coolant flow partially blocks the tip gap, resulting in a reduction in the amount of mainstream leakage flow. The calculations identified that the main detrimental heat transfer issues were caused by impingement of the hot leakage flow onto the tip. Hence three different modifications (referred as Cases 1-3) were made to the standard blade tip in an attempt to reduce the tip gap exit mass flow and the associated impingement heat transfer. The improvements and limitations of the modified geometries, in terms of tip gap exit mass flow, total area of the tip affected by the hot flow and the total heat flux to the tip, are discussed. The main feature of the Case 1 geometry is the removal of the rib, and this modification was found to effectively reduce both the total area affected by the hot leakage flow and total heat flux to the tip, while maintaining the same leakage mass flow as the standard blade. Case 2 featured a rearrangement of the dust holes in the tip, which, in terms of aerothermal dynamics, proved to be marginally inferior to Case 1. Case 3, which essentially created a suction-side squealer geometry, was found to be inferior even to the standard cavity-tip blade. It was also found that the hot spots, which occur in the leading edge region of the standard tip, and all modifications contributed significantly to the area affected by the hot tip leakage flow and the total heat flux.
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A long while ago when I really got into being frugal I printed out the Hillbilly Housewife $70 menu plan. I posted briefly about it, but since then I've experimented more and I've tried to morph it into something healthy. Her's is a very southern (hillbilly?) menu plan with staples such as collard greens, hot dogs and milk powder. The recipes are valuable though, and they inspired me to create my own super easy frugal menu. What I have listed below is what you need to have on hand:
20 quarts (4 pounds) Instant Nonfat Dry Milk
Costco-sized Butter Pack
5 dozen Eggs (she recommended 3 dozen but at Costco 5 is the same price)
8 ounces shredded Cheese
2 tubs of fruit-flavored yogurt
2 packs of Firm Tofu
Large Salmon filet
3 pounds Black, Pinto, and/or Kidney Beans
1 pound Frozen Peas
Frozen broccolli
3 8-ounce cans tomato sauce
Flat of Canned Diced Tomatoes
Flat of Cream of Mushroom soup
Big bag of Gala Apples
6 12oz Frozen Orange Juice Concentrate
Baby carrots
Seasonal veggies and fruits (these are the cheapest things in the store... especially tomatoes, lettuce, sprouts, cucumbers, sweet peas, etc.)
3 pounds rice (Jasmine is my favorite)
10 pounds All-Purpose Flour
2 pounds plain cornmeal
Hamburger buns
2 Costco-size tortilla packs
3 loaves of bread
Big bag of Instant Oatmeal
Baking Powder
Big jug of honey
5 pounds sugar
Ranch Dressing
Peanut butter
Yellow Mustard
Black Pepper
Chili Powder
Garlic Powder
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Ginger Black Bean Burgers
Scrambled Egg Wraps
Pasta with a Veggie and/or Tofu Sauce
Cornbread and Vegetarian chili
Tofu and rice wraps
Baked salmon and rice
Pancakes with honey
Peanut Butter and Honey or Jam on bread or tortilla
Toast and Honey or Jam
Broccoli Casserole
Oatmeal with Yogurt
There are a couple of choices with this plan. First of all, 3 loaves of bread isn't enough for our family, so you have to make some of your own, which is why we have a bread machine. Second, you'll be making two different bean soups, and using the crock pot is the best way to do this. Rather than having to think about making it the night before, you can put the beans in the cooker 8 hours ahead without soaking, turn the cooker on low and have soft beans for dinner. You'll be making ginger black beans one day, and a hearty chili with kidney beans another day. I also can't seem to make hamburger buns but burgers taste nice with large rolls if you are so inclined. The dry milk powder is for bread baking, and as you will notice very little milk used in the diet, that bag of powder will last a really long time. Snacks are peanut butter and jam or cut up fruit and veggies.
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#1238 closed enhancement (wontfix)
[Patch] SpellChecker
Reported by: | gogo | Owned by: | |
Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Version 1.0 |
Component: | Plugins | Version: | trunk |
Severity: | normal | Keywords: | patch |
Cc: | haakonsk@… |
Received to my personal email from Håkon Karlsen:
Hi! I have a patch for the SpellChecker plugin, plus a minor change to modules/Gecko/Gecko.js (attached). Do you think you could include it in the repository for me? And in that case, how long do you think it will be before the patch is commited to the trunk? Håkon Skaarud Karlsen Onsite Solutions (Norway)
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comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by gogo
- Component changed from Xinha Core to Plugins
- Keywords patch added
- Milestone changed from 0.96 to Version 1.0
- Owner gogo deleted
- Type changed from defect to enhancement
I think this needs to be carefully examined as it may introduce a security issue, notice how it is passing a directory path where to write files in a hidden field.
comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by gogo
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from new to closed
Possible security issue. No interest from people. Can't be that important. Closing.
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"The Cold", the new album from veteran Arizona metallers FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, has entered the German Media Control chart at position No, 87. This marks the band's first-ever appearance on the chart.
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A pair of Russian Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers took off on Friday from the Engels airbase in southern Russia on a routine patrol flight over the Arctic Ocean, an Air Force spokesman said.
Russia resumed strategic bomber patrol flights over the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic oceans in August 2007, following an order signed by then-president Vladimir Putin.
"Two Tu-95 bombers have started a regular nine-hour patrol flight over remote areas of the Arctic," Lt. Col. Vladimir Drik told RIA Novosti.
Drik said that all flights by Russian aircraft are performed in strict compliance with international law on the use of airspace over neutral waters, without violating the borders of other states.
Although it was common practice during the Cold War for both the U.S. and the Soviet Union to keep nuclear strategic bombers permanently airborne, the Kremlin cut long-range patrols in 1992.
Last year's resumption of long-range patrols was widely seen as a sign of Russia's drive to assert itself both militarily and politically.
Air Force commander, Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin said in April this year that Russia would substantially increase the number of strategic patrol flights over the world's oceans to 20-30 a month.
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Final meeting of Frome Scriptwriters before our festival debut event Flaming Voices, last readthrough of some cracking pieces. Bristol's Stepping Out Theatre Company stepped in to supply professional actors & direction for this rehearsed read-through ~ a fantastic & exciting support for our fledgling group. As Rosie says,"New writing is always exciting because you just don't know what gems are hidden there." All that glitters will be revealed 8pm Friday 13 July at the Cornerhouse, and it's FREE so come early for a seat!
Still on the subject of new writing: Short Shrifts is the collective title of twelve short plays by Peter Oswald ~ we're talking really short here, 90 minutes for the full dozen with an interval thrown in ~ which are bizarre and often beautiful. The writing is superb, both real and surreal: clever, lyrical, and often savagely funny. Meet the couple who discover when meeting on holiday they share the same town.. street... house... name.. ("small world!") and the husband who reads out crazy newspaper items that reflect his own broken relationship, the wife who taunts her husband with his inability to do anything ("you can forget about death Donald you're not up to it, death is a leap in the dark and you've never been able to leap.")...a ventriloquist, a trumpet player, cannibals, and Medusa. And more. Despite the disparity, these pieces hold together through an enchanting discordancy: however absurd or baffling the situation there's always a thread of uneasy but palpable connection with human feelings of frustration and longing, hope and disappointment. I absolutely loved the cadence of language and the theatricality of form in this boundary-pushing writing, and the actors ~ Josephine Larsen, musician Nemo Jones and the writer himself ~ are stunningly good. It's on till July 7th at the Brewery in Bristol, go!
Scoring poetry is arbitrary bullshit, says Jack Dean in his introduction to the National Slam Final at the Bierkeller on Thursday: the poetry is the thing. And, with teams from Bristol, Bath, Birmingham, Cardiff and London, the thing was mostly brilliant. There were a few new-wave formulaic recitations with fluttering hands and heart-stopping pauses, a couple of William Burroughs-stylee rants, but most were funny, funky, and original. Bath's poets, including and especially Robbie Vane and Liv Tork, did themselves proud but despite the judges' sometimes baffling corroboration of Jack Dean's thesis, no-one could deny team London deserved their first place. Fantastic stuff Keith Jarrett and the rest of the trio!


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I left off some things I thought I should address... 11. Hit me once, shame on you. Hit me twice, shame on me. Don't stick around if a relationship becomes violent. I make it explicitly clear that no man gets a second chance to hit me. Your apology may be accepted, but my bags won't be coming back to the house. I'm no one's victim, and once a man starts down that road, forget it, its over. Check, please. Men can be battered too, so vice versa. The same applies. I've never been hit a first time, btw. 12. Fight fair. Don't name-call, don't resort to ad-hominem remarks, avoid using attacks that start with absolutes like "You always..." It's an exaggeration and you know it. Don't compare a woman to her mother in a negative way, or a man to his father. It can be really below the belt, depending on the situation. Just argue when you are calm and rational and believe that your SO wants to work it out and understand your perspective. Thus, most of your statements should start with "I feel that..." because you are explaining your perspective. If they really don't give a crap about your perspective you're probably in the wrong relationship and screaming isn't going to make a difference. 13. Sex. This is one I really haven't figured out for myself, but I will tell you what I do know. And that is it is nearly impossible to perfectly match libidos. Most of the time, guys have a higher libido, but not always. People have to compromise. The higher libido partner needs to just have patience and the lower libido partner has to suck it up and put out more often than they might want to. But don't act bored or like you're not having fun. There are plenty of people out there who will have fun with your mate in your place. Both people have to compromise. You have to figure out what your partner wants and what you want. And its really hard to read people's minds, so figure it out, and then figure out how to get the message to them. |
Having been in one miserable marriage and one happy one, here is what I have learned: 1. Say please and thank you. Just because you are intimate doesn't mean you don't need to give your significant other (SO) the respect of common courtesy. No one likes to be taken for granted or treated like a hired hand, or worse. 2. Pick your battles. Defer to your partner on the small things, and hope that they return the favor proportionately. But really, MOST things are not worth making your SO miserable over, and collectively they will kill the relationship, so think carefully before you make a mountain over a mole hill. Don't torture them. Just break up if you want out. 3. Do more than your share. Work in the home is never completely 50/50. Expecting it to be only creates an opportunity for tension. My rule is if you don't feel like you're doing 70f the work, you're probably not doing enough. Also, there should be an understanding that the person with the lowest tolerance of filth and clutter will be taking care of it sooner. Don't resent you making your home better for you. If you find a partner who will say "Thank you!" for it, you've hit the jackpot. Be that partner, which leads me to - 4. Be that partner. Strive to be the sort of partner you would want to be with. If you were your SO, would you like being with you? 5. Have your own money. At my house, we have his, hers and ours bank accounts. It may sound complicated, but it sure does make life simpler in many ways. Either one of us can splurge on a toy at any time if we have the money in our individual accounts. That's just the kind of freedom that should come with being a grown up. Don't get into a relationship that won't allow you that. Along with that comes 6. Pull your own weight. Its OK to depend on one another, but return the favor and don't be a burden. And be patient when its your turn to pull the weight. If its too one sided, you're not in a relationship of equals and you should get out if it bothers you. Children and stay-at-home mom/dad issues are something we haven't encountered yet. But that is something that should be exhaustively discussed beforehand. 7. Offer praise at every opportunity. Be very measured with criticism. It really helps when you notice your SO doing something good. 8. Your SO is not a project. Adults come As-Is. Your efforts to change someone into the perfect partner will only frustrate both of you. If they are not that person when you meet and as the relationship moves along, heed the red flags and stop wasting both of your lives and find someone who already is. Think about it - how eager are you to be shaped and molded into someone you're not just to please someone else? Wouldn't you rather have someone who loves you as you are? Return the favor, or move on. I'll say it again: Adults come As-Is. 9. Have a life. And let them have a life. Your SO is not your therapist, and not your everything. Yes, tell them your sorrows and your triumphs, but after 10 times, they get tired of it. Have outside friends to hang out with and talk to. Its good for you, good for your relationship. 10. Don't get fat. It's the most inconsiderate and selfish thing for you to do to your (expected) monogamous sexual partner. Take care of yourself, and they should do the same for you. Stay sexy, because sex is a healthy part of being human. If you let yourself go, you are only inviting them to temptation, and it comes to a point where its just cruel to expect them to continue to service your fat repulsive ass. If you insist on the KFC every day and you must have that to be fulfilled as a person, you need to discuss and be open to an open relationship. Be considerate and be the partner you would want if you were them. If not, you will soon find yourself with either an unexplainable STD or unexpected divorce papers. Believe it. |
I did it! I subscribed. Under my own brazen name. Soon I will join the ranks of eagerly awaiting subscribers anticipating the mailman's delivery near the end of every month. I freakin LOVE Playboy. I'm out of the closet about it. And I LOVE strip clubs. You know why? I'm a feminist, and there is power in femininininity. And why on earth are people complaining about women being exploited when its the men going broke and the women paying for night school and college? We all have our different gifts and tools given to us by God. The world works the way it works, and if you don't utilize what ya got and make the most of it, its only you gonna be sorry. Tell me what's healthier? Next time you stand in line in the grocery store, you think about this - the last time you saw a Playboy, what did the cover model look like? Now look at that Cosmo or Vanity Fair, sold outside of plastic wrap in front of your 3 year old. Tell me which model is more likely to be doing lines of coke to look the way she looks? Which one is puking up her sushi in the bathroom? Flip through the articles of a Cosmo and a Playboy, side by side. While Cosmo will try with 90% of their print space to make you buy something for $2000 that you could get for $50 because of a label, Playboy will make you think. They, in the fine print of their company reports, consider themselves libertarian, small L. As a stockholder I know. :) I've even read most of Hef's 345 page philosophy statement. (I adore that man. And I touched his smoking jacket in LA and cried for about $150 worth of my party just out of awe.) Hef is a hero of liberty and has completely infiltrated society with his message. He fights the fight, and wins. The post office delivers his mail. That in itself is a victory no one appreciates 40 years later. You didn't know it took numerous court battles including the Supreme Court for that to happen, did you? I'm not even old enough to KNOW about the trouble this man has seen, and I can't get over it. Image. For women. Fact - women in this country tend to be overweight. In fact, according to www.obesityinamerica.org 62% of female Americans are considered overweight and obesity is the 2nd leading cause of preventable death in the US. We need a little pressure, and a fit, healthy ideal is probably a good thing for the American female psyche. As much as she may resent the high standard - which standard is something to aspire to, vs. which standard will only drive you to depression? Lindsay Lohan? Nicole Richie? Kate Moss? or Jenny McCarthy, Rachel Culkin, Tiffany Fallon? Healthy, curvy women, classic blushing beauties, not heroine chic. I'm excited about my first official Playboy issue, and proud to join this healthy family. |
I've always been on the fence about Iraq because I KNEW there was more to the story, and it usually has to do with money. This is from Feb '05 in my LJ "I admit I don't know the whole story of Iraq and I don't know to what extent we were provoked by the treaty violations, WMD possibilities, oil prices yada yada yada. So I'm lukewarm on Iraq, lukewarm on our soldiers... " I have received new information and theories that make oh so much sense and they have EVERYTHING to do with money, specifically the US dollar - VS. the Euro, AND oil. I knew Saddam was bad, but there are a lot of bad guys in the world. Why was he targetted? One reason, one action, one violation of terms that if left unanswered would have a devastating chain reaction ending with you standing in line to pay $100+ for a gallon of milk. What action was this? Saddam took Euros instead of Dollars for oil. Let's back up. Used to be our currency was backed by gold. Maybe some people don't know this, but that has not been the case since Nixon took us off the gold standard in the 70's. Our money is now worth what it is worth by decree, or by fiat. If you go to Fort Knox and ask for your dollar's worth in gold, you'll get laughed at. When Nixon did that, inflation began to ensue and to stave that off we had to somehow increase worldwide demand for the dollar. So Nixon brokered a deal with OPEC and the middle east, who have never been able to stabilize their political situations. Nixon says here's the deal - we'll use our military to keep things stable around there, police things if you will. In exchange, you will only sell your oil to people with dollars. Not yen. Not marks. Not francs. Dollars only. Got it? Now the rest of the world scurries to provide products to America, so they can get paid in dollars. They need those dollars to go to OPEC and get oil. Thus when Saddam goes and invades Kuwait, the deal kicks in and we are obligated to go put him back in his place. That wasn't a favor. That was an obligation. The rest of OPEC sees that and is mollified. Then in November of 2000, Saddam deliberately breaks the deal and accepts Euros for oil. The rest of the middle east looks on to see what happens to him for doing this. The next thing they know, he's dragged out of a rat hole and paraded in front of the world on TV looking completely mad and humiliated. This is our little warning to the rest of OPEC. OPEC sees this and is (hopefully) terrified. And what if OPEC doesn't keep playing the dollar game? Economic meltdown. The demand for the dollar plummets and suddenly everything you have in your bank account is worthless. I'm reading this http://www.tacomapjh.org/petrodollarthe But I KNEW there was more to the story. Its not so much that we need the middle east's oil. We get less than 20% of our oil from the middle east. It is that our dollar is backed by their oil, and secured by our military might. So now how do I feel about the war? How do I feel picturing myself hungry and unable to buy things anymore? My benjamins not quite as valuable as toilet paper? It's a mess that's been brewing since the 70's and is coming to a head. It seems to matter little who gets elected to office next because this will haunt them. No wonder Condie doesn't want to run. |
http://www.localnewsleader.com/kind http://www.katu.com/stories/84457.html So hospitals in LA have been buying their indigent patients a one way taxi cab fare to skid row. And now apologizing because the missions who rescue them have raised the cash to surveille them and it looks really bad to kick grandma (nobody's grandma) to the curb ON FOX NEWS. Scroll back to 1933 when FDR promised us a New Deal. A bright new day. When your retirement is secure because the government will take care of you. When the poor will not fear homelessness and destitution when they can no longer work because the government will take care of them. Secure futures and retirement with dignity - guaranteed to all US citizens, brought to you for the low low price of 12% of your paycheck. Scroll a little forward to Johnson's Great Society when Medicare was going fix the health care problems of the aged. Now you don't have to get along with your son when he pisses you off. Now you don't have to suck up to that nasty little daughter-in-law. You don't have to play nice anymore with those brat ungrateful relatives of yours - because why? You don't want to live with them anyway. You will have options when the time comes. You'll have your independence. The government has been taking care of you your whole life with that 12% cut of every paycheck and you'll have sweet freedom when you're 55. Or 65. Or 72. Or 85. Or whatever the hell it is by the time you get there. Yeah, the government will pay for my hospital bed when I need it, because its the right thing for them to do. If they don't, the hospital will just let me stay if I'm sick because they can't just turn someone out into the streets. Who is supposed to take care of you? The hospital that's already socialized enough to be desperately overfull and wasting space on you that could be taken up by another billable chart? Do you want to go to the homeless shelter and be crammed into whatever they consider to be living conditions? Carol Ann Reyes and too many other trusting Americans say "Yes" to these questions, and this is how they live. Desperate, angry and confused because they trusted the faulty promises of politicians and governments, and yes, even other people. I bet Ms. Reyes had a nice husband once upon a time that worked hard and supported her. And as a woman of her era was expected to do, she stayed home and made the house nice for him to come home to. Trusting, trusting, trusting that their social security would maintain her one day. That even if her kids estranged themselves, she's done everything by the book and she'd be fine. She's alive, but she's not fine. Not by my standards. Where is her family? Where are her savings? What has she done her whole life to end up here? The media's upset with the hospital, but I'm more interested in her. If you think your family is a bitch to get along with, try Uncle Sam as a guardian. Don't let that 12% tempt you to play fast and loose with those that may be your only hope one day. Be nice to them. And save 10% in your own account - for YOU. |
Watching the news tonight, and I see stories on the suffering around the world and New Orleans... I see people volunteering energy building playgrounds when people are homeless and destitute... I hear Nagin crying about how Uncle Sam is not doing enough to put his voters back in the "chocolate" factory... Brangelina's been to Haiti and now some world economic summit. What I wouldn't do to be in their heads and know what they hear and what they think about it... Democracy, that sainted god of the west, has wrought in Palestine a terrorist government, and now we are stuck in the position of cutting off aid in protest and watching them starve. Oh, we can't let them starve... How will it be a fair fight if our enemy is weak from hunger? And I'm thinking - you know what would make this world a better place? Stop the lobbying. Stop the guilt tripping. Stop accusing the rest of the world of not caring about your plight, because you know what? Assume its a moot point. They don't care. You are right - in 100% of your accusations. We're not that Christian, and we're not that morally good. We ARE desperately greedy and don't want to give you squat, to rebuild your city beneath the sea, to fight a disease you've determined is cured by infecting a virgin, to fight a war you're fighting with our allies, to eat for free when you should be building an economy, to sit on your duff when you should be figuring it out on your own, like our forefathers did. Just assume nobody cares. Take that to heart. Take that as your first assumption. No one cares about you, but you. You figure out how to improve your situation. If you wait for someone to argue with you when you accuse them of being heartless and greedy, maybe you'll wait your whole life. Maybe you'll be proven right, and what a shallow victory that will be. I learned this lesson when I was unemployed for a year and went back to my alma mater, and they didn't care. I went to the LP and my friends who I'd helped before and they didn't particularly care either. Who pulled me up? Myself and my partner. Nobody else, but the employer who finally believed in me and gave me a shot. Nobody cares about you. Nobody gives a shit. But you. Figure it out. The sooner you figure this out, the sooner you stop whining about this sad fact and the sooner you figure out what you need to do to be valuable, to get ahead, to help your fellow man so they will give you something back, to you get a leg up, so you get somewhere. This is my message to Palestine, to New Orleans, to Africa - even as my own parents are en route to a hospital in Kenya as I write this to work at a mission hospital there, in defiance of all I just said - don't take the world's good graces for granted. You're not entitled. The second you feel entitled, is the second you begin the long miserable wait that lasts the rest of your putrid and worthless life. Like Simon Cowell, just giving you the cold hard news that will save you years wasted in the wrongest direction. |
I've been reading Hugh M. Hefner's 345 page editorial from 1962 on his empire's philosophy and came across this excerpt: "If what many of us profess to believe religiously were actually applied to American social, political and economic life, we would have a system more nearly socialist than capitalist. I have to disagree, and this is partly the reason Gnosticism interests me so. Gnosticism, to me, looks at the boiled-down teachings of Jesus, without the input of the power hungry that have muddied the message througout history. If one looks on the reported actions and sayings of Jesus in the gospels, I don't think you could at all argue that a follower of His could be Socialist, at least not politically. Yet I've heard the claim Hefner makes over and over, almost as a slight against Christianity, perhaps especially against the notoriously Republican Religious Right. "If you are so Christian, why are you so Capitalist?" As if to be a Capitalist is to not care about one's fellow man. Rather, they should vote Democrat. It's the religious right thing to do. On the contrary, to be Capitalist, you must ESPECIALLY care about your fellow man. If you don't, your fellow man will not reward you by buying what you're selling. Then how can you employ others of your fellow man to make more widgets to sell, in turn allowing them to support a family and prosper? No. Success just equals greed plus adequately guaging the desires of your fellow man. A lovely combination of self-interest and servanthood. So what is Socialism and what did Jesus teach? Socialism is "to each according to his need, from each according to his ability" by decree of an all-powerful state. In other words, do what you can for the collective and the collective will give you what you need to survive. |
Wow. It is official! I am going to a party at the Playboy Mansion end of March. Can you believe it! I donated $500 to MPP to get my ticket, but I am THERE. I am jumping out of my skin excited about this! |
We went to see Narnia last night and it was overwhelmingly good. I've never seen anything like it. It's going to have such mass appeal and its going to make sooo much money. Kids are going to LOVE this movie! And adults will love it too. The effects don't look like effects at all. The creatures in Narnia are so cool. And the allegory is not too preachy. The storyline is sweet and innocent with the 4 young siblings and how they relate to eachother. Mike and I hated the Lord of the Rings movies. Just found them completely boring, repetitive and episodic, none of the characters particularly likeable or relatable. Narnia is the polar opposite. The story is exciting, and starts out with characters everyone can relate to, and in the real world - crossing over to a fantasy world, a better one than Tolkien created. Unicorns and flying lion-bird things, animals that talk, little goat men and centaurs. Very cool. Go see it. I can't imagine a bad review of this movie. I think it might leave Titanic in the dust. |
I had an idea for a calendar for 2009 - for sale in 2008. It might be time for a fun little resurgeance. I was really frustrated by the recent elections. Notably my friend Richard Norman in Winston-Salem who tried soooo hard to get on the lousy city freakin council. He knocked on doors and pounded pavement and outraised his opponents and worked harder than anyone should have to get a city council seat for almost no pay and no love. And it wasn't even close. He got like 30-something percent. I just sighed and said, they're just not ready to look behind door #3. The devil you know is less scary than the devil you don't. That's what Americans are still thinking. What they don't understand is that they already know this devil. Our country became great on this devil called freedom. They just need to be re-introduced. So what about a high-concept calendar based on Ladies of Liberty behind door #3? Each month deals with one issue and we have the conservative position, the liberal position - both problematic and with lot of mixed media art and captions explaining why. Then there is a paper flap labeled door #3 and the Lady of Liberty is behind that on stark white representing the views of freedom. Each month would be a lot to look at, a lot to absorb, very different from the last 2. Production would be a pain. Have to print double the sheets and might have to assemble them myself for that little cutout feature to work... It would be a fun artsy project tho and I have 2 years.... Feedback? |


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Dear Amazing Facts MIQ, How can there be straw in heaven? I read in the book of Isaiah 11:7 and Isaiah 65:25, that the lion shall eat straw like the ox or bullock? I ask this because straw is dead but doesn't the Bible say "there shall be no more death for the former things are passed away"(Rev 21:4)? Does the word death in Rev 21:4 talk about only humans? I don't think so because EGW said that when she picked a flower in her vison of Heaven she cried out "It will never fade" talking about the flowers. So, is there really straw in Heaven when there is no death in heaven? Thanks, Gershom
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before i speak, just heads up, do not talk about the bible with me. i am an atheist which is where i don't believe and i hate god a jesus. thats what an atheist is in my family. my girlfriend and i have been fighting because i have major anger issues i can't control and i can't talk to anyone cause i come from a violent family. what should i do to control my anger and my Tourette's syndrome? i need to change in order to keep her. please help me. if no response, then i may cry myself to sleep like a retarded girl. thank you
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With this piece I wanted to capture an alligators eye. They are usually small, yet beautiful at the same time
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This art/photo has 5 comments. Post your own now!That is very beautiful and detailed. I love it!
Wow, such a beautiful piece. I love how you can capture so much detail of the animal's eye and skin, and then a reflection of what is in front of him.
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I love how you used the colors and texture. That sky looks so far and makes us see the point of view of the gator good Job! keep working !


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"She was wide open. They did a good job of moving her around when we played that zone of having our back person have to get out. We just didn't get to her. I thought we had the zone pretty well worked out. You've got to give them credit for the adjustments they made."
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""I am extremely worried that evidence which can be crucial has disappeared. No one knows where the file relating to this case is. I would like to know what it contains. What documents does it contain that can throw light on this case? When was it last consulted? Who saw it last? When?" Clear replies were needed and political responsibility needed to be taken even on the disappearance of such file."
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"If the puck doesn't get out of the zone by the third attempt (by the defending team), the puck will often not get out of the zone and the end effect is a goal."
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"When you have a wide-open look, bad things happen. That's the way it goes."
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"Quad A is wide open right now. But I don't think you will find another team that has played the schedule we have this season. We played those games early to get us ready for right now."
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