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This is a discussion on Troops give a big "F-U" back to Kerry within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Todd...... that is the best biography I've ever seen on Comrade Kerry....
Todd...... that is the best biography I've ever seen on Comrade Kerry.
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<-- Kerry
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson
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well done...and...
Exactly how much time did Kerry serve in Vietnam?
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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He's the Republicans Best Friend. No one can do more damage to there own party at a more critical juncture......at least no one I can think of.
Jon...keep it up. Your country and the GOP need you to just keep it up!
Yee haa.....Shoot well and god bless our troops.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice..........Rush
not sure if this was ever posted before but this was a letter Oliver North sent to Kerry back in 2004 but it is still good. it is from snopes.com as true http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/north.asp
Dear John,
As usual, you have it wrong. You don't have a beef with President George Bush about your war record. He's been exceedingly generous about your military service. Your complaint is with the 2.5 million of us who served honorably in a war that ended 29 years ago and which you, not the president, made the centerpiece of this campaign.
I talk to a lot of vets, John, and this really isn't about your medals or how you got them. Like you, I have a Silver Star and a Bronze Star. I only have two Purple Hearts, though. I turned down the others so that I could stay with the Marines in my rifle platoon. But I think you might agree with me, though I've never heard you say it, that the officers always got more medals than they earned and the youngsters we led never got as many medals as they deserved.
This really isn't about how early you came home from that war, either, John. There have always been guys in every war who want to go home. There are also lots of guys, like those in my rifle platoon in Vietnam, who did a full 13 months in the field. And there are, thankfully, lots of young Americans today in Iraq and Afghanistan who volunteered to return to war because, as one of them told me in Ramadi a few weeks ago, "the job isn't finished."
Nor is this about whether you were in Cambodia on Christmas Eve, 1968. Heck John, people get lost going on vacation. If you got lost, just say so. Your campaign has admitted that you now know that you really weren't in Cambodia that night and that Richard Nixon wasn't really president when you thought he was. Now would be a good time to explain to us how you could have all that bogus stuff "seared" into your memory -- especially since you want to have your finger on our nation's nuclear trigger.
But that's not really the problem, either. The trouble you're having, John, isn't about your medals or coming home early or getting lost -- or even Richard Nixon. The issue is what you did to us when you came home, John.
When you got home, you co-founded Vietnam Veterans Against the War and wrote "The New Soldier," which denounced those of us who served -- and were still serving -- on the battlefields of a thankless war. Worst of all, John, you then accused me -- and all of us who served in Vietnam -- of committing terrible crimes and atrocities.
On April 22, 1971, under oath, you told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that you had knowledge that American troops "had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam." And you admitted on television that "yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed."
And for good measure you stated, "(America is) more guilty than any other body, of violations of (the) Geneva Conventions ... the torture of prisoners, the killing of prisoners."
Your "antiwar" statements and activities were painful for those of us carrying the scars of Vietnam and trying to move on with our lives. And for those who were still there, it was even more hurtful. But those who suffered the most from what you said and did were the hundreds of American prisoners of war being held by Hanoi. Here's what some of them endured because of you, John:
Capt. James Warner had already spent four years in Vietnamese custody when he was handed a copy of your testimony by his captors. Warner says that for his captors, your statements "were proof I deserved to be punished." He wasn't released until March 14, 1973.
Maj. Kenneth Cordier, an Air Force pilot who was in Vietnamese custody for 2,284 days, says his captors "repeated incessantly" your one-liner about being "the last man to die" for a lost cause. Cordier was released March 4, 1973.
Navy Lt. Paul Galanti says your accusations "were as demoralizing as solitary (confinement) ... and a prime reason the war dragged on." He remained in North Vietnamese hands until February 12, 1973.
John, did you think they would forget? When Tim Russert asked about your claim that you and others in Vietnam committed "atrocities," instead of standing by your sworn testimony, you confessed that your words "were a bit over the top." Does that mean you lied under oath? Or does it mean you are a war criminal? You can't have this one both ways, John. Either way, you're not fit to be a prison guard at Abu Ghraib, much less commander in chief.
One last thing, John. In 1988, Jane Fonda said: "I would like to say something ... to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm ... very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families."
Even Jane Fonda apologized. Will you, John?
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Stupid mis-statement on Kerry's part. As has been said, however, his intent was not to disrespect the troops, and he has apologized, albeit in a slow and clumsy fashion. It's telling, however, that this has become the most vocal issue for the administration.
It's a symptom of how very polarized the country has become, that a silly gaffe by a non-candidate becomes the cause celebre, a week before an election of such importance. Let's hope (a forlorn hope?) that voters will cut through the hyped rhetoric of both sides and vote their consciences on the actual issues. There's too much at stake to trivialize it.
"We're paratroopers. We're supposed to be surrounded!" Dick Winters
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
Regardless of what he "wanted" to say what he did say came across as insulting to our military men and women. As the President of the USA it would be his duty to bring attention to the comment, regardless of party affiliation. If Bush didn't then everyone would have been all over him for not supporting the troops.
Kerry could have made this a non issue if he would have corrected himself in a timely manor. His delay in correcting himself and/or making amends to the military (and his history of bashing the military) lends credence to the fact that the military was the target of that comment and not the Administration.
There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11? (Yuri Orlov [Nicolas Cage] Lord of War)
Kerry 1972 Army comments:
"I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown," Kerry wrote. "We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional army that views the perpetuation of war crimes as simply 'doing its job.'
I think kerry meant what he said.
I can't stand the guy and the way he's trying to spin it now.
A "botched joke"... come on. There was no joke anywhere in there no matter how many words he changes or adds.
I'd have more respect for him if he stood by his words, even if I disagree with them, rather than trying to worm his way out of it.
Give poor John a break, he's not responible for his actions, its socitey's fault.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
-- Theodore Roosevelt --
In 1972, as he ran for the House, he was less apologetic in his comments about the merits of a volunteer army. He declared in the questionnaire that he opposed the draft but considered a volunteer army "a greater anathema."
"I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown," Kerry wrote. "We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional army that views the perpetuation of war crimes as simply 'doing its job.'
"Equally as important, a volunteer army with our present constitutional crisis takes accountability away from the president and put the people further from control over military activities," he wrote.
Nothing about Bush here, is there?
Life is too short to be serious!


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Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
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BeschreibungExamining the challenges of Chinese political development from a holistic perspective, each of the authors emphasizes a particular dimension of political culture, political economy, foreign policy, and environmental and social challenges.
InhaltsverzeichnisPart 1 Introduction: Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development Part 2 Political Legitimacy Chapter 3 Nationalism, Market Reforms, and Political Support in Contemporary China Chapter 4 The Study of Chinese Political Culture from the Perspective of Communication as Social Construction Part 5 Political Economy Chapter 6 Explaining the Reform of China's Exchange Rate Regime: The Utility of Economic Interest Approaches Chapter 7 Information Technology for Ecological Analysis and the Future of Public Administration in China Part 8 External Challenges Chapter 9 China: U.S. Partner, Competitor, or Threat-What Do the Americans Think? Chapter 10 Barking Up the Wrong Tree? The Master Narrative of "China Threat Theory" Examined Part 11 Environmental Challenges Chapter 12 The Dilemma of Western Industrial Civilization and China's Path in the 21st Century Chapter 15 China's Polution Challenge: the Impact of Economic Growth and Environmental Complaints on Environmental and Social Outcomes Part 16 Social Challenges Chapter 17 Engaging the Law: Migrant Workers, Social Networks, and the Chinese Labor Law Chapter 18 Modernization, Economic Development and Inter-Ethnic Relations in China
PortraitSujian Guo is professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Center for U.S.-China Policy Studies at San Francisco State University, editor of the Journal of Chinese Political Science, and president of the Association of Chinese Political Studies. Baogang Guo is associate professor of political science at Dalton State College and president-elect of the Association of Chinese Political Studies.
PressestimmenThis book stands out as an excellent collection on the subject of contemporary Chinese politics. A wide range of research methodologies are employed in the book's chapters. The research presented in this book suggests appropriate paths for future academic research on Chinese political development and thus serves a wide international audience. This collection represents an important contribution to the literature on recent Chinese political development. -- Lin Ye, Roosevelt University Journal of Chinese Political Science China's tumultuous twentieth century has been followed by years of astonishingly rapid growth, but growth itself poses deep challenges for China's economics, politics, and basic value system. The authors of this volume combine disciplinary expertise with direct experience of China's daily reality to present a broad array of studies of the challenges that will shape the future of China and thereby touch the world. -- Brantly Womack, University of Virginia
Untertitel: New. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: LEXINGTON BOOKS
Erscheinungsdatum: September 2007
Seitenanzahl: 250 Seiten
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Donald, who is from Homestead, remembers his mother being active in the civil rights movement, taking him along to rallies and talking with folks about things like voting rights. Because of his mother and the work that people did together to change the country, Donald grew up thinking everything was getting better and that civil rights had been won. But when the steel industry left his borough, and people lost their homes and jobs, he began thinking about how gains can be reversed and something that had become very apparent as the very right to vote is under attack.
He joined us in Selma as both an homage to his mother and to stand up for those same rights now. Donald, who suffers from a bad hip, wasn't sure he could make the trip, walking 12 miles a day, but he knew he had to try. Donald walked every day in Alabama and while his body took a toll it seemed his spirit gained energy.
The trip to Alabama clearly meant a lot to everyone who went, but for Donald the trip has been a catalyst for something bigger. Since returning, Donald has grabbed the megaphone at Wells Fargo bank, to demand a hearing for a woman in foreclosure. He's determined to bring more folks into our movement to make our country a place where everyone has the opportunity to earn a good living and participate in our democracy. As summer heats up here in the North and One Pittsburgh amps up our fight, look for Donald in the lead.


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A chartered accountant has appeared before the industry's disciplinary tribunal after being convicted of criminal charges in the United Kingdom including attempted robbery and threatening a church staff member with a knife.
The man was granted interim name suppression when he appeared before the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants disciplinary tribunal in Auckland today.
He was accused of bringing the profession into disrepute after being convicted of nine criminal charges in the UK.
According to evidence presented to the tribunal, the man's first run-in with the law was a road rage incident for which he was convicted and sentenced to 80 hours' community service.
The tribunal also heard that, having been told to keep out of his ex-wife's house, he broke in, picked up a kitchen knife and threatened the occupants.
He also stole passports belonging to the woman and her son and, when she attempted to call police, he took the telephone from her and smashed it.
He fled the scene but was found at a church which he was not supposed to visit because his ex-wife was often there at that time of day.
When a member of church staff challenged the man he pulled a knife and threatened him.
At another date he was arrested for being drunk and disorderly and, according to the police charge sheets, he caused wilful damage to a cell by rubbing his own faeces on the wall.
The tribunal also heard that he was convicted for attempted robbery and possession of an offensive weapon.
The man was handed a combined prison sentence of 24 months for all the offences, of which he served 12 months before being deported to New Zealand.
While he was in prison he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
In his defence, he said the incidents occurred because he had been "living rough" - sleeping in a forest - and had not been receiving medical or counselling assistance to treat his disorder.
"I was in a desperate and distressed state having been refused assistance by my siblings," he said.
The man's lawyer, Niamh McMahon, submitted that the events which gave rise to his criminal record related principally to relationship difficulties with his wife. None of the behaviours related to his role as a chartered accountant, she said.
He had been unaware that he suffered bipolar disorder at the time of his offending, and since being properly medicated he had not experienced any further episodes.
The man held himself responsible for the damage he had caused to those closest to him, she said.
Tribunal chair Jim Hoare said the man's behaviour fell well below the standards expected of the profession.
He acknowledged the man was suffering from bipolar disorder at the time and was now undergoing successful treatment. He had reported his offending to the institute of his own volition.
An application for permanent name suppression was rejected but an interim order was granted for 14 days to give the man's counsel the opportunity to appeal.
The man was not struck off as a member of the institute, on the condition that he provides annual medical reports for the next five years.
No further penalty was applied, other than for the man to pay the tribunal's costs.


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Thanks for the update cristi, nobody is mad at you... just like everything else with this hobby, there just eggar!
Thanks for the update cristi, nobody is mad at you... just like everything else with this hobby, there just eggar!
Hi boys and girls,
The girth belts are at my suppliers... yeah and finally **chorus of angels** LOL.
I should have them next week and will ship ASAP.
Thanks guys for being more than patient.
That is one scary dude."Git r Done"!!!! Christi.
Thanks for the update Christie!
DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!! The DHL man just dropped a huge box here?
Could it be? Why yes.... the girths are here!!!! I'm off to get the web strapping and will get on em' or "get er' done" as Texasfett says tomorrow. Shipping info will be sent as they ship and marked at the the top of the thread.
cool, thanx Christi
Any word on when another run of girth belts will be starting?
Donnie... don't know that I will. Email sent
No problem I just thought that I would see.
Ok so..4 of the belts are going out today, see above. You guys should get a delivery confirmation via email if not lmk. All you international boys they should got out tomorrow with the remaining belts I have. 4 of these are going to Spain, The Netherlands, Australia and Japan I didn't realize... WOW! No I just forgot.
Also if you haven't confirmed you addy with me please do. I think most of you have. Framed and Kid Akira have not, I think.
Any other ?'s pm me or shoot me an email.
Thanks for the update Christi, PM sent
5 more are going out today... Kid Akira, Benekove,Goro,Texas Fett and Saxter. Framed I have yours ready to go just confirm your addy and its on its way. Emails with delivery confirmation as always and thats it boys and girls.
I have a few extras, I'll be getting to in a couple of weeks. They are going to be dyed and ready to wear. I'll put em up in the cargo hold. I did have one 34shrink to almost a 30 last run and I want to dye these and see what they do. The mohair is inconsistent occasionally and does dye weird too.
Anyhow they are on their way!!!
Now on too my jumpsuit project.... yes you heard me I have been drafting out a jumpsuit pattern off and on for the last year and its next on my list of things FETT. I swear to have mY Fett done one day... one day I've only been saying that for... 2 years or more UUGGH.
Oh and also if anyone needs spats or pouches, I also found a few ESB capes too.
Ok now I'm done
Framed yours is on its way too!!! I got your email.
Just wanted to say that my belt came today and I am very impressed. Well worth the wait. Now I just need to dye it. Got my Scarlet and Wine ready to go.
Please tell me you guys are getting your belts? After waiting so long for them.
I've gotten a few pm's about another run And I'll be getting the last of my girth belts up in the cargo hold next week.
There will be no more.... and I mean it ripcode.
I have 6 of them as extras and they will be dyed and strapped ready to wear. They are in the smaller sizes and I'll get the buckle to buckle measurement on each on after they are dyed.
Just FYI
Got my belt. What material was used to bind the threads of mohair together?
LOL you guys are too much!!!
The last 5 of the girth belts are up guys in the Cargo Hold.
PS Evan4218 its a poly/nylon cording.


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Sunday, 6 September 2009
observer ONLINE
Astrology to make your life better:
by Samangie Wettimuny
Deshabandu Sumanadasa Thilak Abeygunawardena
Q: As we believe the karmic force of a man is depicted through the
positioning of planets in one's horoscope. Today astrology has gained
much recognition and acceptance than any other time, expanding the role
and responsibility of astrologers. While some are blessed with guidance
and advice of eminent astrologers, there is also a set of people who get
misled by false predictions of charlatans. For the slightest matter some
would rush to an astrologer, but there are also people who dismiss
astrology with scorn. In this backdrop, how should one make use of
astrology to make his life better?
A: Everyone likes to know what their future would be like. A
horoscope is a chart drawn to show the karma force of a man calculated
from the time of his birth. By reading a person's horoscope a clever
astrologer can accurately chart a man's destiny. In fact the main
purpose of reading a horoscope should be to give an insight into a
person's own character. If a person is going through a bad period, an
astrologer would tell him as to what precautionary measures he should
take to get rid of it.
Through the horoscope you can determine certain times in your life
when you have to 'hold up' or move forward to achieve great levels of
creativity or when you have to watch your activities and health. Thus it
is better to know your future in advance so that you can remedy certain
malevolent effects that will badly affect you.
At a recent television interview I was asked whether I go through my
horoscope before making important decisions. In fact I do it quite
often. I always check for an auspicious hour before leaving the premises
to attend an important function. As I told them, on that particular day
also I left my house in Galle on an astrologically determined time. Up
to this date I have never experienced a vehicle breakdown or any other
inconvenience on the road while travelling from Galle, where I reside to
Astrology is not a field of study that was created overnight. Its
origin goes back to 6000-7000 years when ancient sages who had
extraordinary powers started noticing a great relationship between the
life cycle of human beings and the movements of planets.
Out of the 108 sages who participated at the naming ceremony of
Prince Siddhartha five were astrologers. There is enough evidence to
prove that the Sri Lankans had been used to perform their important
tasks according to astrology.
All our ancient kings including the most outstanding ones who could
unite the country in the past such as Pandukhabhaya, King Asela, King
Dutugemunu, Walagamba, Datusena, Vijayabahu I, Parakramabahu I and
Parakramabahu VI had immense faith in astrology. Similarly almost all
the rulers who governed the country after Independence believed in
astrology. President Mahinda Rajapaksa who deserves much of the credit
for reuniting the entire country under one flag too has immense faith in
this great science.
It does not require heaps of money to follow astrology. But you
should be careful enough to select an eminent astrologer who can give
accurate predictions. If you use it wisely and carefully at appropriate
times prior to taking important decisions you can get the full benefit.
Q: What should be the qualities of a good astrologer?
A: First and foremost a good astrologer should be capable of giving
accurate predictions without any hesitation. As I mentioned earlier
there were five astrologers among the 108 hermits who participated at
Prince Siddhartha's naming ceremony.
The prediction of four of them was that 'if the Prince remains in the
palace he will be the successor to King Suddhodana, if he decides to
renounce worldly life, he will attain Buddhahood.' But the sage
Kondangna who said that the Prince would definitely become a Buddha was
accurate in his prediction. To give an accurate prediction you should
have a vast knowledge in astrology. Your luck too counts to a large
An astrologer too should have a good planetary position. Also a good
astrologer should be clever in speech and agile in action. As shown in
the above instance a good astrologer must be clever and precise in
thinking and he should have clever disposition to tackle any problem.
Advice of Astrologers are often sought on important occasions of life
such as child birth, when a girl attains age. In certain areas of Sri
Lanka even the digging of the grave is done on an astrologically
determined time. There could be several reasons for that - to ensure a
good rebirth or to ensure that the spirit would not visit his house.
An astrologer should be careful enough not to make statements which
will affect a person negatively. For example while going through a
horoscope if an astrologer notices that its owner stands a zero chance
of getting married, he should never tell it to him directly. The best
thing he could do is to reveal it to his/her parent or to a closest
In fact that was the first advice given to me by my Astrology teacher
M.C.G. Raman (Jnr.) You should never let your client lose his mental
balance. In fact a good astrologer is like a good doctor. A doctor would
never tell his patient that he would not survive for long even though he
is dead certain that his patient's life is limited only for a few days!
If the astrologer is clever enough he should be able to use the
knowledge for the betterment of his own life as well. So I would say one
of the best ways to select your family astrologer is to examine his
present position in society.
If he could help others reach lofty heights through making powerful
'nekath' and 'murthi', he too should be able to achieve a better status
in life than he was before. Anyway that does not mean that an astrologer
is capable of changing his planetary positions. What I mean here is his
ability to lead a better life with his family using his knowledge in
Q: Though astrology is a science that originated in the East, it
seems that the people in the West too pay much attention to it. Your
A: Of course they do. Her majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England is a
fine example. Her faith in astrology too could be one reason why she
could retain the Throne over the years despite many obstacles she faced.
Most of the world leaders too have faith in astrology. Astrology
books had been found even in the office room of former German-leader
Adolf Hitler. It is on an astrologically determined auspicious time that
rockets are launched into space from the Houston Space Centre in the
In fact I am the one who made the horoscope of the present U.S.
president Barack Obama and made an accurate prediction. It was a sheer
dream for a Black to become the President of the U.S.A. Barack Obama who
was born on August 4, 1961 at 8.11 a.m. in Honolulu, Hawai could make
that dream a reality.
His horoscope showed that he is lucky enough to change the history of
America. As a well experienced scholar he made use of everything which
are normally used by men to achieve progress in life including
Lots of foreigners visit me seeking astrological advice. It is a fine
evidence that astrology is gradually becoming popular in the West.
Way back in the early 16th century there had been great prophets like
Nostradamus who had extraordinary powers to make accurate prophecies
which came true about 500 years after his demise. One such prediction
was the death of Princess Diana. He had stated that the wife of Prince
of Wales would face an untimely death. Also he had stated that a Black
would become the president of the U.S. in the 21st century.
Q: If the horoscope is a chart drawn to show the karmic force a man
carries, is not there a possibility to avert the consequences of certain
bad Kamma and malevolent effects of planets by taking precautionary
A: Certainly. It is rather difficult to overcome a fatal crisis
brought about by a malevolent planet. During a 'Maraka period' a person
may face danger, mainly death. But the consequences of other bad kamma
could be averted.
Astrology is formed on the relationship of planets and stars and
their effect on people. There are main planets and stars - Jupiter,Venus,
Mars, Sun, Moon, Saturn, Mercury, Rahu, Kethu. The other three are
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Astrology is based on the movements of these
planets and their impact on human beings. It is due to the malevolent
effects of one of those planets that individuals face difficulties. So
when they pass through a bad period (Graha Apala) they should perform
rituals and practices required to get rid of the maleffect of that
particular planet.
We call them "Graha Shanthi Karma". Careful analysis of one's
horoscope is required before deciding on the remedy. For example if a
person faces obstacles due to the maleffect of 'Rahu', the treatment
should be for that. As I mentioned earlier you need an eminent
astrologer who is clever in speech and agile in action to get that
ritual done.
I know through experience how such practices have helped individuals
to thrust aside the maleffects.People are normally in the habit of
conducting Bodhi Poojas or engage in religious practices according to
their religions if they are passing a bad period. Those are all fine.
Engaging in religious practices would always give immense relief to
one's mind, but performing the relevant 'Shanthi Karma' is
essential.Whether you are passing through a bad period or not it is
always good to avoid engaging or starting important functions in life
during the "Rahu" period.
Q: With astrology gaining much recognition, in the present society,
quite a number of charlatans who call themselves good astrologers too
have entered this field. How would that affect the purity and the
stability of this great field of study?
A: No doubt that it badly affects this noble profession. The so
called astrologers would charge exorbitant fees from their clients just
to make vague predictions. Even to become an office assistant an
education certificate is required, but no qualifications are sought to
become an astrologer. Even the ones with a minute knowledge of the field
can put up a board in front of their lodgings. Making false predictions
could cause much more harm to society than we think.
People should be careful enough to choose the genuine astrologer out
of a lot. Before visiting an astrologer it is wise to study his history
- his reputation and whether any of his former predictions have come
true etc. Just as the family doctor every family should have a family
astrologer. But the selection should be done with much care after a
thorough analysis of his former predictions.
Q: Though there are astrology classes conducted on small scale, still
there is no proper institution in Sri Lanka to learn astrology. Don't
you think that it is timely that we established an institution to teach
A: That is a very good question. I intend to forward the matter to
President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The President as a leader who has a high
regard for indigenous forms of art and ancient fields of study will take
this matter into consideration. Just like any other subject it is good
to teach astrology in educational institutions. I have visited 22
countries where I got the chance to see the demand for astrology. In
fact it is even proper to introduce astrology as a subject in the school
I got the chance to study astrology in India. I got the inspiration
from my father D.S. Abeygunewardena who had high regard for astrology
though he was not an astrologer. Inspired by a prediction made to him by
an astrologer that he would become a Head of a province, he moved to
Deniyaya seat from Hiniduma where he became a Chairman of Morawaka Gam
Sabha (UNP), a post which he held for 36 years. I gained a lot of
knowledge from my father. Initially I made a few futile attempts to
learn astrology under certain local teachers.
Then I moved to India and it was there I learned astrology in detail
under M.C.G. Raman (Jr.) in Trivendrum, Kerala.I could not complete my
education as I was in the Rahu period. In fact I underwent a lot of
difficulties subsequently. It was then that I thought that I should
learn astrology thoroughly. Since I failed to fulfil my aspiration I
moved to India.
Today I am a satisfied man who leads a virtuous life enjoying
comforts. Thus everyone can make use of astrology to plan their lives
well ahead. You should always be courageous, truthful and honest. You
should never give up easily.
Q: Can you comment on your ability to make accurate predictions?
A: I showed the world that Sri Lanka has good astrologers when I
addressed the international audience through the BBC. ("Astrology holds
sway, Sri Lanka" - 2008 December 22.) I was certain that President
Mahinda Rajapaksa would be able to combat terrorism.
"Twenty-five years ago, I said there would be a hero king from Ruhuna,
Matara, now he's the one, we believe, President Mahinda Rajapaksa," said
"So President Rajapaksa's horoscope is a powerful one. He is the one
who will bring development to the country. He will defeat the enemies
and terrorists."
As I told the BBC I had seen the horoscope of Velupillai Prabhakaran,
the leader of the Tamil Tigers. Though the rebel's horoscope was more
powerful than those of previous Sri Lankan presidents, Mahinda
Rajapaksa's was stronger still."
In retrospect, in "Irahanda" in August 1994, in a joint article with
my guru M.C.G. Raman (Jr.), I stated that Chandrika Bandaranaike will
definitely become the President of Sri Lanka. To another astrology
newspaper I made a prediction "Upcoming woman leader from a Sri Lanka's
leading political family".I had seen former President Chandrika
Bandaranaike's horoscope long ago.
Her planetary positions were very powerful in the early 90s' and I
was certain that she would create a record.I made the prediction that
Prabhakaran would not be able live beyond May 22,2009 and also that his
place of death would be associated with water. I made a prediction that
Ranil Wickremesinghe will become PM in December 5, 2001.
In 1996 when I was in India I made another prediction that Congress
party will be defeated and the BJP would come to power. Likewise I said
that Lal Krishna Advani has no luck to remain in power even if he was
appointed as PM. His tenure would only be limited for a few days, I
said. He resigned in just 13 days and Deve Gowda took over. In an
article that appeared in Dinamina on August 6, 2009, just a 4 days
before Uva Elections I stated that Shashindra Rajapaksa would win the
elections taking more than 85 per cent votes.
As stated earlier I was quite sure that Barack Obama would become the
President of the US. It is not easy to make such predictions. You have
to study their horoscopes thoroughly, but that alone won't do. It is not
merely the astrological knowledge that matters, but it also requires a
high degree of psychic powers. You should be precise in your thinking.
Q: Readers would love to know your latest predictions.
A: I am certain that President Mahinda Rajapaksa would change the
present constitution in 2010.
2. Rajapaksas would rule Sri Lanka for decades.
3. As I correctly said President Mahinda Rajapaksa created history as
the first ever leader who could combat terrorism in the 21st Century.
Similarly he will make history by becoming not only the Sri Lankan
President who could get the highest percentage of votes in a
Presidential election, but also in the entire South Asia.
4. Southern Province election results too will be a historic record.
Landslide victory in Southern Provincial elections. In fact the
string of election victories that started from the Eastern elections
will reach its climax in the Southern elections.
5. In the next general elections President Rajapaksa will be able to
get more than 2/3rd of people's power. I have to emphasize that what
President J.R. Jayewardene could get in 1977 was 5/6 power in
6. President Mahinda Rajapaksa will get the Nobel Prize in
appreciation of his attempt to combat terrorism.
Q: A major planetary change is about to take place on September 09,
2009. How will it affect people.
A: On July 07, 2007 Saturn arrived in Leo (Sinha), which is its enemy
rashi. Leo is a very bad rashi for Saturn. Saturn was in Sinha rashi for
2 years, 1 month and 23 days and comes to Mercury, (which is the best
planet in the system and which is also a friendly planet of Saturn) on
September 9,2009. In fact it is like Saturn visiting his friend's
House'. This planetary change I believe will bring good results to all.
This will be definitely a better period than the present one. I can say
that this planetary change is good for the entire country and the
government and they can await massive election victories!
Sumanadasa Abeygunawardena (All Island J.P.) also serves as the
Executive Director of the National Savings Bank and as a Director of
Employees Trust Fund Board while being an Advisor to the Independent
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At a special meeting of the Tokyo Marathon Foundation last week at Tokyo City Hall, complexities arose which prevented the selection of a new chairperson alongside the election of other board members. The Foundation, which came into existence in 2010, has been headed by Japanese Federation advisor Hiroaki Chosa in a position with a term of two years.
The Federation and Tokyo Metropolitan Government each recommended nine different candidates to succeed Chosa in his position, all of whom were rejected by the selection committee. The twenty-one Foundation board members who were not among those nominated for the chairperson's position did succeed in determining the new temporary vice-chairperson.
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The only rules that I found were broken were involving flaming, trolling, and respect. All of those were rules broken by other members on this board. My question to the members of this board, is if we can allow indifference. Can we allow the little man to be shunned or can we just let it go and allow the people who find it intriguing to post respectfully?
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The Hickory Daily Record reported that a message posted by 19-year-old Michael Anderson early Monday also contained the phrase "my killing starts tonight."
Sheriff's deputies say the body of 36-year-old Stephen Starr was found in the front bedroom of his home. Officials say a word had been carved into Starr's body, but deputies would not release the details. Deputies say Anderson called 911 Monday morning and was still at the home when they arrived.
Neighbors say Anderson had recently moved in with Starr, who introduced him as his new adopted son.
It was not clear Tuesday if Anderson has an attorney.
Information from: The Hickory Daily Record, http://www.hickoryrecord.com
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Even if you don't follow women's basketball, you probably know of Brittney Griner and her nasty dunks. Last year, the 6-foot-8 Phoenix Mercury center made the WNBA All-Star Game as a rookie, and tied the league's all-time dunk record with two slams in her very first game. But she's more than one of the WNBA's hottest stars. She's also one of the most famous gay athletes in all of sports; last year, she became Nike's first out endorsee, and she's helped create an anti-bullying mobile app that's currently raising money on IndieGogo. So why, at 23, did Griner feel the urge to write a memoir? (In My Skin, cowritten with Sue Hovey, was released in April.) It's simple, she says: "I didn't want to wait till the end of my career to tell my story."
Mother Jones: You write that you were bullied as a kid, and that you felt like "a physical misfit, my body flat and thin, my voice low." When did you start to feel comfortable in your skin?
Brittney Griner: I would say ninth grade, when I started wearing the clothes that I wanted to wear. I was so tired of living a lie, dressing a certain way. When you go to high school, you definitely feel like you're an adult, and I wanted to be true to myself. By the time I got to college I was completely out, and all my friends knew—just about everyone in my family knew. That's when I told myself, "Okay, I wanna do all this."
MJ: You're known for your style—lots of tattoos, but also the argyle socks, bow ties, preppy chic. How has that style evolved?
BG: When I first came out, I kinda overdid it. I dressed extremely older-boyish, like sagging, and big shirt and big jeans. I was just like, "I'm gonna go extreme." And then as I got older, the baggy clothes got a little more fitting to my body, but still masculine. Before, I wouldn't wear tight jeans—"That's girl! I want guy!" I thought. But now I wear jeans that actually fit me and look good. A lot of people do the preppy look, and the bow ties and the vest and jacket, the blazer and everything, and I started to like it even more.
MJ: When the WNBA proposed tigther-cut uniforms, how did you react?
BG: I was just running in slow motion, saying, "Nooooooo!" I play basketball. I need a jersey and I need some shorts that I feel comfortable in. I'm trying to hoop, not go to a fashion show on the court. Short shorts are not for everybody. I'm not trying to wear capris, but I got a lot of leg. I need to cover it up a little bit. They want more male attendance, and for us to change our uniforms to "sleek and sexy" takes away from what we're trying to do on the court. I want you to come watch my game, not the uniforms. If you wanna come just because we look sexy, then I really don't want you there. I feel like we need to get away from that.
MJ: Your Nike contract allows you to model clothes branded for men. A Nike spokesman told ESPN the Magazine, "It's safe to say we jumped at the opportunity to work with her because she breaks the mold."
BG: I want to print that quote and put it on the wall! For a company like Nike to say that I'm breaking the mold! I was extremely happy. I'm not the only female that wears men's clothes, so I'm not one in a million. But someone told me I was kinda pioneering it—for it to be okay, to be accepted.
MJ: You write at length about your struggles at Baylor, both with coach Kim Mulkey and with the school's anti-homosexuality policy. What was it like to hear from folks in Waco that this was some sort of betrayal?
BG: It's not right. Like the rule that Baylor has in the handbook, that if you're openly gay you can be kicked out—it's unjust, and I think it should be changed. I never had a problem with my team. My teammates accepted me. We were on the court, we played, we hooped, we fought for each other, and I had a great time as far as basketball. Nobody ever came up to me and was like, "Get off our campus." I never got that. And people knew on campus. I wasn't hiding. From the way I dressed to the way I acted in public, it wasn't a problem, so I don't understand why the rule is still there.
MJ: You write that you didn't know about the policy before arriving at Baylor, and that Mulkey told you being gay wouldn't be a problem there. And yet people ask, "Why did you go to Baylor if you knew it was anti-gay?"
BG: First off, it's easy for people to say stuff when they don't know the full story. If they would read the whole story, the whole book, they would see. I was told everything would be fine, and I didn't know about the rule until later on. I get the question a lot: Do you wish you would've gone somewhere else? No, no I don't. I went 40-0. I won a national championship. I grew as a person, I grew as a player, and me and Coach Mulkey, we had a lot of great times. She taught me a lot of great lessons, and I met a lot of great people. And I still go back to Baylor. I've been back up there; I went there for homecoming. I went down on the field and the fans clapped and cheered for me, yelled my name. I love my school; that's always going to be my school. People who think, "Oh, she should've just gone somewhere else"; I'm like, "No, I was where I needed to be."
MJ: What do you make of the high-profile comings-out of Jason Collins, Michael Sam, and Derrick Gordon?
BG: I had a prior agreement with ESPN to come out with them, but it kind of came out earlier in a Sports Illustrated online interview. It was fine. I wanted it to be a conversation. I didn't want it to be like, "Breaking news: Brittney Griner is gay!" I just wanted it to be on my time. It's a little bit tougher on the male side—people judge really hard—and when they come out it's definitely big news. It takes a lot of bravery. I would love for it to get to the point where it's not breaking news, not how they define us. We don't want to be treated any different.
MJ: Not to shift gears too quickly, but do you think should college athletes get paid?
BG: I do. You give up a lot of your time. You have your not-mandatory-but-mandatory summer. "You don't have to be here, but you better be here." We miss holidays, we miss all that. We devote all our time to basketball. Studying on the road, late nights, getting in—it's like we're working a job nonstop. And I definitely think we should get a little bit more.
MJ: How would it have been different if you'd been considered an employee?
BG: An employee. [Pauses.] I think I would like "employee," because that means that I'm on that payroll! [Laughs.] Honestly, that's how I feel. I felt like I was a Baylor employee. Instead of going to work in the office and punching in on the timecard, I was going to practice everyday, right after class got dressed, and got in practice for a couple of hours. Summertime, I was there the whole time. But we don't get any off days. We can't call in sick.


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From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Children of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, sitting on the front porch of a house on Dewey Street near a tree on which a hand-made sign reading "MFDP" has been placed during Freedom Summer, 1964.
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NEW YORK, PACfA-S Bush pressed for answers concerning British memo A hearing Thursday on a se- cret British thiit said President Bush was committed to waging war on Iraq months before he said so publicly ended with a request for Congress to open an inquiry into whether Bush should be im- peached for misleading the na- tion. STORY, PAGE A-6 Al-Zarqawi point man picked up in Mosul Mohammed Sharkawa, the militant leader who heads Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's operations in northern Iraq, was seized in a home in western Mosul on Tues- day afternoon. STORY, PAGE A-6 'Moderate' earthquake rattles Southern California A moderate earthquake shook most of Southern Califor- nia Thursday, startling people and knocking items off shelves and desks, but there were no im- mediate reports of significant damage or injuries. Toddlers taken hostage in Cambodian school Masked gunmen burst into an international school near Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples Thursday, taking dozens of toddlers hostage and killing a 3-year-old Canadian boy they said cried too much. STORY, PAGE A-7 Corrections Jane Olin-Ammemorp's Howlett Hill Department open Social Security public B-1 ACT-SO book Construction contracts for Carousel Center expansion Juneteenth Call Deputy Executive Editor Tim Bunn at 470-2240 to dis- cuss a correction on a news story. Subscription questions? Call 470-NEWS Index BlKJMSS. OIY Conies dm 0-1 f-l _ M _H _H A-lfl _W today. Movies HfwVorlu Sports Suds .A-2 .E-4 K-t M .C-l >1 -H MMSTSlAlftUD Salvation Army in CNY Seeks S82M for Centers Dennis Noll Staff photographer ZACH LOVINE AND EMMANUEL FLOWERS, 9-year-olds of Syracuse, play a game of Bumper Puck in an after-school program Thursday at the Salvation Army in Syracuse. The downtown center has high hopes that it will receive millions of dollars for new buildings and additional programs. Downtown wish list: pools, gym, studios By Bob Nicdt Staff writer McDonald's billion-dollar legacy-of billions and billions of burgers might bring million to downtown Syracuse for the Salvation Army to create a million multifaceted community center. The Salvation Army, Syracuse Area Services, is seeking million to million to build one of 48 centers nation- wide named for Ray and Joan Kroc, whose bequest is paying for them. The program would provide a match- ing million to set up an endowment to sustain operations of the Kroc center. The plan is to level the Syracuse Sal- vation Army's buildings at 677 S. Salina St., near Adams Street, and build there The state-of-the-art Kroc centers are designed to serve disadvantaged families, providing venues for exercise and well- ness, the visual and performing arts, spir- itual enrichment and job training. The Kroc money cannot be used for any services the Salvation Army already provides, which include about 40 pro- grams used by people a year in Onondaga County. SYRACUSE, PAGE A-4 Kroc How it works The money: Two Central New York Sal- vation Army outposts are seeking a total of million to build state-of-the-art commu- nity centers: one in other in Cicero. The money would be drawn from a 1.6 bil- lion bequest to the national Salvation Army by the estate of Joan B. Kroc, whose husband, Ray Kroc, founded the McDonald's Corp. fast-food empire 50 years ago. No public money is involved. The centers: The bequest is intended to create up to 48 Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers, similar to the flag- ship center in San Diego, which opened in 2002. The centers are to be built where residents don't have access to updated health, fitness and arts facilities. The nation: Salvation Army outposts throughout the nation are applying for building grants of million to mil- lion, plus matching grants for endowment funds to support the centers. The deadline: The next application deadline is Sept. 30. Salvation Army out- posts will learn in December if they've been chosen. The others: According to the Salvation Army, other Upstate outposts applying are in Elmira, Massena and possibly Rochester. writer Bob Niedt In Cicero: a campus for social services By John Dohcrty Staff writer A Cicero Salvation Army pastor wants to transform his small church, based in a Route 31 shopping plaza, into a multimil- lion-dollar community campus offering an array of social programs and other ser- vices to northern Onondaga County. The Onondaga Christian Fellowship of the Salvation Army in Cicero's New Country Plaza is vying for a grant to build a million campus to serve the area of Onondaga County north of the Thruway a 30-mile stretch between Bridgeport and Plainville. "This community is said Salvation Army Capl. Carl Avery, who with his wife, Kathryn, also a Salva- tion Army captain, began the Cicero church in 1998. "If you look at the social services structure of Onondaga County, it really is centered out of downtown Syracuse and you have to go downtown to get Avery said. "What we intend to do is to address the needs that are already here but are not being met." The idea for a Cicero campus in Onon- daga County's northern suburbs has caught the interest of Salvation Army of- ficials in charge of distributing a 1.6 bil- Sergeant accused of killing two officers in Iraq Deaths were first blamed on mortar fire striking building at base near By Patrick Quinn The Associated Press Baghdad, Iraq A U.S. Army staff sergeant was charged will) murder in connection with last week's deaths of two Army officers at a base outside Bagh- dad, the military said Thursday. Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Marti- nez, 37, a supply specialist with the Headquarters Company of the 42nd Infantry Division, New York Army National Guard, was charged Wednesday in connec- tion with Die June 7 deaths of the two officers at Forward Operat- ing Base Danger, near Tikrit Saddam Hussein's hometown 80 miles north of Baghdad. The officers killed were Capt. Phillip T. Esposito, 30, of Suf- fern in Rockland County, and 1st Lt. Louis E. Allen, 34, of Mil- ford, Pa. Esposito was company commander, and Allen served as a company operations officer. Trie soldiers were killed in what the military first believed was an "indirect fire" attack on the base. An indirect fire attack involves enemy artillery or mor- tar rounds fired from a location some distance away. The military initially con- cluded that a mortar round struck a window on the side of the building where Esposito and Allen were. But a criminal investigation was launched after it was de- termined that the "blast pattern" at the scene was inconsistent with a mortar attack. Martinez, of Troy, is believed to have used some kind of explo- sive device, possibly a grenade, military officials said on condi- tion of anonymity because the matter was under investigation. Martinez was charged with two counts of premeditated mur- der, said a statement by the Mul- tinational Task Force in Iraq. Martinez currently is at a mili- tary detention facility in Kuwait. His motive was unclear. 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Wilmington has been named to Site Selection Magazine's Top 10 list.
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Hello, everyone. Just writing to say that this entry constitutes my 60th post—and, alas, today marks the end of my contract at Harriet. I have enjoyed the bavardage with all of you—and for the last six months, I have very much appreciated the opportunity to provoke my readership more directly in dialogue. I certainly hope that the Poetry Foundation sees fit to replace me with yet another avant-garde troublemaker, since such a person stands to have a lot of fun causing mischief. I am going to end my tenure here with a few personal thoughts about my namesake—"the Book" (saying perhaps as much about me as about it…).
"Book" (B, double-O, K) is in fact my birthname, not "Bök" (B, O, K, with an umlaut), which is in fact my pseudonym. When people ask me: "Are you the Christian Bök"—I usually respond by saying: "No, that's the Bible." With my credentials, I must sometimes endure the indignity of being called Dr. Book, a moniker that might call to mind some chemistry teacher referred to as Mr. Science on a Sunday-morn kiddie-show—("Tell us about Shakespeare, Dr. Book"). With a name like "Book," I also feel a minor sense of irony when declaring that the concept of the "book" remains extremely important to my own radical poetics, which has often striven to explode the formal limits of the book (its serialized words, its stratified pages), doing so as if in response to the demise of poetry itself. I often joke that, under such circumstances: "every book is my voodoo doll.…"
While I have often situated myself within the clandestine inheritance of the avant-garde, I do so, not to pay homage to a noble, if passé, revolution, but to see poetry itself become a kind of research facility—a "skunkworks," where poets can reverse-engineer the alien technology of language. For me, the idea of the "book" has becoming something more than a temporal sequence of words and pages; for me, the book no longer even has to take the form of codices, scrolls, tablets, etc.—but might instead become indistinguishable from buildings, machinery, or even organisms. The book has become a weird object that may not exist at all, except at the moment of its reading, for until then it always pretends to be something else (a stack of paper, a piece of décor, etc.). The poetry of the future might even resemble a weird genre of science-fiction—a hybrid fusion of technical concepts and aesthetic conceits, all written for inhuman readers that have not yet evolved to read it….
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari remark that each book must lay itself out upon a "super plane," a vast page, doing so both extensively and expansively, without the internal closures of a codex. The book must not simply imitate the world, replicating the condition of both the real and the true; instead, the book must burgeon into the world, like a horrible parasite, exfoliating beyond itself, evolving along its own trajectory, against the grain of truth and being. I have thus striven to make my own work as exploratory as possible, letting language itself discover its own potential for innovation. I want to do my best to establish a basis for experimental literature in a country that has yet to develop much of any indigenous admiration for our avant-garde tradition, and I have always hoped that the adroitness of my own brand of pataphysics might be perceived as an embodiment, not of ennui, but of "eunoia"—an exercise in delirious restraint that performs an act of "beautiful thinking…."
Cheers and thanks,
Christian Bök
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Travel safe. Your particular attunements will be missed.
Me, I hope the Foundation shortly appoints someone not only open to the term "avant-garde," but also one who shares at least some of the political commitments of the historical avant-garde, commitments to a radically changed social world (the commitments you don't have to have snoozily tendentious threads debating, as they're a matter of record).
In much of the world, including the anglophone poetry world, that tradition is alive and pissed, though the Foundation's framing — via who blogs here, etc. — might suggest otherwise. Can I suggest Keston Sutherland, Tom Raworth, Stephanie Young, Jasper Bernes, Juliana Spahr, Heriberto Yepez, Carla Harryman, Dan Thomas-Glass, Joyelle McSweeney, David Lau, Charles Bernstein, Chris Chen…
Joshua Clover said:
>Me, I hope the Foundation shortly appoints someone not only open to the term "avant-garde," but also one who shares at least some of the political commitments of the historical avant-garde, commitments to a radically changed social world…
Ah, this hope, in our radical commitments, that avant-garde tokens will be "appointed" to the Foundation…
Though "not that there's anything wrong with it."
But what about that thing, what did they used to call it, "the Institution Art"?
Thanks for the posts and provocations!
Kent Johnson said:
>Irony is lost on me!
Smilicon! j
I did take your comment as in earnest.
But irony, it's true, is more and more lost on me. I was reading this MLA paper by Bernstein the other day, about fictional authorship and White Male Rage, and for a little while, by gosh, I thought he was dead serious.
By the way, though, I did like your intro essay to Debord's recovered filmscript in the new NO.
I wonder how one would practice Situationism at the "Foundation." It is pleasant to think so.
Like Language poetry at Penn?
Being and Event,
Dear Christian,
Thank you for your thoughtful and thought-provoking posts. Though I have sometimes disagreed with them, I have always found them interesting and engaging.
I have slowly begun working on an anthology taking off from my essay on "post-avant" poetry (a much revised and expanded version of which I have posted on my own blog to be called Postmodern Poetics (snazzy title, I know), collecting criticism and poetics swirling around this rather amorphous topic. Your very thoughtful response to my original piece on the topic makes me think that you would be an ideal contributor to this project. I would like to have a diversity of viewpoints in the book, including those that question the whole concept of the "post-avant-garde."
I don't yet have a publisher for the book, but I have talked to a couple of editors who are interested, and I have confidence that I will find one.
I would be delighted if you'd be willing to participate in this project. If you are interested, please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Take good care, and I look forward to hearing from you.
all best,
Hi Christian,
Sorry to hear you're leaving these pages, since your input was generally what brought me here. Hope all's well with job and work and adieu until some other time and place.
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We're privileged to have Mark Kieft join us in Puntarenas to share from God's Word.
Mark was born in Mexico in 1954. He spent most of his childhood years living in a small town south of Mexico City where he attended a public school. When he was ten his family moved to Michigan where he was forced to adapt to a new culture, climate and educational system.
He graduated from High School in 1973 and began a year-long training with Literature Crusades (International Teams). After training he went to Ecuador for fourteen months before returning to the States to attend Emmaus Bible College.
It was while he was at Emmaus that he met and married his wife, Carol. Together they have three daughters, two of whom serve with International Teams. Their eldest daughters, Tascha and Katherine, are currently studying Spanish in Costa Rica in preparation for joining our Quito team.
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In addition to graduating from Emmaus Bible College, Mark has a earned degrees in Cross-Cultural Studies (BA- Tyndale College), Education (MA-Eastern MI University), and Ministry (MA-Moody Bible Institute). Beside his years of service in Ecuador and Bolivia, Mark has also led teams to Bangladesh, Myanmar, Honduras, Mexico, Germany, and the Dominican Republic.


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|Lights out: Ravens beat Niners in electrifying finish to Super Bowl XLVII
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Joe Flacco threw three touchdowns and Jacoby Jones returned a kick 108 yards as the Ravens held on to beat the 49ers, 34-31, in a bizarre Super Bowl XLVII at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome Sunday night. Flacco finished 22-of-33 for 287 yards and three touchdowns in earning Super Bowl MVP honors.
Colin Kaepernick was on the verge of engineering the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history when it appeared the Ravens committed a blatant defensive holding by Jimmy Smith on Michael Crabtree in the end zone on fourth-and-goal from the Ravens' 5 with just over a minute left. No call was made and the Ravens took possession at their 5 and killed off most of the clock.
The game ended when the Ravens took a safety on a punt with four seconds left, and then punted away to Ted Ginn. The 49ers specialist returned it 31 yards to midfield but was tackled as time ran out.
The game marked the first loss in six Super Bowls for the 49ers while the Ravens won for the second time in as many trips to the big game, winning Super Bowl XXXV in Tampa.
In a game that featured an electrifying halftime show by Beyonce and a 34-minute power outage minutes later in the third quarter, Kaepernick led his team from a 28-6 hole in the third quarter back to 31-29, passing for a score and running for another as San Francisco scored 23 points in just over 12 minutes. However, the Niners could not convert a two-point conversion that would have tied the game.
The Ravens jumped out to a 21-6 halftime lead thanks in large part to the sensational play of Flacco, as he threw three first half touchdowns. Ed Reed picked off Kaepernick and the Ravens gambled on fourth-and-9, but kicker Justin Tucker was tackled a yard short on a fake field goal. On the next drive, Flacco hit Jones for a 56-yard touchdown pass, putting Baltimore up 21-3.
Jacoby Jones opened the second half by taking the kick eight yards deep in the end zone and racing up the middle for the longest kickoff return in Super Bowl history.
Moments later, as San Francisco was facing third-and-13 in its own territory, the lights and power went out through most parts of the Superdome. The game was delayed 34 minutes as NFL officials and stadium administrators went into a frenzy trying to restore order and power.
After the lights came back on, the Niners were forced to punt. But on their next drive, they began a furious comeback. Crabtree caught a 31-yard TD pass. Frank Gore, who finished with 110 yards on 19 carries, ran around the right side for a 6-yard score after a Ginn punt return.
David Akers converted a field goal that cut the lead to 28-23. The Ravens added a field goal early in the fourth quarter, making it, 31-23. The Niners then scored on a Kaepernick 15-yard run. With a chance to tie the game, the Niners could not convert a two-point conversion. Reed appeared to be offsides on the corner blitz, but no call was made and the Ravens held a 31-29 lead.
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In one of the most bizarre moments in the 47-year history of America's greatest game, a power outage at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome suspended play of Super Bowl XLVII for 34 minutes Sunday evening.
The Ravens were just celebrating a 108-yard kickoff return by Jacoby Jones for a touchdown and appeared ready to put the game away.
With the 49ers trailing 28-6 and facing a third-and-14, stadium lights cut out on San Francisco's side of the field. Then lights went out throughout the building.
The NFL released the following statement after play resumed: "Stadium authorities are investigating the cause of the power outage. We will have more information as it becomes available."
Superdome spokesman Eric Eagan followed with a statement on behalf of the building: "We sincerely apologize for the incident."
Speculation was rampant following a spectacular halftime show by Beyonce that required numerous flashing lights and finished with dramatic flare.
The 49ers captured the game's momentum, scoring 23 points in just over 12 minutes of game time following the outage.
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