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"All the Beautiful Things"
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Director John D. Harkrider says the conversations he and best friend Barron Claiborne have in the navel-gazing documentary "All the Beautiful Things" were unscripted and unrehearsed. Alas, that's not how this pretentious and inauthentic movie lands on the audience's ears. Harkrider, a corporate lawyer and filmmaker, and Claiborne, an acclaimed celebrity photographer, meet at a loud jazz club to talk about their long friendship and the rift that tore it apart for several years -- when Barron was accused of rape, and John backed up the later-discredited story of the supposed victim. Harkrider overloads his narrative with clunky artifice: A comely bartender (Lynn Hill) as sounding board, a jazzman (Jeremy Pelt) as buddha and musical Greek chorus, and line-drawing illustrations (by Matthew Woodson) with voice re-enactments of the men's past troubles. This material might have worked as a stage play, but as a contrived "documentary" it feels phony and self-absorbed.

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America's economy is in shambles. . . .
Its citizens are terrified and dissatisfied. . . .
Could it all have been planned by a secret elite one hundred years ago?
The New World Order. Hitler referred to it in his diaries. President George H. W. Bush foretold of it in his speeches. Formed by a secretive global elite, the group seeking this new order has taken hold of the nation and perhaps the world. Its influence pervades every reach of American society, from the products we buy at the grocery store to the topics of evening news programs.
But could it also be true that the New World Order caused one of the greatest financial catastrophes of our time?
For years, best-selling author and legendary conspiracy researcher Jim Marrs has exposed information that the mainstream corporate media has refused to report. Now, with a crisis upon us, Marrs has yet again unearthed the lies to expose the insidious alliances that make up a secret world.
Consider this: In 1910, a handful of the world's most powerful government and corporate men gathered on Jekyll Island to discuss matters at a private hunting lodge. The agenda? First, the overthrow of the sitting American president; second, the creation of a central bank, one headed by a succession of elitists who would unconstitutionally control America's money and its economy for decades. . . .
Flash forward one hundred years. Never before have the American people been so unhappy. Apathy and paralysis are the nation's guiding principles. Public education has repeatedly failed. More and more Americans rely on overpriced pills for remedies to fabricated illnesses. The average American household spends eight hours a day in front of the television, ruled by the vague fears of terrorist attacks and economic collapse. Control of the mass media has devolved to a mere five multinational corporations.
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"True or not, he does connect the dots"
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I enjoyed this audio book very much. While there are many points I take issue with, I regard the book highly. It was clear, concise and insightful. The explanations about complex matters were very good. I have a far better grasp on some of the more complex systems in place in our government than previously. Regardless of whether one agrees with the author on some of the conclusions drawn or not, the explanations, history and evolution are thoughtful and stunning. I will listen to this one again.
Really enjoy listening to these books sure am glad I was introduced to Audible. Best dollar I've ever spent.
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This book is scary but it is accurate. I've been investigating these things on my own for years and have found that Mr. Mars has put it all together and is well documented. If you want to know your future and the future of your children and their children I HIGHLY suggest you listen to this book. The entire book!
Very well done and the narration is as good as the book.
"True or Not, do not read at your own risk"
The history of the inevitable failures of "central banks" dating to the 16th c. is analyzed with binding speed and clarity, more importantly, proof is offered for every fact asserted.
To the extent that author Marrs was writing on information and belief, as I believe he did in hi THEE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICH, another fantastic audible.com selection, it comes right down to one assertion, as was so memorably spoken to Tom Cruise by Jack Nicholson to Tom Cruise: "*you can't *handle* the truth."
Jim Marrs is saying: I am telling you the truth, but most people *cannot handle it* - and candidly, by 1/5 of the way through my head was spinning.
I'm sure there are many who feel the same but do not want their identity connected to this work of boldness.
A must read/listen!
Jim Marrs makes some very strong points that can be scary! I think that is why most people will cast him off as a nut job.
There is something going on in our country and if the American people do not wake up and educate themselves they will fall prey.
Don't wait to be spoon fed by the media. Our news organizations are lap-dogs for the government rather than watch-dogs.
Listen.....Study.....and decide for yourself.
"Every Ordinary Person Needs To Read This Book"
The best part is realizing that there are still a few people left on this earth that know and understand that compassion is the sum of every intelligence and Mr. Marrs is one of those people.
It reads like one long scathing indictment after another, with the same people behind it all. And it's a wonder how Mr. Pruden remains so calm instead of shouting.
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This is a must read for every concerned American Citizen. The author presents facts and information straight forward and lets the reader draw their own conclusion. I recomended this book to everyone I know. I will never look at banks, drug companies, and even the government in the same way.
"Stop What you are doing, and get this book!!!"
Yes. Jim Marrs is very knowledgeable on anything conspiracy theory. On top of that, he gives very comprehensive explanation of the current state of the american economy and government. He does a very good job not showing any political partisan because he believes everyone is to blame. This book will change the way you look at current american politics and gives you ways in which you can change your own life to be less venerable. I suggest this book to everyone.
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Definitely not a 'crazy conspiracy theorist' book. Doesn't go off the deep-end with things. A lot of facts and things to think about seriously. Great material, and unfortunately a lot of it is true. He quotes Peter Schiff and Chris Martenson, among many other credible sources.
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Some information was enlightening and I found it interesting. Other information was questionable due to data sources cited.
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So I just bought a 2005 honda rebel 250 with 1700 miles on it. Nearly mint condition (one rock ding on the tank)... and it needs a new battery. Well the person didn't have the manual (and you can pop start it by walking it and releasing the clutch)... I just ordered the official honda service manual off amazon, but it won't arrive until estimated delivery date of 9-9. I took the battery out and it looks like someone peeled all the stickers off it... (keep in mind I didn't do that and have no idea why someone would) but can anyone help me out with what the battery specs are so I can go grab one at walmart on the way home from work? Otherwise ill need to wait til I get home to do a search for it.. (most websites are blocked @ work... I'm typing this from my phone). Thanks if you can help!


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wondering what the average wait for ccw permit is in Arkansas? I sent my paper work in about a month ago. I'm going crazy waiting.
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wondering what the average wait for ccw permit is in Arkansas? I sent my paper work in about a month ago. I'm going crazy waiting.
Then you are going to get crazier.
A few months ago we (the instructors) got a letter from the ASP telling us to inform our students that it could take the full 120 days alloted by law to get the permits and to inform those waiting NOT to call because it takes up time that they could be working on permits.
They are running full bore as buisness has never been better.
The requals have been running 3 to 4 weeks, but the CHL's have been averaging anywhere from 12-16 weeks.
BTW, welcom to the forum. Nice to see another Arky,we have several on here. Where are you from?
Thanks for the info. I'm in Little Rock. What about you?
Russellville. I go to Little Rock alot. What part?
I'm in the Heights.
Yep, it's going to take a while. I do hope they will surprise you and get it to you sooner than planned.
Its hard not to like that Razorback avatar...:image035::bier:
I figured it would take a while...I was hoping I would be one of the lucky ones. I started looking in the mailbox a week after I sent the paperwork in.
what do you guys carry? I have a Glock 19 and an XD45
Ruger P345
I carry different ones.
Sig P220 .45
Colt .45 Stainless Combat Commander
Sig P239 .40
and when I dont expect to have to use one, a Keltec PF-9 9mm.
If I am going to Little Rock, you can bet is something in .45.:image035:
Last summer it took exactly 90 days from submission to receipt. Hope yours is sooner.....good luck....
Welcome to the forum Eric..as for your chl, you will just have to be patient. As hotguns said, you can expect the full 120 day wait. Set your goal for that and if luck is on your side, you will probably get a pleasant surprise after only 60 days..but agn, expect the full allowable wait..my renewal last year took 140 days! My FL non res took 105 days! As for living in LR, sorry to hear that..:rolleyes: all the more reason to be armed tho..good luck and be patient.
Welcome to DC eric1!:wave: Like the others said,it will be awhile before Your permit arrives (usually about the time You've forgotten about it.) But that just makes it a nice surprise when it arrives. :danceban:
Welcome Eric1, from one Arkie to another. Sorry about living in LR. Good reason to have your CCW. I was prepared to wait the full 120 days, but I received it in about 31 days. (this was early spring 08) Funny thing though, it took 9 days from the issue date, to get it by snail mail to Mtn Home area.
Welcome to the board from another Arkie.
Earlier this year it only took about 30 days to get my license. I took the course sometime in January and received my license in February. They really must be booked up if it is really taking the full 120 days to issue them. Be patient. It'll get there.
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Research on the German Armed Forces 1918-1945
Swedish Volunteers in the German Wehrmacht in WWII
During the Second World War Sweden was a neutral country with a relatively stong pro-Allied sentiment. The last major fighting Sweden took part in was during the Napoleonic Wars. When the Soviet Union invaded Finland in 1939 though, at least 10,000 men volunteered for service with the Finnish forces to fight against the Soviets. This number is especially significant because there were approximately 6.5 million people living in all of Sweden at the time. Sweden and Finland are both Northern European countries and had much in common, therefore, when the Soviets invaded, many Swedes felt compelled to join the Finnish Forces.
Because Sweden was a strict neutral during WWII, other than during the short experience of the Winter War in 1939, it did not openly allow for recruitment into foreign armies. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 its sentiments changed very little, although the Finns were allowed to garner volunteers once again. Approximately 1,500 Swedes volunteers for service with Finland between 1941 and 1944.
Before Germany invaded the Soviet Union, very few if any Swedes served with the Germans, although at least one Swedish volunteer was listed as serving with the 5.SS-Panzer-Division Wiking. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Swedish volunteers for the German Wehrmacht were gathered either through the German Legation in Stockholm or throught the Auslands Organization, both via Norway. Swedish approval of recruiment was still not offical after the invasion of the Soviet Union though, and the volunteer operations were very much clandestine affairs. In total between 130 and 300 Swedes are thought to have served in the German Wehrmacht. David Littlejohn lists the number of Swedish volunteers at 130 in volume 3 of "Foreign Legions of the Third Reich", 150 volunteers are listed according to Swiss Dr. Franz Riedweg - the head of Germanic Volunteer recruiting, 175 volunteers are listed by H. Picker in "Hitler's Table Talk", and 315 volunteers are listed by Gottlob Berger in an unpublished biography. 300 is the generally accepted number of volunteers in the German Wehrmacht, but approximately 30 to 45 Swedes were killed in WWII under Axis control with 130 Swedish volunteers surviving the war, according to Lennert Westberg, which would therefore place the actual number of volunteers at about 175. 11 Swedes are said to have gone to the SS Officers school at Bad-Tolz, and Swedes also are known to have fought in the Battle of Berlin in April of 1945 while serving in the Nordland Division. The vast majority of Swedes served in the ranks of the Waffen-SS, but never in a national unit or legion like many other ethnic groups. Most Swedes were scatterd within different Waffen-SS units and formations. The 5.SS-Panzer-Division Wiking, 11.SS-Panzergrenadier-Freiwilligen-Division Nordland, and the 23.SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Nederland are all known to have had Swedes in their ranks.
At least one small unit, Panzergrenadier-Kompanie 3 - Panzer-Aufkläkrung-Abteilung 11 - 11.SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Nordland, (3rd Company of the Armored Recon Battalion of the 11th SS Volunteer Armored Infantry Division Nordland), was composed of a large number of Swedes. In fact, Panzergrenadier-Komapanie 3 was given the title Swedenzug as a result of the number of Swedes in its ranks. The Swedish volunteers served in the 4.Zug of Panzergrenadier-Kompanie 3.
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Stab Adjuntant: Ostf. Eriksen (1944), Ostf. Schmitz
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" Author: Paula McLain / Format: Paperback / Date of publication: 05 January 2012 / Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction / Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group / Title: The Paris Wife / ISBN 13: 9781844086689 / ISBN 10: 1844086689 / Alternative EAN: 9781844086665 "
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"The Paris Wife" tells the story of the doomed romance between Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley. Hedley meets him when he is only 21 and although believing strongly in his ability to write, he is struggling to find the recognition he feels he deserves. She falls head over heels with the young novelist and after a whirlwind romance they are married.
Although deeply in love their romance is challenged by a series of obstacles. Hemingway is still traumatised by his experiences in the war. As a flawed genius he sometimes puts Hadley well below his work as his need to write is all-encompassing. They initially have very little money to live on so he has to go away to work. Then Hadley becomes pregnant, a change that Hemingway does not feel ready for. And this before the biggest challenge of all to their marriage...
The research to this book has undoubtedly been done well. The stories of times spent with so many greats of the era; Gertrude Stein, F Scott Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound to name a few are intriguing and the descriptions of Paris in the 1920s really captures the imagination. In addition the romance is really believable.
However, as a modern girl I did find myself wishing that Hadley would develop a backbone! Hemingway acted appallingly at times and she just let him get away with it.
Although I enjoyed this book it would not make it into my top ten. It failed two of my tests that I use to judge a book. 1. On returning from holiday halfway through I did not pick it up for another week and a half (for someone who on many occasions carries on reading when I can barely keep my eyes open this is a real indicator of how much I have enjoyed it). 2. Once finished I would not imagine it will be a book I would read again.
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The Paris Wife by Paula McLain was published by Virago on 5th January 2012 and the book is 400 pages long.
Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness--until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group--the fabled "Lost Generation"--that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Though deeply in love, the Hemingways are ill-prepared for the hard-drinking and fast-living life of Jazz Age Paris, which hardly values traditional notions of family and monogamy. Surrounded by beautiful women and competing egos, Ernest struggles to find the voice that will earn him a place in history, pouring all the richness and intensity of his life with Hadley and their circle of friends into the novel that will become The Sun Also Rises. Hadley, meanwhile, strives to hold on to her sense of self as the demands of life with Ernest grow costly and her roles as wife, friend, and muse become more challenging. Despite their extraordinary bond, they eventually find themselves facing the ultimate crisis of their marriage--a deception that will lead to the unravelling of everything they've fought so hard for.
What I thought
Having a massive thing about books set in Paris or about Paris, when I saw this one at the train station I just knew I had to have it although having not heard of it before so I didn't know quite what to expect.
The Paris Wife is pretty much a fictionalised retelling of Hemingway's life with his first wife, Hadley. The book begins in Chicago in the '20s where the couple meet and is told from Hadley's perspective. She was a strange character to me to begin with as her personality is a bit mixed. Although she comes across as strong and independent, due to things happening beforehand, she also seems very timid and not altogether sure of herself. Meeting Hemingway brings out a different side to her and I saw her character change really quickly. As the book goes on, she changes more and more, becomes quite the doormat. I think her backbone went missing somewhere in-between Chicago and Paris.
Obviously, as a book about Hemingway's first wife, he does feature a lot throughout the book. I'm not altogether sure whether or not this was the author's intent but I actually quite hated him. Yes, he was nice to begin with in the relationship but it didn't take long for me to see him for the arse of a man that he was. In this depiction of their life, Hemingway is rude, insensitive and extremely selfish. While these traits were written exceptionally, deep down I was hoping for him to have some nice qualities hidden in there somewhere but that just didn't happen.
I'll be honest and admit that I did only really get this book because of the title and I was disappointed when I realised how much of the book is not set in Paris. It takes a long time for Hadley and Ernest to make the move but once they did, it was quite something. McLain is obviously passionate about Paris herself and puts a lot of effort and detail into describing the city which was something I was extremely thankful for. Paris is a big a part of the story at certain points as the characters themselves and it was wonderful to see it intertwined with the plot so well.
The plot moves effortlessly over the life of Hadley and Ernest with the addition of some wonderful characters that break up the monotony of their boring life together. Characters like Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound make the story a lot more interesting than if it had been solely about the Hemmingway's. Each of these fantastic characters make the book a lot more interesting and exciting and throw in some much needed distractions from what would have been quite a plain and boring story otherwise. It was great to see other writers interact with Hemingway and to see how they all saw each other and what they may have thought of each other's works.
While I did really enjoy this book, I don't think it is for everyone. I loved reading about different parts of the world and people from the past but I wanted to slap both Hadley and Ernest for making such stupid decision and for being such annoying people. The Paris Wife is a bit of a mixed bag for me overall.
The Paris Wife is an intriguing look at the life of a literary legend from a different perspective, a novel in which Ernest Hemingway's first wife tells us her version of their marriage, and their life in 1920s Paris, including encounters with other American expat writers.
I was attracted to this novel by hearing an abridged serialisation on the radio - the confiding intimacy of the first person narrative worked really well in this form, as does the selection of dramatic incidents and turning points in their relationship.
This novel worked well as a piece of storytelling - it must be 3 times the length of Hemingway's own account of that period of his life in A Moveable Feast, a memoir in the form of a series of vignettes. McLain acknowledges that she drew on the memoir, which I read afterwards for comparison, and I did recognise a lot of the events Hadley describes.
I think it is quite a challenge to write fiction based on real people's lives - do you write about your "characters" as you believe they were or as you would have liked them to be? Hemingway's Hadley sounds too good to be true, (he described her as too good for him), but by telling her story in this way, McLain makes her sound a bit more real and less saintly, and this actually makes her more likeable. At times I felt she was rather too willing to sublimate her needs to his, but this seems quite realistic in the context of the time. She spends a lot of the novel seeming rather passive, even dull, but then we get glimpses of someone rather more assertive and prepared to stand up for herself - in the end, when put in an impossible situation, it is Hadley who has the strength to make another life changing decision for herself and her son. Her love for him also doesn't stop her voicing her opinions of his writing when needed, when he writes a book satirising a friend's work and Hadley tells him how wrong he is to even think of trying to publish it.
From Hemingway's account we know that Hadley was an enthusiastic reader, who particularly liked the work of Henry James and compared other work to his, not always favourably. I think McLain misses an opportunity to make Hadley more interesting by mentioning Hadley reading frequently but not what she is reading - this is something I want to know about fictional (or real) bookworms in books.
The portrait of Hemingway in The Paris Wife is also interesting - his public image is often based on him in late middle age - here he is in his early 20s. We see him at his best and most romantic at the beginning of the novel, and becoming increasingly selfish and dishonest later - like his wife, we see his more appealing, sweet side, and also some of the damage that has been done to him by his wartime experiences, and as things go wrong, we also see his more obnoxious side.
Other characters in the novel are less well drawn, apart from the predatory Pauline. Some of the other writers don't emerge beyond being names on the page, and McLain doesn't add much to the descriptions of these people than what is mentioned in A Moveable Feast.
I was also struck by the fact that a novel set largely in Paris gives little feel for the city or its native residents. This reflects the memoir, perhaps, in which Hemingway describes hanging out with other expats and English speaking writers the whole time, but it was another area in which I thought McLain could have actually made up and embellished Hadley as a character.
The Paris Wife made me want to read/reread some of the work of Hemingway and perhaps of the other writers mentioned. (I'd love to read more about Hadley but most of the books about her are too difficult/expensive to get hold of).
Overall, this novel has some faults and frustrations but I thought it was a great, page-turning read.
I received a free copy of this book through the Amazon Vine programme and this review has previously appeared at Amazon and at www.curiousbookfans.co.uk
Publisher: Virago March 2011
Format: Hardback 390 pages


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Rupee Rises to Three-Week High as U.S. House Passes Budget Bill
India's rupee rose to the highest level in almost three weeks as U.S. lawmakers passed a bill to avert $600 billion in automatic tax increases and spending cuts that were set to take effect from today.
Asian stocks advanced by the most in two weeks after the House avoided higher taxes for most U.S. workers as Republicans abandoned their effort to attach spending cuts that would have been rejected by the Senate. Inflows into India, including foreign direct investment and purchases of shares and bonds, will be $74.5 billion in the year through March 2013, more than an earlier prediction of $72 billion, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (KMB) forecast in a report received today.
"The saving grace is capital flows, which appear to be slightly better than expected," Indranil Pan, chief economist at Kotak Mahindra in Mumbai, wrote in the report. "Current- account deficit vulnerability will remain an issue."
The rupee advanced 0.6 percent to 54.3600 per dollar in Mumbai, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It touched 54.2650 earlier, the strongest level since Dec. 13. The rupee dropped 3.5 percent last year after plunging 16 percent in 2011. One-month implied volatility, a gauge of expected moves in exchange rates used to price options, increased five basis points, or 0.05 percentage point, to 10.15 percent. The rate decreased 190 basis points in 2012.
Global funds boosted holdings of domestic shares by $4.4 billion last month, taking inflows in 2012 to $24.5 billion, exchange data show.
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India's current-account deficit widened to a record $22.3 billion in the quarter ended Sept. 30, official data showed Dec. 31, as a faltering global economy crimped exports. The world's largest bullion buyer may raise taxes on gold imports to curb the shortfall, Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said in New Delhi today.
Exports will pick up in the second half of the fiscal year through March and capital inflows are enough to finance the current-account deficit, Chakravarthy Rangarajan, chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, said separately in New Delhi. The rupee is expected to stay at current levels for the rest of the fiscal year, he said.
Three-month onshore rupee forwards traded at 55.33 per dollar, compared with 55.73 yesterday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Offshore non-deliverable contracts were at 55.21 versus 55.70. Forwards are agreements to buy or sell assets at a set price and date. Non-deliverable contracts are settled in dollars.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - USC freshman outside hitter Ebony Nwanebu was named Pac-12 Freshman of the Week for the week of Sept. 23-29. The first-year Trojan was honored by the conference for the second time, this season, and was chosen alongside Washington's Krista Vansant who was the Offensive Player of the Week, and Colorado's Nikki Lindow who was named Defensive Player of the Week.
It is USC's eighth all-time Pac-12 Freshman of the Week award. Nwanebu was chosen for the award for her performance in the first week of the season and fellow freshman outside hitter Elise Ruddins won the honor for the week of Sept. 9-15. Current sophomore outside hitter Samantha Bricio was selected for the honor five times in 2012. Only offensive and defensive weekly awards are counted in a team's total conference weekly honors of which the Trojans own 53 all-time.
Nwanebu powered the Trojan offense to a big win over No. 11-ranked crosstown rival UCLA as she posted 17 kills (4e, 31att) and a .419 hitting percentage. She added two blocks and a dig and led the way with 18.0 points. In her first league road match, she maintained her attack prowess to log nine kills (2e, 17att) for a .412 hitting percentage during a 3-0 sweep of Utah. On the week, she posted 26 kills (3.71 kps) and hit an incredible .417 from the right side for 4.00 points per set.
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A shiny transparent glaze perfumed with lemon juice and raspberry liqueur sheaths these tender butter cookies. Here, I have made snowmen, but it is fun to cut out other decorative holiday shapes, such as stars, bells, bears, angels, or trees.
1 cup powdered sugar
1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 egg yolk
2 teaspoons grated lemon zest
2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon Framboise or water
In a bowl, using an electric mixer or a spoon, cream together the sugar, butter, egg yolk, and lemon zest until light. Add the flour and salt and mix quickly to form a dough. Gather into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap, and chill for 20 minutes, or until firm.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper, or use nonstick baking sheets. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough about 3/16 inch thick. Using a 2-1/2-inch snowman cutter, cut out cookies. Place on the prepared baking sheets, spacing them 2 inches apart.
One sheet at a time, bake the cookies for 8 to 10 minutes, or until golden brown. Transfer to racks to cool.
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In a bowl, stir together the sugar and lemon juice and Framboise or water to make a thin, transparent glaze. If necessary, add a few drops of hot water to achieve the desired consistency. Using an icing spatula, spread the icing on the cooled cookies. Let the cookies stand until the icing is set.
Store the cookies between sheets of waxed paper in an airtight container for up to 4 or 5 days.
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Recipe reprinted by permission.
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Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today introduced the Crooked River Collaborative Water Security Act, which would provide a framework for water stability for all parties who use the Crooked River. This legislation is based on an agreement that the Senators facilitated among a broad coalition of stakeholders in the region.
"The heart of this legislation is about improving the economy in Central Oregon by allowing water certainty for all users who depend on and use the Crooked River," said Senator Merkley. "Whether it is water for agriculture, healthy streams for fishing or water capacity for new industry, this bill will ensure that all interests -- and the entire economy -- are benefitting."
"This bill offers a solution to the competing demands for water in the Crooked River and provides certainty for the City of Prineville, the irrigation districts, the Warm Springs tribe and conservation interests," said Senator Wyden. "Thanks to the hard work done to build a consensus among these stakeholders, there is now a path forward for economic growth and protection of fish and wildlife."
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Providing the City of Prineville with a dependable supply of water to support growth into the foreseeable future;
Ensuring a reliable supply of water to farmers who use water from Prineville Reservoir and McKay Creek for irrigation;
Enhancing the ability to manage water flows in the Crooked River to improve habitat for the benefit of fish, and improving fish habitat in McKay Creek;
Providing the ability to install a hydroelectric turbine on Bowman Dam.
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About Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (German pronunciation: [ɪˈmaːnu̯eːl ˈkant]) (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg. Kant was the last influential philosopher of modern Europe in the classic sequence of the theory of knowledge during the Enlightenment beginning with thinkers John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.
Kant created a new perspective in philosophy which had widespread influences on philosophy continuing through to the 21st century. He published important works on epistemology, as well as works relevant to religion, law, and history. One of his most prominent works is the Critique of Pure Reason, an investigation into the limitations and structure of reason itself. It encompasses an attack on traditional metaphysics and epistemology, and highlights Kant's own contribution to these areas. The other main works of his maturity are the Critique of Practical Reason, which concentrates on ethics, and the Critique of Judgment, which investigates aesthetics and teleology.
Kant suggested that metaphysics can be reformed through epistemology. He suggested that by understanding the sources and limits of human knowledge we can ask fruitful metaphysical questions. He asked if an object can be known to have certain properties prior to the experience of that object. He concluded that all objects about which the mind can think must conform to its manner of thought. Therefore if the mind can think only in terms of causality – which he concluded that it does – then we can know prior to experiencing them that all objects we experience must either be a cause or an effect. However, it follows from this that it is possible that there are objects of such nature which the mind cannot think, and so the principle of causality, for instance, cannot be applied outside of experience: hence we cannot know, for example, whether the world always existed or if it had a cause. And so the grand questions of speculative metaphysics cannot be answered by the human mind, but the sciences are firmly grounded in laws of the mind.
Kant believed himself to be creating a compromise between the empiricists and the rationalists. The empiricists believed that knowledge is acquired through experience alone, but the rationalists maintained that such knowledge is open to Cartesian doubt and that reason alone provides us with knowledge. Kant argues, however, that using reason without applying it to experience will only lead to illusions, while experience will be purely subjective without first being subsumed under pure reason.
Kant's thought was very influential in Germany during his lifetime, moving philosophy beyond the debate between the rationalists and empiricists. The philosophers Fichte, Schelling, Hegel and Schopenhauer each saw themselves as correcting and expanding the Kantian system, thus bringing about various forms of German idealism. Kant continues to be a major influence on philosophy, influencing both analytic and continental philosophy.
Immanuel Kant was born in 1724 in Königsberg, the capital of Prussia at that time, today the city of Kaliningrad in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast. He was the fourth of eleven children (four of them reached adulthood). Baptized 'Emanuel', he changed his name to 'Immanuel' after learning Hebrew. In his entire life, he never traveled more than a hundred miles from Königsberg. His father, Johann Georg Kant (1682–1746), was a German harnessmaker from Memel, at the time Prussia's most northeastern city (now Klaipėda, Lithuania). His mother, Regina Dorothea Reuter (1697–1737), was born in Nuremberg. Kant's grandfather had emigrated from Scotland to East Prussia, and his father still spelled their family name "Cant." In his youth, Kant was a solid, albeit unspectacular, student. He was reared in a Pietist household that stressed intense religious devotion, personal humility, and a literal interpretation of the Bible. Consequently, Kant received a stern education – strict, punitive, and disciplinary – that preferred Latin and religious instruction over mathematics and science. Of the common myths concerning Kant's personal mannerisms are enumerated, explained, and refuted in Goldthwait's introduction to his translation of Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime. It is often held that Kant lived a very strict and predictable life, leading to the oft-repeated story that neighbors would set their clocks by his daily walks. He never married, but didn't seem to lack a rewarding social life - he was a popular teacher and a modestly successful author even before starting on his major philosophical works.
The young scholar
Kant showed a great aptitude to study at an early age. He was first sent to Collegium Fredericianum and then enrolled at the University of Königsberg (where he would spend his entire career) in 1740, at the age of 16. He studied the philosophy of Leibniz and Wolff under Martin Knutzen, a rationalist who was also familiar with developments in British philosophy and science and who introduced Kant to the new mathematical physics of Newton. Knutzen dissuaded Kant from the theory of pre-established harmony, which he regarded as "the pillow for the lazy mind". He also dissuaded the young scholar from idealism, which was negatively regarded by most philosophers in the 18th century (The theory of transcendental idealism that Kant developed in the "Critique of Pure Reason" is not traditional idealism, i.e. the idea that reality is purely mental. In fact, Kant produced arguments against traditional idealism in the second part of the "Critique of Pure Reason"). His father's stroke and subsequent death in 1746 interrupted his studies. Kant became a private tutor in the smaller towns surrounding Königsberg, but continued his scholarly research. 1749 saw the publication of his first philosophical work, Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces.
Kant is best known for his transcendental idealist philosophy that time and space are not materially real but merely the ideal a priori condition of our internal intuition. Also, he made an important astronomical discovery, namely the discovery of the retardation of the rotation of the Earth, for which he won the Berlin Academy Prize in 1754. Even more importantly, from this Kant concluded that time is not a thing in itself determined from experience, objects, motion, and change, but rather an unavoidable framework of the human mind that preconditions possible experience.
Early work
It is often held that Kant was a late bloomer, that he only became an important philosopher in his mid-50s after rejecting his earlier views. While it is true that Kant wrote his greatest works relatively late in life, there is a tendency to underestimate the value of his earlier works. Recent Kant scholarship has devoted more attention to these "pre-critical" writings and has recognized a degree of continuity with his mature work.
In Kant's essay "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?", Kant defined the Enlightenment as an age shaped by the Latin motto Sapere aude ("Dare to Know"). Kant maintained that one ought to think autonomously, free of the dictates of external authority. His work reconciled many of the differences between the rationalist and empiricist traditions of the 18th century. He had a decisive impact on the Romantic and German Idealist philosophies of the 19th century. His work has also been a starting point for many 20th century philosophers.
Kant asserted that, because of the limitations of argumentation in the absence of irrefutable evidence, no one could really know whether there is a God and an afterlife or not. For the sake of society and morality, Kant asserted, people are reasonably justified in believing in them, even though they could never know for sure whether they are real or not.
Kant ran into a problem with his theory that the mind plays a part in producing objective knowledge. Intuitions and categories are entirely disparate, so how can they interact? Kant's solution is the schema: a priori principles by which the transcendental imagination connects concepts with intuitions through time. All the principles are temporally bound, for if a concept is purely a priori, as the categories are, then they must apply for all times. Hence there are principles such as substance is that which endures through time, and the cause must always be prior to the effect.
Moral philosophy
Kant developed his moral philosophy in three works: Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785), Critique of Practical Reason (1788), and Metaphysics of Morals (1797).
Idea of God
Kant stated the practical necessity for a belief in God in his Critique of Practical Reason. As an idea of pure reason, "we do not have the slightest ground to assume in an absolute manner… the object of this idea…", but adds that the idea of God cannot be separated from the relation of happiness with morality as the "ideal of the supreme good." The foundation of this connection is an intelligible moral world, and "is necessary from the practical point of view"; compare Voltaire: "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." In the Jäsche Logic (1800) he wrote "One cannot provide objective reality for any theoretical idea, or prove it, except for the idea of freedom, because this is the condition of the moral law, whose reality is an axiom. The reality of the idea of God can only be proved by means of this idea, and hence only with a practical purpose, i.e., to act as though (als ob) there is a God, and hence only for this purpose" (9:93, trans. J. Michael Young, Lectures on Logic, p. 590-91).
Kant lectured on anthropology for over 25 years. His Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View was published in 1798. (This was the subject of Michel Foucault's doctoral dissertation.) Kant's Lectures on Anthropology were published for the first time in 1997 in German. The former was translated into English and published by the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series in 2006.
The vastness of Kant's influence on Western thought is immeasurable. Over and above his specific influence on specific thinkers, Kant changed the framework within which philosophical inquiry has been carried out from his day through the present in ways that have been irreversible. In other words, he accomplished a paradigm shift: very little philosophy since Kant has been carried out as an extension of pre-Kantian philosophy or in the mode of thought and discourse of pre-Kantian philosophy. This shift consists in several closely related innovations that have become axiomatic to post-Kantian thought, both in philosophy itself and in the social sciences and humanities generally:
* Kant's "Copernican revolution", that placed the role of the human subject or knower at the center of inquiry into our knowledge, such that it is impossible to philosophize about things as they are independently of us or of how they are for us;
* his invention of critical philosophy, that is of the notion of being able to discover and systematically explore possible inherent limits to our ability to know through philosophical reasoning;
* his creation of the concept of "conditions of possibility", as in his notion of "the conditions of possible experience" – that is that things, knowledge, and forms of consciousness rest on prior conditions that make them possible, so that to understand or know them we have to first understand these conditions;
* his theory that objective experience is actively constituted or constructed by the functioning of the human mind;
* his notion of moral autonomy as central to humanity;
* his assertion of the principle that human beings should be treated as ends rather than as means.
Tomb and statue
Kant's tomb is today in a mausoleum adjoining the northeast corner of Königsberg Cathedral in what is now known as Kaliningrad, Russia. The mausoleum was constructed by the architect Friedrich Lahrs and was finished in 1924 in time for the bicentenary of Kant's birth. Originally, Kant was buried inside the cathedral, but in 1880 his remains were moved outside and placed in a neo-Gothic chapel adjoining the northeast corner of the cathedral. Over the years, the chapel became dilapidated before it was demolished to make way for the mausoleum, which was built on the same spot, where it is today.
The tomb and its mausoleum are some of the few artifacts of German times preserved by the Soviets after they conquered and annexed the city. Today, many newlyweds bring flowers to the mausoleum.
A replica of the statue of Kant that stood in German times in front of the main University of Königsberg building was donated by a German entity in the early 1990s and placed in the same grounds.
After the expulsion of Königsberg's German population at the end of World War II, the historical University of Königsberg where Kant taught was replaced by the Russian-speaking "Kaliningrad State University", which took up the campus and surviving buildings of the historic German university. In 2005, that Russian-speaking university was renamed Immanuel Kant State University of Russia in honor of Kant. The change of name was announced at a ceremony attended by President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany, and the university further formed a Kant Society, dedicated to the study of Kantianism.
Immanuel Kant's Timeline
April 22, 1724
Königsberg, Königsberg, Ostpreußen, Prussia
February 12, 1804
Age 79
Königsberg, Königsberg, Ostpreußen, Prussia
Age 79
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Ireland's working emigrants reluctant to return home
By Padraic Halpin
DUBLIN (Reuters) - When Toby Gilbert decided to emigrate last year, he did not choose Australia over Dublin for sunshine and sandy beaches. He just wanted a few more free hours to see his wife.
Fed up with working punishing hours and barely seeing each other, the two doctors were among almost 50,000 Irish people who left the country permanently last year, a near four-fold increase since Ireland's economic crisis began in 2008.
But just as worrying for a country keen to turn another chapter in its painful history of emigration around, the couple are part of a growing cohort of graduates who are leaving jobs, rather than benefits, to seek better opportunities abroad.
"It was becoming an unliveable situation," said Gilbert, 31, of the grueling hours that saw Ireland referred to the European Court of Justice last week for breaking EU working time directives for junior doctors.
"You could walk into any hospital at 10am and find a dozen doctors who had been working from 8am the previous morning and who likely would be there until 5pm. They were absolutely Victorian work practices, it defied belief."
Like the Gilberts, almost half of Irish emigrants were in full-time jobs before leaving, a recent study at University College Cork (UCC) found, suggesting that the damage wrought by Ireland's economic crash and resulting sharp budget cuts may play just as key a role in emigration as high unemployment.
The health sector is an especially acute example of where the severe cutbacks that followed a spending spree during the 'Celtic Tiger' boom years have led to an exodus, often dejected doctors. Almost one-in-ten emigrants had qualified or worked in the health and social work sectors, UCC's study said.
Hospitals have been left struggling to fill consultant vacancies while overworked junior doctors went on strike for the first time in 25 years last month. With over a third of next year's government spending cuts to come from the health budget, there is little appetite to return home. Continued...


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Is There a Relationship Between Economic Freedom and Intellectual Property Rights?
The Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) scores the intellectual property environment (IP) in 25 sampled countries ranging from high-income countries to emerging markets, as well as some relatively low-income countries. The Economic Freedom World Index (EFW), on the other hand, reflects the extent to which 152 countries and territories around the world are supportive of economic freedom. As shown in the report, high-income economies generally have a better intellectual property environment than lower-income economies. Most top-performers shown in the GIPC index report, such as America, UK, Australia, and the like, are in the top 20 of the ranking of the Economic Freedom index, except that France is 40th and Japan is 33rd. By the same token, countries with a lower ranking on the GIPC index have more controlled economies than those high-ranking countries. [See the table below.]
Let us take the five BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) for instance. All BRICS economies are lower than the 50 percentile in the GIPC Index ranking and they all rank lower than 100th in the Economic Freedom World index ranking. Statistical analysis shows that a country's EFW score has a significantly positive correlation with its score on the intellectual property index.
Although we basically prove that better performance in economic freedom predicts a better IP environment, we have to notice some exceptions. Some countries with high economic freedom scores do not have an equivalently good IP environment. For example:
- The EFW ranking of Chile is 11th among 152 sampled countries, while its GIPC ranking is just over the 50th percentile.
- The EFW ranking of United Arab Emirates is 5th, behind Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, and Switzerland, while its GIPC rank is 15th, which is definitely under the 50th percentile.
- The EFW ranking of France is 40th among 152 sampled countries, while its GIPC ranks 3rd, which is just behind the U.S. and UK.
Qualitative observations may provide a deeper perspective in comparison to quantitative analysis. (Click on link below to view table.)


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The Screen Actors Guild and the producers are at an impasse, so what happens next? We have analysis from labor-watcher Jonathan Handel. Plus, what happens when the mavens of Mumblecore get the chance to go Hollywood? We talk to Mark and Jay Duplass, the writer-directors of the new film, Baghead.
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A regular online column on the intersection of social psychology and the news from Guardian writer Oliver Burkeman. Don't miss Oliver's Saturday column in The Guardian, This column will change your life, and do follow him on Twitter: @OliverBurkeman
In this era of digital culture, we savour lengthy works – ironically, I have technology to thank for my favourite of the year. Plus, these are inauspicious times in the US for moderate Republicans.
The growing use of games to motivate people to accomplish the meaningless is putting our ability to just 'be' at risk
The lag implementing chips like the rest of the G20 strikes transatlantic visitors, or transplants like me, as bafflingly old-fashioned
It's becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of online reading material. That's why having a physical print-out sometimes trumps a digital copy
Feeling awe has been linked to health and happiness ... but the experience is its own justification
Once a certain level of income or comfort becomes your default position, you can be sure it'll stop delivering pleasure by contrast with earlier experiences
Unwanted emails now take up less than half of our inboxes. But spammers make demands on our attention in many other ways today
If you can stand to have a little empathy for someone who seems unsympathetic, maybe his whole life is dedicated to feeling less empty inside
Whatever mass delusion that has convinced Americans that drinking watery, cold coffee that neither truly refreshes nor truly perks you up needs to end
We've created a world in which growing up – let alone growing elderly – is something nobody would reasonably choose
We chronically overestimate how much others notice our social faux pas, and underestimate how much fun we'll have alone
Most of us treat self-help books with a healthy dose of skepticism. But one written 14 years ago has the ultimate efficiency hack
Companies from Goldman Sachs to Target are discovering that zen employees are more productive. Get your yoga mats out and take a long, deep breath ...
We're supposedly free to ignore all the ways companies try to sell us stuff, but our brains don't work like that
If it's paternalistic for people in authority to make choices for me, is it also paternalistic for them to insist that I do the choosing for my own good?
When everyone else is grieving a public figure, maybe it's OK if you don't experience the same sadness as your friends. Maybe it's educational
Rules, queues and paperwork help make daily interactions predictable, anonymous and superficially egalitarian in ways from which most of us benefit
Science suggests that atheists are no more prone to anger than people of faith – but everyone believes that they are
Many believe that conservatives have a strange relationship to the truth. But we may all be more concerned with shoring up our beliefs than objective reality
Few minor modern irritations seem to drive people so wild so reliably as talking, texting or chomping during films or other performances
Ignore anyone who tells you to follow any rules or that they have the supposed tried-and-true method for unearthing The One
Faced with injustice, we'll try to alleviate it – but, if we can't, we'll do the next best thing, psychologically speaking: blame the victims of the injustice
Oliver Burkeman: Self-knowledge makes you overconfident in your judgment and emotionally resistant to facing certain awkward facts
Oliver Burkeman: It is a manifestly terrible idea which, if adopted in your workplace, will undoubtedly transform it into a dystopian hell-hole of paranoia and confusion
Oliver Burkeman: We live in an age when disagreeing with something too often means we declare it absolutely wrong
Oliver Burkeman: Conscious uncoupling, the ice bucket challenge, that Apple Watch, another ice bucket challenge – there was a lot of milquetoast amidst the terrible, emotional downright awful news
Oliver Burkeman: Being extremely thoughtful about your gift-giving may lead you to choose presents that that your loved ones might not love
Oliver Burkeman: In the future, maybe you'll be able to respond to everything. For now, tame the information overload by turning off those notifications
Oliver Burkeman: Terrible train delays. Absurdly high prices. Monday. If you think about it, a little moaning goes a long way
Oliver Burkeman: The PC menace may not be real, but snobby liberals are definitely winning the war on the War on Christmas now. We'll have our quinoa and eat it, too, thank you very much
Oliver Burkeman: Israel v Palestine. Republican v Democrat. Even pro-choice v pro-life. The key to keeping your enemies close, a new study says, is to feel the love. (Hint: money helps)
Oliver Burkeman: Neither language nor the basic arrangement of our bodies determines how we put time in space. So what does?
Oliver Burkeman: You can't always get what you want, but if you try some negative thinking, you might get that promotion you actually need
Oliver Burkeman: With apologies to the sun, cold weather keeps you thin, makes you a better friend and helps you live longer. Winter may be coming, but autumn is already winning
Oliver Burkeman: Gratitude is a very good thing. It makes us happy. But this is what happens when Marriott and the corporate do-gooder police co-opt your feelings


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Saturday we took spook to the vet his tummy was swollen and he was just not acting right,the vet want to draw some fluid off him tummy and when she did it was full of blood.She told us he was bleeding inside and that he had cancer,it was really bad.We was in shock we was with him for a while to have a last moments to love and hug and kiss him and he keep looking at me he was so scared and i was just crying and he wouldn't take his eyes of me and I leaned down and kissed his nose... when he left he was still looking at me and i'm so sick that i didn't know he was ill.We had Spook since he was 9 months old he was a rescue and Spooky was scared of everything ,because he was abused.He was my puppy mother and my best buddy.I loved his very much and i hope he know's that and i will never forget his red merle face.Spooky Duke was his name.xoxoxoSpooky.. Thaddyboy really misses you Too.
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What is the earliest complaint you have found about the quality of food and what is the most unpleasant?
John Carroll, our founder, voiced complaints about food on campus in 1812. In a letter written to Georgetown President John Grassi, S.J., on October 30th of that year, he included the following admonition: "Never relax in your attention to the neatness and cleanliness of the College, & the personal neatness of your scholars; & to their diet. I know it is good in substance, but I fear, your cook is deficient." The memoirs of Francis Barnum, S.J., who was a student here in the late 1860s, contain particularly disturbing descriptions of College food. He wrote of breakfast, for example: "This meal was always eaten in silence and consisted generally of bread and coffee. On certain mornings hash would be served which while it was unmercifully ridiculed was nevertheless greatly relished. Strictly speaking it was not a hash, but a stew made up of all the meat scraps and served with plenty of thin gravy. There was a tradition that once a boy found a mouse in the hash which considering all the circumstances was not at all unlikely. The dirty dark old kitchen was not only infested with rats and mice, but was also full of enormous roaches . . . It would sometimes happen when pouring out a cup of coffee that the flow would suddenly cease and I have seen a student calmly run his lead pencil down the spout and dislodge one of these big roaches."


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UKI Perle Cotton is a 2-ply mercerized cotton yarn with an evenly spun, smooth surface and a soft, silky sheen. It is a strong, versatile yarn, great for both weaving and knitting. Available in 4 weights: 3/2, 5/2, 10/2 and 20/2 (20/2 in limited colors).
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Matt Williams, who left Amazon.com to claim the CEO chair at Digg at the end of August, introduced himself in a post on the Digg Blog, in which he revealed that the bury button will soon be unburied.
Williams succeeded former Digg CEO Jay Adelson, and Kevin Rose assumed the title of chief architect.
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It's certainly been an eventful first month on the job. As many of you know, the launch of Digg v4 didn't go smoothly, and we're deeply sorry that we disappointed our Digg community in the process. Thank you for your patience and your extremely candid feedback — we hear you loud and clear.
Recently, we've been reinstating a number of the features that many of you loved about Digg. In the past two weeks, we've brought back the "Upcoming" section, started restoring user profiles from the previous version of Digg, and made small but important tweaks to the site, including better pagination. In the next few weeks, we'll bring back the bury button, restore all user profiles (including comment and submission history), add filters and navigation for videos and images, provide a tool for users to report comment violations, and update the Top News algorithm and overall site design based upon your feedback. The result will hopefully be a much better Web site experience.
I'd also like to share some insight beyond what you may have seen or heard in the press. Despite the changes to our platform at the end of August, there were still 23 million unique visitors worldwide using Digg last month. Digg today is a much faster Web site, operating on an open-source platform. And with the launch of My News, you now have more personalized control on Digg by filtering news with the help of friends and others you choose to follow.
Digg has always been a place where users help one another find out what's interesting, fun, and important. Unfortunately, our relaunch managed to get in the way of that happening. I don't need to tell you that without the Digg community, we're just another news Web site. So we're working hard to quickly improve the Digg experience. Our top priority is to make Digg as good as it used to be. Then we plan to make it even better, through innovations in both Top News and My News.


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by WashingtonsBlog March 24, 2012 Open-Ended Bailouts Are Continuing We've previously documented the fact that bailouts of the big banks are continued in stealth mode up to the present day. True, the banks claim they've repaid the Tarp bailout funds … but nearly half of the banks "repaid" such bailout funds by borrowing from... »
European Union Tightens Sanctions Against Syria
The Intel Hub March 24, 2012 BRUSSELS, Belgium (BNO NEWS) — The European Union (EU) on Friday announced increased sanctions against the Syrian regime due to its continued use of violence against civilians and pro-democracy protesters. "The repression has reached totally unacceptable levels of violence and must stop immediately," said EU High Representative for... »
3/24/2012 — Volcanic plume erupts from New Mexico DORMANT volcano
DutchSince.com March 24, 2012 Carrizozo lavic fields — New Mexico . Starting yesterday afternoon (3/23/2012) going into sunset … a plume of some sort erupted from VERY close (13 miles) to the Carrizozo Lavic/Volcanic fields. Coordinates of the plume epicenter/origin point… 33°48'50.13″N , 106° 4'55.15″W For sure it is NOT a fire (pictures show... »
What All Major Economic Depressions Have in Common
By: EWI Market Oracle Mar 24, 2012 Deflation requires a precondition: a major societal buildup in the extension of credit (and its flip side, the assumption of debt). — Conquer the Crash, 2nd edition (p. 88) Has the United States met that precondition? Well, consider that total credit market debt as a percent of... »
Housing Recovery? Economic Recovery? Forget It
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From ChrisMartenson.com ZeroHedge.com 03/24/2012 Gretchen Morgenson has earned a Pulitzer-winning career from exposing abuse and conflicts of interest on Wall Street. In this interview, she confirms that there is indeed a second set of rules that our elite financial institutions enjoy, largely unfettered by the constraints that apply to the rest of us. Consequences... »
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