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Alfred Hitchcock once summed up the difference between surprise and suspense perfectly. Imagine two people sitting at a table talking. Suddenly, a bomb explodes under the table. The audience, unaware of the bomb, is surprised.
Now, let's say the same two people sit and talk at the same table, but in this instance, the audience knows the bomb is under the table and will explode in 15 minutes. The characters chat away, oblivious, while the audience longs to warn the characters.
As Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense, pointed out, "In the first case we have given the public 15 seconds of surprise at the moment of the explosion. In the second we have provided them with 15 minutes of suspense."
Hitchcock's explanation is now famous, both because he used the ticking time bomb device so effectively and because his description of it is so accurate.
If used deftly, the ticking time bomb device never gets old and can be inserted into endless contexts in myriad forms. It worked in Hitchcock's day, and the movie "In Time" proves that it works just as well today.
"In Time" is overall a mediocre movie lacking any surprises, other than surprisingly nonsensical plot developments. But the basic concept is interesting and resonates in America circa 2011.
Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) lives in a near future in which the human life span is controlled genetically. Each human being is designed so that on everybody's 25th birthday, a glowing green clock implanted on their left arm begins to count down their final 365 days. At the end of that year, they die.
You can earn extra time, however, by working, trading, stealing, etc. Time is the new currency, as the movie says, and has completely replaced money.
For the wealthy, all of whom live in one district of what was once the U.S., this system means immortality. They can go on living forever, never aging, as long as they keep their time accounts full.
For the poor, like Salas, this system means living in constant fear of dying. Will and his mother, Rachel, (Olivia Wilde) never have more than a few days left on their clocks, so they must work, borrow and scheme constantly to stay alive.
This scenario is interesting but hardly original.
The society pictured in the film, with its complete segregation between rich and poor and its leisure class living in paradise while the poor live in squalor and fear, originates in Fritz Lang's 1927 science fiction masterpiece "Metropolis" and has been recycled in numerous movies.
The notion that everyone in a society must die at a relatively young age and that some people run to escape this fate, like Will is going to, comes directly from the 1976 classic "Logan's Run."
"In Time" melds those sources with a revenge story.
Rachel dies early on because Will meets her a mere second late. He has been given a century of time by a wealthy man who wishes to die. Yet he can't reach her in time to share his new wealth.
So Will buys his way into the wealthy district, falls in love with a malcontent rich girl named Sylvia (Amanda Seyfried), and the pair become a sci fi Bonnie and Clyde, hoping to crush the system by robbing time banks.
The performances are all fine. Cillian Murphy turns in a humorously hard-nosed role as a Minuteman, a cop who hunts down time thieves.
The story, however, becomes quite silly, playing out in one absurd, illogical action sequence after another.
Despite that, "In Time" is fun to watch, mostly because of that bomb under the table.
The movie saves itself each time those little clocks get near zero. It's a testament to the power of a ticking clock and to one of the cinema's oldest tricks.
Jeff Marker is a media studies professor at Gainesville State College.


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Tilapia with Spicy Garlic Oyster Sauce
Thai chiles add great heat to a spicy garlic oyster sauce mixture, which pairs wonderfully with tilapia.
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- Two 4-ounce tilapia fillets
- Kosher or sea salt, to taste
- Fresh cracked black pepper, to taste
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1-2 Thai chilies, sliced
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
How to make this recipe
Rinse and pat dry the tilapia fillets. Season with salt and pepper.
Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Melt 1 tablespoon of butter and then add the tilapia fillets. Cook 1-2 minutes on each side or until golden and cooked through. Remove the fillets from the pan and set aside.
In the same pan over medium heat, add the remaining tablespoon of butter and then stir in the garlic. Cook for 1 minute or until soft. Stir in the oyster sauce, water, and chiles. Cook for 1 minute or until heated through. Remove from the heat.
Plate the fillets and then spoon the sauce over the fillets. Garnish with cilantro and serve warm.


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Im planning on doing some track events this upcoming season at summit point and wanted to get some input on a good set up. The car is basically stock with 80k miles and original suspension and brakes. I need to address the shocks and brakes no question. There are several things I would like to do, but the budget says otherwise. Im pretty much set on the brake setup. I was going to use centric rotors with Hawk HPS or HP+ pads and flush the system with ATE Superblue fluid.
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John's Secret Dreams: The John Lennon Story
by Doreen Rappaport
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Summary: This book introduce the live of John Lennon, a member of Beatles. He left his parents when he was only five and began to dream as a musician. Though his ante told him he would never be successful, finally he succeeded and became one of the members of the world-famous band. He wanted a peace live and a peace world, but he finally was murdered at his forty.
Genre: biography. This book tells reader the whole live of John Lennon with lyrics of his songs and his quotes. There is not thing made up by the author.
Use: 1. This book mainly talked about the different dreams of John. Ask students whether they also have dreams? Share their dreams within a group, and think about what things they need to do in order to make the dream come true.
2. Students divided in to several group to draw a time line of John's live including summaries of big events. Compare their time line, and analyze the advantages of each group.
Media: Collage and water color
I really loved this portrayal of the John Lennon story. It was not sugarcoated for children, but realistically told and beautifully illustrated for young and old adults.
Awesome. Short and to the point. I learned things about John that I have never known. It also shows the fact that he wanted peace.
As a huge fan of John Lennon, I loved this book. It was a biography of Johns life told through words and his lyrics. I recommend this to anyone who loves John Lennon and grades 3 and up!
I've become familiar with the Beatles only about 4 years ago. I had heard their music, known that they are legends, and have many friends and family members that are absolutely crazy about them. Once I finally started listening to their music, I was pretty much just doing it to get people off my back for not knowing that "Don't Let Me Down" and "With A Little Help From My Friends" are very popular Beatles songs. So I decided to give them a try. Their songs are fun, sad, and absolutely legendary, but I couldn't see myself listening to them all the time. John's Secret Dreams: The John Lennon Story is written with using Lennon's Biographical information as well as lyrics from his songs. The biographical information gives so much more depth to the lyrics and for the first time, I began listening to the Beatles for myself and I finally Get It. You can feel the lives of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr in the music if you just do their music a favor and learn about their lives. The illustrations are done by Bryan Collier who, prior to being asked to illustrate this book, had been very unfamiliar with the music of the Beatles. He listened to Lennon's music and watched and read interviews and the result has a very "Beatles-y" feel to it. This book would not necessarily be the first I would choose to share with a classroom, but if a student were researching John Lennon or the Beatles, I would absolutely suggest it.
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John Lennon's influence on music and culture is legendary. From a young age he dreamed of fame and fortune. When he achieved it as one of the Beatles, he recognized the need for a deeper meaning in life. His inner search for happiness shaped his life and brought new dimension to the world of rock 'n' roll.
As a follow-up to their award-winning title, Martin's Big Words, Doreen Rappaport and Bryan Collier present John Lennon's life through a combination of narrative and song lyrics, cut-paper collage and watercolor art-capturing the energy and the essence of a man whose vision and creative genius continue to inspire people today.
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KNOXVILLE -- The Tennessee baseball team received a dominant performance from ace Luke Hochevar, and the Volunteers' offense exploded for 13 runs on 14 hits as UT blew past Bethune-Cookman 13-5 Friday afternoon at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.
Hochevar, a preseason All-America selection, was nearly untouchable in seven innings of work. The junior from Fowler, Colo., allowed no runs, walked two and gave up only one hit in the Vols' home opener.
Vols freshman J.P. Arencibia performed well in his Big Orange debut. The catcher from Miami, Fla., posted base hits in each of his first four at-bats and finished the day 4-for-6 with two runs scored. Senior Eric King also turned in a solid performance, going 3-for-3 with three RBIs and walking twice.
Tennessee (2-2) got on the board early, as Josh Alley scored on a Chase Headley RBI ground-out in the bottom of the first. It marked Headley's third RBI of the season.
In the bottom of the second, second baseman Michael Rivera took first after being hit by a pitch. Rivera advanced to second on a walk and then crossed home on an RBI base hit by junior co-captain Eli Iorg.
Senior first baseman Alex Suarez picked up his first hit of the season in the bottom of the third inning, and he made it count. With the bases loaded, Suarez sent a fly ball to center that fell just out of the reach of Bethune-Cookman's Matt Fraysier, scoring Headley, Arencibia and Rob Fitzgerald to give the Vols a 5-0 lead.
Fitzgerald followed suit in the bottom of the fourth, tripling to left center and driving in Headley and Arencibia once again. Fitzgerald later crossed home when Wildcat pitcher Paul Griffin threw a wild pitch to the first batter he faced.
The Vols' fourth-inning offense was just getting started, though, as King recorded yet another three-run triple, scoring Kelly Edmundson, Suarez and Rivera to extend the lead to 12-0. King would later come home on a sacrifice fly by Iorg to close out Tennessee's seven-run fourth.
Tennessee's final run came when Alley scored on an Edmundson single in the sixth.
Bethune-Cookman (0-8) did not score until the eighth inning, when Bobby Gilbert scored on a single by Nabil Sagbini. The Wildcats went on to post three more runs that inning, with two coming courtesy of Rob Caruso's double.
Bethune-Cookman's fifth and final home run occurred when Chad Mercado homered to left field.
Redshirt freshman Chase Hardin (0-0) made his first appearance as a Vol, replacing Hochevar in the top of the eighth inning. Hardin allowed four runs on two hits and issued a walk in 2/3 inning. True freshman Jonathan Rapavi (0-0) then finished things off for the Vols, allowing one run, two hits and striking out one batter in his collegiate debut.
Bethune-Cookman junior Shane Kelley (0-2) took the loss after giving up seven hits, eight runs (all earned), six walks and striking out one in three innings of work. Paul Griffin (0-0) then made a brief relief appearance for the Wildcats, but was touched for four runs on two hits and also gave up two walks.
Israel Rivera (0-0) threw the final five innings for Bethune-Cookman, allowing one run on five hits with four strikeouts and one walk.
Due to inclement weather forecasts on Sunday, the final two games of the series will be played Saturday in a doubleheader. First pitch is scheduled for noon, and the teams will play two nine-inning games with a 30-minute break between contests.


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It's your turn to weigh in on the week's news. The chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security begins controversial hearings on American Muslims. At city hall, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray faces more scrutiny over his inner circle. And a legislative maneuver strips Wisconsin's unions of their collective bargaining rights. Is this the end of the unions' fight? Call us about these issues, our wet weather, or anything else on your mind.
MR. KOJO NNAMDIFrom WAMU 88.5 at American University in Washington, welcome to "The Kojo Nnamdi Show," connecting your neighborhood with the world. It's your turn. Later in the broadcast, we will be talking about what to expect from your bank in general terms. And more specific terms, the fight going on between retailers and banks over debit card fees. But right now, your turn, 800-433-8850. Well, the long-awaited, sometimes feared, sometimes welcomed hearings have begun. Congressman Peter King of New York having hearings on what he calls the extent of the radicalization of Muslim Americans. If you'd like to venture your opinions on whether those hearings should be held at all, call us now, 800-433-8850.
MR. KOJO NNAMDIIf you feel that, well, there's nothing wrong with the hearings but the manner in which they were called and some of the earliest statements by Congressman King could lead people to believe that this is an effort to harass the nation's Muslims or that that will ultimately be the result of this all, you can call us. If, on the other hand, you believe that there is something useful to be learned if indeed there are organizations that are trying to use religion, the religion of Islam, to radicalize members in the United States for purposes of carrying out the acts of terrorism and if these hearings can be used to highlight that, if these hearings can be used to help that and you feel that they are properly held. If you feel that not paying attention to these attempts to radicalize Muslims in the United States is like sticking our heads in the sand, 800-433-8850 is the number to call.
MR. KOJO NNAMDIAnd Republicans in the state of Wisconsin have managed in what some would characterize as a slight of hand move to pass a measure removing the right of public employees to collectively bargain. Democratic state senators who had left the state in order not to participate in vote were apparently taken by surprise as were the demonstrators who were demonstrating against the measure at the Capitol. They are all very upset at this point. What do you think? Former D.C. mayor, Adrian Fenti, went on "Morning Joe" yesterday morning to support Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, saying that public managers should be the ones who should determine the salaries and working conditions of their employees because collective bargaining simply gets in the way of that. What do you think? 800-433-8850 is the number to call.
MR. KOJO NNAMDIAnd should the United States be involved in creating a no-fly zone over Libya? No-fly zone sounds innocent enough, but Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has pointed out that a no-fly zone begins with a bombing attack on the Libyan air force in order to cripple that air force, in order to enforce the no-fly zone. So, it would mean a military strike in Libya, which for some people would mean getting involved in another Mideast African country in which we don't know what the result is likely to be and the possibility of getting bogged down is great. But on the other hand, this is a situation in which the opponents of the Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi are asking for this. They are saying this is the only way that he can be brought down. This is the only way that democracy can come to Libya. What is your thinking? Should the U.S. stay out of it in that regard? 800-433-8850. We start with Anne in Silver Spring, Maryland. Anne, you're on the air. Go ahead, please.
ANNEHi, Kojo, thank you for taking my call. I appreciate your show. I'm just calling to let you know that I think that Peter King's hearings are not only misguided, his, quote, "this desire to look into radicalization," into really a witch hunt targeting American Muslims. And it's led to, I believe, greater fear and suspicion about our Muslim neighbors. The hate crimes that...
NNAMDIYou said he's cloaked it. But you said, he -- I guess you mean he's turned it into a witch hunt. What are the indications that it is a witch hunt?
ANNEWell, the way in which he is actually not looking at and inviting individuals who are experts, but rather seeking commentary and speculation, not based in fact about radicalizations that impacts the security of our entire country regardless of whether the perpetrators of that, you know, the violence are neo-Nazi supremacists or, you know, individuals who are Muslim, who are claiming to be Muslim or individuals who are unstable and who, you know, commit tragic and horrendous crimes like what we witnessed in Arizona. And instead the way in which he's made comments, you know, in preparation for this hearing, saying that there are too many mosques in America and that 80 percent of the mosques are radical. I mean, but not willing to backup any of that.
NNAMDIWell, he has backed off of the latter statement that 80 percent of the leaders of mosques are radical because apparently he has been presented with evidence to the contrary.
ANNEThat's right. But I think that that evidence that he has been presented with hasn't shifted his focus or his tone. I think he's backing off from that particular fact. There have been so many opportunities, I think, for him and the appeals from Democratic leaders willing to stand up and say, look, broaden this, like Representative Thompson did, saying make this -- we need a larger conversation about radicalization by focusing on a some, which is, you know, a religion.
NNAMDIWell, allow me to make the argument of people who are not Congressman Peter King, but who believe that some form of hearings focusing on attempts to radicalize Muslim in the United States be the focus of hearings, rather than overall radicalism. Those people would argue that the biggest security threat facing the United States right now is the threat from terrorism on behalf of so-called radical Islam. Would you agree or do you think that the biggest security threat facing the country is from a broader array of radical organizations?
ANNEI think I would disagree. And I think the numbers point to it. There is a recent report from the Triangle Center on Counterterrorism that specifically pointed to the fact that the majority of attacks of radicalization and terrorist attacks that we have been facing as a country have been perpetrated not by Muslims and I think, again, you know, we tend to look or exceptions in the rule. The reality is, Kojo, is that the fear about Islam, the lack of understanding about Islam in our country is one that is feeding with willingness to disregard the facts that actually would challenge the notion that we should just squarely be focusing on one particular aspect of radicalization that leads to violence. I think we should be looking at radicalization that, you know, leads to violence in all of its forms. And I think holding a congressional hearing, frankly, is not an appropriate activity for congressional hearing when it's focusing specifically, broadly on a religion. It's -- I mean, we're not fighting about...
NNAMDIOkay, okay. We do have other callers who'd like to get in. But I'd like to raise one more issue with you that others will say, what, you didn't notice 9/11? The largest terrorist attack in the U.S. history.
ANNEOf course, of course, of course. I mean, without a doubt, the, you know, the horrific violence and the tragic attacks on 9/11, you know, perpetrated from, you know, by al-Qaeda which is, you know, in my opinion, a cult that doesn't in any way Islam or any religion in the same way that I wouldn't say that David Koresh represents Christianity or, you know, that the Ku Klux Klan represents Christianity. I think that we have to recognize that all religions are subject to being manipulated by those with a political agenda.
NNAMDIOkay. Now, I do have to move on, Anne, because there are so many other people who would like to get in on the conversation. Allow me to go Al in Reston, Va. Al, you're on the air. Go ahead, please.
ALHi, Kojo, thanks for taking my call.
NNAMDIYou're welcome.
ALI agree that we do need hearings on this issue. My concern is some of the things that Congressman King has come out with, especially the story the Times ran -- New York Times ran that we support...
NNAMDIOh, well, the New York Times was today. The Washington Post ran a story yesterday on Peter King's support for and involvement with the Irish Republican Army at a time when the IRA was targeting civilians for terrorist attacks.
ALYes, exactly. And my concern is he is so dismissive of that comparison, that it's different, that he supports the United States and not Ireland. I just -- it's very concerning to me that he seems to be very dismissive of any arguments at all. And I was actually very shocked by that revelation of his support for that. I mean, it's clearly a terrorist organization. I would -- I will agree that probably the circumstances can't be exactly compared, but clearly they were labeled a terrorist organization. And that just concerns me that with a person like that running the hearings, that they're not going to be fair and impartial.
NNAMDIOkay. Thank you very much for your call. I should point out that one of the people who testified before the hearing this morning was Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota who is the only Muslim in the U.S. House of Representatives. He did not particularly like the manner in which the hearings had been called. But he said he thought it was an important opportunity to make the case that the overwhelming majority of Muslims in the United States are indeed patriotic Americans and told a story of Muslim paramedic this morning dying that reduced Congressman Ellison himself to tears. But thank you very much for your call, Al. We move on now to Douglas in Northern Virginia. Douglas, you're on the air. Go ahead please.
DOUGLASOh, yes, hello. Thank you for taking my call.
NNAMDIYou're welcome.
DOUGLASIt's more of a comment, not particularly about the hearings but more about the idea that the Obama administration on stepping back from making the decision of being the one to implement the no-fly zone, but allowing another country to take the lead and the proponents to that saying that it looks weak for the administration when I think it's actually the opposite. You know, especially with what happened in Iraq some years ago with us going in after 9/11, us getting back and being a support mechanism but allowing other countries to take the lead. And I think it takes a lot of courage on the Obama administration to do that, not to be the initial proponent of the no-fly zone.
NNAMDIBut do you think if it is some sanction by some aspects of the international community in general or the United Nations Security Council in particular that the U.S. should therefore go ahead?
DOUGLASYou know, I think that the -- sorry, sorry.
NNAMDIWell, I'm raising that in terms of -- in the context of the fact that we are already in Afghanistan and in and having withdrawn in large measure from Iraq and the concern of some people that, yes, it could start that way but it ends up with you getting bogged down.
DOUGLASSure. And definitely I think that it would be hard to certainly stay out of it. But I think that there's a lot of interest at stake that would involve us not getting involved on a military scale.
NNAMDIOkay, thank you very much for your call, Douglas. We move on now to Betty in Silver Spring, Md. Hi, Betty, you're on the air. It's your turn.
BETTYHi. Kojo, I'm just wondering, the no-fly zone over Libya, who's going to pay for that? You know, we've had two wars and this could, you know, be a third. We have no war pacts. You know, some people of this country are really, they don't have any more money.
NNAMDIWell, let me make the other side of that argument to you. There are people, innocent people dying in Libya apparently by the thousands at this point. There have been more than 3,000 deaths so far. They are seeking democracy and they are appealing to the world's largest democratic countries for assistance. Do you simply say to them, sorry, can't help you. It's a civil war.
BETTYActually, you know, it's not that I don't have compassion for them, I do. I just think that, you know, we just -- we don't have the money, losing our homes, we're not eating ourselves, our children are not being educated, our rights are being taken away and, you know, you know, I do understand. I do. I just say that we don't have any more money to pay for this.
BETTYSo if it's going to happen, they're going to have to get some money, some place.
NNAMDIOKAY. Thank you very much. It should not be on the U.S. taxpayer says Betty. What say you, it's your turn, 800-433-8850. Here is Suzanne in McLean, Va. Hi, Suzanne.
NNAMDIYep, Suzanne, you're on the air.
SUZANNEHello. I wanted to say, I'm saddened with the level of discussion on both issues. For example, the hearing in the senate or whether U.S. should get involved in Libya. Because the most of the discussion is on the details. Well, what about the principals? Like, the hearing in the senate, what about the principal that we are supposed to be guaranteed? Certain (word?) rights and human rights. It is (word?) on our belief in a religion or even promoting certain ideology because they're supposed to have freedom of expression.
SUZANNEAnd just an (word?) ideology or does that mean that I should be condemned? According to what I believe, is the freedom of expression. And also the same thing with the Libya involvement. The fact that, whether we can pay for it or not or whether we can send more American men to die for it or not. The question is that, why should the United States be a country that goes to war in other countries which have not attacked America? This is the international law that we're breaking. And also we have to bring up again, the issue of oil.
SUZANNEWe know that in Libya, the oil is really important. And also it's a very important oil. Is a (word?) oil. It's an oil that caused 1/3 of what the Saudi-Arabian oil costs. And also the United States (unintelligible)...
NNAMDIWell, allow me to ask you. On the issue of oil, therefore you support the reluctance of the Obama administration to lead the way for any no-fly zone in Libya? That seems to...
SUZANNEThat's correct, yes.
NNAMDI...be what you're saying.
SUZANNEThat's correct.
NNAMDIYes, and on the issue of the principal being violated in the hearings that are being conducted by Congressman King, I am not sure what principal is being violated. You say the principal of freedom of expression. You seem to be suggesting that if people feel that it is OKAY to indulge in their freedom of expression to advocate terrorism in the United States, then that's not necessary to be investigated?
SUZANNEI think, that even if that which is the extreme case because in this case (unintelligible)...
NNAMDIYes, I'm talking about the extreme cases of people who...
SUZANNEOKAY. The extreme case, yes, for example, if I write an article or I go out and say, like, Reverend Wright in the church in Ohio that Obama used to attend.
SUZANNEOr even many leaders in America, Martin Luther King Jr. in his speech in Vietnam, they may condemn the United States government of many crimes, they may be correct or not but that's their opinion. And we should be able to express an opinion. If I express an opinion that I believe that, for example, you know, there should be a movement which eventually over throw the American government because I believe we should have socialism. I shouldn't be condemned. That's an expression of opinion (unintelligible)...
NNAMDINo, but if you are living in an American city and you're expressing the opinion and making plans to kill American citizens, do you not believe that there should be some investigation about that?
SUZANNENo, if you make plans then, yes, you should be investigated.
SUZANNEAnd I should be investigated but not the whole community to which I belong.
NNAMDIGot yea.
SUZANNETo be brought into the senate.
NNAMDIGot yea.
SUZANNEYour (word?) should investigate me to see if I'm planning to kill people.
NNAMDIOKAY, thank you very much for your call. We do have to move on. We have one more and that would be Pierre in Centerville, Va. Pierre, you're on the air. Go ahead, please.
PIERREHi you doing Mr. Kojo? I think at this point, Islam is in desperate need of reform in general. If you look at what is happening to religious minorities in Muslim countries, it's just absolutely devastating for being a Christian or being a Baha'i or being even a non-Sunni Muslim in a Muslim country like Egypt, for example, is so difficult. Being a Christian in Egypt is similar if not worse than being an African-American in the U.S. during the 1940s. The silence of modern Muslims in condemning attacks -- attacks against Christians, attacks against Baha'is...
NNAMDIBut, wait a minute, for one second, Pierre. When religious minorities who happen to be neither Muslim or Christian are repressed in other countries for one reason or another, people usually call for an end to the repression and the people who are carrying it out. They don't generally call for the entire religion to be reformed. You seem to be calling for the entire religion to be reformed which again, and this is what I think Muslims are afraid of, you seem to be suggesting that there is something fundamental in the religious principal of Islam itself that is leading to all of these principles. That is leading to all of these problems.
PIERREI'm afraid -- I think there is a problem with Muslim (unintelligible)...
NNAMDIAre you a Muslim? Have you studied the religion? Do you know it well enough to say that?
PIERREI think, I know enough to say that there is a problem with Muslim institutions right now.
NNAMDIAnd if there was somebody -- if presuming you were a Christian who says that, "Christianity needs to be reformed even though I am member of the Sikh faith. I am saying that Christianity needs to be reformed because of what Koresh did," would you agree with that person?
PIERREI would disagree.
NNAMDIWell, I'm afraid that's all time we have time for right now. But that's the kind of dialogue I'm trying to get people to be involved in, Pierre. So thank you very much for your call. And I'm afraid, as I said, we don't have any more time for calls in this segment. We're going to take a short break. When we come back, we will be talking about the fight over your debit card and other things. I'm Kojo Nnamdi.
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Ten teenage girls from Washington, D.C. came together to pen a novel exploring what the killing of an unarmed black youth means for every character involved. What do young voices add to the ongoing local and national conversation surrounding police violence against people of color?
Andrew Gifford, the heir-apparent to Gifford's Ice Cream and Candy, paints a complicated portrait of his parents, who not only bankrupted his family's beloved local company, but abused him throughout childhood.
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In Part III of this series, I pointed out that Mk (The Gospel According to Mark) is not a simple reporting of unadorned facts, but is instead a carefully constructed literary masterpiece. That Mark constructed his gospel carefully was actually known in antiquity. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon, in his Detection and Refutation of Knowledge Falsely [Read More…]
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Hey there gang, it's Joe Stapleton here again with another post and recipe! I came across this one while digging through some old cookbooks, and after trying it just have to share it with you all! I'm always looking for new and interesting ways to make un-breaded chicken breasts more appetizing without going overboard on the calories, and this one certainly fit the bill. It's essentially a lower carbohydrate version of chicken Kiev, with a prosciutto wrap replacing the breading. Even with the prosciutto wrap it still ends up being about half the calories, carbs, and fat of chicken Kiev, with more protein!. The real fun is on the inside though, where it just screams New England! It's stuffed with a blend of shallot, cheddar cheese, and green apple, yum!
What little carbs are in this entrée come from the Granny Smith apple, so they're the kind of carbs we like over here at Practical Nutrition. You know, the ones that come from fruits or vegetables, can be organically and locally sourced, and that come with a myriad of health benefits along for the ride! Believe it or not, that old adage popularized by Benjamin Franklin 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away' isn't all that far from the truth! Apples are high in fiber, which can increase your satiety, keeping you full longer. They are rich in vitamin C and flavonoids, both of which are powerful antioxidants that can lower risk of heart disease, diabetes, and stroke. Green apples have two extra benefits over their more commonly consumed red cousins: the first being their potassium content. Granny Smith apples have even more potassium than other apples, which can further reduce risk of heart disease and help to stabilize your heart rhythm! Lastly, while both red and green apples can help your teeth if you can't brush after a meal, green apples are even better at this job! Both varieties stimulate saliva production from chewing their tough, fibrous skins, but the tart flavor of a green apple stimulates this even more, and saliva is our first line of defense against cavity causing bacteria in our mouths! Just remember to have a glass of water after an apple to wash away the sugar and acid leftover from your delicious treat!
Let's get back to the real reason you're reading though, the recipe! When we prepared this dish last weekend we made it with gratin dauphinoise (French scalloped potatoes) and grilled asparagus, paired with a nice Italian trebbiano and some hopeful wishes of melting snow and warmer weather. (Given the fact that it's been beautiful all week and some actual honest-to-goodness grass is peeking out of the snow, it looks like someone out there answered our prayers, so you're welcome!)
Oh, and for anyone using PN Rx for their macronutrient counts, one full stuffed chicken breast equals roughly 2 proteins, 2.5 fats, and only 0.5 carbohydrates. The full nutritional breakdown is in the recipe. Enjoy!
- 4 thick skinless boneless organic chicken breasts
- 1 tbsp. virgin olive oil
- 2 shallots or 1 small onion
- 1 celery stalk, finely chopped
- ¼ tsp. dried sage
- 1 granny smith apple, cored and diced
- 1 cup shredded Vermont sharp cheddar cheese
- 2 tbsp. finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 6 slices of prosciutto
- sea salt and pepper
- Preheat oven to 375° F. Lightly oil a small roasting pan.
- Put a chicken breast on a cutting board, rounded side up. Use a small, sharp knife to cut a pocket along the length of the chicken breast, cutting as deep as you can without cutting through to the other side of the ends. Repeat with the remaining breasts, then cover and transfer to the refrigerator.
- To make the stuffing, heat 2 teaspoons of oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the shallots, celery, and sage and sauté, stirring, for 3-5 minutes, or until soft. Stir in the apple and cook for 2 minutes, or until soft but not falling apart. Stir in the cheese and parsley and season with salt and pepper.
- Divide the stuffing among the chicken pockets. Wrap one and a half slices of prosciutto around each breast. Then rub the tops with the remaining oil and sprinkle with pepper.
- Transfer the chicken to the prepared pan and roast for 20-25 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through and the juices are piping hot with steam rising and run clean with no sign of pink when the tip of a sharp knife is inserted into the thickest part of the meat.
- Cover with aluminum foil and let stand for 3-5 minutes.


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Karen McGrane – Content Strategy for Mobile
August 8th, 2012
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Your content is visible practically everywhere. Content strategists need to structure content to allow for viewing on an array of devices. What does that mean for your content management system? And what do you need to build into your content to make it flexible and adaptable?
Karen McGrane, author of the upcoming book Content Strategy for Mobile, believes you should deliver great content to wherever your users want to consume it. In her virtual seminar, Content Strategy for Mobile, Karen says that even your organizational structure may need to change in order to facilitate this delivery. There were a ton of great questions from our audience that Karen didn't have time to answer in the live seminar. She tackles those questions with Adam Churchill in this podcast.
- Are the days gone where you can use a WYSIWYG editor to edit HTML?
- How can complex tables of technical information be refactored for mobile?
- How do you recommend people use the desktop site in mobile?
- How can you evaluate content management systems to ensure good content strategy?
Check out Karen's daylong workshop from User Interface 17, now in our All You Can Learn Library.
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Recorded: July, 2012
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Adam Churchill: Welcome, everyone, to another edition of the SpoolCast. Earlier this month, Karen McGrane joined us for her virtual seminar, "Content Strategy for Mobile." In the seminar, Karen talks about adaptive structured content and the strategy you'll need to achieve it.
"Content Strategy for Mobile" has been added to UIE's User Experience Training Library, which has over 95 recorded seminars from wonderful topic experts just like Karen. Giving you the tips and techniques you need to create great design.
Hey, Karen. Welcome back.
Karen McGrane: Hey, thanks for having me back.
Adam: Now, for the folks listening who weren't with us for your presentation, can you give us an overview of what they might have missed?
Karen: Sure. I've been talking about content strategy for mobile. Really, what I'm talking about is content strategy for figuring out how you're going to get all of your content out onto this crazy new array of devices and platforms and screen sizes. It's not just your mobile phone. It's everything from your smartphone to tablets to, gosh, even your TV or your car or your refrigerator, if someday you want to consume content that way.
What I talked about in the seminar was figuring out how you're going to structure your content in order to make that happen. What new flexibility, what new adaptability do you need to build into your content so that it'll be ready to go other places? What's going to need to change in your internal structure, in your content management system in the way that your editorial process works?
Even your organizational structure might need to change in order to support delivering great content to wherever your user wants to consume it.
Adam: There were some really good questions from our audience, Karen, and we thought we'd take a shot at answering some of them, the things that we didn't get to. David wanted to know, "What about content contributors and other managers that have their fingers on the content and are thinking of editing the content as an exercise using a WYSIWYG editor to edit the HTML? Are those days gone, or can they leverage that experience as well?"
Karen: One of the things that I talked about in the seminar was this myth of the preview button, that a lot of content management systems today work a lot like your laser printer worked. When it was hooked up to your computer and you could use a desktop publishing package or Microsoft Word to essentially style and format your document, so what you saw on the screen was what you got when it was printed out.
A lot of desktop web content management systems kind of let you think the same way, or they try to help you imagine that the web is as fixed and as controlled as ink is on paper. Unfortunately, it's never really been that way, and you're never going to see that happen more than when you get your content onto a variety of different new devices.
If you click a button in your content management system and it takes you to a picture or takes you to a screen that shows you what your desktop web page looks like, you're missing out on the context of all the other places where that content's going to live.
This is a vexing problem. I've talked to some super-smart people at content management firms that have all been scratching their heads about, "What are we going to do with this?" It's a variety of things. There's still some room for using WYSIWYG-style formatting.
Things like bold or bulleted lists are fine, because you can give your content creators a tool to apply that style and then make it semantic on the back end. But the idea that the content creator is going to be able to imagine where their content is going to live on the page, we might need to do some work to break people out of that.
The analogy that I like to give is some of the examples of the way graphic designers have had to think about their work differently when they moved from doing print to the web. They had to break out of this notion of having pixel perfect control. Break out of the notion that they could dictate every single thing about the way that their design would look and work.
And I think in a lot of ways, content creators haven't been forced to make that leap, or we've given them this illusion that they don't have to make that leap. And now, frankly, it's time that they have to.
While I love to look at my work in context as much as the next person, I clicked the "Preview" button on my blog today. We've got to get content creators imagining that their content is going to live in a variety of different places. That might mean not letting them imagine that they can preview their WYSIWYG work and it's going to look exactly like that.
Adam: What about situations where there are very complex tables of technical information that need to appear? How do you recommend that they be redesigned or refactored to appear on mobile?
Karen: Oi. Yeah I think that tables and images are two of the most vexing problems that we will have as we attempt to get our content onto mobile. There's not great answers for everything. Or it's not like, I do not have a magic wand that I can wave that will automatically refactor your tables for you, or that will automatically allow you to shrink your images appropriately.
There's going to be some production work involved. For tables, the question really does come down to is this a table that could reasonably be shrunk or could some columns be hidden?
Could you employ sort of a progressive disclosure approach to the table where a user on a smaller screen size would see only three or four columns of information and then the user could take an action to see more?
For some types of tables, like, some financial data, that'll work really well. For other types of tables, I use an example of a garment size chart.
That's not going to work so well. You certainly can't go in and say, "I've decided that only users who care about these sizes will see this table, and then the other users will have to expand the table to see more." That's not going to work.
In those cases it really does take you digging into that content and trying to evaluate, is the tabular information the only way to present it? Could we present it as a list? Could we present it as something that could be scaled or scanned in different ways?
There's no one-size fits all approach to solving this problem. It's really going to be taking a variety of different strategies and then figuring out what's going to work for your specific content.
Adam: Karen, in the seminar you actually showed some examples of, you were using "TV Guide" to demonstrate a point. A question came in, "Doesn't writing three variations of a summary for one of those, isn't that the same thing as writing three versions of a page?"
Karen: Right. I love this question. I really wanted to be able to get to this, because it gets to the essence of what I'm talking about. It can be a little elusive. I like to talk about not creating content for a specific context.
If you're imagining that you have a separate mobile website, I described that as forking your content. What it means if you have a separate site, if you have a separate process, if you have a separate workflow, to update your content for the desktop side and the mobile side, you've just doubled your workload.
You've just put your content creators in a position of having to remember to make changes in multiple places, or you've set yourself up for things getting out of sync, and that's a hassle. That's one of the biggest things that people need to guard against.
Then I'll come back and say, "Well, what you should be doing is you should be creating content packages." I often suggest, so you can create multiple structures of content. You can write multiple headlines, you can write multiple summaries, you might chunk things out differently.
It's pretty reasonable to ask, "Well, aren't you doing the same work, then? Isn't that the same? If you're writing three different chunks for something, what's the difference between whether it's three different pages or three different chunks?"
The answer is that one of those things is happening on the backend. It's that you've set up a content management interface and workflow, that is designed to make it as easy as possible for the content creator to manage and maintain all of that content in one place.
Someone can go in and they can look at a single screen or a single workflow and see all of the different content elements that are attached to that object, and update them all in one place.
That means that then the CMS' job to figure out where to send each one of those content elements. It's like, "OK. Send this long form of the headline to the desktop website and send this short form of the summary to the mobile site."
It just lets the content creator imagine that what they have is this one unified package, as opposed to thinking of it as completely separate websites and completely separate workflows.
Really, when you start squinting at this problem and saying, "Oh, my goodness. Right. We're going to have to manage and maintain all of this stuff, and we are going to have different content elements and we are going to need different content objects."
Figuring out what that workflow is going to be, figuring out how that CMS interface and how that CMS process and editorial process needs to support it, is really the name of the game.
There's one thing that anybody takes away from anything that I have to say about this. It's, "Let's try to make the job for our content creators as easy as possible, and let's build the tools and the infrastructure that we need to support them in creating great content."
Adam: The team at UC Berkeley wanted to know some ways that you recommend how people use the desktop in mobile.
Karen: So I think we have barely scratched the surface here in terms of what kind of research and analytics people can use to evaluate their desktop website and their mobile website, and really what kind of experience people can have on mobile.
I first tell people, "You can start right now by looking at the analytics data that you have about how people are using your site on mobile devices." If you have a mobile website, maybe for most people it's they probably have a mobile website that only delivers a subset of content or functionality, you should be really evaluating what's happening with that analytics data.
What percentage of your visits are coming from mobile? What places are people, for example, jumping out of your mobile website and hopping back to the desktop? Are there places where people are trying to search for something that they can't find on the mobile website? Which proportion of number of searches coming from mobile? What can you tell people are doing on mobile?
I really caution people to say, "Don't necessarily take what people are asking for on mobile as gospel right now," because, right now, people are getting a terrible experience. They're getting a terrible experience from you and they're getting a terrible experience on most other websites.
You can't necessarily assume that what they're saying right now is what they really want. You can at least evaluate that data and use it to start asking yourself some questions about, "What should we be doing better?"
To add to that the analytics data isn't everything. It is time that you all started doing some user research or usability testing on mobile devices. One of the things I just wish more people would do is if you believe that having a link to your full desktop website is an adequate user experience. Then I would like you to go test that.
Go watch people in your target audience. And don't just recruit iPhone 4, people with the retina displays who are experts at being consumers on their phones. Go find some ordinary people who are expected to know how to navigate around a desktop screen that was designed for a monitor five times the size, and ask them to look at it through the tiny little viewport on their phone and see how well they do.
There's a variety of techniques that we've been deploying on the desktop web for, or even in software, for decades that now, like, go and use those observational techniques to watch people, what they're doing, talk to them about what they want. And feed that back into your strategy. This can be a longer term process, but at least they're doing the research now.
Adam: One of the things that happens in our virtual seminars, Karen, is that once we've got an expert like yourself in front of the audience, they are dying to know your thoughts on tools and resources that are available to them. Judy asked a specific question, looking for some tips on how to evaluate CMS systems to enable this good content strategy.
Karen: I said I would answer this question simply because I get asked after every talk that I give. Somebody asks me, like, "Well, what do you think the best CMS is?"
I have to laugh and say, "That is a decision of such complexity and such magnitude that I can't even hope to begin to answer a question like that."
Karen: There's no go-to CMS. There's only the best CMS for you. But from a content-strategy standpoint, there's a couple things that I talk about. One is the difference between a coupled system and a decoupled system. I'm kind of embarrassed to even be talking about this because I am so not a technical architect.
But the way this works is sort of what I was alluding to earlier, talking about WYSIWYG on a preview button, that a lot of desktop web CMSs. They're coupled. So what that means is that all of the content authoring and content storage functions are tightly connected to content display and content publishing.
It's not unlike your desktop publishing package believing that what it's going to output to is your laser printer. Those two functions are really tightly combined. That's great, if all you have is a desktop website.
If your CMS believes that what it is publishing to is one and only once place, and that's the desktop web, then having authoring and display coupled together is not such a problem, except when you want to go to multi-channel publishing.
A lot of larger enterprise systems are what's called decoupled, which means that those functions are handled by two separate systems and then there's an API or some way that those systems talk to each other.
I'm not a technical architect, but for a lot of organizations, when they really start looking at what they want to do with multi-channel publishing over the next three to five years.
They're going to recognize, "Oh, man, our content-management system just wasn't built to work this way, and we might need to think about how we decouple authoring and display functions and treat them differently."
From a content management standpoint, then, I'm really interested in the authoring side of things. I'm really interested in organizations recognizing that they may not want to use an authoring model right out of the box, that instead they need to do user-experience design work on the interfaces and work flows in their CMS, to customize them and tailor them for the way that they want to work.
There's a lot of CMS vendors out there that have sold organizations a bill of goods, claiming that, out-of-box, their system will work perfectly. It doesn't. Really, what you need to do is you need to sit down and you need to model your content.
You need to talk to your content creators about their work flow, and you may need to do some work to tailor that experience so that it works right for your organization.
Adam: And a very important question. You are tying a couple of really neat topics together and are writing a book about it, and a lot of people were asking for more information about when that's going to be available. Tell us more.
Karen: I'm currently writing a book, called, coincidentally, "Content Strategy for Mobile," and it's going to be published by A Book Apart sometime this fall. I have handed off the manuscript to the editor, and we are in the editing process right now. So I'm really excited. Hopefully that'll be out sometime in October.
Adam: Very exciting. They're doing a nice job with the books they're putting out, so that's a great thing to look forward to.
Karen: I'm glad to be a part of it. I am as excited for my book to come out as I am to have read all of the other books in that series.
Adam: Excellent. Karen, thanks for joining us again.
Karen: Thank you so much. I really appreciate you having me back.
Adam: Thanks, everyone, for listening in and for your support of the UIE virtual seminar program. Remember, you can get all the details on upcoming seminars at UIEVS.com.


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Re: open URL programmatically?
On Feb 11, 7:10 am, Szabolcs <szhor... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 11, 12:03 pm, Mark Fisher <particlefil... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I know how to create a hyperlink and click on it to go to an URL in my
> > browser. But I don't know how to write a program that does that
> > without making the user click. In other words, I'd like a function
> > such as
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> > that goes to the URL in the browser. Any ideas?
> On Windows one can use Run[] and start:
> Run["starthttp://www.google.com"]
Thanks. This does what I wanted. (I didn't know about "start".) But is
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The state of Utah spent $46 million less over five years delivering services online than it would have by providing them by traditional means, according to a University of Utah study released Friday.
"The study shows that making the state's services available online is just smart business," Mark VanOrden, chief information officer and executive director of the Utah Department of Technology Services, said in a news release.
The study was conducted by the U.'s Center for Public Policy & Administration for NIC Inc., a company that provides online services for governments. It was designed to measure the financial benefit of delivering services online versus "offline" through government offices, by phone or mail.
Data was studied for a five-year period between fiscal years 2007 and 2011. The average cost per transaction for providing a service online was $13.20 lower than the offline costs, the study found.
When multiplied by the number of online transactions, the state saved $46 million by offering an online option, according to the release.
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Rutgers Business School professor Nancy DiTomaso wins C. Wright Mills Award for The American Non-Dilemma
Rutgers Business School professor Nancy DiTomaso's provocative book The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality without Racism has received the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
DiTomaso, who teaches organization management and is also vice dean for faculty and research at Rutgers, was among five finalists whose works were selected from 77 nominated books. The award, which recognizes a book published in 2013, was announced during the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems on Aug. 16 in San Francisco.
In The American Non-Dilemma, DiTomaso examines how people get jobs and reveals that for many, job offers are a result of relationships and networking, which DiTomaso argues create "hidden" forms of racial inequality for blacks and other minority job seekers whose networks are not as well established.
The Russell Sage Foundation, which published The American Non-Dilemma, said in its review of the book that DiTomaso "convincingly argues that America's enduring racial divide is sustained more by whites' preferential treatment of members of their own social networks than by overt racial discrimination."
When the book was published last year, it inspired a wave of public discourse on corporate hiring practices and unemployment rates among African-Americans as well as long-standing policy issues like affirmative action. It was also widely covered by the media in articles and opinion pieces appearing publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
"I am extremely appreciative to win the C. Wright Mills award," DiTomaso said. "This is one of the most prestigious awards for books in the social sciences, but it also importantly symbolizes for those who do research and writing on issues of inequality and justice, an affirmation of work that attempts to speak both to public and academic audiences."
"I am thrilled that my book has been given this honor," she said.
The American Non-Dilemma was named runner up for the Academy of Management's George R. Terry Award earlier this month, and it also won the American Sociological Association's Section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility book award for 2014.
The other finalists for the C. Wright Mills Award were: Vincanne Adams'Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina;Randol Contreras' The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence and the American Dream; Marcus Anthony Hunter's Black Citymakers: How the Phildelphia Negro Changed Urban America; and Jill A. McCorkel's,Breaking Women: Gender, Race and the New Politics of Imprisonment.


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Lifeguards recognised only 16% of victims within the 10/20 rule (10 seconds to detect, 20 seconds to rescue) Average detection time 1 minute 9 seconds.
No matter how watchful and dedicated lifesavers are, they are also only human. It's impossible for them to monitor every swimmer in a pool, at every minute.
Detection time of mannequin underwater by lifeguards*
16% - Less than 10 seconds.
31% - 11 to 30 seconds.
15% - 31 to 60 seconds.
24% - 61 to 180 seconds.
14% - More than 180 seconds.
* Jeff Ellis & Associates, 2001 and 2002 study. 682 tests performed.
Detection time of mannequin underwater by Poseidon
80% - 10 seconds.
(Poseidon average detection performance.)
But it's vital to reach a drowning victim before it's too late and every second counts.
With its network of cameras analysing activity in a pool, Poseidon provides added layers of protection that complement a lifesaver's vigilance.
Warning: The Poseidon system is intended to complement lifeguards, not replace them or reduce their responsibilities or vigilance. Poseidon does not save people from drowning - lifeguards do. Under no circumstances should the presence or use of Poseidon result in the reduction or modification of lifeguard staffing or duties as required by regulation or normal practices


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Most of our memories of Old Style involve a sunny day in the bleachers at Wrigley Field. However, Pabst Brewing is hosting a contest that speaks to the local tourist in all of us and gives us an excuse to pick up a case of Old Style outside the Friendly Confines.
This summer, specially marked packs of Old Style and Old Style Light could contain a special golden can and your ticket to sweet Chicago-centric prizes. The prizes vary from a music festival pack or a food festival pack, to a shopping spree, golf getaway, or fishing charter on Lake Michigan.
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I said on another thread that the Metro KC area was getting worse (Raytown if part of that). Chicago and Detroit are not the only ones climbing on the "criminal violence" scale.
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Men beat and rob World War II Vet - KCTV 5Posted: May 11, 2012 3:25 PM EDT Updated: May 25, 2012 6:42 PM EDT
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Two men beat up a World War II Veteran, ransacked his home, and stole from him.
Police need the public's help identifying the two men, and the elderly man's story about what happened to him is harrowing.
"He did one of them Texas Ranger kicks - knocked me back against the door, against the refrigerator and plum down on my knees," Roy Hooten said. "This is so painful in here [holds upper ribcage] it even hurts to breathe."
Hooten is dealing with a cracked rib and a deep gash from a pistol whipping after a good deed left him bloodied and bruised.
"He said we need to make a phone call. Can we use your phone?'" Hooten said.
Hooten opened the door for two men about 10 a.m. Thursday but, before long, he felt a foot in his chest and was splayed onto the kitchen floor. The men started yelling where's your money?'
I said on another thread that the Metro KC area was getting worse (Raytown if part of that). Chicago and Detroit are not the only ones climbing on the "criminal violence" scale.
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Good for him that it didn't change his view of humanity. Now he needs to replace the stolen little gun of his departed wife with the 45 he carried in his WWII bomber.
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Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.
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It has come down to the criminal maggots using the sympathy and goodness in a person to accomplish an attack and robbery. I am very surprised they just didn't kill him for the sport of it.
As hard hearted as it sounds, this man should have NEVER opened the door, but he comes from a different generation of trusting people. Well, we can no longer trust everyone because of incidents like this. I suspect we will see more of these maggots preying on those who are generous, kind and want to help someone.
I live in a "good" neighborhood and don't open the door to just anyone that I do not know. The person on the other side may not be someone I want and encounter with.
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Wolves? I love wolves. I respect wolves. These are maggots.I suspect we will see more of these wolves preying on those who are generous, kind and want to help someone.
Time to start thinning the 'predator herd'...and as many as possible, ASAP.
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