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You want to save some data to a file.
save_to_file(PathToFile, Data) -> case file:open(PathToFile, [read, write]) of {ok, IoDevice} -> case io:fwrite(IoDevice, "~s", [Data]) of ok -> file:close(IoDevice), io:fwrite("File successfully written to ~s~n", [PathToFile]), ok; _ -> file:close(IoDevice), io:fwrite("File NOT written to ~s~n", [PathToFile]), {error, "File not written"} end; {error, Reason} -> {error, Reason} end.
This function accepts two arguments - path to the file we want the data to be written to (the file need not exist beforehand) and the data we wish to save.
Step by step the function does the following:
case file:open(PathToFile, [read, write]) of
We attempt to open the file. The file:open/2 function returns either {ok, IODevice} on success or {error, Reason} on failure. So, we check for both conditions.
In case of success we write data to the file (in this case we assume that data is actually a string, hence the "~s" switch):
case io:fwrite(IoDevice, "~s", [Data]) of
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yourLDSmusicstore.com, formerly PositiveMusicandDownloads.com, just debuted with more than 9,000 musical selections, a family-friendly blog and all-in-one access to local radio station yourLDSradio.com.
Included in the musical selections are 630 albums, songbooks, and sheet music along with free MP3 downloads every Friday.
This is a new web site that aims to bring music content to LDS audiences around the world.
According to its creators, the all-in-one site was designed to make it easier for the world-wide LDS Church community to find positive music with more than 9,000 selections of CDs, 630 albums (including songbooks and sheet music), along with click-through access to yourLDSradio.com.
In addition, visitors can submit entries on the yourLDSblog.com with recipes, inspirational messages, and more.
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Richfield • All you can do is attack, attack and attack some more when you are down by nine points with 6 minutes, 33 seconds to play.
And that's what Piute did to earn a spot in Saturday's 5 p.m. girls' Class 1A state championship game against St. Joseph with a 58-55 win over Layton Christian on Friday.
"We have been working for this game for the whole season, and when we finally got here, we didn't want to lose it," said Kierra Gleave, who finished with 14 points and whose free-throw shooting in the fourth quarter and overall hustle fueled the comeback.
Whitney Westwood's 18 points and Tori Gass' 12 helped Piute overcome a 28-point effort by Layton Christian's Teneshia Davison.
"That's kind of the way we played the whole year," Piute coach Wade Westwood said. "We like to spot a team. I don't know why we do that. Then we finally get rolling. The man-to-man press kind of put us over the top. I think we kind of wore out Layton Christian."
Panguitch 47, Wayne 33 • Taylor Bennett scored 18 points and Darri Frandsen added 15 as the Bobcats earned a chance to play for sixth place against Duchesne at noon Saturday. Rebekah Rasmussen scored 15 for Wayne.
Duchesne 43, Tintic 28 • The Eagles held Tintic scoreless in the first half to earn the right to meet Panguitch for sixth place.
Mashaylee Giles of Duchesne led all scorers with 10 points.
Manila 50, Escalante 41 • Janell Reed scored 19 points while Rebecca Collett added 12 and Emily Catron had 11 as Manila earned the right to meet Milford for fifth place at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Lindsey Phillips led the Moquis with 20.
Milford 35, Monticello 22 • Kennedy Netto scored 13 points to lead the Tigers into Saturday's consolation play. Class 1A state title game
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A MOTION by the Lib Dems for urgent improvements to ambulance response times has been unanimously backed by Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) members.
The party raised the motion at the GCC meeting last week as it is unhappy that South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust's (SWASFT) failure to meet their 75% target in responding to 'Red' calls within 8 minutes in four out of six districts in Gloucestershire.
Councillor Paul Hodgkinson, leader of the Cotswold District Council Lib Dems, said:"The latest figure for Gloucestershire shows that the 8 minute response target is being reached across the county in 69.4% of cases.
"This figure however masks a real divide in what could be argued as a two tier service. Cheltenham and Gloucester show 88% and 87%, but Stroud, Tewkesbury and Forest of Dean ambulance response rates are much lower with the Cotswolds being just 46%.
"Lives depend on an effective and efficient ambulance service. No one doubts that getting to an incident in more remote areas is more challenging but if a target is set surely the service should be structured so that it is achieved?
"I am pleased that we got cross-party support over this very important issue and that both the Leader and Chief Executive of Gloucestershire County Council will now write to the CEO of the Trust calling on the Service to improve the ambulance response times."
SWASFT defended its poor response time performance by saying that it is achieving its national response targets across the region and that it is not commissioned or required to achieve these national performance targets at county level.
A spokesman said: "The Trust is working hard with partners in Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group and with councillors through the Health Scrutiny Committee to improve its performance in some rural parts of Gloucestershire.
"A great deal of work has already been undertaken to improve response times in rural areas. The Trust is pleased to announce an additional £700,000 of resources for Gloucestershire to improve performance."
He went on to explain that the resources will be spent on an additional 24-hour frontline ambulance for both Stroud and Staverton as well as an additional 12-hour Rapid Response Vehicle for Staverton and another 120 defibrillators across the county.
"The Trust is investing £3.9 million of additional resources into its North Division - Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Bristol, Swindon, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and B&NES – including additional resources in Bristol and Avon to help prevent these areas pulling in rural resources. The Trust will await the letter from Gloucestershire County Council but is confident that it can address the issues raised."
Commenting on the Trust's receiving the £700,000 of resources, Cllr Hodgkinson said:"The extra resources is very good news. I am delighted that the Trust has finally seen that there is a real need to act on improving performance. I look forward to seeing how these additional funds will impact the Cotswolds."


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'XXL' Magazine releases playlist for government shutdown
"XXL" magazine is giving hip-hop fans the perfect way to weather the government shutdown.
Following Congress' failure to extend government funding, XXLMag.com released a playlist of tracks that best exemplify the government lockdown.
Topping the list is the aptly titled Public Enemy hit "Shut 'Em Down," which the magazine says articulates the rage people have against "The System." Kanye West's track "Blame Game" featuring John Legend is on the list to underscore the back-and-forth bickering between political parties.
Among the other artists on the list of government shutdown tunes are Meek Mill, Eminem, El-P, Jadakiss and Drake.
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3. Kanye West featuring John Legend - "Blame Game"
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer To Retire
(Redmond, WA) -- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is reportedly set to retire. The company says he will step down from his post within the next year. Shares jumped nearly three-dollars before the opening bell on Wall Street on the news. Ballmer first joined the company in 1980 as Microsoft's 30th employee. He was named CEO in 2000, but officially took over all day to day operations when Bill Gates turned over the reins in 2009. Ballmer says there is never a perfect time for a transition of this magnitude, but now is the right time.


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|CafeGive Social Partners with TechShop to Provide Social Media Campaign that Benefits American Veterans
|TechShop creates CafeGive Social "Pass It On" campaign to promote their offer of free memberships to service veterans. In partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Innovation (VACI) and GE's Get Skills to Work (GSTW) program, TechShop will be giving away one-year memberships to 3,000 U.S. veterans, starting in June.
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Using CafeGive Social's platform, TechShop has developed a shareable Facebook app with a singular mission: to help America's veterans gain new skills to become more competitive in the job market and start new businesses in their own communities.
In partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Innovation (VACI) and GE's Get Skills to Work (GSTW) program, TechShop will be giving away free one-year memberships to 3,000 U.S. veterans, starting in June 2013. Memberships include full access to TechShop's extensive library of tools and resources, along with free training—for one full year. The offer is good at any of their six U.S. locations.
The social media campaign encourages people to share the TechShop "Veterans Video" on Facebook and Twitter with friends, family, coworkers, and veterans in your community. The goal being to generate awareness around their offer and make a difference for a US Veteran. The app makes it easy for supporters to help a veteran simply by watching the inspirational video and sharing.
All a veteran needs to do to become a member is sign up at techshop.com/veterans. Each free membership includes $350 worth of group classes. Veterans can use TechShop's cutting edge training and equipment to become more competitive in the job market or pursue entrepreneurial goals. Program offerings will provide participating Veterans a choice of area of focus as well as guidance in selecting the advanced manufacturing-related courses that best meet their objectives as they transition into civilian life and careers.
"CafeGive is the perfect partner to help us create a campaign and experience that inspires people to join our effort to help America's veterans gain new skills to join the maker movement and become more competitive in the job market, said Carrie Motamedi, Senior Director of Marketing, TechShop, Inc. "It was easy for us to c,reate a custom branded campaign on CafeGive's platform, and their social sharing helps us reach a broad audience which was important to us given our six U.S. locations. It's a natural extension that adds value to all partners."
For CafeGive Social, the TechShop Pass It On Campaign follows the May release of their Self-Serve platform for organizations, nonprofits, and consumers wanting an easy way to create cause marketing campaigns.
You can view the CafeGive Social campaign for TechShop HERE. Please watch the TechShop Veterans video and share it with friends and veterans across the country.
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Founded in October 2006, TechShop is a membership-based, do-it-yourself (DIY) workshop and fabrication studio that provides access to a vibrant community of creative makers and millions of dollars' worth of facilities, equipment, tools and software in each location. Based in San Jose, Calif., with locations globally, TechShop offers classes, workshops, instruction and training for people of all ages and skill levels to build whatever they can dream.For information on memberships and course listings, visit www.techshop.com, email email@example.com or call 855-TECHSHOP. You can follow TechShop on Twitter at @TechShop and on Facebook as TechShop Incorporated.
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Hey guys,
Over the past few days I made these two threads in the Newbie Area, but now that I can post them here in the correct section I figured I would.
I'm running backtrack 3 from a usb stick with persistent changes. My first problem is that I cannot install Adobe flash player. I downloaded the correct file from the Adobe website, but when I extract it in the shell it doesn't say anything (I'm not sure if it's even supposed to or not) and it doesn't create the directory that the installer is supposed to extract to.
My second problem is that my USB stick can boot on all of the computers I have tried it on except my girlfriends laptop. When I try, I receive the "mount :mounting aufs on union failed(aufs)" error. I obviously have manually created the changes folder as it boots from every other computer so I'm not sure what the problem is. It's an HP laptop running vista. I could post more specs if necessary but I doubt it has anything to do with it.
Thanks in advance for the help.


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University private giving reaches record $107.5 million
The University of South Carolina reached a record $107.5 million in private giving for the year ending June 30, thanks to the support of 46,469 donors.
The fundraising total -- up from the previous record of $106.2 million in 2007-08 – comes at a time when The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports a 6 percent drop in charitable giving to education in 2008.
University President Harris Pastides said the level of giving from the university's alumni and friends is a measure of the esteem and loyalty that they hold for the institution and a realization of the support that is needed to help more students earn college degrees.
"I am especially gratified that, in the midst of this difficult economic downturn, the university's friends supported our core mission of teaching, research and outreach on every campus," he said. "This speaks volumes about the strong foundation we have to build upon for Carolina's future."
Among the gifts: $22.9 million for scholarships, assistantships and fellowships; $5.8 million for capital projects; $4.1 million in unrestricted gifts; $3.6 million from the university's faculty and staff for the annual Family Fund; and $300,000 to support faculty through endowed professorships and chairs, as well as gifts for research and outreach programs.
Michelle Dodenhoff, interim vice president for University Advancement, said donors recognize and acknowledge the reach, relevance and impact that the University of South Carolina has on the state, nation and world.
"Although we had some concerns about raising funds in this very challenging economic climate, our generous donors realized how critical their support is to our students and faculty," she said. "University alumni, friends, students, parents, businesses and private foundations rallied to enable us to reach this remarkable record."
N.Y. lawyer Michael Bond, who earned a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1977, gave $250,000 to endow a Carolina Scholar award in honor of his parents William H. and Ruth C. Bond.


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Uhh, 3,600 iPad minis is $1,188,000 MSRP, which is MUCH closer to $1,000,000 than it is to 1,500,000. Yes, you could factor in an estimated sales tax to get something closer that can be rounded up, like $1,283,040 at 8%, but that is never part of the value. The thing is, we know these are probably going to be sold on the street for less than wholesale so rounding up smacks of hyperbole.
You have to give whoever did this credit, that's some James Bonds crap lol. I mean they used the places forklift? Stories like this amaze me lol. But I have an odd feeling that they won't get caught.
Haha I already know what company may be involved in this since I work in JFK.
Skills that kills
Bah, polygraphs are useless, anyone who would have pulled off such a crime is not going to fail a polygraph.


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Higher Education
At no time in human history was the welfare of nations so closely linked to the quality and outreach of their higher education systems and institutions. (World Conference on Higher Education Partners, June 2003).
As the only United Nations agency with a mandate in higher education, UNESCO facilitates the development of evidence-based policies in response to new trends and developments in this field emphasizing its role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals and particularly poverty eradication.
The Organization fosters innovation to meet education and workforce needs and examines ways of increasing higher education opportunities for young people from vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.
It deals with cross-border higher education and quality assurance, with a special focus on mobility and recognition of qualifications, and provides tools to protect students and other stakeholders from low-quality provision of higher education. UNESCO promotes policy dialogue and contributes to enhancing quality education, strengthening research capacities in higher education institutions, and knowledge sharing across borders.
Draft Preliminary Report: Concerning the Preparation of a GLobal Convention on the Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications
UNESCO emphasizes the role of universities and higher education institutions in fostering sustainable development and empowering learners
Drafting of the future Global Convention of Higher Education concludes
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Friday, December 10 2010 - 9/11 A/V Galleries
Post 911 World - Coleen Rowley and Peter Dale Scott
December 8, 2010
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to The Real News Network. And it's the first perhaps annual Real News Webathon. We're heading towards our $200,000 target by the end of December 9, where I think we're getting upwards of $165,000 now, with another tonight and tomorrow night to go. So we're doing very well, and I want to thank everybody so far for donating. And if you like what The Real News is doing, please give us a little tap on the donate button here, or you can call 888-449-6772, or you can also email us at contact (at) therealnews (dot) com if you're having any other trouble. But the best thing is just to hit the donate button. The $200,000, I've explained before, covers just barely four months of the work that we're doing now at the level we're doing now, but we really want to expand in 2011. We need producers that specialize in certain areas. And one of the areas we want to specialize is the military-industrial complex. We'd like to have a producer who does nothing but cover stories about the sort of underpinnings of US foreign policy and the real issues that don't get discussed very much in terms of what's driving much of global politics, and even, as I--in the current WikiLeaks there's a layer of truth, one could say, that is not really revealed in these WikiLeaks, because they're not top secret, as we've heard described by some of our guests. Now joining us to talk about WikiLeaks and the world since 9/11 are two people that have been associated with this topic. First joining us from--Peter, you're in Berkeley, California, right?
PETER DALE SCOTT, AUTHOR, FMR. CANADIAN DIPLOMAT: That's correct.
JAY: Joining us from Berkeley, California, is Peter Dale Scott. He's the author of the book--and I'm going to hold it up here, control room--and the book is American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan. . . . And also joining us now from Minneapolis is Coleen Rowley. Coleen was an FBI agent who uncovered certain things that had to do, she thought, with a possible terrorist attack. And if I remember the story correctly, Coleen, it was someone who was trying to get flying lessons to fly but not necessarily land. But you can correct me on that. And Coleen tried to get this information looked into, and it was more or less blocked by headquarters of FBI. But Coleen, thanks very much for joining us.
COLEEN ROWLEY, FMR. FBI AGENT, POLITICAL ACTIVIST: Thank you.
JAY: Coleen, very, very quickly, just remind us of the story that you were involved with around the 9/11 events.
ROWLEY: Well, I'll just correct you slightly. It was the agents in the office that had received a call from a flight school, and they basically said we've got the most suspicious student we've ever had here. He's flopping down cash, thousands of dollars, and says he wants to learn to fly a jumbo jet as an ego boost. That was just one of several things. If you remember--a lot of people don't remember the summer of 2001, but there were so many clues and so much information coming in that CIA Director George Tenet and Richard Clarke were said to have their hair on fire. I wrote a memo eight and a half months after 9/11 because of the cover-up that had ensued afterwards. Essentially, you had everybody denying that they knew that they had this information. You know, no one knew that the president had been briefed in early August. No one knew that the [Zacarias] Moussaoui case had been briefed to the director of Central Intelligence in mid-August, I think August 23 or 24, well before 9/11. So all of--you know, I'll talk more about this, but the 9/11 Commission concluded after two and a half years that it was due to a failure to share intelligence and information that 9/11 attacks actually occurred.
JAY: Which to some extent led to this creation of the SIPRNet, which gave 2.5 million people in--mostly in the military, but not only: also in the diplomatic area--access to information from secret down to confidential [inaudible] And this SIPRNet apparently was the source of WikiLeaks. But before we get into the WikiLeaks story, Peter, let me ask you a question, first of all, about 9/11. It's probably--of all the emails we've got over the last four or five years at The Real News, maybe the email we get the most is how come nobody talks about 9/11, the issue of the cover-up, the need for an independent investigation, what really happened in terms of the buildings. And what's your view in terms of, to start with, the idea of how taboo it is even to talk about it?
DALE SCOTT: Well, I think that what Coleen has just been telling us about is part of a bigger picture that indicates very strongly to me that the CIA was using elements of al-Qaeda for their own operations. And that's why, for example, when two of the alleged hijackers came into the United States at the beginning of I think it was 2000, this information was shared in the White House. it was considered that important. It was not shared with the regular FBI, just with the head of the FBI. The fact that--.
JAY: This--you're talking about the fact that two people had entered the country.
DALE SCOTT: Entered the two countries, should have gone on the watch list, didn't go on the watch list until much, much later. And I'd like--even perhaps more important, I have a whole chapter in my other book, The Road to 9/11, which I think I will also show here. There's a whole chapter about Ali Mohamed, who trained the people who grew blew up the World Trade Center in '93, and they went to great lengths to keep his name out of the trial, because he was training people who went to Bosnia. And there were all kinds of things that the CIA was doing. And there's no doubt that he was a double agent for America, because they see that he was picked up in Canada. They had very good reasons to arrest him in Vancouver airport, and he gave the RCMP a phone number, said phone this number and you'll let me go, and they phoned the number, and it was the San Francisco office of the FBI, and they did let him go, with devastating consequences, because he then flew to Kenya and surveilled the American Embassy, reported the results personally to Osama bin Laden. That's how high up he was inside al-Qaeda [inaudible]
JAY: Peter, what's your source for this?
DALE SCOTT: --of the embassy in 1998. So that sort of thing was going on, which I think explains why Coleen was not able--. You were trying to get inside the computer of Moussaoui, is that right? And you were denied the right to do that?
ROWLEY: There was an FBI agent who was a pilot and an intelligence officer, and he spotted the suspicious nature--you know, that this--in fact, I got called one day after that call had come into our office, that night, because the suspicious agents had taken Moussaoui already into custody. And, actually, that agent also pinpointed the exact two statutes that were later used to charge him. So, I mean, the agents in Minnesota were very much on this. They ended up exchanging 60 to 70 emails and telephone calls arguing with FBI headquarters. And actually, sometime in late August our supervisor, on the phone, said: this is a guy who could fly into the World Trade Center. He was that explicit. So when--afterwards, you know, when Condi Rice held up a plane and said, well, no one would have known that planes would fly into buildings--and that actually kind of, you know, was the theme of this long-term cover-up. I think you're absolutely right that the pre-9/11 intelligence and some of the embarrassing things, like blowback--. You know, it's a form of blowback when things don't go correctly when you're in the intelligence world. And it's amazing how much of that--just simply because it's embarrassing--this'll lead us right into WikiLeaks--that government officials will not share, even when national security is on the line. It's actually a pretty shocking thing to not hear people come clean and admit honest failures or honest, you know, lapses. If--I was actually shocked afterwards that there was this kind of defensiveness.
JAY: Well, what was your reaction, then, when WikiLeaks broke? And what do you think is the significance of it?
ROWLEY: Well, you know, initially, the first leaks are at least about the United States. I wasn't following it real closely when WikiLeaks was leaking about Kenya and murders in Kenya and frauds in Iceland, but I began to follow it closely with that Collateral Murder video. And as I saw, that was in the--kind of like the spring, and then of course the arrest of Bradley Manning occurred. And I think the Afghan war documents, 76,000 had been released. And that's when it occurred to me that everybody that was really kind of weighing in on this had the wrong idea, because they were all going under the premise that extra secrecy protects us. And I started asking people, don't you remember what all of the five inquiries have said about 9/11, that it was due to a failure to share information? And it wasn't only due to a failure to share information inside the FBI in that one Moussaoui case. That was just one of many failures. It was also--as Mr. Scott just mentioned, it was that failure between the CIA to tell the FBI when the two hijackers had come in to California. So it was interagency. And then the 9/11 Commission, you know, I know there's a lot of, you know, people criticized that it didn't go far enough, etc., but at least the 9/11 Commission, in my opinion, correctly concluded that it was also due to a failure to share information with the public and the media. And that's the part that, of course, after WikiLeaks began to be criticized, that no one remembered that it's actually the public and the media that needs to know a lot of this threat information, because they're the ones on the front lines.
JAY: Right. Peter, in the WikiLeaks leaks that we've seen, the kind of information that has been released in both of the last two--the current release and the one on Afghanistan and Iraq, it wasn't startling in terms of it makes us think again about the objectives of US foreign policy. Now, some of the experts we've talked to say that that kind of discourse that would be more revealing happens at the top-secret level, which wasn't revealed. But when you talk about something like continuity of government--and I'll ask you--. Actually, we have caller on the line who I think wants to ask a question about that. Caller, are you there? Jeffrey from Willington. Go ahead. Yeah, go ahead.
JEFFREY: Yeah, I'm here. I was wondering [inaudible] after 9/11 give government the right to continue activities like the Patriot Act and continuity of government? And what can a citizen do to end this?
JAY: Did you hear that, Peter?
DALE SCOTT: Not very clearly.
JAY: Okay, I'll repeat it. In terms of the Patriot Act and continuity of government, what can a citizen do about it? So let me put my question together with Jeffrey from Willington. WikiLeaks has--so far, has not revealed something at that kind of level of continuity of government, which has been just sort of mentioned in the press. Well, first of all, tell us what continuity of government is, and then you can talk a little bit about what you think people can do about it.
DALE SCOTT: [inaudible] I'd like to just pick up on whether WikiLeaks has released anything sensational or not. We shouldn't forget the murder video. I mean, that's the sort of thing which I think the public should see. I mean--.
JAY: Okay. By "murder video" you're talking about the footage of the helicopter shooting people in the streets of--in Baghdad.
DALE SCOTT: And we hear the voices of the people who are doing the shooting and who seem to be getting a thrill out of it. That absolutely was vital to be revealed. We're getting stuff in this last batch--I think some of the really important things have been about the degree of corruption in Afghanistan. Now, I have a chapter in my book about how in Afghanistan we're trying to do the same hopeless thing we tried in--first of all in Laos in 1959, and then in Vietnam shortly after--to build a nation. And that's an absurd metaphor, but it's the government's metaphor--nation-building is what they think we're doing, doing it with a totally corrupt government. And what I said in my book is, of course, before all these leaks from WikiLeaks about the corruption, but the public has a right to know just how corrupt it is and just--and draw the conclusion how futile it is to think that we can just be in there for a year or two or three years and then hand it over to a system, when the system is falling apart and is being held together with Band-Aids and bits of Scotch tape.
JAY: Okay, Peter, now talk about continuity of government.
DALE SCOTT: But what the citizen can do--I mean, I want to come back to the caller. I think the--insist on the right to know. I mean, the government assumption is that we'll have a better foreign policy if the public are left out. There was maybe some excuse for that in the 19th century, and there will always be a case for some amount of secrecy. But, you know, I'm a former diplomat myself, and I wrote a long poem in which I make fun of myself, 'cause I used to write top-secret cables, and I say in my poem, not one of them was worth being written down at all, let alone being labeled top secret. The public is probably at this point better informed, or some of the public are far better informed, than some of the people who are making the policy.
JAY: Okay. Peter, tell us what continuity of government is.
DALE SCOTT: Oh. Alright. There's always been a need for emergency planning to do--deal with the risk that the government would be decapitated by a nuclear attack. This was something they worried about legitimately in the 1950s, supposing not only the president is killed, but also the vice president and also the speaker in the House and everyone who's supposed to succeed. We have to have some planning for that. This became known after a while as continuity of government planning, or COG planning. And then, in the '80s under Reagan, and particularly George H. W. Bush, and finally Oliver North, who was a big figure in this, they kept the emergency part of it, but they steered it to a new target, which was not now an atomic attack from outside but dissenters in the streets who might inhibit the ability of the government to wage another Vietnam War. And so Oliver North started planning how to round up large numbers of antiwar protesters and that sort of thing. And what's really interesting about this [inaudible] all through the '80s and all through the '90s, two of the people who were involved in this secret planning were Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, even though in the '80s only one of them was in the government as a Congressman, and that was Cheney, and by the late '90s neither of them were in the government. They went on planning for the suspension of the Constitution, as it was described. And then, lo and behold, after 9/11--actually before even Flight 93 had hit the ground, Cheney implemented COG planning. So the plans that they had worked on for 20 years they were able to implement because of 9/11. And they--the planning continues, and Bush introduced some new COG elements in 2007 [inaudible]
JAY: COG being continuity of government.
DALE SCOTT: We don't know what these new elements are. And a congressmen asked, who was on the Homeland Security Committee, Congressman DeFazio asked to see these things, and he's told he couldn't do it because he didn't have a high enough security clearance.
JAY: Right. Now, just for people that want to really dig into this, I did an interview with Peter about this on The Real News Network. You can kind of look up, probably, the phrase continuity of government. And we actually have the speech that--the congressman you're talking about, we have his speech in Congress in our story. Coleen, when this was happening after 9/11--.
DALE SCOTT: [inaudible] it's also in my book [inaudible]
JAY: Well, you plug your book, I'll plug our website. Coleen, when this happens in the days after 9/11, you're still in the FBI. Are you aware at all of this continuity of government plans? How far does this reach?
ROWLEY: The continuity of government I was not quite aware of. I think I saw it in news articles.
JAY: Yeah, there was a couple of articles that broke. Apparently they even had both people in government and even private citizens were asked to come and do regular shifts underground in a secure facility for several months after 9/11, this creation of literally a new shadow government that might take power, I suppose, if there was--I don't know, another airplane came and hit the White House or something.
DALE SCOTT: No, I think they were producing the Patriot Act, and they were producing, first of all, the Homeland Security Office, which eventually became the department, which is now the third-largest department in the government.
JAY: So when you talk about sharing of information, Coleen, I mean, should all of this be public? Because, you know, people that are kind of really into this stuff and followed it on the Internet, you see the odd news report broke around at the time about this continuity of government and then disappeared. It's--there's very few pieces in the press about it. How far do you go in terms of transparency?
ROWLEY: Well, there's some necessary secrecy. It's better if it's limited in time. So, for instance, the best example is an FBI investigation of the Mafia has to be secret while the investigation is going on. That could take, you know, a year. It could even be two years or longer. But once the investigation is over, the affidavits, you know, have to be handed to a defense attorney, and he's allowed to check to see if every i is dotted and t is crossed. In the intelligence world, you have something far different. It's almost perpetual secrecy--or at least many of the people that are, you know, following orders and doing things think that it will never be known. And that actually really opens the door not only to some wrongdoing, you know, deliberate wrongdoing, like Oliver North, but it also opens the door to just be sloppy and more reckless, because no one--you don't believe that anyone will ever--the public will never be reviewing your work. There are still items classified from 40 years ago. So I think that what we can do--and I think most security experts actually advise that we limit secrecy to the very lowest amount necessary for things like ongoing investigations, for a strategic military operation or a landing on D-Day, things like that. But what happened after 9/11? You know, you mentioned that there were these millions, I think it's over 2 million documents on SIPRNet, and you're absolutely right: that certainly was a consequence of trying to follow the 9/11 Commission's finding that it was a failure to share information. I'm certain that that sharing with low-level people like privates was that result. But that wasn't uniform. And there also was a far greater generation of secret and top-secret documents. And so you have everything being stamped secret and top-secret, and then you also have this idea, in perpetuity, all of your Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act surveillances, for instance, unlike criminal ones, are considered to be perpetually secret. So secrecy wasn't at all reined in after 9/11.
JAY: Now, in terms of 9/11, I said it's one of the things we've been emailed most about. Are you satisfied that we know what caused 9/11, what took place, and who's responsible? And a lot of the emails we get have said, you know, whether anyone believes anything, you know, happened, the buildings came down, you know, other than just airplanes hitting them or not, you know, there's certainly building--I think it's--seven is the one that came down just by burning, and even in the report, the--I think it's the National Association of Science report, even they say they've never seen something like that happen before. Do you think there needs to be an independent investigation? Some people suggest it's just a distraction in terms of the economic crisis, in terms of what's going on in Afghanistan and in Iraq. Where do you come down on that?
ROWLEY: If you're asking me, I stay out of the engineering and architectural arguments because I have no background in those areas. I think--I don't think we do know the complete full truth about 9/11. And my personal opinion aligns with Mr. Scott's in the sense that I think the murkiest areas are--is this area of intelligence, and what was known by foreign intelligence services, what was shared with certain individuals, but not fully shared. I think the NORAD callout, if you really want to pick a very obvious thing that the truth was not told about--and everybody admits that now--is that the timeline on the NORAD callout is not accurate.
JAY: And I think one of the cochairmen of the 9/11 Commission himself has said that they didn't get the truth on that.
DALE SCOTT: Right.
ROWLEY: Right. And I've actually--there was a New York effort to call for a new investigation that I wrote, because 9/11 served as the pretext for so many--so much, including the ordering of torture, the warrantless monitoring, the creation of this new security surveillance, whatever you want to call it--"Top-Secret America" is what The Washington Post called it. 9/11 is the pretext for that. And I think that--.
DALE SCOTT: [inaudible] COG planning, you see? That is COG planning. They planned it for 20 years, and then suddenly you have 9/11 and they implement it. And all I know is that the 9/11 Commission--actually, it's a useful report, but everybody agrees it was very limited. Some of the biggest issues they didn't look at it all. And I think that when it comes to Ali Mohamed, for example, who--clearly here is a very senior al-Qaeda operative who was a double agent, who was sprung by the FBI after he was released by the--when [he got] arrested by the RCMP. And what they said about that was almost the opposite of truth, and they relied on people who actually had been responsible for the massaging of Ali Mohamed in the court cases that arose out of the first World Trade Center bombing. The question of double agents, I agree with Coleen that the--covering up snafus is one of the things that we see here. But I think another thing we're saying, also: that they've used double agents whom they thought they could control who did get out of control. And although I keep talking about Ali Mohamed, he has--there's another one now, which is [David] Headley, with the DEA actually paid to send to the--to Asia to report on drugs. And when he was there, he did the same thing as Ali Mohamed: he surveyed Mumbai for the terrorist bombings in Mumbai. So it's not just once but it's twice that we've had these terrible disasters from relying on double agents.
JAY: Now, let me give you a counterargument in terms of some of this area. If you talk to a sort of seasoned investigative journalist for a newspaper, they'll say that too much of what [inaudible] particularly in terms of the Internet conversation about some of these issues, doesn't have to meet the standard of really verifiable information, and that some things that get said, you know, if you ask what your source or what's your double source, often this stuff isn't sourced. I mean, how do you respond to that, Peter?
DALE SCOTT: Well, I would say that probably 95 percent of the stuff on the Internet is junk. But then probably a high percentage of the stuff in the mainstream media is also junk. What I do see is that the Internet is improving. I mean, there's no reason why you can't source on the Internet. I write mostly from the Internet now, and I try to follow a journalist rule: if it's a single-source story, I won't use it. I get very--a lot of criticism for--from people who say, hey, I've got a great story here and you're not using it. I do that because a journalist has to get corroboration from another source, and that didn't happen [inaudible]
JAY: Okay. So let me just finish off with WikiLeaks again. You know, there's an accusation here that governments need to have a certain level of secrecy, and what--if it's Private Manning actually is the one that released this material, that in theory that he's putting lives in jeopardy, this is a national security question--the governments have rights to be secret. How do you address that, Coleen, when you're talking about the need for more transparency?
ROWLEY: Well, I did give a couple of good examples. And one thing is the--in this case, WikiLeaks actually is working with major media. There were five newspapers. And they actually had months to look through those documents and are being quite careful about what's released, and they've redacted names out of the--. I think in some cases they've even let the government see what they were going to be releasing and let them say if there was something on there. I know WikiLeaks took that effort, too, of actually saying, if there are some names that you need blacked out--. And in the case of the Iraq War documents, when they compared what WikiLeaks had redacted out, it was even more comprehensive than what the government or the Pentagon had. Up till now, no one has been able to find that anyone has been harmed as a result of the disclosures, which I think is--would be thousands of documents. That's, you know, pretty amazing that they--that's happened. And you're--as you said, these are not top-secret; they're not the identity of a CIA operative, Valerie Plame. I mean, they were really pretty low-level. Most of them are confidential.
JAY: Well, I think part of the problem, too, is that there's not enough sources of funding for investigative journalism to cut through some of this fog, especially independent journalists who are--if you work at any of the major newspapers, they still have to be very careful about the lines that they stay within, and there's very few places where an investigative journalist can get funding who are willing to simply follow facts for some of these deeper geopolitical stories, which are--you know, there's a lot of pressures post-9/11 not to ask certain questions and not to follow certain fact trails. This, I mean, [inaudible] the reason why we wanted to start Real News in the first place is we want to create a place where we could fund investigative journalism, there won't be a fear of anything. Peter, any last words?
DALE SCOTT: Yes. I feel you--I've always said this is a wonderful country. I'm a Canadian, but I love living in America, and I love my neighbors and the people I meet as I travel around. But the foreign policy of this country is badly out of whack. It doesn't represent the priorities of the American people. We've gone into two preemptive wars in [inaudible] Afghanistan and Iraq. We can see that the Iraq War was a total disaster. In fact, few people now would defend the decision to go in. I think that Afghanistan, something had to be done in Afghanistan. But what we're doing there is also wrong. And it's in that context that the leaking of documents makes sense. And maybe [inaudible] some risk to lives by leaking the documents, but the war itself is certainly risking a lot of lives, innocent civilian lives. And as I say, America has to do something in Afghanistan, but not what it's doing now.
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ARCADIA - Mayor Gary Kovacic and former Councilman John Wuo won two open City Council seats in Tuesday's election, according to unofficial results.
Another 699 ballots have signatures that still need to be verified before their votes are counted, said Chief Deputy City Clerk Lisa Mussenden.
The final tally will be announced by early next week.
Kovacic, an attorney completing his third term, was the top vote-getter with nearly 34 percent of the tallied votes. Wuo, a businessman, came in second with 24 percent, beating former school board member Mary Dougherty by 607 votes.
Although it's technically possible, Wuo said he considers it "very unlikely" the additional ballots will change anything since Dougherty would need to earn close to 90 percent of the uncounted ballots.
Ninety-nine ballots had to be invalidated this year because voters chose more than two candidates, Mussenden said.
Some of those invalidations were likely due to a ballot error in which the Chinese-language instructions directed voters to pick up to three instead of two candidates, she said. The city sent out correction notices to all voters asking those who had voted for more than two candidates to contact the city for a replacement ballot.
But some voters voted for four or five candidates as well, and there are always at least some "over-votes" in an election, Mussenden said.
Wuo said that while the error was unfortunate, it probably would not change the results.
"I think the voting spread between the second and third place, or even between Sho Tay and I was a big enough margin," he said, noting he and Tay were the only Chinese candidates and would be most affected by the error.
Tay, who came in fourth place, agreed. But he said he spoke to some Chinese residents who hadn't yet cast their votes days before the deadline since they thought they would receive another ballot, even if they hadn't contacted the city.
"The sad part is they (were) still waiting for the ballot," Tay said. "They didn't call the city until I called them ... It's confusing."
Businessman Henry Nunez came in fifth place.
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'One reason the Rangers are close to setting a franchise record by missing the playoffs for the sixth straight season is their combined 8-8-1 record against Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Carolina, Atlanta and Columbus, including a 4-0-0 record against Carolina. That lowly quintet all entered last night's play tied for an NHL-low 60 points. The Rangers finished this season 1-2-1 against Buffalo.'
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One of the most astounding visuals of late is what is occurring in Yosemite Park in California. An unusual snowing and cold winter has begun to thaw and the results are that astounding waterfalls are breaking out all over the part in ways not seen in decades. This clip from NBC Nightly News is one to be watched and absorbed. After a year so full in the earth of unprecedented numbers of tornadoes, floods, earthquakes and more - there is something encouraging and refreshing about what is going on in Yosemite. As I watched it, the words that kept coming to me were ... "Winter is over. The r … [Read more...]
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After starting and running a successful theater converted from a pool hall, entrepreneur Sam Schwartz built the Aztec Theater in 1915. Contractor and architect was Leonard F. Seed. The architectural style is termed "Mayan Revival." Early years saw silent films and vaudeville acts performed in the Aztec.
Schwartz remained in the theater business through the "talkies" and until his death in 1969. After Sam's death the theater was managed by his son, Arnold I. Schwartz, and his son-in-law, Lloyd T. Munter. It was later managed by his grandson, Maurice P. Munter. In 1991 another grandson, William J. Munter, utilized the space for his law office and refurbished the old theater, which is now used for live performances, movies, and rental for civic events.


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Valente, Catherynne. The Habitation of the Blessed
In 1165, a letter purportedly written by the Christian priest-king Prester John caught the imagination of medieval Europe. Prester John's distant kingdom, placed by some in India or "the Orient," was described in the letter as a place of great wonder, populated by myriad strange and beautiful creatures and cultures. Though Prester John himself was Christian and had converted his subjects, he was ringed on all sides by Muslims and pagans. In Valente's novel, she takes this medieval wonder-tale as truth, but truth told slant. In 1699, a group of monks lead by Brother Hiob search out the land of Prester John. All they discover is a small group of strange, taciturn people who guard a tree. From this tree, books sprout like fruit and Hiob is allowed to pluck three volumes which, like fruit, decay almost faster than he can read them. One volume is the journal of Prester John himself; the second is the journal of his wife, the beautiful blemmye Hagia—a woman with her face in her torso instead of a head; and the third is the memoir of the elephant-eared panoti once named Imtithal. The stories interweave, revealing that nothing about the truth of Prester John's fabled kingdom was quite as fabulous as anyone in Europe had imagined.
Compelling, layered, dark, and intense, Valente's fable captures some of the richness of myth and retains the power of allegory.


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by Becoming WorldlySo I've been thinking a lot about guilt and shame lately. I think they are important components used to control people's actions, particularly in the kind of movement I grew up in. I'm sure lots of people have more … [Read more...]
Personal Values and Quiverfull Social Guilt
Quoting Quiverfull: Abounding Attitude?
by Nancy Campbell of Above Rubies "The Abounding Life" Abound in the work of the Lord (1 Corinthians 15:58). The Greek word in this Scripture is the verb, perisseuo and means … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Feminization
by R. J. Rushdoony from Chalcedon Teacher Training Institute founder Andrea Schwartz's blog Words From Andrea - "Putting Women in their Place" - January 10, 2013 The tragedy of the women's rights … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverful: Mental Health?
by John Piper in "10 Resolutions for Mental Health" at desiringGOD That night Dr. Kilby had a pastoral heart and a poet's eye. He pled with us to stop seeking mental health in the mirror of self-analysis, but instead to drink in the remedies of God in nature. He was not … [Read more...]
Saturday Links – March 16, 2013
We've decided to go back to the Saturday Links feature because there is so much happening out there in the world of religion, recovery and quiverfull.Starting with a sort of lighthearted one today. So how much money does it take to feed the Duggar clan hamburgers and fries at a … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Trusting Your Father's Decisions?
by Anna Sophia and Elizabeth Botkin of Visionary Daughters "How to be a Better Daughter to Your Father" - June 17, 2008 Don't panic if your father makes a decision you don't agree with. Have faith in God's ability to lead through your father, … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Corrected
by Pope Francis when he was still merely Cardinal Jorge Mario BergoglioThis quote below is an urban legend with nothing to back it up. Sorry about that!"Women are naturally unfit for political office. Both the natural order and facts show us that the political being par excellence is male; the Scripture showsus that women have always been the helper of man who thinks and does, but nothing more"Because of the false nature of the quote I went looking for questionable quotes by the new Pontiff and found nothing more than his views on gay marriage and gay adoption. I did find many good quotes, here are a few... On the role of the Church:"We need to avoid the spiritual sickness o … [Read more...]
Jack Schaap: Jesus Approves of Adultery?
We're coming up on the sentencing of First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana's ex-head pastor Jack Schaap. I believe it's a week from tomorrow.This morning coming out of station RTV6 comes word that the Feds have released some new information on the … [Read more...]
How Male Dominated Religion Bleeds Women
by Cindy FosterMy husband, Paul, and I were enjoying some Mexican food at a restaurant near where we were staying in Houston last night.Sitting at a table in very close proximity to ours was a Muslim family. We see a lot of Muslim families these days, but more so … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Making Soldiers in Christ?
From Ladies Against Feminism Kelly Crawford on "Older Woman Teaching the Younger Women: Titus 2 or 'Christian Feminist'?" -March 10, 2013 We need women teaching women what the Bible says about children. That God "desires godly offspring", that raising children is the first line … [Read more...]


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by Mahasi Sayadaw
In a certain town in Monywa district, there lived a man who was engaged in the business of money-lending during the British regime. He asked for the return of a loan from a certain farmer who replied he had already repaid the money he had borrowed. The moneylender repeatedly insisted that the farmer had not yet repaid the loan. Finally, he declared, "May I become a buffalo in your house if I had really asked for a double payment of the forty kyats which you said you had already returned." With this oath, he pressed again for the return of his loan. The poor farmer was thus forced to make knowingly a double settlement of the loan he had taken.
Soon after, the moneylender passed away. And there was born in the house of the farmer, who had made a double payment of his loan, a young buffalo. Guessing that the moneylender had made a rebirth in his house as a buffalo, the poor farmer called out to the young buffalo, "Saya, Saya, please come,' in the same way he used to address the old moneylender. The young buffalo answered his call and came to him. Believing now that the old moneylender had really become a buffalo in his house according to his oath, the farmer started to talk about this incident. Thereupon, the daughter of the departed moneylender went to court suing the poor farmer for defaming her father.
The judge who heard the case sent for the appellant, the defendant and the young buffalo together with witnesses for both sides. In the court, the farmer called out 'Saya, Saya, please come' to the buffalo in the same way he used to address the moneylender. The buffalo responded to his call by coming to him. The moneylender's daughter used to address her father as 'Shi, Shi'. In the court when she said 'Shi, Shi', the buffalo went to her. The judge came to the conclusion that the poor farmer was making an honest statement (without any intention of defamation) and accordingly discharged the case. From this story it is not hard to believe that a human being may be reborn a buffalo. It is plain, therefore, that tanha will cause rebirth. It should be observed also that swearing a false oath is liable to land one in dire calamity.


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The Best-Seller Algorithm, and Other NewsBy Dan Piepenbring
- Scientists have developed an algorithm for writing a hit novel. Go easy on the verbs and the clichés, and you, too, may see the best-seller list. (Consider calling your book "The Best-Seller Algorithm," which has the bold ring of a blockbuster.)
- An endearingly earnest infographic defends librarians in the digital age. Look out for such phrases as "portal to archive" and "techy-savvy librarianship."
- Strange things are afoot in New Mexico, where Cormac McCarthy's ex-wife has been arrested for threatening someone with a gun after "a domestic dispute over space aliens." Apologies for burying the lede, but: she produced the gun from her vagina.
- Earlier this week, an arsonist burned Tripoli's Al Sa'eh Library, destroying an estimated fifty thousand books.


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Add-On PKG Applications Available - What Applications Do You Want (Wishlist)
Today we have multiple applications that run directly on the Smart Storage devices and can be installed via in the simple PKG process. These are wide ranging applications that help with asset management, content management, e-commerce, web publishing (bulletin boards, wikis, etc), & e-learning systems.
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WATCH: Coldplay's 'Sky Full Of Stars' in NBA commercial
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Coldplay is soundtracking a new ad for the NBA Playoffs. The National Basketball Association unveiled the commercial earlier this week. It features highlights from the first round of playoff games backed by Coldplay's latest single, "A Sky Full of Stars."
The track comes from the band's upcoming album Ghost Stories, which is due out May 19th.


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We are preparing for a tremendous 2013 with the Launch of Gamma.
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CINCINNATI, OH -- AdvancePierre Foods is offering three new meats for its self-serve Fast Fixin' program, which allows foodservice and c-store customers to customize their own hot sandwiches.
The expanded protein options are grilled chicken with teriyaki glaze; Angus meatloaf with ketchup; and spicy Buffalo-style breaded chicken. They join the Angus beef burgers, breaded chicken and barbeque pork rib patties that have been available since the launch of Fast Fixin' program last January.
AdvancePierre provides operators with fully cooked sandwich meats in a pre-packaged tray that can be heated in a microwave, conventional or convection oven. Heated meats maintain their temperature and freshness for up to four hours in the Fast Fixin' branded countertop display case. AdvancePierre's buns are available individually wrapped for use with the Fast Fixin' Sandwich Bar.
The convenience food manufacturer said it test marketed several meat varieties before narrowing the new choices down to the final three. Foodservice and c-store operators who tested the new offerings reportedly used them for more than just sandwiches, such as toping off salads with grilled chicken to and serving the Angus meatloaf as a dinner entrée.
Jeff West Jr., vice-president of Canteen Berks/West Dairy in Parker Ford, PA, said the program has been well received by the vending and foodservice company's customers.


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WATCH: Miley Cyrus breaks silence on her VMA performance
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(Yahoo!) - Miley Cyrus has a message for all the haters knocking her twerk-tastic and controversial 2013 MTV Video Music Awards performance on August 25 with Robin Thicke: She's just being Miley.
The "We Can't Stop" singer broke her silence in an interview with MTV.com three days after her polarizing number at Brooklyn's Barclays Center and said, "I don't pay attention to the negative because I've seen this play out so many times," she dished. "You're thinking about it more than I thought about it when I did it. Like, I didn't even think about it 'cause that's just me!"
In the MTV video, which is a teaser for an upcoming documentary, the former "Hannah Montana" star claims that she's certainly not the first star to shock the world with a performance. "How many times have we seen this play out in pop music? Madonna's done it, Britney's done it. Every VMA performance… anyone that performs, that's what you're looking for. You're wanting to make history."
She's got a point: Audience members were agog after the "Material Girl" and the "Toxic" singer locked lips at the 2003 MTV VMAs and proceeded to bust a move together. Nearly 10 years before that, Madonna had tongues wagging over her hypersexual performance of "Like A Virgin" at the 1984 VMAs. Neither performance sidelined their careers; if anything, it made each star more famous.
In fact, making a big scene at the VMAs is all part of the game. Van Toffler, president of Viacom Media Networks Music & Logo Group, was definitely pleased with Cyrus's performance, calling it a "huge success" and saying, "It was a wonderfully chaotic mess of unforgettable performances — everything you could hope for as a producer of a live music show."
And it sounds like the 20-year-old star knew full well that she was about to put her stamp on music history when she took the stage with the "Blurred Lines" crooner and a foam finger. "Me and Robin the whole time said, 'You know we're about to make history right now.'"
"What's amazing is I think now, we're three days later and people are still talking about it. They're overthinking it," the pop princess explains.
So there you have it folks, we may not ever look at a foam finger the same way again, but Miley Cyrus knew that would be the case all along.
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A blue sky and sunshine greeted more than 130 Multnomah University students as they left campus to participate in Day of Outreach on April 14.
Once every spring and fall, students volunteer at several locations in the Portland community, including nonprofits, nursing homes, schools and community centers. MU cancels classes for the day so students can devote their whole morning to service.
'Get a different perspective'
Chris Cleaver, a full-time counselor at Multnomah, led a group of students to Door to Grace, a Portland nonprofit providing restorative care and safe shelter for survivors of commercial sexual exploitation. The day home needed some TLC, so students took Windex to mirrors, vacuums to rugs and push brooms to sidewalks. Freshman Johanna Quezada carefully watered the small boxwood trees that stood in a line near the front door.
"This is definitely a cool opportunity," said the TESOL major. "I love hearing about the different ministries here in Portland. My world can get so small because I live and work on campus, so it's good to get outside and get a different perspective. We're at MU for more than just time in the classroom."
Olivia Botsford agreed. As she wiped the kitchen counters with a washcloth, the psychology major talked about how she appreciates a day devoted to helping neighbors. "We're not just focused on getting our degrees," she said. "We want to serve and be in the community, loving people in the real world."
'Be a light'
Dean of Students Jon Mathis and Psychology Department Chair Dr. Elliott Lawless joined another group of students volunteering at Drive Away Hunger, the home of Portland Rescue Mission's vehicle donation and sales program. The men took on yard work, sweeping, raking and cleaning and organizing the auto shop.
Danny Kugelburg, Community Partnership Lead at Drive Away Hunger, leaned against a blue Chevy as he explained the impact of volunteering. "You might not have direct contact with the people we're helping, but what you're doing is changing lives," he said. "We're a nonprofit that survives solely on the gift of volunteers."
Kugelburg is an M.Div. student at Multnomah Seminary, so he's familiar with the school's mission. But watching it come to life in the auto shop is inspiring. "Multnomah has a desire for its students not to be insulated, but to be a light in the community — in voice and in deed," he said.
'Actively love'
At the Montavilla Community Center, Multnomah students sat at tables piled high with paper plates and colorful ribbons to craft decorations for the center's upcoming Easter celebration. Sophomore Edwin Granados carefully cut the plates into half moon shapes as he spoke with fellow volunteers. The music major is on the student-led Day of Outreach planning committee and was in charge of promoting the event this season.
Granados said he loves the opportunity to branch out of the University and into the surrounding community. "It's one of my favorite things to do," he said. "Our planning committee had a vision — that students could actively love in a way that will last beyond today. I hope this will be a kickoff for people to begin serving more frequently."
Besides MU's two annual Day of Outreach events, MU students provide more than 100,000 hours of service to the community each year through the University's Student Ministries program.
How have you been impacted by volunteer work? Share your thoughts below.