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He can't win: Walker's missing presidential credentials
Scott Walker has done a good job transforming Wisconsin into a place where businesses want to immigrate, expand and succeed. If you consider the 18 months of turmoil that started his term, it's an accomplishment to have gotten anything done.
Wisconsin's manufacturing sector was in rapid deterioration and was no longer competitive for potential businesses looking to grow. Walker stopped the bleeding by reducing regulation and cutting taxes. By focusing on the private sector, he is rebuilding the revenue generating tax base the right way for a stable future.
Of course, his most controversial action was signing legislation to reduce collective bargaining privileges for most public employee unions. These privileges were removed by the same legislative process that added them, yet the methods of outcry bordered on comical. Despite the failed recall attempt, many Wisconsin schools are seeing the benefits that come with putting the students ahead of the teacher's union in the classroom.
Getting Wisconsin in sound fiscal shape was completely overdue. Becoming efficient and making more with less is the exact opposite of what government seems to accomplish. In truth, the private sector learned the realities of efficiency years earlier. To maintain some sort of future fiscal sanity, the government eventually had to do reign in out of control spending. Our governor deserves a great deal of credit for having the courage to enact fiscal change in a Progressive atmosphere.
Despite all of these positive actions, I cannot recommend that Scott Walker run for president. He can't win. He won't win.
There are a few reasons that Scott Walker would be an enormous mistake in the general election. First, he has no college degree. While there have been other presidents without that small piece of paper, a simple history lesson will illustrate why Walker is in a modern day class by himself.
Harry Truman was the last President not to have a college degree. However, Truman was elected vice president. It wasn't until after he had three years of presidential experience that he was truly elected president.
Grover Cleveland also was elected president without a college degree. But he was the governor of New York, which comprised 16 percent of his Electoral College total in the 1884 contest. He also served his terms before things like the automobile were mass produced and the middle class was created.
There were seven other presidents without degrees but none of them were elected after the Civil War. My point is that the last president without a college diploma and no prior vice presidential experience was born the same year Michigan became a state.
While this may seem harsh, this is entirely Scott Walker's fault. As the county executive of Milwaukee County, he worked and lived within mere miles of several college campuses. As governor, he works within walking distance of the best school in the state of Wisconsin. Walker chose not to finish his education, and choices have consequences.
Ideally, he would have finished up by taking night classes while still in local politics. Instead of traveling to China for trade agreement negotiations, or all over the country giving speeches, he could have poached Illinois businesses dying to leave while currently taking one class every semester.
But he didn't, and those choices will haunt him if he seeks higher office.
After witnessing Mitt Romney get systematically torn down by the media, do you really think they will be respectful of Walker's lack of Ivy League schooling? If you think I'm being unfair, what do you think the media will do? The smugness, the jokes, the cackles and the declarations of stupidity from the stupid will ring clear for the two years leading up to the election.
Finally, Scott Walker is not the type of candidate that can beat "Billary" in 2016. The machine that is Hillary Clinton will have many advantages such as money and name recognition. Combine those with their presidential, gubernatorial and Senate experience and they are a formidable team. A white, uneducated, middle class governor from tiny Wisconsin stands no chance professing socially conservative views in a country becoming younger and more ethnically diverse by the day.
Conservatives are going to have to make a choice. To stand firmly against social issues that are rapidly evolving around them is extremely challenging for future victories. To stand firm against social issues based on religion viewpoints is political suicide. To defeat the Clintons, the Republican candidate in 2016 must have liberal social views.
If the thought of this makes you cringe as a conservative, examine the realities. A conservative candidate could be pro-NRA, pro-business and anti big government while cutting your taxes. Would you rather have eight years of Hillary Clinton and the march toward European collectivism or a staunch fiscal conservative that is pro-choice and thinks gay people should be able to get married?
Sadly, I think I know the answer to that question.
fetlarpo | April 25, 2013 at 5:28 p.m. (report)
AJ ..John reached me via email. John deserves better than what I said. It just bothers me to see conservatives criticizing conservatives. Let the Socialists do that. His education theory is flawed. Most people working in factories have more common sense than liberals. With all of Romney's vast ivy league experience few blue collar Reagan republicans came out for him. The press will attack Walker for being another white guy, for being against gays, for being pro vouchers...though if a crisis comes and America needs a leader he may be the leader left standing..
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AndrewJ | April 25, 2013 at 1:55 p.m. (report)
Wow. Spot on, John.
@fetlarpo - you seemed to take this as an article bashing Scott Walker. It was the exact opposite. It's being pointed out how terrible Walker would be crucified in the media over a trivial issue. But if Romney saying "47%" is enough to cost him the election... what do you think would happen to Walker over the issue of not having a degree? MSNBC would have to throw up a NC-17 rating because Chris Matthews would probably orgasm while hollering about it.
Republicans will not stand a chance in the next election cycle, or any future election cycle, until they drop the social righteousness that occupies the fringes of the party. Period. Talk to people about dollars and cents... not about what they can do in their free time.
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crackerbat | April 24, 2013 at 10:20 p.m. (report)
I honestly can't agree with you more. Conservatives (I being one of them) really need to break away from the die hard religiousness. To be fair, they really need to take a page from libertarians.
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Crew_Dat | April 24, 2013 at 7:17 p.m. (report)
This became a comedic article as soon as it said his policies were even close to positive. Have done NOTHING good.
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Frostyguy | April 24, 2013 at 7:09 p.m. (report)
One of your conclusions is interesting. "A conservative candidate could be pro NRA, pro business and anti big government while cutting your taxes. Would you rather have eight years of Hillary Clinton and the march toward European collectivism or a staunch fiscal conservative that is pro choice and thinks gay people should be able to get married?"
Any choice that is different than Hillary is a good choice. Heck I would rather have a different Democrat than Hillary. Why does a staunch fiscal conservative have to support Gay marriage? Why not support "NO government involvement in any marriage" instead? I think the government should be out of the marriage business entirely. If the government wants to acknowledge "civil contracts between two parties" I have no issue with this. Marriage has been a religious institution since the beginning of our country and it should remain a religious institution (In my opinion). Half of the main debate right now deals with the legal side of marriage. Why not just end the debate and get the government out of the debate entirely? So, instead of Gay individuals wanting to be like the rest of us married people, lets make married people like the rest (as far as the government is concerned). Lets eliminate the marriage penalty or benefit on taxes, lets simplify the argument.
All of this could easily happen without having to sacrifice any religious belief or any staunch conservative value.
I agree that Walker is not ready to be President "YET" as he has yet to accomplish all of his goals. If he manages to hit his job numbers added, gets our economy turned around 100% and takes us from the bottom 25% of states to the top 5 or ten then MAYBE, but that MAYBE is a far way off. I am happy that we have him as governor and I hope that he remains our governor for another term or two. I for one am really happy that we don't have any major elections in our state for a few years.
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What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the
streets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
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Allen Ginsberg (4/26/2017 12:38:00 PM)
Hows it going danny good in this but you did better in Its always sunny in Philadelphia (Report) Reply
Kumarmani Mahakul (11/24/2016 10:04:00 PM)
Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to
shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be lonely. ..great imaginary. Beautiful poem. (Report) Reply
Michael Walker (11/24/2016 8:50:00 PM)
A totally brilliant, contemporary poem, written by a free spirit: Allen Ginsberg. It is startling to have a dialogue with Walt Whitman, who was very like Ginsberg in many ways. I read the title and I think, 'which supermarket out of the thousands in California? ' I love the wit, 'shopping for images', 'wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes'. prose tomatoes'. I like the repetition of 'Will we walk' and the fact of asking so many rhetorical questions. Bordering on prose that only makes the poem better. (Report) Reply
Pranab K Chakraborty (11/24/2016 12:17:00 PM)
Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher, ......................... Which way does
your beard point tonight? ..................................................What America did you dream exactly to have? (Report) Reply
Bernard F. Asuncion (11/24/2016 2:13:00 AM)
Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to
shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be lonely.
Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automobiles in
driveways, home to our silent cottage?
Nice work..... (Report) Reply
Edward Kofi Louis (11/24/2016 1:12:00 AM)
My imagination! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us. (Report) Reply
* Sunprincess * (1/12/2016 12:15:00 PM)
Rahman Henry (9/7/2015 5:22:00 AM)
Really a cry of dust and ruins from the soul of a town. Ginsberg is amarvellous poet. (Report) Reply
Michael Schuler (10/16/2009 6:16:00 PM)
James: Interesting observation. I have not read Garcia Lorca's bio, but had read about his interest in Harlem and the experience of blacks in America and interpreted the reference to Garcia Lorca as a humorous reference from one transgressive poet (Ginsberg thinks that store security is following him) to another. (Report) Reply
James Brusseau (9/18/2009 3:11:00 PM)
I too was confused by the meaning of the poem. I was thinking it was just a funny, kind of silly remembrance of Whitman, fooling around a bit with simple grocery store items. Then I read the bio of Frederico Garcia Lorca (a man mentioned in the poem) and an entirely new meaning became blindingly obvious. Lorca, was really devastated about failed homosexual relationships. His two major love interests, one interestingly enough was Salvador Dali, went on to have marriages with women. This is a poem, asking the question of, What does America hold for me the homosexual? The answer is a sad: 'we'll both be lonely.' I won't quote continued lines from the poem, but if you want to feel seem empathy for Ginsberg, Wikipedia Lorca and then reread the poem and focus and the words that are addressing a sense of disenfranchisement from the empty promises America was making, viewed in the context of post World War II feelings that were surfacing and no doubt helping to form the Beat Generation. (Report) Reply
Gregory Collins (12/14/2007 5:43:00 PM)
somewhere west of Mandalay, ginsberg is the wilderness inside yellow rapeseed flowers, a cry of dust from the soul town (Report) Reply
Brian Dorn (7/25/2006 9:52:00 AM)
Lots of visual fun in this but profound at the same time, particularly the end. (Report) Reply
Bryan Castro (2/20/2006 3:26:00 AM)
The poem mainly hits absurdity. It has even included one of the great literature man of his time, sir Walt Whitman, a very wise move or an unruly one for the part of Ginsberg. Anyway, the poem touches where it is bound to coil. Enjoy. (Report) Reply
True Ataraxy (1/18/2006 10:47:00 PM)
There seems to be confusion about the correct lines of this poem.Like many beat poets, Ginsberg worked a lot with the line placement. Ginsberg plays with enjambment and endstops as a matter of humour in this poem. As I know it it should be:
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for
I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache
self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went
into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families
shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the
avocados, babies in the tomatoes! -and you, Garcia Lorca, what
were you doing down by the watermelons?
I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,
poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the
pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans
following you, and followed in my imagination by the store
We strode down the open corridors together in our
solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen
delicacy, and never passing the cashier.
Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in
an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight?
(I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the
supermarket and feel absurd.)
Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The
trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be
Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love
past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage?
Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher,
what America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and
you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat
disappear on the black waters of Lethe? (Report) Reply
Louise Bizzari (1/10/2005 3:06:00 PM)
Allen Ginsberg's Other Poems
Famous Poems
Phenomenal Woman
Maya Angelou
Still I Rise
Maya Angelou
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
If You Forget Me
Pablo Neruda
Langston Hughes
Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe
Caged Bird
Maya Angelou
Rudyard Kipling
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Robert Frost
A Dream Within A Dream
Edgar Allan Poe


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Post Irene, Vt. Towns Are Borrowing At Swift Pace
08/27/12 7:30AM By Kirk Carapezza
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Vermont cities and towns have been borrowing money at a swift pace in the year since Tropical Storm Irene. Now, Vermont's state treasurer is defending the increase in municipal bonds.
State Treasurer Beth Pearce says from January to August the state sold $492 million of municipal bonds. That's five times more than the same period of last year.
But Pearce says two-thirds of those bonds were for refinancing existing debt incurred by state and municipal governments.
"The reason the state is issuing bonds is not related to Irene," Pearce said. "The reason the state is issuing bonds is to save taxpayers money through refunding of old debt."
And record-low interest rates have allowed state and local governments to save taxpayers interest costs.
Pearce's math shows the state has only taken on $115 million new bonds this year.
"If you have a mortgage, if you have good credit you go out and you refinance," Pearce argues. "That's precisely what the state did. That's precisely what other agencies within the state and municipalities have done."
The state was scheduled to sell its annual bonds in October. But that was delayed until March because of the storm.
And Irene has continued to create financial challenges in towns like Rockingham, where the Bartonsville Bridge was swept away by Irene's floodwaters. The event was captured on this video, posted online and viewed thousands of times on YouTube. It emerged as one of the most famous images of the destruction Vermont suffered during the storm.
Rockingham had a $1 million insurance policy through the Vermont League of Cities and Towns. But the replacement project is estimated to cost at least $2.4 million.
Tim Cullenen, the municipal manager for the Town of Rockingham, says the VLCT misled town officials to believe Rockingham's insurance policy would pay for claims on a covered bridge.
"We submit the information to VLCT, and they say that their coverage is only for $230,000, which is a huge gap - a huge gap," Cullenen says. "If you have a million dollar coverage on a value on a structure, and that structure is gone I guess we wonder why we're not getting what we've been paying for."
But the VLCT's director of risk management services Ken Canning says the self-insurance program the League operates for cities and towns covers the lesser cost to replace covered bridges. And, he says, the League is willing to increase its offer by more than $500,000 dollars.
"I think that demonstrates our responsiveness to our members and the benefit of Vermont cities and towns belonging to a local organization that is owned and managed by them," says Canning.
Rockingham will hold special meetings to decide whether to borrow money to cover outstanding expenses. "We've not budgeted for it," Cullenen says. "Our total fund balance had been totally gutted because of Irene. That goes back to the issue of FEMA not covering a lot of the debris and hazard mitigation expenses that we incurred."
Cullenen believes Rockingham will continue to move forward with the bridge, even if it has to borrow. But he acknowledges that reconstructing the iconic bridge will put the town in a difficult financial position.


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[[folder:Film - Live-Action]]
->I just find it surprising, that after so much effort the final act of our existence should be suicide. So why build this archive? It's a cautionary tale. Not for us. It's too late for us. But for, well, for whoever, whatever, eventually finds this recording.
-->-- '''The Archivist of the Future''', ''The Age of Stupid''
->''[[AltumVidetur Libera te...tutemet...ex inferis...]]''[[labelnote: Translation]]"Save yourself from Hell."[[/labelnote]]
-->-- '''Captain Kilpack''', ''Film/EventHorizon''
->'''King Arthur:''' What does [the inscription] say, Brother Maynard?\\
'''Brother Maynard:''' It reads, "Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Aramathia. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of... Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh..."\\
'''King Arthur:''' What?\\
'''Brother Maynard:''' "The Castle of... Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh."\\
'''Sir Bedevere:''' What is that?\\
'''Brother Maynard:''' He must have died while carving it.\\
'''Sir Lancelot:''' Oh come on!\\
'''Brother Maynard:''' Well, that's what it says!\\
'''King Arthur:''' Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't have bothered to carve "Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh" into the rock, he'd just say it!\\
'''Sir Galahad:''' Maybe he was dictating it?\\
'''King Arthur:''' Oh shut up!
-->-- ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''
->I was wrong. We were so wrong.
-->-- '''Dr Elizabeth Shaw''', ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' TV spot
->I'm going to hide this tape when I'm finished. If none of us make it, at least there'll be some kind of record. The storm's been hitting us hard now for... 48 hours.. We still have nothing to go on. One other thing: I think it rips through your clothes when it takes you over... Windows found some shredded longjohns but the nametag was missing.. They could be anybody's.. Nobody... nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired... there's nothing more I can do, just wait... R.J.[=MacReady=], helicopter pilot, US outpost 31.
-->-- '''R.J.[=MacReady=]''', ''Film/TheThing1982''
->The war between the East and West which is now in it's three hundred and twenty-sixth year, has at last come to an end. There is nothing left to fight with, and few of us left to fight. The atmosphere has become so polluted with deadly germs, that it can no longer be breathed. There is no place on this planet that is immune. The last surviving factory for the manufacturing of oxygen has been destroyed. Stockpiles are rapidly diminishing. And when they are gone, (''voice gets slower and deeper as ring slows'') we must die.\\
My name is of no consequence. The important thing you should know, is that I am the last who remembers how each of us, man and woman made his own decision. Some chose to take refuge in the great caverns, and find a new way of life far below the earth's surface. The rest of us decided to take our chances in the sunlight. (''voice gets slower and deeper as rings slows'') Small as those chances might be.
-->-- '''The Talking Rings''', ''Film/TheTimeMachine1960''
->The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!
-->-- ''Dagon'', Creator/HPLovecraft
->The thing's hollow it goes on forever and oh my God it's full of stars!
-->-- '''Dave Bowman''', ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''
->I've only two requests to make, Doctor. When the taxonomists classify this creature, I hope they'll name it after me.\\
And - when the next ship comes home - ask them to take our bones back to China.\\
Jupiter will be cutting us off in a few minutes. I wish I knew whether anyone was receiving me. Anyway, I'll repeat this message when we're in line of sight again - if my suit's life-support system lasts that long.\\
This is Professor Chang on Europa, reporting the destruction of spaceship ''Tsien''. We landed beside the Grand Canal and set up our pumps at the edge of the ice-
-->-- ''[[Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact 2010: Odyssey Two]]''
->[...] we rescued Balin's body [...] we have barred the gates but doubt if [...] can hold them long. If there is [...] no escape it will be a horrible fate to suffer [...] We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken the bridge and Second Hall... fell there bravely while the rest retr [...] Mazarbul. We still ho[...]g ... but hope u[...]n[...] Óin's party went five days ago but today only four returned. The pool is up to the wall at West-gate... we cannot get out. The end comes soon. We hear drums, drums in the deep. ''They are coming''
-->-- ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', final entry in the ''Book of Mazarbul''
->''Wights all around us,'' he wrote, when he heard the shouts from the north face. ''Coming up from north and south at once. Spears and swords don't stop them, only fire.'' ...He wrote faster, note after note. ''Dead wildlings, and a giant, or maybe a bear, on us, all around.'' He heard the crash of steel on wood, which could only mean one thing. ''Wights over the ringwall. Fighting inside the camp.'' A dozen mounted brothers pounded past him toward the east wall, burning brands streaming flames in each rider's hand. ''Lord Commander Mormont is meeting them with fire.\\
We've won.\\
We're winning.\\
We're holding our own.\\
We're cutting our way free and retreating for the Wall.\\
We're trapped on the Fist, hard pressed.''\\
One of the Shadow Tower men came staggering out of the darkness to fall at Sam's feet. He crawled within a foot of the fire before he died.\\
''Lost,'' Sam wrote, ''the battle's lost. We're all lost.''
-->-- ''[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire A Storm Of Swords]]'', Chapter 18
Dreaming about my father. When he was drunk he lost all his English. Not that he had anything worth saying anyway. Fucking dipstick. I was so glad to get out of your house Daddy you fucking greaseball dipstick nothing cipher zilcho zero. I knew I'd made it. I walked away from you, didn't I? I walked on my hands.\\
But there's nothing left for them to cut off. Yesterday I took my earlobes\\
left hand washes the right don't let your left hand know what your right hands doing one potato two potato three potato four we got a refrigerator with a store-more door hahaha.\\
Who cares, this hand or that. good food good meat good God let's eat.\\
lady fingers they taste just like lady fingers
-->-- last entry in the diary of '''Richard Pine''', [[Creator/StephenKing "Survivor Type"]]
->I think someone is below. I don't know who it is, but I'm afraid. No one should be out here but me. I'm going to stash my journal just in case. Maybe I can hide.
-->-- Last entry of '''Katherine Heaton''', ''Literature/{{Virals}}''
->''"I cannot fight him any longer. I can't leave much. Just these few images, given to you. Whoever you are."''
-->-- '''The Almighty''', to Dalinar Kholin, ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''
->''I can't see his eyes. He [[GeometricMagic draws]] in scribbles. Nothing he does keeps it shape. The chalklings are distorted, and there seem to be hundreds of them. [[WhyWontYouDie I destroy them, and they return to life.]] I block them, and they dig through. I scream for help, but nobody comes.\\
He just stands there, watching with those dark, unseen eyes of his. The chalklings aren't like any I've seen. They writhe and contort, never keeping a single shape.\\
I can't fight them.\\
Tell my father I'm sorry for being such a bad son. I love him. I really do.''
-->-- '''Charles Calloway''', third victim of the Scribbler, ''Literature/TheRithmatist''
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
->Ten minutes have passed since I partook of the "elixir of life." Feeling groggy... Oh God, No! All seems to fade, darkness comes and anal leakage. Oh, shit! My bollocks have exploded! Hope fades, this is the... [The reader notes that the pen seems to have slid off the page.]
-->-- The last entry in '''Great-Uncle Peregrine''''s Journal, ''Series/{{Bottom}} Live: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts, Act I''
->If you've come aboard this ship... you're dead men! Don't go back to your own ship. You have one chance. Get down there. Get down there fast. Captain Tracey is... (''screams and falls from view'')
-->-- Final entry by the Chief Medical Officer of the ''U.S.S. Exeter'', ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' "The Omega Glory"
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
-> ''We cannot live through this. Mankind cannot live through this. In a single day they have covered this planet with a flood of living blades and needle-fanged mouths. Kill one, and ten take its place. If they are truly without number, then our race is doomed to a violent death before every shred of our civilization is scoured away by a force more voracious than the fires of hell themselves. Death! By the Machine God, Death is here!''
-->-- Last writings of '''Magos Varnak''' describing the Tyranids, ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
[[folder:Video Games]]
->tehres soemhngs inthecore. It maknig thinngsto other tihngs. somethrg not righght hppnng to m.e I nddd hlep.e But snoonenot heree. someone here.
-->-- ''VideoGame/AlterAila'', Orbital Prison 3 Note
->''First Entry''\\
I put fresh flowers by Mother's grave this morning. I was crouched by her side, sifting the earth through my fingers, when I thought I heard my name being called. But the sound was the whine of the old gate at the end of the garden creaking open. It has been padlocked for as long as I can remember. Whenever I asked Mother about it she would say it was no place for boys to go wandering. I felt a chill as I walked down the slope to the heavy door at the bottom, half expecting the gates to close behind me. I can't adequately describe the sensation of passing through that bizzarely carved doorframe. It was as if I were stepping into another world, another dimension. I saw them almost at once, through an opening in the rocks, standing there watching me, waiting for me. The Knights. It was the Knights.\\
''Second Entry''\\
Have they been there all this time, waiting for the day I would find them? They are my army. My friends. My family. I am spending longer and longer in the cave, speaking to them. Listening to them.\\
''Third Entry''\\
I will never be lonely again. The Knights Aberrant watch over me. They will never leave. Never ever ever leave.\\
''Fourth Entry''\\
They watch me. They watch over me. They watch me. They watch over me. They watch me. They watch me. They watch me.
-->--'''Terry Cotter's Final Diary''', ''Videogame/FableII''
->[=aw;'jf OrDe R p[fal al Hlep HeLp dme Me, LosS mInd CANdofw stopthem gEt OUT m[pofmy HED=]
-->-- Diary of Vault 92 resident '''Zoe Hammerstein''', final entry, ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''
->Hello, hello? Hey! Hey, wow. Day 4. I knew you could do it. Uh, hey, listen, I may not be around to send you a message tomorrow. ''(Banging sound)'' It's-It's been a bad night here for me. Um, I-I'm kinda glad that I recorded my messages for you... ''(Clears throat)'' Uh, when I did. Uh, hey, do me a favor. ''(Bang bang'') Maybe sometime, uh, you could check inside those suits in the back room? ''(Bang Bang)'' I'm gonna to try to hold out until someone checks. Maybe it wont be so bad. ''(Bang bang)'' Uh, I always wondered what was in all those empty heads back there. ''("La Toredor March" from Bizet's "Carmen plays)''. You know...''(moan)'' oh, no...''(noises followed by an animatronic screech and static)''
-->-- '''Phone Guy''' during Night 4 recording, ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys''
->If someone is reading this...[[DeadManWriting I must have failed]].\\
This star NAJU was our home\\
but we were invaded by evil life-forms.\\
[[SoleSurvivor Everyone except me was killed]].\\
I am going to try to activate the [[SelfDestructMechanism self-destruct device]].\\
If I fail, I would like you to do this task so this cannot\\
happen to any other race.
-->-- ''VideoGame/TheGuardianLegend''
->...alled [[AbusivePrecursors Reapers.]] [[EldritchAbomination Cannot be stopped.]] [[NighInvulnerability Cannot be stopped.]]
-->-- Data fragment of [[{{Precursors}} Prothean]] origin found on Ilos, ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''
->If you are reading this...get the hell outta this place! Now!
-->-- A rather succinct example from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''
->If you're hearing this... then there is still hope. Hope that you can avoid the same mistakes we made. We fought the [[EldritchAbomination Reapers]], but we failed to stop them. We did everything we could. [[DownerEnding We built the Crucible, but it didn't work.]] [[HeroicSacrifice We fought as a united galaxy, but it wasn't enough.]] [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture I only hope the information in this capsule is enough to help you before it's too late.]] My name is Dr. Liara T'Soni. Herein lies the recounting of [[CurbStompBattle our war]] with the Reapers.
-->-- ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Refusal ending
->I hear. Them. Everywhere. They're coming. Can't sleep. Ever. They'll eat me. Eat.
-->-- Personal log of '''[=PFC=] G. Haley''', Galactic Federation Marine Corps, ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime 2''
->I am Elysian, descendant of both the Chozo and the First. I am facing the last moments of my life and transferring my memory to the data pod.
-->-- ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime 3'', from lore on Elysia
->Data log entry 2467.3. This will be the last communication of the ''G.F.S Valhalla.''\\
Our efforts to repel the Space Pirate boarding force have failed. They have successfully removed the primary mounting structure around our stasis tank. It is obvious now that they intend to extract us from the ''Valhalla''.\\
It is vital that the Federation receive this transmission.\\
...Severing main power...\\
A large bioform is creating a wormhole.\\
...Implant into...\\
Sentient planet which is the source of all Phazon.\\
...Darkness coming.
-->-- '''Aurora Unit 313''', ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime 3''
->Itchy. Tasty.
-->-- Man becoming a zombie, ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil''
->[[IronicNurseryRhyme Mary had a little lamb]]\\
Little lamb, little lamb\\
Mary had a little lamb\\
Whose fleece was white as snow
-->-- [[BadassArmy Assassin's Redoubt colony]], [[MindRape final transmission]], ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''
->"Uh, hello... is this recording? If you are hearing this, I've been taken hostage on some kind of alien ship. The aliens did... [[AnalProbing unspeakable things to my rectal cavity.]] But I've broken free. I'm so scared and alone. I must find a way off this ship. Oh God, they're coming! Why am I standing here making an audio log? I don't have time for this! Leave me alone!"\\
"Day 2... So hungry... I've searched for food, but the only thing I've found are other people's annoying useless audio logs. Why did they bother when they clearly were in terrible danger? Each audio log I find is more irrelevant and boring than the last. I must keep looking for a way to survive."\\
"Day 4... I've looked everywhere, but I can't find anything to eat, or a clue to get me off the ship. Just more audio logs! They're everywhere! For some reason I listen to every minute of every one of them, thinking there'd be some useful information, but... it's like they're just filler! Useless filler! They're filler that's driving me to ''madness!''"\\
"Day 7... Okay, I did find one audio log that was [[ActuallyPrettyFunny mildly amusing.]] A woman trapped on this ship left an audio log about some papers she had left in an alien cabinet, and she told me the code was 776. That was kinda cool because I didn't know the code before that. Though when I opened the cabinet, there was only some kinda power-up I didn't really need."\\
"Success! I found something that looks to be food! It's some sore of green, florescent goo, I-I'm gonna have to try and eat some... It's not too bad. It's tangy and nutty, would probably go well with a... I... [[ViralTransformation Wha-What's happening to me?! What's it...]]" [[[ThoseWackyNazis Speaking German]]]
-->--'''Alien Conspiracy Hobo''', ''Videogame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth''
->This is deputy Jerry Hoobs, and I´m leaving this record in case I don´t survive. Sheriff Rockwood's gone insane, and i couldn't reason with him. I barely escaped the station. The problem is it's too widespread to escape on foot. Nobody here is set to travel, so I´m gonna search for help. But I think it´s a little, too late...\\
The military has come in, but not to help. I found a CEO, and before he died he told me that the Pentagon had authorised the assured "Scorched Earth Policy." This is it man. It´s Armageddon. Shit man, I'm gonna save my own ass! Damn the Valley!
-->-- ''VideoGame/TheyHunger''
->''"I haven't slept. No one has slept. Not for three days, not since [[WorldWreckingWave the black storm]] in the northern ranges. Not since the nightmares began. Violent and twisted night terrors. They whisper to us, tempt us, threaten us, beguile us. They promise terrible things in return for even more terrible acts. My husband, Denirus, went to Alliston to find a doctor who might help. He should have been back yesterday. I fear for him. I fear for all of us."\\
"It has been a little over a week since the black storm. My husband has not returned, and sickness now sweeps through the village. Many have died, and those who lived have...[[TheCorruption changed.]] These were folk we once called neighbor and friend. Now they limp and stagger through the night, their deformities as grotesque as the madness in their eyes."\\
"The moon was full the night of the black storm, it is full again. They have come for me. They have come for my daughters. Bravalo called out to them while the others skulked and muttered in the darkness. Corin went out to them, arms open, welcoming. The nightmares told her to. My uncle tried to stop her. Bravalo crushed his skull with his smith's hammer. I barred the doors and windows but they screamed like monkeys and beat themselves bloody trying to get in. I had no choice. I took my two youngest and fled through the cellar, following the tunnel to the mill. All we can do is hide and hope. God help us."\\
"Three lunari gone now, since it all began. Perhaps I am the only one now who looks upon Lunaris, who remembers her name. Soon, I will be gone and the moon will go on, alone. My husband has returned, and he hunts for me. [[TheUndead My dead husband hunts me.]] Corin too, and my uncle. Corpses rise and walk and feed. My girls, they walk now...and feed. God has forsaken us. Lunaris is my witness. [[DrivenToSuicide Tonight, I return to my family.]]"''
-->-- '''Tani's etchings''', ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'', one of the many Apocalyptic Logs found throughout the game
[[folder:Web Original]]
-> THEYVE [[{{Bowderlization}} (expletive deleted)]] DONE IT, THEYVE (deleted) DONE IT THEY PUT US ALL TO DEATH DAMN THOSE BASTARDS TO HELL
-> ON BEHALF OF THE CHARLOTTE BUREAU, [[ItHasBeenAnHonor IT HAS BEEN OUR PRIVILEGE TO REPORT THE NEWS]] AND MAY GOD BE WITH WHOMEVER SURVIVES THIS APOCALYPSE THROUGH THE COMING [[KilledMidSentence Y***&&*&**&***]]
-->-- '''Final AP Bulletins''', ''Literature/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsday''
->I know it's early in the morning, I've stayed up all night, I can't sleep, I don't care if people see this, that's not the point, I just want the word to get spread so I don't suffer for nothing. I've lost the will to type about this, the less I dwell on this the better, I think the video just speaks for itself. [...] I don't want to play anymore. I feel like something bad will happen if I don't, but that's impossible, it's a video game - haunted or not it can't hurt me, right? Like seriously though, it can't, right? That's what I keep telling myself, but every time I think about it I'm not so sure.
-->-- '''Jadusable''', ''WebVideo/BenDrowned'' (Arc 1, Chapter 3: "DROWNED.wmv")
->8th Felsislte, 1064\\
[[KillItWithFire All burn]]. Children burn fastest. Less fat. Locked lot crazy nobles in statue garden. Won't move until they all stop moving. And burning. Some escaped. Still burning. [[MadnessMantra All burn]].\\
The very stones themselves are burning. Nothing can stand in the heat.\\
The fires have claimed all of the second hall. There are only five of us left, and Unib Berog [[HeroicBSOD walks back and forth, carrying objects uselessly, not understanding anything]].\\
The tales are true... [[{{Unobtainium}} adamantium]] is cursed. [[DugTooDeep We did naught but uncover the vein, and doom befell us]].\\
Cerol Likotag told me he had to "fill the pool" and [[DrivenToSuicide wandered into the fires]]. Poor creature.\\
[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Berog declared that he wants new Bonobo leather trousers]].
-->-- ''The Chronicles of LetsPlay/{{Boatmurdered}}''
->3rd Malachite, 1064\\
Rakust Ulterolin [[AxCrazy went mad and slaughtered two dwarves]], then wandered to the flames.\\
I am now the last one. I saw a child, [[CreepyChild feral and and crazy]], lurking in the bonehoard. [[HappyPlace She looked happy enough]], so I left her alone.\\
I will leave, [[ImportantHaircut cut my beard]] and [[DeathSeeker seek my death somewhere else]]. There is nothing for me here. The child will now be the ruler of Boatmurdered.
-->-- ''The Chronicles of LetsPlay/{{Boatmurdered}}''
->Dead explorers leave the best mementos. If it's not supplies [[LampshadeHanging you get a long, detailed log of what happened.]]
-->-- '''[[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]]''', ''Machinima/FreemansMind''
->Seth... is gone. I don't [[LaserGuidedAmnesia remember what happened]]. [[CuriosityKilledTheCast We were the only two left]]... and I left him. Brian is gone. Tim... Jay... and Sarah... everyone... is gone. I just woke up in this house with the tape. Seth's camera is gone. All I can remember from the night is right here. All I can remember at all is on the tape now. I'm leaving this house. I thought I would be safer here, by running away... but everything's just gotten worse. I'm going back to my home, and I'm burning these tapes. All of them.
-->-- '''Alex Kralie''', ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'' Entry 22
->'''Item #''': Pending\\
'''Object Class''': Keter. God help you.\\
'''Special Containment Procedures''': You're going to die, you poor dumb fuck.\\
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Hard-Line Israeli Foreign Minister Is Stepping Down
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JERUSALEM Facing indictment for breach of trust and fraud, Israels foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, resigned his post Friday afternoon amid mounting political pressure, upending the campaign landscape five weeks before national elections. Mr. Lieberman, a powerful but polarizing figure, wrote on his Facebook page, I know that I committed no crime, but said he was stepping down so I will be able to put an end to this matter swiftly and without delay and to clear my name completely.
Mr. Lieberman, who is also a member of Parliament, indicated that he still hoped to compete in the Jan. 22 balloting, suggesting a possible plea bargain. The expected indictment, which prosecutors announced on Thursday, concerns a relatively minor offense compared with a broader case of money laundering and fraud that was dropped after an investigation stretching for more than 12 years.
I believe that the citizens of the State of Israel are entitled to go to the polling stations after this matter has already been resolved, Mr. Liebermans statement said. If a legal ruling could be made before the elections, I might continue to serve the State of Israel and the citizens of Israel as part of a strong and united leadership that will cope with the security, political and economic challenges facing the State of Israel.
Mr. Lieberman, 54, leads the secular, ultranationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party, which last month joined forces with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus Likud Party. A populist immigrant from the former Soviet Union, he was widely considered as a potential successor to Mr. Netanyahu as leader of Israels right wing, though his hard line on the Palestinian question, among other issues, alienated many Western allies.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/world/middleeast/avigdor-lieberman-israeli-foreign-minister-resigns.html?_r=0
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is a Detroit-area artist, hacker and teacher. Chris holds a MFA from UCLA's School of the Arts and Architecture. Working individually and collaboratively, his artwork explores communication, relationships, physical subjectivity and community building with media including games, performances, instruments, robots, and open-source hardware/software projects. Chris has performed and shown artwork in solo and group exhibitions in the US, Europe and Asia. Recent shows include the Intimate Instruments workshop at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; a public installation at Zero1 Biennial in San Jose, CA; and collaborative projects in Hong Kong's Microwave International New Media Arts Festival; the Open Hardware Summit/World Maker Faire in New York City; and SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles. Chris is the official Infinity Manager of Detroit's Picnic Club, an arts collective dedicated to site-specific inquiry, play, and picnics. His works have been profiled in Make Magazine, Wired Magazine, and Punk Planet. Chris has published photo/video essays and art texts in Geez Magazine and Infinite Mile. Chris is Assistant Professor of Art at Eastern Michigan University's School of Art & Design. He has also taught New Media and Digital Fabrication courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as authoring 3D modeling/animation courses for lynda.com.


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Baltimore is holding its own when it comes to adding high-tech jobs, a new report finds.
The CBRE report, released last week, ranked Charm City 15th out of 20 tech-oriented office markets across the U.S.
The report slots Baltimore behind Boston, Seattle and Austin (with San Francisco ranked No. 1), but ahead of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
Baltimore saw 10 percent growth in high-tech jobs between 2011 and 2013, and a 3.7 percent growth in office rents from the second quarter of 2012 to the second quarter of 2014.
"Within preferred submarkets, which, in many cases, are the neighborhoods of choice for millennials and high-tech companies, vacant space has become increasingly scarce," Colin Yasukochi, director of research and analysis for CBRE Global Research and Consulting, said in a release. "As a result, nearby submarkets may see increased leasing activity by tech companies."
The CBRE report found that Baltimore has more than 30,000 high-tech jobs with area rents averaging $25 per square foot, according to the Baltimore Business Journal.Jobs Board


text: NEW YORK ( MainStreet) -- The story of Orabrush, in which an unknown company becomes a giant brand approaching $10 million in annual sales in just two and a half years, proves the power of social media. Essentially the company provides products -- a tongue cleaner and now a tongue foam -- to help in the fight against bad breath. Orabrush was created in 2000 by biochemist Robert "Dr. Bob" Wagstaff. Years of effort failed to get the product on retailer shelves or selling through infomercials or other oral care companies. With some new young talent schooled in social media and on board with the product's effectiveness, Orabrush launched a YouTube campaign in 2009 with its original "Bad Breath Test" video, which now has more than 16 million views. Today Orabrush is the third-most-subscribed sponsored YouTube channel, right behind Procter & Gamble's ( PG) Old Spice and Apple ( AAPL). With 180,000 subscribers, it has more than 45 million views for its 100 videos. The company also has more than 310,000 fans on its Facebook page. Orabrush has made a name for itself among such juggernauts as P&G, S.C. Johnson & Son and General Mills ( GIS). Orabrush is now available in more than 20,000 stores worldwide, including through Wal-Mart ( WMT) and CVS ( CVS) stores in the U.S. It is a remarkable milestone for a company that used only a so-called reverse marketing strategy to advertise its products. "The growth we have had as a company over the past two years has been truly amazing, and it is due almost entirely to our focus on using the Internet," Orabrush CEO Jeff Davis said in a January press release. "The Internet has changed every aspect of how people consume media and advertising, and the old methods and tactics just don't work as well anymore. Our 'reverse marketing' model has helped us reach a huge, untapped audience and opened a lot of doors that had previously been closed." Davis, a former P&G executive, became Orabrush's chief executive in January 2010. He spoke with us last week about the company's success. Below are excerpts from the interview:


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Full disclosure, I am a big The Lord of the Rings fan. But trust me – there is nothing dark or malevolent about the "one profile" as in this case; conferring with the often invisible data, is only intended to increase the relevance of our business-to-consumer interactions.
I am of course referring to a universal customer profile that can give you the power to personalize user experiences in real-time, using all the data available in a single view. With Black Friday almost upon us and retail growth forecast at just about 4 percent this season, the pressure is on retailers to drive better results this year.
So how can retailers vie for a slice of the highly competitive holiday pie?
We know digital will be growing in importance, even with the lion's share of retail buying still occurring in brick-and-mortar stores. Deloitte researchers, for example, forecast that digital interactions this year will have a bigger impact on spending, influencing 64 percent, or $434 billion in retail store sales. That's up from 50 percent last year. Deloitte also reports that about 80 percent of shoppers indicate they engage via digital channels in advance of going to a store. And now we learn that three-quarters of shoppers use mobile devices while shopping in-store, according to a new report from InReality, supported by additional research conducted by comScore.
How will retail marketers respond?
Feeling the pressure, its likely many marketing teams will mash away on their siloed applications and data sets to get as much engagement with consumers as possible. But what's clear is that same old approach isn't going to drive big increases in revenue or assure happy customers. Indeed, it is a big problem that most marketing vendors still develop profiles of their customers based on behavior in single channel only-siloed data, driving siloed marketing actions.
Why not consider transforming your marketing with a universal customer profile based on omnichannel data that creates a full portrait of the individual as he or she naturally moves across in-store and digital landscapes? Leveraging a universal customer profile is the only way you can personalize marketing. If you know someone is spending a lot of time on your mobile app and buying in-store, for example, a profile will give you the data and insight to treat them as a higher-value customer on your website as well.
Universal customer profile defined
As I stated at the beginning, all this goodness starts with unifying and stitching together all available data. Enterprise tag management makes it possible to collect rich, first-party data, from typically siloed digital domains without help from IT. Mar-tech innovation gives us the ability to connect into off-site and offline data in the form of:
- Display ad impressions
- Email opens
- Video interactions
- CRM updates
- The voice of customer surveys
The profile also may draw from other marketing technologies including data management platforms (DMPs), used to support digital advertising, and analytics solutions, used to measure results and develop predictive scenarios.
So, rather than basing marketing activities on single-channel profiles, we need to stitch together profiles from all of these data sources. We need to unify data from different devices, applications, and channels, even when they are based on disparate rules and definitions, into a single data layer. This is the quickest path to launching personalization.
Think of it as the difference between a grainy picture and one with high-pixel resolution; you get to see the unique interests and behaviors of an individual, not a hypothetical segment built from an amalgamated set of data. That's the key to getting the right message, to the right person, at the best time, and best location.
Pragmatically speaking, let's consider this simple use case
A traveler planning a vacation first visits an all-inclusive travel website to browse rates for airfare and hotels, clicking on an airline's promotional banner ad or simply watching a travel video with an embedded ad. Those impressions are captured, and when he or she visits the airline homepage or mobile app, they are recognized, and their behavior to date is stitched together.
CRM data, such as frequent flyer information, further enriches the profile to ensure any content in the form of ads or offers is indeed relevant to our would-be traveler. The brand may even activate a live chat window or a voice-of-the-customer survey, targeting high-value customers with more timely and personalized engagement.
All this occurs very quickly and the information is added in real-time to the universal customer profile, which depends on data collected; segmented, enriched, and distributed out in real-time to other marketing applications or partners. The profile essentially enables a network effect across all your existing mar-tech investments, improving how each fulfills its purpose in customer engagement – just like magic.
The universal profile is indeed the lynchpin to optimizing the customer journey. So, in that spirit, I'll conclude with my very own verse, inspired by the great Tolkien: "One Profile to serve them all, One Profile to find them, One Profile to engage them all, and with relevance, convert them.
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What are the essential components of a Customer Data Platform?
A Customer Data Platform (CDP) can help companies unify their data and acquire that single customer view that is so vital to marketing success. But how does a CDP differ from other data management solutions like a Data Management Platform (DMP), and what essential functionality does it need to nail?
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Server NAT will add additional External IPs to the WAN interface,
which you can choose when creating inbound NAT rules (interface IP or
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The external IP addresses defined on this page may be used in inbound
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The problem-plagued Richmond Juvenile Detention Center is set to reopen in June and this weekend, we'll see the first advertisements for job openings.
The city wants to hire supervisors and the youth counselors who will spend every day with the troubled teens.
There's a certain lens through which officials are viewing this hiring process: How can the city make sure the new staff avoids the issues, which forced it to shut down the center in the first place?
Behind the barbed wire downtown was an environment described as "a culture of unethical behavior." Allegations of abuse, forgery and corruption plagued the juvenile detention center. It was so bad the city voluntarily shut it down before the state could take away its license.
Heads rolled, including the superintendent of the facility and the leader of the entire justice services department.
"We are not reopening the old facility," explained David Hicks, who is now the interim director. "We are opening a new facility."
He will list 63 new positions for the first time this Sunday.
"The most important thing we want is individuals who have impeccable integrity and are dedicated to the safety of the youth that will be in this facility, a high degree of professionalism and individuals who really want to do the right thing," Hicks described.
Those sound like qualities anyone would want in a job candidate and features the city would've wanted in the people who were staffing this place last year, so NBC12 asked what will make the new folks different.
"If we had to add one more trait maybe we didn't have in the concentration we had before is you want to have the trait to the individual employees when they start seeing some of the foolishness start among their peers, they'll be the first one to say 'no,'" Hicks said.
Management says staff can make mistakes, but there are certain mistakes that are unacceptable.
"It's intolerable to think they would have to wonder about whether or not they're safe from anybody who is employed by us," Hicks added. "That is a bright line. We will not tolerate it day one."
The advertisements will first appear in the paper and on the city's website this Sunday. Interviews and background checks are expected this month.
The state Department of Juvenile Justice audit is set for the end of April.
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The garnet is but as hard as quartz, and is a silicate of alumina with lime and a little iron.
It is composed of silica, alumina, carbonate of lime, magnesia and oxide of iron.
Alizarin only stains the untreated woollen, whilst the piece treated with alumina is dyed red, and that with iron, purple.
At the end of this time it must be washed, to extract the sulphate of alumina.
The electricity keeps on working, and now it separates the alumina into its two parts.
It usually contains a little silica, alumina, and oxide of iron.
To make bottle-glass, oxide of iron and alumina is added to the silica, lime, and soda.
The affinity of alumina for the colouring matter is very remarkable.
The liquors are previously mixed with a little milk of lime, which frees them from ferric oxide, alumina, and silica.
The alumina may be separated from the ferric oxide by potash-lye.
Any of several forms of aluminum oxide used in aluminum production and in abrasives, refractories, ceramics, and electrical insulation. Alumina occurs naturally as the mineral corundum and, with minor traces of chromium and cobalt, as the minerals ruby and sapphire, respectively. In its hydrated form it also occurs as the rock bauxite. Also called aluminum oxide. Chemical formula: Al2O3.


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UNICEF Turkey shares the sorrow of the families who have lost their family members or friends during the earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale in Elazığ at 04.32a.m. on March 8, 2010. 41 people have lost their lives and around 74 people have been injured. 18 of the people who lost their lives were children, 8 of whom were at primary education age. Six villages around Karakoçan, the epicentre of the earthquake, particularly Okçular, Yukarıkanatlı and Kayalı have been mostly affected by the quake. UNICEF congratulates the Turkish government and NGOs on the timely and efficient rescue operations.
A rapid assessment mission, composed of two people from the Ministry of National Education and one from the UNICEF education team, visited the earthquake affected areas on March 9, 2010. The team has worked closely with Government officials and other related bodies in the region to do an assessment of the damage caused by the quake and to identify the impact on education and determine what possible contributions UNICEF can make to ensure continuation of educational processes.
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Stephon Marbury was definitely not expecting to be left in the dust of this remodel.
Even so, he's playing nice.
"I mean, this is a business and I understand their decision," Marbury said. "If that's the way they want to go, I'm fine with that."
Mike D'Antoni claims he's playing for the future.
"Obviously, it's tough," he said. "There are just certain guys I want to see. It's a delicate situation. Steph's been great. It hasn't been his fault. I know he's not going to be happy about it and I wouldn't be either. The team goes on two different tracks, and one is for the future and one is to try to win now."
Marbury is not part of the future. So will he ask for a trade?
"I'm a New York Knick until otherwise, until my contract runs out," he said.
Maybe it's time for a good agent.
There's a pretty good chance Marbury is going to sit for a long time unless somebody gets hurt. He's sitting behind Nate Robinson and Mardy Collins right now.
"If this is what it is, I mean, there's always next year," he said.
Just keep sending the checks.
Marbury did appreciate the "We want Steph" chants. I don't know whether they were sarcastic or sympathetic.
"It's New York," he said. "I got mad love for New York."