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SAMMAMISH — Ray and Jenn Bennett purchased a home at Shorelane Vistas in April, and they say they have enjoyed watching the progress of construction.
"We're excited to see our house become a reality," says Jenn Bennett. "Now that the home is in framing, we're able to see how the rooms lay out, and our daughters, Allysen and Keira, are able to envision what it is going to look like. It's no longer just a floor plan on a piece of paper."
The community is located across the street from Lake Sammamish, and is near the East Lake Sammamish Trail.
"The floor plan we chose takes advantage of the view of Lake Sammamish. Our main living space — the kitchen, dining room and great room — has an amazing view of the lake," says Ray Bennett.
There are 38 homes planned at Shorelane Vistas featuring 10 floor plans. Built by CamWest, a Toll Brothers company, the community is located in the Issaquah School District.
"The builder has designed the community carefully, and planned all homesites for the best possible western-facing sunset and water views," says John L. Scott Real Estate's Anne McIntosh, the listing agent at Shorelane Vistas. "We have some great homesites on the market right now with nice views. And early next year, we'll be unveiling our model home, which is currently under construction."
Architectural styles include Tudor, shingle and Craftsman, and most of the floor plans include basements with bonus rooms or guest bedrooms. Of the 38 homes planned, nine have been sold and six are for sale.
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Steam Box is Valve-developed hardware that aims to broaden the reach of Steam, which is Valve's digital distribution and multiplayer/communications platform. Right now, Steam delivers a variety of games to a user's desktop computer, but Steam Box will bring these games to the living room -- such as on a TV with Big Picture mode.
Not much else has been disclosed about Steam Box, other than the fact that it's Linux-based and will be an open system (Newell even said that it'd be possible to install Windows onto the Steam Box). While no release date is in sight, Newell worries that Apple may launch a similar platform for the living room -- thus beating Valve to the punch.
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While Valve is looking to offer the best hardware for the best possible price point, Newell worries that Apple may make a move first and offer a closed platform that will lack the user-generated content that Valve (through Steam Box) would offer.
"The biggest challenge, I don't think is from the consoles," Newell said. "I think the biggest challenge is that Apple moves on the living room before the PC industry sort of gets its act together."
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Joaquin Phoenix Returns to the "Late Show"
Coming after his much-talked-about appearance in February 2009, Joaquin Phoenix returned to the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York City on Wednesday (September 22).
The unpredictable actor turned up sans scruffy beard as he readied for a promotional chat on the "Late Show with David Letterman" for his new movie "I'm Still Here".
As could be expected, Joaquin and Dave talked about last year's debacle, with Letterman saying, "You know I've always liked you. I've been to see your movies, I've always liked you. I recognize you as a powerful talent – that Johnny Cash thing, you were tremendous in that. And then a year- and-a-half ago, you come out and, honestly, it's like you slipped and hit your head in the tub. And I knew immediately when you sat down, something ain't right, because if you're really the way you appeared to be, you don't go out. You know what I mean? People don't let guys like you out if you're really like that. You don't go out."
A short while later, Dave said, "Now let me ask you a couple of questions. You're retiring to pursue a career in music. To me, that seems – excuse me, I mean, you did sing in the film, but it seems unlikely because you've been nominated for two Academy Awards. I, frankly, when I heard about it later, was surprised that anybody had believed it. And then after seeing you here – first of all, really all I care about is me in this. Now, did I know anything about this?"
With Joaquin replying "No," Letterman then asked, "Yeah. Was there a script that you and I were working with?"
"No," Phoenix responded. "Thank you very much," Letterman said, "I was not part of it, was I?"
"Yeah, but, like you said... I mean, I think that you've interviewed many, many people and I assumed that you would know the difference between a character and a real person, so – but I apologize. I didn't – I hope I didn't offend you in any way…," Joaquin replied.
"Oh, no – oh, no, no, no, I was not offended. I'm telling you, it was so much fun. It was batting practice, you know what I mean? Every one of them was a dinger," Dave chimed in.
"Well, we'd hoped to come on a talk show," Phoenix laughed, "and I was looking for a beat down, and I got one…I want to thank you for that."
Enjoy the pictures of Joaquin Phoenix out at the Late Show (September 22).
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text: Folks..... Besides the eminent domain battle the Trolley Company had legal issues with the survivors of the 72nd Pennsylvania. The 72nd had purchased land on both sides of the stone wall at The Angle during their dispute with the Memorial Association on where their monument would be erected. Eventually, the survivors decided the plot of land on the Cordori side of the stone wall would be used as a burial site for those members of the 72nd Pennsylvania who could not afford burial plots. Eventually, the Trolley company had to move the trolley line from in front of The Angle to the Emmitsburg Pike. I thought you might be interested in reading the following letter from Captain Ker of the 72nd Pennsylvania published in the newspaper on May 26, 1893: "I am told that the electric line is to run along the front of the Bloody Angle close to the famous stone wall, that the road bed will be far below the surface and that the company is now planning in front of the Angle, throwing the broken rock up against the side of the stone wall. The Seventy-second Regiment owns a piece of ground there that they purchased some time ago and that they are holding as a spot in which to inter any of their comrades who fought in the Angle and who are at the time of death might be without a burial ground. I intend writing to Gettysburg to ascertain whether the trolley company has entered upon this ground andif I find that it has I certainly shall file a bill in equity to enjoin it.. Captain W.W. Ker" Eileen Murphy Bristow, VA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret D. Blough" <mdblough1 at comcast.net> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:30:05 PM Subject: Re: GDG- The Gettysburg Electric Railway/Trolley Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: Nancy-All though it doesn't actually appear to have had much impact on the Gettysburg Electric Railway itself (it died by other means), the U.S. Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Gettysburg Electric Railway Co. 160 U.S. 668 (1896) http://laws.findlaw.com/us/160/668.html established the principle that battlefield preservation was a public use for which the US government's Constitutional power of eminent domain could be used. I highly recommend reading it. Mr. Justice Peckham, who wrote the opinion, did an extraordinary, moving job of it. It also has a very good short history of the efforts to protect the battlefield, particularly via the federal government, up to the date of the decision. Regards, Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy Householder" <pipecreek1430 at yahoo.com> To: "Gettysburg Discussion" <gettysburg at arthes.com> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:09:02 AM Subject: GDG- The Gettysburg Electric Railway/Trolley Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: The Gettysburg Electric Railway, also known as the Trolley was incorporated on July 28,1892. They planned to run it, not just around the town, but around the battlefield. William Tipton, who was one of the people who helped with granting access for the trolley tracks, and while they were planning this, eventually purchased 13 acres of land just east of Devils Den for his own park. He knew the trolley line would be passing thru there, and probably made arrangements with the trolley company for his park to be a designated stop. The proposed trolley route was leaked in a Philadelphia newspaper in March 1892: " It will start from the square in Gettysburg, run out the Baltimore Pike, pass Cemetery Hill,encircle the National Cemetery,thence along the Emmittsburg Rd to the Peach Orchard,through the Wheatfield to Devils Den,and through the Valley of Death to Little Round Top Park. The return will be made via the Bloody Angle and Hancock Avenue to Gettysburg." On April 17 & 18, 1893 a gang of Italians arrived from Baltimore and shanties were set up for them on the lot belonging to Mr. Tipton in Devils Den, and work began on the Round top end of the Electric Railway. During the next few days the sound of dynamite blasting rocks on Tiptons land was heard in town more and more frequently. One eyewitness described the work: " All along the line, in the vicinity of Devils Den, there is heavy blasting and digging and filling; and great havoc is played with the landscape. Huge masses of rock are displaced, great bouldlers are moved, the valley is to be filled the width and height of a track from the bridge over Plum Run in front of Round Top to the north end of the Valley and a whole new appearance will be given to the famous field of carnage. For the next few weeks, veterans and concerned citizens watched in disbelief as the trolley company cut a thirty foot wide path through some of the most sacred ground on American soil. Historic trees were felled, streams were forded, and rocks that still should the scars of battle were forever blasted from the face of the earth. In some instances' the trolley roadbed passed within feet of monuments that had been dedicated just a few years before. Public outcry was immediate and in some cases very bitter. John Bachelder was sent to Gettysburg in June to make a preliminary report to the Sec of War on the work being done by the railway company. Part of his report: The boulders which covered the combatants in the desperate engagement between the Fourth Maine and the 44th New York of the Union Army and the 44th Alabama and the right of Bennings Brigade of the Confederate army are already blasted, and the fragments broken under the hammer and are covered with earth to form a roadbed. And it is this locality which has been turned into a park to which cheap excursions are to be run from Baltimore and other cities. This is the most wild and picturesque section of the field. For the distance of over one mile before reaching this locality, the road cuts ruthlessly through the scene of some of the most desperate encounters of the battle. Can you imagine this happening today? 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I confess that when I read Owen Strachan's "The Gospel Is for Baby Bear: On Sesame Street and Gender Confusion" (originally posted on his blog and then reposted on the The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood's website), my initial reaction was 100 percent snark. I posted a link to it on my Facebook page, along with a couple of "reactions," such as:"My boys have often played in a toy kitchen set, and sometimes even carry purses. I've clearly failed as a man and a father, and quite possi … [Read more...]
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Our annual fundraiser for educational programs, The 2012 Nutcracker Tea will be a glorious time for kids of all ages. Games. Crafts. Appearances by Ballet Memphis dancers. Photo opportunities. Silent auction. This year's theme, The Kingdom of Snow, will have everyone in the mood for the holidays and for Nutcracker, with The Peabody ballroom glistening from top to bottom. Tickets $45, available online at www.balletmemphis.org and in our Box Office 901-737-7322. Ticket price includes the tea party, parking and a donation to Ballet Memphis Educational Enrichment.
this is our first year back in memphis in a few years the past few years i have taken my daughter to the nutcracker and tea party in Jackson Ms (MMB company) i see you have a tea part in Nov. is this just the tea party or is this for the show and tea party. this is something my daughter looks forward to every year and i'd like to keep it going and take my neice this year for the 1st time,but wanted to make sure if it was together or diffrent events. i'd love more info emailed or mailed to our home thank you.
Thanks, Lori. The Tea Party is a separate event from the Nutcracker performance. The Tea is at The Peabody and is a grand tea party in the truest sense. The ballet is at The Orpheum two weeks later. Please email your address to firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll get you on the list. Welcome back!
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Phil Elvrum is no longer the Microphones. But he is ready to rock Madame Lash's place, reports George Palathingal.
Talk about enigmatic. Phil Elvrum is the 24-year-old American indie maverick
and all-round space cadet here to play shows advertised under the name of the Microphones, his pseudonym for the past five years.
There's just one thing: the Microphones no longer exist. Elvrum has named his latest musical adventure Mt Eerie after the title of the last Microphones album.
"I mean, it's always just been me, basically," he says in the least threatening voice you could imagine. "But I wanted to change the name just because I felt like I was going in a new direction and I had all these new songs and I just wanted to make a dividing line between one era and another."
What kind of new direction?
"Um ... I don't really know yet. It's just that I knew that the Microphones was over - it was sort of a project that felt completed.
"With the four albums that I did, I just felt like it was a nice, cohesive project, and felt like if I kept doing things under that name it'd kinda be redundant and I'd rather just start something new.
"And I don't really know what Mt Eerie's gonna turn into, but I'm doin' it, whatever it is."
It must feel awkward playing Microphones songs live, then. You still play some, right?
"No, actually I just have a whole bunch of new songs."
You don't play any Microphones material?
"Occasionally, but not really. It feels weird to play songs that I don't really ... feel any more.
I mean, I've always been like that.
"Even when I was calling myself the Microphones I only really ever played new songs ... because I feel, like, a pretty strong connection to the song when I'm performing it.
"I don't like the feeling of faking it, you know what I mean? [Faking] the kind of feeling that inspired the song."
You can get a taste of the sort of thing you'll probably hear on the Microphones' album, Live in Japan, rather than on Elvrum's more ambitious, meticulously detailed studio works.
On the live album, the troubadour's achingly delicate tones accompany a series of his own dreamy folk-pop vignettes, curiously interrupted by a brief a cappella interlude of bastardised excerpts of the Christmas carol Silent Night and
My Favourite Things from The Sound of Music.
It sounds like it was recorded before an audience of 15 people. It may well have been - Elvrum has played some unusual venues.
"Yeah, gosh, the last tour there was ...
I guess pretty much every tour there's a lot of weird places 'cause I only play all-ages shows, and so that means [in the US] no bars," he says.
"It makes me seek out weird places where shows usually don't happen. We played a couple of backyards, art galleries ..."
A recent attempt to play at a Native American reservation failed: "At the last minute we realised we didn't have time to; it was a little out of our way."
Tomorrow's Sydney show is at the Kirk in Surry Hills. Apparently, this is the residence of bondage identity Madame Lash, but all Elvrum has to say on the matter is "this other guy set it up, this guy Woody ... I guess he set up shows in some weird places, yeah".
If you think his choice of venues is unorthodox, some of his attempts at fundraising to get to such places have been downright comical, such as the time he
swam the Guemes Channel in his home state of Washington.
"Yeah," Elvrum says with a sheepish laugh. "I didn't make any money off of that. That was more like sort of a fun publicity stunt. I was leaving town for a long time, I wanted to use that for everyone to come say goodbye."
What about the time you tried to sell your car on the website of your indie record company K Records a few years ago?
"Ha ha ha ... did I? Maybe I did?"
Let me refresh your memory: a 1990 Chevrolet station wagon ...
"Yeah! That was me. I've tried lots of crazy stuff on the K website. A lot of times I'll go on tour and then realise midway on the tour that I forgot to bring a certain tape that I wanna listen to, so I'll ask someone to tape it and bring it to a show! It works sometimes ..."
I put it to this eccentric, heroically ordinary cult artist that he reminds me of Harvey Pekar, comic-book scribe, recent Sydney visitor and subject of last year's American Splendor.
"Yeah, I guess that makes sense. That's nice. Thank you!"
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If earned I living what I do most, as a business major I oddly dream of being a songwriter. It's such a dream because of how I could use my emotions, or the emotions of the singer, and even the world in a song. I dream of making songs that can give a person their last hope or cause a movement that changes the way society views a part of itself. Change traditions for my time period like the instrumental used for when the bride is coming. In a song that I wrote to have power, create power for people that need it, and make love fly around the world. In reality this seems like a long shot, but I do what I have been told keep working, put my faith in God, and believe in my abilities.


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Goat Cheese and Pine Nut Triangles
Starting with refrigerated biscuit dough makes this recipe really simple to prepare. The goat cheese, pine nuts and sun dried tomatoes are a terrific flavor combination, creamy and nutty with just a little bit of sweetness.
Goat Cheese and Pine Nut Triangles
Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes Yield: 24 pieces
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Yield: 24 pieces
- Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
- 4 scallions, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup crumbled goat cheese
- 3 tablespoons sour cream
- 2 teaspoons half-and-half
- 1/2 cup chopped sun dried tomatoes
- 2 to 3 tablespoons toasted pine nuts
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 12-ounce can flaky-layers refrigerated biscuits (original or buttermilk flavor)
Heat the butter in a large pan over medium heat. Add the garlic and sauté until soft and fragrant, about 1-1/2 minutes. Do not brown. Add the scallions and sun dried tomatoes, cook for 2 minutes more, then remove from the heat and allow to cool.
Combine the goat cheese, sour cream, half-and-half, sun dried tomatoes and toasted pine nuts in a small bowl. Add the garlic-scallion mixture, mix thoroughly and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 375°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Open the biscuit dough, remove 2 biscuits and return the remainder to the refrigerator to stay chilled as you work.
Working on a flat surface, separate the layers of each biscuit into 3 circles of dough. Place about two teaspoons of filling in the center of each round, then draw up the sides, roll and pinch three edges together to form a triangle that is open at the top. Place the pastries on the baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until golden brown.
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These pastries can be made either a day in advance or frozen for up to 2 weeks. Reheat at 375°F for about 4 minutes if refrigerated, 6 or 7 minutes if frozen (don't defrost them first).
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It is whatever works. Erring on the side of caution is a good thing.
I fell for a fake Microsoft Tech Support scam the other day. I haven't found any lingering effects so far, but I am going to dispute transactions when my bank will let me. With stuff like this happening, it doesn't surprise me that the world is headed in such a negative direction.
It sure is, when everywhere you look seems to be on a irreversible downhill trend, whether it be criminals, corporations and/or government. Sadly, the days are gone when CEOs and politicians were gentlemen and statesmen... and modern-day thieves no longer have a code of conduct.
Nowadays just about everyone wants to steal/take your money, rightfully so or not. And just because it's a politician or corporate person, don't mean it ain't stealing. It's just been legitimised is all.
At the end of the day, there's just one word for it all... GREED!!!
Worst of all, the people with the most seem to be the greediest of them all... and I won't mention Trump in case some think it's political.
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Joe Urmann calls Mt. Lebanon boys basketball coach Joe David "one of the hardest-working, best men I've known."
Now, Urmann will be trying beat David twice a year.
After spending the past four seasons as an assistant with Mt. Lebanon's successful program, the 27-year-old Urmann will get his first experience as a varsity head coach with Baldwin this winter. The Baldwin-Whitehall school board voted, 7-1, Wednesday night to hire Urmann as the Highlanders' new coach.
"I'm very excited for the opportunity," he said. "It's been a dream of mine for years to be a high school coach at the highest level."
As for facing his old boss in Section 4 play?
"It'll be fun, and I'm sure a little challenging on that day," Urmann said with a laugh. "It'll be a little extra emotional. … Without a doubt, Coach David has been in many ways a mentor to me. Even off the court, he's done a lot for me. He's very happy for me."
Urmann, who is a middle school teacher in the Mt. Lebanon School District, was on the bench when the Blue Devils appeared in the state title game last season and for their WPIAL championship victory in 2010. He is a 2002 graduate of District 9 Elk County Catholic and attended IUP for undergrad before completing his master's degree at Robert Morris.
This is the first new coach for Baldwin in quite some time. Kyle DeGregorio had led the Highlanders for nine seasons before having his position opened following last year's 9-13 season.
Baldwin also has a new girls basketball coach — Gavin Prosser, who graduated from the South Hills school in 2003 and was a star player for the Highlanders.
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House Speaker John Boehner is very confident in the job his caucus has done, saying they've made a real difference in jobs and the economy and making the nation a great, friendly place for Republicans. But considering how much work they ditched in order to go off on a five-week break from legislating lady parts, Boehner's judgement on that score has to be questioned.
The most serious and immediate in Boehner's remarkable failure has been in getting his caucus behind a farm bill. Like the transportation bill debacle before it, the farm bill fuck up is remarkable and historic. For the first time in modern history, the House hasn't been able to pass a farm bill because the crazies in the caucus are fighting it. The Senate has even managed to pass a farm bill, making Boehner's failure even more remarkable. So in a last-minute rush to try to cover up that failure, Boehner got a stop-gap small bill pushed through to help one segment of agriculture producers, dropped it on the Senate, and then promptly recessed. The Senate, not being interested in bailing Boehner out on this one, rejected this as way too little and too late.
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Urge the Pope to Call for a Christmas Ceasefire in Afghanistan
In early December 1914, Pope Benedict XV called for a "Christmas Truce" in the First World War. Leaders on all sides were forced to respond to the Pope's call. No formal truce was agreed, but across the trenches of the Western Front many soldiers on all sides observed the Christmas truce the Pope had called for.
Today the war in Afghanistan continues killing Americans and Afghans for no reason. If Pope Benedict XVI - the current Pope - called on Western leaders to announce an offensive ceasefire in Afghanistan for the Christmas holiday, Western leaders would have to respond. If we could stop the war for one day, it would set an important precedent, making it easier to achieve a lasting ceasefire and an end to the war.
Pope Benedict XVI has just inaugurated the use of a Twitter account. The Pope already has a million followers on Twitter, and the fact that he is now on Twitter is in the news. Sign and tweet our petition, and people around the world will see your appeal for the Pope to call for a Christmas ceasefire:
We're making our appeal for a ceasefire to the Pope because he is the most prominent and influential Western religious leader, and because of the historical precedent of his predecessor's call for a ceasefire in 1914. If Pope Benedict calls for a ceasefire in Afghanistan, other Western leaders will join his call, and Western governments with troops in Afghanistan will have to respond. Upon becoming Pope in 2005, he said: [1]
Senate Backs Accelerated End To Combat Missions, Continued Drawdown of US Troops In Afghanistan
Yesterday, an overwhelming majority (62-33) of US Senators—including every Senator who caucuses with the Democrats save two—voted in favor of a measure that calls upon President Obama to continue withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan at a steady pace, as he promised in his address to the nation in June 2011. The "sense of the Senate", which was introduced by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), also calls upon President Obama to end all regular US combat missions in Afghanistan no later than December 31, 2014, and to "take all possible steps" to end such operations earlier.
Why is this vote significant? At present, there is no timetable for removing the 68,000 US troops that remain in Afghanistan. President Obama does not plan to announce such a timetable until after his administration has decided how many troops to leave in Afghanistan post-2014. This decision is expected to happen within the next few weeks, which means that a decision on a drawdown timetable for 2013-2014 may also be imminent.
White House To Make Decision On Post-2014 Afghanistan Troop Levels Within Next Few Weeks
On Monday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters that the Obama administration would come to a decision within the next few weeks about the magnitude of the US "enduring presence" in Afghanistan. Panetta said that the White House was currently reviewing several recommendations for troop levels from General John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. These options take into account the different roles US troops would play in Afghanistan after 2014. According to the New York Times,
The number, Mr. Panetta said, will be based on how many forces are needed for counterterrorism — that is, in commando raids like the one that killed Osama bin Laden — as well as for training and providing air transport and other support to the Afghan security forces.
Call Congress This Week to Cut the Military Budget, End the War in Afghanistan!
Congressional offices will be paying special attention to phone calls coming in this week on the Defense Appropriations bill, so call your Representative today! Here's what you do:
- Call the Congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask to be connected to your Representative's office.
- Tell the person who picks up or your Rep's voice mailbox, "Hello, my name is _______, I live at _______. I urge Rep _______ to support amendments to the Defense Appropriations bill that would cut the Pentagon budget, end the war in Afghanistan, and draw down US troop levels in Europe."
Amendments expected to cut the military budget include:
- Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) and Barney Frank (D-MA) amendment to cut $1.1 billion (a freeze at FY12 levels) from the military budget;
- An amendment to cut $7 billion to align the bill to spending caps under the Budget Control Act;
- Barbara Lee amendment to cut $19 billion, corresponding to program cuts proposed by Project on Defense Alternatives and the Cato Institute.
Amendments expected to end or curtail the war in Afghanistan include:
- Barbara Lee amendment to cut all funding for the war except for what is needed for a safe and responsible drawdown;
- Walter Jones and Rosa DeLauro amendment preventing the use of funds past 2014 in support of any mission that does not have explicit Congressional approval.
And when you're done, report your call below.
Congressional Sign on to Letter to President Obama: Expedite Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Below is the text of a sign-on letter being circulated by Reps. Barbara Lee and Walter Jones calling on President Obama to expedite US military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Sign on to Letter to President Obama: Expedite Withdrawal from Afghanistan
From: The Honorable Barbara Lee
Date: 5/2/2012
Dear Colleague,
The American people have overwhelmingly come to the conclusion that our brave men and women in uniform have accomplished all that we have asked of them and it is time to bring them home from Afghanistan.
Members of Congress need to stand with seven out of ten Americans (including 52% of GOP voters) who oppose the war in Afghanistan.
We invite you to sign on to the letter below which closes on May 10, 2012 (ahead of the NATO Summit in Chicago). The letter calls on the President to expedite our troops' return and speed up the transition to having Afghans in charge of Afghanistan.
Barbara Lee
Member of Congress
Walter Jones
Member of Congress
Current Co-Signers (49): Adam Smith, Baldwin, Bass, Capps, Chu, Yvette Clarke, Clay, Cohen, Conyers, Costello, John Duncan, Edwards, Ellison, Farr, Filner, Frank, Grijalva, Hahn, Alcee Hastings, Heinrich, Hinchey, Holt, Honda, Jackson Jr., Tim Johnson, Kucinich, Lewis, Lofgren, Maloney, McCollum, McGovern, Michaud, George Miller, Moore, Nadler, Olver, Pingree, Polis, Rangel, Richardson, Loretta Sanchez, Serrano, Slaughter, Stark, Mike Thompson, Tonko, Frederica Wilson, Woolsey, Yarmuth.
May 10, 2012
The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
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The US in Afghanistan: A Tale of Urination, Desecration, Extermination, and ... Posing with Corpses?
Afghans showing that they are not altogether pleased with a recent Koran burning incident at a US base in Afghanistan.
It appears that public embarrassments are becoming a monthly occasion for the US occupation in Afghanistan. In January, a video was released on the internet depicting four US soldiers urinating on the corpses of three dead Afghans. The purportedly unintentional burning of Korans at Bagram base ignited violent protests throughout the country in February. And last month, a US soldier was indicted on charges of killing 17 Afghan villagers in a macabre night-time massacre.
So what has April brought us from Afghanistan? No, it's not spring showers--and whatever it is, it is certainly unlikely to result in May flowers. It's eighteen photographs featuring US soldiers posing with Afghan body parts. Classy.
Does the Obama Campaign Know Something We Don't About US Withdrawal from Afghanistan?
Just yesterday, Santorum announced the suspension of his presidential campaign, leaving Mitt Romney the presumptive Republican candidate for president. The Obama campaign has moved quickly, announcing today it's on (no, really, they said this) by releasing a factsheet on Facebook about their likely opponent, entitled, "Five Things You Need to Know About Mitt Romney." The image has become a viral sensation, with over 15,000 likes, 2,800 comments, and 7,000 shares at the time of writing. I've embedded a copy to the right. Take a look.
Okay, first fact is predictable.
Second one ... wait, what?
He opposes the President's plan to end the war in Afghanistan and would leave troops there indefinitely.
Does this mean that Obama is NOT planning to leave troops in Afghanistan indefinitely? How did I miss the President announcing a date for full withdrawal from Afghanistan? Did I black out or something? When did this happen? What great news!
Call-In to End the War in Afghanistan, Support H. 780
This week, peace groups around the country are calling Congress with the message: end the Afghanistan war now! Call your Representative at 877-429-0678 and tell him or her to support and co-sponsor H. 780, which would limit funding for the war to funds that are necessary for a safe and orderly withdrawal. Check the link to see whether your Rep is already a co-sponsor--if so, thank him or her for their support, and tell them to everything in their power to promote the bill and its mission.
When you're done with your call, report it below.
War-Weary Republicans Rebuke Romney on Afghanistan
On Wednesday night, the Senate adopted by voice vote an amendment introduced by Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley calling on President Obama to speed up U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. This was a watershed event towards ending the war. The previous high water mark of Senators calling for expedited withdrawal was 27; the previous high water mark on a vote was 18. The vote is a green light from the Senate to the White House for a faster military withdrawal that would save many American and Afghan lives and (at least) many tens of billions of taxpayer dollars.
Because it was a voice vote, there was no roll call. But, if you want to know who especially to thank, 21 Senators sponsored Merkley's amendment:
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR); Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT); Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM); Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY); Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH); Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT); Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK); Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM); Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA); Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD); Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND); Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL); Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY); Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA); Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT); Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV); Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) ; Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV); Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY); Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
The Senate vote - which saw John McCain standing alone in vocal opposition - is more evidence that on key issues of war and military spending, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Buck McKeon haven't been speaking for Republicans generally.
Senators Have Ideas For Cutting the Military Budget
You might not know it from national press reports, but there are plenty of Members of Congress of both political parties who think that cutting the military budget is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, and have concrete ideas for doing so.
(The New York Times did note last week that the leaderships of both parties are content to let stand the automatic cuts to the previously projected military budget mandated by the Budget Control Act.)
You can see that Senators have ideas for cutting the military budget from the list of amendments filed in the Senate to the National Defense Authorization Act, currently under consideration. [To weigh in with your Senators on these amendments, you can use the toll-free number established by the Friends Committee on National Legislation: 1-877-429-0678.]
Even if many of these amendments don't pass in the next few days, these ideas will still be nominees for consideration as the Pentagon considers how it wishes to cough up an additional half trillion dollars in savings from previously projected spending over the next ten years, as mandated by the Budget Control Act.


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Yesterday we held our 3rd annual de Pizan Honors! The event went really well and was a blast! A special thanks goes out to those of you who attended. We're still in the de Pizan mood here at the Museum, so this week's Throwback Thursday post is all about our honorees. Below you can find the list of this year's honorees and the awards they were given, as well as some of our favorite clips that show off their work!
Denyce Graves - Marian Anderson Living Legacy Award
Dr. Etta Pisano - Dr. Helen Taussig Living Legacy Award
Phylicia Rashad - Lena Horne Living Legacy Award
Ken Burns - Henry Blackwell Award
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Consider that junior Robert Woods needs five catches to set the new USC record for career receptions, a mark his sophomore teammate Marqise Lee is currently on pace to break next season.
Marquess Wilson of Washington State could also become his school's leader in career grabs, again needing just three seasons to do so.
Arizona sophomore Austin Hill has exploded onto the scene, ranking 14th nationally in receiving yards per game and 15th in receptions per game.
Markus Wheaton and Brandin Cooks have reenergized the Oregon State offense, leading the surprising Beavers into the top 10 of the BCS, but seem like afterthoughts in the race for first-team all-conference recognition.
And then there is Keenan Allen. With seven catches Saturday, he would pass Geoff McArthur to establish himself as the most productive receiver in California history, needing only 32 games to set the record.
Allen has done so with a cast of quarterbacks that have ranged somewhere between occasionally competent game managers to totally unqualified frauds. He has done so with defenses devoting their focus to limiting his damage.
He has done so because Allen's athleticism is simply remarkable, which should all but guarantee his place in the first round of the next NFL draft. Compared to his fellow third-year standouts Woods and Wilson, he is clearly the superior physical talent.
While Wilson thrives most from his leaping and acceleration, Woods his work ethic and precision route running, Allen is the model of the modern receiver at 6-foot-3 and 210 pounds, capable of attacking the defense at all three levels.
It was evident from the moment he set foot on campus.
"It's very interesting because me and Keenan were roommates his first camp. I didn't know a lot about the kid because I never really know the recruits coming in, and I have been here for a lot of classes," redshirt senior linebacker Robert Mullins said.
"They ran a screen play to him, and he must have shook three guys, he broke a tackle, and I think he scored. We were doing a clutch drill, a two-minute drill. He looked like the best guy out there and that was his first camp. That was the moment where I saw how good this kid could actually be."
And yet, Allen's remarkable talent hasn't been able to lift the Golden Bears out of their malaise, posting a 15-17 record. His 166 yards at Washington State last week were the most he has had in a win, third-most in his college career.
His other top performances – a three-game stretch where he 197, 170, and 160 yards last season at Washington, at Oregon, and versus USC – came in contests Cal lost by a total of 57 points.
That is what makes Saturday against Stanford so vital for Allen, what could mean the difference between being a wildly-productive player who took those skills to the next level and a legend.
He has never lifted the Axe, never beaten a top team. He can remedy both in the Big Game, especially if he delivers a performance for the ages, one that does more than set a career record but lift Cal to victory over its rival.
What is the signature moment of his time in college, especially in contrast to the other stars that came into the conference in 2010? Wilson has been the lone bright spot for one of the most dismal programs in major college football. Woods set a Pac-12 single-season record for receptions, has a 10-win season to his credit, and delivered dominant efforts in wins over Notre Dame and UCLA.
And Allen, is he going to be remembered as a player that put up terrific stats and went onto the NFL, or the man who wrested the Axe back from Stanford? Can he be the one that put Cal on his back and carried them to that Big Game victory, to greater success beyond that?
Rivalry games are unique in that regard, with the power to almost single-handedly redefine the way someone is remembered.
John Cooper had terrific success at Ohio State, but couldn't beat Michigan. The pummeling Mack Brown has taken in multiple Red River Shootouts has put his future in question. Peyton Manning could never get past Florida.
Matt Leinart will always have fourth-and-nine in South Bend, Cam Newton the comeback at Alabama, Kevin Moen bowling over that Stanford trombone player at the end of The Play.
On the 30th anniversary of the most legendary moment in the Cal-Stanford rivalry, "the most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heart-rending, exciting, thrilling finish in the history of college football," Allen will have his chance to add to make his mark and create a legacy to set himself apart.
Dan Greenspan is the publisher of Cal Sports Digest and writes about the Pac-12 for Fox Sports Next. Follow him on Twitter @DanGreenspan.


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LITTLE COLORADO RIVER GORGE, Ariz. (AP) — Daredevil Nik Wallenda has said a prayer and kissed his wife and kids as he gets ready for one of his most ambitious feats yet — crossing a tightrope 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon.
The 34-year-old Sarasota, Fla., resident is ready to start crossing a quarter-mile cable which is stretched over the gorge. This same stunt was considered by another high-wire performer decades ago. It comes a year after Wallenda traversed Niagara Falls earning a seventh Guinness world record. He'll be using the same 2-inch-thick cable he used to cross the falls, only this time he won't be wearing a safety harness.
Wallenda is a seventh-generation high-wire artist and is part of the famous "Flying Wallendas" circus family — a clan that is no stranger to death-defying feats and great tragedy.
His great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, fell during a performance in Puerto Rico and died at the age of 73. Several other family members, including a cousin and an uncle, have perished while performing wire walking stunts.
Nik Wallenda, who was born a year after his great-grandfather died, began wire walking at the age of 2, on a 2-foot high stretched rope. He grew up performing with his family and has dreamed of crossing the Grand Canyon since he was a teenager.


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Best Of :: Arts & Entertainment
Willy Sutton from Regis University put together two impressive exhibits in the O'Sullivan Art Gallery that looked like a singular presentation. Sutton paired Denver's Kevin O'Connell and Boulder's Richard Van Pelt, both landscape photographers. O'Connell, who is best known for his luxuriously done platinum prints of the Colorado plains, turned on the color for these newer pierces and aimed his camera at a tree-filled park. The sensibility shift makes sense considering that the new photos mark the artist's journey through a bone-marrow transplant. Van Pelt's carbon prints depict little pieces of the wilderness in the spaces between developments, poetically juxtaposing nature and the built environment. The show successfully reconciled these distinctly different takes on nature.
What's much more fun than watching American Idol every week? Trying to become the British Bulldog's Rock Idol. Competitors had to choose songs from such categories as "'90s" and "female vocalists." With the Bulldog's buy-one-get-one-free drafts and well drinks, there were plenty of people in the audience for the would-be Rock Idols to entertain, and in this competition, singing was second place to entertaining. Will Rock Idol return for a second season? Let's hope the folks at the British Bulldog are up for another round.
Gene Gillette held the stage with complete authority in The Lieutenant of Inishmore, a crazed, cathartic bloodbath of a play dominated by scenes of torture, murder and dismemberment. As the psychotic Padraic, unhinged by the death of his cat, he was dopey, sentimental and terrifying, and you believed he was capable of every violent act attributed to him — and a good deal more.
Everyone's bigger than life in Tennessee Williams's melodrama about familial battles in the hot, lurid South, and everyone talks nonstop, but Brick is required to say very little for a long, long time. Chris Reid made the character complex and multi-dimensional, so that his extended silences pulsed with feeling and thought — and when he exploded, everything around him went white, like the landscape during a lightning flash. His Brick was cruel and cowardly, passionate, tormented and subtle, with a quietly twisted sense of humor. A deeply felt and resonant performance.
In Soul Survivor, Vincent C. Robinson clearly had a great time portraying the Devil as he attempted to win the soul of a quiet, rational man already quite happy with his life. He swaggered, teased and seduced the audience, uttered tee-hees of laughter that were both sinister and self-mocking, mugged, grimaced and, at one point, broke into an outrageous triumphal dance — and the audience enjoyed every moment just as much as he did.
Seymour is a nerdy soul who's faced with a Faustian bargain when he finds and tends a man-eating plant that offers him money, prestige and the love of Seymour's beautiful co-worker, Audrey — but only if Seymour keeps feeding it flesh. It's a ridiculous premise that fuels a goofy show, but Brandon Dill, an expressive actor with a strong voice, actually made you feel for the guy.


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From: "J. L. Jones" <>
Subject: RE: Irish Immigrant Literacy
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 97 07:57:07 UT
linda Merle wrote:
> If you are living in the Ulster Scots heartlands of America, you
> may know a few words yerself. Ever "red up" your room? Are your
> neighbors nebby? Even the term "hill billy". "Billy" is Scots
> for "guy". I've been reading "A Scots Quair" by Lewis Grassic
Uh-Oh doesn't everybody say red up yer room? this is news to me!
Dear Vesta,
The Penna-Dutch list also mentioned "red-up". I heard it growing up, but
thought it was 'those' people from Kentucky or West Virginia or somewhere
awful like where my ancestors came from. I though the only relatives from
Pennsylvania were the German ones. Now that I'm into genealogy, surprise.
We are all in this life together, like it or not. My hillbilly cousins
originally came from NC and PA. Don't know of any "nebby" neighbors, just
nosy ones.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Regards in Peace,
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
DC Chumps of the Week
Semper fi, anyone?
. Obviously, this could be a weekly feature, but it's more fun to hold it in reserve for special occasions. Like now.
You marines may get upset, but as all of you would probably admit -- at least over drinks -- there
marines who are bullies and self-centered pricks. That's evidently the case with Senator James Webb of Virginia. His public tantrum about wanting to punch the President for inquiring about Webb junior's welfare in Iraq was an alarm signal. So was his haughty and needlessly bellicose interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. He also suffers from the unfortunate facial anomaly that at rest, his mouth defaults to a sullen sneer. I won't mention the Nixonian eyes. All this admittedly sketchy evidence made me suspect that he might be wrapped too tight and not quite as admirable in person as his resume would indicate.
Now we know. He's a crumb. Not for carrying loaded weapons around, but for throwing a faithful friend overboard in his hour of need. The gun Webb has not yet officially admitted he owns landed longtime aide and fellow vet Philip Thompson in a DC jail overnight. Where was the former marine officer with loads of DC clout to show up at the police station, roust a judge out of bed for a bail hearing, and get his buddy back home where he belonged? Not there. At the very moment his friend was being arraigned on felony charges in court the next day, Webb was giving a guarded, self-serving press conference at the Capitol building.
I don't need to know any more about James Webb than that.
There's less to say about Chuck Hagel. He just conspired with the congessional Democrats in their desperately urgent attempt to lose the war in Iraq before the President, Petraeus, and the U.S. military can bring off the unexpected disaster of victory. I've noted previously that Republicans are
, but this Hagel character has to be the stupidest of all. He actually thinks he has a shot at the Republican presidential nomination. Let me repeat that.
He actually thinks he has a shot at the Republican presidential nomination.
Right. After single-handedly torpedoing his President's most crucial war-time policy stance -- not giving the enemy a U.S. surrender date -- he shouldn't be able to win the senate primary in his own state, and he certainly won't budge the needle off zero in any Republican presidential primary.
He's a stone loser, in every sense of the term, and if Nebraska Republicans had any character they'd mount an immediate petition drive for a recall election. They won't do it, of course, but if Hagel reads his email today, I expect he'll still get the drift.
Check that. He's too damn dumb to get anything ever.
Enough said.
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Another Challenge
It's just art --
for yourself.
. At the end of February, I proposed a
to the more skilled searchers of the Internet to measure the difference between the use of cursewords in blogs by lefties and righties. I offered criteria -- Carlin's seven dirty words -- I believed amenable to search engines.� Those who remember or review my original challenge will be aware that the catalyst was not cursewords per se, but the flood of lefty blog posts and comments wishing a swift and painful death on Vice President Cheney after his last health crisis. (There was a precedent case for this: the lefty response to
Laura Ingraham's cancer
.) I didn't think at the time that this sort of human indecency could be measured on the Internet, so I proposed a substitute in the belief that extreme rhetoric in a tangible, measurable area might also inform us about the incidence of extreme rhetoric in intangible areas such as the response to a political opponent's ill health. The
to that challenge was quick and overwhelming:. the left
quantitatively more foul-mouthed than the right.
Since then, I've observed that some perseverant lefties continue seeking ways of chipping away at the findings of those who answered my challenge. I haven't kept the links (sorry!) but enough additional searches have been performed by now for the purpose of defending the Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, et al, that I must conclude they were bothered by the initial findings. Still, all they've managed to date is to build dubious arguments for reducing the ratio by which lefty cussing exceeds�righty cussing, not for reversing the balance.
In recent days, a lot of new evidence has become available on the original prompt for my curiosity. The Elizabeth Edwards announcement. The Tony Snow announcement. And less known but even more sadly, the
of conservative blogger Cathy Seipp's death from cancer. Not as dire but just as disturbing has been the experience of an apparently nonpolitical blogger named Kathy Sierra, who is now living in fear because of death threats over the Internet. (I remember but won't reference the equally scary instance of Protein Wisdom's Jeff Goldstein with an Internet stalker who threatened his children because of Goldstein's conservative views.)
My challenge to the technically superior in these matters is to find some means of assessing the left vs. right responses to the past month's news about Elizabeth Edwards, Tony Snow, Cathy Seipp, and Kathy Sierra.
Here are some links and info to jump-start your research:
Elizabeth Edwards
: My own
critical of John Edwards, supplemented with a
round-up post
linked by a
at this site who apparently thought I hadn't done my research.
Tony Snow
. The first word I heard after the announcement itself was that the Huffington Post had
a priori
disabled comments on its announcement of the recurrence of his disease. (Why? Huh.) Then came
from Little Green Footballs.
Cathy Seipp
. To his credit, Glenn Reynolds has used his talent for terseness to maximum effect in
this entry
Kathy Sierra
. If anyone understands Internet threats and abuse (sexual & physical), it's Michelle Malkin the Brave. She proves it again
, but with some qualifications.
The lefties who criticized the first challenge tried first to disprove the quantitative findings. Then they fell back on the argument that there's nothing wrong with using foul language in the pursuit of passionate political convictions. What would they fall back on if the obvious fact can be proved -- that they, in all their enlightened tolerance, wish death and suffering upon their opponents far more than heartless conservatives ever do?
Are you curious? Then find a way to prove it, dammit.
. Yet again, thanks to the incomparable Wuzzadem for the link. Even if you have nothing to contribute to this challenge, you
to go see what Mr. and Mrs. Wuzzadem are up to right now, including their entries on the
pet food problem
Chuck Hagel
, plus the solid-gold
of a conservative voice so brilliant that it recalls the history-making speech Ronald Reagan made on behalf of the Goldwater presidential campaign. In fact, Evan Sayet is so astonishingly on-target that we'll devote a post strictly to him when we've assembled the necessary, relevant links to our own past meditations on the state of the contemporary liberal mind. It's possible we'll be nominating Mr. Sayet to run for President. He's that good.
Here's our honest assessment. If you had to choose between InstaPunk and the blog of Mr. and Mrs. Wuzzadem, in all good conscience we'd have to tell you to pick Wuzzadem. They rule.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
I Dunno, LaShawn
Paradise by a Dashboard Jesus.
LaShawn Barber is a highly intelligent and perceptive lady of great religious faith, and ordinarily I find much plain-spoken wisdom in her commentaries. Today, though, I found myself instinctively recoiling from this little
vision of paradise
she posted at her blog:
Have you ever wanted to retreat from the world? Just go someplace where there are no stupid or mean people, where everyone is selfless and thoughtful?
I daydream about living in a gated community town of nice, thoughtful, kind, and smart Bible-believing Christians. We have our own grocery and office supply stores. Christians run and work in the utility companies and gas stations and the DMV. School administrators and teachers are all Christians. The movie theaters, owned and operated by Christians, show Christian-friendly movies. The few people in town who own televisions watch Christian-friendly shows and documentaries that don�t distort the history of Christianity or feature so-called Christian scholars hostile to Christian doctrine and the Bible.
And no unbeliever would be able to enter through the gate.
You see what I�m getting at? I know Christians have their faults. We�re still sinners, after all. But I think about how much better life would be if everyone I met, everyone I heard, everyone I worked with, every writer I read�was a Christian.
When I shared this gated-community-of-Christians fantasy with my sister, she said something like, �You�re not talking about a gated community, Shawn. You�re talking about heaven.�
Indeed! That�s what I want�
Before I even got to the level of philosophical objections to this -- and there are a few -- my first, instantaneous reaction was: "B-o-o-o-o-ring! I'd go mad in such a place."
My next impression was visual, an unfair one perhaps, but one inspired by what seems her desire for uniformity, agreement, and utter acceptance. I see empty, smiling, well scrubbed faces at her grocery store and DMV and movie theaters, a kind of Stepford community of the "Bible-believing," with nary a hint of rowdy Irish Catholics (or Catholics of any variety for that matter), poets who are failed priests struggling with tides of faith
doubt, or scholars who dig through layers of ancient languages, layers of silt and stone, and layers of evolving scientific theory to reconcile faith with our continually expanding universe.
Yes, we all have dreams of escape, but this depiction of a gated community is especially alarming. It's as far as can be from a vision of real peace and serenity, which can withstand much mere human turmoil if they are nourished by the real treasures of creation -- the songbirds, trees, flowers, and streams of the land and its seasons, including the transcendent wheel of the stars and their galaxies above. The one is an infinite source of beauty and unfolding meaning. The other is a drab and sterile hiding place, a prison of stasis.
LaShawn's post sounds like the old plaint, "Stop the world. I want to get off." And perhaps that's so. It's all that turning and turning of things that created the protestant fundamentalists in the first place. They have always wanted the text of the Bible to stop moving around, to become a million word version of the original stone commandments. They want the ideas of man to stop complexifying into dangerous opposites of their origins, thus creating endless new categories of sin. They want the universe itself to return to the immanence of Genesis, with no uncomfortable infusions from the Hubble telescope, Darwin's perceptions of change, or Einstein's bastard spawn of quantum physics. They have even wanted to amputate the 1500 years of Christian history between Christ and the protestant fixers who would finally paralyze the whole mess inside a concrete totem of Jesus himself, cut loose from Judaism, historical ambiguity, and even the generations of non-persons who assembled their infallible, unquestionable [American English] Bible book by book.
, courtesy of Boortz(!), is the physical universe that corresponds to LaShawn Barber's gated community. It's modestly titled "The Earth Is Not Moving." Like her vision, this is a closed world that's small, well contained, black and white, and wearing the fixed smile of the unthinking cultist.
I'd like to suggest that it's not just the secularized and corrupted Christian traditionalists who have to find their way back to the basis of their faith if our nation is to survive the test of fanatical Islamic jihad. It's also the arrogant, overly certain exclusionists of the fundamentalist denominations who have to rediscover the infinite variety and vitality of a faith they seem determined to reduce to a lifeless fossil.
Maybe that's not what LaShawn means by her post. But it sure sounds that way to me. And I dare say I've been a "Christian" longer than she has. But if I ever passed through those gates of hers, it would be kicking like a mule and screaming bloody murder. I like to imagine heaven as a bit more colorful and exciting.
How about you?
. It's even worse than I thought. LaShawn has now posted the following "addendum:"
Loyal readers! I�m not �back� two hours, and people already are intentionally misreading a post. Gee whiz. I know such a place doesn�t exist on earth, and it�s not meant to exist on earth. The Bible teaches that my place as a believer is in the world, allowing God to work through me to reach the lost. I�m simply sharing a fantasy, for crying out loud. I have this longing for heaven, and every cell in my body cries out, �Come, Lord Jesus!� And he said he would.
Then again, I suppose I invite contrary-just-for-the-sake-of-being-contrary comments whenever I open a post, so there you go.
post wasn't "contrary-just-for-the-sake-of-being-contrary." It was a response to the red flag she's raised about herself. Her addendum adds fuel to the fire. She actually believes what I feared -- that her gated community is heaven itself, the place she will spend eternity after God is finished working "through (her) to reach the lost."
She's not just in retreat. She's in full flight. What an impoverished existence she is likely to lead from here on if she doesn't pull her mind and soul out of this "Praise Jesus" coma. Sad. Very sad. Chances are, very very few of the "lost" are going to see any appeal in her vision of heaven. Not many people want to join a hideously strict club nobody interesting is allowed into. The members probably won't have any difficulty getting great tee times at the golf course, though. Small consolation, you say? Exactly what she's offering from the sound of it.


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Water Under the Bridge
As a youngster, Jake O'Connor (Scott Cooper) witnessed the sight of his best friend lying dead and his father wielding a shotgun. Trying to gain closure, Jake returns home to find the truth about what really happened that fateful night. Incognito, he moves into an apartment owned by a sexy woman named Catherine (Gabrielle Anwar). As Catherine and Jake fall for each other, the pieces of the puzzle begin to come together. Clark Brigham directs.


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UC Irvine Health turned to Hadoop and Hortonworks Data Platform to improve clinical operations in the hospital and its scientific research at the medical school. Their team is building a quantified medical practice that reduces readmissions, speeds new research projects, and tracks patient vital stats on a minute-by-minute basis.
The Clinical Informatics Group (CIG) at UC Irvine Health (UCIH) was founded in 2009 to provide high quality information in support of the pioneering work done by researchers and clinicians at UC Irvine. The CIG began its journey towards Hadoop with an assessment of their data storage.
Some data was scattered across multiple Excel spreadsheets. UCIH also had 9 million semi-structured records for 1.2 million patients over 22 years, none of which was searchable or retrievable. These semi-structured records included dictated radiology reports, pathology reports, and rounding notes—very valuable, in aggregate. But it was not accessible in the aggregate.
The CIG first migrated data from that "low tech" platform to an enterprise data warehouse with integrated clinical business intelligence tools. Then they migrated again to their current modern data architecture on Hadoop, on Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP).
The single Hadoop data lake at UC Irvine Health allows the CIG to make good on their "no data left behind" doctrine and serves two different constituents: The UC Irvine School of Medicine for medical research and the UC Irvine Medical Center for the quality of its clinical practice. The medical school and the hospital have distinct big data use cases, but they are both served by a unified data platform with HDP at its core.
Charles Boicey describes the efficiency of serving different stakeholders with the same comprehensive data platform:
"Hadoop is the only technology that allows healthcare to store data in its native form. If Hadoop didn't exist we would still have to make decisions about what can come into our data warehouse or the electronic medical record (and what cannot). Now we can bring everything into Hadoop, regardless of data format or speed of ingest. If I find a new data source, I can start storing it the day that I learn about it. We leave no data behind."
Now back to those 9 million semi-structured legacy records. They are now searchable and retrievable in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). This allowed the UCIH team to turn off their legacy system that was used for view only, saving them more than $500,000.
The CIG has already launched two new data-driven programs, one to reduce patient re-admittance and another to monitor patient vitals in real time.
One of UCIH's goals is to predict the likelihood of hospital re-admittance within 30 days after discharge. Patients with congestive heart failure have a tendency to build up fluid, which causes them to gain weight. Rapid weight gain over a 1-2 day period is a sign that something is wrong and that the patient should see a doctor.
UCIH collaborated with medical device integration partner, iSirona, to develop a program that sends those heart patients home with a scale and instructions to weigh themselves once daily. The weight data is wirelessly transmitted to Hadoop where an algorithm determines which weight changes indicate risk of re-admittance. The system notifies clinicians about only those cases. All home monitoring data will be viewable in the EMR via an API to Hadoop.
UCIH chose Hortonworks over competitors like Cloudera and MapR because of its commitment to 100% open source Hadoop. This openness makes collaboration with systems partners like iSirona easier. The group also appreciated HDP's unique Windows compatibility. "Healthcare is cost conscious so a proprietary Hadoop infrastructure with unclear future costs will not work for us. Hortonworks was healthcare friendly from the first phone call."
In a typical hospital, nurses manually measure patient vital signs every few hours. This means that the health of their patients may change in the hours between two vital sign measurements.
Even if you brought up Hadoop for the single purpose of eliminating view-only legacy systems, it would be well worth your while.
In January, the medical center will start piloting a new technology called SensiumVitals® to monitor and transmit patient vital signs every minute. Patients in the pilot will wear a SensiumVitals patch that will monitor and wirelessly transmit heart rate, respiratory rate, and temperature. Nurses will be alerted if any of a patient's vital signs cross certain risk thresholds, so the staff can attend to the patient immediately.
But from a long-term perspective, this sensor data enables something much more profound: predictive analytics that can allow caregivers to respond before a patient's vital signs ever cross a dangerous threshold.
Most of those minute-by-minute snapshots of vital signs will be unremarkable, but the data points they generate (4,320 per patient, per day) are the building blocks for algorithms that can predict near-term outcomes with an ever-increasing degree of certainty. Like the previous example with heart patients, this data will reduce average time to insight for important medical decisions the staff needs to make.
This is because an increased temperature, heart rate or respiratory rate in isolation of other data may not be cause for concern. But those same vitals, combined with all of the prior data on that patient, combined with years of data on other patients with similar risk factors, combined with unique characteristics of that patient's medical history, physical characteristics, gender and age—all of that will eventually paint a far more detailed picture, with more predictive power.
Again, Boicey:
"For healthcare, we have never had the ability to do this. We have always taken the approach that we think we know what data elements are important. Now with all the data, we let the data determine what is important for predictive analysis. Yogi Berra might have said it like this: we are now able to capture the data that we know that we need as well as the data that someday we will know that we needed."
Then researchers can easily present the anonymous sample cohort to their Internal Review Board for approval, without ever having seen uniquely identifiable information. This speeds the process of preparing and approving a study, while assuring patient confidentiality.
UC Irvine Health has already benefitted from integrating Hortonworks Data Platform into its modern data architecture. Now UCIH is ready to tackle additional use cases.
In the coming year, UCIH plans to extend its research capabilities with data mining and data exploration. Now that the group has all of the data in one data lake, it can find previously undiscovered factors that are indicative of a certain outcome.
They also plan to include genomic data in the future.
New research made possible by this combined data will be shared with other practitioners and policy-makers as they review publications that come out of the medical school.
For its biomedical device maintenance, the team wants to use geolocation and sensor data to better manage its medical equipment. The biomedical team needs to know where all the equipment is, so they don't waste time searching for an item.
Over time, they can determine the usage of different devices. For example, the biomedical engineers will know how often a heart monitor is being used. They can use this information to make rational decisions about when to repair or replace the monitor.
UC Irvine Health (UCIH) is a team of nationally regarded physicians and nurses, researchers and clinicians, educators and students united by a single calling—to improve the lives of the people in Orange County, California and beyond.
As the only university-based care provider in Orange County, UC Irvine Health's multifaceted organization is dedicated to the discovery of new medical frontiers, to the teaching of future healers and to the delivery of the finest evidence-based care. The union of discovery, teaching and healing gives them the expertise to diagnose and treat exceedingly rare conditions and diseases.


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Florin Andrei schrieb: > > On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 13:32, Juri Haberland wrote: > > Florin Andrei wrote: > > > > > It's been a long time since i started to always do "sync; reboot" > > > instead of just "reboot". I've always felt this is safer. > > > But you're right, the OS should do that for me, at the right time. > > > Therefore, i've submitted a bug report to bugzilla.redhat.com: > > > > > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62025 > > > > Ahm, Florin, I think that the conclusion of this thread was that even > > multiple syncs don't help - instead you could just use 'sleep 30'. > > Yes, that's true for this particular bug. > > But the patch that i included in the bug report does sync AND sleep. > That should cover this bug, and also some other unforeseen bugs. > Since "sync is cheap" when in runlevel 6, i guess it's a good idea to do > it anyway. There are so many things that could go wrong during shutdown. > > > 'sleep 30'... > > This should be tunable in /etc/sysconfig/whatever. One is not supposed > to edit the init scripts to do parameter tuning. > > -- > Florin Andrei > > "Sorry judge, we would like to publish the file formats, but the data is > not stored in files. It is stored in a database that is an indivisible > part of the operating system." - a potential future Microsoft excuse Hi Florin, When I discovered the bug, I first tried it with sync in the halt script. Unfortunately it doesn't help. The only thing that helped was to sleep long enough and magically everything was written where it should. I don't understand interna of the kernel but it sems that sync does not ensure data to be written to disk. Using a script with fuser to determine open files does not help too because there were no open files. They have been closed immediately before shutdown but did not get written to disk, only metadata was written, not data. The culprit was the remount readonly feature of XFS enabled kernels which was buggy. It does not apply to ext2/3 filesystems. The bug is fixed in current CVS as well as in the upcoming 2.4.9-31 based XFS 1.1 release. -Simon
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Kate Middleton Nude Photo Scandal: Duchess Sues French Magazine Over Topless Images
The legal battle has officially begun.
Kate Middleton and Prince William have just filed a lawsuit against the French publication that published nude photos of the Duchess of Cambridge.
A representative for St. James's Palace has released a statement saying that "legal proceedings for breach of privacy have been commenced today in France" on behalf of the royal couple, TMZ reports.
Details have yet to be released regarding what kind of relief they are seeking in the lawsuit.
What are the next steps for the royal family?
As Celebuzz reported, the royal family threatened legal action over the photos published today by Closer magazine in France. The photos depict a topless Middleton sunbathing while vacation with Prince William at a private chateau in France.
The palace said to be "hugely saddened" by the recent photos and have a no tolerance policy on any breaches of privacy.
St. James Palace's statement further explained that "the incident is reminiscent of the worst excesses of the press and paparazzi during the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, and all the more upsetting to The Duke and Duchess for being so."
Closer's editor-in-chief, Laurence Pieau has publically defended the publication and it's decision to run the photos claiming that the media is "hypocritical" for condemning her decision. Pieau went on to say that "there are more intimate pictures that exist, that we haven't published, and will not publish."
Many celebs have already spoken out about the photo scandal offering support for the beloved Princess.
Fashion Police host Kelly Osbourne took to her personal Twitter to slam the publication, writing, "I feel so sorry for #KateMiddletonit's disgusting what that French mag did to her!"
CNN anchor Piers Morgan chimed in about backlash Closer faces in publishing the photos, tweeting: "Current percentage of 'outraged, disgusted, deeply offended' people currently scouring internet for Kate topless pix? I'd guess at 99.999%."
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