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- Earlier today, 43 Catholic dioceses, schools and other institutions filed lawsuits in 12 federal courts over birth control coverage in President Obama's plans for health care reform. The Obama administration has long touted its compromise that contraception coverage will be provided free by health care insurers if the employer refused to cover it; however, the people filing the lawsuit claim their religious liberty is under attack. Additionally, two Catholic universities recently dropped their student health plans entirely rather than deal with the compromise. [New York Times]
- North Carolina pastor Charles L. Worley was videotaped saying that lesbians and gays should be put behind an electrocuted fence and left to die off. "Build a great, big, large fence — 150- or 100-mile long — put all the lesbians in there," he said. "Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can't get out … and you know what, in a few years, they'll die out … do you know why? They can't reproduce!" How grossly inhumane. [Huffington Post]
- Former TV news anchor Campbell Brown penned a New York Times op-ed this weekend calling President Obama "condescending" and "paternalistic" towards women … and doesn't get around to mentioning her husband is an advisor to Mitt Romney until 10 paragraphs in. [Think Progress]
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America CEO Cecile Richards on how a Mitt Romney presidency would put the lives of poor and uninsured women at risk. [The Daily Beast]
- Christine Quinn, the New York City council speaker, married her longtime girlfriend, Kim Catullo, this weekend in New York, nearly a year after the state legalized same-sex marriage. [New York Times]
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- Meet Aesha, the young Afghani woman who became a symbol of all oppressed women in Afghanistan after her nose and ears were cut of by the Taliban. [CNN]
- Transgender Canadian woman Jenna Talackova competed this weekend in the Miss Universe Canada competition — a victory after a highly publicized dismissal from the pageant because Jenna was not born with female anatomy. [Styleite]
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- Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will finally accept her Nobel Peace Prize from 1991. At the time of the original award, Suu Kyi was unable to make the trip; she has spent the majority of her life under house arrest for her activism. [New York Post]
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Ela and Stephen Britchkow of Southampton announce the engagement of their daughter, Ra-chel Leah Britchkow, to Shimon Akiva Pichette, son of Dean and Barbara Pichette of Southfield, Mich.
Rachel, a graduate of Temple University, is completing work toward a master's degree in orientation and mobility and low vision at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in Elkins Park.
Shimon earned a bachelor's degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, and is currently enrolled in the Master of Business Administration program in pharmaceutical business at the University of the Sciences of Philadelphia.
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The Biggest THREAT to America is the GOPs Domestic RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS
It is a secular humanists dream to live in a world where no country on Earth required a military to protect its citizens from invasion, but like most Utopian fantasies, such a world will never exist. As the leader of the free world, America has built up a huge military to protect the nations interests, its allies, and its way of life for its people. After the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, despite the senseless invasion of two Islamic countries, the nation is still engaged in a war to combat global terrorism to prevent Islamic extremists from planning and launching attacks on Americans at home and the nations interests abroad. The war on terror focuses on groups loosely affiliated with the Al Qaeda terrorist network, but it turns out that Islamic extremists do not pose the greatest threat to America according to a 2009 report by the Department of Homeland Security. The biggest threat to America, its people, and government is from domestic right-wing extremist groups that fall under the purview of the Republican Party that gives unwavering legislative support to their affiliates in religious, racist, and anti-government extremist movements.
The 2009 Homeland Security report cited the Republican Great Recession and resulting economic climate, along with the election of an African American man as President, as the primary drivers fueling the resurgence of domestic anti-American terror groups. At the time, the DHS-commissioned report drew special attention to the fact that extremist right-wing groups posed more of a threat than Islamic extremists, and Republicans objected loudly prompting Secretary Janet Napolitano to withdraw that report because as Americans have come to realize, Republicans cannot handle the truth. However, a new study from West Points Combatting Terrorism Center evaluates the risks from domestic terror groups titled Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding Americas Violent Far-Right, that isolated three categories that represent the John Birch iteration and anti-American sentiment inherent in the Republican Party. The report identified and examined the background ideologies and methods of the Racist White Supremacy Movement, Christian Fundamentalist Movement, and Anti-Federal Government Movement Americans have learned make up the core of the Republican Partys legislative agenda that, as the report points out, poses an existential risk to the United States. What the report discovered was that each of the groups will use violence against their targets to emphasize their ideologies regardless if it is racial minorities, abortion clinics, or government agencies, and the past two years reveal their agenda and ideology is synonymous with the Republican Party.
One need look no farther than the recent Republican campaign leading up to the general election to identify the terror groups deep-seated ideology founded in racism, religious extremism, and anti-government agenda, and why the result of the election increased the spectre of violence and calls for race war, violence against the federal government, and attempts to impose Christianity on all facets of government and the people. It is tempting to cite the recent gun control measures as the reason for increased calls for violent intervention to transform America into a collection of theocratic Aryan states, but it is more likely the result of the American electorate rejecting the racist, extremist Christian, and anti-government agenda promised by Republican candidates from Willard Romney down to state and local level representatives identified as Republicans or teabaggers.
During the Republican presidential primary and leading right up to the general election, candidates decried President Obamas practice of stealing money from white Americans to give to African Americans who just want more free stuff. Romney, particularly, utilized a Ku Klux Klan slogan and portrayed President Obama as a foreigner who did not understand what it meant to be an American, and claimed the President pacified Muslims and degraded Christians and their favorite nation, Israel. Nearly all Republican candidates diligently pushed extremist Christian agendas against women and gays by promising to repeal Roe v. Wade, defund Planned Parenthood, ban contraception, and criminalize same-sex marriage that are part and parcel of the fundamentalist Christian agenda. All Republicans campaigned to weaken and defund all aspects of the federal government except defense, and promised to give states sovereignty over the federal government regardless the Supremacy clause in the U.S. Constitution.
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Sun Jan 20, 2013, 12:47 PM
Flashmann (2,140 posts)
1. Rec and kick
On the strength and truth of the thread title alone!!
The article is a great read too....
Response to Segami (Original post)
Sun Jan 20, 2013, 12:50 PM
Katashi_itto (10,175 posts)
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Sun Jan 20, 2013, 12:50 PM
Lady Freedom Returns (8,754 posts)
3. After hearing "Face the Nation" today, +1! n/t
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Sun Jan 20, 2013, 12:51 PM
cali (114,904 posts)
4. I don't think so. I think it's a lot less dramatic than that
it's things like the raising of the retirement age and the raising of the eligibility age for Medicare. It's the demise of unions and collective bargaining. it's the rise of charter schools. it's the growing gap between rich and poor. it's the erosion of the middle class.
but whatever. people would much rather breathlessly freak about this.
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Sun Jan 20, 2013, 07:28 PM
NeoConsSuck (2,519 posts)
10. I agree.
The elite want to move America away from a European type of economy to more like a Mexican economy where there is only the rich and peasants. No middle class.
Their war is all about the nation's financial pie and how it gets sliced up. Everything else is just smoke & mirrors.
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Sun Jan 20, 2013, 01:14 PM
hedda_foil (10,958 posts)
5. Here's the full report.
I just downloaded it to my kindle. It's a free pdf download.
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Sun Jan 20, 2013, 01:19 PM
L0oniX (31,493 posts)
6. Sociopath CEO's & the uber rich= the enemies. n/t
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Sun Jan 20, 2013, 01:27 PM
MadHound (34,179 posts)
7. Umm, no.
The biggest threat to this country is the fact that corporations have become fatally intertwined with our mechanisms of government, basically creating and passing through policies that kill Americans needlessly.
Take the MIC, virtually every military conflict that we've been in since WWII has been because the MIC involved this country in such a conflict. Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, even Korea are a direct result of the wishes of the MIC to make more and more obscene profit.
That is but one example. If you look at the wide spectrum of our problems, from climate change to the economy, you will find the dominant driving force in the actions this country have taken is corporate in nature.
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Sun Jan 20, 2013, 07:03 PM
indepat (20,899 posts)
8. Whereas a 2009 Department of Homeland Security report indicates domestic right-wing extremist groups
pose a greater threat to America, its people and government, than do Islamic extremists, the Congress routinely appropriates a only piddling sum to combat domestic extremist groups in comparison to the amount appropriated to combat Islamic extremists, a startling dichotomy. The proof of the validity of the report's findings that domestic right-wing extremists do pose the greatest risk to America is found in the whole, the totality of their works.
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Sun Jan 20, 2013, 07:05 PM
stultusporcos (327 posts)
9. Domestic right-wing extremists = GOP Base, hence nothing will be done about them
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Sun Jan 20, 2013, 07:29 PM
samsingh (14,658 posts)
11. agreed
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Sun Jan 20, 2013, 07:30 PM
Coolest Ranger (2,034 posts)
12. I would add from some in our own party as well
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Sun Jan 20, 2013, 07:46 PM
TheKentuckian (23,947 posts)
13. I think they run a somewhat distant second to the corporatist raiders who
are now seen as "moderate" and "centrist", they provide the platform for and fund the others. They willfully sought them by strategy to harness them to create enough gravity to forward their aims.


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Pacino sees the light in Insomnia
Insomnia opens with startlingly white snowy expanses and an already fatigued-looking Al Pacino.
He plays Will Dormer, an Los Angeles cop sent to solve the murder of a 17-year-old girl in a small Alaskan town.
During the Alaskan summer, night barely falls and the midnight sun relentlessly illuminates every minute of Dormer's investigation.
Light seems to be everywhere in the film, a constant presence leaking into every scene.
To make matters worse, his partner Hap (Martin Donovan) is planning to cut a deal with the investigators that could end Dormer's career.
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As usual in this kind of thriller, the local plods are floundering before the arrival of the hard-boiled cop from the big city.
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It would take a fine actor to match Pacino in this game, and Robin Williams as the murderer is not that actor.
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To his credit he manages a certain degree of slippery intelligence, but cannot muster the malevolence that would really make his character terrifying.
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Michael Gleason
Michael Gleason is a member of the Data Analysis and Visualization Group in the Strategic Energy Analysis Center.
Scientist III - GIS
On staff since April 2014
Phone number: 303-275-4109
E-mail: email@example.com
Areas of expertise
- Geospatial analysis and modeling
- Scientific programming
- Multivariate data visualization
- Technical writing and editing
Primary research interests
- Modeling technical resource potential for renewable technologies
- Modeling market diffusion of distributed renewable technologies
- Analysis and visualization of large volume spatiotemporal and multivariate datasets
- Techniques for reconciling variation in resolution of spatial datasets, such as small area estimation, spatial aggregation, and statistical simulation
Education and background training
- M.A. in Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 2012
- B.A. in Environmental Studies and Geology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 2007
Prior work experience
- Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, University of Colorado, Boulder, Geography Department, Boulder, CO 8/2010-12/2012
- Assistant Environmental Scientist, Tetra Tech EC, Boston, MA, 11/2007-6/2010
Selected publications
Anderson-Tarver, C., M. Gleason, B. Buttenfield, and L. Stanislawski. "Automated Centerline Delineation to Enrich the National Hydrography Dataset." GIScience - Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7478 (2012): 15-28.
Buttenfield, B.P., L.V. Stanislawski, C. Anderson-Tarver, and M. Gleason. "Alternate Methods for Automatic Selection of Primary Paths Through Braided Hydrographic Networks." Proceedings 16th ICA Generalization Workshop, Dresden, Germany, August 2013.
Buttenfield, B.P., L.V. Stanislawski, C. Anderson-Tarver, and M. Gleason. "Automatic Enrichment of Stream Networks with Primary Paths for Use in the United States National Atlas." Short Paper Proceedings, International Cartographic Congress, Dresden, Germany, 2013.


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The new solo album from the Hall Of Fame inductee, drummer and founding member of Cheap Trick, Bun E. Carlos! Featuring a rockin' selection of classic covers with a diverse cast of collaborators including the likes of Guided By Voices' Robert Pollard, Hanson, Wilco's John Stirratt, original Cheap Trick vocalist Xeno, and more!


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I've had to up the dosage of my depression meds this week. I've been, well – under the circumstances. It all started last week when Mitt Romney thoroughly trounced Barack Obama in the Presidential debate in Denver. I tried very hard afterward not to crow or, as Obama did after the successful bin Laden assassination, spike the proverbial ball. Perhaps I was not altogether successful at that. The upshot was, none of my liberal friends have lately come out to play with me here on Newsvine. Sigh. My comments this week have been met with stunning silence. Crickets, as we say. I'm getting very lonely.
After spending last evening watching the "interesting" debate style of Vice President Joe Biden and concluding that over all the debate was a wash, I'm wondering how my liberal friends will view the debate. Even very left-leaning television and internet news outlets like CNN have Biden's Republican opponent, Paul Ryan, winning the night. I will not say it was his sterling debate style that helped him come out on top. Joe Biden, like the President last week, has managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by virtue of his demeanor.
Throughout the match last night, Joe Biden's split-screen images would have made rubber-faced Jim Carey jealous. He snorted, rolled his eyes, laughed aloud at inappropriate moments and generally came off as a condescending old coot. (It makes one wonder just how much of Kentucky's famous bourbon Biden was sampling prior to the event.) Ryan, on the other hand, kept his cool and even once politely suggested to Biden that the American public would be better served if the Veep could keep his rude interruptions to a minimum. That didn't seem to help. As a matter of fact, Biden's behavior was even worse than Al Gore's dramatic sighing during his 2000 debate against George W. Bush. (I expect it will have a similar, unpleasant result as well.) It was probably meant to convey a message…something along the lines of, "This kid doesn't know what he's talking about," but what it really did is diminish Mister Biden's stature even further than his famous gaffs already have.
Last night, even though Congressman Ryan proved that he knew his stuff inside and out, the Vice President's experience did show. Not that he had any answers to the problems Americans face. Certainly not that he had anything of substance to offer. He just came off as older folks generally do, like an ancient owl. It has long been my contention that youth and enthusiasm is never a foil for old age and treachery. I think we saw that in action last night.
Biden came out to revive the democrats who were hiding under their desks after last weeks Denver drubbing. I believe he might have accomplished some of that. But he also left independent voters with a less than favorable impression of the Obama Biden ticket. No, Biden told us. Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney don't know what they're doing, but we just want to do more of the same in spite of what "appears" to be policy failure after policy disaster. It's getting better. No. Really it is.
"We just need a little more time." Biden told us, more or less.
Ryan came across as a sincere young man with the energy and fortitude to take a dysfunctional congress and create from it the problem-solving team they're supposed to be. His message, as always was, "We have a very clear choice in this election. We can choose success for our nation or failure. It's all up to the voters."
While the debate was something less than a cataclysmic win, I believe we will see the Obama yard signs coming down one by one across America as the Romney/Ryan movement gains power and strength. Now, more than ever, we see the writing on the wall. "Lead, follow or get out of the way."


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Luxury sites in Sha Tin and Peng Chau draw heavy interest from developers
Two residential sites up for tender in Sha Tin and Peng Chau attracted strong interest from major developers yesterday, the latest affirmation of Hong Kong's buoyant property market.
The 212,051 square foot site at Kau To Shan in Sha Tin, intended for luxury homes, drew bids from 10 developers, among them Sun Hung Kai Properties, Sino Land, Wheelock Properties and a consortium formed by Wing Tai Properties and Manhattan Group. The 55,973 sq ft site in Peng Chau received eight bids.
The Kau To Shan site can yield a total gross floor area of 318,076 sq ft, and the Peng Chau site a gross floor area of 55,973 sq ft.
Property analysts said the market response was good. They expected the sites to fetch a total of as much as HK$450 million.
A 6,200 sq ft flat in Swire Properties' Opus Hong Kong in Mid-Levels sold for a reported HK$470 million, making it the most expensive flat in Asia in terms of price per square foot.
Centaline Surveyors director James Cheung King-tat said the response for the Peng Chau site exceeded his expectations.
"I think some of the developers were expecting to buy the site at a cheaper price, as the adjacent site was sold for HK$516 per sq ft in March," he said.
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> Hi!
> Is it or would it be possible to select the endpoint a VPN-connection?
> I'd like to be able to locate my VPN-users on different interfaces, or
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Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez Kiss & Hug on the Beach (PHOTOS)
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez took a lovers stroll on the beach in Malibu on Friday and the paparazzi didn't scare them away from showing affection.Ah to be young and in love!
Justin and Selena kissed and walked arm in arm while enjoying California's fall weather. Onlookers say that the Biebs and SelGo exchanged a cuddly massage between throwing bread at seagulls and each other!
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Temporary housing assistance for nearly 3,000 New Jersey residents displaced by Hurricane Sandy has been extended through Dec. 13, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Spokesman Paul Gardner said Thursday that the program was extended at the request of the state. There are 2,824 displaced people in the program, he said.
Those in the program have stayed in motels and other accommodations while their homes are repaired. The funds were set to expire Wednesday, leading to concern that storm victims would be left homeless.
A number of evacuees reported that their funding had been extended Wednesday afternoon.
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If the eBay name conjures up images of late 1990's-style online auctions, you've got a lot to learn about how the $14 billion company is enabling all flavors of online and offline commerce--with and without bidding--these days.
CIO Scott Seese and his team support the technology and innovation functions that make it possible for customers to snag everything from cars to clothing via mobile devices, at retail locations, even television. Seese is helping eBay drive its mission of connected commerce to new venues and new partners like The Home Depot and Foot Locker, and capturing the power of social to help people find exactly what they want from among millions of sellers around the world.
In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CIO Interview Series, Seese speaks with Chief Content Officer John Gallant about his role in driving this transformation and what's ahead for eBay. He shares his advice for making acquisitions successful from a tech perspective and how he's developing his team to deal with the rapidly shifting tech landscape. Seese also explains his philosophy for "connecting the dots" in order to ensure IT is effective in empowering eBay's business success.
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Sample video, same method works on all apps.
NOTE: This crack will only work on the CC 2014 version, go here for Photoshop CC 2015 or Photoshop CS6
Step 1
Download Photoshop CC 2014 from this page (direct download), not from your creative cloud manager! and install for free as a 30 day trial. (You'll need an Adobe account. Create one if you don't have it, it's FREE)
Step 2
Download the amtlib framework:
and unzip it if needed. (Newer versions of Mac will unzip automatically).
Then copy the amtlib.framework file and paste it into:
Applications >> Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 >> Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 (Right click) >> Show Package Content >> Contents >> Frameworks
Make sure you choose "Replace with the existing amtlib.framework"!! (alternatively, you can backup the original amtlib.framework instead of replacing it, in case you need to go back to the original trial version).
Not sure if it has worked? Check out this page for answers!