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Brody opens up Dirt on his past
Timing for Canadian country songwriter/singer Dean Brody is everything.
Timing in his music, his cadence while penning his latest hit and timing as in it was days between him turning away from pursuing music to settle in for a job at a coal mine. After giving up on songwriting in Nashville, Brody returned to B.C. at a crossroads.
"We had gone back and forth from Nashville to Canada so many times it had just gotten exhausting. I remember being in B.C. and I called my producer and said, 'Man I just can't do this anymore. I have a family and I need to be responsible.' I told him there is a coal mine that is hiring right now and I have some friends there and I think I can get on. I said, 'I'm done, I can't do this to my family anymore.'" said Brody in a phone interview from his home in Nova Scotia. "The next day he called back and said if you aren't working at a mine just yet, I have a record deal for you."
The perfect storm had brewed and Brody returned exhausted from struggling to make it in Nashville and found himself back working at the same sawmill he was employed at as a teenager, pondering an offer at the coal mines. The call from Broken Bow Records led him south again for another five years. After his self-titled debut broke the top 25 in the U.S. and top 10 in Canada earning him a Canadian Country Music Award for single of the year, he settled back in Canada, inking a deal with Open Road Recordings in 2009. Since then, he has become known for his signature brand of image-driven storytelling in his songs — what you would expect from a guy who puts the songwriter credit ahead of the singer one.
"I approach music from a songwriting point of view. I moved to Nashville to become a songwriter and I had no idea I would eventually be the one singing the songs from the end of the stage," admits Brody.
While he loved to sing, his introverted nature made it a big jump from sitting at home scribbling lyrics on paper he stuffs into his guitar case and jotting down ideas on his iPad to having a spotlight beamed on him on stage. Writing, however, came more naturally. First inspired when he was just 14 going through a break-up.
"My songs were really bad, but they were from the heart and that is what really matters," Brody says with a laugh. "That's what matters. You have to be vulnerable and it is tough when you start out because I was terrible at songwriting. As you gain more life experience your writing naturally becomes better because you have more to draw from."
Judging by the bumpy roads life has thrown at him, Brody shouldn't fear writer's block anytime soon. His latest album Dirt, which he is touring across Canada on, is a reflection of where he came from.
"When I was in Nashville it was very systematic. You wrote from a certain hour of the day until the evening and you do that everyday with weekends off. I burned out really fast with that method. For me, I need a lot of space and I need to actually go watch a movie, go to the ocean or go for a drive. Those are the kinds of things that inspire me to be creative," he said.
From rocking, foot-stomping songs like the lead single from Dirt, Canadian Girls to It's Friday, Brody brings it down with love songs like Losing My Balance co-written with George Canyon and the imagery of Rural Route #3 and Underneath The Apple Tree (which he recently finished wrapping a video for). Songs that bring this introverted cowboy to a more vulnerable place.
"I think that is important. You try and let those listening to you experience as close as possible what it is like for you as a musician to play your songs, and being vulnerable is part of that," said Brody. "It's the toughest part, but it's also the most rewarding because you really get to connect with the people."
Brody, who was the 2012 CCMA best male artist and won the album of the year title, is at the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre on Saturday, Jan. 26 with opening act Small Town Pistols. Tickets are general admission ($39.50 plus taxes/fees) and available at the SOEC box office, the visitor centre, by phone at 1-877-763-2849 or online here.


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Fred Thompson and Henry Winkler tout the benefits of reverse mortgages for seniors, but is it all good news?
According to Fox Business Network anchor Cheryl Casone the answer is an emphatic "no." She tells Fox News co-anchor Martha MacCallum that a reverse mortgage may amount to a case of predatory lending.
The old adage, "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" may very well apply.


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Selena Gomez has grown into a talented young actress and musician, a far cry from her Disney days on Wizards of Waverly Place. Rolling Stone reports that most recently, Gomez appeared on Saturday Night Live and performed three singles from her Revival album, even while Winter Storm Jonas blasted New York City.
But where did this star get her start, and what unique and interesting things are there that fans don't know about her? Check it out!
1. Zimbio reports that many fans don't realize that before her current music career and even before Wizards of Waverly Place, Selena Gomez rocked Barney at the age of 7.
So random… @selenagomez used to be on Barney and friends… #Nowplaying Selena's "Same Old Love"
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She spoke about what she learned from the big purple dinosaur.
"I was very shy when I was little. I didn't know what 'camera right' was. I didn't know what blocking was. I learned everything from Barney."
Gomez even starred alongside Demi Lovato on Barney. Check it out!
2. Selena Gomez was raised primarily by her mom, Mandy Dawn Teefey, who was a stage actress and Gomez's inspiration for pursuing an acting career.
Mother's Day Album | Selena Gomez และคุณแม่ Amanda Dawn "Mandy" Teefey pic.twitter.com/0QuPH1VM1u
— GossipGun (@GossipGun) August 12, 2013
3. Despite her success as a young actress, after appearing on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and Hannah Montana, Selena Gomez had two failed Disney pilots before getting her role in Wizards of Waverly Place.
4. In 2009, Selena Gomez was a model for Sears, although the clothing she modeled didn't really scream Selena Gomez like her fashion choices do now.
Back to School.
Viste al estilo de Selena Gomez y Kendall Jenner. #SearsMeEntiende
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Gradúate al estilo de Selena Gomez.
Exclusivo de Sears. pic.twitter.com/GfEBCfqJOi
— Sears México (@searsmexico) May 17, 2015
5. Selena Gomez loves pickles and wants to invent pickle-flavored gum!
Foodlena is the best selena???? pickles all the way???????? @selenagomez pic.twitter.com/tEhsCGwZOK
— Lauren (@simplyygomez) January 11, 2016
6. Selena Gomez is the youngest UNICEF ambassador ever. She has even traveled to Ghana and, in 2011, to Chile to meet families that have been helped by UNICEF.
"To witness first hand these families' struggles, and also their hope and perseverance, was truly inspiring."
@selenagomez : So happy @louisvuitton and @nicolasghesquiere are partnering with @unicef -I've been an ambassador… pic.twitter.com/dNorGA9Nki
— Selena Gomez (@SourcSelenators) January 23, 2016
7. As amazing and unbelievable as it sounds, Selena Gomez turned down the chance to star in High School Musical 3. Apparently, she just didn't want to do it.
"High School Musical 3 is cute, and I think it would be a great opportunity for someone else. But I passed on it because I didn't want to do it. I plan to take other roles in acting that are challenging for me. After Disney, I want to be taken seriously as an actress for many years."
8. When she was just 15-years-old, Selena Gomez did the voices of 90 Whos in the movie Horton Hears a Who. These voices included the daughters of Steve Carrell's Who character, the Mayor. She never got to meet Carrell during the filming of the movie.
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Selena Gomez voiced all 90 daughters of the Mayor of Whoville in the movie Horton Hears a Who. pic.twitter.com/cHccOPZFNj
— TheMusician (@rhymusclub) January 14, 2016
9. Moviefone reports that the first concert Selena Gomez ever went to was a Britany Spears concert.
"I just remember it being the highlight of my life! I felt like I was on cloud nine!"
10. Selena Gomez was bullied a lot when she was in elementary and middle school. Hollywood Life reported that she once said she learned to turn the other cheek.
"I was bullied every second of every day in elementary and middle school. Obviously, people are going to bring you down because of your drive. But, ultimately, it makes you a stronger person to turn your cheek and go the other way."
Gomez got through those bullying days with BFF Demi Lovato, who was also bullied.
"It's nice that you have a best friend to go through this with. I had a best friend to go through that with and it really helped me ignore negative things I was hearing. So, don't take no for an answer and keep going."
Selena Gomez & Demi Lovato's BFF Status Is Strong: We're Like 'Family' http://t.co/2J1r06h25o pic.twitter.com/1nJhVeGIEH
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I have always wondered what it's like to have a Thanksgiving meal like those out of a movie scene.
The table is set with the special china, and family members dressed in their Sunday best or better come to sit down together. They enjoy a traditional dinner of stuffed turkey that requires carving, and pass bowls of mashed potatoes, cranberry relish and buttered rolls. A slice of cinnamon-laced pumpkin pie completes the evening.
I guess I'll keep wondering. Out of the three Thanksgiving gatherings my family regularly attends, not one gets very close to this idyllic holiday setting.
First up is Thanksgiving at my mother-in-law's home. At 11:00 a.m.
Breakfast is barely over when we get there and Santa has yet to make his appearance at the Macy's parade, so it is a bit early for full-fledged Thanksgiving feasting.
Instead, the focus is more on appetizers -- creamy bacon dips, pecan-coated cheese balls, cheddar sausage balls-- and desserts such as chocolate-covered pilgrim hat cookies, rich custards and triple-layer cakes. The usual Thanksgiving food is there, too. It just plays a supporting role instead of taking the lead. At least, for me.
Next, my family heads to my grandmother's house. This is the most intimate get-together based on the number of people. Though served buffet style on disposable plates, I'll admit, the food is fairly traditional.
We have turkey (pre-sliced), cornbread dressing, cranberries, corn, green beans, sweet potatoes, congealed fruit salad and rolls. In an effort to keep all the picky eaters satisfied, my Granny prepares at least two versions of each dish with the exception of the turkey and the rolls.
We have three pans of dressing -- one with turkey but without eggs, one with no meat and no eggs and one with everything. Sweet potatoes come topped with toasted marshmallows, candied pecans or nothing at all. I prefer fresh cranberries simmered in sugar water over the canned stuff everyone else likes.
After this semi-custom meal, the final stop in our Thanksgiving rotation is my husband's extended family.
Here we actually have a carved turkey, but it's sliced by someone standing at a counter not sitting at a table. The accompanying sides are somewhat expected with a few new recipes and different flavors added to keep it interesting
What stands out here are the pies. They are simple pumpkin and pecan, as traditional as possible. The thing is, there are a lot of them, stacked high on tables up to my eye level.
If you come to this Thanksgiving party, you don't leave without pie, preferably one or more of each kind. I've learned they make a great breakfast on Black Friday.
At the end of the day, I still manage to take in all the traditional foods you would expect to enjoy on Thanksgiving. I just eat them at different times and at different tables or sofas or porch swings. You sit where you can with my families.
It wouldn't feel like Thanksgiving if it didn't happen this way.
These meals, with the themed dessert plates, three types of sweet potatoes and stacks of pies, have become my holiday traditions.
I think I'll leave the picture-perfect feasts for the big screen.
Jennifer Kelly Geddes has hosted Christmas cookie swaps, New Year's open houses, Thanksgiving for 22, and all manner of dinner parties in her Manhattan and Ghent, NY homes.Read More »


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So Doug and PB&J, are you insinuating that Zippy is right and there's no such thing as a closeout? That every wave is truly peeling and rideable and it's up to the surfer to get his schitt together and make the sections? Maybe we can have grom brah put a poll up for this once he puts down his next 6 cases of Jolt Cola and his blood glucose normalizes.
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I went surfing this morning. In New Jersey. Southern New Jersey. The air was cold. The water was cold. How cold? Don't know. Waves were good. Bout waist chest high. Slack winds but an occasional gust. I caught waves. I got cold so I got out after an hour or so. I had FUN. I drove the 10 minutes home in my suit. If you are a surfer and you have fun surfing then go and ****ing surf for ****'s sake. Don't turn it into a 9 page debate. There is nothing "core" about what I did. I just went surfing. You guys think too much
Jan 4, 2014, 05:12 PM #83
Now when all the guys get together, we get a big bowl, fill it with Jolt Cola, and pour in a bottle of Jack Daniels. You get so worked up!! We call it "Jackin' Off."
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Being a real good surfer is the target most everybody aims for... only a few have talent - its genetic (i.e WCT pros). So emass, if you're over 18 and currently can't make every wave, than YES, there probably will be waves you will never be able to surf (and live).
Jan 4, 2014, 06:32 PM #85
It wasn't really that good yesterday. Size and some sick ones if you were lined up, but way to much current and wind to make it much more than anything outside of luck. Today was pretty fun though. Strange and lumpy here, I bet the NC boys are scoring hard.
Jan 4, 2014, 06:39 PM #86
There are closeouts that can't be ridden. And then there are waves that are good if you could make it. They use to consider Pipeline a closeout... A lot of the "perfect" waves that Kelly travels to would be no fun to most and considered a closeout. Kelly calls them barrels.
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Pros will even say that a wave is "too fast" to make. And that's not even a real close-out.....it's just too fast.
But I've seen block-long walls rise and shut down uniformly the whole dang block.....
The close out has many varieties to it.......and my brain can't get into that right now.
But they exist........I've seen 'em.
Sorry Eastern Mass if you thought I was snarking you. I wasn't. I had other things on my mind, and was mildly shocked that this topic exists. So, if I sounded snarky, I didn't mean to. I can see why you took offense though.
You know you think you have seen it all on here........
And now there's a debate aboot whether close-outs exist...........
And so much for trying to be positive in 2014. I think I have been snarky on numerous occasions already. Every thread starts into a whipping post. I might have to make a decision: Yoga, vegetables and positivity or Swellinfo.com.
And I hate yoga.....
Jan 4, 2014, 08:42 PM #90
i think some of these guys only rode whitewash waves in their time,which in fact is a closeout,meaning they truly never witnessed the significance of an actual closeout.spend enough time in the sea,youll catch your fair share of closeouts.


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I mainly use this guitar with an ESP LTD M-100FM that features a DiMarzio Tone Zone and a DiMarzio Breed Neck along with coil taps for both pickups along with a nitro finish. The amp is versatile for my style of playing as I play stuff from funk, hard rock, and heavy metal but I must add the distortion channel is pretty crappy, fuzzy and it makes the amp creak if you encounter certain pitches, although the distortion can get brutal, it's crappy. I use a Keeley Modded Boss DS-1 pedal to replace that and it's worked out fine so far. The amp is versatile for my style of playing as I play stuff from funk, hard rock, and heavy metal. The cleans are ok, they aren't anything spectacular but they do the job, but if the cleans are loud it starts to get a bit crappy and fuzzy. On humbucker mode there's a lot of crackling on clean mode (as if the amp speaker is struggling on clean mode) but when I coil tap to single coils it gives off a much cleaner sound. This amp can achieve well in my opinion if you play with a stand alone distortion pedal because with my DS-1 I can achieve some pretty smooth lead tones with this amp and crunchy distortion. It's not really noisy either, barely makes any noise, it just sits there (turned on)sometimes when I'm using the computer with the guitar sitting in my lap. The 7/10 rating because you would want a separate distortion pedal to use to replace the distortion channel. Pedals are pretty cheap, especially since this amp costs only $79.00 USD as of today. A beginning guitarist should have a lot left over to buy a decent pedal.
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I've been playing for 2 years, and this is my first amp I bought back in December 2006. It's a good match for me I just wish the speaker could handle cleans better as it seems to struggle on that part. The speaker can handle the distortion that my Keeley Modded Boss DS-1 can put out very well. I have a good knowledge on tone and I'd say this meets my needs with the setup I have. Though if it were stolen or lost I would get maybe a Roland Cube or a Vox Valvetronix. But the good thing about this amp is that's it's cheap ($79) and sturdy.
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I could depend on this thing for a while it seems, it hasn't gone out on me yet. Although the speaker makes occasional creaking noises that's every once in a while, like a week or something. I think it's when I reach certain pitches. I would use it at a gig if it was mic'd up without a backup because it's pretty sturdy and easy to carry. The amp has never broken down on me.
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I'm not sure when the amp was made but I bought it in December 2006 so I've had it for quite some time. The serial# is KNB1455 if it helps anyone figure out the year. This is a 10 Watt solid state amp with only 2 channels, Distortion and Clean. It also features a Headphone Jack and a CD input so I can jam with music on my iPod. That's pretty much all there is to it with this amp, pretty lackluster. I would appreciate some built-in reverb but I just use a Holy Grail Reverb to get it. I use this in the bedroom mostly because it can barely be heard over a drum set unless it's mic'd up. 5/10 because it's as basic as an amp can get without losing the essentials.


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PENN — Supervisors want the State Police to get tougher with speeding in the township.
Supervisors Chairman Curtis Mason relayed letters to Trooper Dan Stumpf at Wednesday's Oct. 2 meeting concerning speeding, particularly on State Road, and in the Elk Creek development.
"The question is, how do you slow people down?" Mason asked.
Stumpf, who appeared as representative for the Avondale barracks of state police, replied that seeing a police presence is generally the most effective way to handle areas of speeding. He offered to spend time in the problem areas. "You tell me and as long as it is posted I will be there."
Also in the Elk Creek development, Supervisor Victor Mantegna made Stumpf aware that people have been driving on the grass entrance that is posted for use of emergency vehicles only.
Mason noted that since the township has talked about putting speed humps on Sunnyside Road to deal with speeding at the new bridge, other people want similar controls in their developments.
That is unlikely to happen, since PennDOT limits the kind of changes they can put on the roads. "I told them one solution, take the roads back and you can do whatever you want with them," Mason said.
The speed humps were installed earlier that day on Sunnyside Road, and Stumpf indicated he would also check that area for speeders when he has time. He was also asked to keep up enforcement of the township's no peddling ordinance.
In other business the township is moving toward the completion of the sale of the sewer system.
Documentation of all of the right of ways for sewage lines must be assembled for the transfer. "We expect by the end of the year we will be out of the sewer business," Mason said. "Ithink it's a good thing. It's going to be better for the useres because they have the ability to handle any emergency. it takes a big load off of us and gives us the ability to conecentrate on other issues."
One piece of property by the sewer plant was kept by the township and will be used for the construction of a saltshed and equipment storage.


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DARE devil fundraisers are being encouraged to take on a hair-raising challenge to make some cash for a Worcester charity.
Sight Concern Worcestershire, based in Sansome Walk, is planning a tandem skydive weekend at Brackley Airfield, near Oxford, this summer.
The jump would see fundraisers leap from thousands of feet on a date to be confirmed in either June or July.
There are already a few interested fliers but anyone who would like to formally sign up will need to raise at least £395 to cover the cost of the dive, anything over that will go to Sight Concern.
Keith Hoare, fundraising officer, said: "Throughout 2014 Sight Concern is really keen to offer its supporters a range of exciting events and challenges to take part in, and that we hope will be rewarding for both those who participate and the charity.
"We have not organised a skydive for a number of years so we hope to receive lots of interest for this event. Go on, give it a go."
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text: Okay!! Is it the season for going panty-less? Earlier, it was the Chez item girl Yana Gupta who was spotted sans her panties at an event and now it is actress Neetu Chandra who followed her foot steps. According to the reports miss Chandra was clicked without her panties in an event. Well, the fact that Yana Gupta out of the blue got a lot of publicity due to her panty-less act, so is it like Neetu Chandra also tried to boost up her demand by doing such a shame shame act. Anyways, we can just keep wondering what was the real reason behind such a big goof up. However, unlike Yana Gupta, who accepted her mistake and took all the news very sportingly, Neetu directly says that the act was unintentional. Now, we can wait and watch if like Yana, who got boxes of panties as Christmas and New Year gifts, Neetu Chandras fans will also send her the most required gift in any of the coming festivals.


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Life Insurance for Boomers over 65 in Houston, TX
Life insurance is a wonderful means to guarantee that your effort is managed and your cherished member of the family are cared for for several years to find. Life insurance for seniors is available, however it is very important to compare prices and also locate the ideal fit.
Is It Feasible to Get Life Insurance if You Are Over 65 in Houston, TX?
Popular types of life insurance policy for baby boomers
Term life insurance for seniors:
This policy is good for elders that intend to shield their loved ones for a certain variety of years. It could be less costly compared to various other plans, particularly for senior citizens healthy. Due to the fact that elders are living longer, it's not unusual for an individual in their 60s to buy a 20-year-term life insurance policy.
Permanent life insurance for seniors:
This type of life insurance policy is typically much more expensive but will certainly last for the rest of your life. Component of the costs you pay obtains attached the objective of earning more money for your beneficiary.
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With this policy, you possibly will not need to go through a physical exam, makings it a great option for senior citizens with health and wellness problems. Your beneficiaries could only obtain the sum total of your survivor benefit if the policy is active for a variety of years prior to you pass away (usually two or three years).
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(CNSNews.com) - With so many Americans complaining about Obamacare--the cancellation of individual insurance policies, the dysfunctional enrollment process, and privacy concerns--it is curious that a search of the White House petition website does not produce a single petition urging the defunding, repeal, delay or even repair of the Affordable Care Act.
There is, however, a petition titled, "Defund the House of Representatives," created on Sept. 20.
The White House promises to respond to petitions that gather 100,000 signatures in 30 days, and presumably a petition focusing on one of the hottest topics of the year would easily rise to that level. But an overwhelming response might also embarrass a White House intent on defending President Obama's signature legislation.
On Monday morning, Nov. 4, CNSNews.com searched "We the People," the White House petition website, for the terms "Obamacare," "Affordable Care Act" and "federal health care law."
"Obamacare" returned only one petition, posted a year ago, urging the White House to "Include Licensed Naturopathic Physicians as primary care providers in the Federal Healthcare Law."
A search for "Affordable Care Act" returned one petition asking the White House to "Defund the House of Representatives," but nothing about defunding or repealing Obamacare.
The search term "federal health care law" returned one result -- an Oct. 20 petition to "Release to the open source community the source code to healthcare.gov, specifically all code written by CGI Federal."
"We the People," went dark during the 16-day partial government shutdown in October, but it resumed operations on Oct. 17, the day after the shutdown ended. Oct. 17 was more than two weeks after the debut of the problem-plagued Obamacare enrollment website. And it was around the same time that reporters for liberal media outlets were beginning to question -- and report – the failures of healthcare.gov.
CNSNews.com also searched for petitions containing the words "tea party", "government shutdown," Republican, and Democrat.
"Tea party" returned a Sept. 18 petition urging the White House to "Designate the Republican party a terrorist organization for repeatedly threatening the full faith & credit of the U.S.A."
"Government shutdown" returned two relevant petitions: "Investigate the financial transactions of ALL members of Congress who vote for a government shutdown," created on Sept. 29; and "Arrest and prosecute the House GOP for treason," created on Sept. 29.
A search for the Term "Republican" returned the same "treason" petition mentioned above; but a search for "Democrat" returned no petitions.
CNSNews asked the White House on Monday if it has received petitions urging the repeal/defunding/delay/repair of Obamacare; and if so, has it deleted them? If a reply arrives, it will be included here.
According to the White House terms of participation, "Petitions must fall within the scope of We the People -- i.e., seeking federal government actions or policies on the topics included in the platform. Petitions that fall outside of this scope violate the Terms of Participation and will be removed in accordance with this Moderation Policy; this would include, for example, petitions that advertise or call for the endorsement or purchase of commercial goods or services, that expressly urge the support or opposition of candidates for elected office, that do not address the actions or policies of the federal government, or that address a topic not included in We the People at the time the petition was created."
The White House also says, "Petitions will not be selected for review or removal on the basis of the viewpoint they advance."
A petition focusing on the contentious topic of Obamacare would certainly address "the actions or policies of the federal government," and it would reasonably be expected to gather enough signatures to trigger a White House response.
Right now, the petition with the most signatures (194,161) urges the White House to declare the Muslim Brotherhood organization as a terrorist group; a petition to pardon Edward Snowden has more than 139,000 signatures.
"We the People" describes its mission as, "Giving all Americans a way to engage their government on the issues that matter to them."
The website features the following quotation from President Obama: "My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and efffectiveness in government."


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If there is one thing I have learned in life it is this: life does not come with a blueprint. There is no clear path to happiness, wealth, or a successful career. Actually, I am inclined to believe that you shouldn't be afraid to stray from the pack and create your own path.
Sometimes the best thing to do is to question established practices and search for a different set of answers. Some of history's most interesting and successful figures did just that; sometimes with great success and other times with massive failure. But they weren't afraid to try. Investigating different options and looking for other answers or a new means to accomplish something spawns creativity and innovation.
Take a Walk Down the Road Less Traveled
Don't Be Afraid to Take a Contrarian Point of View
There have been times in my life when I went against "traditional wisdom," and those decisions have shaped me into the man I am today. Probably the best example of this was my decision to join the United States Air Force.
Growing up, I was anything but the military type. In fact, until a few months before I enlisted, I had completely disregarded the military as an option for myself. My decision to enlist shocked those who knew me well, including my family. Why would this honors student drop out of college to enlist in the USAF as an aircraft mechanic?
Never Stop Learning or Pushing the Boundaries of Your Surroundings
My action was against the "traditional" way of thinking. But it was also one of the best decisions I ever made. I learned more about myself and the world around me than I ever would have as a college student, and I have learned to truly appreciate my place in life. I learned to embody the characteristics of integrity, honor, and teamwork, and will carry those traits with me for the remainder of my life.
My military travels took me to over 30 countries on 5 continents. I learned how to use hand tools and power tools and gained a basic understanding of mechanics. I learned the soft skills of how to give orders, and more importantly, how to follow them. I learned to deal with people of various backgrounds and dispositions. I have earned certain veterans benefits that will stay with me for life, and more importantly, it was in the USAF that I met the woman who would later become my wife.
Make Your Own Path; Don't Follow Someone Else's
Toward the end of my military career I decided to finish college. I took full-time night classes while maintaining a full-time work schedule. The sacrifice was worth it. I graduated from college before I separated from the USAF, and professionally, I am on par with my age group.
My life's journey to this point by no means followed a traditional path. But I kept my eye on the ball and I consider my life to be a successful one thus far, however success may be defined.
The path I took is not for everyone. In my opinion, success and happiness and wealth lack a true definition, and you need to feel your own way until you find what they mean to you.
Write a book. Start a business. Take classes for knowledge or fun. Take a job that interests you instead of taking a job only for the salary. Or simply turn left instead of right. The point is to create your own path and make this life yours.


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Swine Flu on the Verge of Pandemic
With news of the first swine flu death outside of Mexico (U.S.) and the first infection of a patient with no connection to Mexico (Spain), the World Health Organization has reclassified the health scare one level short of a full pandemic and has urged governments to initiate emergency measures.
Announcing the increased alert level in Geneva, WHO Director General Margaret Chan urged all countries to activate their pandemic plans, including heightened surveillance and infection-control measures.
She said action should be undertaken with "increased urgency".


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>Health and Nutrition>Does PF make your foot unstable?
Ugh - so my foot hurts, and I thought it was just plantar fasciitis. It started hurting two weeks ago, right after I ran a 50 mile race.
I'm trying to decide whether to go to the doctor or not. I can home-treat PF for now. But there's something a bit weird with it. When I try to stand on that foot on my tiptoe, I'm really unstable, and not just because of pain. On my other foot, I can stand easily on my tiptoe. Is that typical of PF?
The instability points to a weakness that could be contributing to the PF. Possibly a weak tibialis posterior muscle/tendon. Work on strengthening the lower leg with one-leg balancing and ankle inversion/eversion moves with a resistance band.
I'm thinking the weakness is due to an injury, like ripping a tendon or something, not some sort of "imbalance". I didn't have weakness OR pain before that 50 mile race. I'm sure I could stand on that foot on a tip toe three weeks ago. Then I ran 50 miles. The next day everything hurt. Three days later, everything was fine BUT the foot and now two weeks out the foot still hurts.
Probably just a case of doing too much then.
running > all else
I suffered with PF for nearly a year, a while back, from overuse of treadmill running.
It was painful to walk, but something to note…when I wore heels, the pain subsided. Tip toes, it subsided.
I ended up seeing a podiatrist and he gave me occasional shots of cortisone to give some relief, but the pain would return like 8 or so days later.
The stiffness and pain lasted for nearly a year…it was horrible.
It 'sounds' like a symptom of PF, but truly…pain that is persistent of any nature…whether you have self-diagnosed it or not, I'd make a trip to the doc.
He/she may be able to shed some more light as to what the problem is, and help you rehab it for a quicker recovery, at the very least.
Sorry you're in pain! Sending healing vibes your direction.
Thanks, EssGirl!
It's actually doing much better now. I decided to try three days of NSAIDs to see if that helped, and stop with the aggressive foot rolling. I *think* PF isn't really inflammation, it's something else. The NSAIDs helped drastically. I've been off them now for 24 hours and my foot is barely complaining. Yay! I think that did the trick.
I'm going to try to go out for 3 miles or so after the kids go to bed, and take it easy. If I can manage a few runs, I'll declare myself on the mend.
Not sure if this will be helpful but I had PF several seasons ago and tried all kinds of things. Had some great results from that strassburg sock thing (maybe $20 at your local running store). I just wore it to bed, then iced the food in the day at my desk with a frozen water bottle. Once I got that fixed up, it never came back. I've sense lent out the sock to others, in fact, don't even know who has it now, but if the pain ever came back, I wouldn't hesitate to buy another of those silly socks.
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Panasonic PT-AE8000U Home Theater Projector Review
The usual reminder about the accuracy of these images taken of projected content from the Panasonic PT-AE8000 home theater projector:
A lot goes on in delivering these images to your eyeballs: There's the projected image, and any shifts due to the camera, (a Canon 60D professional dSLR), a Mac laptop for cropping and resizing, etc, using Adobe Bridge and Photoshop, then saved "for web" (super compressed), and displayed with your graphics card, monitor, and browser all, further coloring the PT-AE8000 photos. In other words, they are useful, only to a point, as colors are not going to be all that accurate. Rest assured, the Panasonic PT-AE8000 will look far better in your darkened theater, than these images on your computer monitor.
Panasonic PT-AE8000 Out of the Box Picture Quality
The PT-AE8000 has lots of color modes. We found the best color, however, right out of the box, to be the REC 709 mode (officially that's the HDTV standard). The other close to "best" is the D-Cinema mode, although many may find that dark.
Cinema 1, 2, and Normal all look reasonably good, but each is cooler – color temp wise, than the one before, and white is about 7500K to 9000K+ for these modes. D-Cinema, and REC 709, though are right about where they should be, right around: 6500K.
Only Game and Dynamic can routinely seem "over the top". That's no surprise for those two modes.
Out of the box performance, therefore, is overall, very good. Just choose the right mode for what you are viewing, and remember, our settings should help you improve the "out of the box" accuracy, without having to hire a calibrator (who would do a better job though)!
Panasonic PT-AE8000 Projector - Flesh Tones
Once calibrated, the Panasonic's skin tones took on a very natural look. Not perfect. I mention above, that the images have a slight "salmon" colored shift. Let me say that the projector seems to exhibit this after calibration, but it is significantly exaggerated in the photos, compared to live. Minor further tweaking of the calibration, or, perhaps if we actually calibrated the individual colors as a professional calibrator normally would, that this might well disappear completely, at least from the projected image.
Here are three James Bond images from Casino Royale. Each has a different lighting scenario, the first - full sunlight, the second image; indoor fluorescent, and finally, a night time photo. As one would expect, that causes each image of James Bond - Daniel Craig - to have different looking skin tones.
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Silver Necklace with Smoky Quartz
Amy Wilkinson
This necklace was handmade as a record of how MCDC, and the makers within it, have helped Amy's creative development during her time as a resident artist. Each silver scale represents each year that the Centre has spent housing creative businesses. The single quartz gem refers to MCDC's reputation as being a 'hidden gem'.


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It has been stated over and over again that the iPad is one of the most successful tech pieces to ever be put on the market to date. The Apple tablet has broken every record possible and has accounted for an impressive amount of sales worldwide. But according to new research presented by IDC, Android tablets will finally surpass the iPad for the first time in history.
In recent terms, Apple's iPad has found itself competing with smaller and much cheaper Android tablets, like for example, the extremely popular Amazon Kindle Fire. International Data Corporation predicts that iPad shipments are going to continue to expand at a decent rate, but Cupertino's big competitors like Samsung will continue to deliver deadly hits by taking up a lot of the international tech market.
The IDC report sees the Android party snatching 48.8% of the total tablet shipment for the year in 2013, while the iPad comes in at number two with 46%. Cupertino had 51% last year, but apparently customers are moving from higher-end products to more accessible devices. IDC goes on to showcase the numbers for the year 2017 where we still see Android as being the market leader with 46% and iOS the runner up with 43.5%. Maybe the greater variety Android users are faced with when choosing a tablet had to do with the predictions made by IDC.
The research also takes up in account Windows 8 tablets which are forecasted to hold only 7.4% of the market in 2017 and a meager 2.8% in 2013. Windows RT tablets, however, will apparently fare even worse, being awarded just 2.7% in 2017. The tablet future seems bleak for Microsoft.
Source: AppleInsider
IDC forecast: Android tablets are going to surpass the iPad
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(Editor's note: BassFan will observe Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, so a new top story will not appear until Tuesday.)
By Todd Ceisner
BassFan Editor
Payden Hibdon made his mind up long ago that this was going to be his path in life – fishing. It's hard to find fault with his logic.
Since he could walk, he's had a fishing rod in his hand and the careful guidance of two of the sport's giants – father Dion Hibdon and grandfather Guido Hibdon – to help build the foundation for his own foray into competitive bass tournaments. When he was younger, he'd tag along on road trips and see the whole thing play out from tackle prep to the launch ramp to the arena weigh-ins.
In 2006, at the age of 14, he won the 11-14 age group Bassmaster Junior World Championship. That achievement cemented the notion in his mind that this fishing gig might actually grow legs. Two years later, he fished a Lake of the Ozarks Central EverStart and the Ft. Loudon/Tellico FLW Tour as a co-angler. He fished a handful more FLW events in 2009 and 2010 before making the jump to the pro side on the Tour level in 2011.
While he's yet to unlock the secrets to success that his dad and grandpa have enjoyed through the years, he's still all in and banking on a better 2013 campaign.
"This is my career plan right here," he said. "It's always been a thought in the back of my head. I've always fished for as long as I can remember. I've been going with dad and grandpa and just fishing all the time. When I won the Junior Bassmaster Classic, it was more of a serious thing. It went from being a hobby to possibly taking it to a profession. At that age, I was still too young to really consider it, but I think that definitely pushed me more into wanting to make it into a profession than just a hobby."
Confident Despite Early Struggles
A quick glance at Hibdon's results ledger from his first two seasons on Tour and one could surmise that he's not cut out for that level of competition. In 14 Tour events, he's made two checks and finished 100th or lower 11 times.
Still, the 21-year-old from Stover, Mo., seems undeterred and has re-dedicated himself to posting much better finishes this season.
"It was about what I expected it to be," he said when asked to assess the quality of competition he's up against. "The level of competition was definitely exactly what I thought it would be – it's through the roof. There are 150 of the best guys in the world fishing the Tour and that makes it tough. It's definitely been fun, though. I'm ready to get at this year."
Slow starts have plagued him as he's weighed just three day-1 limits in 12 Tour Majors.
"Not doing good the first day and catching them a little bit better the second day," he said. "That's always irritating for me. On the first day, I'm wanting to catch them really bad and thinking I'm making all the right moves. Then on the second day, if I hadn't caught them the first day, I think I go out with more of an open mind and just go fishing."
His best finishes have come at Kentucky Lake, which isn't on the 2013 schedule. Two years ago, he placed 53rd and he was 32nd there in 2012.
"I do a lot of that style of fishing back home – fishing out deep or off of drops," he said. "The last couple years, I've related to Kentucky Lake really well just because it's my style. You can either go shallow and flip or go out deep and throw a big jig around. We do that a ton around home."
Team Approach
The Hibdons are a tight-knit family and that shines through in their tournament prep. It's a three-headed approach at each event, which Payden says is a tremendous help to him. After all, how many other young pros can say they have two past Bassmaster Classic champs to listen to or bounce ideas off of.
"With three of us fishing, it's not very often one of us doesn't have a little bit of something figured out," he said. "Whether it's just the littlest thing or it's to the point where we have figured it out to where we think we can really catch them. If I don't have a great practice, I'll go off something that dad or grandpa has figured out.
"It gives me a whole new perspective on it. It's not just me thinking about it or dad thinking about it. There's 60-some years of knowledge that goes into that thought process. It's some things that maybe I'd never think about. With me coming in now, maybe I'm more open to some of the new ideas or techniques that maybe they wouldn't consider."
"Everybody listens to everybody," he continued. "We go at it like a team and it's not a team if you don't consider everybody's part of it. There's nothing that we don't talk about or consider when it comes to a tournament situation. That's definitely helpful for everybody."
Like his father, Payden is most comfortable with a jig tied on his line, but elements of both his dad and grandfather's styles are evident in his approach.
"Being in the boat with one or the other on different days, to hear dad say it, he says, 'You fish just like your grandfather,'" he said. "Then, when I'm in the boat with grandpa, he'll say, 'Aw, you're just like your dad out here.' From fishing with both of them a bunch growing up, I may have a little bit of both in me."
While most BassFans are keenly aware of his dad's and grandfather's accomplishments in the sport, nothing would mean more to him than to break through this season and start blazing his own trail of success.
"That would mean a bunch to me," he said. "My granny tells it the best, I think. She says, 'Forever, I was Guido's wife. Then, when Dion won the Classic, I went from being Guido's wife to being Dion's mom. Now, with you coming up, I'm Payden's grandma.'"
> Hibdon recently became a dad for the first time, welcoming daughter Piper to the family earlier this month. She'll serve as extra motivation for him on the water. "I'm going to push myself to do better not just for myself, but for her," he said.
> Asked how much longer he thinks his grandfather will continue to fish at the Tour level, Payden said, "Everybody is always asking him how much longer he has left doing this and how he answers it is probably the best way I'd know how to answer. He just says, 'What am I going to do whenever I retire? Go fishing? I may as well stick to it as long as I'm able. I still get paid to do it every now and then.'"


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Driving around in Denver, you can easily understand why it costs more to have insurance in a big city than in a smaller town. The number of times that you are almost hit or you almost hit someone else are too much to remind yourself of all of the near trauma. The reasons for this congestion very, but there are a few things that you can keep in mind so that you can keep your car out of the shop:
- The first thing that you should realize is that the time at which you drive matters. You do not need to always try and go at the thick of things. Try to go before rush hour starts in the morning. Chances are it is only the difference of fifteen minutes and by leaving early, you are making sure that not only will you be on time to work to get more done, but you will also be experiencing a little less stress.
- Also it is necessary to be a defensive drive in Denver. There are a few streets that are situated in a way that ensures cars will bump up against each other at some point. An example of this is all of the one way streets downtown. There are just too many cars going in a single direction for there not to be some conflict at one point or another. By being a defensive driver, you will be able to monitor all of the cars around you and make smart decisions based off of their poor decision making. It is an easy thing to do and one that will help keep your car out of the collision repair shop.
- Finally parking lots in Denver tend to vary incredibly in size. If you drive a lot in the city, you are bound to get some nicks and scratches, so one of the best things that you can do is to get a reliable dent repair. The shops in Denver tend vary in quality so make sure you can go somewhere that you trust. One of these trusted shops is called Auto Sport Collision Repair.
Auto Sport Collision Repair is a locally owned and operated repair shop in Denver. The shop has been around long enough that you know that it has a loyal customer base that continues to go there through the years. It is that kind of promise that you want when you look at all of the options for where you take your car. Your car is your baby, at least it is for a number of people, so being able to take it somewhere that you explicitly trust is a value that you can't put a price on. With that in mind, make some of the calls and find out how long it may take to get some of the dings in your doors popped out so that your baby can start looking brand new again. It shouldn't take that long and they can often come to you.


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Rome (Aug. 29)
There is no question of hostility to Great Britain or any unnecessary interference of the League of Nations in the affairs of others in the Mandates Commission's report, Il Giornale d'Italia finds. This influential paper, the first of the Italian press to comment on the report, sees the Mandates Commission's work as a form of international collaboration based on the peace treaty and hence to be regarded as "legitimate and necessary and free from any intention of giving offense to anybody."
The Italian paper professes to see in the British government's reply and in the comment published in the London Times, as well as in the attitude of "disdainful surprise," somewhat of an inconsistency with the importance of the problem and with the traditon of realism in judging contingencies even of an adverse kind.
After referring to the special situation in Palestine, the Giornale d'Italia recalls the responsibilities assumed by Great Britain and the criticism of the British administration made in England itself, notably in the letter published in the London Times under the joint names of General Jan Christian Smuts, Lloyd George and the late Lord Balfour.
The Italian paper is of the opinion that the report of the Mandates Commission differs little from that of the Shaw Commission except as regards the obligation of the British government to have foreseen and provided for the conflict of last August. Such a slight diversion between the two reports cannot account for the British resentment which is provoked by the possibility of "the eventual reform of the Mandate which might by reason of reason of the serious elements which emerged, and of the slow ripening of vast repercussions, especially in the Islamic East will sooner or later impose itself upon the attention of Europe," the editorial concludes.


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DOHA (Reuters) - Wealthy Arab funds, eager to buy up distressed film assets abroad, should spend their money closer to home where filmmakers are struggling to find funding and distribution channels, according to industry experts.
Film festivals have sprung up in the Gulf Arab region in recent years with events in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The latest, Robert De Niro's Doha Tribeca, just ended a four-day run in Qatar's capital.
But despite the heightened exposure, Arab filmmakers say the focus is still on Hollywood and European films with little attention -- or funding -- given to homegrown films.
"A $2 million Arab motion picture cannot raise its money out of the Arab world, if Egypt is not a great contributor," said Tunisian producer and distributor Tarak Ben Ammar.
"The real question is, will oil money go to Arab culture or will it go to Hollywood?"
Ammar, who distributed Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" and runs production studios in his native Tunisia, said film festivals were useful for developing a film culture in the region, but meant little without financing.
UAE capital Abu Dhabi, flush with oil money, is pushing state-owned entities to pick up bargains globally to diversify the emirate's economy.
Abu Dhabi Media Company is eyeing investment opportunities in film-making as hedge funds abandon Hollywood and studios scramble to raise new financing, the company's chief executive said last year.
In Qatar, Alnoor Holdings launched a $200-million fund this week to invest in film projects amid tight financing in the wake of the financial crisis and plans to focus on Hollywood.
Palestinian filmmaker Najwa Najjar, whose latest film "Pomegranates and Myrrh" screened at the Tribeca festival, said Gulf funds were desperately needed to make high quality movies that would grab the attention of a larger audience.
The lack of experienced development executives in the region is also hampering the industry which sees the biggest production in Egypt. The North African country has been the Hollywood of the Arab world for decades, producing more films and television series annually than the rest of the region combined.
"We have a group of very creative filmmakers (and) we have the people who are putting in the money and creating film funds," said Jordanian filmmaker Rami Yasin.
"In between, there's a massive gap of development executives who understand creative content and know how to access the funds."
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Key Toppers, 6 Gifts for the Girls by Jane Burns
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+Gene Robinson's Prayer for President-elect Barack Obama
A Prayer for the Nation and Our Next President, Barack Obama
By The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire
Opening Inaugural Event
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC
January 18, 2009
Welcome to Washington! The fun is about to begin, but first, please join me in pausing for a moment, to ask God's blessing upon our nation and our next president.
O God of our many understandings, we pray that you will…
Bless us with tears – for a world in which over a billion people exist on less than a dollar a day, where young women from many lands are beaten and raped for wanting an education, and thousands die daily from malnutrition, malaria, and AIDS.
Bless us with anger – at discrimination, at home and abroad, against refugees and immigrants, women, people of color, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
Bless us with discomfort – at the easy, simplistic "answers" we've preferred to hear from our politicians, instead of the truth, about ourselves and the world, which we need to face if we are going to rise to the challenges of the future.
Bless us with patience – and the knowledge that none of what ails us will be "fixed" anytime soon, and the understanding that our new president is a human being, not a messiah.
Bless us with humility – open to understanding that our own needs must always be balanced with those of the world.
Bless us with freedom from mere tolerance – replacing it with a genuine respect and warm embrace of our differences, and an understanding that in our diversity, we are stronger.
Bless us with compassion and generosity – remembering that every religion's God judges us by the way we care for the most vulnerable in the human community, whether across town or across the world.
And God, we give you thanks for your child Barack, as he assumes the office of President of the United States.
Give him wisdom beyond his years, and inspire him with Lincoln's reconciling leadership style, President Kennedy's ability to enlist our best efforts, and Dr. King's dream of a nation for ALL the people.
Give him a quiet heart, for our Ship of State needs a steady, calm captain in these times.
Give him stirring words, for we will need to be inspired and motivated to make the personal and common sacrifices necessary to facing the challenges ahead.
Make him color-blind, reminding him of his own words that under his leadership, there will be neither red nor blue states, but the United States.
Help him remember his own oppression as a minority, drawing on that experience of discrimination, that he might seek to change the lives of those who are still its victims.
Give him the strength to find family time and privacy, and help him remember that even though he is president, a father only gets one shot at his daughters' childhoods.
And please, God, keep him safe. We know we ask too much of our presidents, and we're asking FAR too much of this one. We know the risk he and his wife are taking for all of us, and we implore you, O good and great God, to keep him safe. Hold him in the palm of your hand – that he might do the work we have called him to do, that he might find joy in this impossible calling, and that in the end, he might lead us as a nation to a place of integrity, prosperity and peace.
24 Responses to "+Gene Robinson's Prayer for President-elect Barack Obama"
At last, the sort of decent and caring USA that we in the rest of the world can look up to!
I was a teenager in 1961, but I still remember the hope we felt then. I got my hope out today, and dusted it off. I truly believe that it will be safe.
HBO did not broadcast the part of the event that included +Gene's prayer - the first half hour, I guess - so I am checking Youtube every hour or so to see if it appears. Unfortunately, Beyonce seems way more popular. Go figure.
-Pamela Grenfell Smith
NY Times live blog:
Reverend V. Gene Robinson, the openly gay bishop from New Hampshire who advised Mr. Obama on gay rights issues, gave the invocation. But his words were lost to hundreds of thousands gathered along the Reflecting Pool and those tuning in on HBO. A malfunction in at least one massive speaker tower on the south side of the memorial left tightly-packed crowds on pins and needles chanting thunderously, "We can't hear. We can't hear."
Wow, too bad that this wonderful prayer wasn't included in HBO's coverage, and I hadn't heard about the technical problems with the speaker. I too, am hoping that some coverage will prop up on youtube !
I find it incredibly disappointing, but not at all surprising, that HBO failed to broadcast Bishop Robinson's invocation. There is no excuse for this and it is just one more example of trying to silence gay and lesbian people. As far as I am concerned, the invitation to give the invocation was a hollow gesture. One thing is for sure NO ONE IS GOING TO NOT broadcast the invocation that the bigoted, narrow minded Rick Warren is going to give.
I thought this was an excellent prayer. I, too am aware that HBO did not run this segment. I assume that either (1) they are living in the twentieth, if not the nineteenth, century (this is the charitable view), or (2) they are afraid their sponsors (most of whom are probably Episcopalians anyway) will be upset, or (3) that they think time is money and don't think religion is worth bothering about. I have written to them in no uncertain terms.
I watched the concert when it first aired and again on the rerun because I thought I'd somehow missed the prayer I'd been waiting to hear since it was announced.
Now I know it wasn't included.
Thank you for printing the text and shame on HBO who will be hearing from me.
I don't suppose they'll skip Rich Warren's invocation though. Of course not.
Ann Adams
As a singer with the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC (which, along with the other backup choruses at the event, did not receive credit), I heard Rev. Robinson give his invocation at about 2:20, 10 minutes before the show officially started. I'm Jewish, and I was sitting next to an atheist, and both of us were in tears by the end of these brave and powerful words.
I won't try to speculate why this was not included in the broadcast; truth be told, this whole show was thrown together so fast, and backstage was so disorganized, I'm amazed at how smoothly it went, and how polished it all looked in the end.
But I will say that speaking Truth has been a difficult thing these past 8 years, hampered by an increasingly fearful and fear-inducing administration. You should see how many "Freedom Fences" (that's what I call 'em) are denying and restricting free access in DC this week.
I personally plan to spread these words as far and wide as I can. They need to be heard.
I too am waiting for the youtube version. Hope it's true that it was just a technical glitch. The spirit of the day was so incredible, I want to believe we weren't intentionally denied access.
Even though HBO "deleted" this segment, I was glad to read the whole text. Will they "excerpt" Rick Warren, I doubt it. Rev. Robinson's invocation was moving and went right to the heart. It doesn't matter whether he is gay, so what? Are you saying that a gay minister's prayers are not registered with the Almighty? I don't think so! He listens to us all, because HE made us!
Here's the YouTube URL for yhe Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson Invocation. You can't see him, but, you can hear him perfectly:
In Peace, Pride & Euqality
R. Zeke Fread
The Episcopal Church is so blessed to have a bishop with Gene's gifts, and words. What more could our country be hoping for, on this amazing, renewing occasion?
Sad that we somehow expect that HBO won't carry the prayer - and that a "tower of speakers had a glitch" and that our sad expectations are met. Cowardly is the word for HBO. Thanks to the new administration for inviting our Bishop to participate.
At least I can reprint and share the prayer - along with the prayer we offered yesterday in church for our new President.
We should and will also continue to pray for change.
I am sad and confused and deeply, deeply upset. This casts a dark shadow on everything that I had hoped Barack Obama's presidency would bring to this country. The breath of fresh air that I expected to partake of has just shifted to a smelly breeze.
Gene Robinson gave a stunning interview just last week on NPR and frankly, that was the reason I watched the event -- to hear the invocation. After 90 minutes passed, I looked on line for an explanation and then started to piece together what happened. I hope and pray that this is not what it appears to be. However, the fact that the Biden's and Obama's were not yet visible when Bishop Robinson delivered the invocation troubles me deeply.
Typically, invocations are given at the very beginning of an event as soon as all participants are settled in their seats/pews. Why were the Biden's and Obama's not present for the invocation? This, added to the lack of it being televised and the faulty sound system, causes me to have doubts about motive.
How sad for us to have missed his brilliance and his powerful message of active nonviolence and inclusion.
I am saddened and angered (God bless those tears, and that fury) by the "glitches" OF HBO, the event planners, and whatever else caused the failure of this prayer to be heard, yesterday on the Mall and around the world. It is a worthy,courageous prayer, and I hope HBO will find a way to broadcast it in the future, perhaps as a repeated part of one of their many many inter-program segues and lead-ins, perhaps as a miniature "HBO special." I think the event planners, the Obama administration, and all of us should ask for that. Finally, perhaps this prayer could be offered again by Gene as the invocation or benediction at the Cathedral prayer service that closes the official Inauguration, supplementing or even replacing Bishop Chane's or Jefferts Schori's prayer. (Now there's a thought--shades of Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt!) Above all, I ask God to bless all our tears and all our anger, and to help us learn from Gene about the magnificence of forbearance and forgiveness. He is a great grace from God to our broken world.
The Rev. James H. Littrell
Episcopal Chaplain at Penn
Rector, St. Mary's Church, Hamilton Village, Philadelphia
and out queer Priest in this wilderness promised land of ours since 1977, without a single regret, ever!
Blessings be
I know Bishop Robinson from when I lived in Massachusetts, he did/does much with and for Province 1 of New England. The prayer he gave was and is simply amazing. However, just another day and prayer for a man who is an outward expression of the peace and love of God. The Peace of the Lord be with you Gene Robinson, thank you for all you do. And, HBO we forgive you, because Bishop Robinson already has.
Blessings from the State of California!
Thank you for posting the text of the prayer. Also, many thanks to Sara Pulliam for recording and posting on YouTube the video of Bishop Robinson reading the prayer at the start of the "We Are One" Concert. I've been looking for a recording of this prayer (audio or video) for the last 24 hours.
Finally, many thanks to Bishop Robinson for his continued leadership and presence in the LGBT Community.
Here is a direct link to HBO if anyone feels moved, as I did, to be in touch with them more directly. And yes, thanks to Sara for the video.
Jim Littrell+
Udate from HO makes this look more like a planned PIC omission than an HBO glitch:
Contacted Sunday night by AfterElton.com concerning the exclusion of Robinson's prayer, HBO said via email, "The producer of the concert has said that the Presidential Inaugural Committee made the decision to keep the invocation as part of the pre-show."..
We've got a number of fresh items on this fast-moving story up-blog at:
The Obama camp is doing what it can to make this right.
Is Gene Robinson a Christian? 'God of many understanding'? It's given me a confusion and doubt about his Christian confession. I always see a Buddhist monk calls his god "Buddah" with pride, an Imam respectfully invokes "Allah", and so on and so forth, but this Bishop dares not to call his God "Jesus" or "Jehovah". So why bother to conclude the shallow, meaningless prayer with "Amen" even though it is veneered with beautiful words and lofty concepts? Gene contradicts himself since he invoques god of many understanding but doesn't stick to it. Why? because my god doesn't use "Amen", and a lot of gods don't either. What an insult and laughing stock to other religions. I can't help to think about a coward at best, and an obvious Judas in modern day Christianity. You need to have a backbone and identity. Unfortunately, this bishop has neither. Too much for honesty that a man in such a position shows. This has nothing to do with gay/lesbian issue, don't quickly jump to attack me. I just want to raise a question. It seems funny lately to see Christians behave. Some of them, even on this site, quick to criticize/condemn Rick Warren since he says what he means and he is proud of being a Christian. At least, I respect him because of that. Out of curiosity, I check Christian bible and found out lots of verses clearly saying something about how Christian God considers homosexual as 'abomination', 'shameful acts' and 'sin' with severe consequences, having said that these lead me to questioning how Gene and the likes read their bibles, or do they have different bibles? how they deal with their own god that they proclaim every Sunday? do Christians have different Jesus? that's unthinkable. As said, I respect Rick because he reflects and faithfully shares with other people what he is taught from his God. Why people readily put a big hat of 'bigotry','intolerance' on him? just FYI, Islam also condemns homosexual and Eastern religions don't have even a faintest idea of support for it. I wonder if those people who condemns Rick and the likes as 'intolerance', can they show that they are 'tolerant'? obviously not. They are even worse, since they don't live up to what they preach. Back to this shallow, funny prayer, shame on you Gene, you reflects nothing, and I don't know your god at all, at least I know and proud of my god, you have shown no clue of who and what you have boasted that you worship.
Daniel Pham
Daniel, Buddhists don't consider Buddah to be God. That Gene chose to give a prayer that could speak to people who did not share his faith is not in any way a reflection of the depth of that faith.
Daniel writes:
"Eastern religions don't have even a faintest idea of support for it [homosexuality]"
Absolute nonsense.
First of all, most Eastern religions today have been reformed to the point that they are no longer "organized religions" in the Judeo-Christian or Islamic sense of the term but spiritual philosophies that tend to be universalistic and pluralistic, accepting all people. In addition, the Eastern religions simply aren't moralistic and obsessed with sin the way the Abrahamic traditions are. In "Homosexuality and World Religions" Arvind Sharma points out that in early Vedic India, a "third sex" was legitimately recognized and tolerated, which basically maps to modern-day LGBT people.
You will be surprised to know that most of the major Hindu spiritual teachers in the 20th century barely batted an eyelash when initiating gay devotees into their spiritual orders. Famous gay people like Edward Carpenter, Christopher Isherwood, E. M. Forster, and Alain Danielou were accepted by their Hindu spiritual teachers. For an account of Isherwood's relationship with his guru (including frank discussions of his guru's attitude to his homosexuality), read "My Guru and his Disciple" by Isherwood.
Here is a Vaishnava Hindu perspective on LGBT issues:
Daniel, please study the Eastern religions before claiming to know anything about them.
(editor's note: Ned, we need your full name next time.)
Ref Peter MacInnis' comment above.
Peter may have taken his heart out of the safe.
I volunteered hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to Obama.
Only to be vilified by Warren. I let my heart have hope again with Bishop Robinson, and went to the Mall to take part in the joy, only to have his prayer censored.
I think I'd best put my heart back in the safe.
(editor's note: Thanks, Tom. We need a full name next time.)


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Alliance announced to deliver District Energy System (DES) for Christchurch
Christchurch City Council (CCC), the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA), Christchurch City Holdings Ltd (CCHL) and Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) have formally signed an alliance with international partner Cofely-GDF SUEZ/Cowley Services and local partner Pioneer-EFI, to deliver a district energy system (DES) as an integral part of the central city rebuild.
The alliance was signed on Friday 11 April. In March the council's environment committee voted unanimously to support the project and contribute starting funds towards the project.
Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel said the DES would make an important contribution towards Christchurch becoming a clean, green, resilient and future-proofed 21st century city.
"During 'Share an Idea', the people of Christchurch asked for a clean, green city and this scheme is an important step in that direction" says the Mayor.
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Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority chief executive, Roger Sutton, has welcomed the signing of the DES alliance saying it positions Christchurch as a leader in innovation and energy efficiency in New Zealand and will help attract businesses seeking to establish a presence in the rebuilt CBD.
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"I wholeheartedly encourage anyone looking to share in the benefits of the DES to get on board. As Cantabrians know, I am deeply committed to energy efficiency and the city's new Anchor Projects are a logical and sensible place to start such a scheme."
Christchurch will benefit from the provision of lower-cost, environmentally sustainable and resilient heat/cool energy to a wide range of users across the central city. It will improve energy efficiency for connected buildings and accelerate the city's ability to switch away from carbon-intensive fuels. It will also save building occupiers and developers time and cost by providing heating and cooling as a utility service.
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