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The rating is based on Mexico's prudent fiscal policy, which has endured through at least three presidential administrations and various political parties, suggesting that a broad consensus for such policies exists. These policies have emphasized limited budget deficits, the result of which is that current debt levels are manageable. Additionally, Mexico's current account deficit has in recent years been small, increasing confidence in the credit quality of Mexican sovereign debt. Most significantly, economic performance and fiscal policy during the severe 2009 recession and its aftermath demonstrates Mexico's ability to maintain discipline under the most difficult of economic circumstances.
Commenting on this rating, Alberto Ramos, CEO of HR Ratings said: "We are pleased to be issuing a rating of Mexican sovereign debt as our first sovereign rating. Our ratings philosophy is to provide dynamic, forward-looking analysis. Seeking to provide investors with maximum transparency, we are meticulous in our analysis of both the positive and negative factors that affect our ratings."
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Although a police spokesman offered the politically-correct statement that "honor crimes" cross all religious and cultural boundaries, statistics show that Muslims commit the vast majority of them — which are often honor killings. Honor killings are becoming increasingly common in the United States as well.
An honor criminal may lash out for any number of reasons, but the crimes typically involve a woman or girl accused of dishonoring her family by refusing or leaving an arranged marriage, dating someone who is not Muslim, becoming "too Western," or even receiving a love note from a school chum.
Unsurprisingly, police are reluctant to explain the problem: Islam.
The Numbers
IKWRO [Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation], a group dedicated to protecting Iraqi, Kurdish. and other women from honor violence, used Britain's Freedom of Information law to procure information about the problem from every police force in the UK. Of 52 forces, 39 responded, reporting 2,823 honor crimes. The group estimates that the 13 forces that did not respond would have likely posted another 500 crimes, bringing the total to more than 3,000.
According to an IKWRO spokesman:
These figures demonstrate that "honour"-based violence is not a minor problem but a very serious issue which affects thousands of people each year, many of whom will suffer high levels of abuse before they seek help.
Twelve of the police forces also provided statistics for 2009, and nine of these showed an increase in "honour" crime between 2009 and 2010.
The overall increase across the twelve forces was 57%. In London, "honour" crime has doubled to more than 5 times the national average, and in Northumberland it has tripled in a year.
The breakdown for the most dangerous places, when it comes to honor crimes, is shocking: London posted 495 such crimes. Numbers for other areas are West Midlands — 387; West Yorkshire — 350; Lancashire — 277; and Manchester — 189.
London's Daily Mail offered more detail:
Cleveland recorded 153, while Suffolk and Bedfordshire saw 118 and 117 respectively, according to the figures. Between the 12 forces able to provide figures from 2009, there was an overall 47 per cent rise in honour attack incidents.
Police in Northumbria saw a 305 per cent increase from 17 incidents in 2009 to 69 in 2010, while Cambridgeshire saw a 154 per cent jump from 11 to 28.
A quarter of police forces in the UK were unable or unwilling to provide data, IKWRO said.
The total, some 3,323, adding the 500 IKWRO estimates that police did no report, means that more than nine such crimes were committed every day of the year.
The full report does not appear to be available at IKWRO's website.
PC Policing Rules
Diana Nammi, a spokesman for IKWRO, told the BBC that politically-correct police are afraid to attach Islam to the names of the culprits because of the obvious. Noting that what IKWRO uncovered is just the "tip of the iceberg," she declared, "I can say that we have got a policy in the UK [of] political correctness which sometimes is politically wrong and it's happened within how … to deal with issues happening within the Muslim community."
Nammi said the vast majority of honor criminals are Muslim, but that Sikhs and Hindus also commit honor crimes.
"Wrong is wrong; crime is crime within any religion," she told the BBC.
As well, she related, "The perpetrator will be even considered as a hero within the community because he is the one defending the family and community's honour and reputation."
She also said the police often help victims for only a short time even though such violence is a lifelong menace. "The problem is that there is no systematic training for police and other government forces in the UK, such as social services, teachers and midwives," Nammi told the network.
Nammi observed that such violence is an "organised or collective crime or incident." As this reporter has written elsewhere, even women — including mothers and mothers-in-law — participate in honor killings.
As for the police, a spokesman for the Metropolitan squad in London, famously known as Scotland Yard, offered this opinion of honor violence, the Mail reported: "Honour-based violence cuts across all cultures, nationalities and faith groups — it is a worldwide problem."
That political correctness prevents authorities and journalists in the West from discussing the problem frankly is shown in this quote from a Turkish woman, who escaped an arranged marriage and tried to tell her story in Germany: "Everything I wrote from 1994 to 1999 was rejected, even by newspapers," she told Der Spiegel. "They told me I was writing about a minority issue and they were afraid of appearing racist."
In June, London's Telegraph reported that British police hide Muslim crime.
Honor Killings
However, only the second half of the statement from police is true. Honor crimes do not "cut across all cultures, nationalities and faith groups." They mainly cut across one culture, Islam, and the nationalities that comprise its co-religionists.
But honor violence is a worldwide problem, and is becoming increasingly common in the United States, as The New American has reported.
In May, Rahim Alfetlawi, 45, turned himself in to police claiming he accidentally shot his step-daughter in the head. Police believe it was an honor killing. The girl's mother explained the suspect to Fox News:
"He was too overbearing, over controlling — things I thought that were just normal, strict parenting really. Now, when I look back, I say no, it was too much," Wendy Alfetlawi said.
He forced [his stepdaughter] to wear a traditional head scarf instead of allowing her to make that decision on her own, and when she stopped wearing a scarf, friends say he became furious.
Fox reported that the girl's friends attempted to help her escape her stepfather's Islamic tyranny.
That killing was at least the second in Michigan since 2009, a busy year for honor killers in the United States. A Muslim man in Sterling Heights, Michigan, butchered his wife, while a Muslim man in Arizona mowed down his daughter in a car.
In Buffalo, N.Y. that year, the founder of a Muslim television station — which was created to dispel stereotypes about Muslims — beheaded his wife after she filed divorce papers. Though evidence showed that he had subjected her to years of beatings and terror, he actually claimed his wife had beaten him.
And in April, a jury in Louisville, Kentucky, convicted a Muslim of beating his wife with a hammer and slashing the throats of his four children. The bloody crime scene sickened hard-nosed detectives.
Those Muslims who justify honor killings and other violence against women turn to verses in the Koran, such as Sura 4, Verse 34:
Men have the authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.

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2. CNN's Brown Forwards Rumor Bush Knew in Advance Evidence False
3. CBS's Roberts Claims New Food Label "Could Help Save Your Life"
4. Jennings and Reynolds Belittle Meagerness of Tax Cut
5. CBS Sees "Hunger in the Heartland" with Car Lines for Food
ABC Hypes Anti-Bush Protest and Media
As if the average African or even African leader were peppering President Bush with questions about his evidence for going to war with Iraq, ABC's Peter Jennings opened his Wednesday broadcast: "On World News Tonight, the Bush administration is obliged again to defend its case for war in Iraq -- from Africa to Capitol Hill." In fact, Jennings was hyping a self-fulfilling media story since it was a U.S. reporter for the British Reuters service which brought up the subject in Pretoria.
Jennings soon insisted that in Africa Bush "faces a skeptical population, in part, because of the war in Iraq." His support for that claim: A mere thousand far-left and communist protesters whom CBS and NBC ignored, but ABC showcased, running video of protest signs with a Bush "Wanted" poster and with Bush sporting a Hitler mustache, all before featuring a soundbite from a protester who proclaimed: "We believe that George Bush is a threat to humanity and the planet."
After the above-quoted tease, Jennings began the July 9 World News Tonight, as taken down by MRC analyst Brad Wilmouth:
Raddatz checked in: "Peter, the administration faced a lot of tough questions today, especially about those Niger documents that have found to be, that have been found to be a fraud. But the administration did not have a lot of answers. In South Africa today, the President would not directly respond to questions about the bogus statement in his State of the Union. Instead, he defended his decision to go to war with Saddam Hussein."
Jennings picked up: "Now, as you all know, the President is in South Africa. He's gone there with big promises of help on a number of issues which are deeply important to Africa, but he faces a skeptical population, in part, because of the war in Iraq. ABC's John Cochran is traveling with him."
Over video of protesters with posters of Bush with a Hitler mustache, Bush Wanted posters and one which proclaimed, "Bush: You are an empty Warhead!", Cochran relayed: "'Bush is a warmonger, a butcher.' That from about a thousand demonstrators in Pretoria. Mostly young people and older socialists, long suspicious of American motives and protesting the war in Iraq."
That question posed to Bush about the Niger uranium story, the answer to which was highlighted by every network, came from a reporter whom Bush identified as "Randy." I'm guessing it was Randall Mikkelsen of Reuters. He asked, at just past 6am EDT (a bit past noon in South Africa):
For Mikkelsen's story: story.news.yahoo.com
CNN's Brown Forwards Rumor Bush Knew
Like ABC, CNN's NewsNight with Aaron Brown led with attacks on the administration's credibility, but Brown stretched his own credibility by picking up on a rumor, "a story that's been circulating on the Web today that there was at some point a conversation between the President and a CIA consultant where the consultant directly told the President that this African uranium deal was bogus." Brown's raising of such an uncorroborated story befuddled CNN reporter David Ensor, who speaking slowly as he fumbled for words, told Brown: "I have no way to confirm that story and it is somewhat suspect, I would say..."
Brown launched his July 9 program: "We begin with the question of credibility now dogging the White House even half a world away on President Bush's trip to Africa. Today, a State Department intelligence official who retired during the run up to the war accused the Bush administration of practicing 'faith based intelligence when it comes to Iraq.'"
Following the lead story from David Ensor about the day's developments on the Niger story front and questions about how President Bush could have conveyed such a bogus claim, Brown confronted Ensor with an unsubstantiated rumor of his own:
Brown stayed on point: "David Sanger has been reporting on the case against Iraq and the political tussle over it for the New York Times. Mr. Sanger joins us from Washington, good to see you David, thank you. Same question, do you have any have you in your reporting seen anything that suggests that at any point the President before the speech was told this information was phony?"
There goes a great conspiracy theory.
[Web Update: When castigating George Bush for passing on bogus information about uranium from Niger, Aaron Brown passed along a one-source Web story he should have known was false since it had been retracted four hours earlier. See the July 10 CyberAlert Extra]
CBS's Roberts Claims New Food Label "Could
How would we survive without federal regulators to protect us? Introducing a story on a new federal regulation mandating that the amount of trans fats be listed on food nutritional labels, CBS anchor John Roberts dispassionately described it as "a new food labeling regulation that could help save your life."
Talk about over-hyping a minor event. The regulation is not now in place, so how are we managing to stay alive?
Setting up a July 9 CBS Evening News story on the new FDA regulation which gives food-makers until 2006 to add the information, Roberts heralded the new rule: "Federal health officials hope action they took today will cut health care costs related to obesity. Elizabeth Kaledin reports on a new food labeling regulation that could help save your life."
Jennings and Reynolds Belittle Meagerness
ABC's Peter Jennings belittled the tax cut on Tuesday night, announcing at the top of World News Tonight: "The President's tax cut is beginning to show up. Will three extra dollars stimulate the national economy?"
In the subsequent story, tied to the tax cut showing up in paychecks as of July 1, Dean Reynolds talked to a couple who appreciated their $15 more a week and a woman who dismissed as "nothing" the $3 more she will now be able to keep every two weeks. (Reynolds didn't add up his breakdown numbers to point out how the couple was getting a healthy $780 a year and the woman, who makes $35,000, about $78 more a year, a lump sums it's doubtful anyone would reject.)
Dean quoted experts on both sides of the argument about whether the tax cut will boost the economy, but he ended his piece by ridiculing the amount of the tax cut. Referring to the husband in the couple getting $15 per week, Reynolds snidely observed: "He may use some of his windfall to restore that '57 Chevy in his garage. And at 15 bucks a week, he figures the job would be done in about 20 years."
I thought the tax cut was too big and irresponsible. Now it's too small.
Jennings set up the story which wrapped up his July 8 show: "Finally this evening, spending 'Your Money.' The first step of the President's multi-million tax cut plan has begun to mean money reaching people around this country at this particular moment. They're now supposed to turn around and put it into the general economy, which, of course, will be up to them. Here's ABC's Dean Reynolds."
Not such a bad story until Reynolds concluded with such a dismissive anecdote.
CBS Sees "Hunger in the Heartland" with
Exactly a week after the CBS Evening News trumpeted the return of homelessness to America on a scale never seen before, the program will feature a story on how in George Bush's America there's "hunger in the heartland" with huge numbers of people "waiting in line for free food."
Wednesday's CBS Evening News carried this promo for Thursday night's broadcast:
As the announcer spoke CBS's spot showed video of a long line of cars and SUVs, none of them looking too shabby.
In America, our supposedly hungry can drive a multi-thousand dollar vehicle to pick up their free food.
-- Brent Baker


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Jan. 20, 2001
Poem: "Solstice," by Edward Hirsch, from Earthly Measure (Alfred A. Knopf).
Remember how the city looked from the harbor
in early evening: its brutal gaze
averted, its poised and certain countenance
wavering with lights?
Remember how we sat in swaybacked chairs
and marvelled at the brush fires
of dusk clear in the distance, the flames
scrawled across the skyline
like a signature while currents shifted
inside us? Ecstasy of fire
works rising in midsummer, of fulvous sails
flashing in the heat
And orange life buoys bobbing on the water;
ecstasy of flares and secrets
and two bodies held aloft by desire...
judge us as you will,
but remember that we, too, lived once
in the fullness of a moment
before the darkness took its turn with us
and the night clamped shut.
It's Inauguration Day: William J. Clinton steps aside today, as George W. Bush steps up and takes the oath of office.
On this day in 1937, Inauguration Day was held in January for the first time. The Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution shortened the time between the election and the president's swearing-in. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who won the election in a landslide, took the oath of office, which was administered by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, himself a former Republican presidential candidate. In his inaugural address, Roosevelt said of the boom that marked the Nineteen Twenties, "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics."
It's the birthday of poet Edward Hirsch, born in Chicago (1950). He's the author of many collections of poetry, including For the Sleepwalkers (1981, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Wild Gratitude (1986, winner of the 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award), The Night Parade (1989), Earthly Measures (1994) and On Love (1999). He values traditional forms in poetry, saying that "the dichotomy between so-called formal poetry and free verse is a large mistake in American poetry." He teaches at the University of Houston, where he's a member of the creative writing program.
It's the birthday of filmmaker Federico Fellini, born in Rimini, Italy, on the Adriatic coast (1920), the son of a prosperous grocer. He developed a love for movies in his town's two hundred-seat theater where, he said, "I discovered there existed another way of life, a country of wide-open spaces, of fantastic cities that were a cross between Babylon and Mars." He was talking about the America he saw on film. He married the actress Giulietta Masina, who later starred in many Fellini films, including "La Strada," "The Nights of Cabiria,"and "Juliet of the Spirits." He said that "All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
It's the birthday of American composer Walter Piston, born Rockland, Maine (1894), the grandson of an Italian sailor who changed his name from Pistone when he married an American girl.
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.®


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Gopi Gopalakrishnan has over 25 years of experience in implementing large-scale service-delivery programs in low-resource settings in India and Africa. He founded and administered two large organizations—World Health Partners in 2008 and Janani in 1995 and implemented programs for Population Services International and DKT International, two global organizations. He also worked as Director of International Programs of DKT- I based in Washington DC.
WHP and Janani have won national and international acclaim for their innovative and creative management that pays particular attention to cost efficiencies and self-sustainability. In 2013, Gopi won Skoll's Global Award for Social Entrepreneurship and the World Economic Forum-linked Schwab Foundation award. In 2015, he won the Asian Award for Entrepreneurship and was selected a Fellow of the Ashoka Foundation. He received a prestigious civilian honor from the Government of Vietnam in 2006 for his work as the Country Director of DKT International.
While all the organizations Gopi has been associated with specialize in using private sector resources to supplement public sector delivery of services, WHP is increasingly moving toward integrating the range of technologies it has developed for private sector engagement into public sector programming and finding common avenues of collaboration. The approach of creating an ecosystem of delivery that will accommodate all available resources to address critical health needs of the community is finding increasing resonance among policy makers.
Gopi has been a member of India's Population Commission and has advised the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and numerous national and international organizations. He served on the global technical advisory board of the International Finance Corporation, and is currently on the Advisory Group on Community Action (AGCA) of India's National Rural Health Mission. He is on the expert panel advising Global Coalition against TB.


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Who do you support for Sheriff in North Carolina (Surry County) in 2010?
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#61 Oct 25, 2010
My family of 6 voted for you today.
#62 Oct 26, 2010
I am for Dan Kiger....A good man for the job. As far as the substation idea? Well, it was last talked about be Bill Hall several years ago. The idea then was to get agreements with the volunteer fire departments to allow the sheriff's department to have a small desk/office in there to do the paperwork and to meet with people in the community, instead of having to run back and forth to dobson all the time from different places in the county. So I see this idea as a cost savings to me, a tax payer.
As far as the debate about the cars. There isnt a need to have certain people, detectives, and others drive a crown vic. The reason why most patrol officers drive a large sedan is the cage, radios, and the amount of stuff that they have to carry with them. These other officers do not carry that much equipment, and would be more able to use a smaller, more fuel efficient vehicle for their duties. Again, a savings that I support as a tax payer.
As far as the reserve deputies. They are trained just to the same standards as a full time deputy. They have the same authority, and can be a huge asset to the county working special events. Being able to fill in and answer calls when the Sheriff has them work, and they can do anything a full time deputy can. It is also a huge asset to have a hiring pool of reserve deputies to be able to hire a full time person from since they are already known, trained, and familier with the department. Again, another cost saving.
And, just like in the paper today, you see a drug bust. Right before election time. COnvienient? Yep, to gather votes, and then its back to normal again.... Dan is who we need. Do I like him personally? Not really. Do I think he has good ideas and is bringing more options to the table? Yes. Thats why I support him over Graham who I do know and like personally. Graham is to inside the box, and Dan is looking at it from the outside.
#63 Oct 26, 2010
This website is a joke. You can vote over and over again and put anyones name you want and change the city at will !!!!!!
#64 Oct 27, 2010
I took 6 for u today !
#65 Oct 27, 2010
I like your plans.
#66 Oct 27, 2010
I'm voting for a change from top to bottom.
#67 Oct 27, 2010
There's gonna be a new Sheriff in town.
#68 Oct 29, 2010
For someone with 30 years with the patrol (Kiger), it is quite telling that you see no signs at current and former troopers homes, except one. There are 20+ troopers assigned to this county at any given time. That should be an obvious sign for what his former / fellow employess "know" and "think" about him.
As to the Dobson Mafia, he killed himself a few years back. As to the Tores there is fact and inuendo. Anyone commenting here about him, if you know for a fact something is going on have some guts and go on record with law enforcement or stay hid behind your computer anonymous and 'ass'ume. And yes his business is in the Mt Airy City Limits...
#69 Oct 30, 2010
He is the most qualified and is a great person!
#70 Oct 30, 2010
Dan is the only person for this job.He believe in God and he will Deal with the Drug Dealer.We really a man like that .He will be for all .
#71 Oct 30, 2010
Isn't Mt.Airy in Surry County?.. Just wondering why a couple of the posters would think that the votes from Mt.Airy do not matter.
#72 Oct 30, 2010
Yep voted for Graham, I can't understand how anyone could think that a washed up trooper who couldn't even do that job well could run a sheriff's Department. Don't forget what we use to have people! Oh yea last time i checked running for Sheriff is actually Politics.
#73 Oct 30, 2010
Excellent candidate
#75 Oct 30, 2010
Ok in case you dont know, officers rarely go to the office anymore. They created this cool thing called a Computer and put them in cars so officers can do everything from there.
Also when was the last time you looked at the equipment needed by a Detective, they need a school bus. Givem trash to work with and you will get trashy performance.
Oh yeah, last time i checked workers comp insurance, uniforms, equipment cost just as much for a part time worker as it does for full time. Now there's a good idea, ask unpaid, untrained, under qualified part timer's to protect the county you care so much about. There is a lot to consider with CHANGE and i dont think you people are thinking.
Bottom line is Pay them well and give them the best equipment you can and you can expect quality performance. Dan's idea actually sounds stupid to me.
#76 Oct 30, 2010
Best candidate
#77 Oct 30, 2010
Best Candidate
#78 Oct 30, 2010
Clearly the best trained and best choice
#79 Oct 30, 2010
Trashy is what you've got now, from the Sheriff, chief deputy, a couple of detectives, and few more!
#80 Oct 30, 2010
He will do a good job for the people of the county.
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- Anti-Liberal Netanyahu Slams Arab Spring as Anti-Liberal
MGLoraine 11/26/2011 at 12:30 pm with 1 replies
It would seem that the "democratic values" espoused by Netanyahu and the Likud are, in fact, a very close match to the "democratic values" which are held so dear by American Zionists and the American political establishment. They are both totally fraudulent. We can see America's "democratic values" on display in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Guantanamo Bay, and elsewhere around the globe.
- Netanyahu Blows off US; Mahmoud Abbas pleads for Settlement Freeze
MGLoraine 09/28/2010 at 2:35 pm
We need to have the US and the international community impose "crippling economic sanctions" against the state of Israel until they cease all colonization activities and prepare to vacate those settlements already in place. That should begin with the immediate discontinuation of any and all "foreign aid" from the US to Israel. The imposition of economic sanctions against Iran to impact their nuclear R&D seems to be an accepted practice; is not the annexation of Palestinian territory an equally serious roadblock to global peace and prosperity? Have the Israelis not done the very same thing to the people of Gaza?
Meanwhile, all Americans and concerned citizens of every nation should boycott the state of Israel and all Israeli corporations, and proceed to divest from Israeli enterprises at every level. Boycotts and divestment brought pressure to bear against South African apartheid - it might do the same for Israel.
- Will Resumption of Israeli Colonization of West Bank End the Two State Solution?
MGLoraine 09/26/2010 at 6:20 am
It seems fairly evident that the Israelis do not want to engage in any serious talks, or have any actual progress toward Palestinian independence ensue. The continued colonization of Palestine is Netanyahu thumbing his nose at the US, the PA and the international community. There can be little doubt that he is deliberately scuttling the talks.
Rather than to resign, it would be refreshing for Abbas to demand a Hamas representative at the talks to speak for Gaza (since Israel has no intention of proceeding anyway). Surely the people of Gaza should have a voice in any potential negotiated settlement. Possibly political theater, but it would make an important statement and remind people there's more at stake than "just" the West Bank.


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Forward Focus
The Blue Jackets need to juggle their forward lines after the injury to Jeff Carter (more about that below). It looks like one of the main recipient of ice-time due to that injury will be Derick Brassard, who looked like he was on his way out of the coaches graces when he was sent to the fourth line on Saturday seeing less than nine minutes of ice-time. Now he's been promoted to what figures to be the top line alongside Rick Nash and R.J. Umberger. Brassard, the sixth overall selection in the 2006 draft, is coming off a career best season of 47 points and does have enough talent to be a productive offensive weapon if skating with talented line mates. Still, his value is muted because this figures to only be a temporary fix.
David Jones has four goals in six games this season. Obviously he isn't going to sustain that pace, but not many seemed to notice that Jones scored 27 times for the 'Lanche last year, so it's quite possible that his hot start to the year could propel him to his first 30-goal effort at the NHL level.
Monday night was a banner night for the Panthers. Not only did they score seven goals in a victory over the Lightning, they had three players light up the scoreboard with four points each: Brian Campbell (4a), Kris Versteeg (2g, 2a) and Stephen Weiss (2g, 2a). It was the first time the Panthers have ever had three players with four points in one game. Weiss recorded 60 points in back-to-back seasons in 2008-09 before slumping to 49 points last season. With six points through five games he's obviously on pace to return to the 60 point club this season.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has four goals and five points through four games. He had a hat-trick last week to boost his totals, and he followed that up with an assist on Monday night. All told the first selection in the 2011 Draft has either tied the game or put the Oilers ahead with every one of his points this season.
Alexander Ovechkin is coming off a strong season of 32 goals and 85 points, but it was also the worst season of his illustrious career (amazing to think isn't it?). With only one goal and two points through four games whispers are starting to grow about what is wrong with the Great Eight? I say nothing. He'll be just fine, so if some idiotic owners is getting a bit nervous, pounce on adding Ovechkin.
Teemu Selanne is the ageless wonder. Up to 639 goals and 1,343 points in 1,264 games, most assume that this will be his last season in the NHL despite the fact that he is coming off a 31 goal, 80 point season. The numbers are truly astounding for The Finnish Flash, and he added yet another historic mark to his ledger last night. Selanne recorded the 126th game of his career with at least two goals, and that moved him past Dino Ciccarelli into 9th place on that all-time list. Seemingly washed up when he recorded 32 points in 2003, Selanne continues to be a point per game performer for the Ducks.
Blue Line Business
Marc-Andre Bergeron is not a very good defensive skater, an odd statement to make for a blue liner. But, as he has proven nearly every time he's been given a chance, that doesn't mean he can't be an extremely effective offensive performer from the point. At it again with the Lightning, MAB has an impressive eight points in just six games this year giving him 16 points in 29 games as a member of the Bolts.
Brian Campbell recorded four points Monday night, all on the power-play, and that helped to push his season total up to six points on the power-play, the most amongst blue liners in the NHL. Skating nearly 28 minutes a game with over seven minutes of that ice-time coming with the man advantage in his first season with the Panthers, Campbell is looking to return to the level he displayed from 2005-2008 when he recorded at least 43 points each season (he averaged a mere 33 points the past two years). Campbell is soft as it gets, but he does possess strong puck moving, and skating, skills.
Oliver Ekman-Larsson has three goals in four games, an insane pace for any skater especially a blue liner. In 48 games last season he had one goal and 10 assists showing little offensive acuity. If he's on the wire, he should be someone you give serious consideration to adding if you need a boost.
Crease Cops
Do you know who leads the NHL in GAA and save percentage? I could give you 14 guesses, but I doubt you'd pin the tail on the donkey. The answer is Nikolai Khabibulin who has posted a 0.96 GAA and .957 save percentage in two starts. It's only two starts so take it for what it's worth, but he has looked ultra sharp after about as bad a season as any goaltender has had in recent memory last year (10-32-4).
Kari Lehtonen leads the NHL with four victories in four appearances. Not surprisingly he sports an impressive 1.48 GAA. Health has always been the key for Kari. If he has it he will be an effective keeper, just like he was last season when he won 34 games with a 2.55 GAA and .914 save percentage. There's no reason to think he won't be able to replicate those numbers this season for the Stars.
Antti Niemi returned to action for the Sharks on Monday night. Coming off a cyst removal from his knee, Niemi looked a bit rusty allowing three goals on just 22 shots. Even with the slow start, there is little reason to think that he won't end up being a top-10 keeper this season, not with a potent Sharks club in front of him.
Dwayne Roloson is 42 years old. Has he lost his mojo? Through four starts this season that looks like it might be the case as he has allowed a whopping 18 goals leading to a 5.11 GAA which not includes 3-straight games of at least five goals allowed. It's too early to panic with Roloson, but if you own him you had better add Mathieu Garon to the mix as the Lightning have no choice but to give their backup some extra work, at least in the short term, as Roloson is just killing them right now.
Fists of Fury
The top-3 NHL leader in penalty minutes are Steve Downie (31 PIMs), Chris Neil (29) and David Clarkson (26). All three have also recorded one goal.
The Infirmary
Michael Cammalleri is hopeful of returning from a cut in his leg as early as Thursday. Michael has a lot to prove this season after recording three year lows of 19 goals and 47 points last season. He also has to prove he can stay healthy as he's failed to appear in even 70 games the past two years for the Canadiens.
Jeff Carter and the Blue Jackets are having a rough start to the season, and that is putting it mildly. James Wisniewski was suspended eight games by the NHL, the team has started 0-4-1, and Jeff Carter has an injured foot that is likely to keep him sidelined for at least 7-10 games. The fracture in Carter's foot is actually in the same area that Carter injured during the preseason, and it's also located very close to where Carter broke his foot a few years back. "He has a plate in there with some screws in there, it's right along the same bone," said GM Scott Howson. "So obviously we're concerned that that bone has broken again." That sound like a player who is going to be back in action in a week to you? Yeah, I'm not sure either.
Ryan Kesler will return from his hip injury weeks earlier than expected as he will be in the lineup for the Canucks on Tuesday night. One of the most complete players in the game, Kesler is coming off a career best 41 goal effort, and he's recorded 75 and 73 points the past two seasons. Activate him immediately.
Peter Mueller is said to be "available" to return to the ice, but the fact that he hasn't has fueled rumors that he's suffered some sort of setback stemming from the concussion that cost him last season. The team hasn't helped matters by failing to give a definitive update on his condition. At this point it looks like Mueller could be back in action this week, but this is just another example of why counting on Mueller to do anything this season is a huge risk.
Ray Flowers can be heard daily on Sirius/XM Radio on The Fantasy Drive on Sirius 210 and XM 87, and his NHL thoughts can be read at Rotowire.com . Ray's baseball analysis can be found at BaseballGuys.com and his minute to minute musings can be located at the BaseballGuys' Twitter account.To email Ray a question for next week's piece, drop him a line at email@example.com.


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3 years ago was the last post? Damn.
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hi hi. :p
I can't chat my parents won't allow me. We could do a collab if you want!!
Awesome!! I can't believe their Stones got stck to their hands either. Odd!! And when I read that the Thirteenth Chancellor didn't reflect in mirrors or cast a shadow I thought he was a vampire or something!
Have you heard of the book "The Prophecy of the Stones"? You have to read it. It's fantasy but it's still awesome. What made me think of it was your name. Opal is the name of one of the characters in it. AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!!!


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LONG BEACH >> MemorialCare Health System and Cedars-Sinai have formed a new investment company called Summation Health Ventures to find and assist startups in health-related fields, officials announced Wednesday.
The new company, to be headquartered in Long Beach, is a successor to the MemorialCare Investment Fund, which had a similar mission. The fund invested in several health care firms, and its portfolio includes such companies as AutoGenomics, a Vista-based developer of medical lab equipment, and Perfect Serve, which is a Tennessee-based company behind a communications platform for medical professionals.
Brant Heise will be managing director, the same position he held for MemorialCare Investment Fund. He said the new company is similar to a venture capital fund, with the exception that candidates for investments will be evaluated not only on their potential to generate a return on investment but also on their capability to develop products or services that would be beneficial to the hospital systems that own the new fund.
"I always describe ourselves as a much more strategic investment vehicle," Heise said in an interview Wednesday.
Heise said the new fund has yet to invest in any companies in its own right, but he is seeking promising companies that produce information technology products for the health care industry. The fund could also be used to finance investments in medical device firms or companies that develop health care services.
"Patient-centered information technologies are essential tools to providing the highest quality of care," Cedars-Sinai CEO Thomas M. Prisleac said in a statement.
Summation Health Care may invest in health-focused companies across the entire United States, Heise said. The fund will likely seek representation on companies' boards of directors or advisers.
The Long Beach-based MemorialCare Health System and the Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai own an equal stake in Summation Health Ventures, according to Wednesday's announcement. The hospital systems may accept additional partners in the future.
MemorialCare operates Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Miller Children's Hospital and Community Hospital of Long Beach, as well other hospitals in Orange County.
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Social Question
Am I overreacting about a lap dance?
This guy I've been seeing asked me to be his girlfriend while we were in Las Vegas. Right when we made things official we realized we were late to our friends' bachelor and bachelorette party. I didn't feel right that we just made things official and separated to go to strip clubs. The girls paid for my lap dance from a male stripper and it was okay. I didn't feel turned on or anything. They don't get naked or grind on you really. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was like movies I've seen where it was way raunchier.
Anyways, I came back to the hotel room to find him passed out on the bed with a Mike Tyson tattoo drawn on his face. It was pretty funny but I was a little upset that this was how our relationship started off. He threw up at the strip club in the bathroom and they had to carry him back to the hotel.
Today I found out from his friends that a stripper's bare boobs were on his face. I didn't know with lap dances they could do that…put their private parts on a guy's face with skin to skin contact. I wasn't so much upset about a lap dance but yea it really bothered me that they could just put their vagina and boobs in your face which is nasty.
Is it a bad idea if I casually let him know how that made me feel? Is it wrong to say we both shouldn't get lap dances from this point on? He's planning his friend's bachelor party along with three other guys. I know he wouldn't pay for a lap dance but his friends would be encouraging him and buy him one….
I won't mind if he goes to strip clubs and I wouldn't mind going with him as a couple but I think the bare boobs on his face is a little too much =\
By the way that was his first time getting a lap dance (paid by friends). Apparently he was on the verge of passing out while getting it according to everyone. He claims he thinks strip clubs are a waste of money…he normally doesn't go unless it's a bachelor party. So it shouldn't be too much a deal to ask him to not get a lap dance right?


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It's a week jam-packed with familiar faces, but one person in the front row at New York Fashion Week yesterday caused a special stir: that would be 2-year-old Harper Beckham! She checked out mom Victoria's show with the four men in her family: David, Brooklyn, Romeo, and Cruz. Get the latest on the Beckham family fun, including details on the sweet note the kids sent Victoria to wish her good luck.
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Custodians stay busy so schools sparkle on opening day
August 3, 2010
NEW MILFORD, CT — On a muggy Monday morning, the corridors at New Milford High School were clear of their usual suspects, but were instead filled with overturned desks and chairs, cafeteria tables, filing cabinets and loads of boxes, according to the News Times.
From graduation day until opening day on August 31, a team of about 50 custodians, maintenance professionals and grounds workers are assigned to a variety of tasks at all six district schools so students and staff come back to a gleaming showcase on opening day, the article stated.
"Our goal is to provide an environment for learning, a facility that supports them,'''' Facilities Manager John Calhoun said.
It''s not always an easy or pleasant job: In the elementary schools, children have spills and "accidents'''' that can be tough to clean and, in the older grades, there can be graffiti and other debris left behind that takes some extra scrubbing to clean away, the article noted.
"I love this kind of work,'''' custodial crew leader Lee Dovale said. "What we like is the end result: The before and after.''''
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2. He is in a motorcycle gang...sort of.
3. His a-mazing body in Charlie's Angles: Full Throttle.
4. He starred in David Lynch's Mulholland Dr.
5. He lives in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.
6. He has fabulous villainous eyebrows a la Patrick McDonald.
7. He speaks Mandarin.
8. He made his directorial debut with Dedication, which stars Billy Crudup and Mandy Moore and opened last weekend.
9. Did I mention he looks great in that Thom Browne suit?
10. His film is about a children's book author who falls in love with an illustrator...wait, didn't they make this movie already and call it Miss Potter?


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Sunday, March 15, 2009
3/14 Weekend Run
This weekend I'm in very sunny Arizona checking out storage units and dorking around in some open houses. I didn't run on Saturday because my knee was still a little sore from tweaking it while lifting weights. I decided to still push forward with my long run this weekend because I didn't have any pain on Sunday morning while I was putzing around my in-law's house.
The run started just fine. It was about 55 or 60 degrees when I started out and clicked off miles 1-7 in 8:15, 8:16, 8:16, 8:57 (stupid stoplight), 8:11, 8:14, 8:19. Consistent!!?? I felt a little bit of pain in my left knee, but it wasn't anything that changed my stride and wasn't anything major enough to even slow me down. I'd say a 2 out of 10 on the pain-o-meter.
Something happened on mile 8, but I can't remember what it was. I ran that mile in 9:37 but then ran mile 9 in 8:25. I took my shirt off to get some sun and then something happened… My stomach had been rumbling throughout most of the run but it really picked up some steam at the half way point. I knew that this was going to be bad. So, I started to be on the lookout for a place to stop. It was come and go (figuratively, not literally thank GOD) for the next few miles which passed by in 9:11, 8:26, and 9:45 (another LONG stoplight). I FINALLY found a McDonalds right at the half marathon point.
When I finished in McD's and started to run again, I felt sharp pains in my left knee. It seemed that my knee had swelled up when I was in McDonalds and was super painful to run on. It was at that point that I realized that my run was not going to be fun from this point on. I briefly considered calling it a day, but without any way to call my wife, and being exactly 6 miles away from home (ran a stuipd big loop), I didn't have a choice but to hammer out the miles. I walked on it for a while, which helped a lot, but ultimately I had to start to run on it again. I basically followed a "walk a few minutes and then trudge out the rest of the mile" strategy all the way back to my in-laws house. It was a pretty tough run, but I finished.
The last 7 miles I finished in: 11:25, 9:42, 8:32, 11:22, 11:23, 12:43, 8:46. There were some pretty slow miles in there. Blah. The really annoying part is that I wasn't all that tired it was the knee pain that slowed me down. I'm going to rest my knee a lot this next week and hope that a few extra days off will help.
On the bright side (literally!) I did get some color while I was out here. Maybe a little too much color – crap!
Channeling my inner Steve in a Speedo with a red forehead and cheeks
I am pretty sure that I am more red than this picture portrays. I wanted to take another picture while flexing but my wife wouldn't take it!
The tale of two runs. First half good, second half suck-city.
7 comments:
- aron said...
great job on the 19 miler!!
- March 15, 2009 at 11:03 PM
- Pat said...
I've had runs like that. Well, not that fast. But, where they fall apart in the upper teens.
I was out showing houses in Gilbert on saturday. Didn't see many houses open. I'm assuming you already have a Realtor, but if you need one let me know.
- March 16, 2009 at 1:08 AM
- Michelle said...
No matter what, you finished your run!!! Your long run!!
But i am worried about your knee!!! Rest it please!!!
- March 16, 2009 at 4:25 AM
- Michelle said...
HA! I dig your "inner" Steve in speedo photos!!!
- March 16, 2009 at 5:25 AM
- Marcy said...
Duuuddeee!! Dang you better break out that sunscreen for those AZ days HAHA!
Hopefully after a couple days rest your feeling on the ups :-)
- March 16, 2009 at 6:22 AM
- sRod said...
That's a lot of sun! I'd never get like that around here.
- March 18, 2009 at 11:01 AM
- Ulyana said...
I'm catching up on my blog reading, so my comment is probably irrelevant. This was really painful to read. I hope your knee is ok!
- March 25, 2009 at 8:05 AM


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Continued negotiations to attempt to avert the fiscal cliff continued to move at a slow, slow pace this week, though - as feared - the delicate issue of cutting America's retirement benefits to help pay the way has finally been broached.
According to the Washington Post, while Democrats complain that the Republicans have yet to offer their own solution that would preserve tax cuts and raise revenue from the richest wage-earners in the country, Republicans counter that President Obama has yet to figure out a way to effectively hold back costs for Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.
Thursday is scheduled to see the first major negotiations on the issue, though representatives of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said they hoped that Democrats would also appear with their own ideas on how to control retirement benefit spending.
"We accepted this meeting with the expectation that the White House team bring a specific plan for real spending cuts - because spending cuts that Washington Democrats will accept is what is missing from the balanced approach that the president says he wants," said Michael Steel, Bohner's spokesperson.
In response, the White House says it has already offered to cut some $340 billion from federal health programs by charging more for Medicare benefits for higher-income seniors, and that the Obama Administration is indeed open to more ideas to change those entitlement programs.
As for those negotiations producing tangible results, a go-between enlisted to try to aid both sides in reaching an agreement admits that chances are very low, especially on the issue of retirement benefits programs.
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I'm in loop with Big Bang Theory
is that normal?
i watched 3 seasons in 3 days
i'm scared by myself
A stray dog wandered into our back yard last night when we were all out on the patio. We fed it and pet it and then it decided it was gonna hang around all night. When we woke up this morning it was waiting at the back door for us. The lady we rent the house from (Who also owns an animal shelter with 70+ dogs, 11 of which live at her house) came over and saw the dog. After we explained she decided she was gonna take the dog in and keep it at the rental house as a house dog. So we got to name the dog. She hasn't left my side all morning.
Dogs name is?
We named it "Forest"
Cus we are from Forest Mills, we're so creative.
After you originally made that picture. I posted a similar one but featuring Diet Kaine and saying "<3 I love Dead Island<3"
I want it.
you should probably check it up at a vet
I am having the worst time with my PC. First I have to wipe it, and of course of out necessity, I forgot to backup all of my map source files (no more eggman office beyond what I previously released.) and I lost alot of textures I made/converted. And now I am having a damnable time installing MAX 2012 again. Stupid microsoft and their crappy .net framework 4...
Reminds of those direct2dvd films.
No really thats really stupid to say to korro, man.
Well excuse me that what you says doesnt make any sense.
And its also stupid.
Yes please, rate me dumb because you just said something idiotic.
"Oh dont be mad at microsoft because they made your PC in the first place"
i can tell where this is going
You dont know that, so dont go assuming, and dont POST about it, the second part of the post is just...dumb.
There is no point, you're trying to start something up.
-to someone less dumb-
I am sorry Korro, if I caused you any upset, if i did, please tell me and I will snip my post.
If someone come up to me and pooped on my lap and put a chocolate in it, By your logic I couldn't get angry at them because I should be glad they even gave me the chocolate no matter what it is in?
Yes please dodge the point he's trying to make some more.
Because its the same thing, differant scenario and items.
If something like that pops into your head, just fuckin like, dont post it.
Just dont post it, no problems then, just let it pop in and pop out.
Still, he can be angry if something he bought isn't working properly.
Because it was, i dont care if it was your opinion or if it seemed like that.
why don't y'all both shut the fuck up
Holy shit.
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I'm too lazy to read all that. Well I think I read the beginning then I realized it was an argument between idiots so... yeah.


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A Nexus 4 and 7 spotted running on Android build KRS36B suggest Google is already hard at work on bringing out Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie, the expected major upgrade to the OS after Jelly Bean.
The fact that Android 4.3 would be called Jelly Bean was revealed through a few bug reports in the Chromium bug tracker, and now that bug tracker may have confirmed that the next Android version will be Key Lime Pie (or another dessert that starts with K, if you can think of any): both the Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 have made an appearance running Android build KRS36B.
The "K" in the build number is the thing to note here, as the first letter of Android builds always comes from the name of the OS version, like "J" for Jelly Bean or "I" for Ice Cream Sandwich. The Galaxy S III, S4, and Note II are mentioned as well, but only the Nexus 4/7 are listed with the mysterious new build number. The version number of Key Lime Pie is expected to be 5.0 , but with Google sticking to 4.x for the last two major releases, it could even turn out to be 4.4.
Key Lime Pie is rumored to bring major UI refinements (some suspect Google could move to a cards-based UI for the whole OS), performance improvements and optimizations for a better experience on 512MB RAM devices; it will probably launch sometime this fall, along with a new Nexus 10 and the next flagship Nexus smartphone.
So, looks like we can finally start counting the days before the next major upgrade to Android is unleashed upon us. Damn, just when we were getting comfortable with the superficially minor 4.3 update.
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First of all congrats on the front paged stuff, and this was pretty impressive. I do wish there was more effort on the backrounds and with more detail ofcourse.
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It's interesting when you have titles in a foreign language. I imagine it's French for "girl from the swamp". I must have seen your work before, because this definitley seems familiar. I do think this girl is drawn a bit strangely. Her head just seems a bit too big for her body. It's still a wonderful picture.
I think she may have a toad or something on her back. It's probably more that she's dressed like a toad. It's weird how she just wears so little clothing in the middle of her body while the rest is well covered. Are those magnifying glasses on her back? It's weird, but good.
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Celebrated artist and filmmaker Frederic Back dies at age of 89.
Frederic Back,on Sunday, March 5 in Montreal. (CP PHOTO/Paul Chiasson)
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German-born artist, activist and filmmaker Frederic Back passed away on Dec. 24, at the age of 89.
Back was the creator of the animated film 'The Man Who Planted Trees' and was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning twice.
He was made an officer at the Order of Canada, at the Order of Arts and Letters of France, and a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. He also won the Governor General's Award for the arts in 1994.
Following Back's death, Montreal's mayor Denis Coderre issued a statement recognizing the filmmaker's work, and offered condolences to his friends and family.
Coderre said that Back has left a legacy in education, culture and environment for future generations. The mayor has invited Montrealers to note Back's contributions, pointing out that the canopy in the Montreal's Place-Des-Arts Metro is his creation.


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'Irish Examiner' sports editor Tony Leen wrote a moving piece about the former Kerry player and manager following his untimely death last December.
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7"How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of whores.
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Eastern University Presents Series on Knowing Humanity
St. Davids, PA, November 6, 2012: Eastern University presents the third year of the series On Knowing Humanity: Developing a Christian Anthropology. This session will be held on Friday, November 16, from 3-4:30 p.m. in Baird Library on the campus at 1300 Eagle Road, St. Davids, PA.
Five Missions and Anthropology students will respond to a paper, Engaging the Religiously Committed Other: Anthropologists and Theologians in Dialogue. The paper was written by Eastern University professors Dr. Eloise Meneses, Dr. David Bronkema, Dr. Lindy Backues, Dr. Eric Flett, and Dr. Ben Hartley. A general discussion will follow.
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Anthropology claims to study humanity holistically, in all its inter-cultural varieties and intra-cultural connections. Yet a truly holistic study must go beyond the natural science view of people as merely a species in nature. A Christian anthropology must place ethnographic data about people and cultures within the larger framework of God's purposes for humanity through history.
The next sessions in this series will be held as follows:
March 15: Dr. Glenn Hinson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Gough Great Room, St. Davids.
Dr. Glenn Hinson is a folklorist and a cultural anthropologist who has studied African American Pentecostal worship services. As an ethnographer, he emphasizes the validity of religious experience and describes the ways in which that experience enriches the lives of believers. He has written a book, Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel.
April 26: Dr. Omri Elisha, Queens College, City University of New York.Gough Great Room, St. Davids.
Dr. Omri Elisha is a cultural anthropologist who has studied the church experience and outreach efforts of evangelical megachurches. His work reveals the tension between the values on unconditional love and accountability in the evangelical sub-culture. He has written a book, Moral Ambitions: Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches.
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The GPL requires that the entire program be available in source form in a way easily modifiable and be distributable in that form. This includes any libraries that must be linked into the final executable -- with the special exception of system libraries normally distributed with the system itself, like libc, etc. This precludes commercial or proprietary library packages. As a concrete example of this, the FSF argued that a program that was designed to link against the RSAREF library couldn't be GPLed, because of the restrictive nature of the license on RSAREF. The situation was with regard to a program that was designed to link against both RSAREF and the GNU GMP math libraries (which is GPLed). The FSF argued that since the program linked against GNU GMP, it -must- be GPLed, but since it linked against RSAREF, it -couldn't- be GPLed. The FSF dropped their objection when someone wrote and released a non-GPLed math library compatable with GMP, thus making the original program not dependant on GMP (there were other libraries it could choose from). Based on this event, I would say that any attempt to link a GPLed program with a non-free package (like Qt) would run into similar problems -- unless there was a interface compatable free replacement for Qt, in which case, we would suggest that people use that. Much like we are going to suggest that people use Lesstif instead of Motif when it is stable and complete enough. > You are not allowed to distribute changed version of the library but you > are welcome to change the gpled application as you like. > > > > Soon LyX will also be Qt based. > > > > > > > That's too bad, I kind of like lyx. > > Obviously, you unfortunately do not know hwat you are talking about, > sorry. > > The very first versions of LyX have been Motif 1.2 based. > This had the BIG disadvantage that the co developers did not want to buy > the commercial Motif stuff. > > Matthias then switched to Xforms. They most recent stable beta is based on > Xform 0.81. Xforms is free of charge for non commercial use. > The developers do NOT provide their source code. Xforms is limited > due to time constraints of the two developers. > > LyX will in the near future switch to Qt. Qt is in contrast to Xforms > available free of charge to the freeware community and much more important > it is WITH source code! > It has also advantages from the programmers point of view. (C++...) Try taking a look at V. It is GPLed, available in source form, and also a C++, object oriented approach to a GUI. > > So even for the GNU purists it must be evident, that Qt is LESS > restricting than the Xforms license. But it is still MORE restricting in key ways than the Xforms licence. What do you do if LyX breaks because of a bug in Qt? The standard Free Software method would be to fix the bug, send a patch back to the authors, and continue using the modified library, distributing it if necessary until the authors fix the bug in the upstream version. This doesn't work with the Qt license, since you can't distribute modified versions of Qt. What do you do if a new feature needs to be added? 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Allan Adler, who has led the Association of American Publishers government and legal affairs since 1996, has been named General Counsel and Vice President, Government Affairs, it was announced by Tom Allen, President and CEO of the publishing industry's largest trade association.
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Before taking this post, he had served as VP of legal and government affairs, leading that side of the AAP since 1996.
He serves as the US book and publishing industry's chief representative with Congress, the Administration, federal agencies and international bodies such as the World Intellectual Property Organization and oversees strategies for AAP members' engagement with those authorities … For the past two decades, Adler has led advocacy with respect to all major AAP policy decisions related to copyright protection, freedom of expression, digital issues, piracy, privacy rights, product safety and public access to scholarly publications. He has presented testimony in hearings before various Congressional committees and participated in numerous rulemaking and other proceedings before the US Copyright Office.


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When you have 24 sacks as a high school senior it might seem difficult to have modest goals.
Tyus Bowser knew playing time as a college freshman is akin to picking up leftover breadcrumbs.
Whatever he got, Bowser would be happy.
"It's a blessing," Bowser, a first-year defensive end from Tyler John Tyler, said this week. "Not many guys on the team are able to play their freshman year."
Not only did Bowser make an early impression, but the UH coaching staff looked for ways to get the talented pass-rusher on the field this season.
Playing at the Cougars' rush end position, Bowser finished second on the team with five sacks in 12 games. The new stand-up rush end position – implemented during the spring – allowed Bowser to use his athleticism as a pass-rusher and also drop back in coverage.
Not quite the totals Bowser is accustomed to, but you have to start somewhere, right?
"Just for the coach to trust me to put me out there on third and fourth down at the end of the game to make plays is a great feeling," Bowser said.
Bowser's two biggest games came against Rice and South Florida. Against the Owls, he had 1.5 sacks and 2.5 tackles for loss in the non-conference win. Against USF, Bowser forced a fumble on a sack in the fourth quarter to help the Cougars avoid the loss.
"I'm trying to get better each game," he said. "I'm not satisfied. I still have to work hard."
After the Cougars conclude the season against Vanderbilt in the BBVA Compass Bowl on Jan. 4, Bowser plans to join the UH basketball team. The 6-foot-3 shooting guard averaged 16.8 points and 7.9 rebounds as a senior.
"It's something I want to do," Bowser said. "I've gone from football to basketball every year since middle school."
Bowser said he and former high school teammate Greg Ward set a goal to play their first season in college. Ward saw action this season at quarterback, wide receiver and on punt returns.
"We wanted to play our freshmen year and wanted to make a difference to help the team win," Bowser said. "That's been our main focus. Anything individual we put that second."
Bowser has been playing with or against Ward since the two were in seventh grade in Tyler. He hasn't been surprised at what Ward has done in his first season.
"He's been able to do that ever since, breaking tackles and making big plays," he said. "It's nothing new to me."