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"If we don't … reaffirm our commitment to fiscal responsibility, years of hard work could be squandered," Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told a congressional panel last week. One look at the ever-climbing spending levels on Capitol Hill these days, and his warning makes perfect sense.
It didn't used to be this way. In the mid-1990s, politicians courageously cut wasteful government spending in order to balance the budget and bring relief to overtaxed families. Since 2000, however, our elected representatives have been acting more like children in need of adult supervision. Almost daily, it seems, another newspaper article begins: "Congress approves record spending increase for …"
With the 2003 federal budget almost done, there is now a price tag for this 2000-2003 spending spree: $782 billion in new spending. Not $782 billion in total spending, mind you, but $782 billion above what Washington spent in the previous four years. Eventually, taxes will need to be raised by over $5,000 per household to pay for it. With the exception of World War II, on a per-household basis, 2000-2003 will become the largest four-year federal spending spree in American history.
How did Congress and the president add so much new spending? Did they carefully assess the nation's needs and then decide that one or two national priorities were worth $782 billion in added funding? No. It's a classic case of death by a thousand blows -- record spending increases for dozens of diverse medium-sized programs, none by itself fatal but collectively all lethal. These scattered spending hikes flow from the inability of undisciplined policymakers to set priorities and say no to special interests.
Many members of Congress have tried to blame Sept. 11th-related defense spending. While this seems plausible on the surface, new defense spending represents just 21 percent of the $782 billion total spending increase, and less than a quarter of that defense spending increase can be directly attributed to the war on terrorism. Although a convenient excuse, defense spending comprises a surprisingly small portion of this spending spree.
Others claim politicians have acted responsibly, but that big-ticket entitlements such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are growing uncontrollably. However, these program's budgets haven't grown any faster over the last four years than they did over the past two decades. They don't explain why recent spending increases exceed those of the 1990s.
In fact, there is no way to explain or excuse the general pattern of persistent fiscal recklessness one finds in the federal budget. Over the past four years, Washington has heard calls for massive spending increases for a diversity of programs: farm subsidies, highways, healthcare, defense, homeland security, you name it. Had policymakers performed the tough but responsible task of limiting spending increases to one or two of the highest national priorities, the costs could have been controlled. Instead, they simply threw vast sums of money at all of these programs. The result: an unaffordable "guns and butter" budget.
Congress and the president couldn't say no even to the lowest-priority programs. Few taxpayers can claim the Denali Commission (an Alaskan public-works program) enriches their lives. But Washington increased its four-year budget from $1 million to $169 million. How much of a national priority is the Bureau of Export Administration? The Maritime Administration?
The Foreign Agriculture Service? Most Americans have never heard of these obsolete agencies, yet Congress and the president have increased each of their four-year budgets by over 70 percent.
From 2000-2003, Washington was blessed with a rare opportunity to save the average household nearly $2,500 in taxes without cutting back any federal services. After 50 years of steady increases, interest payments on the national debt declined by $247 billion from 2000 to 2003, thanks to the balanced budgets of the 1990s. Like the post-Cold War "peace dividend," Congress and the president were granted a once-in-a-lifetime "interest dividend" of $247 billion.
And they squandered every penny of it.
They allocated all $247 billion to new spending, and when that money ran out, spent $782 billion more on top of that. That's $1.029 trillion in new non-interest spending in just four years -- the largest increase since World War II.
More seems to be on the way. Congress and the president may spend as much as $600 billion over eight years for prescription drugs. Senators have endorsed a 600 percent increase for Amtrak. The House of Representatives passed legislation doubling the National Science Foundation's budget. The Senate just passed a bill adding $6 billion in farm subsidies despite the recent enactment of a record $180 billion farm bill. No one is proposing rolling back any of the 2000-2003 spending increases for pay for these new priorities.
What's wrong with unrestrained federal spending? Some mistakenly believe that government spending stimulates the economy. But they forget that every dollar the government spends must first be taxed or borrowed from someone else. Instead of creating wealth, government spending merely shifts it from one person to another. If government spending helped the economy, the Soviet Union and China would have become the world's richest nations.
In reality, most government spending actually harms the economy, which translates into fewer jobs and lower incomes. Governments are necessary to provide the collective services that markets need but have difficulty providing, such as defense, law enforcement and public goods like roads. But government spending beyond that basic level hurts the economy for three reasons:
1) Diminishing Effectiveness. As governments expand beyond defense, law enforcement, and public goods into areas such as education, food, housing and income security, they inevitably block the market from performing its own necessary functions in these areas. Over time, big government becomes a barrier to economic growth.
2) Politics. Markets use the profit motive to ensure that money will be spent efficiently. Businesses seeking profits must consistently respond to consumer demand with quality products at low prices. Governments, by contrast, are monopolies in which the only "profit" to the politicians running the system is re-election. Consequently, government spending is often driven by politics, not by efficiency. The result: While markets helped the Model T evolve into the Porsche and the Apple IIe into supercomputers, the federal government continues to run many of the same obsolete federal agencies it established as far back as the 1800s.
3) High Taxes. Increased government spending raises taxes for working families, making it more difficult for them to afford necessities such as food, housing and health insurance. Taxes haven't yet been raised because the federal government has chosen to borrow the money it needs for its current spending spree. But these loans eventually must be repaid with higher taxes.
In addition to their high cost, high taxes hurt the economy by distorting incentives. Families and businesses work, save and invest because they expect a financial reward. These productive behaviors also make the rest of the nation wealthier by creating additional economic activity. But burdensome tax rates reduce the financial reward for being productive. Families and businesses cut back their productive behavior to escape taxes, and the entire economy falters.
Washington's record $782 billion spending increase has harmed the economy, resulting in fewer jobs, lower incomes and higher future taxes. Fiscal discipline is needed. Otherwise, families will continue having difficulty making ends meet, and the economy will struggle under the suffocating weight of an ever-expanding federal government.
Brian Riedl is the Grover M. Hermann fellow in federal budgetary issues at The Heritage Foundation (www.heritage.org), a Washington-based public policy research institute.
Originally appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune


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Release Date: 05/26/2014 |
Album Rating: 2.5Really disappointed with this, took so long to review because it was so hard to get through more than once. Also constructive criticism welcome as always.
Album Rating: 4.0Respectfully disagree. Brilliant album. Watcher and Of Glory are killer! I'm surprised you didn't like them. They have the best
clean vocalist in the genre too imo.
Album Rating: 4.0Also the new guitarist blows the old one away in terms of technical ability.
Album Rating: 2.5Fair enough, biggest issue I had was that it felt like nothing new (in terms of genre). Sure he has technical prowess but the creativity is lacking. Each to their own, however, thanks for reading!
Album Rating: 4.0Yeah they definitely stick to some genre cliches, but I can give them a break when they do it so much better than most other bands.
Album Rating: 2.5Thanks, have to say i'm not crazy on portraits and prefer TUOC. Production is literally the best thing here.
Album Rating: 3.5disagree hard
Album Rating: 4.0the snare drum still pisses me off.
Metalcore band #4519
Good review, pos.
Digging: Converge - The Dusk in Us
Very well written, just so very wrong in my honest opinion.
Album Rating: 2.5Thanks, each to their own. At first this was a 3.5 but with repeated listens it just kept dropping. Trust me I really wanted to like this.
Album Rating: 2.5Also as someone who has been listening to metalcore since 2004 this was pretty underwhelming.
Album Rating: 3.5I dont understand what does that have to do with it?
Album Rating: 2.5That this is nothing remotely original or interesting considering how many other bands there have been in the last 10 years. I mean I'm not expecting much as this is metalcore after all, but that is no excuse for releasing something so derivative and just plain boring.
Album Rating: 3.5oh ok, I agree that their not super original or anything but they do it well imo.
Album Rating: 4.0When you do it so much better than 90% of the bands who play this style of metalcore I don't care if you stick to the formula. The Amity Affliction are the same way in post-hardcore.
Album Rating: 2.5This has the odd moment, but overall, pretty boring.
Digging: Big Dumb Face - Where Is Duke Lion? He's Dead...
Album Rating: 3.0bump
Album Rating: 2.5What you say Moreira, dig it?
Album Rating: 3.0For sure, like their previous albums it's a very easy and surprisingly dynamic listen, given the rather formulaic sound they go for (and in this case, the length as well). They manage to deliver some outstanding jams and riffs in particular in here. Ultimately though, there's too much of the same going on after a while. They manage it well enough, but this is one dry cow after all!
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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How do you build a state-of-the-art, in-house bank to replace an outsourced treasury operation run in Dublin? That was the challenge facing $16.7 billion Kimberly-Clark. "Our old solution had served us well, but we had outgrown it," reports Jerry Rehfuss, senior director of treasury.
For Kimberly-Clark, the key was having dedicated implementation teams at both the U.S. headquarters in Dallas and the U.K. shared services center. The composition of each would reflect all the interested parties inside and outside the company, which meant representatives from the company's treasury, accounting, tax, legal, IT and shared services departments, as well as advisors from its vendors including lead bank Citigroup, treasury consultant Ernst & Young and workstation provider SunGard. An overall project director and an executive-level steering committee supervised the teams.
Close collaboration, Rehfuss points out, among other things, allowed Kimberly-Clark and SunGard to modify the Quantum workstation, so that it could automate the company's homegrown "TWIST" application, which takes every foreign currency receipt and disbursement of participating affiliates, converts it to the affiliate's home currency and applies the transaction to its in-house bank account. This centralizes net exposures and enables affiliates to operate with only local currency bank accounts.
Having a single global platform using leading technology improved global cash visibility, made forecasts more accurate and saved net interest expense. By centralizing and netting investment and borrowing activity in the in-house bank, Kimberly-Clark saved about $3 million a year in bank spreads, reduced treasury resource requirements for affiliates by $3.5 million annually and shrunk idle balances enough to boost cash flow by $1.2 billion, a number Rehfuss expects to grow.


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HOLLYWOOD (CBS) — A man was booked on suspicion of stalking Tuesday morning after he showed up at actress Halle Berry's Hollywood Hills home.
Richard Franco, 27, was arrested Monday night after residents called police to report a possible burglar in the neighborhood.
Franco allegedly climbed over Berry's backyard wall Monday, according to TMZ.
Berry identified him as the same man who had showed up at her house on Saturday and Sunday.


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If there is one preseason tradition college football fans hold dear, it's worrying about which of their football Saturdays might ruined by due to a wedding. Doesn't matter if it's their friend's wedding, a family member's wedding or even if they hear about a wedding going on down their own street, the idea of a Saturday wedding any time during the fall season causes the average college football fan to break out in hives. For what? Florida-South Carolina? ASU-Notre Dame?
Let's bring some sanity back to being a football fan. Getting married is a once (maybe twice) of a lifetime moment, one that should not bend to the wishes of someone watching Syracuse play in a new conference. Let's look at how the NFL fan should view weddings in the 2013 season.
September 7: All clear for a wedding! Not only that, you'll be able to talk about the great kickoff game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Denver Broncos. You've even got a built-in topic to discuss with your Uncle Richard during the cocktail hour that has nothing to do with Congress or why the neighborhood is starting to turn. "Can you believe the Orioles got them to move the game to Denver? The Orioles!?" Huge slate of early games the next morning, but nothing a few Bloody Mary's won't solve before go-time.
September 14: Mazel tov! You're free to get married this Saturday. Your fantasy football jokes will still be fresh as you head down the reception line.
September 21: Of course you can still get married today! It's still warm enough for an outdoor wedding if you would like, just be sure to grab some inexpensive pashminas for your guests to use if they get a chill in the evening. Colts at 49ers is a late game on Sunday, feel free to head to the after-party to keep dancing the night away as long as you like.
September 28: Totally safe date to say your vows in front of family and friends. I'd even go so far to say that if you are expecting a lot of out of town guests at your wedding, this might be the best weekend for it. The early and late slate of games — at first glance mind you, this obviously might change once the season begins — are not that interesting, but you have New England at Atlanta in the Sunday night slot, so your guests have plenty of time to get home before the kickoff of the best game of the week. Not only that, if you time your departure just right, you and your new spouse can make it your honeymoon location and still watch the night game. Could you do that as a college football fan? No, you'd still be looking at a map trying to figure out why you couldn't find Barbuda in Mississippi.
October 5: Somebody's getting married! Hey, somebody's getting married! Somebody's getting married? Yes, somebody's getting married today! Somebody get some flowers, somebody get a ring, somebody get a chapel and a choir to sing! 'Cause somebody's getting married today!
October 12: Leaves will be at their golden orange and burnt brown peak, so if you're a Browns fan, this might be a good Saturday for your wedding to keep with your colors.
October 19: Rivalry weekend, but of course you can get married this Saturday. Just be sure to keep your cousin from New Jersey away from the bartender from Boston, they'll either start a fight just after midnight or you'll find them making out in the utility closet clawing at each other like weasels as they're trying to close down the building. Just what everyone needs before Pats-Jets and Steelers-Ravens.
October 26: The best part about having your wedding this day is that you don't have lie to yourself and say Penn State-Ohio St is just as good as Giants-Eagles the next day, because it's not. We all saw BIG FAN. We know the truth.
November 2: You're free as a bird to get married and have the biggest cookie table ever seen. Your guests will be able to take plenty of sweets home for a very compelling Colts-Texans match-up the next day.
November 9: This might be a tough Saturday to get married, but only if you were hoping to get married at the courthouse. Other than that, you will not be missing any relavant football.
November 16: Yup, still a perfectly good Saturday for an NFL fan.
November 23: An excellent wedding Saturday! Very close to my own wedding anniversary of November 22. You've got Steelers-Browns and Vikings-Pats to look forward at brunch, Cowboys-Giants later and then a great nightcap of Broncos-Patriots. A weekend blessed with love and great football.
November 30: The Saturday after Thanksgiving, gives people extra time to travel for your wedding. It's also what the college fans love to call "Hate Week" which means it's a pretty sacred day for those of that particular football code. If you are planning inviting a bunch of college football fans – assuming they're housebroken — this might not be the weekend for you. (Although it does give you a nice out if you want invite those guests and have them decline the invite.) I suppose New York-Washington qualifies as "Hate Week" material to open your gift envelopes to.
December 7: You can get married this Saturday, but make sure you still set your fantasy teams for this weekend. It's easy to forget you still have obligations to the outside world while your soon-to-be-aunt-in-law is asking you where the nearest Bead Barn is so she can finish your present.
December 14: Perfectly fine Saturday for a wedding. Feel free to bring up to college football fans how your team is really heating up for the playoffs while they have to wait a month without football before their team plays in the Meineke Bowl.
December 21: People tend to shy away from weddings right before Christmas, but what a Saturday before a great Sunday of football. Green Bay-Steelers Super Bowl echo game, Broncos-Texans, Dallas-Washington, Patriots-Ravens; even the Monday night game is good; Falcons-49ers. You know what? Don't get married this Saturday. Make sure you can spend enough time running holiday shopping errands so you can be glued to the TV for the rest of the weekend.
December 28: This would be a great get-a-way Saturday wedding weekend. If you tell me right now you are planning an island escape wedding for this Saturday, I will join you on whatever beach you have found and bring the biggest present if I can join you this Saturday. I'll even bake cookies for your cookie table. We'll watch the final weekend of regular season games by the pool while having drinks with tiny umbrellas in them.
And there you have it, the sane NFL fan's guide to what Saturdays they can get married this football season. Aside of December 21, that pretty much means any damn Saturday you please.
Previously: College Football Fans, Never Tell Us The NFL Is Boring Again


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What is a 'Pipeline'
A pipeline is an investment company whose purpose is to collect investment funds from a pool of individual investors and invest them in financial securities.
2) The underwriting procedure which must be completed by the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) before a security can be offered for sale to the public.
3) A type of risk most often present in mortgage transactions. It expresses the potential for change in financial factors during the time lapse between the mortgage application and the purchase of the property.
BREAKING DOWN 'Pipeline'
1) Such firms are usually exempt from normal corporate taxes, since they simply serve as an investment conduit, or pipeline, rather than actually producing goods and services as a regular corporation does. A mutual fund structured as a trust would be exempt from corporate taxes and considered an investment pipeline.
2) A new security issue must go through the SEC's pipeline before it is legally cleared for sale to the public. This practice attempts to screen out fraudulent investments and ensures security offerings are presented to the public in an accurate fashion.
3) During the time it takes for a bank to review a mortgage application and for a borrower to actually purchase their desired property (the mortgage pipeline), financial conditions specific to the application can change, which would change the amount of risk the bank incurs by lending funds to the borrower.


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French living room furniture, "A l'œuvre, on connaît l'artisan." A craftsman by his work is known, and French craftsmen are well-known for their artistic furniture. If you are a fan of France and its arts or just an enthusiast of classy style, then French living room furniture is perfect for you. …Read More »


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The late Isabella Blow — editor, muse, fearless wearer of avant-garde hats and advocator of absolute personal style — now has an exhibition devoted to her fantastical wardrobe which opened today at the Somerset House in London, England. According to Vogue UK, the collection was originally bought in a bid by Blow's friend and fellow style icon Daphne Guinness to stop it from being sold at a Christie's auction.
"The decision to put Isabella's wardrobe on display was a natural progression; it felt like what she would have wanted," Guinness told the international Vogue. "I bought the collection because I couldn't bear for it to be dispersed; it was her life's work – her legacy. What better way of celebrating that legacy than allowing the world to view it?"
If you happen to be in London now through March 2, 2014, check it out and tell us what you think. It's sure to inspire.
[Daphne Guinness's Guide To The Isabella Blow Exhibition via Vogue UK]


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A-Rod plans to meet with MLB on Friday
By Bryan Hoch and Thomas Boorstein / MLB.com
Rodriguez said that he would talk with reporters at Camden Yards on Friday afternoon following the meeting, adding that he "can't wait."
A supermarket tabloid reported last month that Rodriguez was involved in a high-stakes illegal poker game in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2009, although a source later indicated that Rodriguez had not actually been at the event in question.
Rodriguez was warned by MLB and the Yankees in 2005 to avoid such activities.
Following the publication of the article, MLB issued a statement that read, "We take this very seriously and have been investigating this matter since the initial allegation. As part of the investigation, the Commissioner's Office will interview Mr. Rodriguez."
Despite blip, Colon feels 'very strong'
NEW YORK -- After throwing 6 2/3 innings in Tuesday's 6-5 loss to the A's, Yankees starter Bartolo Colon has logged 131 frames this season. That may not seem like a lot for someone who has eclipsed the 200-innings mark six times in his career, but the workhorse version of Colon is a distant memory. He hasn't thrown more than 100 innings since 2005, when he pitched 222 2/3.
The right-handed Colon, a surprise success story for much of this season, says he has plenty left in the tank. But after Tuesday's defeat, he is winless in four starts this month and has a 5.73 ERA in 22 August innings. During that stretch, he has served up six home runs, but the Yankees don't appear too concerned yet.
"We talked about this going into Spring Training," manager Joe Girardi said. "We had some innings concerns with him, how he would respond to it. We just got into a situation where we didn't get any runs early tonight. I thought he threw the ball OK. We've seen him throw better, but we've also seen him have worse games than he's had tonight. It's something we'll continue to watch."
The Yankees have already gotten as much as they could have hoped for from Colon, who did not pitch in 2010 and has been bothered by injuries since his American League Cy Young Award-winning season in 2005. But other than missing a month with a strained left hamstring, the hefty righty has stayed on the field this season.
"I feel really happy, very strong," Colon said on Tuesday. "All I have to do is keep working hard and see what happens."
The signs are not all bad for Colon. His control has not abandoned him, even during his recent struggles. He did not walk a batter Tuesday and has five for the month. But his strikeouts have dipped. After averaging 8.1 whiffs per nine innings through the end of July, Colon has averaged just 5.7 this month.
Colon said that on Tuesday he shied away from his two-seam fastball -- normally one of his best weapons -- because of the success Kansas City had against it last week. Both A's homers -- including the one Brandon Allen deposited in the third deck in right field -- came on sliders.
"It doesn't really concern me," Colon said of the homers. "They have the bat and I throw the ball, and you never know what is going to happen."
Quake has no effect on Yanks' prep work
NEW YORK -- Nick Swisher was in his apartment on Tuesday afternoon, getting ready to head to Yankee Stadium, when he felt the building moving ever so slightly.
"I was like, 'Why is my TV shaking?'" said Swisher, who quickly realized he was experiencing an earthquake. "That was my first one. I couldn't believe it. In New York?"
Yes, in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and several other cities that aren't used to having noticeable seismic activity.
The 5.9-magnitude earthquake was centered near Richmond, Va., and struck at 1:51 p.m. ET. Slight tremors were felt by early-arriving staff at Yankee Stadium, as bobbleheads quivered in the offices.
Electricians and engineers went through a thorough checklist before Tuesday's game against the A's and found no irregularities in the stadium, the team said.
Yankees designated hitter Jorge Posada said that he was at home and felt the quake, which wasn't his first but seemed to be his strongest.
"Everything was shaking, but it was short," Posada said. "In Puerto Rico, my mom would always say, 'Did you feel the earth moving?' and stuff, but growing up, they weren't as big as today."
Yankees manager Joe Girardi was working out in the stadium gym and said he didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, though his phone lit up with text messages soon after.
"A couple of our people talked about it, where they just felt it a little bit," Girardi said. "I've never felt one, and I don't want to. [Head athletic trainer Gene Monahan] said he felt it, and I was giving him a hard time about it."
Phil Hughes was driving to the Stadium and didn't notice anything, but for the southern California product, it wasn't the first time he missed one.
"As a kid, my parents would always wake me up when we had one, but I've only felt one earthquake in my life," said Hughes, who grew up near Angel Stadium in Tustin, Calif. "I've probably been through 30, but a lot of times, they're in the middle of the night."
Hughes never expected to experience one in New York, but he chuckled at the extent of the media coverage surrounding the rare event.
"It's funny how big of a deal it is," Hughes said. "If this was California, it'd be, like, two seconds on the news."
Bombers bits
Left-hander Aaron Laffey and catcher Gustavo Molina have cleared waivers. Laffey was optioned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, while Molina was outrighted to Triple-A.
Right-hander Sergio Mitre returned from a visit to Dr. James Andrews in Pensacola, Fla., with some encouraging news -- he will be able to avoid surgery for now. Mitre has been diagnosed with a nerve issue in his pitching shoulder, but no structural damage. Mitre said he is hoping to be healthy for Spring Training 2012.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi said that the team's plan is that it will start right-hander Freddy Garcia in the second game of Saturday's day-night doubleheader in Baltimore.
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @bryanhoch. Thomas Boorstein is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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This Is The Coolest BMW M5 Badge We've Ever Seen
BMW's M cars are not fair-weather toys. They may be more powerful and more stiffly sprung than their mainstream sisters, but they also function as regular transportation. They carry mothers-in-law. They slog through traffic jams. And sometimes they get left out in the cold.


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From: "Marsha H. Moses" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Re: Conference on Quaker History and Genealogy
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:09:22 -0500
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Tom, what are the dates? Marsha inWV
Tom Hamm wrote:
> Some of us have taken part in "Exploring Carolina Quaker Crossroads,"
> a program on Quaker history and genealogy at Guilford College in
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> It's a good chance to learn more Quaker history with a group of
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> excellent genealogical collections.
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Halloween has always been the festival for the Kardashians. Be it, Kylie Jenner's ridiculously not-warm eskimo outfit (not that we're complaining) or Kimmie's unforgettable leopard costume. This year, it's Kourtney who kicks off the Halloween fever with a little home decor that she has already started to set up at her house.
The 37-year-old celebrity gave her fans a little peek of what Halloween would look like for the Kardashians this year. On Wednesday, The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star uploaded a Snapchat story of her porch.
At her Calabasas mansion's porch, Kardashian had set up pumpkins painted a ghoulish black and white on a series of steps. Right under the lighting, she had hung a skeleton, which is the least impressive prop to be found over there. Another skeletion lurks in the bushes as it dons a Pokemon bomber. Right by lamp, at the doorknob, Kardashian placed a ghoul's face, hanging only by its eyelids. This one would make your heart jump right out of your chest.
As the Snapchat story continue, the camera pans to reveal even more skeletons strewn about in the front lawn. Then, we move indoors and it's not that horrific a site. We see candies placed over the counter and also a few Rob Kardashian's Arthur George Halloween themed socks.
Last year, Kardashian didn't go for scary but did manage to pull off a sexy Wonder Woman outfit. But this year, Kourtney, who has three children with Scott Disick, she really is in the mood to crank up the scary.
The Kardashians and Halloween sit so well together that a few days ago, an online retailer had featured a costume based on Kim Kardashian's Paris robbery incident. Although the costume kit doesn't name Kardashian but it does feature a woman who looks very much like Kim, in a white robe with her hands tied and mouth gagged. The model also sports a giant ring.
Kardashian was robbed a few days ago during the Paris Fashion Week in her hotel room as armed robbers tied her up and stole millions from her at gunpoint. The costume was deemed insensitive and has been withdrawn by the retailer.


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As one could expect, Norway was all too eager to nail the final nail in the coffin of the already moribund "Peace process" – perhaps just as well that "we" were the ones to finally slit the throat of an process that has not really brought anything but a heap of corpses, and apparatchics who have seen the "process" as a means of making a name for themselves as some sort of peace maker, king maker, Messias-like figure with the magic wand to end all suffering on earth.
So, now Norway has done the morally correct thing to finally show our loyalties, which we now with abundant clarity know does not lie with Israel, nor with the process we have invested so much energy, time and money into realizing. As we Jews know, it is good to know who your friend is, but much better to know who is not your friend. That gives us the necessary clarity to know how to deal with a non-friend in a way that is not hazardous to us.
However, the decision to grant Palestinians the status of observers at the UN, and also to now refer to the PA as Palestine, albeit without borders and in the very confusing statement of our FM Eide, where he says that this move does not imply a recognition of the Palestinian state (?), is in plain language… weird. To start with, who is the leader of this entity? Abbas? Hamas? Where is it, in Ramallah?, or Gaza?, or are the two mutually exclusive given that the Palestinians are a bitterly divided people? The "state apparatus" is 100% dependent on foreign aid and donors (the very few who remember to fulfill their obligations under international agreements) worry that even with all the aid in the world , the bird still wont get off the ground and fly on its own.
So the very fascinating questions after all the bravery at the UN linger in the air; where is Palestine, and how does it function? Who is the leader? Is it a democratic state, or a place where cleptocrats take what they can for their own, and leave the people they are set to govern to sail their own miserable sea…
I am currently on journey, so will follow up with comments and opinions from Norway as soon as I have the opportunity.


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We took the Victoria Express night train from Hanoi to Lao Cai. The train left at 9:50 pm and arrived at 6:15 am. There were four of us to each birth with four little beds, two on top and two on the bottom. Its worth getting the sleeper car for the extra cost – they provide little gift bags crafted in the local Sa Pa embroidery tradition filled with tooth brush, tooth paste, water, slippers and hand wipes.
Sa Pa is a frontier town located in Northwest Vietnam. The temperature is mild and ranges from 50 – 70 degrees throughout the year, and is often cloudy and damp. The landscape is lush and green, with rice terraces that span as far as the eye can see and disappear into the clouds above you.
Every Saturday Sa Pa has a market full of goods from surrounding villages. The textiles are amazing and the raw pigments for dying and watercolor are unbelievable! We loved the neon plaids the women in Sa Pa wear – we picked some up on our trip to the market and wove them into Martha's hair :)
The Ta Van village in the Muong Hoa Valley is just a 30 minute drive from Sa Pa town. Be sure to visit the amazing suspension bridge!
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In "The Eclipse," the acclaimed Irish playwright Conor McPherson has crafted a film every bit as affecting and haunting as his plays.
It's a small, humble gem of a movie that in less than 1 1/2 hours proves McPherson's talents for character and atmosphere fit the screen as much as they do the stage.
The 38-year-old playwright of "The Weir" and "The Seafarer" has trafficked in movies before. He directed "Saltwater" (2000) and "The Actors" (2003), both little-seen and poorly reviewed. McPherson has said "The Eclipse" - which more thoroughly bears his imprint - is for all intents and purposes his first proper film.
It stars Ciaran Hinds ("There Will Be Blood," HBO's "Rome") as Michael Farr, a father of a 14-year-old and a 10-year-old. Widowed for two years by his wife's death from cancer, he has continued a quiet life as a woodworking teacher in the Irish coastal city of Cobh.
During "The Eclipse," he is also volunteering at the city's annual literary festival, driving around a visiting writer of ghost stories, Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle). Michael, himself, is haunted. He sees realistic, horrifying visions, including a premonition of his father-in-law's death.
Lena, a soulful writer from London (her book is the film's title), is badgered by a former fling, best-selling novelist Nicholas Holden (Aidan Quinn). Quinn plays the character expertly: A liar, drunk and adulterer, Nicholas is brashly arrogant but so insecure that he challenges Michael - whom he sees as a threat to his pursuit of Lena - to a late-night boxing match.
Michael bonds with Lena, someone who understands his visions. Hinds, a gifted actor who's clearly capable of being a leading man more frequently, was deservedly named best actor for his performance at last year's Tribeca Film Festival. He has a resonating gravity as Michael, a gentle man trying - and failing - to hide the weight of his demons.
McPherson has made the supernatural something of a trademark. "The Eclipse" is adapted from a short story by the playwright Billy Roche, with whom McPherson co-wrote the script. One of McPherson's biggest changes was turning Michael into a widower, not unlike the protagonist of his play "Shining City," who was also a ghost-seeing widower, played by Hinds on Broadway.
It's a key revision. Grief hangs over Michael and his visions are directly related to his wife's memory - he's terrified of forgetting her. They come like eruptions, jolting Michael - as well as the audience. The sudden appearances of these ghosts - very much in the flesh - are played like horror-movie frights, complete with shrieking music.
What's curious about the supernatural elements of "The Eclipse" is that their appearances feel more like ugly cameos of reality: In McPherson's world, life is the dream from which the ghosts wake you. The misty shore of Cobh, a quiet cigarette in the dark - these moments are no less "real" than Michael's supernatural visits.
Healing is at the heart of "The Eclipse." Warm choral music, arranged by McPherson and composer Fionnuala Ni Chiosain, creeps over the film, promising brighter days.
By the final, frozen image of "The Eclipse" - an unburdened Michael strolling down the beach with his dog - it's clear what the film means: that grief can haunt like a ghost, and that it passes.
"The Eclipse," a Magnolia Pictures release, is rated R for language and some disturbing images. Running time: 88 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four.
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by Christopher Freeburn | April 25, 2013 1:08 pm
[1]Here are your Apple rumors[2] and AAPL news items for today:
Increased: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL[3]) spent $2.1 billion on research and development during the first two quarters of its current fiscal year[4], ZDNet notes. That comes to 2% of its sales during the period, or $11.6 million each day. During the same time last year, the company spent $1.6 billion on R&D. The company is expected to spend more than $4 billion on product development this year. Some of the money is going to develop its upcoming iPhone 5S and iPad 5, which are expected to be released in the fall. It is also reportedly working on an upgrade to iOS. Other potential sources of R&D spending could include a larger-screen iPhone, a high-tech wristwatch and the much-anticipated Apple-branded TV set.
No Go?: Details in Qualcomm's (NASDAQ:QCOM[5]) recent quarterly results could spell bad news for a lower-cost iPhone[6], Forbes notes. A growing number of analyst expect Apple to release a cheaper iPhone aimed at competing with other smartphone rivals in emerging markets. But Qualcomm's report suggests that those markets may already be saturated with low-cost smartphones from regional manufacturers, who are operating on a 60-day time to launch framework. That compares to a traditional time to launch period of nine months to a year for Apple. Moreover, Qualcomm's data indicates that smartphone prices in emerging markets are dropping rapidly with increased competition, potentially pricing Apple's phone out of the market. The company has already said it won't produce a $99 iPhone and most analysts expect a low-cost iPhone to be priced at between $300 and $400.
Unexpected Title: After reviewing data from 150,000 laptops[7], PC services provider Soluto has declared a MacBook Pro the "best performing Windows laptop," AppleInsider notes. In its analysis, Soluto examined boot-up times, application crashes and computer freezes to determine which laptops handled Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT[8]) Windows OS the best. Surprisingly, a mid-2012, 13-inch MacBook Pro received the best score, despite the fact that the machine is not designed to run Windows. A 15-inch MacBook Pro took sixth place. The MacBooks had the best reliability among the tested machines, but were also the highest priced. The report noted that Windows installations on MacBook Pros did not come with "bloatware" commonly added by manufacturers to Windows-specific computers, which may have helped their performance.
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I'm gonna try and find contact info for Rob Keeble (I've only found his emulatorarchive.com email), but if anyone knows him, could you please let him know. He may just not be aware of it.
And if he is aware and is dropping the site, it is a big loss. Would he consider passing on the site to someone else to take care of it?
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Wonderful old trencher or dough bowl from the mid-1800's. I can't identify the wood it's made from but I believe its a softwood & the bowl is relatively lightweight for its size. This primitive bowl is full of soul & character from many years of use & its value was obviously appreciated by those that used it. T were a lot of bisquits and breads made in this bowl.This trencher was worn completely through & has a square patch applied from the backside that also shows wear. The pattern of wear that remains on the interior is also interesting. The over-all patina of this trencher is very nice. T is a check along one side & on the underside t is some sort of metal piece with two small "buttons" attached to the side of the widest point of the check. It looks as though t was a piece attached on the other side of the check as well. I can't tell if this partial metal plate was a hanger of some sort or intended as a mend on the check. T are some stains on the interior & backside, many marks of age & use and t is a well-worn indented "notch" on the short edge, which I'm sure served as a thumbhold. This unique primitive bowl measures 22" in length & 14 1/2" wide. It the approximately 3" deep at the center. The patch on the base is a 5 1/4" W x 6 1/2" rectangle. This ... read more


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BASINGSTOKE and Deane has seen the sharpest rise in population of all the district council areas in Hampshire over a 10-year period.
Statistics from the 2011 Census show the number of people living in the borough stood at 167,800 in 2011 – a 9.2 per cent increase on the number of residents here when the 2001 Census was conducted.
All 11 district councils saw an increase in population over the last decade.
Winchester saw an eight per cent rise in population to 116,595, while the smallest growth was in Fareham at only three per cent.
The 2011 Census also revealed that a quarter of households in the Hampshire County Council area are pensioners – and more than half live alone. Figures show 23 per cent of households across the county are occupied by people of bus pass age.
The number of adults aged over 65 increased by 21 per cent over the decade between 2001 and 2011 as the post-war baby boomers reached pensionable age. Some 18 per cent of the population is now aged 65-plus compared to the national average of 16 per cent.
The New Forest, a popular retirement area, has the largest concentration of older people in the county. A quarter of the population are pensioners.
Across the county, there were 34,000 pensioners aged over 85, up 35 per cent since 2001 – highlighting just how big the challenge health and social services face in caring for the elderly.
The data, released by the Office of National Statistics, also shows fewer people can afford their own homes, resulting in greater numbers being forced to rent.
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Hello! I have 2 applications deployed on my jBoss. Can anyone explain to me how can I from EAR1 access Session or Entity Bean in EAR2? Thanks!
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If you know how to access your beans in ear2 from a normal java client, it is straight forward. The beans in your ear1 are just clients to your ear2. You just have to make the client related interfaces & classes of ear2 available to ear1. Since your EARs using same JVM you can access them using local interfaces. Subramanian, Kumar [kumar at eminenttech dot com] J2EE Architect Eminent Technology Solutions (ETS) [www.eminenttech.com] Software / Portals / Alfresco / Outsourcing / Proteomics
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The safest way is to have the EJBs in EAR2 expose remote interfaces. Then, EAR1 behaves as a normal Java client. You look up the interfaces from JNDI. Depending on your application server, you may need to tweak the permissions to allow EAR1 to do lookups on JNDI in the EAR2 namespace. Using local interfaces may or may not be possible. In OC4J, for example, you can use local interfaces ONLY if EAR1 is deployed as a sub-application of EAR2. I believe the underlying reasons have to do with the fact that EAR2 could be deployed as a distributed application (hence, it is possible for EAR1 and EAR2 to be running in different JVMs). Other app servers have different rules. Read the documentation. Note, also, that some application servers are able to optimize remote operations and use a local invocation when they detect that the two endpoints are in the same JVM. So, remote interfaces are not quite as expensive as they used to be. Ara
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CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) - Corpus Christi Police have arrested three men for the abduction of an 11-year old girl from the 6900 block of Braesvalley Drive back on December 28, 2012.
CCPD obtained arrest warrants for 17-year old Eric Dimick, 18-year old Jacob Musich and 18-year old Colton Visor. They were arrested around 4:00 am Sunday morning. The Chevy Suburban, which belonged to Musich, was impounded.
The kidnapping happening around 7:20 Thursday night in the 6900 block of Braesvalley Dr. near High Meadow Dr. The 11-year old girl was riding her bicycle with a 13-year old boy when a red 4-door SUV drove up to the girl. One of the men got out of the SUV, grabbed the girl and forced her into the vehicle. The 13-year old boy then released his dog and the dog attacked the man in the SUV.
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Our Gurkha Justice campaign has touched people the length and breadth of Britain. It seems to me that the way we treat our friends says a great deal about who we are – and we have had no greater friends than the Gurkhas. Throughout this long campaign I have been inundated with messages of support from the hundreds of thousands of people who have either fought with the Gurkhas or who have heard tales from their fathers and grandfathers of their legendary valour, warmth and generosity.
It seems to me utterly unthinkable that our government's departments should attempt to stand in the way of letting these great allies live with us in the country for which they were prepared to fight and die for by making exaggerated claims about numbers and costs. Letting retired Gurkha soldiers live with us is quite simply the right thing to do and the British people have called for it to be done in their hundreds of thousands.
It seems to me that certain vested interests in the Ministry of Defence are trying to create the totally unfounded fear in people's minds that the numbers of retired Gurkhas who might come and live here will number 40,000 and more. They appear to want to sow the seeds of worry that these brave heroes might in some way become a "drain" on services such as the NHS. Such negative briefing borders on the despicable and I call on the prime minister to rise above it and do the just and honourable thing – let the Gurkhas come without further hindrance.
The powerful and rigorous home affairs select committee considered all the evidence on the numbers involved at its meeting of 4 November last year. Evidence from authoritative sources quite clearly puts the likely numbers at between 3,500 and 6,000. Let's face it, even if it were more, every single one of these brave men have served in our army. Many actually faced combat and have suffered wounds for the very government that now seems reluctant to welcome them.
The aspect of the negative briefing that rings the most unpleasant tone is that somehow these men will be a drain on the NHS! What an impertinence. In the first instance, many of these men had money deducted from earnings to help pay for it but, more crucially, every single one of them would have fought to the death to defend it.
The government is in the process of deciding the fate of our retired Gurkha heroes. I pray that honour and wise counsel will prevail above all concerns about numbers and cost.


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If a stormtrooper wanted an iPhone case this would be his weapon of choice.
MANY MANY MANY prototypes died in the making of this case. I have been working on this thing for a pretty long time trying to get just the right level of nerd and battle ready into the design.
The Tank has a lid that protects the screen from kids - dogs - wolves - teenagers - terrorists ..... bring it is all I have to say.
A lanyard hole has been added just in case your jumping from a plane and you wanted to check your email.
Screws hold the design together, so no kids are taking this thing off unless their nibble little fingers can find a M3 allen wrench!
Anyway if you have an extreme lifestyle and you want a case that will take a mortar shell.
Im going to be adding these to my store if you intrested in a printed one.
Available in color combos:
On Fire= Neon Red Case + Yellow Lid
The joker= Neon Green Case+ Purple Lid
Hunter Special= Orange Case + Yellow Lid
The StormTrooper= White Case + Black Lid
Or Solids:
Neon Green
Neon Red
Hunter Orange
Added a 2mm x20mm screw version for those that want less grip on the sides.
Also added a itank girl (get it?)
it is less tank like and has a larger area to get in there and text.
This was inspired by a student of mine after it was revealed that her smaller paw could not text as easy with the iTank. My banana hands had no trouble but I chicken peck, these younger students have freeken home key positions for petes sake!
Anyway that is the story of the new additions.
Break out you best file because this thing has a built in support system you will need to remove from the center.
It's a great time that should be had by all! (You will want to end your life with the file but try to resist the finished product is worth it)
Find yourself 2 20mm M3 screws and nuts. (They will barely fit, That is normal)
Also included the Blender file just incase you wish to tweak.
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Office just gave everyone 4s for company phones. guess my printer will get some use next weekend! haha
Added a 2mm screw version and a iTank girl version. Â Story in the main text above.
Thanks for the .blend files. My 3GS is in dire need of a case and we all know how hard it is getting to find those.
Tank and Mortar shell in the description... How can one not LIKE that! =) Â Very cool.
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The Buddha Eden Garden is an area of about 35 hectares designed and conceived by Comendador José Berardo in response to the destruction of the Giant Bamyan Buddhas, sculpted in the rocks of the valley of Bamyan in central Afghanistan and which had for centuries been a cultural and spiritual reference.
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eliumstudio was invited by Duende Studio to reconsider the "vinaigrier" (french for vinegar maker), an accessory that's common to country kitchens.
Antic biotec blends the wine bottle and the pipette, common to oenologists and scientists, to offer a new "noble tasting ritual, highlighted by the delicacy of the blown glass and porcelain."
"Vinegar is one of the very first biotechnology applications developed by man using acetic bacteria to change wine into a completely new product."
"A preciosity of the often ignored vinegar that Nick Toshes was already pointing out in the opening of his mythical Confessions d'un chasseur d'opium (Confessions of an Opium Hunter): 'Those people who know that the true soul of wine is vinegar, hold the key to the only worthy knowledge concerning wine. The wonderful taste becomes apparent by drinking shots of these mature and rare vinegars labelled da bere: the real thing is a far cry from the industrial crap masked with pretentious epithets.'"
Antic Biotec Vinegar Maker, by Duende Studio, and eliumstudio
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You may be interested in the following link which is offering a free pin cushion pattern in the form of a teddy bear head. The pattern is only available free for the next 4 or 5 days. Sorry I do not know how to make this a link but the web page is:
www.quilting gems.com/patterns/pin-keepers-703
To get this free pattern you need to register your email address with them but it is free and the pattern is adorable. Hope you enjoy.


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We returned last month from a trip to India and China. I reported on some of the Indian restaurants we liked on the India Board, and I thought I would put down a few thoughts on some of the restaurants we liked in China here. We were in Beijing, Xi'an and Shanghai.
My favorite restaurant in China was in Xi'an. The name is Xiang Xiang Da Pen Ji and it's at 264 Chang Yen Nan Lu (boy, I hope I wrote that down correctly). The speciality of the house is Badaling Chicken ("big plate chicken"). I think it would be worth a trip to China just to eat this dish. I learned about badaling chicken on Chowhound and other websites, but for the life of me I can't find a recipe for it on line, or a restaurant that makes it. If anyone knows of such a place, please do let me know.
"Big plate" chicken consists of a whole chicken (head and feet included), cut up and sauteed until it is deeply brown. It's served with delicious hand cut noodles mixed in, and hot peppers and, of course, the juices from the saute itself. This brief description is utterly inadequate, but it's the best I can do. I gather it is a speciality of Xi'an, but the guide told us that this restaurant is the best. The other Chinese diners were also eating badaling chicken at lunch time in this large and fairly modern establishment in a business neighborhood.
With our badaling chicken, we ate steamed buns made of buckwheat (the buns came in two colors: yellow and brown) with depressions in the buns into which you put diced duck meat and vegetables. We also ate a fantastic dish of "fungus with white walnuts" and, for dessert, sweet steamed buns served with thickened condensed milk for dipping the buns. Chinese whiskey was a good accompaniment to this meal, which cost (for 3 of us) about $17 and was a high point dining experience for me of all times.
We also had a wonderful lunch at a restaurant along the road from Beijing to the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall As you drive along, you see lots of restaurants with adjacent ponds advertising fresh fish. Our guide told us that these country restaurants are very popular with Chinese families visiting the Wall. He selected the Mu Tian Yu Yu Kan Restaurant for a lovely late lunch at an outside table near the pond. Naturally, we ordered the fish.
The fish was a large trout (or at least it was described as a trout) plucked from the water as we watched. It was served roasted with cumin and was magnificent. And so was the spectacularly good wild chicken stewed with ginger and onion in a brown sauce, and the roasted eggplant with tomato and peppers and the dumplings stuffed with wild seasonal mountain vegetables (served with vinegar for dipping). This feast (including Tsing Tao beer, of course), for the two of us, and our guide and our driver (although hthe driver only ate noodles) was about $35.
In Shanghai, we had lunch at Chun's Restaurant at 124 Jinxian Lu (6256-0351). This was one of R.W. Apple's 10 favorite restaurants in the world (to read about another one, Trishna, see my post on the India board), and the Wall Street Journal also wrote it up fairly recently. You know, fame does not appear to have gone to Mrs. Chun's head in the least. It was a wonderful meal.
We arrived at the restaurant around 1 p.m. to find it empty because, according to Mrs. Chun's son, Kevin, we were too late for lunch. I never did figure out what time people eat lunch in Shanghai. But Kevin suggested we wait for his mother to return, so we sat around the little four table restaurant and found out what good English Kevin speaks. When Mrs. Chun returned, she was most cordial and said she would be glad to feed us. Her only question was if there was anything we would not eat. Our answer, of course, was that we would eat anything Mrs. Chun suggested.
So we got, for the two of us, without ever seeing a menu, red shrimp in oil and a whole fish in brown sauce and cold wine poached chicken and wonderful little crabs sauteed with their roe in wine sauce. Washed down with Tsing Tao, the meal was about $30. Given the difficulty of getting a reservation at Chun's, we felt like the luckiest people in Shanghai.
We had other wonderful meals in China, of course. In Beijing there was the rather exotic Lao Fung Restaurant, packed with Chinese diners drinking a red beverage from large pitchers (not enough English spoken here for us to figure out exactly what it was, but I think it was a fruit juice with healthy properties). We ate shrimp in red oil (very spicy) and braised mutton (with sesame salt for dipping) and peas "with flavor" and noodles with bean paste and meat. And for dessert, we had the most wonderful and amazing apples in toffee -- the burning hot apples covered with caramelized sugar are dipped into ice water by the diner, creating the most amazing spider webs of toffee when they emerge hardened from the icy bath. This entire meal was an astounding $25.
And in Shanghai, of course, we ate wonderful dumplings at the ultra fancy, very modern, Fu Lin Xuan at 300 Huaihai Zhong Lu Phone 6538-3699. This establishment is on the second floor of a posh mall, and the customers were well dressed to say the least. We spent about $17 on crispy pigeon (with a wonderful lacquered skin) and shrimp balls and fresh, cold cucumber in garlic and steamed buns (yeasty and filled with sweet and sour meat) and wonderful soup dumplings (after all, here we were at the Fount of Soup Dumplings) and sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaf wrapped in wax paper, packed with such things as egg and fish. Egg custard (fresher and flakier than even the best we've had in New York City) and freid sesame balls filled with sweet lotus paste for dessert. And a lovely and attentive staff to boot.
It's hard to write it all down. All I really want to do is to go back and start eating again.


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Mother Jones talks about the "dirty secret" of the jobless recovery in its July/August issue but many stakeholders—employed and unemployed—that are engaged in any way with life as brought to you by corporate America might say it's dirty all right but not really much of a secret.
The article shows in graphic and excruciating detail how US workers must do much more with a whole lot less if they want to hang to hang on to their jobs. While corporations are asking and getting more work and increased hours from employees their profits are up 22 percent since 2007. Meanwhile wages remain stagnant.
The article, "All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup," by Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffrey says, "We're not just working smarter, but harder. And harder. And harder, to the point where the driver is no longer American industriousness, but something much more predatory."
They point out that while productivity has surged, income and wages have stagnated for most Americans. "If the median household income had kept pace with the economy since 1970, it would now be nearly $92,000, not $50,000."
Their research litany of woe goes on:
- Americans put in an average of 122 more hours per year than Brits and 378 hours more than Germans.
- Almost everyone—except U.S. workers—have a right to weekends off, paid vacation time and paid maternity leave.
- After a sharp dip in 2008 and 2009, US economic output has recovered to near pre-recession levels—"we did better than most of our fellow G-7 economies. But not so for American workers: Far more people here lost their jobs, and fewer were hired back once the recovery began, than anywhere else."
- While offshoring is a factor relating to the jobs picture the article notes that US workers are also prey to what the authors call offloading: "cutting jobs and dumping the work onto the remaining staff." A recent Wall Street Journal report about so-called superjobs says that more than half of the workers it surveyed said their jobs have expanded, but usually without a raise or bonus.
- Among college graduates, unemployment is twice what it was in 2007, "and those statistics don't take note of all the B.A.'s stocking shelves and answering phones.
- "US productivity increased twice as fast in 2009 as it had in 2008, and twice as fast again in 2010: workforce down, output up, and voilá! No wonder corporate profits are up 22 percent since 2007, according to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute."
We're reached this parlous and perilous state in large part due to political decisions that have chipped away at the things that created a prosperous middle class: Virtually no limits on election financing by wealthy interests and corporations; the destruction of unions; deregulation of Wall Street and then mostly passing on a golden opportunity to reregulate; Congressional kowtowing to whatever corporate America desires.
Is this any way to treat the American worker? The answer from corporate boardrooms and the halls of Congress is, "Sure, why not? Who can stop us?"
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Major General Harold J. Green was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday 14 August.
Major General Green is the first general to be killed in combat since Vietnam. One would expect the Commander in Chief would participate in this funeral and would say memorable words about honor, service, country, and his sadness at the loss of a leader and a great man. This did not happen.
Commander in Chief Barack Hussein Obama was playing golf and on vacation. Vice President Biden was also on vacation. Neither attended the funeral. No persons from the Obama Administration attended the funeral of Major General Harold J. Green other than Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno.
Not one White House official attended the funeral of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Last Year.
Obama's priorities are not with our military or with our military allies.


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The old adage 'sell in May and go away' warns investors to sell their stocks and buy them back in November to sidestep the weakest trading period of the year.
That strategy did not apply to Netflix.
The video-streaming company's stock is up nearly 30 per cent this month, making it the best performer on the S&P 500 Index. The stock is trading at about 415 dollars a share versus 322 dollars a share on April 30.
The overall S&P 500 index is up less than two per cent.
Why the positive sentiment?
Netflix just raised its monthly subscription cost by $1 for new members in Canada and elsewhere. But unlike in 2011, when the company unexpectedly boosted prices by as much as 60 per cent and lost 800,000 subscribers, the company didn't suffer a customer exodus. This time, users were forewarned of an increase and the change in rate from $7.99 to $8.99 was significantly less dramatic. The change doesn't affect existing customers for another two years.
Also, with subscriber numbers plateauing in North America, Netflix has announced plans to enter six European countries this year — Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium — which will be its biggest expansion since arriving in Europe three years ago. The company already has 48 million customers in more than 40 countries.
Concerns going forward
Tapping into new European markets won't be easy, or cheap. Netflix's launch in 2007 and subsequent takeoff has spurred new players to jump into the market, especially in countries where Netflix was absent. Netflix will have to compete with Canal Play Infinity from Vivendi's Canal Plus in France and Amazon.com's Prime Instant Video in Germany.
Netflix will also come up against new rules, particularly in France where Netflix cannot use films in its service until three years after they open nationally in theatres.
In an April letter to shareholders, Netflix said the expansion will keep the company's international division in the red for this year, but it expects those markets to eventually surpass the U.S.
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Just to give you an idea of what you don't wanna miss! These frames are from Entartete Shota 02: Puberty Boys by Japanese shotacon artist M's Works.
28 pages, released 2 weeks ago, printed in 400 copies.
Just to give you an idea of what you don't wanna miss! These frames are from Entartete Shota 02: Puberty Boys by Japanese shotacon artist M's Works.
28 pages, released 2 weeks ago, printed in 400 copies.
Dear shotacon fans – Entartete Shota 02 is here!
The new issue features the comic Puberty Boys by M's Works, one of Japan's most loved shota artists. We met him in Japan in June 2012 and were happy to sign a deal on the spot for publishing Puberty Boys in English translation. (It was originally published in Japanese with the title Puberty Boys Returns in 2007.)
Meet Kenta and Tsubasa, two boys who just entered puberty, as they discover each others' bodies and the pleasures of incomprehensibly hot boy sex.
Entartete Shota 02 ends with a Q&A with the artist.
(Also available at Bokus and Adlibris, though delivery will take time from them so it's not recommended at the moment.)
The new issue is not released as a PDF.
PS: A big thanks to everyone who bought the premier issue of Entartete Shota, released exactly half a year ago. It's thanks to you that the project continues!
You can now download the new shotacon comic Entartete Shota as either a PDF file or – for all you comic geeks – as a CBZ file (comic book archive). CBZ is basically a zip file with a jpeg image of each page, at a sweet resolution of 1280 x 1816 pixels.
The release of the e-versions of Entartete Shota came sooner than expected, and is due to heavy demand. Just don't stop buying the print version – it might end up a nice piece of press history once it's sold out (we're about half way to that).
Update 2015: Now available only in print or as PDF (not CBZ) downloads.
Entartete Shota 01 – choose print or PDF download
What do Shin and Yuu in the comic Change Over look like in real life? Stupid question, I know. Because Shin and Yuu don't exist in reality – they are just comic book characters, drawn by shotacon master Tsukumo Gou.
But if they did exist in reality, this is how I picture them.
Shy but horny Yuu on the right. And Shin on the left, with his hard attitude but soft (and moist) inside. Do you agree?
I'm immensely proud to announce the birth of my latest project Entartete Shota – a boy sex comic by Japanese manga artist Tsukumo Gou, translated to English by myself!
It's been a long process to search out and contact potential artists for Entartete Shota. You know how picky I am – only the best would do, and I'm happy I did find the best one (and more are on their way!). I've negotiated in Tokyo (twice), designed the magazine in Berlin and finally supervised the printing of it in Prague. It took some months, but now the West is finally ready for the genre that rocked Japan.
Shotacon (shota) comics are drawings of young boys having sex. The genre is popular among male as well as female readers in Japan, and the artists too are of both sexes. The girl equivalent is called lolicon (loli).
Even though no real boys are involved in shota comics, there are countries where they are illegal. Wikipedia has a good page called The legal status of cartoon pornography depicting minors. Please read it if you're not sure of the legal situation in your country! I will not be able to answer any questions regarding this.
If the first issue of Entartete Shota is a success, I plan to publish a new issue twice a year.
Ready to write publishing history with me? Then order your copy now! (There are some sample pages there as well.)
By the way, the format is exactly the same as for Destroyer, so Entartete Shota will fit well in your collection. 🙂
People living in Sweden can order Entartete Shota at Sweden's biggest book shop Adlibris, or read it at the National Library for that matter. Daily newspaper Expressen's culture editor already wrote about it (she defended the comic despite disliking it), and Johanna Sjödin blogged about it.
There are 500 copies. It's time to let the beat rock!


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Picture: Jermaine Jackson 2009 American Music Awards - Arrivals held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live Los Angeles, California - 22.11.09
Jermaine Jackson has defended his father Joe after he accused his estranged wife KATHERINE of failing to step in and help her famous son MICHAEL in the run-up to his death, insisting the comments were taken "out of context".
Joe Jackson blasted his spouse in an interview with British tabloid the News of the World earlier this month (Jun10), claiming Katherine could have done more to prevent the Thriller hitmaker spiralling into prescription drug addiction before his tragic passing last year (09).
Katherine's lawyers hit back, insisting she did everything she could to help Michael - and Jermaine has backed his mum, insisting his father's comments were misinterpreted.
In an interview with U.S. talk show host Larry King, he explains, "You know, Larry, everybody has taken that out of context. I think my father said that because my mother... was very, very close to him. And she could get him to say and do things before my father and before any of us, so the fact that he said my mother should have done that...
"But the bottom line is we all were very busy in trying to tear down this wall that Michael surrounded himself with. These were the outside people who didn't want us in.
"And that's what he (Joe) meant by breaking that barrier or trying to. She (Katherine) should have been more attentive to trying to get through because he knew she had a pass all the time. Not a pass, but just an OK, just to get through it. It was tough. Very tough."


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