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OUR financial experts from across the generations answer your questions.
GEN Y: Justine Davies
HUH? Should you get advice with regards to your super? (Insert expletive here) yes!
Look at it this way: For most Gen Y, your super along with your house, if you buy one is likely to be your most valuable asset in retirement. So yes it's definitely worth getting some advice on how to invest it.
To put that in dollar terms, a 25-year-old on an average income, putting nothing into super except the minimum, can potentially end up with an extra $50,000 in today's dollars simply by negotiating a 1 per cent reduction in fees on their super account.
Or another example: That same worker could potentially end up with an extra $140,000 in today's dollars by choosing a fund that made an extra 2 per cent a year return. Again, that's without putting a single extra dollar of your other money into it. Or if the dollar side of it isn't incentive enough, then how about simply getting value for money?
Currently fund managers, superannuation administration companies and possibly financial planners all get to skim a nice, healthy percentage of fees off the top of your super investment with very few questions asked.
Why? Because about 80 per cent of us take little or no interest in where our super is even invested, let alone paying attention to the level of fees.
That's easy-street profit on the $1.3 trillion honey pot that is our super.
The bottom line is your super is your money.
It's money that, if it weren't mandated to be locked away, would be in your pay packet. So take a bit of interest in what happens to it.
Justine Davies is a finance author with more than 10 years' financial planning experience.
GEN X: Bruce Brammall
BEARS. Woods. But, dammit, Justine beat me to the expletives.
Gen Xers have big distractions in their lives -- burgeoning careers, cash-guzzling and time-devouring rugrats, plus monster mortgages.
It's possible to do everything yourself ... if your time is unlimited. However, most Gen Xers understand time doesn't grow on trees and they need to outsource some stuff. If personal finance isn't your strength, get professionals involved.
There are three keys to super. First, get the appropriate insurance (generally life and total and permanent disability) so you and your family are protected.
Second, make sure your super is invested properly. About 80 per cent of Australians are invested in their super fund's default "balanced" option. However, most Xers would benefit from having more of their super in shares and property.
Third -- and this applies from about age 40 -- beef up your contributions by salary sacrifice (for employees) or concessional contributions (for self-employed).
Previous generations had generous limits on contributing to super. Gen Xers don't. Because of the current Government's contribution-limit reductions, we will struggle to get enough into super to make it a worthwhile sum.
If you think you have enough time to study and implement all of those yourself, all power to you. If you'd rather spend time with the kids, have friends around for a barbecue or go out for dinner with your partner, outsource your super to a financial adviser. It's worth it.
Bruce Brammall is the author of Debt Man Walking (www.debtman.com.au) and a licensed financial adviser.
BOOMERS: Mark Bouris
NINE per cent of your annual salary is being contributed to your super and over time this can accumulate to a substantial amount that will essentially pay for your retirement.
Making the adjustment from working life to retirement can be tough, so it's worth having a good plan. Start by seeking advice to create an overall strategy for you and your family.
A financial adviser will review your strategy and make recommendations on how to maximise your super.
If you're still working, one such strategy may be to help cut tax by salary sacrificing from your wage into your super account and drawing a transition to retirement pension.
Another may be to leave funds in your accumulation account before reaching pension age to maximise your partner's Centrelink entitlements.
Of course, it all depends on your personal situation as to what works best.
If you speak to an experienced planner, he or she will review what asset allocation your super is invested in and whether it is appropriate for your age and investment time horizon. If you are too conservatively invested, the value of your money may not keep up with inflation. If you are too aggressively invested, you may be taking on too much risk.
A cost analysis must always be done by the adviser when they are recommending a switch from your current super account to another account. They must disclose the benefits and/or disadvantages of moving to help you make an informed decision.
It may sound like a confusing area, but a professional will be able to sort out your situation most effectively.
Mark Bouris is the executive chairman of wealth management firm Yellow Brick Road.
RETIREE: Kerrin Falconer
SUPER and football are similar in some ways. The aim in football is to get that piece of leather between two bits of wood or across the line as many times as possible to win the game.
With super, the aim is to get as much money as possible into the pot, to ensure a comfortable financial retirement.
In football and with super, there are rules. If the rules are broken, penalties are incurred. The rules of football are relatively simple and all the stakeholders -- players, umpires, referees and fans -- know how they work.
The rules don't change very often and if they do, they are well flagged and usually only minor. However, super rules are far from simple. Governments of all persuasions have changed them with such dazzling frequency that many of the main players -- the account holders -- have taken their eyes off the ball and packed up their kits and gone home.
Football is just a game and more games will be played whether teams win or lose. But for retirees, super is the end game and there is little opportunity or inclination to return to work to top up the pot if things go wrong.
Successful footy coaches extract every ounce of skill from their teams. They may not have the biggest and best guys but they work with what they have. It is often the strategies they put in place that win games.
Similarly, skilled financial planners work with clients who have varying amounts of money and put in place strategies that can make the most of their super, no matter how small or large. Transition to retirement, super splitting, recontribution strategies, and nomination of beneficiaries can be worthwhile, depending on your circumstances. Good advice will cost money. But it is worth it.
Kerrin Falconer is a financial planner.
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Gabriella Speaks City Council Meeting April 27, 2010 (Video)
The Council of the City of Tucson convened a special meeting and resident, U.S. citizen, Gabriella Cesito (sp?) spoke in support of Arizona's SB1070 (and against an idea proposed to the Council, that the City of Tucson should sue the State of Arizona regarding SB1070).
Gabriella's statements reflect a lot of us citizens' perspectives — though I am not a resident of Arizona nor am I a naturalized U.S. citizen (nor am I Hispanic – and I continue to wonder just why that would make any difference to anyone but I acknowledge that it does), I share her views. And from what I've read since this legislation (SB1070) was signed last week, it appears that many Americans nationwide share the views as expressed by Gabrielle.
However, unfortunately, as seems the case in all controversial issues, the media cover the critics if not represents them, and, conjures up tangential issues such as race and ethnicity to create a secondary argument, among other pursuits.
The nation quite likely has far more like Gabrielle than the media and Progressive politicians will ever acknowledge, and certainly the state of Arizona does what with the voters of Arizona in support of SB1070 (and Governor Jan Brewer for signing it) in high percentages.
I note that all — all — the condemnation and ugly gossip in general about SB1070 and the state of Arizona for passing this legislation is entirely by those who use a racial and/or ethnic context to defend themselves. The arguments against SB1070 contain greatly exaggerated — to a point of delusions, ugly fantasies, sick projections upon others — contexts that eventually result in racial and ethnic supremacy condemnations of others: the complaints are BY racial and ethnic supremacists condemning the legislation, an entire state and Arizona citizens from a "superior" or supremacy position based upon the critics' own negative racial stereotypes and their own racial or ethnic supremacy perspectives.
Headline after headline is found in a simple news search by these sorts, including celebrities and Leftwing politicians who do not reflect that they've even read the legislation — their accusations are as if they've woken from nightmares and are sure the boogey man of their bad dream is in Arizona and he isn't the same race or ethnicity as they are…it's exceptionally sick stuff of the hysteria-kind.
And I'm sure there'll be far more of it seen tomorrow if not much worse (using the last "May Day protests" from 2008 as examples).
Somewhere, however, there are sane people such as Gabrielle in Tucson.
READ THE LEGISLATION, SB1070: nothing in it about "race" or "ethnicity" or "nation of origin" (or gender or even age).
The Arizona State legislature has clarified portions of SB1070 to make it more clear as to the issues of race, ethnicity and national origin (which are being used to condemn the legislation unfairly).
Arizona state legislature runs for cover on SB 1070 – From The Examiner
From Minnesota to Georgia, Politicians Lend Support to Arizona Immigration Law – From Fox News
Dan Stein Op-Ed: It's Not About Racial Profiling; It's About Upholding The Law
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The largest industry in the Hunter is coal mining. Coal is Australia's biggest export commodity, with over 80% of all coal mined in NSW mined in the Hunter. Newcastle is the world's largest tonnage port, with more than 90 million tonnes of coal exported in 2008. This will double to 180 million tonnes by 2013, with the completion of the final phase of a new coal loader. This represents a $900 million investment in the coal industry.
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Patio table with coolers on the top. Frame is made of wood. It has 6 seating capacity. It is resistant to rust and harmful weather conditions. Neutral and functional design for the garden, porch, patio and more.
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Clever and interesting do-it-yourself project for a patio table makeover for a front porch. The metal, cast iron round table with a shelf underneath and curly legs is decorated with an assortment of glass stones in aqua color.
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Hush/Don't Breathe spoilers will be few and far to come by. My apologies for the few.
So far this year, 2016 has offered an array of refreshingly original additions to the horror genre. From serial killers to psychological thrillers, paranormal anomalies to child possessions, it's been a hodge podge of deadly delights for avid horror fans and the general populace alike.
10 Cloverfield Lane seemed to drop out of the sky (or perhaps a UFO). Green Room was relentless in its portrayal of an all-out war between a punk-rock band and sadistic white supremacists. James Wan's sequel, The Conjuring 2, frightened theatre goers and showcased the vision that is Vera Farmiga alongside her hunky husband, Patrick Wilson. Lights Out (another James Wan film) was the little engine that could, having been adapted from a three-minute Swedish short. And don't even get me started on The Witch or I won't stop praising its glorious, gory graces.
Interestingly enough, two home invasion thrillers premiered at the 2016 SXSW festival, both featuring prominent characters living with a physical disability. Each film depicts its characters unwillingly thrust into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse where they must rely, not only on their other senses, but on their quick thinking and instinctual survivalist skills. But will it be enough?
Silence can be killer.
The film follows author Maddie Young, played beautifully by Kate Siegel. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that she is related to Angelina Jolie in some way because, damn, that girl is beyond gorgeous. It's a bit distracting, to be honest. Anyways the back cover of her book, Midnight Mass, explains how Maddie had contracted bacterial meningitis when she was only thirteen years old and "suffered hearing loss and temporary vocal paralysis." When we first meet her, she's now an accomplished author wishing for the secluded life of a stereotypical writer.
With enough money from her book sales, she decides to move into a charming cottage tucked away in the woods. Sounds like a solid plan until one fateful night when Maddie becomes the target of a masked assailant hell-bent on one thing: killing her. Simply referred to as "the man", he is played by John Gallagher Jr. Absolute cinema shock to root for him as the darling Emmett in 10 Cloverfield Lane & then pray for his painful demise in Hush.
Not only does Siegel star in the film, but she co-wrote the script with the director, Mike Flanagan, who also happens to be her husband. Flanagan has his name attached to Oculus and Ouija: Origin of Evil, two other films from the horror-loving Blumhouse Productions. Jason Blum most adore these two to death.
Now here's a trailer to get your heart racing. Breathe in, breathe out. Or maybe...
Don't Breathe
This house looked like an easy target. Until they found what was inside.
This merciless thriller centers around the break-in and attempted robbery of an elderly blind male veteran who has money up the ying yang. Our robbers deem their chosen victim to be an easy target. However it is this very assumption that may very well be their downfall, deserved or not.
Stephen Lang ("the blind man") is freakin' phenomenal in this movie. His character is a man of few words, but my guess is it'll be a while before you forget what he says; that voice is absolutely chilling to the bone. Fede Alvarez, who also directed the Evil Dead remake, is sinfully skillful in his execution of making the house as much of a character as any living person. Let's just say I wouldn't want to revisit that place anytime soon; see ya, wouldn't wanna be (in) ya.
Dylan Minnette's character, Alex, raises a question that most audience members probably asked themselves at some point before the inciting incident: "That's kind of messed up to rob a blind guy, isn't it?"
Images of women subjected to torture porn scenarios for shock value? Been there, seen that, sick of it. But this promotional poster is different. Its allure comes, not only from the unique coloring choice, but the look of sheer terror in her eyes. Jane Levy killed it in Evil Dead, she continues to kill it in this film.
And forgive me for saying this, but...don't forget to breathe. You can catch the thriller in theaters now; Hush is available to stream on Netflix.
This should go without saying but if you do see Don't Breathe, turn off your goddamn phone. We wouldn't want "the man" showing up at your door, would we?
P.S. Well...scratch that. John Gallagher Jr. can show up at my doorstep anytime.


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Christian TV host Pat Robertson recently indicated that watching pornographic movies could leave the door open to demonic possession.
Robertson, host of CBN's "The 700 Club," made the claim while responding to a woman named Michele who had written in to ask whether a "strange" horror movie she recently watched led to a car accident she got into while leaving church the following Sunday.
"Did watching that creepy movie cause a curse — or the Lord's protection to be lifted from me?" she asked. "Did I grieve the holy spirit by watching this series?"
Robertson responded that the woman likely wasn't possessed or impacted by a demonic force, but that it's entirely possible that such a scenario could unfold.
"A few years ago I heard about a teenage girl who was demon possessed and people began to deal with the demon and cast it out and you know what the demon said?" Robertson asked. "'I had permission' — and the permission was granted when this child had gone to some XX rated movie or whatever it was and had allowed this thing to come into her."
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Robertson admitted that the paradigm sounded "otherworldly," but said that's just "the way it is."
"I just think in the name of Jesus declare your victory and keep going on," he added.
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TN MRB Recruitment 2017,1329 Asst. Surgeon Therapeutic Assistant Jobs: Tamil Nadu Medical Service Board recently issued an advertisement of Tamil Nadu MRB vacancy 2017 to shortlist the capable aspirants on the posts of Assistant Surgeon & Therapeutic Assistant Posts. As per the official notice the recruitment is organized to fill up 1329 vacant seats in the department.
The Mode of application in TN MRB 2017 recruitment is online. Aspirants must have to apply through the official portal to apply in the recruitment. Aspirants will be selected on the basis of their performance in academic qualification and technical aggregate.
Huge Opportunity for those who are interested to make their career in South region of India, as Tamil Nadu Government has revealed the 1329 Assistant Surgeon & Therapeutic Assistant Jobs under Medical Service Recruitment Board (MRB). As per the Tamil Nadu MRB Recruitment Notification 2017, these vacancies are for the Generals on the temporary basis.
The Application form for Tamil Nadu MRB Recruitment 2017 can only be filled by one manner, which will be online, till the date of 9th January 2017 and have to pay the offline fee for the MRB TN Jobs 2017.
TN MRB Recruitment 2017,1329 Asst. Surgeon Therapeutic Assistant Jobs
|official Advertisement: – TN MRB Therapeutic Assistant Recruitment 2017
|Name of Organization:- Tamil Nadu Medical Services Recruitment Board (TN MRB)
|Total Vacancy:- 106 Posts
|Vacancy Name–
Therapeutic Assistant Male – 57 Posts
Therapeutic Assistant Female – 49 Posts
| Qualification Details
Aspirants should Diploma in Nursing Therapy or its equivalent from any recognized university or board.
| Age limit
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As on 01-07-2016
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All others – Rs. 250/-
|Salary: –
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Online Application Commencement from – Available Now
Closing date to Submit Online Application Form –09-01-2017
Exam Date:- Released Soon
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TN MRB Official Notification
TN MRB Apply online
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Name of the Department:- Medical service Recruitment Board
Job Location:- Tamil Nadu, India
Category of the Job:- Government Jobs
Post Name:- Assistant Surgeon (General)
No. of Vacancies:- 1223 Vacancies
Pay Scale:- 15,600 to 39,100 Rs. + Grade Pay of 5400 Rs.
Apply Process:- Online
Important Dates:-
Notification Date: 10th November 2016
Closing date to fill the Online Application Form: 30th November 2016
Last Date to pay the Application Fee: 2nd December 2016
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- SC/ST/BCs/BCMs/MBC and DCs: 57 years as on 01.07.2016
- Ex-Serviceman: 48 years as on 01.07.2016
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- SC/ST/Physically Challenged Category:- 375 Rs.
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- Search for the Official web portal of Medical Service Recruitment Board (MRB).
- There candidates can find a link of Tamil Nadu MRB Recruitment 2017.
- Go for the link of 1329 Assistant Surgeon Jobs, there you can find the another link to Apply Online.
- Choose to open the Online Application Form in new tab.
- Read out all the given instruction to complete the form.
- Fill it accordingly and hit on the submit button after re-checking it.
- Get the paper print of your filled form, so that it can be used in case of any issue.
TN MRB Vacancy 2017, 414 TN MRB Assistant Surgeon Recruitment 2017 TN MRB 2017 online application form will be available to fill from 20th Oct to 9th Nov 2016 and the applicants will have to submit the application form before 9th November 2016. All kind of details of TN MRB Assistant Surgeon vacancy 2017 like Age limits, qualification details, salary structure, application fee, selection process, how to apply and other details are mention here: –
|Official Advertisement:- Tamil Nadu MRB Recruitment Notification 2016
|Name of Organization:- Tamil Nadu Medical Service board
|Total Posts:- 414
|Vacancy Name– Assistant Surgeon
|Qualification Details : MBBS / PG Diploma/ PG degree DNB with minimum qualifying marks from any authorize institute
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|Important Dates:-
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TN MRB Assistant Surgeon Recruitment 2017 Application process
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Homemade caramel corn drizzled in white and dark chocolate. Easy to make and incredibly addicting! Make a batch for National Popcorn Day!
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In the past I have made several papier mache models of various mosques with my children and a few years ago, as part of our studies on Hajj, we made a papier mache model of the Kab'ah. I have since learned that this is neither permissible nor appropriate as a means of educating children about the rites of Hajj and similar to that.
Below is the ruling on this matter:
Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked about a school that teaches the students about Hajj and Umrah but the students do not understand properly; it is permissible to make a model of the Ka'bah and holy places in the school so that they can learn in practical terms and not just theoretically.He replied:This is not permissible and it is not appropriate at all. The teacher can draw a picture of the Ka'bah on the blackboard and say, We circumambulate it like this… But as for making a model, this to my mind is turning acts of worship into mere movements with no impact on the heart.End quote from Majmoo' Fataawa wa Rasaa'il al-'Uthaymeen, 24/91It says in a fatwa of the Standing Committee: It is not permissible to make models of the Ka'bah and the (green) dome that is over the grave of the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him).End quote from Fataawa al-Lajnah ad-Daa'imah, 2 (1/324)


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RAF jets scrambled TWICE overnight to intercept Russian bombers over UK skies
BRITISH Typhoon fighter jets were scrambled twice to intercept and escort Russian bombers approaching UK airspace.
The Ministry of Defence has revealed that Russian military aircraft flew in a "UK area of interest" under the cover of darkness.
It is believed they passed off the coast of Scotland on the evening of October 12 and then again four days later.
Typhoon jets sped to the scene over Lossiemouth near Elgin, Scotland and it is understood they were supported by Voyagers from Brize Norton.
"Typhoon aircraft from Lossiemouth intercepted Russian Military Aircraft and escorted them while they were in the UK area of interest"MOD
An MOD spokesman said: "Quick reaction alert Typhoon aircraft from Lossiemouth intercepted Russian Military Aircraft and escorted them while they were in the UK area of interest.
"At no point did the Russian aircraft enter UK territorial airspace.
"Air-to-air refuelling support is often provided by a Voyager aircraft from RAF Brize Norton."
It is understood the first scramble on October 12 took place at 11.35pm, while the one on October 16 happened at 9.20pm.
It comes as diplomatic relations with Russia have plummeted to their lowest point since the days of the Cold War.
Last week, Russian destroyers were photographed making their way through the English Channel.
And earlier today, Vladimir Putin issued a stark warning to the West – promising "trouble" if Hillary Clinton is elected President of the United States.


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u-blox, the leading Swiss provider of GPS receiver technology, has partnered with paragon, a leading German automotive electronic supplier, and Magna, a worldwide leader in automotive systems and components, to develop the rear-view mirror navigator. The MirrorPilot® Navigator is a fully functional GPS navigation system, including GPS receiver, antenna and speaker built into a self-dimming rear-view mirror. This innovative navigation system simply replaces the standard rear-view mirror of a car, leaving the car cockpit free of cables, and includes a remote control for ease of use.
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First published in 1926, ALBERTA AND JACOB is a partly autobiographical depiction of a young woman's rebellion against the narrow values and repressed barbarity of a struggling Protestant bourgeoise at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Alberta is the adolescent daughter of a bullying magistrate and his neurotic wife who have been driven by past crimes of extravagance to a small, snowbound town in the extreme north of Norway, within the Arctic circle.
Together with her more extroverted brother Jacob, Alberta finds herself increasingly in revolt against their parent's shabby gentility and the suffocating provincialism of their surroundings.
Imaginative and intelligent, she craves for worldly knowledge and a more purposeful life, but her way forward is blocked a crippling sense of her own inadequacy, insignificance and guilt.
The arrival of summer visitors, with their challenging conversation and self-possession, the first troubling intimations of sexuality and the departure of her adored brother for the life of a sailor, introduce a new urgency to Alberta's painful, almost abnormal sensitivities. In brilliantly recreating both the physical immediacy of a bitterly cold town in a remote place and the social reality of the rigidly confined society, this delicate sketch of adolescence also subtly describes effects of climate on the human heart.
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Vacations of the Pretentious
by Mike Crumplar
An unfinished sketch that I like enough to want to share, but not enough to complete. Was written in summer 2015. Original plan was a story about a lazy trippy vacation dreamscape where these absurdist characters struggle to communicate the most simple of things because of the cacophony of the "Mind at Large" à la Aldous Huxley. Was meant to culminate in an epic trip to the closest Taco Bell.
He gazed out onto Hannaker Lake below which glimmered in the fading daylight. Ah yes, an extended Bacchanalia: surely that will inspire his book in the works. This vacation was the perfect sort of utility of creative energy—the spacious estate of Sheldon Roscoe doubling as a home for privileged post-grad artists of all kinds, the seemingly endless sense of shifting community, that flowed like water itself with people's ins and outs, arrivals and departures, happening on and off, bringings and takings, and so on, all part of the overarching theme of "oscillations," that beautiful and romantic life-governing quality of mind. Surely later he would swim in the lake, but he chuckled to himself as he thought of the idea of already being swimming in the lake—suddenly the image of a sweaty and excited Zizek sprung out to him exclaiming with arms raised expressively: "I'm swimming in the lake of ideology!" And so he burst out into a great laughter at the thought of this silly old Slovenian man, not necessarily at what the message was, as of course we are always swimming in ideology as it were, no doubt about that, but rather the presentation of the thought, how it seemed to spring out of the very notion of swimming, as if swimming itself contained a latent metaphor of ideological saturation that inherently leads to the image of a sweaty and energetic Marxist philosopher pointing it out. Thus his laughter subsided leaving just a geeked smile as his mind trailed off towards other trajectories of lakelikeness, other aspects of the representations of the lake that appeared immediately before him, was actively "set forth" or rather "brought forth," to frame the thought process auf Deutsch, from which the Slovenian sprung into, but not just Zizzy, but also some ridiculous thoughts about whales and leviathans inhabiting the lake (more laughter breaks out—a sudden mindflash of some goofy tentacles grossly tentacling something pervy) to the yearning to surf something, not necessarily the admittedly tiny waves on the shore but a mental surfing, that which he was actually already doing at this very moment, the kind of surfing of a great wave of mind and language like the infamous Finnegan's wake, which happened to be the term applied to the wave left by the great psychedelic speedboat the "Finnegan" which Sheldon also owned and used as both a base for transporting drugs around the lake as well as impressing his many, ever fluctuating guests who'd rail lines of mystery white powder, drunk off kisses, before dunking their heads into the sacred sober water like planets in collision. But there were many of other images latent in that same lake, some pertaining to swimming as act and others not, namely the consideration of the body of water as something of sheer mass and volume, the product of an almost disinterested contemplation of the, so-to-say, "leviathanliness" of the water, and the whoa-saying to whatever the number of gallons it contains is. But the leviathanliness is not merely quantitative but also a matter of specific qualities, so that if the world is not some sort of bottomless chaos and utterly ontologically anarchic, and well, that's a pretty damn big if, then this lake could be said to embody some sort of perfection in its gargantuan form, that it reflects a harmony of the world of idea with the same dainty blue clarity with which it reflected the sky to the detail of the little birds flying around, carelessly, like in some renaissance painting heralding the coming of Christ. Like the whale, the birds too trace a sort of primordial ancestry in the dinosaur, so that these little flittering creatures are the heirs of velociraptors and the tyrannosaurs, but now the tyranny has changed to the humans who now have the privilege of leaving their assorted crap all over the world, so that future species of alien paleo-archaeologists may uncover the remains of Hannaker Estate and puzzle over the strange types of trash and the arrangement of the rooms, attempting, likely in vain, to make sense of either sorts of thing, and instead (assuming they even have the sense to view them as relics or texts of an "intelligent" sort of culture) come up with peculiar inferences to the uses and meanings of the various patterns of language and geometry. Thus one can only imagine how puzzling the ruins of various cities of the world, although it is perhaps wrong to suppose that anything will truly survive the great extinction of the humans and remain to dominate the earth over geological eons aside from noble mounds of styrofoam and plastic, floating endlessly and mysteriously, in the oceans and buried snugly between blankets of rock—these great relics are the last silent remains of the great human civilization, relics that shall live much longer than the clever apes who brought them forth. Thus, the assorted trash by the banks and in the nearby woods around Hannaker Lake acquired a sort of charm, their own sort of timelessness, frozen objects of chemical associations that could only be assembled together with the loving touch of human activity and intention, which, in the course of millennia, would lose their original messages such as "Purell Advanced Hand Sanitizer Kills the Most Germs" and instead be interesting merely for their composition from chemical structures that could not likely be brought forth naturally anywhere else in the universe, and as such our age, our little line in the ever-shifting layers of rock, will be remembered as the age in which these curious chemical structures compose of an unfathomably great, seemingly infinite number of mysterious objects that literally litter the planet. The nature of memory and the act of remembrance are so limitlessly puzzling, he thought, so overwhelmingly immense once he imagined the depth of meaning of a single being, let alone the ever shifting meaning of an infinity of objects in the endless procession of time, time, which is just so goddamn relentless, carving and eroding, like glaciers, or rivers, or… or frankly anything that changes anything, beyond the control of human activity. Suddenly the metaphor in his mind grew too large and unfathomable, he figured that his thoughts on the admittedly bulky and confusing subject of time were unwieldy to the extent where he could no longer remember what he was trying to think in the first place, and that instead of truly thinking about the nature of memory his mind had been most peculiarly deceiving itself, and through this had constructed an artifice of these ideas of memory with the imagery of geology, of the motions of the earth, such that he couldn't tell what he was thinking about anymore, either a geology of the mind or a psychology of the earth, or both or neither, trailing off into a multidisciplinary mush that hurt his head. But these mental acrobatics were soon forgotten as his gaze was directed once more to the lake, which was becoming gradually more and more rich with wine-reds in the shallows and purples too, with the setting sun against the deep green of the lush vegetation, and he thought of how, in the course of this long day, he had seen a full succession of various color schemes of this exact scene from this exact window, this transcendent sense of constant 'becoming' by which Hannaker Lake and the surrounding hills had become his own personal version of Monet's haystacks, and it was at this point, this day in the late summer, at this very hour, the view had reached its daily climax, its visual crescendo that holds in the time before the sun, in its constant unconscious motion, retreats behind the hills towards California and the Pacific and beyond, until its ultimate return and the reawakening of the scene, perhaps the only thing that was sure beyond any doubt in the world, until the Final Judgement or Global Communism, or whatever it was that people expected him to be expecting in the eschatological sense these days. "And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever." Of course, such divine light and blessedness is really only crudely understood with reference to the Bible alone, subject to the vulgar interpretations of so-called Christians and their villainous Hebrew-priestly-caste exploitation of the sad passions, to such a point that the meaningful potency of the transcendent, apocalyptic light, he thought, is far better and more clearly articulated in the almost pagan, joyous sense of Novalis' universal Poesie, and the third kind of knowledge of Spinoza, and then best associated with immortal life at the end of Ovid's Metamorphoses: in spirit the poet will be borne up to soar beyond the stars, leaving behind an immortal name wherever American governance extends and the already-apotheosized Bush family presides over the subject nations of the world—the words of Melville and Pound (oh god, hopefully not whoever we read in high school) will be upon people's lips, with fame eternal should that metamorphic prophecy remain true. "Hang it all, Robert Browning! There can be but the one Sordello!" he suddenly burst out, with the shakespearean madness of a resurrected Ahab—after all hemp killed him and hemp brought him back (winks)—performed with the emotive excess of a high school play, and then turning histrionically to face the other side of an imagined audience, lowering his tone to the still dramatic tone of a telenovela, tearing up with the joy of a Latina mother at the bedside of a Lazarus-child: "But Sordello, and my Sordello?" After his own mini-soliloquy he just started laughing as uncontrollably at himself, at everything, and at nothing in particular.
"What's so funny?" a voice broke the yawning thoughts and suddenly he became aware of himself, where he was standing, so that he was no longer inside the lake ontologically but back in his body standing apart from it, that he was being spoken to, and the fact that he was a subject in a world of other subjectivities, to whom he must somehow often recognize and answer to, in an ongoing yet fractured process of mutual understanding by which questions are asked. But he entirely lacked the answer to the question of whatever was funny, as it would require the recounting of a series of specifically tangentially related things, which, while it would be theoretically possible, still seemed an impossibly daunting task, even if he had been able to remember and articulate each of the subterranean connections as well as the sort of lightness that made the existence of these connections themselves comical, and not just as moodless notions. In any case, the particular path of connections on whatever he was thinking was already lost in the surf, and he suddenly felt as if he was trapped in a state of anxiety—before the question there was no demand on his free association of thoughts, but once something was asked of it, that he needed to explain, to make a logical, rationalistic explanation that can be communicated between two perfectly logical minds, souls, if you will, suddenly he felt a specific terror, as if he had been asked a simple question in a foreign language he was supposed to know but had no idea what to say. By the time he had come to some sense and began to think of how to construct a sentence, everything he thought he could answer to the question "What's so funny?" seemed horrifically abstract to the point of being utterly meaningless, as if there was originally some kind of meaning but it is entirely annihilated in the movement from thought into language, as one would try to adequately describe a color, the passage of time, or an orgasm—all of which are, in their own ways, perceptible and vivid enough that one could try to explain it, before realizing that they are so hopelessly subjective of experiences that it is language itself—aha! Something finally came to mind—"Uh uh just pretty much like language and," he said, having found a seemingly satisfying answer, but once it was uttered, was just as hopelessly vague as anything else he could have said, so that he was rushing through his mind to try to remember how to better clarify the connection between the fundamental problem of language with whatever it was he was thinking about, but then, upon realizing that every passing moment that the dreaded Other stood there, waiting for some clarification (Ugh! Why?) felt like awkward eternities, he then happened to find salvation once again in his gaze out the window, "The lake," which was an honest enough answer, and did indeed encompass much of what was funny, although it still didn't do justice to precisely what was interesting or indeed notable about it. In fact, it would seem like the only way to adequately describe it would be somehow encyclopedic and entail the idea of the lake in a sort of increasing, productive, and unending fullness, and anything other than "the lake" in its meaningful saturation, which essentially is its essence and the wide trajectories of its possible ontology, would completely miss the joke. "Everything… about the lake" was all he could therefore add.
But he said nothing. He laughed. Confused at first, the Other quickly joined in. This time the laughter was somehow different, changed as if through a grammatical declension. He laughed at the Other and he laughed at himself and his laughter saved him from the seductive, sinister tendrils of his own winding thoughts.


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Father Stravinskas is editor of The Catholic Answer in Mount Pocono, Pa. Rabbi Leon Klenicki is director of interfaith relations for the Jewish anti-defamation organization B'nai B'rith in New York. The two have continued their discussions of Catholic-Jewish relations ever since they published A Catholic Jewish Encounter from the Mind and the Heart (Our Sunday Visitor, 1994). A portion of their recent dialogue about the Jubilee year pardon follows.
Father Stravinskas: Certainly, one of the most important aspects of the biblical year of jubilee was the underlying notion of reconciliation or healing. What would you see as issues of importance for Jews and Christians to look at during this coming year?
Rabbi Klenicki: It is very important to talk about reconciliation-healing. Both are stages of the whole process of what in Hebrew is called Teshuvah, that is, confession and reconciliation with God and humanity. It is part of our liturgy, especially in Yom Kippur, to stress the centrality of confession to God and to fellow human beings about the transgressions of the past year. In this manner, the soul is open for the response of God's forgiveness as well, and this is very important, the forgiveness of the other person of faith, Jewish or Christian. The Yom Kippur liturgy stresses the need to open our hearts to the fellow human person, to get his or her forgiveness that will reach the throne of God.
I have to say personally that each Yom Kippur brings back a similar experience. That is, I wonder what would happen to me if a Nazi or a former junta general in Argentina known for his atrocities would come to me and ask my forgiveness. How would I respond to that?
Father Stravinskas: What would your natural response be? What do you hope your response would be under the impulse of God's grace and assistance?
Rabbi Klenicki: I would say that my first response would be of a passionate surprise. There are too many memories in my heart to respond immediately to such a person. But following the Jewish tradition, I would have to listen to the person asking for forgiveness and point out to him the need of a reckoning of the soul and a response.
That is, that that person has to confess to fellow people and to God his transgressions, the crimes of the past, and to give a response.
That response should result in a change of heart and attitude, as well as the obligation to serve others in charity and friendship. Once that person is transformed, according to Jewish tradition, I can forgive, I can forgive that person, and God will accept his confession. What matters essentially is the inner transformation of the person from evil to good.
Father Stravinskas: I find your example very interesting in light of something I just read a few days ago — a story which has just surfaced about [Rudolf] Hess, one of the chief henchmen of [Adolf] Hitler, who, in incarceration after the war, asked to see a priest to hear his confession.
The area in which he was living was Poland, and they couldn't find a German-speaking priest very readily. And as it turned out, the man that was finally uncovered was a Jesuit who had been the provincial of the Jesuits in Poland during the war, and it was he who was asked to come to hear the man's confession, the man who was actually responsible for the deaths of perhaps dozens, if not hundreds of Jesuit priests, men who had been the responsibility of this priest. And yet, it was he who was called upon to reconcile this individual to God, which, of course, he did.
But we don't hear about the psychological and the spiritual journey that that Jesuit priest took, which I'm sure is very similar to what you are describing for yourself, as well.
Rabbi Klenicki: Thus, would the Christian attitude be to forgive right away or to expect a transformation of the other person, the sinner?
Father Stravinskas: The theology of Christianity would encourage us immediately to respond to the overture of the other person without necessarily probing the motivations of the individual. I should stress that's obviously the ideal for a Christian. But Christians don't lose their human nature at the moment of baptism, and therefore, the natural process, I think, has to kick in for most of us at the same time. Even in the sacrament of penance, as a confessor, the Church instructs me to be sure, reasonably sure, that the person is confessing for proper motivations and has the intention of not repeating such sins in the future. So while there is the clear understanding that God forgives the minute the request for forgiveness is given, there also needs to be moral certitude that God and his mercy are not being mocked by people who simply wish to "get off the hook."
From a Jewish perspective, what do you see as important topics to "put on the table" for the process of healing, but not simply as a rehashing of difficulties from the past, whether from this century or this millennium or two millennia, but with a view to discussing them so as to move on to the future?
Rabbi Klenicki: We need a joint reckoning. By joint reckoning, I mean the need for looking especially at the last 50 or 60 years of our joint history that has been so dramatic and painful for us Jews, especially in Europe. The Holocaust is a reality that we cannot put aside. It showed the diabolic possibilities of the human being without control, and at times I wonder if I, as a religious person, have done enough to face and fight back those diabolic possibilities of the human being expressed in the horror of Auschwitz, the Gulag or Latin American jails.
Father Stravinskas: What I think it is important to highlight, particularly in regard to this century, which I often refer to as the most horrible of centuries, is perhaps the lesson that when man tries to go without God, these are exactly the things that one should expect. Many people fail to realize that the 20th century was the first in history in which there was a formal decision on the part of "movers and shakers" to establish a world without any divine or transcendent horizon.
We can laugh at the superstitious silliness of the Greeks and Romans with their thousands of gods, but at least there was a reference to a reality beyond ourselves, there was some kind of accountability to some kind of divine being, whereas all the absolute horrors of the 20th century, whether from Communism or Nazism or Fascism or the more recent forms of total materialism and secularism, in each of these instances we find the tremendous difficulties and problems which have been inflicted on the human race precisely by people who have lost their reference to a Supreme Being.
What do you think that we as men and women of faith, whether Christian or Jew, can learn from that situation, and how perhaps we can work together to ensure that the 21st century will not repeat the same mistakes?
Rabbi Klenicki: Our process of reckoning with the 20th century has to be done on our own and together. On the Jewish side, we will have to reckon with modernism, a movement that was a blessing and a curse for us. A blessing, because it allowed the Jewish community to enter, though never integrate, into European society, and a curse, because by that illusion of being accepted in a non-pluralistic society, we lost part of our tradition in that dream. And I feel that perhaps Christians would have to reckon with the same problem. This was beautifully portrayed in the [1998] encyclical of John Paul II, Faith and Reason. Afterward, we together have to deal with and measure those diabolic possibilities of the human being, as I pointed out before.
Father Stravinskas: We all know that in the past 30 years, tremendous strides have been made, specifically in terms of Jewish-Catholic relations. It would seem that if we're going to move forward, we have to acknowledge these positive developments first, because that can become a kind of springboard for further positive action. What would you suggest as the most important advances in our common facing of modernity in the past 30 years?
Rabbi Klenicki: I would stress the following: one is the recognition of each other as subjects of faith. We are not any more "the thing Jew," that is, an object of contempt in Christian theology for centuries, but rather a subject of faith. A similar process is occurring in the Jewish community, though at times, painfully, I've recognized that we carry on at times a theology of pointing fingers. We have reasons for that, but we also have to recognize that much has changed since Vatican Council II in Catholicism, and after the Holocaust in Christian denominations in Europe and the United States.
The second is the fact that, as religious people, we have to face the problems of our time, secularism in its worst dimension, the lack of belief in the young generations.
The third point would be our joint action as religious people, as a people of God acting in our world, and finally, which I consider crucial, is a reckoning of the period 1933-1945, with all its negative dimensions in the Christian-Jewish encounter.
Father Stravinskas:Finally, as we look at this process of reconciliation and reckoning of the soul, as you're fond of terming it, what do you see as issues that Jews need to address in their own hearts in regard to Christians or specifically Catholics?
Rabbi Klenicki:One area that requires our attention is a Jewish understanding of the mission of Jesus and Christianity to the world. Some of our medieval and contemporary Jewish thinkers and theologians have paid attention to this matter. But still for the common Jewish person, though well-educated, it is very difficult to think in terms of a Jewish understanding of Christianity. I don't use the word "theology" because it's not part of our religious vocabulary. But what I feel that is being developed in our community, though not still at a popular dimension, is a process of understanding the Christian and Christianity as ways of God. This was stressed by Franz Rosenzweig, the German-Jewish theologian who wrote about it in the early '30s and is very influential in the Jewish understanding of Christianity, and especially in mine personally.
Father Stravinskas:As we conclude, it dawns on me that perhaps we could ask you to close with a prayer for your Christian brothers and sisters at this point of tremendous significance. I ask for it because, as you know, in the Roman Canon of the First Eucharistic Prayer of the Mass, we refer to Abraham as "our father in faith," and therefore, we should turn to one of our elder brothers in the faith to ask for his prayer and his intercession as we begin this new development in our lives together.
Rabbi Klenicki:I would say, in the tradition of Abraham, a prayer that I hope will inspire our joint witnessing in the world. It is part of the New Union Prayerbook Gates of Prayer.
May the time not be distant, O God, when your name shall be worshipped in all the earth, when unbelief shall disappear and error be no more. Fervently we pray that the day may come when all shall turn to you in love, when corruption and evil shall give way to integrity and goodness, when superstition shall no longer enslave the mind, nor idolatry blind the eye, when all who dwell on earth shall know that you alone are God. O may all, created in your image, become one in spirit and one in friendship, for ever united in Your service. Then shall your kingdom be established on earth, and the word of your prophet fulfilled: "The Lord will reign for ever and ever."
Both: Amen.


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Drew Barrymore and her boyfriend Justin long took in a night at the Villa in Hollywood last night. However when they left the party Drew was feeling a bit shy and tried to hide behind the Mac guy so cameras couldn't capture her non-smile. Maybe it was her socks and sandals combination she was ashamed of? Or maybe it was the fact they were cruising around in a Toyota and she feels better in German engineering.
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text: This is one tough and very lucky little damsel. Years ago, "Blondie" and another blue damsel started off the cycle for this tank. Blue damsel (male) was the agggresive one and Blondie (female) was the curious/nervous one. Both damsels survived the cycle. Before I had a chance to get an octopus, I had rescued and temporarily foster housed a baby Banded Cat Shark that had broken out of its egg case too early. Nursed it back to health and actually ended up holding onto this shark way longer that I wanted to. Had it for about a year and a half before I just had to get rid of it. It got too big and got way too aggressive during feeding. (splashing water all over, scratching glass and such) Blue damsel tried to steal food from the sharks mouth one day........blue damsel lost its head. Blondie survived the shark. When I was ready to get an octopus (Ocho), I had already said my goodbyes to Blondie knowing the inevitable....or did I? Ocho to my surprise, was never interested in Blondie in the least bit. They say octopus can't really catch a damsel cause they're so fast but Ocho has caught Blondie when she's been in the way and just pushes her away! This lucky little fish has never been territorial like the blue damsel was. When Ocho is out, Blondie just bobs around as if "just hanging out" with Ocho. It's strange the way Ocho is so passive with this fish and lets her get so close. I would never suggest getting a tankmate for an octopus though, especially a damsel! They can be too aggressive and peck at the eyes or just plain annoy or scare the octopus and cause it to hide most of the time. Blondie's situation is very out of the ordinary. I did have a brittle star live through a few different octopuses years ago though. Do any of you have any stories of lucky tankmates that have survived your octopus? By the way, I have video of Ocho grabbing onto and pushing away Blondie if anyone is interested? It's a huge file though, like near 30 megs. Pretty high quality even though the tank lights are out. If you turn up the volume, you can even hear the impact when Ocho swats Blondie! I would have to upload the video to one of those free file hosting sites like rapidshare or something but then you could download it to your computer and watch. "Just hanging out" peering out from under the gray rock above Ocho's head behind the abalone shell


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FIRSTBORN children could be the brightest sparks in a family, with new research suggesting academic prowess declines with each sibling.
A study to be presented at a national conference on Monday has found that birth order plays a critical role in determining cognitive ability.
And the number of kids in a family, previously thought to heavily influence children's learning, has little impact on comprehension.
Australian National University researcher Dana Hanna has analysed the vocabulary of thousands of children aged 3-5 and 7-9.
She found that the size of a family, and the age gap between each sibling, appeared to have little impact on IQ.
"We're finding that birth order matters more … the first or second child does the best, and then increasingly from there you get worsening results," said Ms Hanna, who will present her research at the Cooperation and Conflict in the Family conference in Sydney.
Ms Hanna said the reasons for the declining performances were unclear, but one theory was that "parents don't have as much time to spend as consecutive children come along".
The study showed parents could correct the imbalance by dedicating more time reading to, and with, their children.
And because simple "parental involvement" is the most critical factor in helping young children learn, kids of modest means can trump their wealthier mates.
"This research shows that if you can afford that time … helping them with their reading homework, you can overcome any so-called resource constraints," Ms Hanna said.
She said childhood vocabulary was closely linked to IQ, education level and wage-earning ability in adulthood.
The four-day conference will also be told mothers are no more likely than fathers to be "soft" when parents take on the roles of "good cop, bad cop". Researcher Jenny Brown, from The Family Systems Institute and University of NSW, said parents often adopted opposing tactics when dealing with a troubled child.
"(But) there is not a set gender pattern of mothers appearing soft and fathers firm," she said. "It is just as often the father who gives in more quickly."
Originally published as Firstborns are bright kids, says study