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- Be aware of critical issues such as quality and pharmacovigilance, pricing issues, counterfeit medicines.
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Recently I've started following the public work of Mikko Hypponen (blog | twitter), the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure. I've known about and kept up with the announcements put out by F-Secure for a long time, but never focused in much on any one individual. That was before Mikko's TED talk:
In this talk he centered on how the threats have evolved on the Internet. Actually he starts back with the very first PC virus and shows off how they were the work of hobbyists and the like and they didn't cause any real harm. However, all that's different now. The world is no longer as safe as it was. He talks about the need to have backup systems and backup plans. And he even demonstrates just such a tool for when the computers are down.
Then there was the following video, where Mikko talks about the 3 main groups of attackers that we face today. They are:
- Organized criminal gangs
- Hacktavists
- Nation states
The better we understand the attacks and the ones who commit them, the better we can defend against them. Folks like Mikko work to do just that. What's more important is that it's not just about technical solutions. That's not enough. We've got to have better mechanisms to bring the folks to justice. For those who may be led into group #2, we need to educate what is acceptable and what is not with respect to protesting and trying to make a difference. If you've not watched these videos, I would ask that you do so and put some thought into the challenges we face going forward. Because ultimately, Internet security belongs to all of us.


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Equal treatment for traditional schools and other types of schools was a major topic during a Monday afternoon meeting of the Alamance-Burlington Board of Education and members of the local legislative delegation.
Sen. Rick Gunn and Reps. Dennis Riddell and Steve Ross came to Newlin Elementary School in Burlington to talk with school board members. All three legislators are Republicans. Gunn is beginning his second term and Riddell and Ross are beginning their first terms.
All members of the school board were present except for Brad Evans, who had a scheduling conflict.
Gunn said there is far too much uncertainty to begin talking about the 2013-14 budget.
�We don�t have any budget numbers,� he said. �We won�t have any revenue numbers until April.�
Ross said it�s clear the state still has too much money going out, without enough coming in. Riddell suggested that in a time of fiscal difficulty, the state might be able to help school systems by providing freedom to �maybe make some of your own decisions.� More than one school board member brought up the flexibility issue.
While tuition tax credits and vouchers were listed as possible discussion items for the meeting, discussion tended to be more vague, along the lines of �choice.�
School board member Steve Van Pelt said he is not necessarily opposed to increased choices in education, though he asked that legislators study any changes carefully.
He warned that without consistent accountability, such as test scores that show student performance, the state could be on a �slippery slope when it comes to fiscal accountability � We�ve got to know that we�re getting results.�
Board member Patsy Simpson questioned why a provision that would require third-grade students to meet reading standards in order to move to the next grade applies only to traditional public schools, with charter schools exempt. The requirement goes into place in 2013-14.
�The playing field is not level� in that situation, Simpson said.
She also questioned if the state has set aside sufficient funding for summer school for students who do not meet the standards.
Gunn said he believes funding will be in place. He did not offer a direct explanation as to the charter school exemption, though he did comment be believes �nothing is set in stone� at this point.
He mentioned �escape hatches� for students in some situations who have difficulty meeting reading standards, whether that is the result of not speaking English as a first language, a difficult home life or other factors.
Simpson and fellow school board member Kristen Moffitt said they are concerned about the state eliminating the Teaching Fellows program while, through the federal Race to the Top initiative, beginning the N.C. Teacher Corps.
Simpson said she has firsthand knowledge of the success of the Teaching Fellows program through her daughter�s participation. The program recruited young men and women interested in teaching and paid for college costs in return for a commitment to teach in the state for four years.
Moffitt questioned the effectiveness of a program that recruits people from different areas of study or different careers as opposed to those trained to be teachers.
�Some of these kids, while they may be very bright, are really not educators,� she said.
Board chairman Tony Rose and Superintendent Lillie Cox, in separate comments, concluded the meeting by discussing challenges the systems faces at the federal, state and local level.
One frustrating recent trend, Rose said, has been the state�s requirement of �reversions� in which local systems find money to return to the state. Cox is estimating reversions for ABSS for 2013-14 at more than $5.5 million.
Cox said the system is getting many directives from both the state and federal government. She asked that legislators be �careful not to make decisions in a vacuum,� instead considering all the challenges the state�s systems face.


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Wednesday is the deadline for online registration for Saturday�s first-ever Craven Smart Start Holiday Hustle, the first race event in downtown New Bern during the Christmas season.
Wednesday is the deadline for online registration for Saturday�s first-ever Craven Smart Start Holiday Hustle, the first race event in downtown New Bern during the Christmas season.
The event proceeds go toward Smart Start�s efforts to support and enhance services for young children and families.
The 8 a.m. event includes a variety of distances � 10K, 5K and One Mile Family Fun Run.
Registration for the 10K and 5K is $30. The Family Fun Run is $20 per person, with a discount of $5 per person for each family for three or more participants.
Advance registration is available on the web: cravensmartstart.org. Participants can email firstname.lastname@example.com for a registration form. Individuals can also register on site � cash-only � by 7:45 a.m. Saturday. Call 636-3198 for more information..
The Holiday Hustle is sponsored by 16 local businesses. Spirit sponsors include: Cowey Insurance Group; Bear Contracting, LLC; Fisher Stores, Inc; Excel Learning Centers; Kiddie Kollege, Inc; and Craven Community College.
Daysprings Ministries, Inc. is a Holly Jolly sponsor. Mistletoe sponsors include: Kaplan Early Learning; Carolina Storage Centers, Inc.; Clean & Green Laundry; Todd Rankin, DDS; Bear Town Cinema; Huryn Psychological Counseling; BB&T; Crystal Coast Podiatry; Craven County Farm Bureau/Register Agency.
A number of area businesses are providing in-kind services or products to support the event, including LinearTech N.C.; Carolina Bagel; Harris Teeter; New Bern Sporting Goods; US Foods; Warren and Miller, DDS, and Wells Fargo.
�With a 20 percent budget cut over the last three years and a state-mandated match requirement of 14 percent of our total budget, our partnership is looking for ways to raise additional funds to make up for cuts to our services and to enhance our services,� said Smart Start Executive Director Pat Morrow. �There are only 2,000 days from the time a baby is born to when he begins kindergarten. This is such a critical period with 90 percent of critical brain development happening in the first five years of life. Early experiences determine how brains develop. The foundation for future learning is built during early childhood. This Holiday Hustle fundraiser will help to give kids in Craven County a running start.�
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California health officials say 95 people have died from the flu this season, double the number from a week ago.
The latest figures were released Friday and point to the severity of the flu season, which typically peaks in February or March.
Sacramento County recorded 10 flu deaths, the most of any county.
An additional 51 deaths around the state are under investigation.
The state only counts flu-related deaths among people younger than 65. Last year, the state recorded 106 flu deaths.
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Every year about this time I get questions from people wondering about the high cost of weddings. Here are some that came up during a recent online discussion.
Q Can you explain why people plan on spending (the equivalent of) a down payment on a house or the cost of new car on a single big party when they still have student loans, and then want to buy a house? I find such thinking insane. If you took the word "wedding" out of the equation, you would get, "I want to invite 100-plus people for a big party at a posh location, and (usually) I want my parents to pay for it."
Singletary: I get it. Pressure, or people have been waiting for the big day where they are the center of attention, etc. I wouldn't spend on a lavish wedding if I had debt, but I understand how it happens. For my part, I just try my best to talk good financial sense into people.
My fiance and I are 25, and we are not in the financial position to pay for a wedding. Our families do not support us getting married for myriad reasons, one being we're 25 and "haven't lived." What would you suggest we do?
Despite the family's objections to the marriage, the reader also implied that there was pressure to "go into debt for a wedding to satisfy the desires of our family/friends."
If you have done all the right things to make sure you are ready for marriage, then have the wedding you can afford. People will want you to do a lot of things — but they aren't going to help you pay for it — out of tradition or their desire to be sure relatives or friends aren't left out of the celebration.
You can get married without the big bill. The bottom line, don't go into debt to satisfy anyone.
I am getting married! I'm so excited, and we are thrilled to be able to spend our lives together. Neither of us comes from a lot of money, and we are working hard to pay things off and get our financial house in order before we wed. Recently, my father passed away and left "a few dollars" for me and my sister. Well, I'd like to have my wedding in a place that may be a bit costly, and I'd like to tap into a bit of what was left for me to do it. I think if my dad were here, he'd move heaven and earth to make this happen for me, but after going through Prosperity Partners, I just know there are better ways to spend money than on one day of a wedding celebration. I am paying a mortgage and have student loans, and my fiance has plenty of debt. So, what say you?
Prosperity Partners is the financial ministry I direct at my church.
Look. I do understand. Wedding. Family. Friends. Your big day. You've finally got a good "boo" (for you non-Baltimoreans, that's a honey, snooky, etc.). You want to celebrate.
But you have DEBT. Yup, in all-caps not because I'm yelling but to really accentuate your financial situation. Unless you have no debt, you can't afford to spend much on a wedding. I'm talking have the reception at your mama's house with red Kool-Aid, hot wings and grocery-store wedding cake. And certainly rule out a wedding at a bit more costly place.
If you were my daughter, I would move heaven and earth to help you become debt-free. Use the money your dad left to start your married life off as free of that burden as possible. Most of what you spend is on the reception, which is just a party, and a one-day party at that. Debt can live on for many days and decades.
Maybe someday you should ask all of us who had nice but inexpensive weddings how it went. Take my case. I have been married for more than 30 years. We were married in the garden of my mother's home. Our plain gold rings came from W. Bell, a now defunct catalogue store. I think we paid $50 total. Our wedding cake came from Woodward & Lothrop. It was on sale and cost about $100. We had champagne from the corner liquor store and a few little "finger" sandwiches. That was it! Oh, and my dress was an antique, found in my grandmother's attic. I think it was from a distant relative's confirmation. Flowers were from my mother's garden. We had about 75 people. It was really nice, and everyone had a great time.
I hear you. I had a frugal wedding. I also purchased a second-hand dress. (I figured the bride who wore it before me wasn't going to be at my wedding.) But I still understand that people want their big day. I don't begrudge them that if they have the money to pay for it — but not at the expense of getting out of debt.
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The Israel critic and Holocaust heir on the "Gaza massacre," the Goldstone Report, the public turn against Israeli policy, and the difference between "of" and "in."
The career of radical political scholar Norman Finkelstein might be described as a sort of heroic painting-into-a-corner. The son of Holocaust survivors, his life's work has been dedicated to exposing the hypocrisy, ideology, and violence that sustains the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The dimensions of his emphatic anti-Zionism, expounded over the course of six meticulously researched and often polemical books on Israel, Palestine, and the legacy of the Holocaust, have made him a pariah in the mainstream and a hero amongst supporters of Palestinian liberation.
The high controversy around Finkelstein's politics has penetrated university walls on more than one occasion, making his academic career fraught with defensive, uphill battles. I first met Finkelstein in 2007, in the eye of a storm of controversy surrounding his academic status at DePaul University. Despite his prolific and highly influential body of critical scholarship—and after first having been approved for tenure at DePaul by both department and faculty committees—Finkelstein's tenure had ultimately been denied—minority dissenters had campaigned successfully against his appointment. Flanked by a supporting cast of speakers including Tariq Ali, Tony Judt, and Noam Chomsky (via satellite), Finkelstein stood before some one thousand six hundred people in the University of Chicago's packed Rockefeller Chapel to make the case for academic freedom. Contrary to his reputedly prickly demeanor, he appeared extraordinarily collected and calm, his heavy brow furrowing only slightly over sharp, dark eyes as he prepared to publicly address the charges against him. (The university's final word on the matter was that Dr. Finkelstein's reputation for outspoken criticism of Israel and of Israeli apologists like Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz made Finkelstein unfit for tenure at DePaul, a school of "Vincentian values.")
It was the culmination of a long struggle to advance his radical political critique of Israel and of the American Israeli lobby from within the academy. Now an independent scholar, Dr. Finkelstein remains a leading voice of dissent against the pro-Israel policies that underwrite an apartheid regime enforced by egregious war crimes and human rights violations. In This Time We Went Too Far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion, his first book since departing from DePaul—he argues that Israel's November, 2008 invasion of Gaza, which decisively ended a fragile ceasefire brokered by Egypt that June, marked the beginning of an unprecedented decline in public support for Israel. The book's epilogue is devoted to the Goldstone Report, a document authored by renowned South African jurist Richard Goldstone that describes the damning conclusions of a U.N.-commissioned investigation into the Gaza invasion, including charges of war crimes against Israel.
In the wake of the bloody attack on the Mavi Marmara aid flotilla, Finkelstein's argument has been affirmed as Israel wages a round of diplomatic gestures in response to an unprecedented international outcry. I spoke to Dr. Finkelstein by phone about the implications of diminished international support for Israel, the damning conclusions of the Goldstone Report on the 2008 invasion of Gaza, and what the turning tide of public opinion means for a peace process that has, historically, looked more like a state of war.
—Kate Perkins for Guernica
Guernica: This Time We Went Too Far looks at Israel through the lens of international public opinion—specifically, a severely damaged public perception of, and support for, Israeli policy after its invasion of Gaza beginning in November of 2008. How substantial is that change in public perception, and to what extent does it give critics of Israel a new kind of traction with respect to influencing policy?
Norman Finkelstein: There's no question that public opinion is changing, and if you're a person of the left, your goal is presumably to try to mobilize public opinion to affect elite policy; and I think now there are unusual, unprecedented opportunities to do so. Whether anything will come of it, well, that's the challenge. It's not enough for public opinion to shift; it then requires marshalling that public opinion, harnessing it, for it to have a political impact.
There are many issues, as everyone knows, in the United States on which public opinion leans very much to the left of elite policy, but that's because public opinion hasn't been turned into a political force. Having said that, it's nonetheless a significant part of the battle to get public opinion on your side, before you try to harness it, and that part of the battle, it seems to me, we're closer to winning now. Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community.
If you are, as I am quite frequently, speaking at college campuses in the United States, it's quite clear that support among Jews for Israel has dried up.
Guernica: How do you interpret this shift in public opinion, and what in particular do you see as being its most revealing indicators? Is it that the basis for dissent has morphed in some unprecedented way, or is there a kind of quantitative momentum to it that could be attributed to new critics, former supporters of Israeli policy becoming increasingly unwilling to defend its actions?
Norman Finkelstein: There's no question—and all the poll data bear it out—that there's a significant disaffection, or what's called in the literature on the subject a "distancing" of American Jews from Israel. In particular, the younger generation, the under-thirty generation. If you are, as I am quite frequently, speaking at college campuses in the United States, it's quite clear that support among Jews for Israel has dried up. You'll find there is a handful of people that you might call the Hillel faithful, who will still have some public events in support of Israel, but barely anybody shows up for them, and when critics of Israeli policy speak, the "Hillel faithful" no longer really show up to protest, to demonstrate, to shout down, to hand out leaflets, because they realize how isolated they are.
Now, beyond the under-thirty generation, there are other significant indicators. Probably the most widely discussed recently was the defection of Peter Beinart, who was until recently Editor of The New Republic, which is a fanatically pro-Israel publication. Beinart wrote an article for The New York Review of Books saying how support for Israel is drying up among American Jews. The article received an absolutely huge amount of attention within the Jewish community precisely because Beinart is an orthodox Jew, not to mention that he used to be a senior editor at TNR. So this is what you would call a defection, and an influential one, at the hard core of support for Israel.
There are many other everyday indications, though, of American public opinion changing toward Israel. American Jews are overwhelmingly liberal. By "liberal," I mean, basically, support for the rule of law, support for human rights, support for peace; and on all those counts—rule of law, human rights, peace—Israel's record has become indefensible. Israel has become a lawless country with demonstrated contempt for human rights and, probably, at least in terms of visibility, the most warmongering country on earth today. So, for American Jews, who are overwhelmingly liberal—80 percent voted for Barack Obama, by far the highest percentage of any ethnic group apart from African Americans. And when you factor in income, it's quite astonishing what percentage voted for Obama as compared to, say, Latinos, of whom about 63 percent voted for Obama and within which demographic income is much lower. And that's because American Jews are, by and large, liberal; and it's become impossible to reconcile Israeli policy with liberal values.
Nearly the whole of Israeli society managed to convince itself that the Israeli commandos were victims of a premeditated lynching on the Mavi Marmara.
Guernica: And the turn away from Israel that you're describing, the "distancing" that marks the shift in public opinion, is something you and others have cited as comparable to that of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre in South Africa. By the end of apartheid there, though, it was clear that the domestic resistance movement—organized dissent within South Africa—was as important to ending the apartheid regime as the international pressure, insofar as the domestic resistance was able to effectively harness the momentum the anti-apartheid movement gained from international boycotts. I wonder what you would say about the state of dissent within Israel, and whether you read it as having undergone, or as being near to experiencing, a shift parallel to that of international public opinion since the 2008-2009 invasion of Gaza?
Norman Finkelstein: Well, of course, South Africa wasn't freed of Apartheid until 1994, so I'm not implying that we're at the endgame by any stretch of the imagination. On the other hand, the attitudes of the Israeli elites are pretty close to those of the South African whites during the years of international boycotts—this hunkering down, this belief that they're the victims, the whole world is against them, that there's a double standard, that they're the victims of propaganda and conspiracy, and basically a complete contempt for international opinion. That's basically where Israel is right now.
Judging from what I read in translation (a lot is now available in translation), the state of Israeli dissent is not a pretty picture. Nearly the whole of Israeli society managed to convince itself that the Israeli commandos were victims of a premeditated lynching on the Mavi Marmara. Israel launched a violent commando raid in the dead of night against a humanitarian convoy in international waters and executed nine of the passengers. It takes a peculiar talent in these circumstances to turn yourself into the victim.
As Israel becomes like South Africa, it's increasingly becoming a pariah state, being excluded from culture at large. The other day, an Israeli friend wrote to me, "Can you believe it? They excluded us from a gay pride parade in Spain! We can only march as individuals!" She was so incensed at the absurdity of this. And I just felt like reminding her that for the past three years, Israel won't admit toys into Gaza. But there is this anger as the momentum gathers, as Israel is being slowly but surely excluded here and there. My friend's way of expressing this was, "The world's noose is tightening around us." But, no—Israel is tightening the noose around itself.
We have to be careful though not to reduce everything to [divestment]. It may acquire more significance, but I think the major fronts right now are international law and nonviolent civil resistance.
Guernica: It does seem to be an increasingly unavoidable dynamic between Israel and the rest of the world. For example, there's the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, an international effort to force Israel to change its policies, which has expanded significantly since it emerged in 2005, not just in membership, but in its cultural dimensions—sports, the academy, consumerism, as well as its political-economic aspects. You don't give much attention to BDS in This Time We Went Too Far, though, and I'm wondering what your view of that movement is. What, in your view, are the most significant indicators that the so-called Gaza War had an unprecedented and directly negative effect on the international perception of Israeli policy?
Norman Finkelstein: I think there are several strands of popular resistance and popular mobilization occurring. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is one. I don't see it as being the main one, currently, except at some moments and some junctures it has the most salience; for example, if some popular or prominent musician decides not to perform in Israel on behalf of the BDS cause, but it's just one of several strands of resistance.
A second, major strand is the mobilization of international law to force Israel to conform to what Israel's apologists now call a "lawfare," which in their minds is the same as warfare, but instead of military weapons, it involves the use of the law as a weapon. This was most prominently expressed during the mobilization of the Goldstone Report. There have been many examples of it, mostly taking the form of the international community exercising what's called universal jurisdiction, where, when Israeli officials want to visit this or that country, they're threatened with being held there for past violations of international law. So there's serious concern among Israelis that their generals and their officials are not free to travel even in places like the UK, because they may be served with papers for having committed war crimes.
A third strand of demonstrated dissent consists in the various forms of nonviolent resistance that have emerged, as demonstrated in the villages that are being destroyed by the wall that Israel is building. Now there are popular mobilizations that are occurring along the fence and so-called "buffer zone" that Israel has created in Gaza. Then there is, of course, the form of nonviolent resistance carried out on the aid flotillas, and in particular there has of course been an enormous international reaction to the recent attack by Israeli soldiers on the Mavi Marmara.
We have to be careful though, I think, not to reduce everything to BDS; it's one of several strands, but probably the least significant, in my opinion. It may acquire more significance, but I think the major fronts right now are the international law and the nonviolent civil resistance.
Guernica: I want to return to the Goldstone Report, which you mentioned just now with respect to the impact of international law on Israeli policy. That report, of course, detailed the results of the UN fact-finding mission led by international jurist Richard Goldstone; it was an investigation into Israel's conduct in, and basis for, the 2008 Gaza offensive that officially ended the ceasefire agreement brokered in Cairo in June of that year. You dedicate the epilogue of This Time We Went Too Far to the Goldstone Report, and you seem to interpret the effect of its public disclosure as amounting to something like a decisive lifting of the rock on the gruesome conduct of the Israeli military. Even so, Tariq Ali published an article in the New Left Review describing the Goldstone Report, essentially, as a whitewash, since it tones down the far more damning Palestinian eyewitness accounts detailed in the appendices of the findings. How would you respond to that argument?
Norman Finkelstein: Yes, I read that article. Of course, Tariq's a friend of mine—he's a terrific guy! But, look—for those who bothered to read it—the Report was really incredibly damning. It did limit itself in what it undertook to examine. It did not examine the legality of Israel's attack on Gaza. There's a distinction in international law between what's called the justice of a war, and the justice in a war. The justice of a war basically refers to the question whether there is a right to attack in the first place. Justice in a war is concerned with whether the fighting happens in accordance with the international laws of war. In Goldstone's report, he did not discuss the question of whether Israel's attack was legitimate. He discussed the question of how Israel fought the war. I think his conclusions were pretty much as damning as they could get. He says that Israel launched a deliberately disproportionate attack "designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population." I don't know how much further he could go; he's very clear in stating that all the evidence points to one conclusion—that Israel's attack was designed, premeditated, orchestrated by the highest levels of Israeli society, that the senior-most officials of the Israeli military were involved in state terrorism, designed to terrorize the civilian population. That's a pretty tough assessment.
Israelis themselves have said it wasn't a war. People allow themselves to slip into this language, and it's not even used by Israelis.
Guernica: State terrorism—and yet the Israeli invasion Goldstone investigated is still commonly referred to as the Gaza War.
Norman Finkelstein: Right—it wasn't a war. Israelis themselves have said it wasn't a war. People allow themselves to slip into this language, and it's not even used by Israelis. As one Israeli I quote in the book said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles…no military enemy in the field." One Israeli soldier after another testified that they never saw an enemy in the field. And yet soldier after soldier kept using the same words, testifying that Israeli forces "used insane amounts of firepower." How do you describe a situation where the attacker is using "insane amounts of firepower," but there's no military enemy? That's not a war. That's a massacre.
Guernica: Right, but describing it that way—as a massacre—would seem to address the justice of a war, rather than what you're saying the Goldstone Report confined itself to detailing, that is, the justice in a war.
Norman Finkelstein: That's debatable, but the upshot of the Report is an explicitly damning assessment that has had an unprecedented effect on public support for Israeli policy.
Guernica: To what extent, in your view, has the Obama administration's comportment toward Israel since the Goldstone Report and, in particular, since the attack on the Mavi Marmara, reflected the American public's diminished support for Israel?
Norman Finkelstein: Well, I think it's too soon to expect a substantial change in elite opinion. Public support has to be mobilized effectively to change policy. You could say that there's been some progress, at the lowest or ground level, public opinion. But pressure then has to be exerted on Congress; and then there's the highest level, where policy is actually made, the executive branch. It's very tough; and there's no reason to be pessimistic, but without a distinct and visible mobilization of public opinion, there's no reason to be excessively optimistic.
There have been some—I don't want to call them 'shifts,' but there has been some movement in the Obama administration, mostly because they are concerned about losing Turkey. A new configuration of power is emergent in the Middle East—how substantial it is, and whether it will be able to withstand U.S. pressure, I can't say—but clearly a new configuration of power is beginning to emerge along the axis of Iran-Turkey-Syria and, you might argue, Lebanon—versus the grouping of the regime leftover from the British Mandate period, which has been taken over by the U.S. and includes Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and possibly Iraq, although it's not yet clear where Iraq fits into the picture. The U.S. is definitely concerned about this configuration of power, which is reminiscent of what in the nineteen sixties was called the 'radical Arab regimes,' back then headed by Nasser in Egypt, and Syria. Nowadays these regimes are less about the rhetoric, but they have substantial economies, and they're well entrenched.
After the flotilla attack, some of the most influential, elite policy analysts, including Anthony Cordesman, who was a complete apologist for Israel after the Gaza massacre, came out swinging. Cordesman said that Israel has to bear in mind that it's becoming a serious liability for the United States. For someone of that influence, that's a significant shift; he's saying that Israel is causing us trouble, and of course, he had Turkey in mind. So to that end, I think that at the elite level, we'll begin to see some movement at the level of diplomacy and power-balancing. But what that indicates is that right now the U.S. isn't reacting directly to popular pressure; it's reacting directly to state pressure.
Then again, state pressure itself is a consequence of popular outrage. Erdogan's very strong reaction to the flotilla bloodbath was itself the result of an accumulation of popular outrage. He spoke out very strongly against the Gaza invasion in an exchange with Shimon Peres—I think it was at Davos in 2009, during the Gaza massacre—that reflected the influence of the Turkish population's overwhelming disapproval with Israel's behavior in Gaza and elsewhere. So it's not so easy to isolate these things as exclusively a state-to-state dynamic.
Guernica: What about Israel's official state response to the Goldstone Report?
Norman Finkelstein: Israel hasn't issued any formal response, because officially, it doesn't recognize the Goldstone Report. It has issued some very substantial reports—by now, you could say it's issued three—two very large reports, and one smaller report, on what actually happened and also on their progress in investigating war crimes allegations. The bottom line is that none of these reports have satisfactorily responded to the claims of the Goldstone Report, and none of these reports are very convincing. For example, with regard to Israel's targeting of hospitals, Israel claimed that there were Hamas militants seeking refuge in the hospitals. But over and over again, international human rights investigations have shown that there is no evidence for that claim. Furthermore, these international human rights investigations have consistently found that the violent attacks on civilian infrastructures were carried out after Israeli forces had secured and controlled the area. These findings conclude that none of this damage was being inflicted by what in international law is called military necessity. As Human Rights Watch (HRW) points out in its last report, called "I Lost Everything," HRW obtained satellite imagery both of what the area looked like before Israel took over and of what it looked like after. The preponderance of destruction occurred after they took over the area. And the case of the civilian deaths—almost all civilian deaths occurred where there was no military fighting going on, according to reports issued by both HRW and Amnesty International. The vast majority of civilian deaths occurred in places and situations where there was no fighting. Israel's claims, in defense, that Hamas used civilians as human shields, have across the board been shown to be baseless by all the reports on human rights groups' findings. There's no evidence that Hamas engaged in human shielding during the Gaza massacre whatsoever.
As far as the justice of the invasion, which the Goldstone Report doesn't address: during the period of the ceasefire, around October of 2008, there was one reported rocket attack on Israel. Remember, we're not talking about roman candles and firecrackers. These are not military "rockets" and mortar; they're the most primitive sorts of weapons. Those were not Hamas, but rather what Israel called "rogue terrorist organizations." There's no question that Hamas was, as the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs put it, "careful to maintain the ceasefire."
The ceasefire lasted until November 4, 2008, despite the fact that Israel had explicitly violated its terms of the ceasefire: Israel was supposed to gradually lift the blockade of Gaza in return for Hamas ceasing rocket and mortar attacks on Israel. Well, Hamas ceased its rocket and mortar attacks, but Israel didn't lift the siege of Gaza. Then, on November 4th, while everyone in the U.S. was watching the presidential election unfold, Israel went in and attacked Gaza, killing six Palestinian militants and knowing full well that it would provoke rocket attacks, giving them a pretext to launch the invasion.
Guernica: The pretext being a typical basis for the kind of disproportionate violence Israel has exerted in the name of self-defense. The same rhetoric about security and self-defense has been trotted out by Israel after the attack on the aid flotilla, and provoked significant admonishments even from international apologists for the Gaza invasion, like Cordesman, as you mentioned earlier. Do you see, or expect to see, Israel changing its rhetoric in response to the increasing condemnations it's facing?
Norman Finkelstein: I think Israel is going to try to prove that it has met all the demands of the international community, and that there's no reason any longer for there to be any hostility directed toward Israel. They're going to claim that they lifted the blockade, even though they won't have done that. But in fact there are significant limitations to the lifting of the blockade; most crucially, Israel is still blocking any exports from Gaza, which means that the economy can't resume there. If as a result of the crippled economy there has to be an increase in aid flotillas, what we can expect to see from Israel is another propaganda war—Israel is going to claim that these flotillas are unnecessary, just as they claimed before the attack on the Mavi Marmara that anyone who wanted to could just deliver any goods and that Israel would transport them to Gaza. Well, that was a complete lie. But they'll continue to use arguments like that, and the propaganda war will be a new, or rather renewed, realm in the battle between popular resistance and the Israeli government.
For a time, though, things had been looking quite promising: it was popular resistance that was leading, and state actors who were lagging behind. State action was being set by popular resistance, namely the flotillas, and not by states. The so-called Quartet—Blair, et al—they were reacting to the initiatives of popular resistance. Now, they'll try to recuperate and lead again, and it'll depend on us to escalate the pressure, such that we remain a step ahead of policy elites, such that we're leading and we're determining, the next move.
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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - A Yonkers man is facing up to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to a violent felony following a fatal midday stabbing last year.
On Thursday, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino announced that 37-year-old Joseph Graham has pleaded guilty to individual counts of first-degree manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon for fatally stabbing his 49-year-old victim last year.
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The effects of climate legislation, and the potential for unintended consequences, were keyed on by members of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research during a Dec. 3 hearing.
Among the topics when Louisiana Rep. Bill Cassidy had his turn to ask questions: how rice would fare and the potential for increased U.S. food imports.
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Rep. Cassidy: "Is there any estimate of how many (carbon) credits will be purchased internationally versus domestically?"
Joseph Kile, the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) assistant director for microeconomic studies, replied, "In CBO's analysis … it varies over time between roughly 30 and 50 percent of offset allowances."
Cassidy: "Thirty to 50 percent internationally?"
Kile: "Domestic. So 50 to 70 percent would come from international sources."
Cassidy: "I've also gathered from this testimony there will be a net increase in the amount of food we'll import. That's implied because of decreased (cropland) acreage … increased costs and an expanded population. Is that a fair statement?"
Joseph Glauber, USDA chief economist: "Imports don't increase under this. What do decrease are exports. Any sort of exportable surplus falls considerably. That's the flip-side."
Cassidy: "Is there any estimate of the net decrease in U.S. wealth that will be created by this? We'll be buying 50 to 70 percent of our credits overseas, exporting less, (and) perhaps importing more. … This will be like OPEC with credit and food."
Kile: "That's not something we've looked at directly. But it's important to remember offsets are designed as a cost-control mechanism in a climate bill. It's the cost of the climate action versus the benefits one might (gain) from that."
Cassidy: "But intuitively, if we're spending a lot of money overseas to buy credits and we're exporting less and we have increased acreage under production, there will be a net decrease in U.S. wealth."
Kile: "The policy itself would impose costs on the United States. That's correct."
Cassidy: "Do we have any estimate of how many jobs it will cost the agricultural sector because of (the legislation)? In the case of rice, according to your testimony, Mr. Glauber, by 2050 there will be a 25 percent decrease in the amount of production and a corresponding decrease in acreage. How many jobs will be lost from this?"
Glauber: "I don't have job estimates."
Cassidy: "Intuitively, you know there will be some, correct?"
Glauber: "It depends on how the activity flows. There is more money in the sector itself. With an income increase you get jobs, as well. But trying to sort out what shifts in acreage and production would entail, we haven't done that."
Cassidy: "I'm also concerned because there seems to be an aggregation of the benefits of offsets versus an aggregation of the cost of compliance.
"If you look at Louisiana particularly, which I represent — and this bill, frankly, seems to (draw) a huge bull's-eye on my state — in your (earlier) testimony, Mr. Glauber, it looks like rice has the (highest) increase in input costs because it's the most energy-intensive, the most carbon-intensive.
"Yet, in your testimony today, you speak on how there will be a 25 percent decrease in rice production. It seems most of the benefit of the offsets go the corn-growing states and relatively little goes to rice-producing states. It seems we have an incredibly tilted table against rice farmers and folks in the Mississippi Delta region."
Glauber: "The only thing I'd caution with drawing too many conclusions from that is the fact that, going back to the model used, it's a very elaborate model that includes a lot of various greenhouse gas practices.
"But there are others and a number could potentially affect rice cultivation. Things like mid-season drainage, shallow flooding … upland cultivation and improved irrigation water management. There's a lot of research out there that suggest there are greenhouse gas emission reductions connected with these practices."
Cassidy: "Presumably that has been included in these complex models, at least to some extent. It appears that if you're a rice-growing state — in the Mississippi Delta region, for example — this is a bull's-eye on economic development."
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For this year-ending episode, I'm playing favorites--tracks from some of the discs I've quite enjoyed over the past year. Mind you, I reviewed about 125 discs in 2011, so culling it down to a dozen or so favorites wasn't easy. Some tracks come from Highly Recommended CDs, some don't. Sit back and enjoy.
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Jason Sloan, "as.Fragile.as," (s)END
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant yawned when he leaned back on the Los Angeles Lakers' bench to watch his teammates running through their final practice of the season.
That cool outer demeanor revealed none of the urgency running through Bryant's head. He knows the singular stakes when the Lakers host the Boston Celtics in Game 7 of the NBA finals Thursday night, and he isn't afraid to raise them even higher.
"I've said the whole season, (if) you don't win a championship, it's a failure," said Bryant, who hopes to have his hand full with a fifth championship ring. "It's as simple as that."
Nine months of preparation and eight weeks of postseason play for the NBA's two most decorated franchises will culminate in one pressure-packed game at Staples Center. Such showdowns once occurred regularly in the finals, including four previous trips to Game 7 for these teams, but this is the finals' first Game 7 since 2005 and just the third in 22 years.
It's a dream scenario for kids playing hoops in their driveway. It's a crucible of history both for Bryant's Lakers and the Celtics' veteran core. It's also simply an incredibly cool experience, according to the players who are mentally able to savor it.
"I just love the pressure," said Paul Pierce, who leads the Celtics with 18 points per game. "I love the fact that I get to play against the Los Angeles Lakers in a Game 7 on the road. I love the fact that if I don't win multiple championships that I probably won't be mentioned amongst the other guys in Celtic history that have done it before. That type of stuff motivates me. That's what the challenge is for me, every time I put on this Celtic uniform."
The rivalry's history intermingles with the drama in Game 7. The defending champion Lakers are going for their 16th banner, while Boston is playing for its unprecedented 18th title in the NBA's two most successful franchises' second finals meeting in three years.
Exactly two years to the day after the Celtics ended the 2008 finals with perhaps the most frustrating loss of Bryant's career, he has the ultimate chance to make things right.
"(When) I look back, years from now, or even when I was a kid, (if) you'd talk about being in this situation, I'd be really excited," said Bryant, the series' leading scorer with 29.5 points per game. "But when I'm in the moment right now, I've got to play. I've got to focus on that. I can't focus on the hype about it."
Although Boston has the rivalry's Game 7 history on its side, the Celtics also have plenty stacked against them after an embarrassing 89-67 loss in Game 6 Tuesday night.
Boston won't have starting center Kendrick Perkins, who sprained multiple ligaments in his right knee in the first quarter. The Celtics' starting five has never lost a playoff series, but that five must change for Game 7.
Although Perkins is a role player next to Boston's Big Three and point guard Rajon Rondo, the Celtics must hope veteran Rasheed Wallace and youngster Glen Davis can make up for Perkins' inside defense and rebounding.
No visiting team has won an NBA championship in Game 7 since the Washington Bullets did it in 1978, yet the Celtics are a whole lot more worried about the Lakers than the Hollywood crowd.
"It's all-out," Boston's Kevin Garnett said. "It's for the marbles, it's for everything, all-out. You save nothing. You leave nothing."
It's too soon to say where these finals will fit in the rivalry's annals. Although the games had been uniformly competitive before the Lakers' blowout win in Game 6, they haven't been spectacularly played, with gritty defense trumping offense in most of the major moments.
Ray Allen's historic 3-point shooting barrage in Game 2, the Celtics' gritty victories in games 4 and 5, the Lakers' blowout win in Game 6 — all will be dwarfed by what happens in the deciding game.
"I guess it's going to be another decade that people look back and see the formation of this rivalry again," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. "The '90s was missed, and the '70s was missed, but the '60s and the '80s were big decades. It seems to skip a decade, doesn't it?"
The Celtics have more experience in seventh games than the Lakers over the past three years, playing in two deciding games in 2008 and two more last year. Boston coach Doc Rivers thinks his club's big-game toughness mostly grew from those high stakes.
"It's the ultimate players' game," said Rivers, a New York guard when the Knicks lost Game 7 of the 1994 finals in Houston. "Unfortunately, I've coached in a lot of them over the last few years — or fortunately. All the things you've worked on all year, you have to do it, and execute it, and trust and play."
Los Angeles is in just its second Game 7 of the past three seasons, but that's because the Lakers have been better at avoiding trouble while winning 10 playoff series since Pau Gasol joined them in 2008. When faced with elimination Tuesday for the first time in these playoffs, the Lakers responded with determination at least partially born from fear, according to Gasol.
"I think about how bad and how much it would hurt if we don't come out as winners," Gasol said. "I keep that thought in my mind sometimes, just to understand that I have to do everything possible out there to help my team in any way I can. You want to leave everything you have out there, and compete as hard as you've ever competed."
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The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
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BRAINERD, MN -- Augustana is tied for sixth place and the University of Sioux Falls is 10th following the fall portion of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference men's golf tournament.
The Vikings are tied with Bemidji State and Minot State at 67-over-par 643. The Cougars are 87-over with a two round total of 663 at The Classic at Madden's Resort in Brainerd, Minn. St. Cloud State has the team lead with a score of 599.
Individually, Clay Kopplin of Augustana is in a three-way tie for 11th at 156. Derek Dillon has a two-round total of 162 to lead USF.
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Ode to Leg Hair
I haven't shaved my legs
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no more rusty razors
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no prickly legs
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National Geographic and the Cincinnati Zoo teamed up to make this video of a cheetah running in super-slow motion.
They used a camera filming at 1200 frames per second to capture what cheetahs look like while they're running at speeds close to 60 miles per hour.
After a little bit you should skip to the five-minute mark when they film the cheetah from the front. It's amazing. His head barely moves.
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Stage 16 could be the key to the 2006 Tour. The crucial linchpin stage begins by immediately ascending the immense Galibier, then descends over 60km to attack the Beyond Category Col de la Croix-de-Fer, then the transition climb of Col du Mollard, and then down to St.Jean-de-Maurienne to the final ascent of the new climb up to the ski station of La Toussuire. It's not a steep grade at 6% but it is 18.4km long, which could lead to big gaps at the finish. It will be time for riders like Valverde to make up some time before the final TT.
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This forum has been alive for so long, it should stay, however high the waves are coming in.
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I have been pondering about a revival. I think this place has a good record regarding free speech and some degree of protection of individuals because webnames are allowed and encouraged. I have been procrastinating because I am not ready to discuss in an open forum what fills my mind. (It's nothing juicy or embarrassing or illegal or immoral - it's just about complexity. If I wish to discuss it, I will need to explain - and then I will lose concentration. At my age - etcetera).
It would be nice if those who visit ebmb leave a mark. Some friends have left the world of the living. Some have just left, and I fear that some, maybe all, also have left the world of the living. Some have had long absences and have their minds full of private matters that do not belong here.
Anyway - those who wish to contact me outside of the board may email me. If this is too open, they can use a whois function to find me and send me a snailmail letter.
Age has come. We are taking books and clothes for flea markets, remove lots of stuff that "might be useful some day in future" to ease the burden for the children when they have to clear the house after us. Both the Wife and I have seen enough of cases where people did not prepare the house for the final departure of the owners. Nasty sights.
But there is still a future. Today I installed a DAB+ adapter in the car. FM is going to be history in Norway in a few weeks.
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how's it going ?
|Re: Anyone alive? (27/11/17 13:24:17)
while still feeling amused trying to find a correct answer to the question... Are you not a spammer?
'cos maybe I am!
|Re: Anyone alive? (28/11/17 08:24:51)
To keep warm in future winters we will change windows, reconstruct some walls with thicker layers of mineral wool, and install an air-to-air heat exchanger for use in moderately cold days. And finally - perhaps we will even install photovoltaic panels on the roof. Locally produced and consumed non-emission electric energy sounds tempting. A question of money, of course. But photovoltaics are competitive already when compared to diesel generators. So it is a question of payback time and affordable loans.
For old people it is less dangerous than buying a motorcycle.
|Re: Anyone alive? (30/11/17 00:19:55)
work and play continue, family life is lovely
was listening to SVD's Bulgarian tunes the other day, still loving linden flower tea, despite an unfortunate modernizing of their packaging.
the dinosoars are eating sunflower seeds by the bushel, there's snow already
I'll have some short films again soon
here's a quick snapshot
do hope everyone is well, life goes on
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May you all be free from danger, happy, healthy and live with ease ;-)
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Maptitude 6.0's unlimited geocoding and more for one-stop geospatial shoppersMonday, November 14th, 2011
Most organizations are not necessarily geospatially adept, yet they understand the need for some geographic information to either make their businesses run better or to add interactive web mapping to their web sites. In city and county agencies, there is also the need for tools for creating and analyzing redistricting data for districts, and for elections and precincts, there is the necessity to manage the vast amount of data that is collected and aggregated during elections.
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"The Heat" has all the elements you'd expect from a buddy cop movie — the oil-and-water partnership, the car chases, the wisecracks — and a few you wouldn't — for instance, a scene involving Spanx.
"The Heat" has all the elements you'd expect from a buddy cop movie — the oil-and-water partnership, the car chases, the wisecracks — and a few you wouldn't — for instance, a scene involving Spanx.
Faithfully conforming to the macho genre made famous by movies such as "Bad Boys" and "Lethal Weapon," "The Heat" is also — curiously — summer's only studio film built around female leads: Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy.
"If someone asks what you wanna do and you don't really wanna work, you pick the most farfetched thing," Bullock said. "This was it, a pairing where everyone was equal and you had these storylines that weren't girly. ... It had depth and humor and balls and action. It was just something I saw the boys getting to do."
Directed by Paul Feig ("Bridesmaids") from a script by "Parks and Recreation" writer Katie Dippold, "The Heat" pairs Bullock as Sarah Ashburn, an uptight FBI agent in ill-fitting suits, with McCarthy as Shannon Mullins, a brusque Boston cop who dresses like a 1980s lady rapper. Instead of romantic pining, the story's emotional undercurrent comes from the loneliness of women who are very good at their jobs.
"It wasn't a movie written for two guys," Feig said. "It was funny in a way women are funny and touched on themes of female friendship, professional women in the workplace who have chosen career over family and kids."
On-screen, Bullock and McCarthy play goofy but capable everywomen, and in a joint interview, they slipped easily into their public personae, sharing photos of their young children, bickering about texts — "You don't answer, that's just a fact," Bullock said. "I'm better at texting than anything else I do," McCarthy responded — and assessing how much teasing a reporter could withstand. "I bet we could push you pretty far," Bullock said, with a twinkle.
Were it not for the presence of enough publicists behind the hotel room door to launch a presidential campaign, it would be easy to forget that these are two of the most powerful women in Hollywood, with the ability to get movies greenlighted and to approve their directors and costars. Once they attached themselves to "The Heat," the project went from script to shooting in a matter of weeks — an accelerated progression in a town where even favored scripts linger in development for years.
That both women are older than 40 — a demographic Hollywood typically ignores — and that McCarthy's body doesn't conform to Size 0 industry norms makes their shared success that much more unusual.
Bullock, 48, and McCarthy, 42, have both risen on that ineffable quality that creates movie stars and sometimes presidents — they seem like they'd be fun to get a beer with. Bullock, the Virginia-born daughter of a Pentagon contractor and an opera singer, came up in the '90s, propelled by a tomboyish charm in movies such as "Speed" and "Miss Congeniality" before winning an Oscar for playing the brassy Southern mother in 2009's "The Blind Side."
McCarthy, raised on a farm in Illinois, performed in the L.A.-based improv comedy group the Groundlings and has appeared on TV shows such as "Gilmore Girls" and her current program "Mike & Molly" but is a more recently minted star on the big screen. She emerged in a breakout role as a rambunctious and occasionally lewd member of a wedding party in 2011's "Bridesmaids" and solidified her status this year as a star who can open a movie by playing a crook who plagues Jason Bateman's character in the surprise hit "Identity Thief."
The actresses had never met until Bullock called McCarthy in her trailer on the "Identity Thief" set to see whether she was interested in playing Mullins. As in any screen pairing, chemistry would be critical — "The Heat" calls for their characters to evolve from elbow-flinging rivals to glass-clinking buddies in less than two hours.
"You have to instantly bond, instantly create a relationship in this weird world that we're in," Bullock said.
"She was game for anything," McCarthy said. "It was fun to poke and jab at her."
"We had a safe word," Bullock said: "Peaches."
In person, Bullock was the alpha female, McCarthy more reserved — in stark contrast to the naughty, all-id characters she often plays.
One thing both women share is a willingness to wield their bodies on-screen in unflattering ways: In "The Heat," Bullock is all angles — elbows and knees and pin-straight hair, and McCarthy is a lady linebacker, barreling after criminals in MC Hammer pants.
"It's those weird quirks to me that make someone who they are," McCarthy said. "A lot of times, especially for women, all of the tools are taken away. You have to look perfect, act perfect, you're perfectly poised, you're always appropriate. I don't know anyone who's like that, but also you've taken away all the tools to be funny or to be odd."
In one scene, Ashburn and Mullins drunkenly dance in a bar — Feig provided a choreographer, but the actresses dismissed the idea, fearing the dance would not be sufficiently awful.
"We have to be the butt of the joke," McCarthy said. "If you're outside commenting or winking ... no, you're the ass. You are the joke. You have to take the hit. The more you can take the hit, the funnier it is for people watching ... just out of sheer relief that, 'I'm not the one who ripped her pants.'"


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TLLC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 182 diseños de 48 diseñadores freelance.
Weegoamigo - http://www.tllc.com.au/weegoamigo/
Weegoamigo is growing brand of modern designer baby nursery products; we have our first range of blankets due for release in the next month and with many more products in the pipeline to carry the Weegoamigo brand name we are in need of some quality brand logo alternatives.
Those who are looking for modern, designer, upmarket, quirky, fun, unique products that have a point of difference in the competitive baby nursery market.
We are after some logo alternatives for our fashionable baby nursery products. Our attitude towards the brand is as described in our target audience.
To view current logos please visit our website; we are hoping to find a graphic logo and a word logo, we are looking for logos with punch and impact.
We currently have no clear and distinct direction in which we would like this logo to go, we have a few ideas but by no means limit yourself too these.
We are hoping your creative juices will take us on a journey that we may never have thought of; we will be monitoring the contest closely and will be able to provide plenty of quick feedback to help guide you and keep you on track as the contest progresses. Be aware that feedback maybe a little slower over the weekend (Australian time)
Some of our current thinking involves the use of non English text characters, international flavour, the incorporation of just the letter W or the whole word.
Some things to consider:
*Preferably the logos to be the 1 colour maximum of 2 (inc background), as we would like it to be workable in a variety of colours.
*It needs to transferable in to the following mediums, embroidery, print, and screen.
We are also guaranteeing two runner up prizes of $100 USD, we will arrange prize payment privately with the winning designers at the end of the contest.
Many thanks and we look to seeing all the great designs.
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My three year old, Myles, doesn't just request dumplings. After reading "Yum Yum Dim Sum", he now requests them by name.
He charms restaurant servers when he orders shumai and har gow off the dim sum carts at our local Chinese restaurants on weekend mornings.
When Myles requested meat and cheese shumai for dinner one night, it sounded weird – but who am I to stop someone with a weird
We made homemade shumai together using leftover rib meat and mac n' cheese. Then, I created a dessert course, cupcake shumai – of course!
This post has no specific recipe. If you want to make shumai, buy shumai wrappers or make your own (I used wonton wrappers) and then follow the great instructions on Just Bento. Fill the shumai with whatever sounds good to you! If you do choose to fill them with baked and frosted cupcakes, you'll see that the frosting melts into the cupcake during the steaming process and yields ultra-rich, moist cupcake shumai!
Indulge your kid's crazy ideas, but don't forget to have some of your own, too. Just because something never has cheese doesn't mean that it can't; it might even be better that way. Now's your chance to be the explorer who discovered it. Dream, dream, and dream some more. Work with what you have, what you know, and what you love to see what you can create and who you can inspire in all aspects of your life.