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The February 2011 Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Mallory from A Sofa in the Kitchen. She chose to challenge everyone to make Panna Cotta from a Giada De Laurentiis recipe and Nestle Florentine Cookies.
I found both the cookies and the panna cotta to be easy to make and involved ingredients I had on hand. Both items were well-liked by my roommates and were eaten almost instantly.


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Final countdown
Less than 24 hours remain until we depart for Southwest Asia! The washing machine has been running all morning, the cameras have been charging and soon all bags will be packed. It's not a very exciting Saturday in the sports world, and being rather starved for baseball, I dug through the DVR inbox until I found something interesting..Mark Buehrle's perfect game from last July is a good place to start.
I just checked the weather forecast for Kuwait and it is expected to be pleasant when we land Monday afternnoon, sunny and 75, dropping to 50 overnight. I have read that they can get quite a bit of rain and chilly temperatures during the winter, so it appears that we have lucked out; very little rain expected over the next 10 days in Kuwait and Iraq with mostly 60-70s during the day.
I couldn't be more excited to get on the plane tomorrow and start the trip. We have been planning this with Armed Forces Entertainment since October and it's hard to believe that the time is finally here! I started to get really amped up for the first time last night at the Mermaids Final Audition Show at Seminole Paradise. It was a great event hosted by the Seminole Hard Rock Casino and an excitable crowd cheered on their Mermaid hopefuls as the group of 50 finalists was narrowed down and the 2010 Marlins Mermaids were selected. After the team was announced, the four girls who are going with us signed their Mermaids contracts and we discussed the laundry list of details surrounding the trip. It was at that point that I realized only a few hours remained.
We have a very busy 9 days planned, so the rest of the day will consist of some final packing and taking in the Heat-Kings game tonight. After that, a good night of sleep and then we're off!
I will be updating the blog regularly as time allows so check back for new entries throughout the week and I will also arrange for a few "guest" bloggers on the trip. Also, visit Marlins.com for video and photo updates, as well as a Question of the Day where you ask the questions and we'll answer them from Southwest Asia.
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Florida Panthers' Erik Gudbranson expected to return
The past two seasons have brought plenty of strange injuries for Erik Gudbranson.
Last year he busted up his shoulder while wakeboarding, then reinjured it at the end of a lockout-shortened season.
This year, Gudbranson took a puck to the face and needed surgery to repair his orbital bone. Earlier this month, he collided with Brad Marchand and hurt his knee.
On Thursday, Gudbranson is expected to return to the Panthers lineup after missing the past nine games. Although the games don't mean much anymore, Gudbranson says he's bound and determined to finish up strong heading into the offseason — something his injured shoulder wouldn't allow him to do last year.
"It's no fun being away from the team,"' said Gudbranson, the third overall pick of the 2010 NHL draft who made his debut the following year.
"It's been a tough season, that's no secret. You don't want to take the easy way out. I want to be out there with my team, finish the season strong start building for next year. It starts now. The environment needs to change. We need to become winners. We can push ourselves to the limit these last nine games.'"
A restricted free agent this summer, Gudbranson doesn't appear to be going anywhere.
General manager Dale Tallon told Canada's Sportsnet earlier this month that Gudbranson was one of the blocks he plans to build around, even saying the 6-5 defenseman is "likely going to be the captain of our team someday."
The Panthers hold the rights to Gudbranson for the next four seasons once he concludes this third NHL season.
"That's why you pay your agents to take care of that,"' Gudbranson said. "I just want to get healthy, get back in the lineup and play good hockey. There is so much good young talent on this team. There is so much upside. We just need to grasp it and learn how to play hockey the right way."
Shoot-out win
Rookie Vincent Trocheck got his first taste of an NHL shootout on Tuesday, making a nice fake on Ottawa goalie Robin Lehner to help lead the Panthers to a 3-2 win.
Brandon Pirri scored on Florida's second attempt and Roberto Luongo made the save on Ottawa's third attempt to get the win.
For Trocheck — who tied the score at 2 late in the second — every win matters regardless of what the standings say.
"It feels great, we're sick of losing here," he said. "No one likes losing. We wanted those two points no matter what. That shows your professionalism when you can stick with it."
Said coach Peter Horachek: "Right from the start of the year with both of us in San Antonio, I gravitated to him right off the hop. I felt his competitiveness.
"I could feel how much he wanted to be in every situation. He has no fear of who he's playing against. He embraces it, wants the puck on his stick when it's most important."
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• Horachek was understanding of why an official blew the whistle during a scrum in front of the net during the first period Tuesday. That early whistle cost the Panthers a goal asSean Bergenheim
was able to jab at a loose puck and knock it in. Bergenheim would later score to put the Panthers on the board after they fell behind 2-0.
"It definitely was an early whistle," Horachek said. "But from the referee's standpoint, he loses sight, you can't blame him. You just hope it works out in your favor. Watching it on video, the [puck] was still sitting there. But the referee has to make that call."
• Florida sent centerJoey Crabb
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President Barack Obama said on Wednesday Israeli plans to construct more homes in East Jerusalem were not helpful for the Middle East peace process, but he said the issue had not led to a crisis with one of the United States' closest allies. "Israel's one of our closest allies, and we and the Israeli people have a special bond that's not going to go away," Obama said in an interview on Fox News. "But friends are going to disagree sometimes," Obama said.
Obama said that he had sent U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to the region at a moment when the United States was trying to restart talks between Israelis and the Palestinians. "I specifically sent Vice President Biden to Israel to send a message of support and reassurance about my belief that Israel's security is sacrosanct and that we have a host of shared interests," Obama said.
"There is a disagreement in terms of how we can move this peace process forward," the U.S. leader added. Israel's Interior Ministry gave approval for the 1,600 new homes hours after Biden spoke about Obama's commitment to Israel's security. "The actions that were taken by the interior minister in Israel weren't helpful to that process. Prime Minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu acknowledged as much and apologized for it," Obama said.
"What we need right now is both sides to recognize that it is in their interests to move this peace process forward," Obama said.


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A global digital "bill of rights" similar to the Magna Carta should be introduced to protect internet users, the creator of the world wide web urged ahead of its 25th anniversary.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee said the web should be accessible to all and the principles that have made it successful defended.
He said: "The web's billions of users are what have made it great. I hope that many of them will join me in celebrating this important milestone.
"I also hope this anniversary will spark a global conversation about our need to defend principles that have made the web successful, and to unlock the web's untapped potential.
"I believe we can build a web that truly is for everyone: one that is accessible to all, from any device, and one that empowers all of us to achieve our dignity, rights and potential as humans," he added.
Sir Tim told the BBC the issue of protection for web users could be compared to the importance of human rights, and called on people to take a stand against surveillance.
He said: "It's time for us to make a big communal decision. In front of us are two roads - which way are we going to go?
"Are we going to continue on the road and just allow the governments to do more and more and more control - more and more surveillance?
"Or are we going to set up a bunch of values? Are we going to set up something like a Magna Carta for the world wide web and say, actually, now it's so important, so much part of our lives, that it becomes on a level with human rights?"
Calling for increased vigilance against surveillance so people can use the internet without feeling "somebody's looking over our shoulder", he said: "The people of the world have to be constantly aware, constantly looking out for it - constantly making sure through action, protest, that it doesn't happen."
Sir Tim has given backing to an initiative called "the web we want", urging people to create an internet users "bill of rights" for every country, which he hopes will be taken up by governments.
Jeffrey Jaffe, chief executive of the World Wide Consortium (W3C) who works with Sir Tim in his current role, said it was "amazing" how the web had transformed our lives.
"The web has transformed society - how we get information, how we interact with other human beings in terms of social networks, how we conduct business, the way we get educated and entertained has changed. All the major functions of life have been changed by the web," Dr Jaffe said.
Although he said the web faced challenges and presented many opportunities, he warned that "technology has often moved faster than society".
He added: "There are huge challenges in protecting people's privacy and making the web secure. Society overall doesn't know what it wants in terms of protection on the web (because) there are generational differences and attitudinal issues. Then there are technological issues.
"What is important to us is that the web achieves its full potential but that will only happen if people trust the web to be secure."
Dr Jaffe said the web presented many opportunities for different industries including education, entertainment and publishing.
"Everyone can become a publisher and market their products on the web and get massive distribution."
Sir Tim and Dr Jaffe called on users to tell the Web Foundation their dream for the web via Twitter using the hashtag, #web25.


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MARIETTA, Ga. — The investigation of a toddler's death in a hot SUV in Georgia hinges on a key question: Was the boy the victim of a horrific accident after his father simply forgot to take him to day care, or did the man know the child was inside when he left him strapped in for seven hours?
MARIETTA, Ga. — The investigation of a toddler's death in a hot SUV in Georgia hinges on a key question: Was the boy the victim of a horrific accident after his father simply forgot to take him to day care, or did the man know the child was inside when he left him strapped in for seven hours?
A newly filed arrest warrant supporting the murder charge against 33-year-old Justin Ross Harris states that he stopped with his son for breakfast and also returned to put something inside his vehicle around lunchtime while the child was inside it.
Harris has told police he was supposed to drive his 22-month-old son to daycare but drove straight to work on June 18 without remembering the boy was strapped in his seat. After spending the day at work, he pulled into a shopping center parking lot on the ride home and hysterically asked for help for his son.
Cobb County Police Chief John Houser said Wednesday that he understands tragic accidents happen, but evidence indicates a "more serious crime" has been committed. He didn't elaborate on what the evidence was.
"The chain of events that occurred in this case do not point toward simple negligence and evidence will be presented to support this allegation," Houser said in a message released by the department.
The Cobb County Medical Examiner's Office said Wednesday that toxicology results are still pending but that it believes the cause of death was hyperthermia and the manner of death was homicide. Hyperthermia is a condition in which the temperature of the body spikes because of heat.
The new warrant filed late Tuesday also downgrades one charge against Harris from first-degree child cruelty to second-degree child cruelty. First-degree cruelty to children requires that a person "willfully deprives the child necessary sustenance," while second-degree cruelty to children is caused by "criminal negligence" under Georgia law.
Harris put his son, Cooper, in a rear-facing car seat in the back seat of his Hyundai Tucson after eating at a Chick-fil-A restaurant the morning of the boy's death, the new warrant says. He then drove to work and left the child strapped into the car seat when he went inside, the warrant says.
At lunchtime, Harris returned to the vehicle, opened the driver's side door and placed an object inside before going back inside his workplace, the warrant says. It does not explain how the officer knows that.
About 4:15 p.m., Harris left work and, soon after, pulled over at a shopping center and asked for help with his child, the warrant says. The child was left in the vehicle for about seven hours, the warrant says. The temperature that day was 88 degrees at 5:16 p.m., according to the first warrant in the case, filed the day after the child died.
Prosecutors may opt for the harshest charges available and then scale back in felony murder cases, said Jessica Gabel, an associate professor of law at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
Neighbors and acquaintances of Harris and his wife described them as loving parents. Harris is a native of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and moved to Georgia in 2012 to work for Home Depot.
Their landlord, Joe Saini, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Harris and his wife are "very, very nice" people who were in love with their baby.
"Everything was going right for this couple," Saini said. "They wanted to buy a house so they could have some space for their child to run around the backyard."
Cory Burns, a police officer in Tuscaloosa, said Harris worked for the department as a dispatcher. Burns said his wife, Valissa, worked as a dispatcher alongside Harris and remembers that he and his wife were eager to have children but had some trouble conceiving.
Cory Burns remembers Harris as "a pretty happy guy, always down to earth." Harris brought his son back for to the department a visit recently, Burns said.
"Everyone's praying for him and his family," he said. "It's tragic."
Associated Press writer Kathleen Foody contributed to this report.


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'How Not to Deal With Cops,' by Rev. Al Sharpton's Ex-Wife and Daughter
Rev. Al Shapton's made a name off of agitating authority; he's been arrested plenty of times during protests! Guess it runs in the family. His ex-wife and daughter were booked after road raging at a cop last night.
Via the New York Post, Sharpton's ex-wife Kathy Jordan and 23 year-old daughter Dominique—who works for Rev. Sharpton's National Action Network—were driving in Harlem last night when they came up on an NYPD housing bureau cop car, many of which are plainly marked. The car was driving slowly, they tailgated it, honked at it, and finally changed lanes, changed back in front of it, and ran a red light.
Again: they cut off a cop car, and ran a red light in front of it. Nice. Once they were pulled over, the conversation got heated enough to merit them being taken down to the station and booked. So, of course, take a crack at what happens next:
Sources added that Dominique Sharpton dropped her dad's famous name at the stationhouse before being released.
NYPD brass love Rev. Sharpton, seeing as how he's taken them to the woodshed and aired them out in public every time they even remotely fumble the ball for as long as he's had people listening to him. And when you're Al Sharpton's daughter and ex-wife, at a police precinct for screaming at a cop, the absolute smartest thing you can do is throw down Dad's name.
This is about a step short of me getting booked while reading the Fuckin' Cops tag. Smooth.


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NAACP accuses governor of racism over DeKalb School Board suspensions | Education
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ATLANTA -- The issue of race has been simmering just beneath the surface of the DeKalb School Board controversy.
On Thursday, Georgia's NAACP, other civil rights activists and some African-American state legislators made it official.
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They accused Republican Governor Nathan Deal of being part of an alleged conspiracy to get rid of black office holders and deprive black voters of their rights.
"We've fought too hard and bled too long to allow our officials to be removed by a dictator," said Georgia NAACP President Edward DuBose at a rally on the State Capitol steps.
The group blasted the governor for suspending 6 of 9 members of the DeKalb County School Board last Monday, 5 of whom are black.
He acted under a 2011 law that allows removal when a school system's accreditation is threatened.
DeKalb was placed on probation last December by an accrediting agency that called the board dysfunctional.
On Thursday the civil rights activists said the issue isn't whether the board members deserve to be replaced, but who should have the power to do it.
They support the suspended board members' lawsuit challenging the removal law as unconstitutional.
"If people need to be removed, they can be removed by recall or they can be removed in 2014 when it's time to vote again," said State Representative Dee Dawkins-Haigler (D-Lithonia).
The activists also blasted fellow African-American lawmakers who support the Governor's decision.
"How can we complain about him when we have black folks standing there embracing the removal of black officials?" asked State Representative Tyrone Brooks (D-Atlanta).
One of those black lawmakers who support the Governor called the removal law fair, if not perfect.
"The purpose of the legislation is not to displace school board members," State Senator Emanuel Jones (D-Decatur) told 11 Alive News.
"The purpose of that legislation was to ensure that our school boards took very seriously any threat of losing their accreditation," he added.
Some of the civil rights activists went to Governor Deal's office demanding a face to face meeting.
After waiting an hour-and-a-half they left promising to bring back more protesters in a few weeks.
Meanwhile, negotiations continue to try and settle the suspended board members' lawsuit.
But those talks are not expected to produce anything before a hearing with a federal judge on Friday.


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Happy to Report
Cakes brought home her first report card on Friday. I opened it as soon as we got through the door, with both anticipation and trepidation. I don't know why the trepidation, because (no surprise) it's all good. Some of it makes me laugh, like "Cakes prefers undirected activities to directed ones," but it is all very positive and reassuring. It's crazy, just when I think I can't get more proud of her, I do. Just like that, she's gone from a baby to a bright, creative, sociable, kind, vibrant little person, and I'm in awe of her.
I read every word of her report card out loud to her, and it's awesome to see how proud she is of herself. Her dad was on shift Friday; he got home Saturday morning, and as soon as he walked in the door she was waving it at him for him to read. You've never seen a prouder papa.
Speaking of pride, aren't you proud of our Olympians? Cakes and I watched the game tonight, and man that was something special. Though she didn't quite get why someone had to win. "I want them to both win," she declares. What a gal.
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A Future in Making0 comments - published on Sunday, January 29, 2012
Why we should encourage our Younger Generation to get involved in the pro-democracy movement in Iran? Empower the youth.
It was the involvement of one Egyptian freedom fighter, a young man that forced Vice President Hillary Clinton to personally step foot on Tahrir Squrare; it was the camera footages of young Iranian side walkers in Tehran that caused Neda to be instantly viewed on world screens as she was dying in her own blood in the name of freedom. These are all pro-democracy movements, some of them in Iran, all of them for freedom, that need support and encouragement from you and me, the silent viewers. It is time we stop repeating the past patterns and together participate in a future in making.
We blamed our parents, our children blame us, and their children will blame them. For as long as making of youths' future is not put in their own hands, we will all remain indebted to our future generations, for the world that we created and left behind for them. Generational lack of communication is a major problem. Over 60% of the Iranian population is under the age of 30 and it is much easier for them to relate to people from their own generation who will have a better idea of challenges that face the younger generation in Iran. Communication is the key.
The unique attribute of the youth is that they possess purity in determination and commitment. This quality is unparalleled by any other stage of adult life in that it is not motivated by material gains. In addition to that, while the older generation may have political experience, the younger generation makes up for part of the lack of political experience through access to technology, wider networks through various social media such as facebook and twitter, and ability to speak multiple languages; all necessary tools in helping to promote the pro-democracy movement in Iran.
The language skills may include reading, writing, and speaking fluently in English or other international languages such as French and German. This is crucial because an important part of the pro-democracy movement includes lobbying the governments of the countries we live in, and raising awareness about the human rights situation and the pro-democracy movement in Iran. The younger generation is also more likely to have connections to various non Iranian pro-democracy groups and organizations as well as connections to various government agencies and officials, which can be helpful in promoting and bringing awareness of the pro-democracy movement in Iran. Awareness is not only something to teach and promote as knowledge or as a personal power, but also something to practice and utilize as a tool to bring about the desired changes. Awareness is only a theory, until it is effectively communicated. Creating a youth based community advisory committee that has functional power in every branch and ruling body of the governments in all countries, will bridge the generation gap that may have been otherwise neglected.
What should the Iranian opposition do to encourage and motivate the younger generation to get involved in the pro-democracy movement in Iran?
The opposition groups must realize that the future does not belong to any group. It belongs to every single living body and every single baby born in the world for the entire future to come. Assuming this responsibility, a common language must be adopted. Opposition groups need to realize they must engage in horizons that are further and farther than they have presently reached. The youths in every opposition group must be given a chair to participate in the events and be able to rule judgments. The youth should in turn update and educate the past generation with advances in technology and mass communication modalities.
The Iranian opposition groups should be conducting more meetings and events in English or other official languages of the countries they live in, as many young Iranians who left Iran at an early age may not be fluent in Farsi, and are more likely to attend political gatherings that are conducted in a language that they are able to understand and participate in. If the older generation accepts learning English or any other language for the sake of understanding the young generation, the young generation also will have to accept learning Farsi for their own sake. This exchange should not be put aside and expected to resolve by itself, because it won't. Effort must be made by family members whenever possible.
The political events and social gatherings should also be more geared towards these younger generations. This could be done by using film and music and advertising with non-Iranian media, as well as on social networks such as facebook and twitter where it is much more accessible. Formation of a global network to promote youth awareness and unity across borders has been part of the modern civilization since early twentieth century. Different government funded scholarships and student exchange programs have been initiated and started functioning since. This effort must continue at the required pace by today's growth and today's need for understanding each other and communicating awareness.
Younger people, more than the older generation, should have access to the podium during political meetings and social gatherings and should be encouraged to speak, ask questions, and make statements about their own wishes and desires. Seeing younger pro-Freedom people involved in the social and political movements in this way will send a ray of hope to the younger generation in Iran who will see that their own generation who live abroad have not forgotten about them, and is trying to connect with them. It is crucial to have a mix of speakers at events and meetings which represent various generations, including most importantly the younger (under 30) generation. It is necessary to make the youth aware of their ability to determine policies for making their own future as they desire it to be. They must also become aware of assuming responsibility for it. It is the existing generation's duty to respect the desires of the youth, help them develop it, and then let them run with it. What else is as meaningful in life?
Participation of the younger generation must be encouraged by all pro-Democracy and pro-Freedom social and political Iranian groups, by asking the youth for their input and allowing them to grow and advance within these groups and organizations and allow them to take part in their decision making process.
What can the youth do to help the pro-democracy movement in Iran?
While one of the ways to help the pro-democracy movement in Iran may be by joining various groups and organizations, this is not necessary to help and make a difference. The most important thing is to take the first step to communicate with each other in whatever way we can. No step is too small and any one person can have a major impact. We as mature and responsible adults must make it our duty to encourage the youth to get in touch with their own genuine dreams, wishes, and desires for building the world that they want to live in and leave behind, and encourage them to act on it. We will be surprised how original and delightful their contributions can be.
One of the most important things the younger generation can do is WRITE in English or other international languages in order to bring awareness about the pro-democracy movement in Iran. One can create a blog or a website, write articles on facebook and promote it through twitter and other social media, as well as writing for various media outlets and social, community, and scholar periodicals. While a lot of information comes out of Iran, very little of that information is ever translated and related to non-Iranian activists, individuals, groups and organizations. This is a task that is necessary and extremely helpful. It can start with a student club posting or a chat room comment or a blog. It will have major impact once everyone makes it a habit, just like brushing their teeth, and it is a lot more creative!
Forming various pro-democracy groups in high schools and universities can also be helpful, especially in the face of many student organizations which are created by bursary students who are supporters of the Islamic Regime in Iran. Pro-democracy groups are needed to combat these existing pro-regime groups in universities and educational venues. It must be realized that the youth inherently and by themselves do not possess the agenda of heresy. It is brought upon them as a result of lack of perspective in respecting their personal abilities and their own decisions. We all know of legendary grave impacts of this mistake.
Lobbying is another important activity that can be done within groups or individually. Activists can book appointments with their local government officials, inform them of their views and input about the situation in Iran and suggest ways that their government can help the pro-Democracy and pro-Freedom movement in Iran. This can be one of the most useful things we can accomplish as Iranians who live abroad. To make this an individual yet organized effort, is one of the most powerful ways to make the desired change. This is an example of thinking globally, and acting locally. We encourage and believe that learning to understand, relate to, and work with government officials brings well deserved self confidence to the youth, and it will impact the rest of their lives.
The best way to change a future is by participation in "A Future in Making". Look in your local phone book and online directories for your local government officials, members of parliament, senator, governors, congressmen, whatever officials you want to send a message to, and start to think and write to them. Get on their mailing, emailing, twitter, and facebook lists. Send them your views, and most importantly, talk about it with your peers and friends and encourage them to do the same. Contact the media in any language, and discuss your findings. Let us support the wave. It will wash on our own shores. Let us find our power.
No effort is too small and everyone can make a difference. While getting involved may seem intimidating at first, the most important thing is to take the first step, and to keep in mind that we can be the change we want to see in the world.
Now go break a leg!
By: Sayeh Hassan, Barrister & Solicitor, Pro-democracy Activist
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Iranian Canadian Congress Does Not Represent the Iranian Canadian Community0 comments - published on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Last Sunday I attended an event organized by the Iranian Canadian Congress, an organization that claims to represent the Iranian Canadian Community.
The event was about Canadian Policy towards Iran with a panel of speakers which included Ramin Jahanbegloo, Ali Ehsasi, Houshang Hassan Yari, Kaveh Shahrooz and David Mousavi.
The general view of the panelists was: no to war, no to sanctions and no to the hard stand the Canadian Government has taken against the Islamic Regime. In fact one of the panelists went as far as to say the Harper Government was irresponsible in its dealings with the Regime, and criticized the Prime Minister for having stated on numerous occasions that he was "afraid of Iran."
Some of the speakers also urged the Iranian Canadians to contact their local politicians and voice their "concerns" over the tough stand Canada has taken against the Iranian Regime.
Not surprisingly there was very little talk about the threats posed by the Islamic Regime, including the real possibility of Iran developing nuclear weapons, as well as Iran's financial support for international terrorism. While the speakers were quick to condemn the Canadian Government for taking a tough stand against the Regime, no such condemnation was forthcoming against the Regime in Iran and no solutions were offered on the issue of helping the Iranian people over throw the Islamic Regime in Iran.
Disturbingly enough the views of the panelists and the interests represented were very much in line with the view points and the interests of the Iranian Regime. There were no speakers on the panel who discussed the views and interests of the Iranian People.
During the question and answer period I made the statement that "while I condemn war or any military intervention in Iran, this was a panel discussion and the only views and interests that were represented were views and interests of the Regime. Where were the panelists speaking out on behalf of Iranian people and their interests? I further stated that the Iranian Canadian Congress does not represent the Iranian Canadian Community and their views, and that we would make sure Canadian Government was aware of this."
It is important to note one activist was removed from the premises and threatened with arrest for peacefully handing out flyers outside of the venue, while a second activist was threatened with a civil suit for voicing his concerns about the organization and the event itself.
This is a crucial time in history for Iran and Iranians. The Regime is becoming weaker every day, the international community including Canada is finally taking a tougher stand against Iran including the imposition of smart sanctions related to gas and oil. Dissent in Iran is very strong.
As the Iranian Canadian Community we need to become active and vocal and politically involved in Canada, in order to prevent opportunistic organizations such as Iranian Canadian Congress to take advantage of our silence by posing themselves as the representatives of our community.
We need to make sure the Canadian Government is aware of the views and interest of the Iranian people, whether its support for smart oil and gas sanctions or diplomatic isolation in order to weaken the Regime and allow the Iranian people to overthrow the Regime.
I urge the Iranian Canadian Community to get involved, we need to be loud and clear in sending the message that the Iranian Canadian Congress or any other organization whose interests are aligned with the interests of the Islamic Regime do not represent our community.
Special thanks to Faramarz Shiravand for providing the pictures.
Down with the Islamic Regime in Iran
Long Live Freedom In Iran
By: Sayeh Hassan, Barrister & Solicitor, Pro-democracy activist and blogger
Harper is Wrong in Demonizing Iran- An Apologist article in Support of a Brutal Dictatorship0 comments - published on Thursday, January 12, 2012
Below is my response to the following article from the Hamilton Spectator yesterday (Jan. 11th 2012), I found the article to be nothing but an apology for the Iranian Regime which is known for its brutality and dictatorship. Anyone who is interested can log onto their site and leave a response.
The link to the original article: http://www.thespec.com/opinion/columns/article/652363--harper-is-wrong-in-demonizing-iran
While Mr. Stone seems to have had a great visit in Iran, having been invited by Iranian Government Officials, I wonder if his trip took him to any of the Iranian prisons including Evin, Gohardasht, and Sanandaj, where thousands of political prisoners are being tortured, raped and executed on a daily business.
The Iranian Regime is a Regime that has not mercy or tolerance for its own people, it is a Regime that has used violence, torture and murder for the past 32 years against its own people. It is also a Regime that has been very active in funding international terrorism, and despite Mr. Stone's assertions it is a Regime that is on its way to developing nuclear weapons. There is no telling what the Regime is capable of doing to those who sees as its enemies once it has acquired nuclear weapons, and we should not sit and wait until it is too late.
The majority of the Iranian people do not support any type of military intervention in Iran, however many of them agree that smart sanctions which include oil sanctions, as well as total isolation of the Iranian Regime from the international community is necessary in order to weaken the Regime, and allow the Iranian people to take advantage of this weakness and overthrow the Government, before it's too late.
Sayeh Hassan
Barrister & Solicitor
Iranian-Canadian Pro-Democracy Activist


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Burst of Star Formation Drives Bubble in Galaxy NGC 3079's Core
These NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveal dramatic activities within the core of the galaxy NGC 3079, where a lumpy bubble of hot gas is rising from a cauldron of glowing matter.
The picture at left shows the bubble in the center of the galaxy's disk. The structure is more than 3,000 light-years wide and rises 3,500 light-years above the galaxy's disk. The smaller photo at right is a close-up view of the bubble. Astronomers suspect that the bubble is being blown by "winds" (high-speed streams of particles) released during a burst of star formation. Gaseous filaments at the top of the bubble are whirling around in a vortex and are being expelled into space. Eventually, this gas will rain down upon the galaxy's disk where it may collide with gas clouds, compress them, and form a new generation of stars. The two white dots just above the bubble are probably stars in the galaxy.
The close-up reveals that the bubble's surface is lumpy, consisting of four columns of gaseous filaments that tower above the galaxy's disk. The filaments disperse at a height of 2,000 light-years. Each filament is about 75 light-years wide. Velocity measurements taken by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii show that the gaseous filaments are ascending at more than 4 million miles an hour (6 million kilometers an hour).
According to theoretical models, the bubble formed when ongoing winds from hot stars mixed with small bubbles of very hot gas from supernova explosions. Observations of the core's structure by radio telescopes indicate that those processes are still active. The models suggest that this outflow began about a million years ago. They occur about every 10 million years. Eventually, the hot stars will die, and the bubble's energy source will fade away. Astronomers have seen evidence of previous outbursts from radio and X-ray observations. Those studies show rings of dust and gas and long plumes of material, all of which are larger than the bubble.
NGC 3079 is 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. The colors in this image accentuate important details in the bubble. Glowing gas is red and starlight is blue/green. Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 snapped this picture in 1998. The results appear in the July 1, 2001 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
NASA, Gerald Cecil (University of North Carolina), Sylvain Veilleux (University of Maryland), Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Anglo- Australian Observatory), and Alex Filippenko (University of California at Berkeley).


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o a certain extent, having surpassed the evangelical notion of sin, and later the problems concerning individual freedom, Annie Besant was able to fight for spiritual development. Annie's awareness of conflicts was a real source of creativity and growth. Her continuous process of self-examination reached its highest degree with her conversion to theosophy. From what we have observed, we cannot mention shifting identities but mainly an individual process similar to the collective fin-de-siècle experience, in which there was a compulsive necessity of redirection. It was a paradigm shift as it really corresponded not only to a deep change in her consciousness but also to a new way of understanding life. Actually, we don't see any explicit judgements on gender issues, though this assertion doesn't invalidate her decisive contribution to women's emancipation as a feature of the turn of the century. Expressing a transitional process, sometimes in situations which were not woman-friendly, namely in the science field, we perceive the New Woman who, when searching for alternatives in the public sphere, was fighting not only for a different kind of family but also for a different sexual politics. Having joined the Fabian Society, she had initiated the new Unionism, which swept Britain in the eighties. She also contributed to the creation of a new political force toward the granting of Home Rule to Ireland and later to India, coming "to the forefront of agitation for women's education" as Edward Said states (264). Looking at the late Victorian period and its double standard values, we have to admit that to a certain extent spiritualism was a way of challenging the dominant values. Thus, this subversive belief was very important to many contemporary women as a way of revolting against patriarchy. This ritual of resistance attracted Annie Besant too.
Though not clearly focusing gender issues, Besant's writings expressed her conviction that gender differences are a justification for the inequality between women and men. Actually, in her time, which was a redirective one very similar to ours, she referred that women's oppression was not founded on biological principles but on convictions, which had been culturally constructed. Notwithstanding that nowadays equality is established from the legal point of view and in the so-called civilised countries, we perceive in our fin-de-Siècle experience a still gender-based inequality. Perhaps better than a gender-based, we should say a difference-based inequality.
Besant's attitudes, sometimes considered shifty and too flexible by the critics are clearly understandable when we read her theosophical writings, namely Why I became a Theosophist (1889). In this essay, she shows that she didn't aim at a coherent identity but that it was simply a point of departure to her process of self-consciousness, which she identifies with Theosophy. As the declared purposes of the Society were the formation of a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood, the encouragement of the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science and the research of the laws of nature, there was no justification for the distinction of sex, race or caste. Fighting against gender roles, she anticipates many of the issues of the twentiethth century and her marginal situation led to a more effective possibility of social transformation.
According to An Autobiography, 1886 meant a complete shift in her convictions to be confirmed three years later. Having in mind not only radical social transformations, but also human fraternity, she admitted at the time that both Socialism and Materialism were not operative. There was a need of redirection (Autobiography, 308-309), which was compulsive in Besant's behaviour, namely the suspension of belief frequently attributed to Victorians and confirmed by her unquestionable biographers (see Besterman, 131-33, and Nethercot, 211). Nevertheless, we disagree with those critics who can only see the explanation for her attitudes in her extreme incoherence and not in a sincere quest aiming at an unified way of perceiving reality.
The interesting specificity of Annie Besant is that she represents the Victorian episteme with all its configurations, namely the ones corresponding to a structure of feeling which had been forgotten by several academic traditions (See Williams). From those days we feel an unending dialectic between the social and the psychic dimensions with the political continuously intruding in all her works, studying "the obscurer sides of consciousness, dreams, hallucinations, illusions, insanity" (Autobiography, 309). In fact, many contemporary freethinkers, and Fabians too, were at that time showing interest in the development of scientific experiments where the psychological ones were included. We think this is one of the less studied features of late Victorian society and a clear example of its antinomies. Actually, many scientists in the last twenty years of the nineteenth century decided to research the spiritual dimension from a true scientific perspective. This meant a bilateral expression, as on one side there was a revival of spiritualism and hermetic societies and, on the other, the foundation of the Society for Psychical Research (1882) which even attracted many freethinkers. An apparent paradox that has been explored by critics as a cultural contradiction and can be simply explained by anti-clerical positions and a strong belief in progress.
Though Besant called 1889 a "never to-be-forgotten year", we cannot but consider her own life a slow process of maturation similar to the century endings in which we easily feel the flowing of several experiences:
I was dazzled, blinded by the light in which disjointed facts were seen as parts of a mighty whole, and all my puzzles, riddles, problems, seemed to disappear. The effect was partially illusory in one sense, in that they all had to be slowly unravelled later, the brain gradually assimilating that which the swift intuition had grasped as truth. But the light had been seen, and in that flash of illumination I knew that the weary search was over and the very truth was found. [Autobiography, 310].
During all her life, Besant was able to break from social and cultural norms, a reason why she was always very receptive to otherness. This was for her a form of innovating and not aligning with the majority. Concerning Indian culture, she was worried not only about the expropriation of the practices of colonised people but also about the way the British made the appropriation of India's cultural features.
Re-reading her autobiographical texts and pamphlets shows us a chrysalis process and her path is symbolically alike to a spiral one. From Evangelism to Freethought and Fabianism, with flights from her first years of ambiguity, we perceive an immense creative power, with moments of contraction and expansion, until the supreme moment, according to her words, in which she became a theosophist. However, all those moments that oblige us to locate and dislocate our sense of the present were a way of reframing resistance.
Note: By episteme, a concept central to Foucault, we mean the cluster of relations through which discursive practices achieve a form of unity.
Annie Besant's Shifting Identity and Fin-de-Siècle Culture
- The Canon Reconsidered and Annie Besant's Marginality
- In Search of an Identity
- Besant and Transgression
- Identity as Resistance
Theodore Besterman, Mrs Annie Besant. A Modern Prophet.
Houghton, Walter E. "The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe." The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870. New Haven, London, Yale University Press, 1957. 93-109.
Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism (1993). London: Vintage, 1994)
Williams, Raymond. "The Analysis of Culture." The Long Revolution (1961). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1975. 57-88.
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A Bronx man who was killed trying to flee cops on a dirt bike was a building super who looked out for neighborhood kids and encouraged them to stay out of trouble, his family said today.
Eddie Fernandez, 28, was pronounced dead after his dirt bike was accidentally rammed from behind by a cop car in Hunts Point around noon Saturday, law-enforcement sources said.
His neighbor and longtime pal, Adalberto "Adam" Gonzalez — who was on the back of the bike and urging him to flee cops at the time — suffered only minor scrapes and was taken into custody.
"[Eddie] tried to teach kids to stay out of trouble with carpentry and painting. He was just learning to ride that bike. He was a good kid, it's a terrible accident,'' said his grieving cousin, Jose Lopez, 36.
Fernandez and Gonzalez had just purchased their Honda dirt bikes less than two months ago and were still learning how to ride, friends said.
On Saturday afternoon, cops first noticed that Gonzalez had been riding his own bike the wrong direction down a one-way street but did not pursue him, possibly because of the dangers of chasing someone on that kind of bike, sources said. He did not have a helmet or license, they said.
A few minutes later, the cops spotted Gonzalez on his bike again, and as they approached him on foot, he hopped off and ran to a dirt bike that Fernandez was on, yelling, "Move! Move! Police is comin'!"
Fernandez drove off with Gonzalez on his bike. He also didn't have a helmet or license.
Less than a block away, the pursuing patrol car struck them, slamming the duo down onto the pavement, according to law-enforcement sources.
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Paddleboarding to Raglan's pancake rocks
The most interactive way to get up and close to the 'pancake rocks' of Raglan.
Raglan is known as a beautiful laid-back surfing village, with its famous surfing breaks and its attractive tree lined high street offering interesting collection of shops, art and craft galleries and many cafes, you may just miss out on the beauty of the pancake rocks.
One way to see these is to take a guided tour across the inner harbour on paddle boards to see the amazing thousand years old layers of rock formation which are known as pancake rocks, whilst at the same time getting a fantastic all over body workout and best of all this will be eco-friendly - (as you're the motor)
So providing you with a different perspective of Raglan and note forgetting to check out all the local wildlife from above the water looking down at the abundance of sea-life and if you're lucky you may even see orcas.
To look back towards Raglan Town from across the harbour is simply magical too.
So next time you're visiting Raglan be sure to add this to your things to do list.
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8 ways ESPN wows its audience with superlative content
Embrace chaos. Make your mantra 'Best screen available.' And pursue perfection. The lessons apply to communicators who don't deliver scores, insights, and catch phrases.
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You thought it was tough in your league. Consider the brawlers ESPN trades punches with every day.
Fox Sports. USA Today. Sports Illustrated. Along with Web and blog newcomers like the Gleacher Report and SB Nation.
"They're out there writing about every team that matters," says Patrick Stiegman, vice president and editor-in-chief of ESPN.com.
So how does the network and Web colossus maintain its position as the top player in a hockey-style free-for-all?
Stiegman—who oversees daily news, analysis, multimedia, editorial quality, and digital design—offers a rink-side view of his game:
1. Embrace chaos.
ESPN.com used to be the sun around which all the digital properties rotated, Stiegman says. Nowadays, it's chaos theory.
ESPN produces ESPNW (for women's sports), Grantland,ESPN Radio, Watch ESPN, and ESPN Fantasy. It creates 800 original pieces of content every day (excluding wire stories). There are far more niches and subcategories, because there are sufficient communities of fans for each site.
2. Make your mantra 'Best screen available'
The newspaper industry fought a losing battle to try to keep people buying dead-tree subscriptions, says Stiegman, himself a former newspaper man. Make it easy for your fans, wherever they wish to find you.
"Our approach is to say: 'Best screen available,'" he says. "That is a mantra that we talk about all the time at ESPN. That may be a 60-inch flat screen watching ESPN, it may be your iPhone 5, it may a tablet or something in between, but it's the best screen available."
The goal of the sports giant isn't to drive fans to its ESPN.com. The goal is to offer them stats, stories, scores, and video on whatever device or in whatever form they want it.
Fans are making their own decisions about how and where they want their sports fix. It's out of ESPN's control. ESPN.com's numbers on a computer are flat, even as its mobile numbers are skyrocketing.
"We're not worried that people are not coming to ESPN proper as often," Stiegman says. "We still get upward of 50 million users a month on that platform. But we're happy to see a trend that people are using it in a more efficient way for them, and that mobile is certainly filling that gap."
3. Study the landscape.
Some 85 million Americans use the Internet and TV simultaneously each day, he says. More than a quarter of the time spent on the Internet each day is spent directly with TV.
For 55 percent of all tablet owners, the primary room to use a tablet is the living room. They're not out checking their team's scores at a bar; they're on smartphones and tablets. (If we may speculate wildly, ESPN, they're probably doing a lot of this during those commercials that every once in a while appear on sports networks.)
Knowing this allows ESPN to cultivate such fans, engaging them on multiple channels.
4. Serve your fans.
ESPN's primary purpose is to serve the sports fan. "It's not make as much money as you can," he says. "It's not serve the stockholder. It's not intrinsically save the world."
It's that guy on the couch in front of the TV, sipping a beer, and tweeting about that damned blackout during the game.
5. Be like a bowling reporter.
Stiegman has covered Rose Bowls and Super Bowls, but his most important bowl was the place where folks roll a heavy ball that knocks down a cluster of pins (or doesn't).
He started out in journalism working as a sports writer for a Wisconsin paper. Every day when he arrived, he fielded phone calls and typed in 142 bowling scores from the league play the night before.
It wasn't the NBA, but lessons apply: Be diligent. Get the basics right. And give your customers what they're looking for.
"We were putting bowling stories in because that's what the fans wanted," Stiegman says.
6. Outwork the competition.
In today's world, ESPN never sleeps. Stories evolve hour by hour. Fans are constantly looking for more information. This requires energy, as well as outworking the competition.
"What are you going to do for me throughout the course of the day every single day to keep making us better in serving fans in an important way?" Stiegman says.
7. Deliver quality.
Is a blizzard wreaking havoc with your employees' commute? The harsh truth is that fans don't care. They want your content now. Deliver it.
They're your fans, yes. But if you're like ESPN, they have no appetite for glitches.
8. Be ye excellent.
As a man of Wisconsin, Stiegman offers a quote from the great Green Bay Packers coach, Vince Lombardi: "Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good."
But hey, since we're a Chicago-based website, forget Green Bay. Let us end with inspiration from former Bears head coach Mike Ditka: "If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms."
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The Army Corps of Engineers and excessive federal bureaucracy were the target of complaints from local oil-industry and government officials during a discussion focusing on the future of the energy industry.
The Army Corps of Engineers and excessive federal bureaucracy were the target of complaints from local oil-industry and government officials during a discussion focusing on the future of the energy industry.
The complaints were directed Thursday night at members of Congress visiting Port Fourchon. U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Metairie, has helped organize the tour for the past five years. The Houma-based South Central Industrial Association also had a hand in organizing the gathering.
Scalise was joined by Reps. Morgan Griffith of Virginia, Dennis Ross of Florida and John Shimkus of Illinois.
Along with Scalise, Griffith and Shimkus serve on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which handles legislation tied to the oil-and-gas industry.
"We hear from the big five and nationally the big five oil companies get all the attention, but we really wanted to talk to some of the smaller business owners," Scalise said.
Much of the discussion centered around pleas for reform in the rules and pace the Corps of Engineers carries out its functions.
"If we are going to complain about the Corps of Engineers, I want to be the first one in line," said Terrebonne Parish President Michel Claudet.
Claudet criticized the corps for its slow progress and excessive cost estimates for the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane protection system, a system of levees and floodgates designed to buffer Terrebonne and Lafourche from Gulf of Mexico storms. He said the corps' requirements for repairing wetlands damaged by flood-protection work are often excessive as well.
"The corps in Terrebonne Parish, it takes them so long to do anything," Claudet said. "They spent $70 million studying something (amd) never spent one penny on our levee system."
Griffith noted issues with the corps extend beyond Louisiana, telling the group about a new industrial park that has been stalled because of a small stream on the property.
Roy Francis, vice president of marketing for Gulf Island Fabrication, a Houma company that builds oil platforms and ships, criticized the corps for what he described as a sluggish pace in maintaining the Houma Navigation Canal.
Sediment buildup impedes large boats, translating to lost potential revenue or increased costs for Gulf Island and other fabrication businesses along Thompson Road that depend on the canal to transport structures to and from the Gulf oilfield.
"I can't even get my government to maintain my highway," Francis said of the federally maintained waterway.
Francis noted that federal agencies have been looking at improvements to the canal for years, and though a plan exists, it has awaited approval for 18 months.
"Some of the biggest issues we face is not our competition, but our own government," Francis said.
He and others also noted lost business they said result from the six-month ban on Gulf oil drilling enacted after the 2010 BP oil spill. The administration said the moratorium was necessary to assess what happened and ensure deepwater drilling was being done safely.
"There is a growing support in Congress to reform the corps," Scalise said.
Rob Vosbein, general counsel for Harvey Gulf International Marine, beckoned the congressmen to fully back the intent of the Jones Act, which promotes use of American boats in American waters.
Vosbein said the act is often derided and has been watered down through the years. His company, which builds offshore supply boats, must compete with foreign vessels that are subsidized by their governments and claim various exemptions under international treaties.
"It is important for the government to understand the importance of the Jones Act," Vosbein said. "You have companies here that are not asking for subsidies but just to uphold the law that is there."
Conversation also hit upon the shale natural-gas boom in various parts of the U.S., including north Louisiana. Last year, natural-gas prices hit rock bottom due to a glut in supply spurred by new fracking technologies.
Most agreed local offshore energy production support businesses could realize some financial opportunity in inland natural-gas fields, but a perceived energy-unfriendly federal administration makes expanding offerings difficult.
"We would like to work in those areas," said Lori Davis, president of Rig-Chem, which manufactures chemicals used in the industry. "Potentially, if the government said tomorrow that we were no longer going to work in shale areas, ... we can't risk expanding our operation."
The legislators will wrap up the tour today with a visit to a deepwater drilling rig.


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"Every time a Volkswagen hits 100,000 miles, a German engineer gets his wings." We'll ignore for a second some of the sexism inherent in that Super Bowl ad and look into what Volkswagen really revealed with it.
These days Volkswagen is trying to get away from the reputation for unreliability they developed over the last 20 years or so. But GrauGeist breaks it down for us:
While the obvious sexism is deplorable, so is the inherent dishonesty by VAG claiming that VW product is inherently reliable. But more to the point, let's look at a few things:
Average annual mileage of 12,000 miles per year suggests we look at cars at least 8 years old.
In 2005 (8 years ago), Volkswagen sold around 5 million cars.
VW has 190,000 employees. Pretend 50,000 of them are engineers (at over 25%, this is pure fiction - engineering staff is actually much smaller than that, most are production and administrative).
If every one of those supposed 50,000 engineers got their wings this year, then only 1 out of every 100 VWs reaches 100,000 miles. So the maximum 8-year / 100,000 mile survival rate for a VW-brand vehicle is a whopping 1%.
But then, that should have happened last year. And the year before that. And the year before that.
If you take the typical VW engineering career at 5 years (probably somewhat generous), then you are looking at only 10,000 new sets of wings annually. That suggests that the maximum survival rate for VWs reaching 100,000 miles is less than 1 in 500, much less than 1%.
1 in 500 is a frighteningly low number. But let's humanize that. A lot of people have 500 Facebook friends. If every one of your Facebook friends bought only VW-brand car & wagons & vans, and that's all that any of them ever drove, only one of them would hit 100,000 miles this year. There should be another person (maybe two or three, if you're really lucky) on that list with a high mileage Volkswagen.
Effectively, VW is admitting that their build quality is turning back the clock to the 1970s, when we understood UAW-built cars simply didn't hit 100,000 miles (they ran rather poorly for a few years, and went to the junkyard within 5 years). However, since the 1980s, when the Japanese started building cars, we reasonably expect cars to easily hit 100,000 miles, and 200,000 miles is where things get interesting. A car built well after 2000 should easily hit 200,000 miles.
For most intents and purposes, VW is telling us that the odds of a VW reaching 100,000 miles is effectively ZERO.
Think about that, for a moment.
VW, in a rare moment of unexpected honesty, shared the truth of their unreliabilty: that the average consumer cannot expect any VW-brand vehicle to reach 100,000 miles.
So much for all those angels running around. But then The Scrambler says it can be done came back and said what we're all thinking after reading that:
You way over thought this...
Now get to work on the whole Santa thing, because I'd really like to know how that works.
I think Michael Bolton over at Honda has something to do with that one, I dunno.


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For Keeps offers the best of Kael's reviews and other writings on movies from the collections that have marked her matchless career, starting with I Lost It at the Movies (1965), through Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Deeper Into Movies (a National Book Award winner), The Citizen Kane Book ("Raising Kane", the full text on the making of the movie, is here), and all the others in a glorious run concluding with Movie Love in 1991. Now that Kael has retired from regular reviewing, her reputation has only increased, and for the inimitable real thing, readers must turn to this volume to sample her perspicacity, fluency, and style. More than 275 reviews are arranged chronologically - in effect, a history of 30 years of movies. This ultimate compendium from America's most eloquent, passionate, and provocative critic is a boon to serious moviegoers and an indispensable companion in the age of the VCR.
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Ok, so I am all fired up after my workshop yesterday.
First thing I did, when I walked in the door, was sit my boys down and say, "please tell me now if there is anything that I am doing as a mother that you feel would lead you to need therapy when you're beautiful young men". Big one took it seriously and launched into a dialogue of how I am a great Mum as I let him go to the last school dance (where 6 girls kissed him... I know.. so forward... "but Mum they kissed me"... 13 years of age.. I was still playing with Barbies and boys had severe germs when I was 13). Little one just looked at me and blinked. This is the one who took great offence at me stating "I don't know anything" when helping big one with his homework the other day.. "but Mum, you know EVERYTHING". Good, he's still in the 'Mum can do no wrong stage'. Big one thinks I'm cool... so we're travelling well.
It was so good to get back to basics and also surround myself with beautiful people who also want to grow and love more. It was good... I cried buckets, not just for me but for the pain that others have had to endure in their lives. Oh, the destructive behaviours passed down from generation to generation. We all have so much in common, us humans. We are not alone in our problems or fears. I came out into the sunshine yesterday feeling strong.... and grateful.
So this morning, inspired by Martha's concept of a "Good Things" list (although hers is all about stuffed turkey burgers and dishwashing liquid bottles)... I felt compelled to create a list of 10 good things in my life. Just off the top of my head... this is what came to mind. Would love to hear yours too!
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Rare earth stockpile radiation levels questioned
An MP is calling on the State Government to make radiation monitoring results public after revelations the Lynas Corporation has been stockpiling rare earth concentrate in Bibra Lake.
The Member for Fremantle, Adele Carles, says the Government is yet to confirm whether monitoring is being conducted.
The Environment Minister Bill Marmion has confirmed the containers have been held at Lynas' holding yard since March.
They are not due to be shipped from Fremantle Port until the second half of the year but Mr Marmion says radioactive levels were low.
Ms Carles says the Government is basically saying the material is perfectly safe.
"I say to them, well, if it's so safe, then release to us the radiation monitoring so that we can see that for ourselves," she said.
Ms Carles says monitoring is required under a Radiation Management Plan.
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Limbaugh distorted and misconstrued Kyoto Protocol
During a rant on the July 19 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show [1], radio host Rush Limbaugh [2] -- who has repeatedly berated "environmentalist wackos" -- mischaracterized the Kyoto Protocol global warming agreement, claiming it "targets us [the United States]."
From the July 19 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: If we say there's global warming and blame humanity for it, who do we actually blame? Who -- who's doing all this inventing? Who's doing all this technological advancement? It's the United States. You can't say, given their theory, that any place in Africa or Central or South America is destroying the environment. They don't have enough air conditioners. They don't have enough cars. They don't have enough factories. No. So what is it? It's an attack on us. It's an attack on our exceptionalism. It's an attack on our abundance, an attack on our prosperity, an attack on our freedom. You look at the Kyoto Protocol, it targets us. We've got to back down. We are blamed for all this.
The Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement aiming to reduce or limit net emissions of certain greenhouse gases, was agreed to in December 1997 by the Clinton administration in Kyoto, Japan. The protocol does not specifically target the United States but, rather, sets specific emissions reduction targets for all signatories. In fact, the protocol's actual articles [3], which describe the problem of global climate change and the agreement's rules for combating it, do not mention the United States -- or any other country -- by name. The United States is mentioned only on a list [4] showing the "quantified emission limitation or reduction commitment" that each country (those who had signed the agreement by December 1997) had agreed to. A far cry from Limbaugh's claim that the protocol "targets" the United States, the emissions list shows that America's goal (later abandoned) was to reduce emissions to 93 percent of its "base year" (1990) level. That reduction amount is slightly less [4] than that agreed to by most signatories -- including numerous "countries that are undergoing the process of transition to a market economy," such as Bulgaria, Estonia, Romania, and Slovakia.
After his inauguration in 2001, one of President George W. Bush's first acts in office [5] was to reject the Kyoto Protocol, prompting TIME columnist Tony Karon [6] to write in July 2001 [7] that the decision "may be bad news for U.S. global leadership." In February 2002, Bush unveiled an alternative plan [8] to the Kyoto Protocol that sought "dramatically lower" emissions reductions and called for "voluntary" reductions. The international community has criticized [9] the United States for pulling out of the Kyoto agreement; other countries have remained committed to the original, more stringent Kyoto standards. (The Russian Federation and Australia had failed to ratify the Kyoto Protocol [10] as of July 8, 2004.) A July 6, 2004, editorial [11] in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (free registration required) said it was "disappointing" that the United States isn't leading "the international community in lowering man-made carbon dioxide gas emissions."
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An in-depth look at where we went during the 2013 event .............
Start of event / day1: Craven Arms
A49 south to Ludlow
Turned off near Ludford into forest section west of Ludlow (Bringewood) where we looped around
Then 'over the road' to another forest section (Mary Knoll Valley, Mortimer Trail, Marches Way area)
The next road section I can't be 100% on as the laptop running the 'trace' on the back seats died, was lead was out! But we then went on tarmac to Radnor Forest through PResteigne Llanadras (or near to it) I recall
Radnor Forest - long forest section in dark
Left Radnor on A488, through Penybont and picked up the A44 and onto A481to Hundred House, before turning off to take the 'back roads through Painscastle and on to Clyro
End of day1: Clyro Court Hotel
Start of day2: Clyro Court Hotel
A438 and A470 to Brecon and continue to the Brecon Beacons National Park
Through Penderyn (very nice single malt) to Hirwaun
Then short blast down A465 before turnign off for the "Windmills" near to Seven Sisters.
Left the Windmills and A4109 / A4221 to Abercaf and then A4607, before turning off towards Trecastle
Short stay on A40, before turning off and taking "Military Road" (Sennybridge Training Area)
Then through Llangammarch Wells, through Llanwrthwl and on to Rhayder
Leaving Rhayder on B4518 towards Elan village and past the following resevoirs: Caban-coch, Garreg-ddu, Pennygarreg, Craig Goch; then following the Elan Valley to Cwmystwyth and the B4574 to Devil's Bridge.
Then through Capel Seion and down towards Aberystwyth.
End of day2: Aberystwyth
Start of day3: Aberystwyth
Take A44 through Capel Bangor, turning off main road just past Ponterwyd towards Nant-y-Moch
Round Nant-y-Moch resevoir and into forest area near Artists Valley, looping around before exiting the stage on the A487 .
Then north through the old Welsh capital, Machynlleth and Dyfi Valleyto Corris and through Dyfi Forest to Aberangell.
Here we picked up the A470 to Dinas Mawddyy, before picking up another 'mountain road' which eventually arrived in Bala.
From Bala, along the A494 / A5 to end of event just outside Corwen.
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WHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) – The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting that an earthquake centered in Kentucky also rattled at least three other states.
The USGS website says the epicenter of the 4.3 magnitude earthquake on Saturday afternoon was about 10 miles west of Whitesburg. Residents in eastern Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee reported feeling the temblor.
National Weather Service spokesman Jeff Carico says employees at the office in Jackson, which is about 60 miles northwest of Whitesburg, felt the ground shake for about 15 seconds. He says the office has gotten numerous calls, but so far no one has reported any serious damage.