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Like many terrorism experts at the time, Rolf Mowatt-Larssen wasn't taking Osama bin Laden too seriously when he said he wanted to obtain a nuclear bomb. Then he heard about "the meeting."
Mr. Mowatt-Larssen was working as the Central Intelligence Agency's top counterterrorism expert on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) – a post CIA director George Tenet had appointed him to after 9/11 since the US knew so little about Al Qaeda's capabilities. [Editor's note: The original version misspelled George Tenet's name.] The agency found out that in August 2001 – even before the World Trade Center attacks – Mr. bin Laden and one of his lieutenants had met in Afghanistan with Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, a gas-centrifuge expert in Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.
"For me, the galvanizing moment was probably when I found out that Mahmood ... was sitting around a campfire with bin Laden describing how to build a nuclear bomb," Mowatt-Larssen says. "I realized ... we're dealing with something we hadn't even been contemplating was possible" – a systematic plan by a terrorist to build a nuclear weapon.
Since then, Mowatt-Larssen has spent most of his days in various roles – including four years as the CIA's top WMD sleuth – trying to follow the terrorist trail and prevent rogue elements from acquiring weapons of mass destruction.
Today the former CIA agent who spent most of his nearly three-decade career in the shadows is speaking out more freely from his perch in academia about the looming terrorist nuclear threat. His overarching conclusion: The US is behind in the cat-and-mouse game to keep nuclear materials out of the reach of terrorists. While he doesn't think a nuclear attack on US soil is inevitable, neither does he find it impossible. Far from it.
More than anything, he thinks the international community needs to cooperate more to prevent bomb-grade uranium and plutonium, increasingly available on the black market, from falling into terrorists' hands. He is even promoting the controversial idea of establishing a clandestine group to acquire weapons-grade material and smuggle it into the US, as a way to goad the country into taking the threat seriously.
"I've got a conviction that the terrorists are ahead of us on this and that we've got to close the gap," says the veteran intelligence officer. "Not so much on their capability of producing a nuclear weapon, but their intent – certainly their intent is strong."
MOWATT-LARSSEN IS SOMETHING of a Renaissance man in spy clothing. He speaks four languages, including fluent Russian, and is a skilled pianist and former paratrooper. He's tall, with a shock of white hair. His office at Harvard University is spare. [Editor's note: The original version said Mowatt-Larssen teaches at Harvard. He is a scholar there.] Photographs of his wife and three children grace his desk, while books on subjects ranging from the history of nuclear intelligence to physics for the lay person jostle for space on shelves with stacks of personal notebooks on WMD.
Mowatt-Larssen is careful as he speaks, as befits a career CIA officer. He admits at one point not wanting to reveal classified information. But he's also passionate about his subject, eager to detail the threat the US faces and suggest ways to deal with it.
After years spent gleaning Al Qaeda's intent and capabilities from captured computer hard drives, documents from Afghanistan, and other sources, he now believes Al Qaeda will stop at nothing to get the bomb or the materials to make one. Others agree.
"Al-Qaeda operatives have made repeated attempts to buy nuclear material for a nuclear bomb" and recruit experts, according to "Securing the Bomb, 2008," a report by Matthew Bunn, who, like Mowatt-Larssen, is a scholar at Harvard's Belfer Center. Bin Laden has called acquiring a nuclear bomb and other WMD a "religious duty" and has even gotten a fatwa to sanction it, Mowatt-Larssen says.
Acquiring a complete nuclear weapon from an unstable Pakistan or rogue nation like North Korea remains a possibility. But far more threatening, experts say, is terrorists stealing nuclear bomb material, or buying it on the black market.
For a terrorist, acquiring highly- enriched uranium (HEU) or plutonium is the critical issue: It takes less than 20 pounds of plutonium or 40 pounds of highly-enriched uranium to build a weapon. For that reason, the US and its allies are racing to put vulnerable nuclear fuel around the world under tighter security. Since 1993, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nation's nuclear watchdog, has identified more than 1,300 cases of nuclear smuggling.
Still, just 18 of those overall incidents involved "special nuclear materials" that could be made into bombs – and that amounted to less than 11 pounds of weapons-grade uranium and 1 pound of plutonium. But to Mowatt-Larssen this still represents an unacceptable potential catastrophe.
"As long as we keep finding nuclear materials on the black market, we're failing," he says. "With most things, you can afford to be only partly successful. But with this, it's got to be a 100 percent success rate."
Mowatt-Larssen began to think about the problem deeply after 2005, when he transferred from the CIA to the US Department of Energy. There he organized a 600-person DOE office of intelligence and counterintelligence. At the same time, he coordinated government-wide efforts to prevent a nuclear terror attack.
Last fall, exhausted by years of being one of the main people looking through the keyhole, Mowatt-Larssen decided it was time to think about the issue in a more academic environment. In December, former Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman praised Mowatt-Larssen's leadership at DOE, saying it had "opened new relationships with foreign partners." But Mowatt-Larssen is far from satisfied. He laments the lack of cooperation by intelligence agencies around the world. Without such coordination, he says, it all devolves into a game of spy-versus-spy.
"We have a collective obligation to go out there and identify what's there and bring it back to some form of control, so that terrorists can't get their hands on it," he says. "If there's no material, there there's no possibility of a bomb ever going off."
Like many, Mowatt-Larssen was heartened by President Obama's recent speech in Prague pledging to redouble efforts to clamp down on the international black market for nuclear bombmaking materials. Obama's DOE has requested $2.1 billion for nuclear nonproliferation efforts, a 44 percent increase.
But he remains skeptical whether US agencies and other nations will follow through and implement a top-priority nuclear policy. The world "is even further behind the US," he says. "Many of our allies haven't yet come to the place where they think it's a serious problem."
TO CONVINCE EVERYONE how serious it is, Mowatt-Larssen has come up with a controversial idea – the "Armageddon test." "If an intelligence officer and his team can go out there and collect enough material themselves to make a bomb, then we know we've got a problem, don't we?" he says. "So let's go find out whether that's possible."
He proposes more than just sending a team of operatives to acquire nuclear fuel on the black market: He wants them to smuggle the material back into the US to show that terrorists could do this.
Some experts endorse the idea of closer international ties and more intense black-market investigation. But the suggestion of spiriting nuclear material into a major US city is anathema to many others, who feel it would do little to improve US security and probably harm it by diverting valuable resources from efforts to secure stockpiles.
"What you're doing is hyping the threat and then ensuring that everyone is on the edge of their stool trying to solve something that can't be solved," says Henry Sokoloski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, who also sits on the US Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. "We need to focus on things that can be worked on quickly [such as discouraging use of weapons-usable nuclear fuel in research reactors] and at least cap the primary threat."
Others apparently agree. The Armageddon test wasn't among recommendations listed in a recent WMD prevention commission report to Congress.
Mowatt-Larssen now says that sneaking the material into the US, while useful, may not be essential. "I don't think I would necessarily go as far as the fully developed idea of bringing [captured nuclear material] back into this country or not," he says. But then he quickly adds that it would be "a nice way" for everyone to see the full threat.
From his aerie at Harvard, Mowatt-Larssen is developing part of his idea – building a global community of intelligence analysts to work on the black-market problem. In particular, he wants to see the IAEA create its own intelligence arm so it can be a vehicle for international cooperation.
"If you look at the entire problem of nuclear terrorism as a stream – at the source there's the US, Russia, and others trying to secure materials more effectively," he says. But some material will "spill from that source and move down the stream."
The key, he says, is to have a layered defense to deal with what leaks out. That means international teams attacking the black market together and radiation sensors at borders and other last-ditch measures.
"Much has been done and security is generally improving worldwide," especially in Russia, he says. "By any normal calculus, the world is doing pretty well, and we are doing better."
"[But] I'm expecting perfection. I'm expecting never to see the terrorist mushroom cloud."


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A group of Amherst residents opposed to the potential construction of a six-story hotel near the site of the present two-story Lord Amherst Motel on Main Street in Snyder began a petition drive Thursday aimed at derailing the project before it is officially proposed.
"We don't know what may be proposed," Town Planning Director Eric W. Gillert and his assistant, Gary B. Black, told about 150 people at a meeting in the Harlem Road Community Center. "It's all hypothetical. No application has been received, there is no site plan, and no analysis has been done."
They said officials of the town Planning Department have not yet met with the potential developer, Iskalo Development Corp. of Amherst, and no action is pending before the Planning Board. Michele Marconi, a resident who presided at Thursday's community meeting, acknowledged, "There are no plans on file yet."
Iskalo, however, hopes to build a Hyatt Place Hotel on the Main Street site adjacent to an off-ramp from the Youngmann Memorial Highway.
David Chiazza, executive vice president of Iskalo, said in a letter to Marconi that the developers already met with nearby residential property owners and "modified our conceptual plan to enable us to reposition the new hotel further away" from their property. "We will continue to meet with those residents," he said, "despite their concerns about aspects of our proposed project."
Nobody from the company attended Thursday's meeting, which was "intended to attract those opposed to the project," Chiazza said.
Ray Paolini, a neighborhood leader, said that most of the people at the meeting were "not opposed to development" in Amherst but that they would fight against commercial encroachment on their residential property.
Petition forms labeled in "opposition to proposed Iskalo 6-floor hotel in Snyder" were distributed at the meeting, although several speakers said they were not opposed to the present two-story motel there. Objections centered on a six-floor hotel from which "guests will be able to peer into the backyards of homeowners, … and the hotel will dominate the views from the back of these homes."
Zoning for the site permits buildings up to 65 feet high, which is sufficient for a six-story hotel.
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DURHAM — N.H. Sea Grant has released its 2013 Discovery Cruise schedule. Discovery Cruises give the public hands-on marine learning opportunities and an inside look at what UNH researchers are learning about marine and estuarine environments at two coastal locations—the Isle of Shoals and the Great Bay Estuary.
Discovery Cruises will depart from New Castle, N.H. on July 11, 14, 19, 21, and 28 and August 1, 3, 18, and 25.
Aboard the university's research vessel—the R/V Gulf Challenger—UNH Marine Docents guide the day cruises, which also offer insight about the natural history, geology, and local history of the destinations and let participants get up close and personal with coastal creatures.
The Isle of Shoals Discovery Cruise takes participants offshore to Appledore Island—one of the nine islands in the Isle of Shoals archipelago, where they learn about the island during a guided hike and a visit to the Shoals Marine Laboratory.
The Great Bay Discovery Cruise takes passengers up the Piscataqua River into the Great Bay Estuary, where they catch plankton, measure water salinity, and see the research under way at the UNH Jackson Estuarine Laboratory on Adams Point.
Discovery Cruises depart from the Judd Gregg Marine Research Complex in New Castle. Children ages 10 and older are welcome with an adult. The Isles of Shoals trip runs from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. and costs $40 per person; the Great Bay trip runs from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. and costs $25 per person. Space is limited and reservations are required. For reservations, visit www.seagrant.unh.edu/DCSchedule or call Dari Ward at (603) 862-6701.
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Choosing your career carefully
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ST. PAUL - Gus and Amy Axelson brought their sons to the Minnesota Capitol as they fight the exploration for minerals under their northeastern Minnesota land.
"I brought them here to show you what this is all about," Mr. Axelson told the Minnesota Executive Council Thursday before it unanimously voted to allow four mining companies to explore for copper and nickel under privately owned land, including where the Axelson family owns a cabin.
Axelson and other northeastern Minnesota landowners argued against the move, even though the state owns mineral rights under their property.
The council vote only allows exploration; actual mines would come only after lengthy environmental and other state and federal reviews. Mining experts said chances of opening a mine on any specific property are remote.
Mine supporters say the new mines would employ thousands of Minnesotans, while providing needed minerals to the economy, adding that modern mining techniques will not damage the environment.
With sons Anders, 9, and Henrik, 4, by his side, Axelson talked to Gov. Mark Dayton and Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Landwehr after the vote, coming away feeling a little better.
Axelson's biggest fear was that once the council gave its approval, mining companies could take whatever private land they wanted.
"I'm still just a little bit confused," he said after Landwehr explained that the state never has allowed such action and the law only allows it under some limited specific circumstances.
"We need to keep working," Axelson said, a St. Paul resident who said his family still is completing its Lake County cabin.
Dayton and other council members said the process that could lead to copper and nickel mining has just begun. While Landwehr said mining companies could begin looking for the minerals yet this year, the council heard that only one of 4,000 explorations actually produces a mine.
Before a mine can open, state and federal officials must approve, making sure it would not harm the environment.
Dayton said he would insist that any company opening a mine be required to put up money to repair any damages it could cause. He said he needs to see environmental reviews before deciding whether to support new mines.
The governor, like other council members a Democrat, said there was no choice but to approve the exploration request. Council members said it appears all state laws have been followed.
Dayton predicted the controversy would worsen, but the Department of Natural Resources has learned it needs to do a better job of communicating with landowners about mineral leases.
Thursday's decision came after a year-long delay so people could be better informed.
Some mining opponents told the council that the type of mining proposed likely would harm northeast Minnesota's water supply. Some mentioned the possibility of taking legal action to stop the mines.
About 25 percent of nearly 22,000 acres involved in the 77 leases are under land owned by people who do not own mineral rights.
"There are a limited number of facts at this point," State Auditor Rebecca Otto said as she made the motion to approve the leases.
Lt. Gov. Yvonne Prettner Solon called the decision a "balancing act" between job-producing mining and protecting the environment.
The council heard from landowners who opposed mining companies looking for copper and nickel under their land, some urging state officials to allow mining under public land but not their land. However, Dayton said that he does not think state law would allow that.
The state auctions off exploratory leases nearly every year so mining companies may explore where the state owns the mineral rights. The companies pay a small fee to the state for exploration and then, if any ore is actually mined, the state gets royalties.
Exploration could begin later this year.
Besides Otto, Prettner Solon and Dayton, the Executive Council includes Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and Attorney General Lori Swanson. All are Democrats.


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Docket Number:
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Project Status:
Applicant WIthdraws AFC, September 29, 2009.
AFC Terminated, October 21, 2009
Committee that oversaw Original Licensing Proceeding:
Julia Levin, Commissioner, Presiding Member
James D. Boyd, Vice Chair, Associate Member
Hearing Officer: Gary Fay
Key Dates
- June 30, 2006 - Application for Certification (AFC) filed with Energy Commission.
- September 14, 2006 - Commission determines AFC is data adequate
- September 29, 2009 - Applicant Withdraws AFC
- October 21, 2009 - Commission Terminates AFC and Closes Docket
The Southeast Regional Energy Center (SREC) is a proposed 943 megawatt (MW, gross) combined-cycle generating facility configured using three natural gas fired combustion turbines and one steam turbine.
The SREC will be located on land at the southeast corner of Fruitland and Boyle Avenues. The City has executed a purchase agreement for the 27-acre parcel. The seller conducted a public bid process for the sale of the site and the city was the successful bidder.
The project site will consist of approximately 13.7 acres of the subdivided 27-acre parcel. The remaining 13.3 acres will be available during construction for parking and equipment laydown. Once construction is completed, the 13.3 acre property will be available for the city's future use.
The site is located in an industrial area in the City of Vernon, in Los Angeles County.
Note: This project should not be confused with a separate City of Vernon power plant project application (06-AFC-2) that was filed with the Energy Commission on March 2, 2006. That application was for a 610 MW facility, and the license application was withdrawn on April 6, 2006.
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
Motherhood .....Another Blessing
Motherhood is a very special theme for me. So very close to my Heart.
I have been very blessed to have been given the gift of Motherhood 12 times (we have one little one in Heaven)
To think of my life without these children is unthinkable. The growth I have had as a person, could not have happended without being resposible (along with my very dear Honey) for these gifts God has bestowed on us.
I take my role as a Mother very seriously and am always amazed that our society has such little appreciation for the roles of Mothers. If society finally looked to the family unit and the individual roles within the structure then I am sure we would be far better off, not to mention the children within our families.
So when I saw this ( I have linked and copied the article below) I HAD to share it with you. I know many people do not agree with Doug Phillips at Vision Forum however I think the stance he has taken on the value of Family and the respect and honour he shows for Women and Mothers to be very admirable.
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Motherhood in America
May 9, 2008
Only women can be mothers. Have we forgotten this fundamental?
Only a woman can carry in her body an eternal being which bears the very image of God. Only she is the recipient of the miracle of life. Only a woman can conceive and nurture this life using her own flesh and blood, and then deliver a living soul into the world. God has bestowed upon her alone a genuine miracle — the creation of life, and the fusing of an eternal soul with mortal flesh. This fact alone establishes the glory of motherhood.
Despite the most creative plans of humanist scientists and lawmakers to redefine the sexes, no man will ever conceive and give birth to a child. The fruitful womb is a holy gift given by God to women alone. This is one reason why the office of wife and mother is the highest calling to which a woman can aspire.
This is the reason why nations that fear the Lord esteem and protect mothers. They glory in the distinctions between men and women, and attempt to build cultures in which motherhood is honored and protected.
In his famous commentary on early American life, Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville explained:
Thus the Americans do not think that man and woman have either the duty or the right to perform the same offices, but they show an equal regard for both their respective parts; and though their lot is different, they consider both of them as beings of equal value. They do not give to the courage of woman the same form or the same direction as to that of man, but they never doubt her courage; and if they hold that man and his partner ought not always to exercise their intellect and understanding in the same manner, they at least believe the understanding of the one to be as sound as that of the other, and her intellect to be as clear. Thus, then, while they have allowed the social inferiority of woman to continue, they have done all they could to raise her morally and intellectually to the level of man; and in this respect they appear to me to have excellently understood the true principle of democratic improvement.
De Tocqueville contrasted the American understanding of women, with European sentiments:
There are people in Europe who, confounding together the different characteristics of the sexes, would make man and woman into beings not only equal but alike. They could give to both the same functions, impose on both the same duties, and grant to both the same rights; they would mix them in all things — their occupations, their pleasures, their business. It may readily be conceived that by thus attempting to make one sex equal to the other, both are degraded, and from so preposterous a medley of the works of nature nothing could ever result but weak men and disorderly women.
The War on Motherhood
America's glory was her women. de Tocqueville believed this when he wrote:
As for myself, I do not hesitate to avow that although the women of the United States are confined within the narrow circle of domestic life, and their situation is in some respects one of extreme dependence, I have nowhere seen woman occupying a loftier position; and if I were asked, now that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
But this birthright would be exchanged during the last century for a mess of pottage. Perhaps the greatest legacy of the 20th century has been the war on motherhood and biblical patriarchy. Feminists, Marxists, and liberal theologians have made it their aim to target the institution of the family and divest it from its biblical structure and priorities. The results are androgyny, a radical decline in birthrate, abortion, fatherless families, and social confusion.
Incredibly, the biggest story of the 20th century never made headline news [i]. Somehow we missed it. It was the mass exodus of women from the home, and the consequent decline of motherhood. For the first time in recorded history of the West, more mothers left their homes than stayed in them. By leaving the home, the experience and reality of childhood, family life and femininity were fundamentally redefined, and the results have been so bad that if this one trend is not reversed, our grandchildren may live in a world where the both the true culture of Christian family life and the historic definition of marriage are the stuff of fairy tales.
Many "isms" have influenced these trends-evolutionism, feminism, statism, eugenicism, Marxism, and more. But in the end, the philosophical gap between the presuppositions of the Atheists, eugenicists, and Marxists of the early 20th century, and the presuppositions of the professing Church in the 21st century, have narrowed dramatically. The goals of the state and the goals of the mainstream church have so merged, that the biblical family with its emphasis on male headship, generational succession, and prolific motherhood are a threat to the social order of both institutions.
Less than one hundred years ago, the architects of the atheistic communist Soviet state anticipated the death of the Christian family. They explained the need for destroying the Christian family with its emphasis on motherhood, and replacing it with a vision for a "new family." Lenin wrote:
We must now say proudly and without any exaggeration that part from Soviet Russia, there is not a country in the world where women enjoy full equality and where women are not placed in the humiliating position felt particularly in day-to-day family life. This is one of our first and most important tasks...Housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman...The building of socialism will begin only when we have achieved the complete equality of women and when we undertake the new work together with women who have been emancipated from that petty stultifying, unproductive work...We are setting up model institutions, dining-rooms and nurseries, that will emancipate women from housework...These institutions that liberate women from their position as household slaves are springing up where it is in any way possible...Our task is to make politics available to every working woman.
In his 1920 International Working Women's Day Speech, Lenin emphasized:
The chief thing is to get women to take part in socially productive labor, to liberate them from 'domestic slavery,' to free them from their stupefying [idiotic] and humiliating subjugation to the eternal drudgery of the kitchen and the nursery. This struggle will be a long one, and it demands a radical reconstruction, both of social technique and of morale. But it will end in the complete triumph of Communism.
Lenin's comrade Trotsky played a key role in communicating the Marxist vision of what he called the "new family." Lenin and Trotsky believed in the overthrow of Christianity by destroying the biblical family. They sought to build a new state, free from historic Christian presuppositions concerning the family. This meant denigrating the biblical notion of male headship and hierarchy within the family. It meant eliminating any sense that there should be a division of labor between man and wife. This required delivering women from the burdens of childbirth and childcare. It meant adopting tools like birth control as guarantors that women could be free to remain in the workforce. Trotsky said this:
Lenin's comrade Trotsky
Socialization of family housekeeping and public education of children are unthinkable without a marked improvement in our economics as a whole. We need more socialist economic forms. Only under such conditions can we free the family from the functions and cares that now oppress and disintegrate it. Washing must be done by a public laundry, catering by a public restaurant, sewing by a public workshop. Children must be educated by good public teachers who have a real vocation for the work. Then the bond between husband and wife would be freed from everything external and accidental, and the one would cease to absorb the life of the other. Genuine equality would at last be established...
The most disturbing part of quotes like those above is how similar they sound in sentiment and spirit to voices today from individuals who claim to be a part of the Church of Jesus Christ. Even more disturbing is how many of the anti-family social reforms are presuppositions of modern Christians in America. Presuppositions which have been fully accepted.
How America's Conscience Was Seared Toward Motherhood
But motherhood is not easily defeated. It was here from the beginning and it has always carried the Church and civilization forward. Motherhood not only perpetuates civilization, it defines it.
At first Jamestown was a bachelor society struggling for survival. But she became a civilization when the women arrived. Plymouth, on the other hand, began as a civilization-families of faith committed to fruitfulness and multiplication for the glory of God, an impossibility without motherhood.
Motherhood is not easily defeated because God has placed reminders of its importance in the very bodies of the women He created. To defeat motherhood, the enemies of the biblical family must do more than make it a social inconvenience, they must teach women to despise themselves by viewing their own wombs as the enemy of self-fulfillment. This means minimizing the glorious gift of life which is only given to womankind. It means redefining what it means to be a woman.
But even this is not enough. To defeat motherhood the enemies of the biblical family must sear the conscience of an entire generation of women. This is done through the doctrines of social emancipation from the home, sexual liberation, birth control, and abortion — all four of which cause a woman to war against her created nature. Instead of being the blessed guardian of domesticity for society, she is taught that contentment can only be found by acting, dressing, and competing with men. Instead of being an object of respect, protection, and virtue, she sells herself cheaply, thus devaluing her womanhood. Instead of glorying in a fruitful womb she cuts off the very seed of life. Sometimes she even kills the life.
Years of playing the part of a man hardens a woman. It trains women to find identity in the corporation, not the home. It teaches them to be uncomfortable around children and large families---the mere presence of which is a reminder of the antithesis between God's design for womankind and the norms of post-Christian societies.
But women are not the only ones with seared consciences. Men have them too. Consider that fifty years ago a man would have winced to think of female soldiers heading into combat while stay-at-home dads are left behind changing diapers. Today's man has a seared conscience. He no longer thinks of himself as a protector of motherhood, and a defender of womankind. He comforts himself by repeating the mantras of modern feminism, and by assuring himself of how reasonable and enlightened he is — how different he is from his intolerant and oppressive fathers. But in his heart, modern man knows that he has lost something. He has lost his manhood.
To be a man, you must care about women. And you must care about them in the right way. You must care about them as creatures worthy of protection, honor, and love. This means genuinely appreciating them for their uniqueness as women. It means recognizing the preciousness of femininity over glamour, of homemaking over careerism, and of mature motherhood over perpetual youth. But when women are reduced to soldiers, sexual objects, and social competitors, it is not merely the women who lose the identity given to them by the Creator, but the men as well. This is why the attack on motherhood has produced a nation of eunuchs---socially and spiritually impotent men who have little capacity to lead, let alone love women as God intended man to love woman--as mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters.
Motherhood Will Triumph
There is an important reason why motherhood will not be defeated — The Church is her guardian. As long as she perseveres — and persevere she will — motherhood will prevail.
The Church is the ultimate vanguard of that which is most precious and most holy. She holds the oracles of God which dare to proclaim to a selfish, self-centered nation: "Children are a blessing and the fruit of the womb is His reward." Psalm 127:3.
The Church stands at the very gates of the city, willing to receive the railing complaints of feminists, atheists, and the legions arrayed against the biblical family, and she reminds the people of God: "Let the older women teach the young to love their children, to guide the homes." Titus 2:3-5.
It is this very love of the life of children, this passion for femininity and motherhood which may be God's instrument of blessing on America in the days to come. As the birth rate continues to plummet, divorce rates rise, and family life in America dissipates to the point of extinction, life-loving families will not only have an important message to share, but thy will have an army of children to help them share it.
The Question:
Teacher: Susie what do you want to be when you grow up?
Susie: I want to be a doctor.
Teacher: How wonderful! And what about you Julie?
Julie: I want to be a soldier.
Teacher: How commendable! And what about you Hannah?
Hannah: When I grow up I want to be a wife and mother!
Teacher: [dead silence]...
After years of society belittling the calling of motherhood, something wonderful is happening — something wonderfully counter-cultural! In the midst of the anti-life, anti-motherhood philosophies which pervade the culture, there is a new generation of young ladies emerging whose priorities are not determined by the world's expectations of them. They have grown up in homes where fathers shepherd them, where children are not merely welcome, but where they are deeply loved. Some of these women have been home educated, which means that many of them have grown up around babies and their mothers. They have learned to see motherhood as a joy and a high calling, because their parents see it that way.
And when asked about their future, these girls know their own minds. These are the future mothers of the Church. Young women who are not afraid to say that the goal of all of their education and training is to equip them to pursue the highest calling of womanhood, the office of wife and mother.
The Cost of Motherhood
Once a lady went to visit her friend. During the visit the children of the friend entered the room and began to play with each other. As the lady and her friend visited, the lady turned to her friend and said eagerly and yet with evidently no thought of the meaning of her words: "Oh, I'd give my life to have such children." The mother replied with a subdued earnestness whose quiet told of the depth of experience out of which her words came: "That's exactly what it costs."
There is a cost of motherhood. And the price is no small sum. And if you are not willing to pay this price, no amount of encouragement about the joys of motherhood will satisfy.
But the price of motherhood is not fundamentally different from the price of being a disciple of Jesus Christ. In fact, Christian mothers see their duty as mothers flowing from their calling to Jesus Christ. And what is this cost?
Christian motherhood means dedicating your entire life in service of others. It means standing beside your husband, following him, and investing in the lives of children whom you hope will both survive you and surpass you. It means forgoing present satisfaction for eternal rewards. It means investing in the lives of others who may never fully appreciate your sacrifice or comprehend the depth of your love. And it means doing all these things, not because you will receive the praise of man — for you will not — but because God made you to be a woman and a mother, and there is great contentment in that biblical calling.
In other words, Motherhood requires vision. It requires living by faith and not by sight.
These are some of the reasons why Motherhood is both the most biblically noble and the most socially unappreciated role to which a young woman can aspire. There are many people who ask the question: Does my life matter? But a mother that fears the Lord need never ask such a question. Upon her faithful obedience hinges the future of the church and the hope of the nation.
In 1950, the great Scottish American preacher Peter Marshall stood before the United States Senate and he explained it this way:
The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge — that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other kind of women — beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career woman, talented women, divorced women, but so seldom do we hear of a godly woman — or of a godly man either, for that matter.
I believe women come nearer fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else. It is a much nobler thing to be a good wife than to be Miss America. It is a greater achievement to establish a Christian home than it is to produce a second-rate novel filled with filth. It is a far, far better thing in the realm of morals to be old-fashioned than to be ultramodern. The world has enough women who know how to hold their cocktails, who have lost all their illusions and their faith. The world has enough women who know how to be smart.
It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right that socially correct
As we approach America's national Mother's Day celebration, lets remember that we are fighting for the Lord, and it is He who prioritizes motherhood and home as the highest calling and domain of womanhood "that the word of God be not blasphemed." Titus 2:5.
May the Lord fill our churches with faithful mothers.
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Uber debuted in Fairfield and New Haven counties last weekend, expanding its footprint to more 100 than cities and 35 countries.
"Everyone needs a safe, reliable, convenient ride, and that's what we're providing," Ed Casabian, senior community manager for San Francisco-based Uber, told Hearst Connecticut Media.
Much chagrined over Uber's arrival are entrenched competitors such as Greenwich Taxi, which challenged whether Uber has the proper permits to operate in Connecticut.
"The whole thing is all wet," said Buddy Boskello, longtime owner of Greenwich Taxi. "I think it's 100 percent illegal."
But the state Department of Transportation is confounded by the Uber phenomenon, which relies on a network of independent drivers who use heir own unmarked vehicles.
"As it stands right now, the Connecticut DOT doesn't have any regulatory jurisdiction over Uber," said Kevin Nursick, a spokesman for the agency. "So the bigger question is, should it and what should it be?"
A credit card is required to use the Uber app, which gives customers realtime GPS tracking of nearby cars that they can reserve from their smartphone, tablet or desktop computer. The cars are routed to passengers by the same GPS technology, which provides customers with a photo of their driver.
Passengers who shun traditional taxi services in favor of Uber "don't worry about who the driver is," said Yoseph Haile, 30, an Ethiopian immigrant and part-time student from New Haven who supplements his income at the VA hospital in West Haven as a driver for Uber. "They don't worry whether this guy drives in the right direction or not."
In Connecticut, Uber charges a $3 base fare plus $2.25 per mile or 30 cents per minute in traffic, in addition to a $1 safe-ride fee for its standard car-for-hire service.
Through May 11, the Google and Goldman Sachs-backed venture is running a promotion of five free rides of up to $30 each to its new customers in Connecticut.
"We're seeing a lot of demand from both the rider side and driver side to get on the system," Casabian said.
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Traditional taxi services are regulated by the state DOT, which requires proposed carriers to show that the transportation needs in a city or town aren't being met. Those familiar with the process characterized it as arduous, with the state requesting proof of insurance, financial records and criminal background checks on cab drivers, including moving violations.
"If we have to abide by the state of Connecticut regulations, I'm sure they do," Boskello said of Uber.
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"The law and regulations don't give us any authority to do anything, and we can't do anything," Nursick said. "My understanding right now is that the Legislature is pondering a study scenario where entities such as Uber would be studied from a regulatory framework perspective to determine where they fit and if they fit in at all."Read Full Article
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Fares are automatically billed to the credit card on file, with the driver getting an 80 percent cut and Uber taking 20 percent. Tips are included in the price.
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Haile, who drives a Toyota RAV4, understands how traditional taxi services might become territorial.
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Arlen Specter US Senator from Pennsylvania wrote the Warren Report, the official inquiry into President John Kennedy's death, that said Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone shot the President in Dallas Texas 22 November 1963.
Specter should be hauled before a court of capital jurisdiction, and be required to explain why he neglected the photo that shows Lee Oswald, at the door of the Texas School Book Depository, the building from where he is alleged to have fired, as the shots rang out.
Do not listen to any BS about Billy Lovelady, there was no Billy Lovelady he is a figment of the imagination of lawyers who want to confute the real issues!
This shot shows LHO still at the door talking to a uniformed person as the tramps are marched by, the assassination time line indicates that it was some hours before they were taken into custody, sinking the assertion that he took a bus then a taxi away from the scene, and then went to the movies after killing Dallas Police Officer JD Tippets!
Green Marker - Dealey Plaza where the President was shot at 12:30 pm, Red Marker - Texas Theater where Lee Oswald was allegedly apprehended at 1:50 pm, after allegedly having shot Officer Tippets about a block away at East 10th Street at around 1:08 pm!
YouTube - Discovery JFK assassination.. Lee Oswald is visible standing at the door of the TSBD at 27 seconds in this video.
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Tax time can be stressful enough without worrying about whether your tax issues will spill over to your credit reports and affect your scores.
The good news is that simply filing an extension or finding that you owe the IRS a chunk of money come tax time shouldn't affect your credit reports. It's only when you don't have the money to pay what you owe that it can affect your credit.
Following are five ways that your yearly payment to Uncle Sam can affect your credit.
Going Into Hock to Pay Taxes
Many years ago, in my first year of self-employment, my accountant calculated my estimated taxes but forgot about the "self-employment tax" -- the portion of taxes that cover Medicare and Social Security. As a result, I learned on April 14 (!) that I owed a much bigger tax bill than I expected. At that time, there was no option to pay by credit card, and I didn't want to drain my savings entirely to pay it.
I ended up taking out a personal loan from my bank at a low interest rate and paid it off fairly quickly. It worked out OK. The loan, however, did appear on my credit reports. It didn't create any problems for me, but if you are going to borrow from another source such as credit cards or a personal loan to pay your taxes, keep in mind that debt can affect your credit scores. How much it will hurt (or help) your scores depends on everything else in your credit reports.
Keep it in perspective, though. After all, you may find it's better to owe a credit card issuer than to owe the IRS. Another option is to enter into an installment agreement with the IRS where you pay them monthly until your balance is paid off. In most cases, these payment plans don't appear on your credit. However, if you owe a large amount, you could wind up with a Notice of Federal Tax Lien filed against you, and that will definitely affect your credit. (More on that later.)
Quick Refund Woes
If you need your refund fast, you may be tempted to take advantage of a "refund anticipation loan." Often marketed as "instant" or "rapid" refunds, these short-term loans basically advance you your refund, usually at a very high cost. Whether or not this will show up on your credit reports depends on the lender's policies.
For example, H&R Block currently offers a Refund Anticipation Check, and its website states that this is a "bank deposit, not a loan." But it also offers a line of credit called the Emerald Advance and that does impact the taxpayer's credit. Their website says, "If you apply and qualify for an Emerald Advance, H&R Block Bank may report information about your account to credit bureaus. Late payments, missed payments, or other defaults on your account may be reflected in your credit report."
Also understand that if your refund takes longer than expected to arrive -- or doesn't come through at all -- you may wind up falling behind on this loan and that can end up on your credit reports. Don't think that won't happen to you. Tax-related identity theft is a large and growing problem I'll discuss in a moment. The New York Department of Consumer Affairs warns:
A RAL can damage your credit report ... If you're unable to repay the lender (usually a bank), the bank will report the unpaid debt to a credit agency which will negatively affect your credit report.
Tax Liens
If the amount of taxes you owe is large enough, or if you don't resolve your debt quickly with the IRS, you could find yourself with a tax lien on your credit reports. Tax liens fall in the "seriously negative" category with items like collection accounts or bankruptcy.
Fortunately, the IRS has become more lenient in its policies regarding tax liens in recent years. The threshold for automatically filing a lien has risen from $5,000 to $10,000. In addition, the IRS has a relatively new policy that allows taxpayers to request that lien be withdrawn once the debt has been paid in full. (After it has been withdrawn it can be removed from credit reports as well.)
And finally, taxpayers who owe $25,000 or less and enter into a direct debit installment agreement may be able to get the tax lien withdrawn after a few monthly payments have been made. If you do wind up with a tax lien on your credit reports, take the time to find out whether you can get it removed from your credit if you resolve the debt. If you're successful, your credit scores could rise significantly, provided the rest of the information in your reports is positive.
Going Bankrupt Because of Taxes
If you simply can't pay, tax debt can force you into bankruptcy. You may have to file to get rid of other debts so you can pay your taxes, or you may have to file to discharge some or all of your tax debt. Either way, the bankruptcy will be a serious setback for your credit and will remain on your reports for seven years if you file a Chapter 13 case or 10 years if you file under Chapter 7.
The reason you filed -- even if you believe the taxes were improper or unfair -- won't matter as far as your credit is concerned. All bankruptcies are treated the same when credit scores are calculated.
Identity Theft
If you file your tax return expecting a refund, but are told by the IRS that your refund has already been issued, you may discover that you are a victim of tax-related identity theft.
It's a problem that's expected to reach $21 billion during the next five years and the IRS is not doing a lot at this point to protect taxpayers. While the fact that you have been a victim of this type of fraud won't automatically affect your credit reports, you'll probably want to place a fraud alert or credit freeze on your credit reports. And that will make applying for credit or other services such as a cell phone, utilities or insurance, that much more of a hassle.
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LT News was successfully launched a little over a year ago. Quickly, it has become a staple of targeted Lithuanian online news. "LT" is short for, Lithuanian. So, basically it is Lithuanian News and Information via internet. This site helps people who are interested in learning about the Lithuanian culture (because of family, friends or circumstances).
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If you are not yet aware of it, a couple of months ago I released a little puzzle platformer called Builder. I had a couple of goals with this game. The first is that I had been researching RSD Game-Maker, a 20-year-old DOS-based development environment (see my earlier post about cly5m), and I wondered if the old tools would support a relevant, contemporary game. As it turns out — maybe!
My other goal ties into the weirdness of the old engine. I have long been fascinated with glitches, and the odd mechanical and expressive qualities that they bring to a game. I figured this was a chance for me to explore the deliberate aspects of both of those qualities. You can play the surface game, and it's fine — but until you start to pick away at the scenery, you're only getting a part of the picture.
I won't say that Builder is the most profound or involving game on the planet, but I'm pleased with it. You can download it for PC or Mac (which I have not tested; I have been told is a little slow), and you can make it work in Linux. There are more screenshots here.
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The troll Mar'li was the High Priestess of the Primal God Shadra, the god spider.
In order to quell Hakkar the Soulflayer, the trolls of the land banded together and sent a contingent of High Priests into the ancient city of Zul'Gurub. Each priest was a powerful champion of the Primal Gods, but despite their best efforts they fell under the sway of Hakkar. Now the champions and their Primal God aspects feed the awesome power of the Soulflayer. Any adventurers brave enough to venture into the foreboding ruins must overcome the High Priests if they are to have any hope of confronting the mighty blood god.
Mar'li has two main forms, like the other bosses in Zul'Gurub. She starts off in her troll form where she can spawn adds and cast 30 yard AoE poison. These spider adds quickly gain strength and size if not killed quickly. When she transforms into her spider form she will web everyone standing near her in place and charge. As soon as she webs everyone she will attack the person with the highest aggro that has not been webbed (usually a healer if they are out of range.)
For this fight you need two tanks. To start the fight, have a priest Mind Control the Speaker and make the Speaker attack Mar'li. At this point four spiders will spawn that need to be AoE'ed down right away. Once the spiders are down, and the Speaker gets pwned by Mar'li, the tank will pick up aggro and all ranged classes should cluster up outside of her AoE range. So set up like this:
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OT = tank #2 (Off tank)
r = Rogues
Once the tank gets aggro, all melee apart from the OT begin attacking. Periodically, she will shapeshift into a spider form. When she does this, she'll web all the melee around her and wipe their aggro. She'll then charge the ranged group where the other tank will be waiting to pick up aggro and pull her back to the MT position. The OT is now the main tank, and the MT heads back to the ranged group to pick up the next charge. Be sure the ranged stay clustered up, otherwise it will be difficult for the tank to pick her up right away.
Periodically, a spider will spawn. If the spider is not immediately killed it will grow larger and more powerful and will wipe the raid. Just call it out and have your ranged deal with them right away, they drop quickly.
When in caster form, Mar'li will attempt to life drain someone. Be sure to immediately counter this with an interrupt ability such as Kick or Shield Bash. It is sometimes hard to see if she is life draining or not, so pay attention. Do not let her heal herself; it is a significant amount. There is some debate about the usefulness of mana drain. Some claim that it will not prevent her from casting her life drain, but direct experience from others contradicts this. Mana drain does appear to be a useful tactic.
The OT should tank the Speaker, while the MT tank the boss. The OT take the speaker back to the main raid place. Its pretty fast killing, so the OT will have the time to get to his place and be ready to the Archnopoly. This way you don't need the MC, just two tanks.
04/29/2006 - Tried using the Mind Control method on the Speaker, not sure if he has changed but priest was getting an immune message (or at least that is what they said). Will try again for a definitive answer. If you kill the speaker, however, he will not respawn even after a reset of the encounter.
05/13/2006 - Something that my raid group does is leash the boss so we can pull the speaker and the initial wave of 4 spiders. We have a person mount and aggro, and then pull them all back to the passage leading up to the main spider room, have everyone stand at least behind the second set of torches, Mar'li will then return to her spot, but the Speaker and the initial spawn of spiders will stay. This takes care of the speaker, and the initial (hardest spawn) of spiders when you actually fight her. Note, that I think this method only works if the speaker is alive, if tried after a wipe, Mar'li does not appear to leash, and will stay to fight back in the hallway.
05/18/2006 - Draining mana does work to prevent Mar'li from healing. However it is important that a hunter keep viper sting on at all times, as any positive mana can enable a heal. If Mar'li is at zero (0) mana, we've never seen her heal.
- Kick / earthshock / shield bash is considered more mana efficient however.
06/06/2006 - If the raid has 3 warriors, a variation is to form a triangle after killing the speaker and initial spiders, with the main group set normally with an OT guarding them. Then you have the other two tanks out in front, spread apart to either side of the path. A hunter is also with a tank. The solo tank gains aggro on the boss, and once webbed the hunter uses distracting shot to draw the boss from the group to the other tank. If it misses the third tank taunts the boss to the other tank. The hunter then moves to the other side and readies distracting shot for the next web attack. This minimizes the time the main group spends within range of the poison AoE, which saves lots of druid/paladin mana.
25/06/2006 - Seems to have been buffed somewhat in 1.11. Higher spawnrates on small spiders for one thing.
26/08/2006 - Mind controlling the speaker works fine in 1.12. Mar'li kills him in 2-4 hits.
26/08/2006 - On the groups before Mar'li they seem to have broken the geometry a bit so we've been getting a lot of evades.
02/10/2006 - Be sure that no members of the raid stand on the rocks/eggs that line the room - the geometry problems have to do with those, and it can cause either trash mobs or Mar'li herself to evade and heal back to full health
14/10/2006 - Druids in bear form are IMMUNE to her web. They can simply charge and taunt her before she even reaches the ranged group.
26/7/2007 - For lousy parties with only 10-15 level 60+, it's enough to have the main tank and 2 people to deal with Mar'Li while the rest of the party takes care of her adds.
Spawn spiders:
- Aid me my brood!
Shadra form:
- Shadra, make of me your avatar!
Troll form:
- The brood shall not fall!
- Bless you, mortals, for this release...Hakkar controls me no longer.
Patches and hotfixesEdit
- Patch 5.2.0 (5-Mar-2013): Re-added in Throne of Thunder scenario
- Patch 4.0.3 (15-Nov-2010): Removed from the game
- Patch 1.8.0 (10-Oct-2005): High Priestess Mar'li will now de-spawn her summoned spiders when she returns from combat.
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After last Friday's downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, which killed 298 people, signs point toward Russian separatists as being the culprits. And fingers are being pointed at Russia and President Vladimir Putin for providing the weaponry involved in the attack. Editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley indirectly blames Putin, while Chip Bok says that indeed "The bear is loose," using a phrase from President Obama.
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Republicans are from Venus and President Obama is from Mars. Nothing better demonstrates this than their stances on taxes, spending, and jobs.
Obama wants to reform corporate taxes–shut loopholes, impose a mandatory levy on profits earned abroad, and lower rates overall–but to also raise some additional revenue to fund his jobs initiatives.
The corporate tax code is too complex and encourages tax avoidance more than sound investments. However, rates are much higher than in competing nations, and the United States taxes profits earned outside its territory whereas other governments do not.
All this encourages U.S. multinationals to invest and create jobs abroad and keep profits parked there, where they can't foster American growth and jobs. Firms such as Eaton and Sara Lee have even moved corporate headquarters to low tax jurisdictions.
By collecting more taxes on U.S. and foreign operations, the president would encourage more factories and firms to leave the country, save their marketing activities.
Obama wants to spend the revenue bonanza on much needed but poorly conceived infrastructure projects–federally supported projects import too many materials from China and require Davis-Bacon union jobs–education and jobs training.
The purpose of stimulus money is not to boost employment in the Middle Kingdom, and after the Detroit and GM bankruptcies, no sane person would advocate strengthening unions.
American schools and universities suffer not from too little money. The real problems are: regulations and school cultures that handicap teachers from intelligently addressing a diverse student population; politically conservative parents who place too much emphasis on sports, liberal parents who value too much community service, and neither valuing enough academic excellence; and schools and universities run by incompetent bureaucrats.
The federal government already has too many job training programs that don't train much of anyone for a job.
For its part, the GOP House wants to extract spending cuts to reduce the budget deficit but won't accept measures really needed to accomplish political success–higher payroll taxes and more prudent health care regulations.
Americans are living longer and can work longer, as such the social security retirement age should be raised to 70; however, the federal pension system needs to address other challenges.
Americans working in the private sector can no longer count on employers to provide decent pensions, and IRAs and other tax-deferred savings schemes are not making up the difference–for reasons including Americans' inability to save, the paucity of tax incentives, and lower interest rates and stock market returns.
Demographics require raising the retirement age, and politics will mandate bigger benefits once people get old enough. Republicans don't even want to talk about the latter, but in the end, old people vote, and they will vote for Democrats who propose an expanded system once President Obama exits the scene–he won't even recognize the need to raise the retirement age.
On health care, the nation spends too much, 50 percent more than the private German and Dutch systems, who better regulate prices and get better results. ObamaCare is not the answer–subsidizing a broken system won't help–but neither is the market system we had before it.
If the Republicans are serious about replacing ObamaCare–and slicing Medicare and Medicaid spending–they must embrace price regulations, but that has as much chance of happening as I do playing shortstop for the New York Yankees.
This fall, when the great American drama reprises–negotiations between the president and Congress over the raising the debt ceiling–Netflix could provide a great public service distributing gratis an appropriate classic, Ship of Fools!
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tasty little visual gag!ReplyDelete
Merci, monsieur. And would sir like to follow that with a *waffer-thin* mint?ReplyDelete
This is a great gag, Royston.ReplyDelete
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Nice gag! I drew a similar one featuring microscopes for a 2013 calendar. Hopefully you won't think 'he copied me!' when you see it. :)ReplyDelete
Ha, no of course not. It happens, as we know. It's probably been done before anyway, back when "nouvelle cuisine" was popular.ReplyDelete
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I saw this release this morning. Many industry people will be quick to speak of Cal Spas in a "Not so Kind" light, but the fact remains they respond to consumer trends quicker than anyone.
So, from my perspective if a company produces a product that is "green" and also happens to be a great bang for buck, that's a winner. Now it's up to their dealers to provide the service and that's where the bad or good reputation really happens.
If you are shopping for hot tub – shop a few different dealers and brands, and you'll know whats best for you. The release is below.
Cal Spas Launches Eco-Conscious Hot Tub Line
Hot Tub Giant introduces Gen II™, an energy-efficient acrylic hot tub series
Los Angeles, CA—(April 11, 2011)
Cal Spas, the world leader in stylish, Home Resort products is pleased to announce the launch of the Gen II™ Spa Series, an efficient entry-level "Plug & Play" hot tub lineup.
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The Gen II™ Spa Series includes four exclusive models and is the most efficient and cost-effective full-size, acrylic hot tub series in the industry. It features a high performance one-of-a-kind 1.5 HP pump, offered exclusively through Cal Spas, that lowers energy costs by efficiently circulating and filtering 100 percent of the spa water. The Gen II™ is also equipped with a convenient "Plug & Play" kit, which reduces installation costs. With the "Plug & Play" kit, Gen II™ hot tubs are easily installed without the expense of an electrician since consumers can simply fill up a Gen II™ hot tub and plug it into any working electrical socket prior to use.
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