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Okay, these people, who reportedly habitually sleep out in a tipi all winter, considerably further north in Maine than us, are definitely hard-core and definitely qualify as Heroes of the Cold House (or, cold native-style shelter, as it were.) I can't fully commend them on their overall efforts at lowering their environmental impact (unless quite a few of their 11 kids are adopted), but for sure they deserve admiration for trying out this way of life. (Also, I can commend them on managing life with 11 kids, which boggles my mind much more than their cold-tipi-sleeping…)
I can't really compare our lifestyle to theirs, but our sleeping plans are a bit similar. They mention using an electric blanket, which is also a critical part of our strategy for sleeping in an unheated bedroom. Our bedroom, though, at least has solid walls, and rarely goes down into the 30F range– while their's must routinely go well below freezing, if not below 0F.
Actually, it's not quite clear in the story whether they use fire inside the tipi– in the video clip, Mrs. Winters (great name) says they never have heat in the tipi– but in other photos, you see her wheeling some very large pieces of firewood towards the tipi, with mention that Mr. Winters "had started a fire inside". And in another photo, you see a small fire in the tipi. But they appear to have two tipis, so maybe one is a hang-out tipi where they have fires, and the other is for sleeping and totally unheated? It would seem considerably unpleasant to sleep in a tipi with a smoky wood fire burning inside– hard to imagine they would be doing that.
Anyway, I'm hoping we might get an invitation to go visit. Also, this reminds me of an idea I had last winter: to build an igloo in our yard, and offer overnights in it via Airbnb. Also, I note a great advantage of their sleeping arrangement: they are very unlikely ever to be infested with bed bugs, which can't survive prolonged sub-freezing temps.


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CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds of Islamists rallied in Egypt's capital and across the country Friday, calling for a boycott of an upcoming constitutional referendum as clashes with security forces killed three people, officials said.
Friday has traditionally been a day of protests for the supporters of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi since he was toppled in a July 3 popularly backed military coup. This Friday, Islamist supporters of Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood organization added a call to boycott of the Jan. 14-15 referendum on changes to the constitution drafted under the ousted president.
Egypt's military-backed interim government is seeking a comfortable "yes" majority vote and a strong turnout that would enshrine their legitimacy ahead of planned presidential and parliamentary elections.
In clashes Friday in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, a street vendor was shot and killed as hundreds of Morsi supporters marched, Maj. Gen. Nasser el-Abd said. It wasn't clear who shot the vendor.
Protesters set fire to tires and trash cans, threw gasoline bombs, used flares and threw rocks at the security forces, who fired tear gas and chased them in side streets, according to a police statement. Two people were injured by bird shot, while protesters set a car ablaze and partially burnt a police vehicle, police said.
In Suez, gunfire killed two people and injured seven as clashes raged between Islamists and security forces, a health official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to speak to journalists.
Waleed Gelany, an eyewitness to the clashes, said police fired tear gas even before the protesters attempted to march from a local mosque to the center of the city. Gelany said soldiers fired live ammunition at protesters.
In the eastern Cairo district of Nasr City, protesters hurled stones and empty bottles at security forces, a security official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not allowed to brief journalists. In the southern city of Minya, Maj. Gen. Osama Metwalli said protesters threw gasoline bombs at the police, who responded with tear gas.
Police arrested at least 70 Morsi supporters Friday and confiscated firearms and ammunition, officials said. Health Ministry official Khaled el-Khatib confirmed the three deaths and said the clashes wounded 12 people nationwide.
In recent weeks, protests have become increasingly violent and the government designated the Brotherhood a terrorist group. At least 17 civilians were killed last Friday around Egypt, including 10 in the capital alone.
The Brotherhood-led coalition has promised to protest during the vote, raising fears of possible unrest during the poll. On Friday, military spokesman Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said at least 160,000 soldiers will deploy alongside the police to secure polling stations nationwide.
Ali said on his official Facebook page that forces were trained on practical ways to "disperse riots and deal with protests and attempts disrupt the vote."
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When James Blake swanned into the singer-songwriter market this February, naked from the waist down and having a little cry about it, the ensuing commotion said everything and nothing we needed to hear. We knew, of course, the snippets of quasi-wisdom blurted out weren't particularly big or clever. (This chap even went to the trouble of decrying the entire DiS website over Noel Gardner's 5/10 review, despite admitting to not having read it.) And yet if one Twitter feed wasn't spewing forth streams of inconsequential knee-jerk aggro, then you'd be willing to bet another would be wanking lyrical over that self-titled debut in double measure. Come release day proper, even poor Jimmy B's mum could be observed furrowing brow over whether to finally splash out her hard-earned on the thing... probably.
Met with surprisingly little fanfare, this six-song follow-up EP has been available to stream since early October. Which means you probably already know it's a far cry from the 'Order/Pan' single - not the return to pre-James Blake days certain factions were crying for. Nor is it any kind of odds-and-sods accompaniment to February's main event, but more a thoughtful relocation of that record's jilted marriage of promise (weeping at the altar) and satisfying payoff (did legs).
It's unsurprising then, that consistency is again the main issue here. 'Fall Creek Boys Choir', the one with Bon Iver, is a curiously ugly thing that sounds like a late-Noughties major label rep spilling Coors Light all over an empty dancefloor. The vastly superior 'We Might Feel Unsound', meanwhile - if you prefer your similes a mite more tangible - can be described as 'bedroom music' only if you share pillows with various Godspeed You! Black Emperor guitar quibble-enthusiasts, as an ashen-faced DJ Nate sits cry-wanking in the corner. That's way more toothsome than it sounds, actually, buttressing some glassy pianos with uneasily wibbling vocal affectations, but elsewhere the awkward cover of Joni Mitchell's 'A Case of You' - standard, stammering piano-and-vocal fare - is exactly as unappetising as you might imagine. If the thing isn't actively offensive, all sweetly ascending majors and lurching lows, you're hard-pressed to brush aside the feeling it's not only unforgivably spermy but entirely unnecessary; especially within the repertoire of an artist whose calling card is a sometimes astonishing lightness of touch, along with, to a lesser degree, his vocal's feminine peculiarity, you feel that like the J-Vern collab this fully exploits neither, simply wafting by feeling at best tame or at worst plain annoying.
Its inclusion, however, is hardly surprising. After the gentle giant's recent rant about mainstream dubstep, Enough Thunder is accordingly a happy sanctuary from My Sub-Bass Is Deeper Than Yours dick-swinging affairs. And in light of Blake's sallying into the yet-more-lachrymose - along with the incoming realisation that maybe this whole 'blubstep' (no, no, we probably shouldn't) thing is genuinely what he wanted to do, and he wasn't nudged or The Manned in any way - I mean, you might, sort of, slightly, maybe admit this whole album/EP bundle on our hands, while a little underdeveloped, isn't actually that end-of-days bad, by any stretch, is it? There's more subtlety than Blake's post-Klavierwerke material is credited for, too. The title track - a Joni Mitchell-does-'Martha My Dear' kinda swing - by virtue of its water-bitten reverb sounds like a tattered old love letter being beamed up from the bottom of a 45 foot well, which'd explain the sense of spare detachment therein. Far from leaving you cold, it lends an earthy weightiness to the young lad's finest solo piano-and-voice song to date.
It's the extraordinary ordinariness, sophisticated simplicity, that redeems all this: even when bass drums calmly clatter wall-to-wall like hungover flies in a jar, there's a gentle edge that's mellow and mellifluous, distant yet direct. That means none of the tidal insect-noise of 'The Wilhelm Scream' or 'I Never Learnt to Share', and only 'Not Long Now's slightly muted low-end rattle delves nearly as deep as the bowel-bothering basslines of that 'Limit to Your Love' cover. But whatever your gripes, and there are a few (you hesitate to flat-out yell 'Give the Autotune a rest, pal', but really...), there's at least something faintly promising about the fact the two weakest tracks here are not his own. Well done, James Blake. You honestly aren't that bad at all, mate.
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Heard the one about being buried in a sawdust pit to detox? Or wrapped in mojito cocktail mix or slathered in estuary mud? What about the Doctor fish that nibble your dead skin? These are just some of the weird and wacky spa treatments out there.
Fishy Feet
Not for the ticklish, these fish foot spas are big in Asia. The Doctor fish is said to have antiseptic saliva and love nothing more than to nibble dead skin of your feet, elbows or anywhere else. They tickle and they can sting like the flick of a rubber band, but it's an experience you should try at least once.
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The Hinoki Enzyme spa is about sweating and detoxing. The reality is, once wearing a onesy with a hood, you lie in a freshly dug pit in wood chip compost. The guy who dug your hole then covers you up except for your face and you lie there as long as you can. That's usually about 10-15 minutes. The result? A feeling of post-gym workout euphoria. Well, that's what they told me I was feeling.
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I'm sitting on the beach with my left leg over a stranger's thigh and another stranger's foot in my lap. This is the curious mud and bubbles massage at Eco Beach Resort in West Australia. Estuary mud was collected at low tide nearby and right now we're giving each other a sand exfoliation on the incoming tide. Next we slather our bodies in the mud and drink bubbles as it dries before running into the sea to wash it off.
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MacRae appeared in such films as Pretty Baby (1950), Caged (1950), Backfire (1950), and Sex and the Single Girl (1964).
She played Alice Kramden, the long-suffering but sassy wife of bus driver Ralph Kramden (played by Jackie Gleason) on the musical-comedy color episodes of "The Honeymooners" on The Jackie Gleason Show from 1966 to 1970 (a role originally played by Pert Kelton and then Audrey Meadows). She later played the role of "Madelyn Richmond" on the television soap opera, General Hospital.


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Your credit score is essentially a translation of your credit report into a 3 digit score that enables lenders to evaluate your application for credit in a fast and more objective manner. Most people don't realize that although they are entitled to receive their credit report, free of charge, annually from each of 3 reporting agencies (TransUnion, Equifax, etc), obtaining their credit score requires a payment to one of these services. The credit score is one of a few factors that a lender uses when deciding to extend credit, provide insurance or financial services. Understanding the contents of your credit report and your credit score, is critical if you are considering a major purchase where you will seek credit (or a loan) or even if you're simply changing auto insurance companies.
Besides your credit score, other factors considered by lenders include: length of employment, income and previous experience with a customer. Depending on what you're applying for, some lenders will consider the various factors differently, applying more weight to one than another.
In theory, if you have a high score, lenders should be able to conclude that you are capable of repaying your debts. This enables lenders to provide you with the best available loan terms, including interest rates. If you can understand the factors that determine your credit score, you should be able to improve upon those where you're weakest and increase your overall score.
1)Amount paid on an open real estate account is too low – if the balance remaining on your home or auto loan is close to the value of the property, it may be considered a negative factor when determining creditworthiness. Lenders will look more favorably on a customer who has committed a large down payment to a home or auto.
2)Available credit on open revolving credit accounts is too low – having credit available is a sign that you are able to manage your finances responsibly. Lenders like customers that have large amounts of credit available.
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Regardless of whether your score is high or low, when you receive your credit report and score, there may be a lot of discussion and interpretation included. You should read the report thoroughly and identify what opportunities you can immediately take to improve your score. Most of the easy fixes (which I refer to as, "low hanging fruit") may be disputing and correcting errors or simply closing a few older retail accounts that you haven't used for a while and you don't intend to use anymore. Consumer reporting agencies must correct or delete inaccurate, incomplete or unverifiable information.
For example, if you opened an account with Target 6 years ago in order to save 10% on a large purchase, you haven't used the card since, you've paid off the purchase long ago and you have other older active accounts, it would be a good idea to close the account. You may also discover errors on your report such as an unpaid and overdue balance on an account with a doctor or local merchant. If an error exists which is negatively impacting your score, you have the right to dispute the error. If you believe your debt was paid on time and in full and/or at least paid in full, then you should approach the person/company that is reporting the issue with your account. You may request that they remove the documentation of a problem from your account.
Since your credit score is a snapshot of your credit report at the time it was calculated, long term responsible credit behavior is the most effective way to improve future scores. Following are the best ways to improve your score.
a)Pay bills on time – utility bills, credit cards, mortgage and auto loans are the obvious bills to pay. However, paying medical bills and insurance on time also impacts your credit score.
b)Lower balances on revolving credit cards – this assists factors 2 & 3 above. This increases your available credit on card.
c)Use credit wisely – paying bills on time and lowering balances is the first step. Limit applications for additional credit, unless, of course you're seeking better terms to pay down balances on a high interest loan/credit card. Continually applying for new cards, in order to swap balances to lower interest cards, may appear to save you money, but it can be viewed as a negative by consumer reporting agencies.
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We reported earlier today that Lamborghini's considering building an S7-based SUV, to which we say "Booooo!" in our most disdainful voice, but lo and behold, Edmunds' Inside Line is reporting that given the reaction to the Miura concept, they may actually build a limited number of the revived proto-exotic. An official announcement on the yays or the nays of such a thing is expected at Geneva, which means you've only gotta hold onto your drawers for another month, kids.
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The reported decision of NABARD that "The decline in credit allocation targets is surprising in the context of Centre's directives to banks to double flow of credit to the agriculture sector in three years starting 2004-05," VJAS leader kishor tiwari informed .vidarbha farmers wills strongly protest and we will not only restore credit outlay to Rs.3, 300 crore but will have loan waiver too, kishor tiwari added.
Hundreds farmers of Yavatmal distt. started DHARANA AGITATION before Central Bank of India Pandharkawada Branch in Yavatmal District demanding fresh crop loan to every defaulter farmers will over due loan waiver,Kishor Tiwari said.
It is complete injustice with west dying cotton farmers as most of the growth in priority sector lending has gone to districts in Western Maharashtra and Marathwada, largely due to SHARAD PAWAR NCP base regions as compared to Vidarbha. For instance, Pune gets a 91% rise in its credit allocation target. NABARD is acting against the agriculture sector plan for six districts of Vidarbha was prepared based on the last three years' trend though an upward revision of Rs 1,275 crore was made specially under the PM's relief package during 2006-07.
"The PM's package, among other factors, rightly appreciated lack of an extensive network of formal credit in Vidarbha as one of the root causes of suicides. Cutting down on credit allocations for this reason amounts to punishing Vidarbha for being chosen for the PM's package, now cotton farmers are left at mercy of private money Leander inviting more farm suicides.
Now time has come for separating vidarbha state from maharashtra due complete contrast in fiscal condition and increasing backlog of region and we will press this demand in future too if we are being neglected and forced to kill ourselves ,kishor tiwari added.
As bankers have stopped giving fresh crop loan and drop down the credit facility by 40% as per NABARD order ,debt starved cotton farmers are killing themselves, Kishor Tiwati Vidarbha Jan adndolan Samiti informed today.
When Indian finance minister submitted his annual budget for year 2007-08, it was warmly welcomed as "agriculture budget" but in result as per order of NABARD bankers association has taken decision to suddenly drop down the credit outlay for vidarbha cotton farmers .as reported the credit bonanza for farmers in Vidarbha seems to be over. After aggressive lending in the previous fiscal, the credit allocation targets set under the annual credit plan for 2007-08 for six districts of Vidarbha show a steep decline. Incidentally, these are the districts that have been reporting maximum farm suicides and where farmers' dependence on illegal money-lenders has been one of the root causes .
Credit lending targets for six districts have been revised downwards compared to last year, as per recent decision of bankers association. In 2005-06 fiscal, banks disbursed credit of Rs 765 crore in six districts. But thanks to the PM's package, the crop credit shot up to Rs 2,033 crore in the last fiscal. The current plan, however, allocates only Rs 1,683 crore for crop credit For instance, Yavatmal district, which has reported maximum suicides, has been earmarked a target of only Rs 434.96 crore which is almost a 30% decline from its 2006-07 target. Washim district shows a decline of 41%, Akola 36%, and Buldhana 38%, against the previous fiscal's targets. District credit plans have been finalised on the basis of broad guidelines prepared by NABARD.
veteran Gandhian leader mohan dharia has in letter to VJAS supported vidarbha Cotton farmers stir for fresh credit and complete loan waiver in fact he was indefinite fast last year and Maharashtra govt. promised to fulfill is demands but then back out.VJAS leader has announced that next step of agitation will be held before bank of maharashtra patan branch on 2nd july 2007, release added.
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The concerned Indian Prime Minister, has been left searching for the right answers, from all the agricultural experts, while his own Agriculture Minister ignores the suicides from his home state and manages the strings of the Indian cricket team, a job no doubt he loves more than finding answers to the task entrusted to him as Indian Agriculture Minister – saving farmers from rural distress.
Another case of Humpty Dumpty on the rural front, as Indians get busy with cricket season and fortunes of coaches.
Even the Indian Sensex Minister is now feeling short changed, by the massive imports bills, deposited on his doorsteps, on the food front, which threaten to blow a hole through his economic strategy of industrial development and growth in Services sectors.
Never had the Sensex Minister thought that India would soon be vying for the "dubious slot of largest food importer in the world", while safely in the hands of Punjabi wheat eaters, and Oxbridge economists, as a fallout of UPA government policies and the net result of the much touted Common Minimum Programme, with help of left parties.
The left parties are now more busy spending sleepless nights trying to ensure a President of their choice, rather than the reality of long term Indian food security issues.
Soon after suggesting budgetary support and subsidies for sugar exporters, the Agriculture Minister has gone ahead on a global buying spree for wheat. He just does not seem to like Punjabi and Haryanvi wheat. It is not tasty enough for him or maybe a trifle too full of pesticides for even his liking.
In a bid to wash off the spots on the UPA governments Three Year Achievements, and what even the lacklustre opposition performance by the NDA could not accomplish, is being accomplished in the rural fields of Vidarbha and West Bengal.
Understandably, genuine Congress election strategists are worried.
Let us examine the content of the Prime Minister's concern about Indian rural distress, worded as it is in very general terms and coming on the heels of the three years of crowning achievements of the Central ruling UPA coalition and the electoral losses in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
In his directions to Planning Commission, Finance Minister and Cricket Minister he has pointed out :
1. Poor growth in farm output, at approximately 2%, is the main cause of agrarian and rural distress
2. There is need for focussing on short and medium term strategies for raising farm output
3. Burden of blame must be strategically be shared with states, as according to his understanding, the Central UPa government is having to face too much unnecessary criticism as being the most responsible player in the rural distress drama of Indian politicians and urban economists. The solution to this is seen as rewarding those states which come out with agrarian focussed programmes, agro climatic and local rural growth strategies, with possible budgetary support.
Surprisingly, the music of the old song of ushering in a Second Green Revolution, futures trading in commodities markets, contract farming, agro processing Special Export Zones, seems to have been lost in the wake of Vidarbha and Uttar Pradesh debacles.
He has stated "I would only like to emphasise that whatever strategies we choose to adopt must deliver some results in the short and medium term, so that tangible benefits are visible – to farmers, consumers and the rural economy as a whole.
This is important if we have to avert any crisis in the agrarian sector and fulfil the needs of a growing economy."
All the king's horses and all the kings men, couldn't put Humpty together again … He directed the Planning Commission to come up with a major programme to enhance central support to those states that prepare localised plans.
This obviously means he is still not prepared to ask his heavy weight Cricket Minister to choose between Cricket, Food Imports or solving Agrarian Distress in his home state of Maharashtra.
The poor Finance Minister is keeping his cards close to his chest and will surely resist tooth and nail, attempts at further central aid to states because he himself knows the dubious record of states in preparing sensitive rural programmes of integrated development, as also knowing that further expansion of agricultural land exploitation is not feasible. Also known as the milking the dry cow therapy.
But the problem is who will be brave enougfh to bell the cat ?
Zubani – Indian rural women narratives – http://www.zubani.blogspot.com/
PM Vidarbha Package – http://www.pmpackage.blogspot.com/
– Gita, with her 4 month old kid
KOPA MANDAVI VISIT of VJAS – GITA WANTS ANSWERS FROM the Wise People of SOCIETY
Kishor Tiwari visited KopaMandvi, yet another village on National Highway no.7
"I was shocked to look at pathetic condition of 23 year widow of Sharvan Chichodkar, a Vidarbha cotton farmer, who committed suicide.
She asked "who killed my husband?"
Gita narrated .. "It was constant worry of family debt and food starvation, that forced him to kill himself.
After Sharvan, nobody is there to look after me.
I will have to feed my kid and old father in laws.
We are fed up with this crisis."..
Sharvan is third farmer suicide in KopaMandvi.
More than 100 farm suicides in this belt in last 4 years.
All GM cotton growers in Vidarbha are in debt, as per Shri Kishor Tiwari of VJAS.
Indian Finance Minister, Shri Chidambaram, had high profile photos and media coverage with top Indian industrialists, like Ratan Tata, on eve of Congress 2007 Budget. He did not have even 10 minutes to spare for debt ridden and suicidal Vidarbha cotton farmers, as he was too busy putting final touches to the Sensex Budget in New Delhi.
More Blogs :
Rural Distress among Indian Women – http://zubani.blogspot.com/
Indian Farm Suicides Tracker – http://www.farmsuicides.blogspot.com/
Farm Debt and Indian Economy – http://www.farmdebt.blogspot.com/
Indian Farmers and Retail Sector – Agribusiness, AgriEmpire – http://www.farmretail.blogspot.com/
Indian Prime Minister Cotton Farmer Relief Package -http://www.pmpackage.blogspot.com/
The Tale of Three Indian Widows :
Savita, Sunita and Pratibha are three women from different contexts, background and age groups, yet engulfed by the continuing tragedy that plays out in Maharashtra. The number of widows is growing at a frightening speed in the cotton country. Jaideep Hardikar reports.
The most senior Indian bureaucrats and politicians, continue to deny any agricultural emergency in Indian rural areas, that calls for their attention.
Some IAS Relief Commissioners, are waxing eloquent on farmer's folly, in pursuing high cost cultivation practices in un irrigated parts of India, while some IAS bureaucrats are issuing mental insanity certificates to suicidal farmers as "sirfira". The Indian story of bureaucratic incompetence is tragi comic.
The Sensex Minister is following the bears and the bulls closely, while the Cricket Minister is celebrating the return to form of Saurav Ganguly in Indian cricket.


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American International Group's SunAmerica Financial Group unit is reorganizing to consolidate and expand its distribution channels.
It has named Stephen Maginn to head the unit that oversees retail distribution and a former Goldman Sachs executive, Jonathan Novak, to head a new unit that will seek growth in institutional markets.
Among the other new hires in the retail distribution divisions will be Michael Treske, who joins SunAmerica from John Hancock, which has recently announced it was restructuring its annuity operations to reduce potential risk from the "living benefits" component of variable annuities.
Treske had headed annuity distribution at John Hancock since January of 2010.
Advisor Group, comprising broker-dealers FSC Securities Corp., Royal Alliance and SagePoint Financial, will also be part of the new distribution organization. Also joining will be top sales officials from Invesco and Protective Life.
Jay Wintrob, president and CEO of SunAmerica Financial Group, announced the changes, which includes naming Mary Jane Fortin chief financial officer of SunAmerica Financial. She has served since 2009 as president and CEO of American General Life Cos. and had previously served as CFO of that firm.
James Mallon, currently president of American General Life and Accident Insurance Co., will succeed Mallon as president and CEO of American General Life. Mallon now serves as president of American General Life (AGLA), a position he has held since 2004. In his new, broader role, Mallon will continue to lead AGLA.
Maginn joined SunAmerica in 2008, and most recently served as chief distribution officer for SunAmerica Retirement Markets and SunAmerica Mutual Funds, where he oversaw strong growth in both variable annuity and mutual fund sales.
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The new unit will oversee all distribution of American General Life Companies' life, accident and health products, VALIC's group retirement and rollover offerings, Western National's fixed annuities, and SunAmerica's variable annuities and mutual funds.
Heading the new division overseeing sales to institutional markets will be by Jonathan Novak. He is from Goldman Sachs, where he served in that firm's financial institutions risk management business, leading a team focused on risk management solutions for insurance companies and banks.
The Institutional Markets division will oversee the structured settlements, pension terminal funding, private placement life and annuity and COLI/BOLI businesses, as well as consider new opportunities, according to Wintrob.
"This is a unique time of opportunity, change and growth for SunAmerica Financial Group," he said.
He said the new organizational structure will enable us to better serve our broad network of distribution partners as we work together to help even more Americans plan for and achieve financial and retirement security.
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Nearly in every corner of the globe, someone has managed to find or excavate mysteries skulls that defy explanation. Whether these mysterious skulls are of human origin or not, is an ongoing debate among skeptics, researchers and those who firmly believe that the mysterious skulls, which do not resemble any human species, are in fact of extraterrestrial origin, and as such, can and should be interpreted as the ultimate evidence that proves that our planet has been visited by beings not from Earth.
This is why in this article, we bring you of the most amazing skulls ever discovered on Earth that hint to a possible extraterrestrial origin.
The Paracas skulls:
the barren landscape of the Peruvian desert, in 1928, archeologist Julio Tello made one of the most mysterious discoveries when he uncovered a complex and sophisticated graveyard under the harsh soil of the Paracas desert. Tello discovered a set of controversial human remains that would forever change how we look at our ancestor and our origins. The bodies in the tombs had some of the largest elongated skulls ever discovered on the planet, called the Paracas skulls. The Peruvian archeologist discovered over 300 mysterious skulls which are believed to be at least around 3000 years old.
The Rhodope Skull:
The anomalous skull weighs only 250 grams, it has six mysterious cavities which according to UFO enthusiasts, could belong the creatures 'sensory organs'. According to the skull formation, the creature to which the skull belonged could have had up to six eyes, or another set of 'unknown organs'. The most mysterious feature of the Rhodope Skull is that it lacks a mouth.
The Sealand Skull:
It is one of the most controversial artifacts discovered in recent years. The Sealand Skull has raised numerous questions that science cannot find an answer to.something that could change the way we look at human origins and our entire history.It was in 2010 that the skull was first examined at the College of Veterinary Medicine in Denmark. The researchers concluded that they were not able to solve the mystery nor provide anything that would explain to what species it belonged to.
"Although it resembles a mammal, certain characteristics make it impossible to fit into the Linnaean Taxonomy", scientists said. Since researchers were unable to provide further details and the question regarding the Sealand Skull were many, the skull was sent to the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. Carbon dating revealed that this mysterious being lived between 1200 and 1280 BC.
Russian Alien skulls:
According to reports by Russian newspapers, the mysterious skulls were found in a cave on Mount Bolshoi Tjach nearly two years ago by a group of explorers led by ethnographer Vladimir Melikov. According to Melikov, the creature of one of the skulls was unlike anything known to man, and it walked on two legs. Melikov states that among the most mysterious features of the skulls is the absence of cranial vault and jaws. The eye sockets are unusually large having facial features resembling humans. Even when compared with the skull of a bear, it's hard to think that you do not have in your hands the remains of an alien creature, said Melikov. Paleontologists in Moscow weren't too excited when they received photographs of the mysterious skulls, they merely acknowledged that the skulls are unlike anything they had ever seen, suggesting that the skulls could have been submerged and exposed to sand for long periods of time, something that could have altered the shape of the skulls, but, if this were the case, how can we explain the nearly identical 'deformations' in both skulls which seem to follow similar patterns?


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The recently ousted leader of the Alaska Republican Party is fighting his removal.
The announcement came on Saturday morning, during a meeting of the party's central committee in Juneau. Russ Millette, who was elected chair in April, is appealing his dismissal on a technicality. In a letter e-mailed to the party's executive committee, Millette alleges that the committee "illegally met … to prevent [him] from becoming Chairman" and that the group was wrong to have him expelled before he was actually seated as chair.
"I'm doing it, because I want to see my name cleared," said Millette in a phone interview. "There were a lot of people who voted for me and a lot of people who didn't that want to see this thing cleared up and they want justice to prevail. Whether that can happen or not, we're going to see."
Millette was removed from the party's executive committee on January 31, a day before his term as chair was scheduled to begin. He was elected last spring with support from the Republican Party's libertarian faction, and his ouster has been characterized as a clash between establishment Republicans and members of the Ron Paul and Tea Party movements. For the past eight months, Millette served in the interim role of finance chair, a fundraising position intended to prepare the chair-elect to head the organization. But the party's rules committee concluded that Millette failed to raise money for the group in that time, and thus was unfit to lead.
At the same meeting, Millette's vice chair also came under the scrutiny of the rules committee. They had considered removing Debbie Brown from her post on charges that she had mismanaged funds at a district level. The complaint against her was ultimately dismissed — instead of losing her position, Brown was promoted to chair.
At the gathering of the central committee on Saturday, reaction to Millette's removal and appeal was mostly addressed indirectly. It was the first time the group had met since Brown had taken Millette's spot. She laid out her goals as a new leader, explaining that she wanted to bring "fresh faces" to the party and to see more grassroots activism. Brown also alluded to the recent turmoil the party had faced at the executive level.
"There's a lot of stress focused on one another inside the group, within our own group. And I feel that's very, very unfortunate and counterproductive to us," Brown told the central committee. "It reminds me of terrorism in a way. It's treacherous."
Many in the room took issue with Brown's choice of words, and asked her to explain her statement. Brown reiterated that she felt that some within the party had agendas that were "somewhat terroristic in nature," without identifying any members or factions. In a follow-up conversation, Brown said she wasn't referring to anyone specifically, and that she wants to see the party "move forward together." She spoke of fostering a "kind" and "respectful" dialogue to achieve that.
During the meeting, Brown also attempted to replace the existing treasurer and assistant treasurer with her own appointees. Recently, a large portion of the party's funds were transferred to a Juneau Republican group to be protected during what former chair Randy Ruedrich described in a January statement as a "period of uncertainty and reorganization." The current treasurers both served under Ruedrich. Brown was overwhelmingly overruled by the central committee as being out of order in her effort to make new appointments to these positions.
After the central committee meeting, Ruedrich downplayed the divisions within the party. He pointed out that membership is still high, and that Republicans exert greater control over state government than they have in years.
"For folks to talk about there being a problem, they're not looking at the preponderance of the data."
Millette has a gloomier view on the state of the party.
"Just let me say this: The party is killing itself. It just is," said Millette.
Millette's appeal is scheduled to be heard in Homer on May 25, at the next gathering of the central committee. The party could call an emergency meeting for the appeal with a petition from 25 percent of the central committee members.
This story has been updated to include comment from Alaska Republican Party Chair Debbie Brown.
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Quite simply and quite literally, Steven Spielberg's adaptation of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds is Close Encounters of the Third Kind turned inside out: They're still out there, only this time the aliens are out for our blood, which they spray all over the countryside like so much red paint oozing from throbbing vines (or is that veins?). The young filmmaker who made Close Encounters, which awed and dazzled like the most exquisitely illustrated bedtime tale, has grown nastier in his middle age, making what is essentially a $120 million B-movie and slathering it in gore. That's not a bad thing at all: Spielberg's War of the Worlds, adapted by screenwriters Josh Friedman and David Koepp, is a chilling, riveting thrill ride, a summertime diversion that plays almost like a dare. But the filmmaker who once aimed to enchant his audiences with sanguine stories of beatific visitors from outer space now wants only to scare the hell out of us. ET, as it turns out, is a mass murderer after all, and we are his Reese's Pieces.
The filmmakers waste no time cutting to the gutting. After an ominous bit of narration by Morgan Freeman, who warns of creatures from a faraway planet observing Earth with "envious eyes," we're introduced to the film's heroic trinity -- dock worker Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) and his two kids, Robbie (Justin Chatwin) and Rachel (Dakota Fanning) -- just in time for what appears to be an electrical storm wreaking havoc in their New Jersey neighborhood. We learn just enough about their strained relationship to know they can barely survive each other in peacetime, much less when under attack by alien invaders: Ray broods and pouts, calls Robbie "a dick" when he finds out the boy is a Red Sox fan, and tells Rachel to order takeout when he turns in while the sun's still up. They're clearly in need of a little therapy, but being chased by aliens offers some pretty good bonding experiences just when you most need them.
As it turns out, of course, the storm awakens giant three-legged metallic machines that have been hibernating beneath our very feet for, perhaps, thousands of years; the attack isn't from above, you see, but from below. And for a few moments, even as the earth rips open and buildings split apart and church steeples topple into neighborhood streets, Ray seems to be enjoying himself and the spectacle of destruction. With his wide eyes and fearless grin, he recalls Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters, running toward the very thing everyone else is fleeing. But Ray doesn't linger for long: A tripod emerges from its concrete cocoon, stretches its legs, honks its horn, and begins zapping everyone in sight with a death ray that reduces humans to ash, leaving only their clothes behind. Ray's smile is, soon enough, hidden behind a mask of deathly dust.
And for the next hundred minutes, the movie becomes a chase, as Ray and his family try to stay ahead of the aliens who are, of course, waiting around every corner and in every cranny. But rarely has the inevitable and obvious also been so terrifying: Spielberg's landscape is by turns barren (for a while, you're led to believe Ray and his children are lone survivors) and crowded with desperate hordes who will turn to murder to save their own skins. And there are shocking, terrifying images -- a flaming train hurtling down the tracks, soldiers waging a pointless war against invincible and ravenous enemies, a ferry doing its Titanic impression as aliens emerge from the sea below, or simply the sight of pulsating red vines spreading into a basement in which Ray and Rachel have taken refuge with a nutty survivor named Ogilvy (Tim Robbins, in little more than a cameo). There's even a scene filmed entirely in the dark, perhaps the most chilling effect in a movie full of computer-generated images.
War of the Worlds, which is strikingly faithful to Byron Haskin's 1953 big-screen version, plays sort of like Spielberg's homage to Spielberg: It's a hodgepodge of bits and pieces borrowed from Jaws, Jurassic Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark (another Z-grade story elevated to grade-A status) -- even Schindler's List, with its scenes full of bedraggled survivors marching to the beat of soldiers' orders. The director gets off not only on gross-out theatrics (in one what-the-hell moment, Cruise is sucked into what appears to be an alien ship's asshole, armed with a fistful of hand grenades), but also the deeper meaning of shallow thrills. This is scary sci-fi set in a real world that's even more terrifying: "Is it the terrorists?" Rachel asks Ray, as her world is being reduced to rubble by invaders she has yet to lay eyes on. And later, the Ferriers pass by a wall papered with crudely handmade "missing" posters, recalling the fliers posted all over Manhattan after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
The worst you can say of War of the Worlds is that its ending fizzles after so much sizzle, but this time it's not entirely the fault of the director, whose brilliant and underrated A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Minority Report likewise petered out with unsatisfactory resolutions. The filmmakers are, for the most part, remaining faithful to Wells' novel, which suggests that humans not only own this planet but deserve it as well. War of the Worlds earns its finish, like the marathon runner who reaches the end of the race and collapses in a heap of exhaustion and relief. Spielberg may be rid of his giddy optimism and youthful hope, his sci-fi may now sport a darker shade of red, but he's still a masterful entertainer, even when all he wants to do is scare the living hell out of you.
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March 06, 2013
Fights against entrenched and powerful forces are sometimes waged from highly improbable places. As a case in point: Brian Concannon is taking on the United Nations from the sanctuary of a quiet former convent in Andrew Square.
Concannon runs the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, an advocacy group for legal rights for Haitians. The institute's current fight, one that is garnering worldwide attention, is for the UN to take responsibility for the scourge of cholera unleashed in Haiti after the earthquake of January 2010.
The cholera epidemic has claimed more than 8,200 lives so far. The facts of how a nation that had eliminated cholera came to be in throes of an epidemic are not in dispute. Tragic, but not disputed.
Among the peacekeepers dispatched in the wake of the Haiti earthquake was a team from Nepal, a country that was then suffering an outbreak of cholera. They brought the disease with them, and it spread when raw sewage from their camp found its way to a major river. By late October, the first cases were being reported. A few months after that, tests confirmed that it matched the strain afflicting the Nepalese.
Concannon's group is part of a legal team that is seeking action against the UN. It argues that it inadequately screened their personnel. The UN, in turn, has declared that a series of international agreements render its policies immune from legal action.
Concannon lists his group's demands in what he calls descending order of likelihood. "The first thing is to put in the sanitation infrastructure to stop the killing. Second is compensation for the victims. Third, an apology."
Concannon came by his commitment to human rights in Haiti almost by accident. A Marshfield native, he was working as a young lawyer at Mintz Levin in the early 1990s when he decided he wanted to pursue his passion for human rights. He thought he might work in Rwanda. Instead, his first offer was a job working for the United Nations in Port-au-Prince.
He arrived in 1995, intending to stay a year or two. Instead he stayed for nine — two years with the UN, the rest with a legal aid group in Haiti. As it has for so many people, Haiti got under his skin.
The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti draws great inspiration, Concannon told me, from Partners in Health, the Boston-based advocacy group led by the legendary Dr. Paul Farmer. Just as Farmer's group views health issues as a byproduct of social ills, so Concannon sees legal problems as deeply linked to broader economic inequalities.
Concannon's fight against his former employer is not going to be easy. The cost of building the sewage system needed to staunch the spread of cholera is estimated at around $2.2 billion, while compensating victims could add perhaps $200 million more to the bottom line. Some UN apologists argue that it simply cannot set a precedent of assuming billions in liability for the actions of its humanitarian peacekeepers.
Concannon argues otherwise. "They have a peacekeeping force in Haiti that costs $650 million a year, even though there hasn't been a war in Haiti in our lifetime. If they cut that force in half, that would free up $325 million to fight cholera." And, he said, "$325 million a year would solve the problem."
Given the UN's assertion of immunity in Haiti, finding a venue in which to sue it is a major challenge. "If we can get them into a courtroom, the case itself is easy," Concannon declared . "Their liability is so obvious."
A person dedicated to pursuing justice in Haiti learns to celebrate every victory, no matter how accidental. So Concannon notes that the one positive development of the 2010 earthquake was that it emptied Haiti's national penitentiary, which was filled with political prisoners who had been jailed unjustly. Many believe the guards freed the inmates, but Concannon knows otherwise.
"The guards actually got scared and fled," he said with a chuckle. "But they left behind a couple of keys."
Adrian Walker is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter:@Adrian_Walker.
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WESTON, FL, United States, via ETELIGIS INC., 08/11/2015 – – Monaker Group, Inc. ("Monaker"), (OTCQB: MKGI), a digital marketing company focused on the consumer in the Travel, Home and Employment sectors, announced today the expansion of its strategic partnership agreement with International Cruise & Excursions, Inc. ("ICE"). Maupintour is a wholly owned subsidiary of Monaker Group, with a 65 year operating history and widely recognized in the Travel Industry as an innovator, developing specialty luxury tours for the discerning traveler.
ICE has become one of the leading providers of travel and leisure based loyalty solutions to large-scale membership markets, associations and affinity groups worldwide. ICE's unique and powerful relationships across the travel industry, its proprietary technology solutions, web-based marketing and yield tools, coupled with its state-of-the-art international call center operations provide its partners with fully branded cruise and vacation fulfillment services as well as customized marketing solutions.
Under the terms of the agreement announced today, ICE will adopt and utilize Monaker's Video Technology Platform, the recently announced Video Tour Guide (VTG), offering Maupintour Travel and Vacation Packages through ICE's vast network of over 55 million active participants and more than 100 corporate brands worldwide including Westgate Resorts, Sears® Vacations, Pueblo Bonito Beach Resorts, Vida® Vacations and Privileges an American Express Travel Representative. Commenting on the strategic partnership, John Rowley – co-founder and CEO of ICE stated, "We are excited to partner with Monaker and utilize their VTG technology throughout our platforms to bring the Maupintour Tours and Packages product line to our millions of members."
Bill Kerby, Monaker chairman and CEO added, "This is a very important milestone for Monaker, our VTG technology and our Maupintour business (www.maupintour.com). With ICE's reputation, reach, and vast customer and membership base, we should see favorable growth and exposure for our Maupintour travel business. Agreements with partners like ICE should help Monaker more rapidly re-establish Maupintour as one of the premier Vacation and Tour Companies in the world. I am looking forward to working closely with ICE and growing this partnership."
About ICE:
International Cruise & Excursions, Inc. (ICE) is an international travel and leisure organization with a global network of successful alliance partners including leading corporations, resorts, cruise lines, and leisure travel providers. ICE provides innovative cruise, travel and lifestyle benefit fulfillment, as well as unique membership reward and loyalty based programs and incentives. ICE fulfills private branded cruise and vacation programs for major corporate brands serving more than 55 million consumers worldwide. Enjoying 17 years of extraordinary growth and innovation, ICE continues to raise the bar in creative marketing solutions, technology based loyalty platforms and client experiences within the travel industry. Visit www.iceenterprise.com for more information.
About Monaker Group:
Monaker Group is a digital media marketing company focusing on lifestyle enrichment for consumers in the Travel, Home and Employment sectors. Core to its marketing services are key elements including proprietary video-centered technology and established partnerships that enhance its reach. Video is quickly becoming consumers preferred method of searching and educating themselves prior to purchases. Monaker's video creation technology and film libraries combine to create lifestyle video offerings that can be shared both to its customers and through "trusted distribution systems" of its major partners. The end result is better engagement with consumers who gain in-depth information on related products and services helping to both inform and fulfill purchases. Unlike traditional marketing companies that simply charge for advertising creation, Monaker holds licenses and/or expertise in the travel, real estate and employment sectors allowing it to capture fees at the point of purchase while the majority of transactions are handled by Monaker's partners. This should allow the company to capture greater revenues while eliminating much of the typical overhead associated with fulfillment. Monaker Group's core holdings include Maupintour, NameYourFee.com and RealBiz Media Group helping it to deliver marketing solutions to consumers at home, work and play. Visit our website www.monakergroup.com.
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Blue Angels
This gallery contains images that were taken during the 2006, 2007, and 2008 Seafair Airshows. I had a good friend invite me on their boat and we spent the day on the log boom watching Hydroplanes and Blue Angels. We had a great spot for the air shows. For more information on the Blue Angels Go to http://www.blueangels.navy.mil/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_AngelsRead More
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Photos: Oregon's Willamette Valley, Wines, & People
Wine geeks need to get their nose out of the glass. When their eyes shift above the rim of the Riedel they just might notice the great people behind the counters, managing the wineries, not to mention the great areas where our favorite wines are made. Sometimes we don't tell the story and other times, I believe, we tell the wrong story. But often, a picture tells a great story.


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That's right! A brand new home for my travel photography blog!
I have moved to WordPress and my own domain.
The site looks so much better, more fun to browse, more "pro". Also I will now be able to not only blog about photography but sometimes about travel and other thoughts too!
Please be patient with me as the site is not finished yet and some links are under construction.
So change your links, your RSS feeds, your bookmarks and your habits and please come join me at: http://www.canvas-of-light.com
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Jackson took unbeaten Walsh Jesuit to the limit before falling 1-0 on a late goal in a Division I regional semifinal game at Revere High School
Jackson's second encounter with Walsh Jesuit was far different from the first.
The Polar Bears took the unbeaten Warriors to the absolute brink before succumbing on a strange, late goal. Walsh Jesuit prevailed 1-0 in a Division I regional semifinal game at Revere High School that was a far cry from a September game that saw the Warriors defeat Jackson 4-0.
The deciding goal came on a corner kick with just 6:47 left. Walsh Jesuit sophomore Christina Trickett fired the ball into a mass of bodies, where it deflected off the side of teammate Maddie Anzelc and skipped past a diving Jackson goalkeeper Katie Kingsbury and into the back of the bottom left-hand corner of the net.
The goal put an end to an impressive effort by a Polar Bear defense that had shut down Walsh throughout the night.
"Walsh was down there a good bit," Jackson head coach Frank Gagliardi said. "You would like to see perfectly clean execution win the day (in a game like this), but at the same time when you are down there that much, there is a good chance you are going to get one sooner or later."
Although Walsh had 10 shots on the night, the Warriors were far from confident that they were going to break through Jackson's defense.
"I've been in too many games like this (and lost)," Walsh head coach Dino McIntyre said after his team improved to 17-0-3. "In fact, because of all the chances, I was thinking that they were going to come down one time, like it's happened before (and score). In 21 years, I've seen all kinds of games.
"The more that was happening, the less I was thinking that (we were going to score). ... I was thinking, oh man this is one of those nights where there's the Berlin Wall out there."
Jackson's Kingsbury was a big part of that wall. Kingsbury, a Kent State recruit, made nine impressive saves for the Polar Bears. Several of those stops required dives.
"She showed her experience and all the time that she has put in," Gagliardi said. "She's tremendously committed to growing herself as a quality goalkeeper. It's obvious to see why she is going on to play at the next level. She had an incredible night tonight."
Walsh Jesuit's coaching staff chose to keep the fact that they were facing a quality keeper in Kingsbury under wraps.
"When you are getting ready for a goalie, you don't even talk about that," McIntyre said. "If you hit it and you are going to hit it solidly in the corner, you're not going to sit there (and think of the goalkeeper). You're not going to sit there, especially with high school girls, and tell them a goalie is a great goalie. They are going to go 'Oh man, I really have to hit it perfect to score.'
"Psychologically, you don't even want to talk about it."
Gagliardi was proud of his team's effort as Jackson ended the season at 14-5-1.
"I'm very happy they got the opportunity to play in a battle like this and show their heart," he said. "... I love our girls to death. They did a great job. They gave me the response I was looking for as a coach.
"We didn't necessarily get the result we wanted, but we definitely got the response we wanted."


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Pope opens big week with sex, divorce on agenda
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Meetings this week between Pope Francis and his cardinals will deal with some of the thorniest issues facing the church, including the rejection by most Catholics of some of its core teaching on premarital sex, contraception, gays and divorce.
German Cardinal Walter Kasper, who has called for "changes and openings" in the church's treatment of divorced and remarried Catholics, will give the keynote speech Thursday to the pope and cardinals attending a preparatory meeting for an October summit on family issues.
The cardinals are in town for Saturday's ceremony to formally install 19 new "princes of the church," the first batch named by Francis to join the group of churchmen who will elect his successor. Saturday's ceremony is the high point of an intensive week of meetings presided over by Francis that include the first proposals to put the Vatican's financial house in order.
Ahead of Saturday's consistory, cardinals will meet for two days behind closed doors to begin preparations for the October summit on family issues.
Francis scheduled the summit last year and took the unusual step of sending bishops around the world a questionnaire for ordinary Catholics to fill out about how they understand and practice church teaching on marriage, sex and other issues related to the family.
The results, at least those reported by bishops in Europe and the United States, have been eye-opening. Bishops themselves reported that the church's core teachings on sexual morals, birth control, homosexuality, marriage and divorce are rejected as unrealistic and outdated by the vast majority of Catholics, who nevertheless said they were active in parish life and considered their faith vitally important.
"On the matter of artificial contraception the responses might be characterized by the saying, 'That train left the station long ago,'" Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg, Florida, recently wrote on his blog, summarizing his survey's findings. "Catholics have made up their minds and the sensus fidelium (sense of the faithful) suggests the rejection of church teaching on this subject."
German and Swiss bishops released similar survey results earlier this month. German bishops reported this: "The church's statements on premarital sexual relations, on homosexuality, on those divorced and remarried and on birth control ... are virtually never accepted, or are expressly rejected in the vast majority of cases."
The Swiss bishops went further, saying the church's very mission was being threatened by its insistence on such directives.
Kasper, who retired in 2010 after a decade as the Vatican's chief ecumenical officer, has for years held out hope that the Vatican might accommodate these remarried Catholics who are forbidden from participating fully in the church's sacraments unless they get an annulment.
"What is possible with God -- namely forgiveness -- we should be able to succeed within the church, too," he told Germany's Die Zeit in December.
Church teaching holds that unless that first marriage is annulled, or declared null and void by a church tribunal, Catholics who remarry cannot receive Communion because they are essentially living in sin and committing adultery. Such annulments are often impossible to get or can take years to process, a problem that has left generations of Catholics feeling shunned from their church.
Last year, the German diocese of Freiburg issued a set of guidelines explaining how such remarried Catholics could get around the rule. It said if certain criteria are met -- if the spouses were trying to live according to the faith and acted with laudable motivation -- they could receive Communion and other sacraments of the church.
The Vatican's chief doctrinal czar immediately shot down the initiative, insisting there is no way around the rule. Cardinal-elect Gerhard Mueller, like Kasper a German theologian, cited documents from popes past and his own office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in rejecting arguments that mercy should prevail over church rules or that people should follow their own consciences to decide if their first marriage was valid or not.
"It is not for the individuals concerned to decide on its validity, but rather for the church," he wrote in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano.
But Kasper has said the issue can and should be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Francis himself has made clear he wants to help these Catholics and that the annulment process itself must be reviewed because the church's tribunals currently are not able to deal with their caseload. He has said now was a "season of mercy."
Francis is a big fan of Kasper. During his first Sunday noon blessing as pope, Francis praised Kasper by name, saying he was a terrific theologian who had just written a great book on mercy.
American canon lawyer Edward Peters, who has written extensively on the American annulment process, said Monday that compromise is not possible on annulments themselves since that is the only way baptized Catholics can remarry. But in a blog post, he said the Vatican might consider some "process-smoothing provisions" that were approved for the U.S. church back in the 1970s, including the elimination of the mandatory appeal to Rome.


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Security researcher Aviv Raff has discovered and demonstrated a flaw within Skype that allows malicious code to be run under certain circumstances. The problem is caused by Skype's web control. The program uses Internet Explorer to render internal and external HTML, but does so using "Local Zone" security settings.
Actually taking advantage of the bug would require malware authors to find a trusted site with a cross-zone scripting error. These types of errors are relatively common, and allow for the execution of potentially unsafe scripts as if they carried higher permissions than they actually do. Such scripts have a wide variety of potential applications (some of which might be picked up by other security features, such as Vista's UAC), but a wide range of potential activity could go completely unblocked and unnoticed.
According to security researcher Petko Petkov, "When a given resource executes within the Local Zone context, all sorts of things are possible like, including but not only, reading/writing files from the local disc and launching executables through the WSH primitives." In this particular case, the risk of infection is higher because the web site Skype uses for video searches (Dailymotion.com) is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. Any particular movie on the website could potentially contain such a script, though no infected videos have been found (yet).
The bug currently affects Skype v.18.104.22.168, and may be present in older versions of the client as well. At this point, the solution is to avoid running video searches via Skype. Simply having the program installed or using its various other functions will not expose a system to potential infection.


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Shame on me, I missed Top Ten Tuesday this week. But honestly, I was procrastinating, because I can't stand Valentine's Day or anything dealing with it. Stupid money-making. I can spoil Mr. DZ any day I want, I don't need a special day for it….
Anyways, I thought I do something different and show you a couple of places in different countries, that are high on my bucket list and that I would LOVE to visit!
The Whitsunday Islands
In Queensland, Australia. It is the only Australian place I mention, but not the only one I still want to see. There's tons of nice spots here and I will definitely do an extra post one day! I've always wanted to go to the Whitsunday Islands, as I fell in love with the beautiful white beaches! There are a lot of nice little islands you can go to, like Whitehaven Beach, Hamilton Island or Airlie Beach on the mainland.
A friend of mine is going to Hamilton Island in April and I am VERY jealous.
New Zealand
I did not realize, that NZ is THAT close to Australia 😀 It's worth it just to fly over for a week but if I go, I want to do it right and spend 4-6 weeks there. I want to do a 'Lord of the Rings'- Tour and visit as many shooting locations as I can! That would be a perfect Camper Van holiday as well. I am so hype to see the Hobbit village and all those beautiful mountains. Almost all of my friends who went there, fell in love with the country.
I am so curious. Everyone who has been over there says that it's a totally different world. I'd love to experience it. The food, the big cities, the quiet little villages, the history, the different islands… And yes, I'd probably bring too much manga/anime merchandise home and will surely check out some Wrestling promotions!
Koh Samui
I've always been interested in going to Thailand. Especially since it's so close now. There are a lot of pretty little islands, but Koh Samui is the most beautiful and on top of my Thailand list! As much as I like adventure holidays & backpacking – I am also a big fan of pretty beaches and relaxing resort holidays, so it looks like heaven to me!
Bora Bora
Who wouldn't want to stay in one of those lovely bungalows? It's been a dream of mine and I hope I can make it happen! Imagine the peace and quiet and being surrounded by the ocean.. I picture myself reading a book there, occasionally going swimming, trying some local food…. Yes please!
There's lots of places in South America that sound interesting to me, but I've always wanted to see Machu Picchu! It looks surreal and I NEED to see it in person one day. That is why I chose Peru!
The South/West of the USA
I am not interested in the whole USA. For example, I don't want to go to New York and I also don't need to go to Los Angeles^^ What I am interested in is a Road Trip through the South and parts of the West. Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona etc… That's what I want to see and experience! Might even include Mexico!
You kinda get everything in Canada and I heard people are so nice 😀 Mr. DZ went there and loved it! We need to go again together.
One day, I want to see the Northern Lights! I still can't believe they exist, it's something else! And I also want to stay in a little cabin in the woods in Sweden and visit Finland and maybe even Iceland, where they filmed 'Game of Thrones'. Lots of neat waterfalls there as well. And natural Hot Springs. I am a fan of those!
I have never been to Italy! And I've lived in Europe for 25 years! Definitely something I should have done earlier – for the food alone. But it's never too late!
I don't even know where I want to go. Everywhere? Sicily, Rome, Milan, Florence, Lake Garda (on the picture!). But most importantly, I want to drink all the wine & coffee and eat all the pizza & gelato!
Other pretty places I haven't seen but want to: Croatia, Fiji, Cook Islands, Hawaii, Nepal, Maldives, Vietnam (I only stayed at the airport!)
So what's on your bucket list? Or have you even been to some of the places I want to go to? Let me know & make me jealous! 😉