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So the organizers of Edmonton's "Slut Walk" are upset that they have to pay for their parade.
As the title suggests, these are pretty dumb sluts, even for sluts. What, there's a cost to turning the Queen's motorways into a parking lot to express a rather silly and ultimately inaccurate sentiment? Quelle surprise!
Actually, and I'll go into this more on my actual SlutWalk post in early June, there's a bit of a corollary available here: as I tweeted yesterday if they don't want to pay the city they can have their little meeting at the Legislature grounds and then walk to City Hall: crossing on marked crosswalks when the light indicates its safe to do so. If the city is really worried about them stepping onto the road that's easy enough to fix: declare a full clemency to any driver who hits and/or kills one of these sluts if she happens to step off the sidewalk and onto the street. It's the slut's fault for defying the rules and social conventions, not yours. So in other words, pretty much the same harsh reality that the sluts are marching to try and defy in the whole "dress like a streetwalker" meme.
That's delicious irony, and is worth far more to the ratepayers of Edmonton than $2,000.
Dumb sluts on the highway
So the organizers of Edmonton's "Slut Walk" are upset that they have to pay for their parade.
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The most excited Michael Ignatieff has been this year
Wow. I mean...wow.
Look how his head droops, how he struggles to make it sound like it was his idea that he meets with "party officials" to discuss his successor, and how he's unable to come to grips with what happens.
This is the darkest day in Michael Ignatieff's life. Halfway through the video you sense he probably wishes that Harper had gotten Canada involved in liberating Iraq so that he could join the Canadian Army, go overseas to participate in combat, be captured and tortured and forced to read a confession over the air with a gun to his head, just so he could have a more enjoyable May 3rd than he was having at this precise moment.
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Hats Off to (Stephen) Harper
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Bin Laden Dead
President Monkey is widely expected to announce in minutes that Osama bin Laden is confirmed dead and US forces have his body.
On the eve of the 41st General Election, Third Edge of the Sword summarizes the various responses from party leaders.
Stephen Harper, Conservative Party: Congratulations to our American allies for capturing a dangerous man who has long eluded and insulted the tenants of our free and prosperous society.
Gilles Duceppe, Bloc Quebecois: Reports indicate that Osama bin Laden is dead. Since he didn't speak French, good riddance.
Elizabeth May, Green Party: It is a shame that U.S. forces had to use cruise missiles to take him down, as they burn a lot of carbon and are bad for the environment.
Jack Layton, New Democratic Party: I refuse to comment on this until my close colleague Maher Arar can positively identify the body.
Michael Ignatieff, Liberal Party: I'm glad to hear that Osama bin Laden is dead, partly because party strategists revealed that with him replacing me the Liberals may gain 4 points.


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Tweetdeck details its Android users, highlights "extreme fragmentation" of the OS
When mobile manufacturers or carriers are slow to release statistics on its userbase, sometimes the job is unofficially pushed into the hands of application developers, who can provide a quick and detailed analysis of the different types of mobile users interacting with their apps all over the world.
As you might have known, Tweetdeck (the popular Twitter application available on the desktop and mobile devices) recently released the Beta version of its Android client (check out our thoughts on it here), finally giving Android users a taste of what iPhone owners had access to for months previous.
During the beta testing period (which is closing soon), Tweetdeck analysed the handsets and the different firmwares on the 36,427 active beta testers Android smartphones, collating a very interesting set of statistics in the process.
Tweetdeck's detailed its findings in a blog post, highlighting the extreme fragmentation of the Android OS, the massive number of custom ROM's and weird phone names that cropped up in its reports. Tweetdeck doesn't mind, anyone using its app is considered a bonus for them, just take a look at the following graphs and see with your own eyes the sheer number of customisations present in the Android ecosystem.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Clayton Kershaw followed his first career no-hitter with eight marvelous innings, Adrian Gonzalez and Andre Ethier drove in a run apiece and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Kansas City Royals 2-0 on Tuesday night.
Kershaw (8-2) allowed six hits and a walk while striking out eight. The two-time Cy Young winner hasn't allowed a run in 21 1-3 innings, spanning his near-perfect game against Colorado on Wednesday — the only runner occurred on an error — and his previous start against Arizona.
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"The Natural" is finally ready to hang up the gloves.
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Sandy Hook Shooting: Let's Dump the Psychological Doubletalk by Rev Michael Bresciani December 18, 2012
Out of respect for the little souls who were brutally murdered and their families this piece will make no mention of any of them or their families. Suffice it to say that they have suffered enough. These children and those who tried to protect them, some at the cost of their own lives, have done nothing wrong, but we, as a society have plenty to answer for.
Now, a new kind of suffering is being laid upon them, as media crews from all over the nation and the world will be prying into their lives and forcing them to re-live scenes of horror, sights and sounds, all to extract every gory detail for their exclusives, stories and news items. The competition to tell, that comes from hell, has begun.
It is impossible not to be somewhere between incensed and irate after hearing the rap between Fox's O'Reilly and some of the so called psychology experts on the night the shooting took place. O'Reilly was entangled with one expert on the semantic difference between a psychopath and a sociopath. Interspersed throughout the dialogue was an exasperated, throw in the towel declaration, voiced repeatedly by O'Reilly who said "It's just pure evil, and I guess you just can't stop it."
The next day another 'expert' forcefully emphasized that we should not tell those children or any other children that it was evil that caused the killings. He advised that mental illness alone should be used as an explanation.
It is here that we see the so called 'experts' as not only part of the problem, but as a gaggle of buffoons, who should by any means, be ushered off the news set, and told to go home.
The repeated warnings I have made in the last few years along with many others have fallen on deaf ears, but the power of reciprocation is barreling ahead at the speed of judgment. Following a passage that details the sinfulness of the homosexual lifestyle, the Apostle Paul warned that in the last days men would cast off the knowledge of God and they will become increasingly reprobate.
Reprobation is not just what leads to judgment; it is the judgment, anything beyond it, is called destruction.
It is a progressive state of decadence that starts with the inability to discern between right and wrong. When it reaches that level where good and evil are not recognizable, it is in the advanced and most dangerous stage. In its most advanced stages, destruction is all that remains.
Atheists, secularists, educators and the well-educated may think they have everything well under control, but life in America is quickly dispelling that absurdity.
The modernist may think that Christ, his apostles, and todays preachers and messengers are pedaling an old, long since outdated, philosophy of religion that was borne in ignorance, and practiced today only because of their tolerance and something called the First Amendment.
In his time of popularity, in the cities and towns surrounding Jerusalem, Christ healed every kind of malady and disease. He knew full well that some were diseases and others were obviously demonic or satanic intrusions.
"And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them." (Mt 4: 23, 24)
The difference between those who had 'devils' and those who were 'lunatic' was well known to Christ and to those who follow him today, the difference is still very visible. What does this mean? Put simply it means that what happened in Sandy Hook School in Connecticut this past week was pure evil done by a young man who had submitted to it over a long period of time or perhaps all at once in a final demonically inspired act or pure terror.
Like so many bewildered dumbbells' we send out the perennial question of 'why' across the media. What we are asking is why an individual suspended every semblance of decency, right and wrong and ordinary sanity.
We always refuse to accept that, we are collectively the cause of the problem. It is what we have introduced, exposed, built upon and allowed in our society that has spawned a generation of reckless, mindless and evil children who wouldn't know a moral guide post if they ran into it with a truck.
We have successfully kept God out of the public, the schools and the hearts and minds of our young. We have demanded grades and high levels of competitive behavior with no moral undergirding. More than a generation later we are reaping what we have sown. God forbid that we should collectively own up to spiritually dumbing down our own kids.
God forbid that Hollywood, TV, game producers, the internet or lazy parents would admit that after pumping ever more vivid and graphic violence into our children the great horror movie is now showing in our homes and neighborhoods rather than just being confined to the screen.
Hollywood, TV, game creators and media pimp the satanically inspired message of violence and we reward them with the notoriety and privilege of celebrity, Oscars, Emmys and Golden Globe awards. Collective hypocrisy is created by a society that then hires psychology's brightest and best to explain away the disasters that ensue all too frequently when the weakest of minds carry out, imitate or re-stage the acts of violence they are bombarded with from day to day.
We love to teach our children to eat right and be healthy. We are what we eat, and we need to grow up strong, these are the mantras of the day. What hypocrisy. Could it be that what we allow, or rather, endlessly pump into the heads and hearts of the same children might make spiritual dwarfs out of them, starving for guidance, for knowledge of what is right and decent.
We make it socially un-acceptable to spank a child, but hand out condoms and contraceptives to the same children. They always get bitten by the same diseases, disappointments and disillusionments, but when it comes time for them to find a different way they are lost. They have not seen it, heard it, or seen it lived. They breakout, act out, and take themselves out for good, but often not without taking others with them.
What follows are the arguments from the experts about who is a sociopath versus who is a psychopath. What ever happened to sin, evil and just lousy behavior? Don't worry, even smothered under a false heap of politically correct gobbledygook and psychological tripe – it is doing quite well and thriving in America. Don't take my word for it; just ask the families and friends of the 16,000 people who were murdered in this nation last year alone. Not to exclude the people who successfully commit suicide in the U.S. at the rate of one every 13 minutes.
We will not accept the truth that according to our own words, the equation we have created works diametrically against us. Any society that promotes gratuitous violence and disregard for life to its own offspring has become a total society of sociopaths. The few who act out the behaviors we have fed to them are the psychopaths. It is an equation and a product of our own making. It is 'reap and sow' in action under modernity's own terms.
We don't doubt that if we allow dirt in the gas tank the car will eventually stop or be gradually made useless. We don't dump toxic waste in our gardens and expect a crop of tulips. But with our children, we allow them to be filled with extreme violence in horror shows, CSI type shows, sudden death electronic games, movies, literature and everyday bullying in most of today's public schools. When one of them acts out violently against others we call in the experts, ask why, and the cycle starts all over again.
Next, along comes the armies of liberals, dilettante democrats and one world of peace and harmony advocates with their heads in the clouds who decry guns; any kind of guns owned by any kind of people.
It never occurs to them that entire generations of Americans grew up with guns around the house and no one brought them to school to create a massacre. Instead of making guns illegal they might want to make not having trigger locks, impenetrable gun cabinets and other safeguards in place illegal for those with children at home.
While we are locking up our guns we might want to lock up the Hollywood quacks that show our children mass slaughter with guns and glorify and glamorize it from one movie to the next in a continual stream of violent full color, action filled gratuitous gunplay. What problem can't be solved with a simple pull of the trigger?
Society, a Godless society, has become far more dangerous than the guns they own.
As stated, I will not use the deaths of the innocents in Connecticut to make my case because they are symptomatic of a greater problem. The horror, the deep grief, the heartache and loss the parents in Connecticut are feeling is almost impossible to imagine, and for them, it is equally impossible to bear.
Whether you believe in God or not makes no difference at this juncture. But if you have any inkling that he exists or if you have ever doubted that the creator sees all that we say and do. If you have ever heard, or read, that Jesus Christ has said that God the Father knows the number of the hairs on your head; (Mt 10: 30) then consider this - God goes through the equivalent of the Connecticut shooting 200 times over, every single day as 4,000 unborn human beings are destroyed and dumped in waste boxes each day in these United States.
The one who created the hearts of men – that physiological, mental and spiritual center of each and every human being, also has a heart. His heart is breaking at the loss of every single unwanted and brutally discarded human being we waste in the name of personal selfishness, Roe v. Wade or any other flimsy construct we devise to hide behind.
The frosting on this cake is watching a President who sanctions the death of 4,000 unborn babies every day, shedding a tear for twenty precious innocents in Sandy Hook. This sort of hypocrisy is insulting to their memory and the wasted potential of their lives. Every tiny human being deserves our love and protection, regardless of just how 'tiny' they may be.
Be it Sandy Hook or Roe v. Wade - is deciding that some human beings will not be allowed to take their first breath - any less horrid than deciding which ones should take their last?
Dare we admit, that from our President to the millions of pro-abortion advocates in America, we have created 65 million Sandy Hook massacres all in the name of someone else having a better life? By simply inverting the meaning of "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends," (Jn 15: 13) the rendering would be "Lesser love hath no man than this, that he give up the life of another for himself?"
Is the 40 years of unbridled abortion actually somehow cosmically or universally linked to the Sandy Hook massacre? Don't dare to think they are not.
We are screaming out our disregard for human life, but refuse to admit that our children are listening to the sound of our behaviors. Their penchant for death and disregard for life has grown exponentially during the last two decades and we call upon the 'experts' to explain it all away. Their politically correct admonishments become the harking of fools, clouds with no rain and certainly, they are no balm in Gilead. (Jer 8: 22)
We never admit that Godlessness is failure; our criterion for success, is itself - a sad failure. Our 'winners' are racing headlong to a generational dead end that can only be averted by a sudden full stop and a return to the God of our founders, fathers and faithful messengers of the gospel. Yes, the 'religious' word that describes this action is still called – repentance.
The call has gone out in a hundred ways across our nation and the globe. The next move is ours to make. God has fairly warned that his chosen voices will one day have to make the call. We will all be called upon to show our hand and give up the goods. You will either be on one side or the other, whether you choose to be or not.
The reprobation that surges across the globe in the last days does not keep those who cannot recognize evil, from being its victims. The Apostle John in the last book and the last chapter of the Bible describes the last day's people of our world. It is a take it or leave it message, and is perhaps the saddest proclamation in the entirety of scripture, to wit:
"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still." (Rev 22: 11)
We assign the God of creation to the realm of mythology and in the process dismiss the god of this world, Satan or the, arch deceiver, as part of the myth. What a victory for evil. We promote the violence, greed, disregard for life and every form of perversion and then we engage psychological terms to explain away the ever encroaching product of that evil. The grandest deception of all has been laid on this generation. The evil we cannot, or will not identify - has become our cruel, heartless and un-loving master.
Jesus spoke a parable (Mt 13: 24f) of a wheat farmer who planted in his field, when he slept an enemy came and planted tares (worthless weeds) in his field. He wanted to rip out the tares, but was told to leave them, lest he destroy his wheat in the process. We are a nation of wheat farmers who arise to see the weeds, but show no concern except to offer a debate on whether the enemy that sewed the tares was evil or mentally impaired, a sociopath or a psychopath.
Those of us, who have extensively studied the prophetic teachings of scripture, are fully convinced that Solomon, the wisest of men, was referring to this generation when he said:
"There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness." (Prov 30: 12)
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Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), may have painted himself into a corner with his London speech on Thursday promising to do "whatever it takes" to rescue the euro. Markets rejoiced at his words, sending yields on Spanish and Italian bonds lower—at least temporarily—but it remains to be seen exactly what Draghi will—or can—do.
Bloomberg reported Friday that a number of policymakers on the council of the ECB remain firmly opposed to one possibility, that of the ECB resuming its bond purchase program, or Securities Markets Program (SMP), which it halted in March. And that could leave Draghi in a tight spot.
"Draghi is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't," Carsten Brzeski said in the report. Brzeski, senior economist at ING Group in Brussels, added, "He maneuvered himself into an extremely difficult situation. Expectations are very high."
Heavy opposition continues from such council members as Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, as well as from former Bundesbank President Axel Weber, who declined the top post at the ECB over the issue, and ECB Chief Economist Juergen Stark, who retired at the end of 2011. The strength of the opposition makes some economists feel that the ECB will not revisit the policy any time soon.
"I don't believe you will see government bond purchases yet," said Jacques Cailloux in the report. Cailloux, chief European economist at Nomura International in London, continued, "But there are other things they can do that will help, such as lowering the haircut on sovereign bonds they accept as collateral or buying private-sector securities."
Markets will not be happy if there is no decisive action taken soon. While at first bond buying was effective, it soon developed that it did not go far enough in magnitude or degree to keep yields down. That led to the ECB's offer of three-year unlimited loans at exceptionally low interest rates. That, too, failed to reassure markets and contain the crisis, and many are critical of the central bank's efforts.
Richard Urwin, head of investments at BlackRock's Fiduciary Mandate Investment Team in London, was quoted saying, "We still don't think policy makers have done enough to make the market sit up and take note."
While there are other options to bond purchases, such as giving the ESM a banking license, Draghi did not mention it in his speech on Thursday, and has been opposed to such a move when previously suggested.
It may be that a return to bond buying, and in a big way, is the only way to ward off further escalation, and some economists are voicing their thoughts on the matter. Marius Daheim said in the report, "The ECB appears to be running out of conventional ammunition." According to Daheim, a senior fixed-income strategist at Bayerische Landesbank in Munich, "What is left … is the 'bazooka'"—large-scale intervention in bond markets.
Julian Callow, chief international economist at Barclays Capital in London, was quoted saying, "The thing we wonder here is exactly where the Bundesbank stands." He continued, "The Bundesbank has historically been resisting the reactivation of the SMP. In the view of most economists, the ECB is justified in reactivating the SMP."
Nick Kounis, who heads macro research at ABN Amro in Amsterdam, was not so sure that it would be enough. In the report, he was quoted saying that "the crisis response looks likely to focus on direct intervention in the government bond market. We have some doubts about whether the interventions will be of the required scale. It therefore seems likely that the bond purchases will just allow policy makers to muddle through unless much more financial firepower is put on the table."


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Rainmak3r Wrote:Hi,
I've just started playing with XBMC (a couple of days), and of course also tried the FB plugin. I managed to login and have a look at my photos and videos. It generally seems to work fine, except for the fact that it is VERY slow at times, and sometimes fails.
For instance, when getting the Friends list, it seems to go on forever (taking like 3-4 seconds for every friend, and I have many), and then failing before completion (script failed popup appears). This is what the log tells about it:
IOError: [Errno socket error] The read operation timed out
which suggest that at some point the slow becomes stalled or something alike. Trying again starts from where it left, but so far I haven't been able to complete the friends directory listing, since it always fails after a while, and I gave up.
Is this a known bug or problem? I don't know if it's relevant, but I'm using XBMC on Fedora, which uses Python 2.7: I've already found out how to fix the Youtube plugin which had a problem because of that, and so I was wondering whether it may be the case for the FB plugin as well.
Thanks for the great work you've put in the plugin so far!
I can't really diagnose the problem without more of the log output. My guess is that it times out fetching one of the 'friends' photos. Since you have large number of friends this probably increases the chance of this happening.
Normally with a plugin you can give xbmc the photo and it will handle retrieving it in a nice threaded fashion. For some reason with the friends photos that doesn't work, so to display them I have to fetch them all in order to display the list with the photos.
There is an option in the addon settings that allows you to disable fetching these photos. Try turning that off for now. I will modify the code so that a failure on one photo doesn't prevent it from finishing the list and put that in the next update. It will still be slow getting all the photos, but there is not much I can do about that, but it caches them so it only has to do this once.
I'm finishing up code to allow users to authorize the plugin from within XBMC, and after that is done I will release an update.
Also in looking at the code just now I realized that the plugin is only showing the first 25 photos in each album with no paging options I'll add that in the next update as well.


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Just because she's one of music's hottest stars doesn't mean that Kelly Clarkson likes to hear or talk about herself.
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Just in the past 12 months alone, Clarkson's career has reached new levels and has been spotlighted for many of her recent successes, including her new album 'Stronger' and her multi-week No. 1 song with country star Jason Aldean on 'Don't You Wanna Stay.'
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Clarkson has since found a balance in her life and career, which results in much downtime when she is out of the spotlight. Her favorite place to sneak away to is her Texas ranch that is also the home for close to 50 animals.
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After a decisive vote on Monday, Israel has won the right to chair the United Nations legal committee, one of six permanent committees in the world body. The vote marks the first time Israel has been elected to lead a permanent committee since it joined the UN in 1949. The second-place winner, Sweden, garnered only 10 votes. Israel's role will be mainly procedural, but its margin of victory — 109 out of 175 valid votes cast — and its nomination by several countries to the position shows growing international support for "engaging" with Israel. In addition, the victory will allow it to cultivate a higher profile within the UN. Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the UN, will take the chairmanship. "I am proud to be the first Israeli elected to this position," Danon said in a statement.
Elections to the six standing committees — disarmament, economic and financial issues, human rights, decolonisation, the UN budget, and legal issues — are usually carried out by consensus and no vote is taken. In this instance, opponents to the Israeli candidacy called for a vote, hoping to avoid an Israeli win. Israel recently transferred from the Asia-Pacific group within the U.N., which includes other Middle Eastern and Asian nations, to the Western European and Others Group. Its nomination to the legal committee came after this transfer.
"It's a kind of joke that a country that has violated every single UN resolution [...] is now chairing a committee that has to do with the fourth Geneva Convention.
Xavier Abu Eid, chief spokesperson for the PLO, said the victory sends a clear message to the Palestinian people that the international community, and Europe especially, are not willing to take action to stop Israel from violating the law, offering rewards instead. "It's a kind of joke that a country that has violated every single UN resolution [...] is now chairing a committee that has to do with the fourth Geneva Convention, protection of civilians, and everything that Israel has violated systematically — not as a matter of exception, but as a matter of policy," he said to Palestine Monitor. Jamal Dajani, Director of Strategic Communications and Media at the Prime Minister's Office and Spokesperson for the Prime Minister, said Danon's election will be an obstacle to peace. His appointment "unmasks the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and reveals its true intentions," he explained. "Mr. Danon has clearly said that his goal is to annex the West Bank with a minimum amount of Palestinians remaining in it." Palestine, along with the Arab League and the 57 member states of the Organization of Islamic cooperation, all opposed Israel's election. Abu Eid said there needs to be more international will appropriately punishing Israel for its continued violations of international law. With this vote, "Israel is not isolated — on the contrary, Israel is being engaged more and more as we enter into the 50th anniversary of the Israeli occupation. It sends a message that no matter what crimes Israel commits, they are going to continue to have impunity."
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Securities Fraud Whistleblower Receives $50,000 Reward
Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued their first payout under the year old Whistleblower Program established by the SEC to prevent securities fraud. The recipient of the first payout will receive $50,000, which represents 30% of the amount collected by the SEC. Rewards can range between 10 – 30% depending upon a variety of factors. The recipient of the $50,000 reward has elected to remain anonymous. The SEC denied an award request from a second individual was declined after the SEC determined that the information provided did not contribute significantly to the SEC's investigation. Although this is a relatively small award, it is hoped that more individuals will be encouraged to report securities fraud as larger rewards get reported.
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Apex Magazine has just published my short story about a young materials scientist who develops a very peculiar superpower: vaporizing cars. It's called "Twilight of the Eco-Terrorist."
Here's how the story begins:
The first time I vaporized a car, it was because I was in love.
I was seventeen, and Lawrence had eyes like chips of black glass. We'd parked behind the donut shop, between two trash bins that blocked my car's windows. I was on top of him when it happened, marveling at the way bones made a bas-relief map of his skin, willing every cell in my body to touch every cell in his. I bent down to kiss his lips but they weren't there. The air was in confusion; my body sank into his as if he had become honey, and then steam.
We had trained ourselves in the silence of covert intimacy so thoroughly that I kept myself from screaming by reflex as Lawrence sublimated into thick vapor, our connection torn into its constituent molecules. And it didn't stop there. I was so deep in concentration that I kept sinking through solids gone muddy, the old Chevy station wagon vaporizing around my body, hood and windows curling into steam. I disintegrated my way through a layer of reeking blacktop before I came to a stop, hands and knees planted in the stabilizing dirt. A melted blob of tar oozed down my bare back. When I stood, it was at ground zero of a car bomb explosion: a hole bitten into the ground, surrounded by a few distorted engine parts.
I walked home naked along one of those smog-shrouded highways that cut through even the most remote towns in Southern California. Every time I stumbled into the light-puddles of street lamps, I wondered if the police would catch me. But the early-morning streets were deserted. In the morning, I told my father that I'd totaled the car and didn't want to talk about it. Lawrence's picture was in the paper: Local Boy Missing. Nobody even questioned me. Why would they? Our relationship was a secret. Lawrence was terrified that people would discover us stretched out half-naked on the Chevy's carpet-covered cargo volume. We lived in a traditional-values town, and his family was churchy.
A prejudice that had once seemed like superstition at that moment mutated in my mind, becoming something truthful and portentous.
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I went to college in a big city. Even five hundred miles away from my hometown, I was always just one thought away from the steaming hole where I'd deconstructed Lawrence. Somehow I had killed my boyfriend and melted my car, for reasons none of my materials science classes could explain. How could I make friends with my lab mates when I had done with my bare hands what they required lasers and liquid nitrogen to accomplish?
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Yasiel Puig hitting bombs during batting practice in Puerto Rico.
Puig made his debut in the Puerto Rican winter league last night playing for Indios de Mayaguez. He went 2-5 with a homer and two rbi's. If you're interested in following the games, click here.
Also worth to mention is that Puig hit that homer in his first at bat.
Puig wore #43 during BP but wore #35 during the game. Not sure what's going on.
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Yasiel Puig made his debut last night in Puerto Rico
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Would be nice if he wore 43 with the Dodgers! It would bring back memories of Mondesi!
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Ethics for Insurance Professionals Basic
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- Course Delivery: On Demand
- Credit Hours: 3
- Language: English
- Credit Type: Ethics (Classroom Equivalent)
- Difficulty: Intermediate
This course covers the basic concept of ethics with a detailed definition and what it entails. We will discuss the role of ethics in our personal as well as professional lives and the challenges faced. We will also discuss the core ethical values and how rationalization is used as a common tool. Finally, we will talk about the framework of ethical decisionomaking and conclude with a brief discourse on ethics and conflict of interests.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Define ethics and emphasize on the various principles involved.
- Discuss the ways in which we can incorporate ethical values in our personal and professional lives.
- Briefly define the major themes in ethical philosophy.
- Fully understand the core ethical principles and values and the use of rationalization.
- Elaborate on the framework for ethical decisionomaking.
- Define the key elements of a conflict of interest.
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Ethics for Insurance Professionals - Basic - Utah Insurance Department
- Name:
- Utah Insurance Department
- Phone:
- 801-538-3800
- Fax:
- 801-538-3829
- Website URL:
- https://insurance.utah.gov/
- Email Address:
- email@example.com
- Address:
- 3110 State Office Building PO Box 146901
- City:
- Salt Lake City
- State:
- Zip:
- 84114-6901
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - to tap Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in to tap Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Help Center View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message hiromichiJoined: 12 Oct 2005Posts: 1380 Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:41 am Post subject: to tap tap means select? Mr. Trump, who has no governing experience or Washington network and campaigned as an agent of change, does not have a long list of establishment figures from the Bush era to tap._________________Hiromichi Back to top LorikeetJoined: 08 Oct 2005Posts: 1877Location: San Francisco Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 11:35 pm Post subject: Yes, it is that meaning. He doesn't have a lot of people to ask to join him. Back to top hiromichiJoined: 12 Oct 2005Posts: 1380 Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 11:38 pm Post subject: Lorikeet、Thank you._________________Hiromichi Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Help Center All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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Joyce Kinkead, professor of English at Utah State University, became the first humanist named a Council on Undergraduate Research Fellow last summer. The award carries a $5,000 prize for student researchers at a fellow's respective institution, awarded by the Brian Andreen Undergraduate Research Fund — the founder of the organization. For Kinkead, figuring out what to do with funding wasn't too difficult.
She has enhanced undergraduate research opportunities at Utah State for more than a decade. As the former director of the university's undergraduate research program, Kinkead expanded research support at USU's regional campuses and worked to include undergraduates in collaborative research with faculty members. She founded the Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research and created the annual undergraduate research day in Salt Lake City.
"The CUR Fellow award not only honored my work, but it also allowed me to advance the cause of undergraduate research in my own department in meaningful ways," she wrote in her CUR Fellow report. "Although I could certainly have used the funds to employ a research assistant on my current book project, I thought it would be more important to devise a path whereby my colleagues in the Department of English shared in the joy I have found in mentoring undergraduate researchers."
Kinkead, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences' 2013 Researcher of the Year, devised a call for proposals for student research projects with the five committee chairs of the various emphasis areas in the department. Students were awarded funding based upon feasibility and innovation of their scholarly or creative projects. Recipients partnered with a faculty mentor and used the funds to visit historic sites, research in archives, present at conferences and use as leverage to gain additional research funding.
For instance, Carlos Guadarrama — a first generation college student — used the support to investigate the defunct Intermountain Inter-Tribal Indian School in Brigham City. He examined the history of the campus and its folklore. From analyzing accounts of riots that occurred at the school in the 1970s, Guadarrama disproved a widely held belief that the school endured a three-day melee, prompting the school to eventually close. He presented his findings at three different conferences, including Research on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City.
"When I went to Capitol Hill in January I was really shy; by the time I finished with [Undergraduate Student] Showcase [at USU] in April I was really confident in my poster and confident talking to people about my research," Guadarrama wrote about the project. "I like that my work makes others think of me differently."
Tia Lee used her funding to launch a creative writing endeavor. She spent the 2012-13 academic year writing The Locksmith's Apprentice, a fantasy novel for young adult audiences. Lee attends USU Eastern and is nearly finished with the manuscript, which entailed creating a new language for her characters. Lee's work was accepted at the National Undergraduate Literature Conference at Weber State earlier this spring [2013].
"This has been a very eye-opening experience," she wrote in her final report. "I had no idea there were so many avenues for me to pursue my creating writing on an academic level."
Cambri McDonald, an American Studies major, received funding to explore her project "The Prostitute in Progressive Era Literature: Critiquing Social Reformers." She presented a paper and applied for a USU Undergraduate Research and Creative Opportunities Grant to travel to New York City in July 2013 to continue her research. There she aims to establish connections between the novelist Stephen Crane and Jacob Riis, a police reporter for the former New York Tribune, and uncover more biographical information about author Edgar Fawcett. McDonald was named the department's Undergraduate Researcher of the Year.
Freshman Jake Howard was relatively new to literary and historical research when he began his project examining the rhetorical arguments by Cherokee women on Indian removal policies in the 1800s. However, his efforts proved successful. Howard's paper was accepted for presentation at the 2013 Western Social Science Association Conference. The experience showed him the breadth of research possibilities in the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary approaches.
Senior Joshua McDermott used the funds to travel to Palmyra, New York, and Kirtland, Ohio, to write a braided essay about his spiritual journey visiting historical sites of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints founder Joseph Smith. He aimed to gain a deeper understanding of Smith as a human being while tracing his footsteps and interviewing historians at the sites. McDermott delivered three oral presentations at Utah State about his work.
"CUR has been one of the best, and most useful, experiences I've had as an undergraduate," he wrote. "It felt wonderful to have resources to undertake research I was interested in, and to explore a topic, through self-discipline, that I cared about."
In April, the five student researchers reported on their projects during a special panel at the English Department's Undergraduate Symposium. The department is exploring ways to continue supporting this level of funding for future undergraduate researchers.
"I could not be more thrilled with the outcome of these students' projects," Kinkead said. "They worked on diverse topics, and had excellent guidance from their faculty mentors."
The five student projects awarded funding:
- Jake Howard was mentored by assistant professor Kerin Holt for his project Primary Voices: Cherokee Women on Indian Removal in the 1800's.
- Carlos Junior Guadarrama partnered with associate pProfessor Christine Cooper-Rompato for his project Intermountain Inter-Tribal Indian School in Brigham City, Utah.
- Tia Lee worked with assistant professor Genevieve Ford on her project The Locksmith's Apprentice.
- Cambri McDonald partnered with associate professor Evelyn Funda on her project The Prostitute in Progressive Era Literature: Critiquing Social Reformers.
- Joshua McDermott was mentored by associate professor Jennifer Sinor while undertaking his project Joseph Smith and Me: A Spiritual Journey Across a Physical Landscape.
Related links:
- Council on Undergraduate Research
- USU Department of English
- USU Undergraduate Research
- USU College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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As an artist, Rachael's paper dolls won Best in Show at the Public Market's Artist Row, 2008. She has held a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and in 2006 participated in a session on Craft and Social Conscience at Penland School of Crafts.
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With its geometrically-patterned surface, the Druida Barbecue by Mermeladaestudio will provide just the slightest spin on your average-looking steak by searing it with a unique set of triangles. The rest of the grill isn't bad to look at either. The design of the grill on the whole is based on the idea of druidic cauldrons, so the grill's bowl sits on a steel frame with simple acajou wood legs. It's a nice no-nonsense design, but might be a little hard to clean. [Mermeladaestudio via Dezeen]


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This security update resolves vulnerabilities that could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends a specially crafted URL request that contains international characters to a Microsoft .NET web application.
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Giants left-hander known to be very active in charitable pursuits
Giants pitcher Barry Zito has been named the 2013 recipient of the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award, given annually to a Major Leaguer who best exemplifies the giving nature of Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig.
The award, sponsored by the Phi Delta Theta International Fraternity, was first introduced in 1955 and is maintained at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Zito will receive his award from a group of Phi Delta Theta representatives prior to Tuesday night's game against the Brewers.
A two-time World Series champion and former Cy Young Award winner, Zito earned the Gehrig Award for the multitude of contributions he's made off the field during his 14-year career.
Among his various work in the community, Zito founded "Strikeouts for Troops," an organization geared toward providing the comforts of home to wounded troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. Along with his own foundation, Zito supports a number of other similar programs including Welcome Back Veterans, Fisher House Foundation, Operation Care and Comfort and NCIRE.
Aside from his work with the military, Zito in 2008 inaugurated the Barry Zito Giants Field in Stockton, Calif., to benefit the Stockton Junior Giants League. He and his wife, Amber, also support the St. Anthony Foundation, which helps provide meals to San Francisco's homeless population, along with other charitable organizations such as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Special Olympics, Make-A-Wish Foundation, global illiteracy, organ donation and cancer research.
With this honor, Zito joins Alvin Dark, the award's inaugural winner, as the only Giants in franchise history to win the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award.


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Farmingdale State - 4, Stevens - 3
Farmingdale, N.Y. - Freshman Matthew Zsevc's (Westbury, N.Y.) two out RBI single in the bottom of the tenth inning leads the Rams to a 4-3 non-conference victory over Stevens today in Farmingdale, N.Y. Farmingdale State improves to 8-6 with the win, while the Ducks fall to 11-7 on the year.
Trailing 2-0 in the top of the sixth, senior designated hitter TJ Alcorn (Turnersville, N.J.) and freshman center fielder Brian Hennelly (Holbrook, N.Y.) hit back-to-back RBI singles for Stevens to tie the game at 2-2.
Senior second baseman Tom Phillips (Spring Lake, N.J.) put the Ducks ahead 3-2 in the seventh with an RBI single to left center scoring freshman shortstop Marc Calleo (Bayville, N.Y.) who led off the inning with a bunt single.
The Rams tied the game in the bottom of the ninth as junior first baseman Ron Remi (Massapequa, N.Y.) scored on a passed ball.
Farmingdale State second baseman Thomas Rydzewski (Franklin Square, N.Y.) led off the tenth inning with a double down the right field line. Rydzewski then advanced to third base on a balk before scoring on Zsevc's walk-off RBI single to center.
Junior left fielder David Zilnicki (Riverhead, N.Y.) had a team-high three hits and an RBI, while Rydzewski and freshman shortstop Anthony Alvino (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) were each 2-for-5 with a run scored for the Rams. Senior third baseman Ryan McAllister (Miller Place, N.Y.) was 2-for-4 at the plate with a run scored.
Freshman starting pitcher Connor Henson (Huntington, N.Y.) threw 5.2 innings allowing one earned run on five hits. Senior C.J. Bula (Mohegan Lake, N.Y.) pitched a scoreless tenth inning and earned the victory.
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Killing for cash is the name of the game in Mercenaries, a third-person action adventure that combines intense weapons combat with open-ended, 'go anywhere, do anything' gameplay. Putting you in the role of a soldier of fortune in future North Korea, Mercenaries lets you pilot dozens of ground and air vehicles, puts state-of-the-art weaponry at your fingertips, and even lets you form your own alliances as you work through your list of targets.
A recent coup in North Korea has left the region in chaos. A private military firm has decided to dispatch a lone mercenary to track down 52 of the old regime's members before they can launch a nuclear attack, which is where you come in. Playing as American badass Chris Jacobs, volatile Swedish mercenary Mattias Nilsson, or British SAS Paratrooper Jennifer Mui (all of whom have their own unique talents), your job is to take down the 'deck of 52', the ultimate prize being the Ace of Spades.
The game's explosive 52 missions (one per target) feature a wide range of objectives, from sabotage and hijacking to search and destroy - but you have more or less complete freedom as to how you go about them. Part war chest, part toy box, Mercenaries features fully interactive scenery, a devastating array of weapons, and dozens of vehicles just waiting to be 'liberated'. If you can see it, chances are that you can steal it, use it, drive it or just blow it up. Impressive physics brings the destruction to vivid life, whether it's huge explosions, massive vehicle crashes, or buildings tumbling down around you.
Working your way through the game's non-linear structure, you can even choose to form your own alliances with various factions in the area, including the North Koreans, the Chinese, and the Russian mafia. Remember, it's not the mercenary's job to ask why; just when and how much.
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