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Gulf View 228 is a second floor, 1 bedroom, 1 bath condo with dining area, full kitchen, spacious living room, balcony and private beach access that comfortably accommodates six. Located on Scenic Gulf Road in Destin, it's one of the best deals around.
Professionally decorated, this Floridian themed unit is clean, comfortable, and only 100 steps to the sugar white sands of the Miramar Beach. This unit is ideal for couples or families, with a queen bed in the master, hallway bunk beds and a pull out sofa. You can relax in this quiet, family-oriented private resort with everything you need for the ultimate Florida vacation!
Featuring 200 feet of private beach, two pools (one heated), a jacuzzi and BBQ grilling area, all surrounded by immaculate landscaping. Within walking distance of Pompano Joe's restaurant and 5 miles of biking/walking trails.
All the excitement of Destin is just minutes away: choice of water-sports, golf, amusement parks, and outlet shopping, One glimpse of Destin beaches and you're hooked. It must be the wide, sun-bleached beaches and the famous emerald waters. Not to mention the fabulous fishing, the world's most beautiful beaches, addictive seafood and the full array of activities for kids of all ages and more fun to be found in Destin.
Here you will find wind surfing, snorkeling, water-skiing and parasailing offered all along the Gulf shores. Nearby attractions include a fascinating aquarium, Naval history museums, a fishing museum, and a zoo featuring Colossus the giant gorilla and rare white Bengal tigers. Of course you'll want to savor the unique and delicious flavors of the freshest seafood available at any of Destin's more then 100 eateries! Restaurants here range from casual oyster bars to elegant bistros serving culinary delights guaranteed to please your palate.
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The Buccleuch Arms is located Smack Bang in the heart of the Scottish Borders, we are a four star Inn with an incredible history originally built by the 5th Duke of Buccleuch in 1836.
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Duck is popular in stateside Chinese restaurants, but this recipe turns it into one of America's favorite apps—wings. Chef Tran starts with packaged duck wings—now available for foodservice—marinating them in Asian flavors including oyster sauce, ginger, garlic and a little crushed red pepper for heat. Try them instead of the usual chicken wings on the appetizer menu.
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Chanukah in the Torah
The very day of the 25th of Kislev which received the 'crown of inauguration' during the days of the Hasmoneans had already been prepared for its greatness from the days of Moshe Rabenu - and had been reconfirmed in its special glory during the days of the prophet Hagai. But it was the merit of the Hasmoneans that the redemptive light of the day should be fully revealed in their days. And thus did the Sages say:
'Rabi Chanina said: On the twenty-fifth of Kislev the work of the Mishkan was concluded but it was kept folded till the first of Nisan, as it is written: 'On the day of the first month, on the first of the month, you shall erect the Mishkan of the tent of meeting.'And Israel murmured against Moshe saying: Why was it not erected immediately ? Did some blemish affect it? God, however, intended to merge the rejoicing over the Mishkan into the month in which Itzchak was born (Nisan) ... Kislev therefore missed the inauguration though the work had been concluded therein. God therefore said: It is for me to make restitution. How did God repay Kislev? With the Chanukah of the Hasmoneans' (Yalkut Melachim 184).
When the returnees from the Babylonian Exile began to rebuild the Temple, their work was interrupted for twenty two years because of enemy intrigue and opposition. When their work of rebuilding was resumed, they erected the foundation of the Sanctuary on the 24th day of Kislev. During the following night - the night of the 25th of Kislev - they celebrated the foundation laying.
Allusions To Chanukah in the Torah
In Emor the Torah recounts all the festivals of the year: Shabbat, Pesach, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. The account of the festivals is followed by the commandment to maintain an eternal light in the Sanctuary. It has been suggested that the proximity between the two passages - that of the Eternal Light and that of the Festivals - anticipates a future day when the kindling of the Eternal Light would become a yearly Festival - a festival directly following Sukkot, which is listed among the Torah-ordained holidays.
There is a similar allusion to Chanukah in the proximity between the passage on the offerings of the Nesiim (when the altar was dedicated), and the directly following passage on the Menorah. The Ramban writes in his commentary to the Torah (Beha'alotecha) : 'In the Megilat Setarim of Rabenu Nisim, I found the following statement: 'I saw in the Midrash that when the twelve tribes had each brought their offerings to the dedication of the altar, and the tribe of Levi had not been included in the altar offerings, God said to Moshe: Speak to Aharon and tell him that one day there will be another inauguration (Chanukah) with kindling of lights. Through your sons I will perform miracles and bring deliverance for Israel. I will give them another Chanukah to be called by their name: the Chanukah of the Hasmoneans.' For this reason the present passage was placed in proximity to that of the altar dedication.
The Midrash Yelamdenu, as well as in Midrash Raba relate: "God said to Moshe: 'Go and say to Aharon: Have no fear. You are ordained for something greater than this. The altar offerings are only brought while the Sanctuary stands. The lights however will burn forever.. . and all the blessings which I gave you, that you might bestow them upon my children, will never cease.' We know, however, that in the absence of the Temple, and after the cessation of sacrificial offerings, the Menorah is likewise no longer lit. The reference of the Sages is accordingly, to the lamps of the Hasmonean Chanukah whose lighting remains binding even after the destruction of the Temple."
Still other allusions to Chanukah in the Torah:
The twenty-fifth word in the Torah is "ohr" (light).
The twenty-fifth place of encampment in the Journeying of the children of Israel in the wilderness, was Hasmonah.


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This is a story we first covered over a year ago when it was just a "conspiracy theory."
Yes, UN peacekeeper troops brought cholera to Haiti and are responsible for the biggest outbreak the of the disease in modern times.
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BACKGROUND: NASA scientists have determined that the formation of clouds is affected by the lightness or darkness of air pollution particles, which in turn impacts the earth's climate. In a breakthrough study published in Science magazine, scientists explain why aerosols -- tiny particles suspended in air pollution and smoke -- sometimes stop clouds from forming, and in other cases increase cloud cover. Clouds deliver water around the globe, and also help regulate how much of the sun's warmth the planet holds. The capacity of air pollution to absorb energy from the sun is the key.
ABOUT THE STUDY: It is difficult to directly measure the impact of aerosols because aerosols only stay airborne for about one week -- unlike greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, which can linger in the atmosphere for decades. So the NASA scientists conducted an extensive survey of sky conditions at 17 different locations, each representing different types of air pollution and weather patterns. They used automated instruments to record how much sunlight was coming from the sky; the measurements were made several times an hour at different times of the year.
THE RESULTS: Regardless of location or season, the same pattern emerged. There were lots of clouds when light-reflecting pollution filled the air, but many fewer clouds were recorded when the pollution was mostly light-absorbing. Here's why: When the overall mixture of aerosol particles in pollution absorbs more sunlight, it is more effective at preventing clouds from forming. When aerosols in pollution are lighter in color and absorb less energy, they actually help clouds form. The NASA researchers estimate that as a result, there could be as much as a 5 percent net increase in cloud cover worldwide. In badly polluted areas, such cloud cover changes could alter the availability of fresh water, and affect regional temperatures.
ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING: Global warming refers to an average increase in the earth's temperature -- which has risen about 1 degree Fahrenheit over the past 100 years -- which in turn causes changes in climate. A warmer earth may lead to changes in rainfall patterns, and a rise in sea level, for example, as polar glaciers melt. Some of this rise is due to the greenhouse effect: certain gases in the atmosphere trap energy from the sun so that heat can't escape back into space. Without the greenhouse effect, the earth would be too cold for humans to survive, but if it becomes too strong, the earth could become much warmer than usual, causing problems for humans, plants and animals.
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Short Biography
The Walkmen consists of longtime friends Hamilton Leithauser, Walter Martin, Peter Bauer, Matt Barrick and Paul Maroon. After releasing an EP of four songs and playing shows at local New York City clubs, the group issued their full-length debut, Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone, in 2002. The album received rave reviews and earned the group a sizeable following. The band's major breakthrough came with their second full-length album, Bows + Arrows, released in 2004 and featuring the frantic, super-charged hit "The Rat."
Singer Hamilton Leithauser took a moment to talk with Ticketmaster near the release of the Walkmen's latest album, A Hundred Miles Off, and the group's new U.S. tour.
Ticketmaster: How does the new album, A Hundred Miles Off, differ from the band's previous work?
Hamilton Leithhauser: It's more like the second record than the first one, I'd say. But I think the songwriting's come a long way. We tried to have a lot of fun in the studio instead of dragging it out like we have in the past. So we did things pretty quickly and tried to keep them light and fun. And the songs were all completed before we got into the studio this time...Last time, we were writing them as we went along. This time we really had an idea of what we were going for on each one beforehand. It was more fun to record this one for us, if that means anything.
TM: Can you describe the songwriting process for the album?
HL: It was done in small groups. We tried doing it for about eight months as a five piece and finally realized that it was never going to happen that way. So we split up and then some people came up with some parts and we'd stick them together and try to create something that sounded like a song.
TM: Some of the band members swapped instruments. How did that happen?
HL: Yeah. Well, Walt played the organ for, I don't know, 15 years. And I guess he sat down to start writing again and just couldn't take it anymore. And so he wanted to switch it up with Pete who was playing bass and always thought it would be fun to play the organ. So they just switched it up and I think it worked for both of them. We're still together and they're both still in the band. And they're usually in a pretty good mood.
TM: The band has its own recording studio, Marcata, but for the new album you decided not to record there. Why?
HL: We just wanted a change of scene...We'd just been there for so long. I knew this guy (producer) Don Zientara from years past in DC. He's a really good guy, and we're all from DC so it seemed like a fun idea. Last time we went somewhere else. We went to Oxford, Mississippi, and we were staying in a hotel. We were there for so long and it was sort of like being on tour, which we do enough of anyhow. So it was fun to go home and stay with our families and commute everyday to Arlington, Virginia and work there. I just thought it would be a nice lifestyle for a little while. So that's why we got out of Marcata.
TM: Your website mentions the band collectively wrote a novel called John's Journey. How did that come about?
HL: It came out of unbelievable boredom...You've been with the same guys for so long. You've told every possible joke. Everybody knows everybody else's stories. There's nothing funny you can possibly say. Nobody wants to listen to any music. You're just driving around for 10 hours a day. That just seemed like a long project that could hold interest, and it did. It's really kind of fun when you're driving your car.
TM: What's the novel about?
HL: It's about a guy named John. He's sort of on a vague road trip. I say vague because it has no plot outline whatsoever. All five of us are writing without any knowledge of what the others are writing. When we get it all together in the end, I hope it will make sense. But even if it doesn't, I think it will be really funny.
TM: So far in your career, what has been your favorite onstage performance?
HL: My favorite performance was at the Chicago Metro. It was definitely my favorite show we ever played...It was a really big place and we sold it out. And that was big for us I remember. And it was the first time people really knew our songs. The record had come out. It felt like people really wanted to see us and we were in tip-top shape. It was right at the beginning and all the songs were new and fun. It was just a new thing. When you do it again and it's fun, it's still never quite as fun as that.
TM: What's been your worst onstage performance? Any horror stories?
HL: Worst? I've got a lot of those... We've had boring, downer shows, but those aren't fun to mention though. I've had the mic off for three songs in a row...that was a real downer. I sang three songs and then after the third song, someone yelled out, "Your mic's not on!" (laughs) That's a bummer.
TM: I know a lot of the band members were playing music together as early as fifth grade. What kind of music were you guys playing at that young age?
HL: It started out with Walt's band, playing Sex Pistols covers and Clash covers I guess. In high school, Walt and Paul and Matt played straight ska, like Madness or the Toasters or something like that. And in high school, me and Pete played just terrible, terrible sounding rock and roll with loud distorted guitars and slap bass. I don't even know what you'd call it. As bad as it gets really. And then when we were in college, we played like punk sort of stuff. And then the other guys were in this band Jonathan Fire*Eater. And they played just rock, I guess.
TM: What's it like playing with people you've known for so long? Does it make things easier?
HL: Sometimes, and sometimes it's harder. In the end, though, the pros outweigh the cons...It can be a problem. You know what the other guys are thinking and nothing seems knew. There doesn't seem to be an influx of new ideas. But in the end you want the other guys there. Everyone sort of balances each other out. And it's a big help.
TM: I love your cover of the Drifters' song "There Goes My Baby" (originally released by the Drifters in 1959). The band in general seems inspired by older music, older instruments and older recording techniques. What do you like about the music of the past?
HL: It just seems like rock and roll got worse and worse in the middle of the '70s. There are just so many more records I like so much more from the '60s and the '70s. There was still good stuff in the '80s and the '90s, but it just seemed like it was so much more prevalent before that. I listen to a lot of stuff, but it just seems like there were more really, really great bands making really great music at an earlier time.
TM: What are some of your favorite bands from that period?
HL: If I think of earlier (music): Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles. They are all there at the exact same time. And the list goes on and on.
TM: In your opinion, who puts on an incredible live show? Are there any bands you'd like to emulate?
HL: I saw the Cramps one time and they blew my socks off. I'd like to be like them. I mean we can't. It would be ridiculous. But I'd like to be like that...They just go crazy...biting the microphone head off and spitting it out, just spitting everywhere...Just really fun to watch. (laughs)
In-depth Biography
The Walkmen feature three members from Jonathan Fire*Eater and two from the Recoys. When Jonathan Fire*Eater disbanded in 1998, the group took the remainder of their Dreamworks funding and established an uptown rehearsal space in New York City that doubled as a 24-track recording studio where they use a wide variety of vintage equipment. The 900-square-foot Harlem industrial space, dubbed Marcata Studios, was completed in the fall of 1999. (Bands that have recorded at their studio include labelmates the French Kicks and experimental rockers Arto Lindsay and Nação Zumbi.) The Walkmen, some of whom had gigged in the city under the moniker Today Okay, formed in 2000 and consist of Fire Eaters Walter Martin (vocals, organ, etc.), Paul Maroon (guitars), and Matt Barrick (drums) and ex-Recoys Hamilton Leithauser (vocals) and Peter Bauer (bass). Like Jonathan Fire*Eater, the members of the Walkmen grew up together in the Washington, D.C., area and have played in the same bands since the fifth grade. Perhaps the only way the group could be any closer is if they were all related. (Martin and Leithauser are cousins, so the semi-merging of bands is also somewhat of a family reunion.)
The Walkmen make a conscious attempt to evolve away from the raw, fiery garage sounds of their previous bands. They incorporate piano into the new songs as well as take the compositions in new directions by experimenting with instrumentation and recording techniques. The Walkmen are influenced by such diverse bands as the Pogues, Joy Division, Bruce Springsteen, Björk, U2, New Order, the Smiths, and the Cure. Their new music has favorably been compared to Pixies, Brian Eno, and the Velvet Underground with strong hints of U2 and Television. An online advertisement for the Marcata Studios explains that the owners appreciate the sonic recordings on Joy Division's Peel Sessions, Talking Heads' Fear of Music, the Specials' The Specials, and Royal Trux's Singles, among others.
The Walkmen released a self-titled, four-song EP in 1999 through the small Brooklyn label Startime International (Brendan Benson) and completed a vinyl-only release to be made available at concerts. The first Walkmen concert was at Joe's Pub in the East Village in September of 2000, shortly after their EP was released. In 2002, the Walkmen made their proper full-length debut with Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone. It was a favorite among indie crowds and the album led the Walkmen to tour the world in support of it. Bows + Arrows, the band's first for Warner Bros.' Record Collection label, appeared two years later. Along with touring and appearing in a cameo on the Fox TV series The O.C., the Walkmen began writing a novel, -John's Journey, together. The band returned to the studio in 2005, working with Don Zientera at Arlington, VA's Inner Ear Studio on their third album, A Hundred Miles Off, and at their own Marcata Studio on a song-by-song cover of Harry Nilsson's Pussy Cats, which was the last album recorded in Marcata before the band closed it. A Hundred Miles Off was released in spring 2006, and Pussy Cats arrived that fall. The Walkmen recorded their fourth album in New York's Gigantic Studio and the same Oxford, MS, studio in which they recorded Bows + Arrows, releasing You & Me in 2008 on Gigantic Music. Lisbon, the group's sixth studio album, arrived in 2010 on the Fat Possum/Bella Union label. The following year, the Walkmen celebrated their 10th anniversary as a band while recording with Phil Ek; the results, Heaven, arrived in 2012.~ JT Griffith, Rovi
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Paranormal events remain a popular subject among the media. The great mysteries behind such events easily catch the attention of the viewers making directors and producers millionaires in no time. Charmed didn't make it to No.1 for nothing. However, this list contains none of those girl powers and the attractive witches of Charmed. Ghost hunting has long evolved from candles to EMF detectors which make things more exciting and more convincing to watch. Here are the top paranormal shows you should start replaying:
Ghost Adventures. Ghost stories should not be scary all the time. If you are fond of Scooby Doo, then this will definitely suit your taste. With beefy men screaming like a bunch of high school girls every time they see a sort of ghost, you can't help but laugh out loud at their reactions. Well, ghosts really give people the scare, but most of us expect big men to have that macho effect. If you want to look into the realms of the ghost world, this is a good find, minus the screaming of course.
The Othersiders. Cartoon Network made a great change by casting kids to do ghost hunting. It's like Dexter's Lab again, with the kid's high-end ghost hunting equipment. The story is somewhat similar to the Ghost Hunters, only with a younger cast. The Othersiders are composed of five teens willing to uncover the secrets of the spirit guides.
Destination Truth. Here, a team lead by Josh Gates goes around the world to investigate truths about paranormal encounters. They interview locals and gather evidences around and bring them back to the United States for analysis. The team is split into equal groups and will try to experience the phenomenon first hand. They use thermal heat cameras and capture sounds. Sometimes they arrive at hoaxes or something really paranormal.
Ghost Adventures. If you want some live ghost action, then this show can give you that. Zak Bagans, Nick Groff together with Aaron Goodwin explore the most haunted places around the world. Three men lock themselves up in the location documenting the trip with just their cameras. This show can really send you goose bumps when they start fighting ghosts and ward off spirits in many encounters.
Paranormal State. This show has a lot of positive and negative reviews but many people love it for its spookiness. Ryan Buell and his fellow students embark on a journey to help people with possessed family members. Although sometimes the effects are too good to be true and Buell himself is too self-conscious, the show still became the third most watched series in its network. Forget about the controversies surrounding the paranormal activities and Buell's own demons. If you're looking for a scare of a lifetime, you'll simply have it in this show.
Paranormal shows become phenomenal not just because people want to enjoy being scared and experience spooky stuff. Perhaps there is something hidden inside them that wants to reach out with the "other side" to the unknown and occult world of the spirit guides.


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He calls Washington, D.C., "corporate occupied territory," and says we're living under "corporate fascism." Ralph Nader continues to pound away at the same themes he did in the 1960s when he first took on the automobile industry, alleging intentional neglect of safety measures. Today, though, he has broadened his targets to include banks, credit card companies, binding arbitration clauses and, of course, his rival presidential candidates.
While he's universally regarded, and even revered, as the father of the consumer movement, Nader's presidential campaigns are roundly criticized by liberals as counterproductive, and even destructive. As part of Red Tape Chronicles' look at the consumer protection proposals of the presidential candidates, Nader agreed to sit down with me this week in Washington, D.C.
I was told to pick up Nader, quite literally, on the side of the road. Despite his public persona, he's a very private man and he works hard to keep the location of his Washington, D.C., home a secret. So I met him on Connecticut Avenue, on the sidewalk in front of a French restaurant a few miles from the NBC bureau where we conducted our interview.
It seems paranoid until you consider that Nader was the victim of aggressive spying by General Motors in the 1960s (the firm eventually apologized),then it's not so hard to understand. Nader has enemies.
Nader seems most angry and obstinate when he talks about what he sees as government's failure to protect its citizens from abuses by corporate America. He laid out conditions for dropping out of the race and supporting Democratic Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or even Republican Sen. John McCain. But his furrowed brow suggested that he considers that eventuality highly unlikely, and his defiant tone indicated he's not ready to abandon his third-party campaign any time soon.
I didn't want to talk politics with him, however. I wanted to hear his views on the state of consumer protection. Given the thousands of rabid complaints received every month by the Red Tape Chronicles, and the helplessness many people express, had his movement failed? If so, what went wrong? He addresses those questions in the video atop this post.
Armed with pamphlets
He sat down in my car with an armful of pamphlets he'd produced on confusing credit card statements, computer-generated overcharges, mysterious "processing charges," indecipherable bills, and so on. In one series, called "Buyer's Market," he described finding an undisclosed 50 percent surcharge on his hotel bills and surprise bank fees for dipping below a minimum balance. The pamphlets, in which he calls for "truth in billing" legislation, were published in 1986 and 1987.
The issues raised every week in the Red Tape Chronicles, he lets me know, are hardly new. He also gently scolds me for not knowing about some consumer advocates who've been fighting for health care reform and other consumer protection issues for decades -- a bit the way a grandfather might scold a grandchild for not knowing about Joe DiMaggio or Mickey Mantle.
Scolding is among Nader's best skills; as the quadrennial third-party presidential candidate, Nader might be considered America's scolder-in-chief. But if he seems angry while talking politics, he softens considerably when the discussion turns to students and education.
"It's a lot of fun!" he says of teaching students about grocery store tricks like placing junk food at eye level in checkout stands. "Students as consumers, it relates their outside of school activity … (to) the classroom. It's really interesting."
But he laments that schools spend far too much time teaching basic computer skills, and far too little time explaining about credit card interest rates, credit scores, mortgages and providing students with skills that would prepare them to be smarter consumers.
"There is a huge imbalance between computer skills to get a job and zero consumer skills," he said.
Of course, you can't talk to Ralph Nader without talking politics and, in truth, that's largely why he consented to our conversation. Last month, he announced his candidacy on NBC's "Meet the Press." But getting other media coverage is a struggle.
His pet subject
Earlier this week, I summarized the consumer protection proposals from the three major presidential candidates. Only McCain's campaign made a campaign official available for an on-the-record interview. But Nader jumped at the chance to speak about his pet subject.
As a presidential candidate, Nader has become a thorn in the side of the Democratic Party. His third-party presidential efforts have drawn votes primarily from Democratic candidates, most significantly in the 2000 election. Many Democrats blame him for George W. Bush's victory. But Nader never gives an inch when asked about this subject, replying that he has constitutional right to run for president. When I asked if he had "bit off his nose to spite his face," as my mother would say -- effectively hurting his own cause through his stubbornness -- he answered that many important new ideas, such as abolition of slavery and women's suffrage, rose to public consciousness through third-party candidates.
During the 2004 campaign, Nader said he met with Democratic Sen. John Kerry and showed him a list of 20 consumer protection issues. If Kerry picked three to champion, Nader promised to support him. That never happened.
In our interview Nader said he would make the same offer to Clinton, Obama or McCain.
"There are two ways to succeed," he said. "One is to beat them by getting more votes. … The second is to have them take our issues and run with them," he said. But he didn't seem optimistic. And while he generally has more positive things to say about Obama than Clinton, he called both "corporate Democrats" and stated that neither was a champion of the consumer.
Both Clinton and Obama have published statements and proposals describing their plans for new consumer protections, which were discussed in Tuesday's column. On Thursday, Obama discussed financial reforms with CNBC, including expanded oversight of lending institutions.
What happened to the consumer movement?
Nader and I talked a bit more about the presidential campaign, as described in more depth on our political blog, First Read, by producer Andy Merten. But I was much more interested in Nader's take on consumer protection issues. Chiefly, I wanted to know why the consumer movement he helped start in the 1960s seems to have faded, or at least stalled.
In the main video atop this story, you'll see his answers – he blames the dismantling of consumer protection agencies, abandonment of consumer education in schools, and American idol to name a few.
But the conversation ranged far and wide. As a victim of spying, Nader has a unique -- and troubling -- perspective on the state of American privacy (see video). Private lawsuits, he said, are the only tool left to restore privacy.
He has fond memories of an appearance on "Sesame Street" as the "neighborhood consumer advocate." In every community in America, he said, there are mini-experts who act informally as advocates for friends and neighbors. They are "influencers," he said, who help keep their communities from getting ripped off, and he whimsically imagines getting them all together some day in Yankee Stadium. (see video)
Finally he sees community organizing as the critical element to reviving consumer rights. He discussed ways for consumers to "band together and become powerful entities" that would "revolutionize consumer protection." (see video)
If you'd like to see a bit more discussion on Nader's alleged role as "spoiler," click here to watch his sit-down interview with Newsweek's Howard Fineman.


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Each day in America, over 65 million family caregivers are providing care for chronically ill, disabled, or aging family members and friends. With the increase in the aging population in America, increasing numbers of older adults are living in the community longer with the help of their family and friends.
On Nov. 27, in honor of National Family Caregiver's Month, Community Partners of Two Harbors held a special dinner in recognition of family caregivers at Black Woods Restaurant. A highlight of the event was the recognition program when twenty-two family caregivers were presented with "Caregiver of the Year" Awards. The event also included musical performances from Two Harbors High school students.
About 78% of older adults living in the community rely on family and friends as their only source of help. This care can be as simple as picking up groceries, shoveling snow, or giving a ride to an appointment, but it can include the more complicated tasks of setting up medications, helping with bathing and dressing, and providing around the clock care. Even with the number of family caregivers, few people identify themselves as caregivers. This can mean that people who are caregiving are not aware of the resources available to them.
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The U.S. emits about 7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases a year. China, with 1.3 billion people, has pulled roughly even with that amount, but its emissions per person are roughly one-fourth that in the U.S., which is home to 300 million.
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The UMBC men�s tennis team evened its record at 2-2 on the young season with a 4-3 victory over America East Conference rival
UMBC captured the doubles points as the top two Retriever tandems edged their counterparts. Sophomore Nick Savage-Pollock and freshman Fredi Voorman edged Barrett Wolf and Giulio Galloratti at #1 doubles, 9-7, while juniors Irfan Shamasdin and Fernando Ferreira nipped Charles Weinstein and Jeff Chudacoff, 8-6.
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About Tew: Tew said she went to the Skibo Road store because the tablets were listed on sale for $59.99. She said a salesperson told her the sale was over and the product was now $99.99. A manager sold her the tablets for $59.99 each, but said he could not give her the rebate.
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The other side of the jeer: Jeff Pearson, senior vice president for marketing with HH Gregg, said Tew was entitled to the rebate. He apologized and emailed a rebate form for Tew to fill out and return. Also, the manager of the Fayetteville HH Gregg said he would refund Tew's rebate at the store.
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This is like a flashback to the '80s, when Ted Turner was colorizing CASABLANCA and THE MALTESE FALCON. At least Orson Welles' old contract prevented him from disfiguring CITIZEN KANE.
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Yes, even in the '40s Hollywood was doing inferior remakes of foreign films!
Everything about the show is perfect for me. The writing, the cast is excellent. I miss Law & Order, Person of Interest is the best show these days, hope it has a good 7 to 10 years run......
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Can I just tell you how happy these recaps make me every Thursday? And I don't even watch the show -- this is better!
Don't know about the David Simon part. I've finally watched a few episodes of TREME, and it's like the classic tourist eager to prove he knows the city better than the locals, willing to sacrifice emotion and drama for cred points. The low point was a bedroom conversation between two people about to have sex that consisted — swear to God — of a discussion of Memphis musician Jim Spake's arranging credits.
Just so you know, you accidently put Scarlett's name instead of Juliette's under Glenn. I knew what you were sayin but some people might get confused :)
my girl and I hadn't been that much into all the TV shows when we first started watching Nashville. then in the break between season 1 and 2, we watched all of House Of Cards, Orange Is The New Black, and Breaking Bad. then Nashville came back on. right away we were both saying "wow this show is bad!" before realizing we had become fully acclimated to quality shows. now we love the soapy/trashy aspect of Nashville and appreciate why we like it.
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I second the nomination of Richie Richington for sacrificial Tennessee lamb.
And dammit, it sure isn't The Wire, and Bunny Colvin was just a tease. I do like the writing and style of this season better than last season, but I sure wouldn't mind if they made it a little more David Simon and a bit less soap.
Oh yeah! Wentworth Miller and his wife Sienna Miller. I think they're probably gone forever now that Juliette has decided she should date Avery.
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If Norman Rockwell was depressed about anything, it was about the level of social injustice in the world and, what seemed to him, his often thwarted or "hidden" attempts to confront it.
My book on Norman Rockwell which also came out this fall (to much less fanfare but to critical acclaim by Kirkus and others), "Hidden in Plain Sight: The Other People in Norman Rockwell's America", addresses this theme. As the back cover quotes Rockwell: "I just wanted to do something important."
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You are great. Also, the guy from the record label that you can't differntiate from other glorified extras on this show is/was his ex a-gay lovah. They have been hate flirting for months. #yourewelcome and #thankyou!
Yea!!! I just watched Ep. 5, 6, and 7 on Comcast Demand--> Put "Chasing Nashville" in your Cable search bar and all of the other shows will come up!!! Soooooooo gooooood!
Even though I Helena is my absolute fav. (she is beautifully unique, and has grown the most. I've wanted to go out several times and buy a song that she has sung. Autumn is next (She is a natural) and believe it or not... comes Lauren!!! Never thought that I would say that! As far as Savannah, she has come a long way, she is sweeter and starts to show vulnerability. I love this show and hope that it comes back!!! It would be great if all five girls get a record deal and show how hard they work to keep it! Oh! Like, "Chasing Stardom." This would be great for next season! :D
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NEW YORK - A decade after Dr. Mark Greene hung up his white lab coat for good on "ER," Anthony Edwards is back as the star of a new television series.
He plays Hank Galliston, a magazine publisher wrapped up in a historical mystery after his wife is kidnapped on ABC's "Zero Hour," which premieres tonight at 8 p.m. The action thriller requires an audience to concentrate as the story unfolds layer by layer.
The road back to series television took Edwards many miles to travel - literally thousands upon thousands.
Dr. Greene, Edwards' character on "ER," was the heart of what was then television's most popular drama before the actor bowed out after eight years. Upon leaving, "I didn't really have a plan, other than I knew I wasn't going to jump into a series again, and I knew that I was really tired and burnt out," he said.
Professionally, maybe. Personally, Greene had a clear strategy. The California native moved his wife and four children to New York. He was going to spend time raising his kids and give his artist wife time to establish her career, before they took off on a dream adventure.
While fellow actors George Clooney and Julianna Margulies left "ER" quickly to try other things, Edwards committed himself to a four-year contract. At the time, the commitment seemed huge - four years seems a lot longer at age 36 than it does now, when he's 50 - but the decision set him up financially for life.
He bought a plane and took the family (and two teachers) on a 310-day trip around the world.
"It sounds like 'Howdy Doody,' " Edwards said. "But I've never met the older man who wishes he had spent less time with his kids while they were young. You don't meet anybody who says, 'God, I wish I had worked harder and was gone more.' "
He didn't leave the business. Edwards was always comfortable behind the scenes and had been close to leaving acting for directing before getting the "ER" job. He has his own production company, Grand Central Entertainment, and was an executive producer of HBO's "Temple Grandin." He did some film acting, in "Zodiac" and the memorable flop "Motherhood."
Grand Central developed a series. When Showtime passed, he found himself with free time. Edwards started looking at other scripts and found "Zero Hour" to be "a total page-turner."
Zack Estrin, one of the show's four executive producers, couldn't believe his luck.
"It's an honor when somebody who could have his choice of shows chooses yours," he said. "It's like, the prom queen chooses you to have a dance."
In many ways, Mark Greene was designed to be a person viewers could relate to. Same thing with Galliston. The show needs a character to steady the boat, Estrin said.
"That's what Anthony is," he said.
Keep your eyes open for an inside joke. In one episode where Galliston is depicted escaping from pursuers, he puts on a lab coat and walks through a medical facility. Mark Greene lives!
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:37:12AM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote: ..... snip..... > ... >> Keeping it beowulf'y, if you want fine grained synchronization so that you >> don't lose performance when doing barriers, you're probably going to need >> some sort of common clock. The typical microprocessor crystal just isn't >> good enough. Actually, though, when talking about this sort of sync, aren't >> we getting close to SIMD sort of processing? Is a "cluster of commodity >> computers" actually a "good" way to be doing this sort of thing? > > There is a natural synchronization driven by task advancement and > barriers already. The problem, I think, is in getting "everything else" > to be at least moderately synchronous, as it is the noise of this that > degrades the otherwise synchronous task is it not? If one could > convince the kernel to "start" all of its housekeeping task timeslices > within (say) 1 usec worst case across all nodes, you would effectively > parallelize and synchronize this noise..... ... more snip... This almost makes sense except that I suspect the precision of the natural synchronization is much less than the numbers we are talking about and less than I suspect NTP can maintain with a local master (ethernet multicast). Different interconnects and different transports should have a spectrum of per rank precision when coming out of a MPI barrier. It might be interesting to gather some data for different cluster sizes, different transports and different MPIs. Also while focusing on network/transport in this discussion none of us made a comment on rotational latency as a source of uncertainty for the kernel state. If we had the ability to synchronize the systems exactly starting a process would lag for want of rotational/seek disk latency in beowulf'y. Shared memory machines and transports will behave differently. The very high accuracy and high precision clock synchronization is a very real problem for some data gathering systems. Once the data is gathered the computation should be less sensitive. These are different problems and might be addressed by the data sampling devices. Synchronization brings problems.... for example a well synchronized campus can hammer yp server and file servers when cron triggers the same actions on 5000+ systems... I try never to fetchmail at the hour, half hour... I suspect that some system cron tasks should no longer run from cron. Common housekeeping tasks necessary for system health should be run via the batch system in a way that is fashionably late enough to not hammer site services. One site service of interest is AC power. A modern processor sitting in an idle state that then starts a well optimized loop will jump from a couple of watts to 100 watts in as many clocks as the set of pipelines is deep behind the instruction decode and instruction cache fill. A 1000 processor (4000 cores) might jump from 4000 watts to 100000 watts in the blink of an eye (err did the lights blink). Buffer that dI/dT through the PS and it is less but still interesting on the mains which are synchronized. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new hat, now what?
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Check out the Yogi Bear trailers at AWNtv! [1]
Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of the live-action/CG hybrid of Yogi Bear is that Rhythm & Hues is a co-producing partner for the first time with Warner Bros. The VFX studio has thus been able to leverage its considerable experience in creating characters from cartoon series (the Scooby-Doo, Garfield [2]and Alvin and the Chipmunk [3] movies) into more of an ownership role, which made Yogi an interesting starting point for conversations about their involvement.
For the 3-D shoot in New Zealand with director Eric Brevig (Journey to the Center of the Earth [4]), Rhythm & Hues worked on several hundred shots, featuring its extensive animation, lighting and fur work for Yogi (voiced by Dan Aykroyd) and Boo Boo (voiced by Justin Timberlake). In addition, R&H did matte paintings and vfx work, (water, fire and cloth) and props animation. In addition to its proprietary Voodoo animation, R&H continues to use Maya [5] and Houdini [6].
"Being a producing partner definitely added a new level to it," suggests Betsy Paterson, R&H's vfx supervisor. "We were able to be involved from design all the way through story, so that helped. You always have ideas to make things easier and better along the way and it was great to be in the room and listened to on this show. It was nice to feel more ownership of the final result.
Paterson says there's a lot of interaction with people, lots of action in and out of boats on a river and water skiing and flying in the sky. "We did three minutes of full CG for the flying sequence, with all the mountains and rivers below them," she adds. She was dubious of 3-D at first, "but somehow the stereo made it useful for really making sure that we can feel the characters in those spaces."
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Alex Orrelle, founder of Crew 972 in Israel, worked closely with Brevig and Ksander as animation director heading up the story team. Orrelle was involved in rehearsing some scenes with the actors, finding things that they do that the bears could react to, and make it feel as if they were really there.
"I came on quite late, briefly before shooting started," Orrelle says, "but my main job during the shoot was that, every time a sequence was shot in New Zealand and went into rough edit, I would receive it as a QuickTime and would discuss it with Eric to make sure that his vision for the animated performances were coming through. And then I would digitally draw the characters into the QuickTime or onto the back of the shot's back plates with key poses that describe the performance ideas for these characters, and get them approved for Eric. And then send it over back to editorial to cut my drawings back into the QuickTimes.
"The way the characters are rendered is so realistic that we also had to stay close to physical reality, making sure that stuff moves properly and realistically, which the folks at Rhythm & Hues are great at."
Bill Desowitz is senior editor of AWN & VFXWorld.
[1] http://www.awntv.com/videos/yogi-bear-trailer-2/
[2] http://www.awn.com/articles/production/igarfieldi-bringing-cg-cat-real-world
[3] http://www.awn.com/articles/production/ialvin-and-chipmunksi-critter-christmas
[4] http://www.awn.com/articles/production/ijourney-center-earthi-3-d-coming-ya
[5] http://www.awn.com/articles/technology/maya-entertainment-creation-suite-2011-review-killer-productivity
[6] http://www.awn.com/articles/technology/houdini-11-review-flipping-switch
[7] http://www.awn.com/articles/people/shane-acker-talks-i9i-and-beyond


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Our friend Maralynn got a new home some weeks ago. She planned a house blessing and asked me to help her with the ritual. Some people asked me what we did and with her permission I'll give you an idea.
Yesterday friends gathered in her home, varying from experienced witch to newcomer. First I explained what we were going to do. Then we cast the circle from hand to hand. I love that way of casting a circle, because everyone has an active part and it literally binds people together for the ritual. I called the quarters and Maralynn invited the goddess and the god.
The heart or the working part of the ritual consisted of three parts:
- cleansing the house with a smudge stick (white sage, lemon grass and cedar) by Maralynn and me
- blessing the house with the elements by Maralynn and three others, each with an element (incense, candle, water and salt)
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The five men, Charles Williams, 37, Jarrod Williams, 33, Julius Williams, 41, of McKinney, Jemilat Williams, 33, of Missouri City, and Christopher Carter, 33, of Leicester, England are facing an 18 count indictment.
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If indicted four of the men face up to 20 years in jail. Carter and two of the other Willam's men could face life in prison.
The scam involved over 38 homes, emphasizing the point that people who are in danger of losing homes should have a foreclosure attorney to work on their case. Although not all companies that provide foreclosure relief are run by scam artists, a legal expert has a number of strategies to defend your home from repossession.
A foreclosure attorney can be your go-between with your lender and is more likely to get their cooperating when you are seeking a mortgage modification or a short sale. Once you have recieved a default notice if you retain a foreclosure lawyer immediately you have a better chance of keeping your home out of the hands of the bank.
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