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Diebold Indefinitely Suspends Plans For New World Headquarters
NORTH CANTON, Ohio , Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE:DBD) is suspending indefinitely its plans to construct a new global headquarters facility. The company is instead focusing its resources and strategic direction on generating long-term, sustainable growth, using its assets to capitalize on acquisitive opportunities and invest in technologies and services that will help grow the business.
NORTH CANTON, Ohio , Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE:DBD) is suspending indefinitely its plans to construct a new global headquarters facility. The company is instead focusing its resources and strategic direction on generating long-term, sustainable growth, using its assets to capitalize on acquisitive opportunities and invest in technologies and services that will help grow the business.
The company has no plans to pursue new construction options for its global headquarters facility, either in Ohio or elsewhere, and is committed to remaining in its current location in Green, Ohio. Diebold will decline the various state and local financial incentives it was previously offered, thus allowing those assets to be redirected to other programs that will benefit our state and region.
"As we've been analyzing our near- and long-term growth priorities, it has become clear that investing more than $100 million in a headquarters facility is not economically feasible given the other priorities for the business at this time," said Thomas W. Swidarski, Diebold president and chief executive officer. "We have tremendous opportunities for growth, both through acquisition and organic means," Swidarski continued. "Therefore, we must ensure that we maintain adequate capital flexibility to take advantage of these prospects that will position us for long-term growth."
The recently announced acquisitions of logical security and services businesses in Brazil and Turkey, as well as needed spending on IT and services infrastructure, software and global shared services, represent the kinds of investments Diebold is making to grow the company and build a solid foundation for the future.During the next several years, Diebold will make investments to update and enhance the company's existing corporate headquarters in Green and other facilities it occupies in the surrounding area to create a more sustainable, satisfying work environment for its associates. "We remain firmly committed to our associates, our community and the State of Ohio," Swidarski added. "We will appropriately spend on our current headquarters in the City of Green and our other Northeast Ohio facilities. Our intent is to solidify our presence in this region as we invest in growing our business globally – and continue to make a significant economic contribution to the state." On April 12, 2011, Diebold announced its plans to construct a new, consolidated corporate campus which would form an expanded global headquarters in the Akron/ Canton region. In January 2012, the company announced that it chose a 55-acre site on the Union Square property in Green as its preferred site. Diebold currently employs approximately 2,000 associates in Northeast Ohio with an annual payroll of about $130 million. The company maintains seven facilities in the Akron/ Canton region. "We greatly appreciate the tremendous support from the State of Ohio, the City of Green and other key partners we engaged throughout this process," Swidarski concluded. "Also, I deeply regret that our plans raised the hopes and expectations of our associates and the community. However, I believe this decision is in the best interests of our company, our associates, our shareholders and the long-term growth prospects of our business." About Diebold Diebold, Incorporated is a global leader in providing integrated self-service delivery and security systems and services. Diebold employs approximately 17,000 associates with representation in nearly 90 countries worldwide and is headquartered in the Canton, Ohio region, USA. Diebold is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol 'DBD.' For more information, visit the company's website at www.diebold.com or follow the company on Twitter: http://twitter.com/diebold_inc . SOURCE Diebold, Incorporated
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I will admit that I am not normally a lady with regrets, but this list is not about regrets as much as it is about lessons learned. I hope it will help save you time, money, and potential pitfalls on your publishing journey!
The number #1 lesson I learned had to do with an author's first contract. When I was a newbie and excited to see my book baby go out into the world, the contract started to feel like the golden ticket to finally realizing my long awaited goal!
But hold your pen, and put your savvy business hat on.
A great online resource to match up your contract terms and avoid paper gangsters is:
The number #2 lesson I have learned is to get an agent! If you cannot get an agent, get a literary attorney to review your contract. You need someone who can actually broker your deal, and knows how to read a publishing contract.
I skipped this step and went ahead with signing my x on the spot. Turns out, I am not fluent in legalese. If you are not an attorney or agent then I would trust that you probably aren't either and learn from me.
With an agent....
You can expect to share 15% commission of your book advance/royalties/earnings for the lifetime of the book with your agent. The publisher writes the check out to your agent and then your agent will take their percentage out and send your check to you!
List of agents that I would recommend are:
Jan Miller (inspiring people memoirs & celebrity self-help)
Celeste Fine (experts, celebrity, corporate)
Bonnie Solow (self-help/non-fiction)
Dana Newman (boutique literary agency)
The number #3 lesson would be on royalty rates. My contract used a term called, "gross receipts" which means the actual amount the publisher receives. The error I made is that I didn't use an ascending scale for higher sales as you see below.
For hardcover books, you can negotiate these approximate rates:
10% on first 5,000 copies
12.5% on next 5,000 copies
15% on all copies in excess of 10,000 copies
The most popular royalty rate I've seen is based on the suggested retail price of your book, or list price.
If your contract is based on the wholesale price, or net then I would go to your agent to discuss this point. This is the amount the bookseller or wholesaler paid, plus deducting out expenses.
A great blog post on the breakdown of royalty calculations is from publishing attorney Susan Spann.
The number #4 lesson I learned is to keep your SUBSIDIARY RIGHTS (non print related).
What are these? These are the rights to make a film, a made-for-television movie on Lifetime, or television series based on your book. It is also merchandising and a slew of other things on top. Reserve 100% of these rights!
So with our heels firmly on the ground lets move forward! It's easy to get swept away with the glam when you don't have a baseline, so here are some reality checks.
Reality Check #1 Royalties are in the lower range of $2 per a book.
Reality Check #2 How many books are you dreaming of selling? Do you have great expectations? I'll let these sales from my favorite ladies tell you:
The Good from The Real Housewives Book Sales:
Bethenny Frankel's Naturally Thin: Unleash Your Skinny Girl has sold 200,000+ copies since 2009.
That means she probably made a ball park sum of 400k before paying her agent (minus 60K) and then taxes.
Teresa Giduice sold 40,000 copies of Fabulicious! since 2011.
Brandi Glanville's Drinking and Tweeting was a bestseller with 26,000 copies sold.
The Not-So-Good:
Let Me Tell You Something by Caroline Manzo sold 6,000 copies.
Melissa Gorga Love Italian Style only sold 8,000 copies.
Class with the Countess by LouAnn de Lesseps racked up 9,000 sales since 2009.
Leggy Blonde by Aviva Drescher didn't crack the Amazon top 10,000 in sales.
If you don't like them apples, and believe you will make a million dollars with your book then here is link to fuel your publishing dreams.
7 Figure Book Deal For First Time Author Tim Ferriss
Did anything surprise you in here? Let me know in the comments!

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Pat Barker: The Ghost Road
Having recently read The Siege of Krishnapur and The Conservationist (or in the latter case, almost read), I succumbed to temptation and decided to complete the Best of the Booker shortlist with Pat Barker's 1995 winner The Ghost Road. Neither of the other two had surpassed the three I'd already read some years ago – Midnight's Children, Oscar & Lucinda, and Disgrace – so I had high hopes. Friends recommended the Regeneration trilogy to which it belongs, as 'powerful' and 'affecting'.
Now everything that follows comes sashed with a disclaimer: I read The Ghost Road without reading the first two books in the trilogy, Regeneration and The Eye in the Door. That might well render my opinion worthless, so feel free to skip straight to the comments below where everyone tells me just how wrong I am.
The book opens brilliantly, in the shell-shock ward at Craiglockhart hospital in 1918. Two characters from the earlier books meet there – Billy Prior, soldier and patient, and William Rivers, psychiatrist – and in the midst of death there is plenty of life. Some of this comes from real people (including Rivers himself) such as Wilfred Owen, and there are deft portraits of Siegfried Sassoon, from Prior's viewpoint:
Owen has somehow managed to stick a portrait of Siegfried Sassoon to the wall of his [privy]. Sassoon in distinctly Byronic mode, I should say – not the Sassoon I remember, legging it down the main corridor at Craiglockhart with his golf-clubs on his back, hell-bent on getting out of the place as fast as possible.
- and of Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Dodgson), from River's:
At dinner one evening Mr Dodgson had leant across to mother and said, 'I l-l-l-love all ch-ch-ch-ch-"
'Train won't start,' Charles had whispered.
'Children, M-Mrs R-Rivers, as l-l-l-long as they're g-g-g-girls.'
He had looked down the table at the two boys, and it had seemed to Rivers that the sheer force of his animosity had loosened his tongue.
'Boys are a mistake.'
This touching on Carroll's purported tastes – for which we'd have quite a different word now – is just the tip of a larger subject of sexual variations, from Prior's experiences as a boy to his omnivorous sexuality in young adulthood. As a result the book is often much more – what would be the word of the time? – bawdy than we might expect from a sombre and traditional First World War novel: not to mention funnier. Prior thinks of Lizzie, a prostitute he used to frequent:
She'd told him about her regulars. One man came every month, turned a chair upside-down and shoved each one of the four legs in turn up his arse. Didn't want her to do anything, she said. Just watch.
- Well, you know what a worry-guts I am. I keep thinking what'll I do if he gets stuck?
- Saw the bloody leg off.
- Do you mind, that's the only decent chair I've got.
This first part takes us through the first hundred pages, and if it had all been as good as this – with the vigorous characters in the shell-shock ward, and wonderful scenes like Prior and his girl's attempts to evade her mother and, as they didn't say back then, 'get it on' – I would have been very happy. But Barker stretches her concerns from this point and in my view damages the book as a result. The rest of the book is taken up largely with alternating chapters of Prior's journal and Rivers' memories of his anthropological and missionary work in the South Seas, where he encounters 'primitive' tribes with bloodthirsty rites. The intended parallels seemed too heavy-handed and obvious – conquest by force, sacrificing their best young men – and not particularly illuminating, with Rivers making trite observations like this:
He looked up, at the blue, empty sky, and realized that their view of his society was no more or less valid than his view of theirs.
Similarly, Prior matches him for bland platitudes when, among the mentally ill of Craiglockhart, he observes of the wider warfare, "We're all mad here," a shattering indictment of the poorly run campaigns of the First World War which I think I last saw expressed in Blackadder Goes Forth. All this is a shame, because the ending brings some power back to the book, but by then I felt it had devolved more or less into literary fiction by numbers – rather like my only other experience of Barker's fiction, her 2007 novel Life Class.
In the end I was moved to wonder not only why The Ghost Road was on the Best of Booker shortlist, but why it had won the Prize in the first place. I wonder whether the judges at the time – and indeed those who drew up the Best of Booker shortlist – read it as a stand-alone novel or read the first two volumes along with it. My bold view is that it would be wrong to award a prize to a book based on the cumulative power it holds along with two earlier volumes. It removes the notion of a level playing field against the other titles under consideration. If a book is being considered for a single-book prize, then it must have excellence as a single book without any knowledge of its earlier parts. (That opens a can of worms, of course, about the extent to which all literature is indebted to its antecedents: can Ulysses be properly rated without The Odyssey? Or The Hours without Mrs Dalloway?) Or perhaps they did read it alone and still thought it the best novel of 1995/one of the best winners since 1969. In which case I must just quietly disagree.
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I find Pat Barker very hit and miss. I recall reading some of her books a long time ago – including Regeneration and Border Crossing and really quite liking them.
But recently I've reading Life Class, which I found a bit limp and Double Vision which was appalling.
I usually feel that the novels are a bit ambling and directionless, almost like she makes them up as she goes along. They feel like the work of someone with far less attention and recommendation.
I think have a worse opinion of the novel than you, but for some of the same reasons. It was a compelling and quick read–I was never bogged down by slow prose. Also, it was affecting. I forgot I was reading sometimes and felt present.
However, I found many of the insights unoriginal, even though interesting to read: the connection with life, death, and sex; the primitiveness of our own "advanced" culture; the psychological effects of the war; relationships where death is the only outcome. When I put the book down I thought, hmmm, I've seen that all before, and done better. Add to that the "bawdy" (though I think that is an understatement–I found some of it offensive though I wrote a masters thesis on sexuality and literature; my thesis is nothing to recommend me or my insights, but I did encounter a lot of stuff in the process and was rarely offended) parts, and my ambivalent attitude gave way to disrespect for the book and the author.
So even though I enjoyed reading it, I felt bitter and disappointed after the fact, taken advantage of even–a relationship gone sour. Admittedly, I also did not read the first two books in the trilogy.
By the way, I just found your blog Tuesday and have really enjoyed your insights.
I read Regeneration and liked it but I was not really interested in reading more.
I don't know what is wrong with the Man Booker judges sometimes.
I do agree with you that a novel should be stand-alone to be nominated.
I also hated their 2006 choice, The Inheritance of Loss by
Kiran Desai. The others in my book club agreed with me; it felt derivative, that the story had been told before.
Not read this, but I did read the first one in the trilogy about 10 years ago and can't really remember much about it. It certainly didn't make enough of an impression for me to read the other two books, and yet I know some people who absolutely love the series.
Did you watch the Culture show the other night?? They asked a little village in Scotland to read all the best of the booker books to decide which one they liked best. Barker's book didn't fare too well. But the Farrell one had a lot of fans!
I generally have no object to the sex either, but I did think that Barker's was gratuitous–at least in its detail. For me a good example of nongratuitous but somewhat explicit sex that others are offended by is in The Handmaid's Tale. I felt the book would be less without it.
I absolutely despised this novel and the earlier mentioned Handmaid's Tale. Although, maybe I am being too harsh on The Ghost Road. It was an engaging read and flowed smoothly for me, but some of the explicit sexual detail was unnecessary. I had to read this book in two days and was able to, but the sexual content made me want to put it down. I'm not a prude, but at some point it is just a bit too much. Now I have to write up a 1 page precis of it. Shouldn't be too difficult, this book gave me a lot to talk about. Loaded with ethical issues. I liked the use of historical figures like Wilfred Owen. I read one of his poems for a poetry unit and it was both easy to understand and interesting. I was pleased to see Owen pop up in more than just the classroom.
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Osho continues:
"And you will be surprised. Getting rid of dreams has many implications. If the dreams disappear then in the daytime your mind-chattering will not be as much as it used to be. Secondly, you will be more in the moment – not in the future, not in the past. Thirdly, your intensity and totality of action will increase.
"Dream is a disease.
"It is needed because man is sick. But if dreams can be completely dropped you will attain a new kind of health, a new vision, and part of your unconscious mind will become conscious. So you will have a stronger individuality. Whatever you do, you will never repent, because you will have done it with such consciousness that repentance has no relevance.
"Watchfulness is the greatest magic that one can learn, because it can begin the transformation of your whole being. It is only through watchfulness that resurrection happensyou are reborn.Osho,"There are many reasons possible. The most important is, if the person's intelligence quotient is very low he will not be able to understand what hypnosis is, and what he is supposed to do. Idiots cannot be hypnotized. It is something to be remembered, that animals can be hypnotized, but idiots cannot be hypnotized. Animals may not have our kind of intelligence, but they have their kind of intelligence, they are not idiots.
Why is it difficult for some people to be hypnotized? Is it because we do not trust the person who is doing it to us, or are we not as receptive as those who can be?
"The idiot is one whose mind has not grown at all, who is zero. He cannot understand what is being said, where it is going to lead him, and why he should do it. Intelligent conversation is impossible. The idiot looks like man, but inside he is far behind even the animals.
"First, the idiot cannot be hypnotized. Second, the man who is always suspicious of everything, who has an ingrained suspicion, cannot be hypnotized. His suspicion will not allow him to go with the hypnotist. Thirdly, the people who think they are intellectuals, who are full of borrowed knowledge, but don't have any intelligence of their own, cannot be hypnotized, because they have an idea that intellectuals cannot be hypnotized – and they are intellectuals."
In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
sound… dreams… hypnotize… hara… intellectuals… mystery… eternity… disturbance… silently… nehru
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Aleph (disambiguation)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aleph or Alef is the first letter of the Semitic abjads descended from Proto-Canaanite, Arabic alphabet, Phoenician alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Syriac alphabet. It may also refer to:
- Aleph (musician), an Italo disco artist and alias of Dave Rodgers
- Aleph, a pseudonym of Noam Elkies
- Aleph, a shorthand designation for Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century manuscript of the Bible
- Aleph number or cardinality, a measurement of mathematical sets
Science and Technology[edit]
- Aleph (inductive logic programming), an advanced system for inductive logic programming
- ALEPH experiment (Apparatus for LEP Physics at CERN), ALEPH detector or ALEPH experiment, one of the four detectors of the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN
- Alef (programming language), the concurrent programming language used in early editions of Plan 9
- Aleph kernel, an operating system kernel, notable primarily for being one of the steps in the evolution of the Mach kernel
- Aleph Sailing Team, a French America's Cup syndicate.
- Aleph (novel), a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho
- The Aleph (short story collection), a short story collection by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges
- "The Aleph (short story)", a story contained in the collection
- Aleph, a character in the Warren Ellis comic series Global Frequency
- Aleph, a super high capacity storage device, is a plot element in the cyberpunk novel Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
- Aleph, a system constructed at Athena Station in the cyberpunk novel Halo by Tom Maddox
- "Aleph", the debut album by Gesaffelstein released in 2013
- The Aleph, a song by Destroy the Runner on the album Saints
- Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain, an album by Current 93
- Masada: Alef the first album by John Zorn's Masada
- "Aleph", a song by metal band Baroness
- "Aleph", a song by Anahí, based on the book "O Aleph", written by Paulo Coelho.
- Aleph Glyph, a flaming Hebrew letter, is the representation of God in Tony Kushner's play Angels in America
- Aleph (film) (1956-66(?)), an avant-garde work by Wallace Berman
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Youth Arts & Arts in Education
Youth Arts and Arts-in-Education programs provide services to children, students, teachers, school administrators, parents, and community groups while providing employment and presenting opportunities to a variety of artists. These after-school workshops and selected performances are offered free to Greene County youth. In-school residencies are offered in both Greene and Columbia Counties through our Twin Counties Arts in Education program. Both Youth Arts and Arts in Education provide a wide spectrum of programming designed to enhance creativity and self-esteem while mastering skills in creative thinking, problem solving, risk taking, team work and communications. Through these programs, school studies are enhanced and skills are developed which help our young people react in a positive manner to the problems of today while preparing them for meeting the challenges of the future. Both programs are coordinated with school districts and community groups to serve the needs of our young people.
Youth Art Exhibition
Once a year we open our gallery to students from schools throughout Greene County. Outside the Lines give students from pre-school through high school the thrill of seeing their work mounted in a public exhibition and the experience of preparing artwork for the exhibit.
2014 Sprouts Summer Art Program
Through charitable contributions from Greene County towns, villages and organizations as well as corporate and private donations, our "Sprouts" program, free for children ages 3 to 7, provides one-week long workshops in six locations throughout Greene County over a period of six weeks. The 2014 Sprouts program will take place during the following dates and locations:
Windham-Ashland-Jewett Elementary School-July 7-11
Coxsackie Athens High School-July 14 –18
Durham Elementary School (Route 145)-July 21-25
Scott M. Ellis Elementary School (Greenville) -July 28-August 1
Hunter Mountain Learning Center-August 4-8
Catskill Community Center- August 11-15
The Sprouts program offers two separate workshops to choose from, one workshop focusing on Art & Music and the other workshop focusing on Theater & Dance. Both week-long workshops are limited to 15 children and are divided into two 45-minute periods. A healthy snack is served during the break between periods. All sessions run Monday thru Friday from 10 to 11:45 A.M. To register call the Greene County Council on the Arts at 518-943-3400. A confirmation letter will follow registration. Hurry…Sprouts enrollment fills quickly!
The children continue with the same two artist/teachers for the entire week. In an environment where there is no "wrong answer" or "wrong way" a child is encouraged to invent, persevere, and enjoy success through experimentation, problem solving and setting reasonable goals. A showcase of the children's accomplishments is held every Friday for parents and friends. Students perform their "play" using sets they have designed and instruments they have created, display their artistic creations and entertain us with their singing and dancing. The children continue with the same two artist/teachers for the entire week.
Talented professional artists teach each "Sprouts" workshop. These teachers have experience working with children and understand the importance of positive early learning. The uniquely creative and joyful atmosphere of "Sprouts" attracts dedicated teachers, all proven professionals in such diverse areas as ethnic dance, children's theater, photography, painting, and music. They encourage young children to master skills in creative thinking, problem-solving, risk-taking, team


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Penalizing someone because of his or her bad thoughts is quintessentially un-American.
Decorate your house with anti-Semitic slogans or your clothing with swastikas and you engage in protected speech. Paper your neighbor's car with anti-Semitic bumper stickers and you're guilty of vandalism. Hate speech is constitutionally protected (as the Supreme Court confirmed most recently in Snyder v. Phelps). Destruction or defacement of someone else's property is legally prohibited.
Advocates of censoring "hate speech" might say that we value property more than the elimination of bigotry. I'd say that we value speech, as well as property, more than inoffensiveness. Besides, protections of presumptively hateful speech are not absolute: A prohibited act, like assault or vandalism, accompanied by vicious expressions of bigotry, may constitute a hate crime under law.
Consider this recent incident at Wheaton College: Anti-Semitic graffiti was scrawled across the back door of the Jewish Life House, where four students reside. The student who discovered it, Molly Tobin, described herself as "shocked, angry, and terrified," according to the Boston Globe. But students and faculty members have "come together" in support of diversity, with a potluck and a Facebook campaign. Campus police are investigating the incident, and the school is offering a $1,000 reward for information about it.
Could the vandals in this case be prosecuted for a hate crime? Perhaps. Massachusetts law provides that assaulting someone or damaging her property with "intent to intimidate" on the basis of race, color, or religion, among other characteristics, is punishable by a $5,000 fine and/or a maximum 2 1/2 year prison sentence. Whether or not the graffiti on the door of the Jewish Life House was intentionally intimidating is a question of fact; but you can guess how it might be resolved.
Should the vandals in this case be prosecuted for a hate crime? Fierce free speech advocates, like my friend and colleague Harvey Silverglate, condemn hate crime laws for practically creating thought crimes: "It is foolish and dangerous for the legal system to punish a malefactor on the basis of whatever ideological or personal views or hatreds might, or might not, motivate crimes against person or property," Silverglate says. "The slope from punishing acts to punishing thoughts is very slippery indeed."
I tend to agree. Hate crime laws are generally sentence enhancement laws, imposing harsher sentences on crimes motivated by bias. They ensure that assaulting someone you hate because of his personality quirks is a lesser crime than assaulting someone you hate because he belongs to a particular, protected demographic group. In other words, when you're prosecuted for a bias crime, you're prosecuted for your bad thought and beliefs as well as your conduct.
Once convicted of a hate crime, you may even be subject to mandatory thought reform: In Massachusetts, you're required to complete a state sponsored and designed "diversity awareness program" before being released from prison or completing probation. Deface someone's property for the wrong reasons -- bigotry or a bad attitude toward a protected group -- and your thoughts become the business of the state.
This seems quintessentially un-American, if freedom of speech and belief are quintessential American values. But individual freedom is sometimes valued less, especially on campus, than diversity and the psychic as well as physical security of presumptively disadvantaged groups. FIRE President Greg Lukianoff reports on the lamentable consequences of this values shift in his important new book, Unlearning Liberty. "On college campuses today, students are punished for everything from mild satire, to writing politically incorrect short stories, to having the wrong opinion on virtually every hot button issue," he reports, in disturbing detail.
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I have a 2013 nomad c with a push link and pushed rc4. Problem is, with the necessary torque to tighten the shock bolt on the adapter mount there is a great deal of friction.
If I remove the whole assembly, the link is very difficult to move /rotate.
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Not only did Dora the Explorer recently turn 10 … Nick Jr. also released Dora's Big Birthday Adventure on DVD on August 3! It's got an all-star cast … and takes you on a birthday adventure you won't soon forget! Back to Article
@purplestar; Exactly, and whens shes all like Whats the answer? Children at home: Silence Dora:Thats righhhhhhhht! xD What kinda message is that?
What was your favorite part of the adventure?
When it ended.
I liked that part too!
Ugh this brings back memories :I
didn't ya hear? Dora's actuley 37. she has a teen boy and teen girl. she's so small coz she had surgrey and lost most of her bones it true i swear to god
I kept waiting for her to slap the shi* out of Boots for acting so excited about his damn ball! I used to have to watch that when I had to babysit
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OMG who would like dora? she is EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!
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yes I know this sounds rediculous but do you (Atheist) thing there are aliens out there in our universe, I was just wandering, i know this isn't the most intellectual or anit-religious but i am curious, thanks.
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I have no doubt in my mind that somewhere out there are extra terrestrial creatures. I'm not saying they are humanoid or have flying saucers, but with over 1000 earth-like planets in our galaxy alone, how can there NOT be anything else among the 30 billion trillion stars's planets? I don't think we'll ever contact them, or even be able to prove it, but if we're here why can't anything else exist?
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I was suprised to have this topic rejected during a philosphy club discusion once.
Sadly the 'issue' of alien life exists without good examples at present. The discovery of numerous extreamophiles does/can increase the probability of a larger number of nitchs for life even in our solar system. I think there is a web-vid at the Stanford site concerning this.
There is a significant history of scientific and SF speculation concerning types of alien probes, and propagation of alien civilizations. Worth a web-search.
There's been one less since Michael left the board.
But absolutely - it would be ever so arrogant to believe that out of all the billions of planets in our galaxy alone, and the exponentially higher number beyond that, that this would be the only planet that had ever evolved life.
@MichaelM - RE: "worthy of regard" - or as prey --
I can go along with the first part, but once you get to the non-corporeal part, it's starting to sound a lot more like gods than beings. I can certainly understand advanced intelligence, but every entity needs an energy source, and ours begins with digestion - what would power a non-corporeal being? (Not making fun of you Michael, just curious as to what you envision.)
Just consider that 12-1/2% of the planets orbiting this star have intelligent life.
DS Chase - and then there's GW Bush and Rick Perry --
Actually, Michael, as I was reading your post, I was reminded of the AC Clarke quotation, then found you used it too!
I'm thinking we will eventually find there are other drives than the conventional ones we currently use that will circumvent the "faster than light" barrier.


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ut on the street it was late dawn. Though he hadn't really slept, he felt strangely rested. It was a light, ephemeral feeling, a by-product of the drug. A yawning waiter with a hose was washing down the sidewalk. Ah yes, the drug; in a while its synthetic reverence would wear off and it would be a fight not to seek its relief again. Asher had kicked once before. He did not want to do it again, but now he would have to watch out. The sooner you move it the better, he said to himself.
He took an outdoor table at the Rendezvous and ordered coffee and a bowl of morning noodle soup. He bought a Cambodia Daily from a street kid and found out that it was Easter Sunday.
"Well, how about that," he said.
Holidays. He thought about his mother for the first time in months. She'd always liked Easter. Perhaps she'd call. It was not yet seven in the morning and already the sun was beginning to blister. March and April were the hottest months and, feeling the premature heat, a harbinger of the simmering stew of a day to come. He paid for his breakfast and strolled down the riverfront road considering the weather. It was always around this time that he began to need the rains to cool things off. The rains, the rains‹people would soon be anticipating the rains to deliver them from this terrible heat. But then when the rains finally did come, things would begin to be a drag. The roads would flood and melancholia settle in on the soaked town. Only the cyclo drivers liked the rain because they could pedal through the flooded streets, while the moto drivers ruined their spark plugs. The rains. Already he was sweating through his shirt. He could use the rains.
The path along the river was fairly wide and composed of pale red sand he called Jupiter crimson. Up ahead came two Mormon missionaries biking to work. They were sporting identical black aerodynamic helmets, black shorts, and white button-down shirts over black jackets. Insane, thought Asher. Mormons in AC/DC outfits.
"Happy Easter," hailed Asher as they passed. "And God bless the Great Salt Lake and the deep powder skiing of your native state."
The Mormons did not reply. They were like termites, these missionaries, termites slowly eating their way into the fabric of the country. And it wasn't only the Mormons. There was the Assembly of God, rumored to be the largest nongovernment organization, or NGO, in the country, the Seventh-Day Adventists, Gatholics of various stripes‹the whole holy hodgepodge. Most did not waste their time in the capital. They fanned out into the provinces preaching crop rotation and the Word of the Lord.
Asher turned inland at the FCC and was passing the Samart mobile-telephone outlet, when he noticed activity on his periphery. He turned. Down the street a throng of people were marching toward the National Assembly building. It was a demonstration of some sort. Banners attached to bamboo poles fluttered against the sky. There were a few Buddhists in saffron but, by and large, it looked to be a secular crowd. Asher wondered if anyone in the crowd knew it was Easter. He approached. Ah, it was Sam Rainsy's people, the opposition, vocal government critics with little real power. One could always tell Rainsy's people by the large numbers of women. Most of them were textile-factory workers in simple wraparound dresses and flip-flops with Kroma;aahs about their heads to ward off the sun. The crowd was large but relatively quiet. At the front of the procession was their leader, Sam Rainsy. The press had tagged him as "outspoken," but Asher had always found him a gentle man, not one for amassing troops and guns. Rainsy was a great hater of Hun Sen. After the UN election, he'd been forced out of Prince Ranariddh's FUNCINPEC party, which had then been forced into a power-sharing arrangement with Hun Sen's Cambodian Peoples Party. But the CPP had never given up power, and as FUNCINPEC finance minister, Rainsy had never stood a chance of keeping his job for long. He was an intellectual, relatively clean, and was said to own a sizable property in Paris. Rainsy. The man had style, but he was swimming upstream. His support was Phnom Penh based; they didn't know him in the provinces.
Now the crowd began to circle and chant in front of the National Assembly building. What they were protesting, Asher could not make out. His Khmer was poor and many of the banners were in the confusingly curvaceous Khmer Cyrillic. He wondered where the journos were; obviously in bed. Rainsy had picked a poor time to march, coveragewise. Every single foreign journo was sleeping it off. Still, a march by Rainsy's people--there wasn't much news there, not for the wires at least, not for the foreign barang press. Probably there were some Khmer reporters from the local sheets. Now the crowd was beginning to attract collateral attention. A woman rolled her sugarcane stall to the shaded side of the street and began to do business.
Asher headed past the Royal Palace and took a left onto his street. His apartment depressed him. He turned on his fan and walked into his bedroom. From beneath his bed he pulled out Mao's bamboo pole and then came back into his living room. The fan was on rotation mode. Obviously that would not do. Asher pointed the fan to the ceiling and went into his kitchen for a knife. He cut open one end of the bamboo pole and, standing at his desk, watched as the powder descended onto the table. The sight of the drug drove him to a rumination that was not unlike a prayer.
He was doing this to get back on his feet, right? To land back in the world. Three and a half years was a long time to be away from home, and still the powder descended in circular clumps, flattening slightly as it landed on the table. Home, Chicago, it was an abstraction. Even his mother had stopped calling at Easter. The last two years they'd only spoken at Christmas. Without his fan he began to sweat on the drug. Home was a ship getting farther and farther out to sea or an industrial-strength rubber band stretching itself out from his fingers. If he didn't get home soon, Asher considered, the thing could snap. And as for supply and demand, well, he hadn't created the cold calculus of that one, and he wasn't in any position to alter it either.
"That would be arrogance," he said out loud.
In the distance he could just hear the soft din of the Rainsy demonstration. From the sound of it, the crowd had arrived outside the National Assembly. No, he could do nothing about demand. Faced with an American world, there were just too many taxpayers who demanded to get high. If not he, someone else would satisfy. Still, it was a cop-out and, baseline, he knew it. He took his L.A. gym card out and began to scoop the powder into the envelope. He considered Katherine. Now there was an expatriate, but her expatriatism had a grounding. She was a Brit who hated Britain. Asher was an American who had no strong feelings about his country except that it was home. It was home, yes, home. That was a very strong word. It was important not to forget home. For years now he'd been listening to the seductive calls of the Asian Sirens. They'd lulled him, the Sirens and the Lotus Eaters. Now he had awakened to the necessity of reengagement with home. A man needed a home that was not this apartment in this dusty, witchy little city of which he had tired. But a home in the context of America meant money. America equaled money and, right now, he didn't have enough money to even buy a ticket home. He continued to shovel the drug. His thumb and forefinger were dusted with white and he took a tiny sniffle.
No, he would return to America as a Merchant Prince. He would not return to America penniless. That would be very un-American. As he shoveled powder into the envelope he remembered tossing his mother's cat, Allistair. Asher hated Allistair but for the way she landed on her feet. Once Allistair had been crawling all over an old, old girlfriend, sniffing at her privates as they lay on the couch, and generally being a nuisance. Asher had taken to throwing Allistair high up in the air. No matter how many times he flipped, Allistair landed, still Allistair, on the ground. He went over to the turntable and put on "Year of the Cat." No, America certainly equaled money, and money equaled supply and demand. What he was shoveling now was the only substance in Cambodia where supply vastly outstripped demand, and wasn't that the key to money? Sell high, buy low, the law of supply and demand. They were irrefutable American concepts, iconic canons of economic life. If he fell on the battlefield of this deal, another soldier would fill the gap. If he could, he told himself, he would, but he could do nothing about demand in his native land. It was not his mission to interrupt the market of need. A three-thousand-dollar investment minus whatever he'd end up owing Mr. Hawk turned into eighty to a hundred grand. The whole transaction had to it the power of exponents. Amazing. How many hot dogs would one have to sell in New York for that kind of money?
He could land safely back home. It would buy him time. Katherine had been right when she'd said by the river that he should go home. He'd get the money wired from Julie's boss and send Julie her cut once he'd landed safely home. He'd go back home to Chicago and rest. Asher shoveled and rationalized. This deal was all about landing back on his feet. That was all. Landing on his feet. If he could only...
An explosion hit. Was it thunder? No, this was the dry season. It had come from the direction of the Rainsy demonstration. Percussion grenades, no doubt about it. The sound roared in his ear. Asher ran downstairs and jumped on his Dream. His landlord was standing on the sidewalk.
"What the fuck!" screamed Asher. "What the fuck."
His landlord looked at him blankly, one side of his face twitching with disorder. The old ghosts, thought Asher, the twitch, the death thing. He roared past the palace and shortly was on the scene. About one hundred yards away lay the dead and the soon to be dead. In the grass before him sat a leg blown off at the knee. He watched as the plastic sandal on the foot turned red against the grass. There was a silence. A woman with a shrapnel wound walked slowly toward him, expressionless, bleeding from the shoulder. As Asher ran to help her, he noticed a man in a black T-shirt running toward the crowd with his arm cocked to throw something. Against the blue sky Asher saw two grenades arch through the air.
"Get down!" he screamed, tackling the wounded woman. A glint of light penetrated his closed eyes and then came the horrible sound. It was biblical. The ground shook beneath him. Asher stood up. The grenade thrower was standing near the edge of the park admiring his work.
Asher ran after him. In the bright light he sprinted across the grass, feeling nothing, feeling not his legs nor any sense of anything whatsoever. He ran at a diagonal toward the man with the intent of tackling. The grenade thrower did not see him coming. He was staring straight in front of him. A whistle sounded, and suddenly the man in the black T-shirt's head twitched toward him. He turned his back to Asher and began to run in a diagonal. For a moment Asher was still gaining on him. Then they were crossing a street at the back of the park and had entered the grounds of the Botum pagoda. There were no monks to be seen, only Garudas standing guard beneath an ornamented gateway, the lintel of which Asher had always admired and through which the soldier was now running. Once through the gateway he found himself in a section of Botum with which he was unfamiliar. They were running down a narrow path with walls on either side. Now the soldier was gaining ground on him.
"Hey!" screamed Asher. "Hey!"
The alleyway gave out onto a small square with a yellow pagoda building. There were other soldiers here, all armed with M-16s, and as they saw Asher coming, they closed in on him. Asher stopped and raised his hands. The grenade thrower ran up the stairs of the pagoda and disappeared. The chase had come to an end. Three soldiers dressed in olive and black camouflage, all of them of the Hun Sen variety he'd seen the previous night, had their guns pointed directly at him and were saying heated things in Khmer. One of them withdrew a pistol from his holster and approached Asher. So here it came, death time. Strange that this was how it was going to end, a bullet in the head on the grounds of the Buddha on the day Christ Rose From the Grave. The man with the pistol was of higher rank than the others. He didn't wear a helmet, and was sweating beneath a red beret. He took Asher's hands in his and pressed the palms together in formation of Buddhist prayer or greeting. Then he took his gun and pointed it at Asher's forehead.
"No!" screamed Asher.
He closed his eyes, his hands still in prayer. Suddenly he felt a great stinging pain against his knuckles. He opened his eyes. The commander was pistol-whipping his hand. Asher took another hit to the hand. No sooner had he knelt to the ground then the commander grabbed him beneath the arm and started moving him toward the alleyway. Asher stood up and turned to face the scene one more time. A soldier fired half a dozen rounds at his feet.
"I'm leaving now," said Asher.
As he ran down the alleyway, he saw a figure sprinting in his direction. From the gray outfit and lack of armaments it looked to be one of Rainsy's bodyguards. He had cropped dark hair and a compact build. His eyes were blown wide open with adrenaline and he was running right at Asher.
"Don't go in there," said Asher. "They'll fucking blow you away."
Asher tried to stop the man. He tried to short-arm him, but Rainsy's bodyguard cut Asher's forearm away with a short, chopping martial arts move. Asher watched as the man entered the square. He could hear a tearful shout from the man, a high-pitched insult. There was something about a brother in there. Shots rang out. Asher did not wait to see if the man would return. He ran down the alleyway, back to the front entrance of the pagoda, crossed the street, and stood panting against a tree at the perimeter of the park.
"Call a fucking ambulance," he screamed at the scene. The walking wounded were trancing out. He saw a man standing in the park alone, just standing there, a solitary figure bleeding from the head. Then he fell to the ground. Okay, said Asher, catching his breath. The time has come to assume the mantle of the rational man. Running after a killer, into the lion's den he realized, was not the mantle of a rational man. Suddenly Asher felt a calm. In the distance he saw two men load a mangled body into the back of a pickup truck. The sun was hot, beaming down on scores of other bodies flopping in the street, moaning in the grass.
Excerpted from Lightning on the Sun by Robert Bingham. Copyright © 2000 by Robert Bingham. Excerpted by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.


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Ahh that's right - they worked together in 24! Also another tidbit...if you don't already know, Kiefer was in a vampire movie called 'The Lost Boys' - catch it if you already haven't kiddies..it's excellent!
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