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Updated: January 8, 2013 8:00AM
BROOK — Local Realtor Dawn McKenna sees good things happening in the housing
market in 2013.
"I think the
market is really improving," said McKenna of Coldwell Banker, who concentrates
her sales efforts in Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills, Burr Ridge and Oak Brook.
If the last
quarter of 2012 is any indication, she expects a busy 2013.
"There were a lot
of people wanting to buy homes," McKenna said.
The most interest
was shown in the $800,000 to $1.2 million market.
"That's the sweet
spot. We don't have enough inventory," McKenna said.
The average
selling price of a detached single-family home in Oak Brook was $998,862 in the
first 11 months of 2012, up from $880,940 the year before, according to
statistics provided by the Mainstreet Organization of Realtors. The average
price spiked in November, rising to $1,172,500 — a 33 percent increase over the
same month in 2011 and a slight increase from the month before.
Sales of townhomes
and condominiums in Oak Brook saw a more modest increase so far in 2012, with
the average property selling for 17 percent more than a year ago.
"The condo market
has been hit pretty bad, but things are moving along," said Realtor Jeannie
LaPlaca of Prudential Rubloff, who has listings in Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills
and Burr Ridge.
But even with a
flooded condo market, things are starting to move.
MOR statistics
show that sales of attached residential properties in Oak Brook rose from 55 in
the first 11 months of 2011 to 68 in the first 11 months of 2012. The average
sales price also rose, from $247,500 to $303,210.
"I think buyers
are tired of waiting," LaPlaca said, and with low interest rates, it's a good
time to get a good deal.
Mike Long of
Realty Executives Premiere in Wheaton said the number of foreclosures and short
sales in most Chicago suburbs are down, which is a sign of good things to come.
The best markets
are still in towns with established downtown areas and access to the train
tracks, Long said. But towns like Burr Ridge and Oak Brook also have unique things,
including large lot sizes, to offer buyers.
CONTACT MORe
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I was on holiday a few weeks ago in Cornwall, UK. It's a great place to go even if, like me, you're used to warmer climes. Don't expect to swim without a wetsuit though, unless you're one of the hardy locals.
Having put the kids to bed in our little holiday pad in Rock I grabbed my Nikon D300, my ioShutter for Nikon, my tripod and carkeys and headed out the door down to the local beach.
About half an hour after sundown, I set up in the dusk, framed a boat gently rocking back and forth. With my camera set to 'Bulb' (long exposure) I dialled in a 60 second exposure in my ioShutter Lite app and got this:
Very underexposed, as you can see – longer exposure needed. I raised my shutter exposure on ioShutter™ Lite on my iPhone from 60 seconds to 90 seconds and tried again:
Changing the length of your exposure is much easier on your iPhone screen than it would usually be on the camera, since it's a lot easier to see!
Still underexposed though. Let's try again.
120 seconds of exposure and this is the result… with only a tiny bit of tweaking in photoshop (curves and sharpening):
Beautiful! And easy, thanks to ioShutter for my Nikon and a beautiful fishing harbour. Interestingly, the warm glow on the boat is reminiscent of the sun going down, but is actually reflected light from the town of Paidstow on the opposite side of the harbour. It's orange because it's tungsten street light, so comes out orange thanks to white balance.
Here's my BTS (Behind The Scenes) shot so you can see how I did it. I'd strongly recommend you always use the drawstring bag that comes with every ioShutter for SLR, but I thought seeing the screen might be cool.
I'd heard something going on behind me while I was focussing (sorry) on the sailing boat. I turned around to discover that the ferry had just laid up for the night. I dropped my aperture slightly as it was now quite dark so I knew I'd need an even longer exposure, and shot my favourite photo in a long time:
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How is Happy Hostel Vienna rated on other websites?
Happy Hostel Vienna Reviews from the Web
Hostelz.com Guest Reviews
Very friendly and comfortable great location, very friendly owner, comfortable room -- ideal for a short stay in Vienna when you don't really care about frills. — Steve, age 47, Hungary (2015-06-07)
Bugs! Silverfish and ants galore! Of course, I should start by saying that we had stayed in a room with double bed and private bathroom, so we weren't really "hosteling" at this place. Upon entering the reception area/kitchen, we were greeted by a nice fellow named Franz, who was kind enough to give us a city map and explained the public transport and sights to us. Unfortunately, he also informed us that our online booking was for two nights in one place, then the third night in another building down the road. Surprising, but acceptable -- since it's really just two minutes away. The first room we were shown to was very run-down and the furniture appeared to be from the Salvation Army, or perhaps from the city dump. The small breakfast table was covered in dried food, which I cleaned myself, as I did the rest of the room. There was a hotplate that seemed to be from a pre-WW2 time, and the floors seemed to have been swept, but never treated to a wet mop. The beds were clean though, which tends to be the most important thing to most travelers. We told Franz that we were a bit unsatisfied with our room/apartment, and he told us that he would be happy to send us over to the other unit (supposedly nicer -- also more expensive) the next morning, so that we could have two nights in a better place. The next morning, we went over to the other unit with a very nice and cheerful woman. The new apartment seemed a bit nicer, upon first impression. The view was also fantastic. The problem there lies in the silverfish in the bathroom that scurried about when I moved the garbage can or turned on the lights. Also, there was a serious ant problem in the apartment (among other kinds of unidentifiable bugs). We were finding ants on our pillows, on ourselves, all over the floor, and even in the bed! The floors also appeared to have never met a wet mop. The bedding was very old and smelly. There was also a bar of used soap in both of our rooms, by the way. Sure, it's soap, and soap is supposed to be clean, but not when someone else's pubes are stuck to it. We were simply unable to sleep in this place, as hard as we tried. So, we went out at 4:30 a.m. to try to find a clean room for rent, but all the local hotels were fully booked -- which was to be expected, as they're all the closest to the train station. On our way back, we stopped in at Happy Hostel, to inform our host that we were dissatisfied with the insect problem and that we wouldn't stay there any longer. Unfortunately, he couldn't move us to another room, due to availability, but we weren't really interested in seeing another dirty room anyway. So, we asked to borrow his phone book so that we could find another hotel, to which he kindly obliged. Later that morning, Franz popped up to our apartment to see if we had found something else, which we had. He said that he would be happy to refund us the 60€ for our third night, that we had paid for, but were not going stay for. He also asked us to show him the insect problem, as we were apparently the first people to ever complain of it, suggesting that maybe I just have an "itching problem." In conclusion, I haven't slept all night, I'm sitting in the Westbaunhof train station at 10:30 a.m., and I'm very unhappy with Happy Hostel. In the end, Franz assured me that he understood that it was unacceptable, and that he would have someone come to deal with the insect problem immediately -- I assume he also meant "professionally." I can only hope. I should also mention, that we had spoken to other guests at the hostel, who were satisfied with their accommodations. They said that the room and beddings were very clean and pleasant, so perhaps this problem is isolated to double beds with private bathrooms. — Rob J, Canada (2007-05-22)
I stayed at this hostel for a few days from 31.08.05 till 4.09.05. (Aug. 31 – Sept. 4, 2005) 1.Staff The hostel's staff are international and very friendly. They are always ready to help, advise or assist you in any possible way. 2.Location It takes about 25 minutes walking along the central trade street in order to reach the city center. Besides there is an underground station just 5 minutes away. Since Vienna's underground system is very good you will reach the city's center in less than 10 minutes. 3. Rooms The rooms are rather clean and contain everything you need. You should just keep in mind that this is a hostel and not a hotel, so the rest room and shower are in joint use for two rooms. But as for me, I did not see my neighbors. 4. Other There is no elevator in the hostel, so if you live on third floor (like me) it could be rather tiresome to climb upstairs a few times a day. You should be in a good healthy condition. Summary: I would say it is a good value for money. — Igor (2005-10-04)
This place is close to the train station, but that is about it. It is far from everything else. It seemed more like a Christian youth hostel than anything else, and it was a bit dingy for the price. It's nearly impossible to find with no sign outside. Skip the aggravation and stay somewhere closer to the city center. — Ta (2004-10-25)


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Sunday, November 11, 2012
49 Comments:
- Bred in the bone said...
I recently watched a video by an American about taking back our words
It was about not using Government terms, such as third party, which would imply a first and second party before you
And not using words like pentagon, when we are simply dealing with the war department
I emailed this video and got an email back, which said that Hitler once spoke of how the British use words for psycological purposes
Apperently Germans called upon replacement troops, why we called for re-enforcements
Many struggle to understand what our forefathers where sacrificed for now, looking at what the Country has become but do not allow them to demoralize us, with their psycological warfare
Nice picture
- Naomi King said...
Your Grace may I strongly recommend you watch this http://vimeo.com/52009124
- Span Ows said...
It is odd that all the efforts to prevent war seem to push it slowly but surely down the path towards it.
- Damian said...
We will remember them?
By the state the country is in, we evidently don't.
- len said...
'We Will Remember Them'.
And we must remember what they lived for and what they died for.
Freedom from tyranny, freedom from oppression,the right to determine our own future,Our Sovereignty.
If we merely pay'lip service' to freedom (National and personal freedom) we dishonour all those who have fallen in their service to this Country.
- Dreadnaught said...
You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!
- Avi Barzel said...
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
A national treasure of ours and a familiar poem throughout the English-speaking world, penned in 1915 by a Canadian from Guelph, Ontario, a physician and Lieutenant Colonel in the Canadian Expeditionaey Force, John McCrae.
- Lord Lavendon said...
Your Grace,
Yes we shall remember them.
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
- Office of Inspector General said...
While we are in the act of remembering the sacrifice of earlier generations, we should also give our appreciation to those devices that prevent one nation in Europe dominating the others through force of arms – Nuclear weapons.
And as the EU crumbles to dust, we should be glad that one nation is unable to dominate the others through economic means, and having realised that, is unable to resort to force of arms, despite the veiled threats of a certain lady chancellor...
- carl jacobs said...
Here dead we lie
Because we did not choose
To live and shame the land
From which we sprung.
Life, to be sure,
Is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is,
And we were young.
A E Housman
- Avi Barzel said...
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- carl jacobs said...
Last Friday (unremarked and unlamented) was the 89th Anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch. Sixteen men who marched with Hitler that day were killed as well as four policemen. When Hitler came to power, he had those sixteen men disinterred, placed in iron sarcophagi and laid to rest in a memorial he had built in Munich - the Ehrentempel. It was intended to be a Holy Place of the Nazi Party perpetually guarded by members (one hesitates to call them soldiers) of SS-Standarte "Deutschland." In 1945, the American army removed the bodies. The structure was demolished in January, 1947.
Whether for good or for evil, the living remember the dead for the sake of the living. Our enemy constructs monuments and memorials, and cover them with such honor and glory as he sees fit. Then we come along as conqueror and remove his memorials in order to replace them with our own. We seek to erase the memory of the enemy that his evil may be erased as well. Then we build our own memorials to the good we have done. But what of permanence have we accomplished with our memorials? Whether for good or for evil, time and chance happeneth to all. In the end we are nothing but dust - forgotten dust in forgotten graves. The sacrifice of long-forgotten causes. As it is written "Dust tho art and unto dust thou shalt return." We seek to establish some permanent record of our existence but our records are as much dust as we ourselves. Shall we succeed where those we conquered manifestly failed? This is vanity. Vanity and dust. There is no one to remember. We are all condemned to be forgotten.
Except. Except God does not forget. He remembers every man. He knows every particle of dust. On the Last Day He shall call forth each of us by name. Whether to glorify or condemn, He shall overlook not even one. And then His purpose will be fulfilled. The permanent record of man is not found in the the futility of his efforts any more than Adam found covering with leaves. It may only be found in the fulfilled purpose of the creature before his Creator. "This is the whole purpose of man, to glorify God and enjoy Him forever." Everything else passes away into dust. The flags. The memorials. The causes. The sacrifices. In the end, only this will remain.
- non mouse said...
Indeed, Your Grace: We will remember them. We should remember them; and "we" includes those traitors who insult them today.
Thanks to all, and to LL for the Binyon. Here's a bit more:
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
- Avi Barzel said...
Women have, of course been involved in and been affected by our wars from time imemorial, but only recently have they had regular combat roles in our armies. Here is the first stanza in a draft of a touching poem by a soldier's mother, R.M. Jacobs:
She Wore Green
I watched her dress that morning,
we didn't sleep,
in the darkness of morning's start
her bags blocking the hallway
they were larger than either of the children,
she slipped into their rooms
kissed their cheeks lightly
whispered "I love you dearly"
then fell into my arms.
She tried to remain brave
but I could feel her body tremble
quaking from the inside out.
Before her kisses cooled on my lips
the darkness swallowed her up.
The rest is at:
And here is an image of an illustration I made from a newspaper photo showing our troops readying to board a flight for deployment to Afghanistan in 2006. For several years I wondered how the subject, a Canadian woman soldier, Corporal Bonnie Seaborg shown holding her 13 day-old nephew, fared and posted it online, with the hope that it would be found by her or her family. Upon her return to Calgary, after an honourable service in Afghanistan, Cpl Seaborg contacted me and I was pleased and honoured to send her a digital version. I hope to do better and to paint an oil on canvas one day soon and present it to her as well:
- Office of Inspector General said...
Carl, another manifestation of your extreme Protestantism of course. You would deny us the opportunity to remember the glorious dead. One suspects you write this with the idea in your head that any memorial is infringing on that terrible forbidden idolatry, and we definitely can't have that, can we ?
- IanCad said...
Carl @ 16:46,
A very thoughtful post.
If The Lord tarry there will be no memorials. Dust and tares will replace them.
But how very good for the living are these reminders of nations heeding the call.
Your Veterans Day and our Remembrance Day. If nothing else, gives hope that despite the shallowness and vanity of our societies there is still a latent worthiness that needs but only the impulse to reawaken.
Unfortunately that could be for good or ill.
To my mind Kipling's "Recessional" strikes the right balance.
God of our fathers, known of old—
Lord of our far-flung battle line—
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine—
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
The tumult and the shouting dies—
The Captains and the Kings depart—
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
Far-called our navies melt away—
On dune and headland sinks the fire—
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe—
Such boastings as the Gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the Law—
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard—
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding calls not Thee to guard.
For frantic boast and foolish word,
Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord!
- Hannah Kavanagh said...
'We shall remember them'
The picture says more than words could say, although the poems Carl, Avi and Ian have chosen are really moving and remind me of how thankful we need to be for past generations, who, when needed, took up arms to fight for our civilisation.
Thanks guys for sharing.
We do of course also need to remember and support the people who have fought in wars since WWII and who are fighting even now in Iraq & Afghanistan and their families and friends .
- carl jacobs said...
You misunderstand. I didn't say to deconstruct memorials. The point is to hold them lightly; to remember that anything man does is by nature transient. There is no eternal value in the temporal remembrance of man. It must of necessity return to dust just as everything associated with man must return to dust.
Something else to consider. Men do not earn favor with God by dying selflessly for noble causes. How many stones in military cemeteries mark the graves of the damned?
- Office of Inspector General said...
Carl, we've been here before. A Catholic would tell you that a man, no matter about his past, might earn sufficient grace from God to be saved, if he loses his life in war to save his friends. The justification of that in that being "There is no greater love...". A Calvinist would say this cannot be the case. Your stance is respected, so no more discussion worthwhile.
If you accept the notion of original sin, then as a body, man is certainly not transient. He has made his mark on the earth, which will remain until the day the sun explodes...
- Dreadnaught said...
How many stones in military cemeteries mark the graves of the damned?
Even if I believed in your god, I would find this remark grossly offensive at any time, let alone on this day.
- John Magee said...
Carl Jacobs
The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 WW I ended.
"The War to End All Wars"
The people of the world were told back then...and they believed it.
All these poems and sentiments expressed here are good and must be repeated yet nothing can dismiss the fact all those millions of young men who died on all sides in WW I should never had to die in the first place.
"The War to End All Wars"
It didn't.
This totally unnecessary War set in motion historical events that changed the 20th century and our world forever.
Winston Churchill said to his friend Harold Nicolson after the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919 which penalized Germany wrongly with loss of territory and reparation payments, when in fact all sides wanted a war in 1914, "we will be at war with Germany within 25 years"....
Carl... November 9th is the anniversary of three important events in 20th Century Germany History
1. November 9, 1923. Hitler's failed so called Berr Hall Putch
2. November 9, 1938. Kristallnacht when mobs of Nazi's attacked and burned synagogues, stores, and home in Germany launching Hitler's war on the Jews.
3. November 9, 1989. The night the Berlin wall fell and the Cold War ended.
In my opinion WW I, which started in July 1914 after the assassination in late June 1914 of an Austrian Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo which immediatley snowballed out of control and set into motion a stupid war that transformed Europe, caused unbelievable misery, gave us the Russian Revolution, WW II with all it's horrors including the Holociast, destruction of many of the the great cities of Europe, the atomic bomb, and after 1945 the the Cold War ended on November 9, 1989.
- Bred in the bone said...
Parable of the Old Men and the Young
SO ABRAM rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,
And builded parapets and trenches there,
And stretch\ed forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him. Behold,
A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
Wilfred Owen
- carl jacobs said...
Even if I believed in your god, I would find this remark grossly offensive at any time, let alone on this day.
Why? Because you would prefer not to contemplate the actual magnitude of the cost involved? This is the problem with man. He considers himself eminently worthy of the sacrifice offered. The secret agenda of remembrance is to tacitly acknowledge the value of the living relative to the dead. The pain of separation experienced by the living must be attenuated by thoughts of peace and rest for the dead. It must not be marred by thoughts of eternal punishment. Better the comfortable illusion of sacrifice nobly offered and humbly accepted.
In the meantime, you might explain how in the absence of that 'God you don't believe in' that you are able to differentiate between the men remembered in Britain on this day, and those 16 men honored in Munich some 80 years ago. Other than you own arbitrary preferences, of course.
- John Magee said...
Here's an example of what the present generation of mush minds think of the hero's who died for their country in the past. You can be sure they won't be wearing red poppies in their button holes on their lapels November 11th:
LONDON (AP) December 10, 2010
— The son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has issued a public apology for climbing on top of one of Britain's most important war memorials during violent student protests against rising university fees.
Charlie Gilmour says he wants to say sorry for the "terrible insult" to the thousands who died for the country. He says he did not realize the Cenotaph in central London commemorates Britain's war dead. (!!!!!!!!)
He added in a statement Friday that he was ashamed for his "moment of idiocy."
During the same mob demonstrations anti police and government graffiti was spray painted on the granite base of the statue of Sir Winston Churchill near the Houses of Parliament. I am now looking at photo made famous then of a young man, which was taken during those riots, urinating against that same statue of Britain's great WW II leader as though it is a public WC.
- bluedog said...
Mr IanCad @ 17.35, this communicant's view of Rudyard Kipling is influenced by reading about the death of his only son: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling#Son.27s_death_in_First_World_War
'If any question why we died
Tell them, because our fathers lied.'
- IanCad said...
Good Point!
WW1: Folly upon folly. Even when it was over our wise leaders ensured it would have to be fought again.
There were many poets who saw things as they stood, and were contemptuous of the jingoism and posturing of the men in charge.
Siegfried Sassoon, T.S Eliot and
G.K. Chesterton had it right:
"THE men that worked for England
They have their graves at home:
And birds and bees of England
About the cross can roam.
But they that fought for England,
Following a falling star,
Alas, alas for England
They have their graves afar.
And they that rule in England,
In stately conclave met,
Alas, alas for England
They have no graves as yet."
- Gareth said...
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. God forbid that we should ever be in a position of power or influence on a day as black as 1 September 1939, or 28th July 1914, or even a day like 2 April 1982. For as Shakespeare tells us, the if cause be not good, the king hath a heavy reckoning to make.
- Lord Lavendon said...
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- Lord Lavendon said...
I will readily admit that I walk amongst the family crypt daily and wonder when it will be my turn for me to be entombed there along with my ancestors.
I know myself that I shall meet my maker and perhaps he shall or not have good or bad things to say of me, but Jesus Christ shall be there as my defence.
I have to admit that war is a horrible matter and to say I was not fearful for my life, during those terrible years,would be a lie.
I only hope that something good came of that sacrifice and it is just that.
You must understand that if you have friends and people close to you whose profession it is to fight and I pray that if this happened (happens) to you, then you will remain as -to use the British sterotype- as stiff upper lipped.
You have not chosen your moment well, for you appear to be callous, although I doubt that with your integrity.
Pick a fight with this Dreadnaught character at a different time. I have no love of this rouge since he insulted the family name, but there is a time to mourn and remember the dead who fought for King and Country and a time for theological -atheistic discourse,for everything there is a season, is there not?
- John Magee said...
Lord lavendon
Two World Wars, an ocean of blood spilled by our finest young men, and now we face a 21st century complete surrender of our homelands to Islam and the 3rd world...
- Avi Barzel said...
I'm thinking that if His Grace posted favourite cake recipes as a topic, ten posts down there'd be fightin' happening.
- carl jacobs said...
Lord Lavendon
I disagree. Veteran's Day is not a funeral. There is no immediate proximity of death that makes the wound raw. This is precisely the moment that men will think on these things. I myself came to these realizations because I found myself contemplating the cost of war on Veterans Day. I can now hardly read the story of a winner of a posthumous Medal of Honor without asking myself "But what became of him?" The US Gov't can bury a man with honors, but what value does that provide to him in Hell? The honor of man is nothing when set against the judgment of God.
I picked no fight with Dreadnaught. I was providing to OIG the ultimate example of the transient value of man's memorials. Dreadnaught took offense. Well so be it. More significant truths than this have caused offense to the Unbeliever. What offends him is rooted in his unbelief. To him the most significant aspect of this argument is that men died selflessly for a cause. He tacitly asserts that the whole of a man's life can only be judged in immanent terms, and giving one's life for another is the most honored thing a man can do under the restriction of immanence. Metaphysical notions of (in his mind, fictitious) judgment simply demean the life sacrificed. Unfortunately, that judgment is the necessary outcome of life. We can't ignore it just because some would prefer not to think about it. The preferred judgments of man impose no obligations on God.
- Lord Lavendon said...
John Magee,
Don't make me even more depressed than I already am... that can wait 'til tomorrow.
- Lord Lavendon said...
"Veteran's Day is not a funeral. There is no immediate proximity of death that makes the wound raw"
Alas to me it is as thus and the wounds are still raw. But that is my problem and not yours.
"Contemplating the cost".
Yes. Children lost fathers, wives husbands,young women the chance of marriage & brothers,sisters, cousins, uncles, nieces, nephews and friends. We lost those who might have been scientists, poets, leaders and the children that could have been born. So yes, it is correct to contemplate the cost.
War is a necessary evil, but an evil nonetheless.
- Lord Lavendon said...
"I'm thinking that if His Grace posted favourite cake recipes as a topic, ten posts down there'd be fightin' happening."
No, no fightin' for this old man. This is not my intent for today.
Back to my Scotch anyhow...
- Lord Lavendon said...
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- non mouse said...
Mr. Jacobs: in my direct experience, Americans tend to make a fuss about training people to respect differences between their culture and those of their hosts and/or visitors. I therefore have reason to believe that I am qualified to inform you of this: today, you are failing to recognize a major difference between US and UK cultures.
In short, Americans generally have no idea of what the British endured throughout those 2 WORLD WARS; what we know and think about the conflicts; how much we owe to those who were sacrificed; or how many of our families were decimated during those years.
Perhaps it will help you to remember how your countrymen reacted to 9/11. That was a one-of, and it wasn't even a bombing raid.
So... however much you despise us, please understand that your consideration would be appreciated.
- Cressida de Nova said...
Good choice Bones. Powerful poem..a hit right between the eyes,rather like some of the negative comments... and on a day such as this
(sigh)A true indication of the worth of a person.
- Manfarang said...
"When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today"
Words inscribed on the Kohima Memorial and at Hell Fire Pass.
- Manfarang said...
Ian Cad
There is a bleak Japanese memorial in Kanjanaburi to all those who perished on the building of the Siam-Burma railway-the death railway.
The countless Asians who died have no graves.
There are two war cemeteries for the British, Dutch and Australians.
- John Magee said...
non mouse
Excuse me.
Why the need to insult the USA on Armistice Day?
Most Americans I know are well aware of the suffering the people of Britain endured during both World Wars and have nothing but complete respect for Britain. I don't know where you gather some of your fantasies but sometimes your sharp tongue and waspish temperament here needs corrected.
Are you aware that thousands of British children were evacuated to the USA after war started in 1939 and taken care of by Americans in their homes for most of WW II?
That's just one example of a long list I can post of how the USA helped Britian during WW's I and especially WW II because it was the right thing to do. It was for our mutual survival during WW II.
Almost 700,000 American soldiers, sailors, and marines died in both World Wars I & II including over 27,000 USAAF aimen who were killed in the air war flying their B-17's over Europe during WW II bombing missions over Germany and other targets in occupied Europe. Many of these American airmen who flew their missions from airbases in Britain are buried in USA Military Cemetaries in England. A couple of hundred thousand other American soldiers from both World Wars are also buried in cemeteries all over Western Europe.
Give us some credit.
These 700,000 American dead also had mothers, fathers, wives and childen here back home who would rather their sons and husbands would have never had to die in European and Asian wars we didn't start but had to help end.
May God bless you.
- John Magee said...
After WW I ended the leaders of all the nations, both Allied and the Central Powers, who started or supported starting WW I in 1914 should have been lined up against a wall and shot. Too bad the Tsar was already dead.
@ Manfarang
The British, American, Aussies, Kiwi's, Dutch, Phillipinos, etc who died in Jap POW camps were considered human trash by the Japs and executed or beaten to death by them in the jungles of Asia. Their emaciated bodies we then thrown into gutters to rot or shallow holes called "graves" without the slightest respect shown by Japanese soldiers.
A REAL outrage is the Yasukimi Shrine in Tokyo where Japanese Military hero's ashes are enshrined including WW II Japanese War criminals who commited terrible atrocities against Allied POWS and civilians including germ warfare experiemnts on Australian, British, and American POW's in Jap camps in norhtern China. Jap militaryb "hero's enshrined include Class-A war criminals such as Yosuke Matsuoka and Toshio Shiratori. On 17 October 1978, 14 Class A war criminals had their ashes enshrined in this memorial in Tokyo and the world said nothing. China and Korea protested and they were ignored. Thousands of boxes of ashes of Jap WW II war criminals of a lesser status than Class A criminals are enshired at the Yasukuni shrine.
This would be the same as if Germany today would allow the ashes or the bones of Rudolf Hess or other top Nazi's and SS buried with honors at a WW II War Memorial built on the Under den Linden in the center of Berlin to honor Nazi heros.
The Japanese do this at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo and no one is outraged.
There is even a statue representing a kamikazi pilot in front of the Yasukuni shrine building.
- carl jacobs said...
John Magee
No, you misunderstand. non mouse did not attack the US. Britain did suffer considerably more than the US in the two world wars. As an example, something like 2% of the British population died during the First World War. Only the American Civil War compares in terms of deaths per capita for the US. What non mouse in fact said was "Our suffering was so great that we have earned the right to not be troubled by inconvenient truths." Because what I said was incontrovertibly true.
non mouse
I do not despise you. What I said was universally true. It is just as true for my country as yours. It has nothing to do with how much you owe to those who were sacrificed. There is a temporal perspective and there is an eternal perspective. The objective truth of the later is not dictated by our feelings regarding the former.
- non mouse said...
Mr. Magee ... I intend no insult to the US; I pointed out a cultural difference and general American unawareness of that difference. Your personal perceptions may be slightly more sensitive than those of others.
I am fully cognizant of your country's contribution; my father's uncle provided land for an American air base in England. All of those involved surely merit our respect today.
For the record, I know some Americans who respect the British .... and some who do not. Yet I will not discuss the matter further at this time and place. It is now Veterans' Day in the US (1:13 a.m. EST, I believe). You, and they, have my respect for that occasion.
Have a wonderful 3-day weekend.
- John Magee said...
@ Carl jacobs
Yes, 600,000 men lost out of a population of 35 million in 1860 when the Civil War began was catastrophic. I live in SW Pennsylvania and my small town endured being shelled and later burned by the Confederates who crossed over from Virginia (now West Virginia). The Stars and Bars of Dixie flew over our courthouse for 5 days. My great great grandparents farm west of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was burned in 1863. There was starvation then too so real war existed here 150 years ago.
@ non mouse
I apologize if I sounded harsh and may have jumped the gun with my comments.
It's impossible to generalize about people. I can honestly tell you that I know of no Americans, other than a handful of "professional Irish" types, who harbor any animosity toward Britain. The rigid inherited class structure in Britain is something we find difficult to understand but that's none of our concern.
We have our share of foolish snobs and idiots too.
By the way. When we talk about the Revolutionary War it's as history and not meant to be current events...
- non mouse said...
Thank you, Mr. Jacobs.
Yesterday, I read Poe's essay Eureka; perhaps you might find it interesting. Science notwithstanding, in his Preface he sounds quite like you:
What I here propound is true:– therefore it cannot die:–or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will "rise again to the Life Everlasting."
While Poe's biophilia might surprise some, his view strikes me as neo-Platonic. A principle applicable within that system is that, during our time in earth, we can learn -through interaction- about the journey from cupiditas to Caritas. That is, from and through the physical and temporal, to ...
Only God knows how well, or what an individual learns; only He decides who is saved. However, some of us acknowledge a debt to those who experienced so much of Hell on Earth, sacrificing themselves for our right to complete that journey. Some of us are sure we will never see their like again. Some of us may consider that our journey has been predicated on the carnage of those wars.
For those who wish to recognize and meditate upon these things, in our individual ways, Remembrance Sunday grants a special pause.
- Dreadnaught said...
I will not discuss the matter further at this time and place. It is now Veterans' Day in the US (1:13 a.m. EST, I believe). You, and they, have my respect for that occasion.
Thank you Ms Mouse - my sentiments exactly.
- Manfarang said...
John Magee
I know how the Japanese treated POWs.I have met survivors who were made to work on the Siam-Burma railway.
The Imperial Japanese army were very brutal towards the Chinese and feelings remain high about the Yasukuni shrine its war criminals.
There is also a museum there which unacceptably glorifies the Japanese war effort.
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It will be available to listen again shortly.
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Watch: Kim Kardashian Announces Plans to Run for Mayor
by Chris Pursell | April 17, 2012 at 8:17 PM | Celebrities, RealityTV
Are you ready for Mayor Kardashian?
In an unaired segment of E! series "Khloe & Lamar," Kim Kardashian revealed to sister Khloe that she has goals of one day running for mayor of Glendale, California.
"I'm gonna run for the mayor of Glendale. You have to have full residency in Glendale. So for real… but it's going to be like in five years. So I have to buy a house there," she told her sister while they looked for a parking spot. "So Noel and I are looking into all the requirements and she's going to help me with my campaign."
She added voters of the LA suburb will probably line up to support her, noting "It's like Armenian town!"
Here's the clip that didn't make the final cut…


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Obama and the Post-Racial Illusion
Those who believe that electing Obama will somehow absolve America of its racial sins are kidding themselves.
November 3, 2008 - 12:31 am
One of the more "noble" reasons why millions of Americans will vote for Barack Obama tomorrow are that his election will, they believe, show that the United States has finally put its racist past behind it. More specifically — at the micro level as opposed to the macro level — many believe that an Obama victory will serve as an example to young black men from troubled backgrounds who might otherwise do badly at school and drift into crime, incapable of holding down a job or being a responsible parent.
The argument that electing Obama will somehow absolve America of its racial sins is certainly compelling, especially for voters who haven't made a decision based on issues such as the economy or Iraq. But it would be more persuasive were it not for the irony that Obama finds himself within touching distance of the Oval Office not by virtue of his achievements or his ideas, but in no small part because of the color of his skin.
The Obama campaign and its media cheerleaders have done a fine job of rendering discussion of his race taboo: while supporters of Hillary Clinton, notably Geraldine Ferraro raised the issue during the primary campaign, it hasn't become a factor in the general election battle — aside, that is, from Obama's repeated and cynical attempts to pre-emptively raise the specter of racism on the part of the McCain campaign. But Ferraro was right when she said in March that "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position." There's absolutely nothing in Obama's resume to recommend him as a presidential candidate: no executive experience (unless you count giving away $100 million to radical groups when he ran the Annenberg Challenge with Bill Ayers); no legislative record to speak of; no achievements beyond his academic success; little experience of anything, in fact, other than college life and corrupt Chicago politics.
Obama is certainly charismatic, a good speaker (when he's in front of his teleprompter) and a good campaigner. And in modern politics, where image counts for so much, such qualities can help an otherwise unremarkable candidate to punch above his weight. But John Edwards also had these qualities, and he disappeared almost without trace in the primary campaign, despite being a more prominent figure in the Democratic party than Obama on account of having been John Kerry's running mate in 2004, and despite having served in the Senate for twice as long as Obama. By any calculation Edwards was the more plausible candidate — but, just as the only substantive difference between Obama and Hillary Clinton was gender, the only substantive difference between Obama and Edwards was skin color.
Sure enough, black support was a key factor in Obama's victory over Clinton. It won't be a significant factor tomorrow, because black voters have overwhelmingly supported the Democratic candidate in the past several elections. And there is of course nothing wrong with blacks voting for Obama on the basis of his color, any more than it was wrong for Catholics to vote for JFK or Mormons to support Mitt Romney in the Republican primaries. It's perfectly understandable that, in the absence of significant disagreements over policy, a person should choose to vote for candidate from their own ethnic, racial or religious group. In the general election, however, the number of white people who, caught up in the idea of Obama as some kind of transformational figure, will vote for him solely on the basis of his color is likely to have a significant bearing on the result, and so it's worth looking at the merits of casting such a vote.


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jody bruchon dot com: random garbage from all around the internets thrown together for no apparent reason...a compilation of random clipboard pastings, and perhaps humor of subjective taste.
I was on IRC and some guy said this, and my face hit the desk...
Plus the test system was based on punishing the students who actually wanted to study.
It worked through a logical deduction of, "If people are willing to study in this situation then their parents obviously influence their life by pushing them to study."
Basically they would just try to intimidate the ones who tried harder into shutting up so they could spend all their time trying to make the lowest percentile pass tests.
I didn't really give a shit either way so I just slept in class.
The kids always said their parents just signed them up for those anyway
and the teachers didn't want to fail the kids cause it made the teachers look like they weren't doing their job to pass the students (and they didn't want to put up with them for another year.)
I had to put up with the biggest bullshit
I was stuck in classes with people who didn't know who Adolf Hitler was.
Also, pickles! ^_^
"The best way to see if someone actually supports equality is to give it to them."
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Why is the voting public putting up with it?
Big Money has learned how to identify social fissures in our society and when to drive the divisive wedge issues in with the big-money mallet. It doesn't care who gets hurt in the process and divides friends, families, and communities. Think of Cravaack trying to stir things up with the red herring of the BWCAW legislation—an issue that was settled 30 years ago.
Cravaack has money to stay in this race only because of outside Big Money. The Citizens United decision has polluted the political conversation in this country to the point where friends, families, and neighbors can't talk calmly about important issues affecting their lives.
While everyone is distracted by the wedge issues, the Republicans are quietly pursuing their real agenda, such as gutting hard-won regulatory protections, like the Glass–Steagall Act; attacking the EPA for trying to carry out its mandate; making it harder for us to vote; and, indeed, stirring up hatred for our government itself (the very government that, despite the political bickering inherent to the institution, sent humans to the moon and the Curiosity rover to Mars, designed and built the interstate highway system, built and maintains the most powerful military ever known, and invests in medical research that benefits all).
If Republicans had to compete in the arena of ideas without unlimited funds provided by billionaires, they would be on the inevitable path to extinction. Don't be blinded by the money.
Tim McKenzie
Ely, Minn.
As one who was intricately involved in the 1978 BWCA legislation, the land issue was paramount at that time. Trouble was, Mr. McKenzie, the big money you talk about was the Sierra Club, their powerful front man SanFrancisco Congressman Phil Burton and St. Paul Congressman Bruce Vento, who refused to deal with the land exchange. Us "little people" had little means to advance our concerns, as Burton headed up the sub-committee which this legislation was reported out of and he had no interest in the land exchange fairness. He personally wrote the legislation (some said at the time after enjoying his regularly heavy consumption of bourbon) and was not open to negotiation. He had a M. Rupert Cutler, Chief of the Forest Service along for the ride assuring Carter would sign the legislation if it reached his desk. It did and he did. The "little people" lost to the big money that day. And Rick Nolan co-sponsored the Burton-Vento legislation, one of only 2 in Minnesota.
Cravaack did not take on this issue by himself, we asked him to do it. Oberstar would not touch it, as he was more interested in getting an assignment on the old Public Works Committee and didn't appear willing to risk his own ambitions for his constituents. 34 years, ain't that a shame? There would be no wedge issues, as you refer to them, if only the wealthy Sierra Club and the Obama EPA would leave us multi-generation residents of northeastern Minnesota alone to deal with our issues, only we don't have big money.
The issue was not settled 30 years ago, I don't know where you get your information. But the land exchange is a bi-partisan measure, authored by the DFL Iron Range delegation, signed by the DFL Governor and it took a populist Congressman to help the "little people" by introducing and using political capital to get the measure passed in the House. It is long overdue, as is the question of the Webster-Ashburton assuring free and unlimited travel along the International Border, which we maintain allows us to use limited size outboard motors on those border lakes. The billlionaires you speak of will fight us on that too.
orrcountry-I have found that people have very short memories. Nolan needs to go back to his retirement job. Chip Cravaak has done a standout job for the Iron Range. I am an active member of the steelworker's union and cannot understand our "unholy" alliance with the Sierra Club! Mining is a dirty business. So is logging. Everyone cannot make a living renting canoes and cross country skis. Without mining and logging the Iron Range would be a ghose town! Vote for jobs, vote for Chip!


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The Secretary of Commerce shall maintain within the Department of Commerce a standards information center.
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(A) standards, technical regulations, conformity assessment procedures, and standards-related activities, whether such standards, technical regulations, conformity assessment procedures, or activities are public or private, domestic or foreign, or international, regional, national, or local and
(B) the membership and participation of Federal, State, or local government bodies or private bodies in the United States in international and regional standardizing bodies and conformity assessment systems, as well as in bilateral and multilateral arrangements concerning standards-related activities;
(2) make available to the public at such reasonable fee as the Secretary shall prescribe, copies of information required to be collected under paragraph (1) other than information to which paragraph (3) applies;
(3) use its best efforts to make available to the public, at such reasonable fees as the Secretary shall prescribe, copies of information required to be collected under paragraph (1) that is of private origin, on a cooperative basis with the private individual or entity, foreign or domestic, who holds the copyright on the information;
(4) in case of such information that is of foreign origin, provide, at such reasonable fee as the Secretary shall prescribe, such translation services as may be necessary;
(5) serve as the inquiry point for requests for information regarding standards-related activities, whether adopted or proposed, within the United States, except that in carrying out this paragraph, the Secretary of Commerce shall refer all inquiries regarding agricultural products to the technical office established under section 2542 (a)(2) of this title within the Department of Agriculture; and
(6) provide such other services as may be appropriate, including but not limited to, such services to the technical offices established under section 2542 of this title as may be requested by those offices in carrying out their functions.
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The standards information center shall, in addition to the functions specified under subsection (b) of this section, make available to the public relevant documents, at such reasonable fees as the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe, and information regarding—
(A) any sanitary or phytosanitary measure of general application, including any inspection procedure or approval procedure proposed, adopted, or maintained by a Federal agency or agency of a State or local government;
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Source(Pub. L. 96–39, title IV, § 414,July 26, 1979, 93 Stat. 245; Pub. L. 103–465, title III, § 351(d), title IV, § 431(a),Dec. 8, 1994, 108 Stat. 4956, 4966; Pub. L. 104–295, § 20(c)(15),Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3529.)
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1994—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 103–465, § 351(d), inserted "(A)" after "relating to", substituted "technical regulations, conformity assessment procedures," for "certification systems" and "such standards, technical regulations, conformity assessment procedures," for "such standards, systems", and inserted "and" and cl. (B) before semicolon at end.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103–465, § 431(a), added subsec. (c).
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Amendment by section 431(a) ofPub. L. 103–465effective on the date of entry into force of the WTO Agreement with respect to the United States [Jan. 1, 1995], except as otherwise provided, see section 451 ofPub. L. 103–465, set out as an Effective Date note under section 3601 of this title.
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Home > Society
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Last year, in January 2000, the senior English
class at Auroville's Transition School produced a collection of poems
called Koala Poetry. Some of these were taken up in the Transcript webzine
of June-July that year, and its editors allowed us to share them with
you here. You find them below.
In addition to this, we will add from time to
time a selection from some of our youngest poets, speaking of Auroville
as they know it. It may be interesting for you to discover what they
experience and observe, by what they are touched and with what they're
confronted (love, friendship, worries…) or what they wonder about sometimes.
The sun comes shining
through the keet.
The heat makes me feel warm.
The sun, every time the leaves move,
Comes down in beams on my paper.
When the tree blocks the hot sun's path,
He peeps in through another hole,
It makes the hut around me alight.
The hut is like a huge giant,
It tries to block the sun,
But as it is so full of holes
The light comes in from another hole.
All around me it's dark,
The only light is the sun peeping
Through the giant's shirt.
Shanti (14, boy)
Auroville is a land
Where all beauty
And wisdom
Is welcome with open hearts.
A place where all sorrow and the pain
That one feels,
Should be forgotten.
To me its like
A land, a being,
Hungry for peace
And for freedom
A place reaching out
For love and
Joy in the spirit.
Heba (15, girl)
People are the worst
animals alive
In deep wells and seas they dive
Only for pearls, emeralds, silver and gold.
They go on and on till they are old,
Then they sit very stiff on a chair
They don't even think to share,
They only think of their desires
Even while sitting on a bonfire,
On a huge pile of wood
So that they maybe could
Go to HEAVEN…!!???
Hilde (15, girl)
Friendship, on
a tree, is a flower,
A flower as pure as snow.
It is a force, a special power,
Like a beautiful golden flow.
It is like a ray of sunlight,
Enlightening every dream,
Full of colours, vivid and bright,
All together in a beam.
It is a transparent crystal,
That is nothing but clear
It is fantastic, magical
And keeps all your friends near.
It is something you shall never forget,
For it is friendship, the Ultimate.
Suryamayi (14,
He takes control
of your mind
He tosses it around
He brings up thoughts that don't exist.
Like a shadow he follows you
As if to be unseen.
He walks behind your back
And murmurs wicked words
While you feel him get hold of you
While you feel yourself losing control.
When all is quiet and peaceful
You can hear a creak once in a while
As fear approaches like a cat
At night, and seizes in panic
As all reason leaves your mind
And fear takes its place
Like the sun takes place of the moon.
Mirra (15, girl)
My affection for the unknown
Started as a dream, as sweet
As sweet as sugar,
And that dream did not forgive.
The unknown talks to me in the night,
Words of love, words of adoration,
But, as night ends, the sadness comes;
The sadness exists because
I know we shall never unite.
As I see him, as he appears,
My heart flutters away like a butterfly,
and I know, I know we shall never unite.
Divya (14, girl)


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Evan's Question Of The Week 11-2-11
November 2, 2011 11:35 AM
It's time again for Evan's question of the week. Evan wants to know if you would marry the Playboy Playmate of your choice, if in exchange you had to change your last name to hers for at least five years (even if you aren't married anymore).
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The Cost of Socialized Medicine: Obamacare's Unconstitutionality by the Numbers
While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was ruled constitutional recently by the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision, many believe otherwise. This infographic from MasterOfPublicHealth.org details the folly of Obamacare and some of the many costs that will be borne as a result.
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Nice post, i really hope that Obama care really gets the go ahead and works out well. There needs to be a change in American health care, it seems like people are more interested in money than human life, which one is more precious?


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Joe Soptic
The Steelworker's Wife—and What Might Have Been
August 09, 2012
The controversial ad about Bain Capital, a former steelworker, and his uninsured wife deserves some of the criticism it's received. The ad implies something its supporters cannot prove and raises one argument that its supporters may not believe. But let's focus, one more time, on the broader policy question about health care, because that's what should matter when Americans vote in November. In particular, let's assume that Joe Soptic's wife could have turned to the Affordable Care Act, the law that Obama signed and that Romney has pledged to repeal.
In (Partial) Defense of a (Supposedly) Indefensible Ad
August 08, 2012
It's one of those days when the news cycle is moving faster than I can write about it. As of Wednesday afternoon, the chatter online is all about the Romney campaign's unexpected decision to cite his Massachusetts health reforms as proof that he cares about average Americans facing financial hardship. The decision is unexpected because Romney has spent the past two years vowing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, whose scheme for expanding insurance coverage is basically a national version of what Romney did in Massachusetts.


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As Carp expires, DAR faces massive court cases for NOCs-A A +A
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
FORMER Negros Occidental Governor Rafael Coscolluella, national president of the Confederation of Sugar Producers Association (Confed), said that the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) faces massive court cases for the publication of the Notice of Coverage (NOC) for land distribution which was done in a hurry.
He said that DAR continued with the NOC without authority because it failed to get approval before the 15th Congress adjourned.
Coscolluela said that several land owners in the province who were issued the NOC are bringing their opposition to the Supreme Court especially that DAR went on a shortcut in its process of issuing the NOC.
Several lands that were included in the lists were not "Carp-able" lands and DAR was very indiscriminate that even a non-existing land in Silay City and De Salle-Antipolo were included in the list published in some national dailies.
Coscolluela added that despite the expiration of the 26-year-old land reform Monday, the program will continue.
"We will expect that starting today until December this year, DAR will be barraged with massive protests and complaints for its actions," he added.
Meanwhile, the national government on Monday reiterated that the distribution of land to farmers continues despite the expiration of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (Carper) on June 30.
"Patuloy po ang land distribution. So the end of Carper does not mean the end of land distribution. We are in the process of distributing lands based on those properties, based on those land holdings that have been issued Notice of Coverage (NOC)," said Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda in a press briefing.
Lacierda said Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes is committed to pursuing and to issuing the NOC.
"In fact, naka-issue siya until today, last day na ngayon ng issuance of Notice of Coverage. Yes, there have been significant improvements on the amount of land holdings being covered by CARP," he said.
An NOC initiates the compulsory acquisition and distribution of private agricultural lands, one of the modes of distribution under the Carper.
"The early part of Carp, ang kina-Carp kasi natin 'yung mga huge government holdings na walang problema sa taumbayan because these are government lands. Pwedeng kunin kaagad. We are now going through landholdings which are owned by private individuals na talagang there will expectedly be resistance," Lacierda added.
The expired land acquisition and distribution (LAD) component of the Carper was in pursuant to Republic Act No. 6657, otherwise known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law. (With reports from PNA)
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Mike Gao – Beta World Peace
California native Mike Gao is a producer, DJ, and music technologist who aims his developed skills in lacing together boundary-pushing electronic music. He first got his start when he was 13, making beats in MSDOS tracker programs. With a Masters in Music Technology from Stanford, Gao has got quite the power to his punch. Not to mention he has won several beat battles including Project Blowed in Los Angeles and the Mighty 4 in the Bay area. He has also participated in numerous sets and festivals that only bolster his already impressive background. Known for his organic approach to electronic music, Gao's latest EP release Beta World Peace doesn't stray much from his established sound palette. Within Beta World Peace, you'll find eclectic sounds and glitches taking on organic forms that result in a medley of tracks tickling your hair follicles.
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April 2013 Update
Don & Vivian Bond (1952)
Dear Supporting Ones,
"Instead you ought to say, "if the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that" (James 4:15). God's grace is so great and He wills to still use us for His purposes, which is our hearts' desire.
Don's sugar is back under control with insulin and three dentists have worked on the origin of the problem (a dental abscess) and other dental needs. We are thankful for your prayer interest and for God's intervention. Now we need His provision for the bills. We have no doubt that it will be supplied.
The prison ministry continues. Don only missed one week of Bible study and chapel administration. Again we are grateful for those who uphold us in prayer.
Don's next devotional is at our village morning Chapel service is April 19. and we covet your intercession. Our only desire is that God be glorified and His People edified.
Viv requests prayer that she might be a blessing to all that she meets from day to day
We are doing very well here at the Manor (assisted living) and very thankful for God's watch care continually.
Yours in Christ,
Don and Viv
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