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|The Internet
|Getting Online
|Surfing the Net
Sending and receiving email is one fun thing you can do on the Net, but surfing the Net is where it's really at! Surfing the Net means getting on the Internet's digital waves and riding the computer network to just about any place in the world. Surfers cruise between computers around the world, moving from site to site, in search of the perfect wave....uh....file.
For example, you can log on your home computer, hook up to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, jump back to the United Nations in New York, then check out the latest version of your favorite software computer game--all in the time it takes to lick through a lollipop! Getting, sending, and receiving information from the Net can take only a few seconds, as long as you know how to surf.
Surfing the Net does take a little bit of practice and patience. There's so much information on the Net, and so many places to go to get it, that you might not know where to begin. Then there's the problem of knowing how to get to where you want to go, once you've decided what you're looking for! But have no fear, you'll find out all you need to know right here about surfing the Net--without ever getting wet!! Surf's up!!
Radical "Surf"ware
Once you have a computer hooked up to the Net, you need to get a special surfing software called a Net browser. This computer program will make surfing a lot easier for you. Most browsers today let you use your mouse to point-and-click at the places you want to explore and then--like magic--your computer takes you there. Web browsers "read" the html text then converts it into a page like the one you're reading right now. You can use a web browser to send and receive email, access gopher resources, download files using FTP and read online newsgroups. The two most popular browsers are Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Online services like America Online and Prodigy to access the Internet, you may be using their own special Internet web browser. What you'll be learning here, will help you no matter which web browser you use.
A Web of Waves
Once you start exploring the Net in search of cool things to see, download, and explore, it won't be long before you get caught in the WWW, also known as the World Wide Web. It's also called the Web, for short. This has become the most popular place for millions of scientists, teachers, business people, adults, and kids around the world. It's a part of the Net's that's great because it's easy to use. The Web uses graphics, hypertext, sound, video clips that have built-in links to others pages on the Net. A collection of web pages mounted on one computer is called a Web Site (like Mrs. Parcell's Computer Applications II Web Page). The first page of a web site is called the "home page". The "home page" contains highlighted words or pictures called "hyperlinks". Clicking on a hyperlink instantly connects you to another web page. That web page could be located on the same computer, or another computer anywhere in the world!
Catchin' the URL waves!
To get to specific Web sites, you'll need to know their addresses. On the Web an address is called an URL, known as Uniform Resource Locator. Simply, an URL is the name for an Internet address. It may be hard to understand what all the letters, symbols and slashes stand for, let me break it down so you can see how easy it is to understand.
|This tells you that the site is on the World Wide Web.
|// Anything after these two slashes indicates the computer on the web where the site is located.
|/ Anything after the single slash identifies a specific file, or a directory of information at the site.
|This means the file is especially formatted for the web.
Here are some examples of different Internet URL resources:
http://www.londonderry.org (Web Site)
gopher://marvel.loc.gov (Gopher Site)
news:k12.chat.teacher (Newsgroup)
mailto:email@example.com (Email address)
Anatomy of a Web Page
Here's how a search engine works. They're actually web pages that provide an empty rectangular box where you can type in words related to what you want to find. These words are called keywords. Type in your keywords and press the search or submit button (or just press the Enter/Return key). Within seconds, the search engine will give you a list of Internet sites for you to visit to see if they have the information you want.
Here's an example of a search engine:
Once you have press the Search button, the results of your search will appear (as in the example below).
Searching Tips
Now it's time to complete the worksheet for this section. Click on this hyperlink to take you to your worksheet.
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HL2CTF 2.1 Server Update Patch
Critical weapon adjustments applied
Critical weapon adjustments has been made to the HL2CTF 2.1 patch and all server administrators should update immediately. Due to a fault in the compilation of the weapon scripts, current HL2CTF 2.1 servers are running what might be called a hybrid of the 2.0 / 2.1 weapon settings. This is highly important as the 2.1 update is focused on weapon and player damage settings to improve overall balance.
Details on this is that with the released 2.1 update patch the Alyxgun will use Pistol ammo instead of SMG ammo and the RPG is at the 2.0 value of 150 max damage. The following update will not affect rocket-jumping and without it players will easily exhaust Alyxgun ammo as maps rarely have pistol ammo. This update also fixes weapon weights for more appropriate weapon switching.
Just to note, the current hl2ctf210_upgrade.exe and .zip downloads have already been updated. Therefore you can download and re-apply the 2.1 patch or simply download the following zip and extract it to your /SourceMods folder (for clients) or your /srcds folder as the zip contains the /hl2ctf folder as usual.
Click here to download the 17kb 2.1 Weapon Patch
All of the mirrored HL2CTF 2.1 full Windows .exe and .zip installers will be updated today as well as ModDB and Desura. This issue is only needed for servers but in the case of a pure server, the client will need the same weapon script files so all players should apply the 2.1 weapon patch.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
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BOSTON (MarketWatch) — If you're retired, or nearly retired, you probably want three things from your investments: Safety of principal, a reasonable rate of interest, and some security against the risks of inflation down the road.
Good luck with that.
Developments in the financial markets, and the Federal Reserve's policies, have driven down interest rates and closed off most of your options.
What can you do?
Here's something intriguing. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been quietly taking advantage of a little-known investment on the stock market that may satisfy all three conditions. And it's open to anyone.
Taxing the rich gains unexpected support in Europe
Europe's richest are following the words of Warren Buffet, and are willing to pay more in taxes to alleviate growing economic tensions with middle class. Video courtesy Fox News. Photo: Getty Images.
Before we take a look at that, let's look at the conundrum facing millions of older investors.
Stocks don't offer safety of principal (although a basket of high-quality blue chips offer a pretty reasonable amount of security over the course of, say, five or more years).
Certificates of deposit, money-market funds and short-term bonds don't offer a reasonable rate of interest. One-year CDs are paying about 1% — compared to official inflation currently running at 3.8% — and shorter-term deposits are paying even less.
And if you buy longer-term bonds instead, to earn higher interest, you are putting yourself at risk from inflation. Even 30-year Treasurys yield little more than 3%.
This problem has been driving many investors into a fourth option: Inflation-protected Treasury bonds, known as TIPS.
Until recently these were among my favorite investments for conservative investors (and indeed for most of us). TIPS are bonds issued by Uncle Sam, but unlike regular bonds their yield rises and falls with inflation. As recently as this spring the so-called "real" yield on long-term TIPS bonds, which means the interest rate on top of inflation, was nearly 2%. That was a pretty good deal.
No longer. TIPS bonds have rocketed in price — as investors have stampeded into the last lifeboat available.
Bonds are like seesaws. When the price goes up, the interest rate goes down. Anyone buying TIPS bonds today is locking in meager returns — or worse.
The five-year TIPS bond actually sports a negative "real" yield of half a percent a year. Put another way: Anyone buying that bond today and holding it for five years is guaranteed to lose 3% of their purchasing power.
You have to buy TIPS bonds of at least 10 year's maturity to earn a return ahead of inflation, and even there it's a paltry 0.3% a year.


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LAWRENCEVILLE -- With less than a year remaining until Gwinnett Medical Center officially opens its Heart and Vascular Center, a handful of patients have already reaped the benefits.
Much of the attention surrounding GMC's newest addition -- scheduled to open in early 2012 -- has focused on the introduction of open heart surgery, which will remove Gwinnett's title as the country's largest county without such a facility.
But even as construction, staffing and planning continue, the hospital is making strides toward implementing a full regiment of heart-related care.
Dr. Louis Heller performed the first-ever coronary angioplasty and heart stent within Gwinnett County lines on March 1, and since then dozens of scheduled procedures have been completed at GMC's pre-existing cardiac catheterization lab.
In addition to that, GMC physicians have performed a number of emergency procedures.
Between March 1 and April 30, 24 patients that arrived on-site while having a heart attack received immediate attention at the hospital, spokeswoman Beth Okun said.
The average time from arrival to reinstituting blood flow in those cases was 62 minutes, Okun said. The standard set by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association is 90 minutes.
"Before, cardiac patients needing interventional treatments had to leave Gwinnett," hospital CEO Philip Wolfe said in a previous statement. "Now, they are able to receive this advanced service here in our community."
"This moved us one major step closer to offering the complete array of advanced cardiovascular care right here in Gwinnett."
The hospital has also recently activated its new LifeNet system, which enables EMS crews to transmit highly detailed cardiovascular data from ambulances to GMC's emergency department. The system, available in all Gwinnett County ambulances, then forwards information directly to the mobile device of the appropriate physician.
Gwinnett Medical's Heart and Vascular Center is slated to be open to patients in January.
More like this story
- Gwinnett County ambulances get new technology ( February 22, 2011 )
- GMC performs first PCI heart procedure in Gwinnett ( March 1, 2011 )
- Cardiology practice joins Gwinnett Medical Group ( March 26, 2013 )
- Computer virus puts GMC on 'total diversion status' ( December 9, 2011 )
- GMC heart center named after Stricklands, to open in January ( November 30, 2011 )


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Are you considering the use of donor sperm, egg, or embryo to build your family? Or, are you already parenting children conceived by donor sperm, egg, or embryo?
During this one hour group conference call, you will receive information on:
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You will also have the opportunity to share information and support one another in making the decision about disclosure and find out just how and what to say at what age when you begin to talk with your child and others. Come hear what both professionals and other parents have learned through their own experiences and work with families created through donor conception.
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Geoffrey Huling and Mary Ellen Murphy sit with their daughter Molly Huling, 18 months, in their Haddon Township home Saturday. When she was growing up, Murphy and her siblings always received an orange in their Christmas stockings, along with a No. 3 Ticonderoga pencil.
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The traditions of each family's holiday are as varied as the kids' Christmas Eve pajamas and remembered longer than any gift. It's family and friends and, usually, laughter that lingers. It's memories that children talk about even though the events took place ...


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Genzyme has recently added renal, bone, and cancer treatments. A 10-year study by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons just reported good news for the company's Carticel, a cell therapy that uses a patient's own cartilage to repair damaged knees. Says Dr. Lyle Cain Jr., an orthopedic surgeon in Birmingham, Alabama: "This is the beginning of the next generation of procedures."


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David Fisher, Israel, 2011, 73 mins
Saturday May 5 | 2:00 PM | Vancity Theatre
David Fisher's intimate and personal film follows his 17-year-old son Yuval as he leaves home to go to school at United World College, an international high school in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The relationship between father and son is close, contrary, and loving, but under the eye of his father's ever-present camera, Yuval occasionally lapses into sullen adolescent mode. "You can't expect me to feel at ease and develop intimacy when your camera is always around," he says. As his relationships with girlfriends and classmates change and evolve, reality in the form of politics intrudes. Freshly minted experience in all its complexity, was never so warmly or more carefully captured. –DW
Almost a dozen years after his Love Inventory (2000) in which he told the world about his family and its problems, made the festival rounds, David Fisher is back behind the camera, and once again it is a family affair through and through. –Screen International
David Fisher is one of Israel's leading documentary filmmakers. His most notable film, Love Inventory, won the Best Documentary Award at the 2000 Jerusalem International Film Festival, the Israeli Film Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2000 and had its international premiere at the 2001 Berlinale. He is the founder of the "Greenhouse" project, aimed at developing documentary films by Mediterranean filmmakers. Fisher recently completed the second and third parts of his family trilogy: Mostar Round-Trip and Six Million and One.


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The building was once known as the Greenery. Its new owners would like to keep some of their folding green for purposes other than mitigation payments, and will be asking for the planning board's blessing Jan. 10.
The building has been remade as Lewis Bay Court Condominiums, overlooking Hyannis Harbor on South Street and Lewis Bay Road, and the owners have started selling condo units. Developer Chad Doe and the town are parties to a regulatory agreement that Doe hopes to modify by adding an educational use, a culinary school that would operate on the first floor.
Through attorney David Lawler, Doe is making a case also for eliminating the agreement's requirement that the developer provide $434,000 in cash mitigation for street improvements in the area. Lawler argues that Doe's other downtown projects, such as the Center Street mixed-use condo building, the rehabilitation of half of the 500 Main block, and a makeover of dilapidated North Street buildings into an attractive office complex have provided sufficient benefits to allow the cash mitigation for Lewis Bay to be waived.
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Dare I say it, I am starting to feel bad for Chris Brown! After breaking internal rules at his court-ordered rehab program (to treat his anger
problem addiction), Chris Brown was kicked out of the program thereby violating the terms and conditions of probation. He was hauled off by sheriff's deputies to the county jail.
His mea culpas in the rehab program? 1) Violating the rule that he must stay 2 feet away from female rehabers (he was seen touching a woman's arm and elbow); 2) he left the facility for an unauthorized outing; and 3) he refused a drug test (which later came up negative) upon his return. Really?
Because Chris Brown touched a woman's arm we now must use our tax dollars to incarcerate him in an over-crowded jail almost five years after he admitted to beating Rihanna (the offense for which he is on felony probation). Chris Brown is just another example of how felony probation is much like herpes, the gift that keeps on giving. It is much harder than it sounds to successfully complete felony probation…
On Monday, the court rejected Brown's request to be released pending the probation violation hearing. He now must sit in the pokey for a month while he awaits the felony probation violation hearing. At said hearing, the prosecution need only prove by a preponderance of the evidence that Brown violated the terms and conditions of his probation and the judge is free to sentence him to the maximum term of imprisonment of the underlying offense for which he is on probation. Here, that is four years. The prosecution and defense can come to an agreement that if Brown admits his violation and does not proceed to a hearing he will serve an agreed upon sentence.
On one hand, his transgressions seem petty. On the other hand, he has a pending case for new criminal conduct in D.C. for which the prosecution already sought incarceration. A term and condition of any felony probation is to refrain from violating the law. Rehab was Brown's get out of jail free card. He burned that card. Odds are he'll do some time, but my prediction is not more than a few months.
So why do I feel bad for someone who is clearly his own worst enemy? Because I generally feel bad for people who have to go to jail — it is just sad. More than that, Brown suffers from bipolar disorder and PTSD which makes me think to some degree he lacks control over his impulsive behavior.
He needs help; he can afford help. Requiring that we pay to incarcerate him accomplishes nothing when he can readily pay for treatment. Yes, he violated the rules of treatment, but they were pretty small violations. He should be given yet another chance.
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MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin volleyball team will make six appearances on television in 2014, including an appearance on ESPN2, the Big Ten Conference office announced today.
The Badgers take on Nebraska on ESPN2 on Sunday, Oct. 26 at 4 p.m. in the UW Field House. Wisconsin will also appear on the Big Ten Network three times, including its conference opener against Penn State on Sept. 24. The match will be a replay of the 2013 NCAA Championship match that the Nittany Lions won 3-1. UW will also appear on BTN at Minnesota on Oct. 15 and at Purdue on Oct. 29.
In addition, the Badgers make two appearances on the Pac-12 Networks as their matches against USC and Washington at the Pac-12/Big Ten Showcase in Seattle will air live.
BTN will televise 27 contests across the conference this season, while at least 82 matches are scheduled to appear on BTN Plus, the network's subscription-based streaming platform (formerly BTDN). All of UW's home matches, with the exception of Penn State, will be streamed live.
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It was a cold night in December, and Patrick Murphy was standing in
the back room of a downtown Philadelphia bar. As usual, he was
telling war stories. It had been nearly two years since Murphy
returned from Iraq, where he served as a JAG officer in the 82nd
Airborne, but the memories of his time there were still fresh, and,
as he mingled about the room, he shared them with many of those he
met. He told of leading convoys through a section of Baghdad called
"Ambush Alley" and of prosecuting cases before Iraq's Central
Criminal Court. "When I was in Iraq," Murphy would almost
invariably say at the outset of each new conversation--and then he
would launch into another tale.But, even though his stories grew repetitious, no one seemed to
mind. Far from perceiving Murphy as a bore, his interlocutors
listened to him with rapt attention. They were mostly young
professionals, just off work from nearby law firms and corporate
offices, and, in their world, Murphy was a unique figure and
someone of considerable interest. "I don't think I know anybody
who's fought in Iraq, except maybe my friend's brother," a
twentysomething named Brian Gralnick, who works for the
Pennsylvania Department of Aging, told me not long after Murphy had
bent his ear. "Just to hear the perspective of someone who's
actually been there and has that kind of credibility is extremely
So valuable, in fact, that he and the other people in the bar's back
room were willing to pay for the privilege--with a suggested
$50 contribution to Murphy's congressional campaign. Murphy is
running in Pennsylvania's eighth district, which is made up almost
entirely of Bucks County, home to some of Philadelphia's most
affluent suburbs. Although Murphy is only 32 years old and has no
prior political experience (save a brief stint as a volunteer for
John Kerry in 2004), he is considered by many to be the
front-runner in the three-candidate Democratic primary; and, if he
wins the primary in May, political handicappers believe Murphy
would pose a legitimate challenge in November to the one-term
Republican incumbent, Mike Fitzpatrick. With more than $260,000 in
contributions--the event at the bar, which was hosted by
Philadelphia's Young Democratic Networking Corps, netted about
$5,000- -Murphy is off to an impressive start for a challenger in
that district.
Murphy is stumping on a familiar litany of Democratic campaign
issues, from raising the minimum wage to supporting a woman's right
to choose. But the centerpiece of his campaign is Iraq. "To win the
war on terror," Murphy likes to say, "we need to get the hell out
of Iraq." Specifically, he has called for the removal of all
National Guard and Reserve units by the summer and the withdrawal
of 50,000 additional troops by the year's end. And, for those who
may disagree with his plan--including the Republican representative
he hopes to unseat--Murphy's response is simple. He touts his
personal experience. "Mike Fitzpatrick, no matter how many
briefings he can sit in on in Washington, D.C., will never know
what I know, and I know the truth," Murphy told me. "I've seen it
with my own eyes. I walked it in my own combat boots."
Murphy isn't the only Democratic congressional candidate telling war
stories these days. Eight other veterans of the Iraq war are
running for the U.S. House of Representatives as Democrats (so far,
only one Iraq war vet, Van Taylor, a challenger for Texas's 17th
congressional district, is running as a Republican). And, while
there are differences among these Democratic veteran candidates,
like Murphy, they have all made their military service a central
facet of their campaigns--and have relied on it to bolster their
criticisms, which vary in intensity, of the war and the Bush
administration in general.
This development has sparked considerable excitement among the
Democratic faithful, who believe that the vet candidates are
uniquely equipped to solve the perception that their party is not
only weak on national security, but also that it is weak when it
comes to battling Republicans on other issues. Dubbed the "Fighting
Dems" or "Macho Democrats," the Iraq war vets--and more than 40
other Democratic candidates who are veterans of the Armed
Forces--are routinely hailed on popular liberal blogs; they are
featured on Air America radio shows; and, last month, the Band of
Brothers 2006 PAC was formed with a goal of raising
$3 million to support Democratic veterans running for office this
year. "A macho Democrat," John Lapp, the executive director of the
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, recently told
Newsweek, "is someone who isn't afraid to stand up for what they
believe in, to tell their story, to fight back when they're
unfairly attacked."
The Fighting Dem phenomenon would seem to be a welcome development
for a party that, for many years, was indifferent--or even
hostile--to the military. But it's not the panacea some Democrats
think it is. Just as Democrats were once wrong to demonize
veterans, unfairly casting them as villains, today Democrats are
making the mistake of fetishizing vets--unthinkingly treating them
as superheroes. And, just as the former view harmed Democrats on
national security issues, the latter may as well. Because new
national security messengers--no matter how many miles they may
have walked in combat boots--are no substitute for a strong
national security message, which the party, alas, still lacks.
The Democrats' problems with the military go back, of course, to
Vietnam, when the party became identified with the antiwar
movement, which often took the form of being anti-GI. But the
problems did not end with the war. Although Jimmy Carter himself
had served in the Navy, his presidency only deepened Democrats'
estrangement from the military. In 1977, Carter's inaugural address
notably failed to mention the Armed Forces, which upset some
veterans. Even more were upset when, the day after his inaugural,
the new president offered an amnesty to all those Americans who had
avoided service in Vietnam by failing to register for the draft or
by fleeing to Canada. "Carter cut the military budget, he canceled
the B-1 bomber," says Richard Kohn, a military historian at the
University of North Carolina. "In many ways, great and small, he did
things that were perceived as being hostile to the military."
At the same time that Democrats were alienating the military and
veterans, Republicans were reaching out. In 1980, Ronald Reagan
proclaimed that the U.S. effort in Vietnam "was, in truth, a noble
cause"--a proclamation that was much appreciated by many veterans.
In contrast to Carter, Reagan's inaugural address was a paean to
the American soldier. And, a few months later, in a speech to
sailors, he said, "I know there've been times when the military has
been taken for granted. It won't happen under this administration."
He boosted defense spending and gave soldiers a pay raise. "Under
Reagan, the Republican Party made itself the pro-military, and,
synonymously, the prosoldier, party," says Andrew Bacevich, a
professor of international relations at Boston University.
And, even when Democrats later tried to combat the perception that
they were anti-veteran and anti-military--such as when Michael
Dukakis, in 1988, took his infamous tank ride--they failed
miserably. Similarly, Bill Clinton's hawkish pronouncements in the
1992 presidential campaign were undercut by the revelation that, in
1969, he had proclaimed himself to be among the "many fine people
[who] have come to find themselves still loving their country but
loathing the military." And, when Clinton, upon being elected, said
he intended to repeal the ban on gays in the military, many
veterans interpreted it as a hostile act. The widely circulated
story that a female White House staffer had refused to exchange
pleasantries with then-Lieutenant General Barry McCaffrey because
she didn't "speak to people in uniform"--combined with the fact that
so few people in Clinton's inner circle had themselves served--only
deepened the notion that the Democratic Party was inherently
hostile to the military.
Ironically, though, it was also under Clinton that the Democratic
Party began to fetishize the military. Recognizing the political
liabilities stemming from his efforts to avoid service in Vietnam,
in his 1992 presidential campaign, Clinton took the unprecedented
step of seeking--and receiving--the endorsement of some 20 retired
military officers, including former Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral
William Crowe. The scale of the endorsements violated the
long-standing norm that military leaders stay out of partisan
politics. And, after his initial missteps with the military early
in his first term, Clinton sought to make amends, caving on his
demand for the military to admit gays, appointing McCaffrey drug
czar, hailing the military for its affirmative action policies, and
generally taking a more respectful--even a sometimes
deferential--attitude toward the military. "I think he was so badly
bruised by the gays in the military issue," says Kohn, "that he
decided then and there that he wasn't going to fool with the
military and even exercise his authority over it in many ways."
But the Democratic Party's fetishization of the military did not
begin, in earnest, until the Iraq war. Much of it stemmed from a
basic political calculation--that the party would have more
credibility on the war if its leaders themselves had military
experience. This sentiment was what led many Democrats to encourage
the retired General Wesley Clark to run for president and, after
Clark flamed out, to embrace John Kerry--primarily because of his
own record of service in Vietnam. And Kerry, of course, carried the
fetish to its extreme when he turned the 2004 Democratic National
Convention into a militaristic extravaganza--cramming the stage
with admirals and generals who had endorsed him, not to mention the
men who had served with him on a swift boat in Vietnam. And, when
Kerry gave his acceptance speech, he began it with a salute and the
words, "I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty."
This fetishization of the military has influenced the Democrats'
narrative of the Iraq war. "I think there was a segment of the
Democratic Party and the Democratic constituency who really blamed
military leaders for what happened in Vietnam, for lying about the
body count and the Pentagon papers and things like that," says
Chris Gelpi, a Duke University political scientist who studies
civilmilitary relations. But, when it comes to criticizing the Iraq
war, instead of blaming the military, Democrats have placed the
blame squarely on the Bush administration. In fact, in the
Democratic narrative of the war, the military is the hero. It was a
military man, General Eric Shinseki, who told the truth when he
said the United States would need several hundred thousand troops
to provide security in postwar Iraq; it was a Pentagon civilian,
Paul Wolfowitz, who lied and said the military was off the mark.
That Wolfowitz and so many of the war's other intellectual
architects had never served in the military themselves--that they
were, as Democrats never tire of pointing out, "chicken
hawks"--made this narrative particularly powerful.
As Republicans once did during the Reagan years, Democrats began to
cast themselves as protectors of the military. In 2003,
congressional Democrats accused the Bush administration of favoring
tax cuts for the wealthy over a pay raise for the military; and,
recently, Democrats have been attacking the Bush administration for
not providing soldiers in Iraq with adequate body armor. "It is not
only wrong, but it is inexcusable, as we near the third anniversary
of the war in Iraq, that our troops still do not have all the body
armor they need to keep them safer," House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi said. But, where Republicans like Reagan always cast their
defense of the military in terms of profound gratitude and respect,
Democrats' calls for increased support for the military--while no
doubt well-intentioned--sometimes leave the impression that they
almost view the military as pitiable. As Kathy Roth-Douquet, a
former Clinton aide and Marine wife who is the author of a
forthcoming book about the upper-class absence from the military,
puts it, "There is a contingent of Democrats whose version of being
pro-military is, `I appreciate what you do. I'd never do it myself.
I'd never want my kids to do it. But thanks for your service,
because you're probably being exploited, and you're a victim, and
we really want to help you.'"
This notion that those in the military have been victimized is very
much of a piece with the increasing tendency among some Democrats
to view national security issues through the lens of identity
politics. Just as some Democrats argue that oppressed minorities
like blacks or Latinos have unimpeachable credibility about certain
issues due to their identities, some Democrats now seem to think
that veterans have similarly unimpeachable views about national
security merely because of who they are. Indeed, many of the
Fighting Dems' biggest boosters seem to believe that a politician's
military service, or lack thereof, is the sine qua non of national
security issues. "Too few Republicans have ever sacrificed for
their nation, and their utter contempt for it shows," Markos
Moulitsas recently wrote on his blog, DailyKos. "Democrats are
already the party of veterans. The Fighting Dems are going to help
make this point to a whole new generation of voters."
Given the public mood on Iraq, criticizing the war may turn out to
be a winning midterm election strategy--at least in some districts.
And it probably can't hurt a candidate who has served in the
military to bolster that criticism with references to his or her
service. But the Fighting Dem strategy, and the Democratic
fetishization of the military in general, does pose some potential
First, despite all the swaggering rhetoric about Fighting Dems,
there's no evidence that fighting in a war means someone will be a
fighter in the political arena. Recent history is littered with a
number of war heroes-turned- politicians whose fierceness in
military combat did not carry over onto the political battlefield.
John McCain did not have the stomach to get down and dirty with
George W. Bush in the 2000 South Carolina Republican primary. John
Kerry similarly failed to fight back against the Swift Boat Veterans
for Truth. Indeed, in three out of the last four presidential
elections, the candidate who saw combat in war (George H.W. Bush,
Bob Dole, and Kerry) lost to an opponent (Clinton and George W.
Bush) who had avoided it.
But the biggest danger posed by the Fighting Dems is the notion that
their personal experience alone is a substitute for a strong
national security agenda. Democrats seem to believe that, if they
put Pelosi's words in a veteran's mouth, they will have formulated
a winning national security message. As Democratic strategist Joe
Trippi wrote last week, shortly after Howard Dean declared that the
Iraq war was unwinnable, "Perhaps Dems should let Murtha and `Iraq
Vet' candidates like Paul Hackett and Patrick Murphy use their
considerable credibility to make the anti-war case, while Howard
Dean and others come up with some appealing vision for the future."
But, if the message remains the same, it won't matter who's saying
Or it won't matter to people who, unlike most of the Fighting Dems'
biggest boosters, know enough to view the military as the province
not of superheroes but of mere mortals. Which is something Murphy
found out when, the day after enthralling the young Democrats in
downtown Philadelphia, he stopped by a steelworkers' union hall in
Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, a blue-collar town in lower Bucks
The son of a cop who grew up in a working-class Philadelphia
neighborhood, Murphy is hardly uncomfortable in such environments.
"None of my friends growing up went to college," he told me before
he went into the union hall. "They're Teamsters now." And, when a
steelworker offered Murphy his choice of a bottle of Yuengling or a
can of Miller, he correctly chose the latter. As he sat drinking
his beer, the steelworkers voiced their concerns about cafta and
told stories of the Molly McGuires, the secret organization of Irish
American coal miners who fought discrimination through violence.
Finally, one of them asked Murphy how he planned to beat
For Murphy, almost every issue he confronts in his campaign leads
him back to Iraq. "People say to me, `You're so young. You're just
32 years old,' and I say, `Well, I think I'll actually bring a
whole other set of experiences [to Congress],'" he told me earlier
that day. "I'll be one of the leading experts on the war on terror,
because I did deploy to help a Muslim population in Bosnia and also
in Baghdad, Iraq." He and his campaign even try to connect issues
that have nothing to do with national security to his military
experience. As Daren Berringer, a Democratic consultant who has been
serving as an unpaid adviser to Murphy's campaign, puts it, "If
Patrick can go over to Iraq and perform his job as well as he did
in that environment, then I'm pretty sure he can deal with issues
of education and health care and making sure seniors have a real
prescription-drug plan. That stuff is on paper."
And so, when a steelworker asked Murphy an openended question about
how he planned to get to Congress, Murphy's answer wasn't
surprising. "I know how to fight," he replied immediately. "I was
in the 82nd Airborne. I was in Baghdad. I'm a fighter." He started
to go on, perhaps to tell the story of running convoys or maybe to
talk about the roadside bombs he had survived to see, but one of
the steelworkers cut him off.
"This isn't Baghdad," the man told Murphy in an impatient tone.
"This is a different thing. It doesn't matter if you know how to
fight. What matters is you know how to be smart."


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When will we finally get a chance to play Grand Theft Auto V?
According to GameStop UK… European consumers will get it March 1.
Grand Theft Auto V's release date has been the subject of considerable speculation.
Rockstar, for its part, has stated that it only wants to release information when it's 100 percent accurate, so fans aren't let down. That hasn't stopped it from teasing players with screenshots, of course, but beyond those information has been sparse.
Industry analysts have stated that while Take-Two hasn't provided any information on a release date, the guidance it has issued to investors would indicate that Grand Theft Auto V will be out before the company's fiscal year ends on April 13.
It's unclear currently whether this is simply a placeholder date put into GameStop UK's system to denote a month, or the date it believes the game will be announced.
Our Take: If a game has a month it will be released, but not a day, retailers will generally mark the release date as the first of the month to put it into their system. However, games are normally released on Fridays in the European Union, and if March 1 is the actual Euro release date, the game could be available in the US as early as February 26.
We've contacted GameStop and Rockstar and will update with any comment.
UPDATE: According to GameStop, "this is a placeholder as Rockstar has not announced a release date." Of course, this statement could just be a result of a stern phone call from Rockstar HQ.
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6th FIG FESTIVAL | ZADAR | SEPTEMBER 12th – 17th, 2013
Thanks to the endless energy of Sandra Babac, the producer of the famous organic fig jam brand "Šinjorina Smokva", this festival is growing bigger and bigger every year. It includes a big fair of fig products in the centre of Zadar, a cooking show in Pet bunara restaurant, as well as some other events.
A delicious organic fig spread "Šinjorina Smokva" is produced on the Babac-Damjanić family biological farm in Poljica, near Zadar.
No water, fillers (preservatives, pectin), artificial flavouring or artificial colour have been used in this Dalmatian organic fig spread. It is purely made from ripe green figs that are immediately processed after being picked.
Fresh fig is a symbol of beauty and fertility. Fig is a natural source of energy, contains a fair amount of iron, niacin, carotene, calcium, calium, zinc, magnesium and other minerals as well and with vitamin A and B1. Figs are excellent source of dietary fibre.
Thursday and Friday ~ September 12th-13th, 2013
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Figs at fair: local food producers selling fig-based products on the Five Wells Square (Trg pet bunara)
Friday ~ September 13th, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Culinary event: GASTRO SMOKVA at the Restaurant "PET BUNARA" – food and drink tasting / fig-based food & drinks
Saturday ~ September 14th, 2013 @ 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Open Day at "MASVIN" Polača
Tuesday ~ September 17th, 2013
Zadar Public Library
Workshop for children
Multimedia Hall of the Zadar Public Library
Expert Lecture:
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Wayne Rooney broke his foot and additional injuries to Michael Owen and John Terry made for a rough weekend for England's World Cup plans and also my prediction that the inventors of football will win the Big Dance. Oh, well. … So much for predictions.
World Cup prediction may be off the mark already
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No Rooney and no Owen … ouch. England will be in for a tough time of it.
Not maybe off the mark…definately. Looks like Owen will be ok but Rooney definately looks out barring a miracle recovery. Sven must of been pulling his hair out watching John Terry hobbling around the pitch for almost the entire second half, then seeing Rooney getting carted off. Oh well, maybe someone can convince Thierry Henry to renounce his French citizenship….
Oh well, so much for the World Cup aspirations of the English fans. Definately no Rooney, maybe Owen and John Terry, England in a tough group, they can kiss the cup goodbye. David Beckham too old and on the decline to make an inpact. Better luck 2010.


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