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Always good to pray
Thursday, April 11, 2013 3 comments
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to ...
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Scale frustration
Friday, January 25, 2013 12 comments
So.. I am having a bit of an issue with my scale(s).. I had a very trustworthy one, until one day it went nuts and everytime i would weigh in it gave me a different weight, so I went and bought myself a cheaper non-electric one.. as I weighed i...
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Hard to keep up..
Monday, July 02, 2012 9 comments
Sometimes I struggle.. emotionally, internally.. because sometimes things are just larger than they appear and even though I try to keep up with everything, and keep good spirits, some days I wake up and I wonder how much more do we need to endu...
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Saturday, June 23, 2012 8 comments
Sooo.. these are my new roomies!!
This is Puca, the youngest and most spoiled!! But as spoiled as she is she's adorable.. and she thinks she's one of the big dogs!!! ...
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Week 1 Weigh in for Summer Challenge..
Friday, June 22, 2012 7 comments
So, I posted my starting weight for the Summer Challenge on Monday and it was 247.4, I haven't updated my ticker on purpose so I would be motivated to get back where I was when I lost track of it and then keep going.. today I posted my first wee...
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Summer Challenge!!
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8 comments
This is awesome!! I am on my third day of the summer challenge (which lasts 8 weeks) and I dont know if it is because this is my first challenge or maybe the excitement of just starting but I think I am doing great!! I get up in the morning...
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Friday, June 01, 2012 7 comments
Sooo.. after the events I described in my last post, I have started picking up all my stuff and gradually moving out to a new place.. it is NOT the most fun thing to do!! I am doing it slowly, that way I have the time to organize things before I...
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Just awful
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 12 comments
These past few days have been really horrible, and yesterday was no better, where I live is a very nice place, beachy, sunny, beautiful happy people, but unfortunately not very safe.. yesterday I got a call at work to come home cause someone bro...
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Back on my feet
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 5 comments
This weekend was pretty sucky for me.. I was a bit, or a lot, under the weather, which prevented me from doing anything productive on sunday. I was a bit bummed out about it, but for some reason I found it relatively easy to stick to healthy foo...
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Day 4
Saturday, May 19, 2012 3 comments
Today I woke up thinking that I had to get up and move, and I almost felt like I was going to go back to my old ways of just putting it off 'for later', I logged in SP and saw some of my sparkfriends comments on my blogs and that got me motivate...
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Sucky Weigh In day..
Friday, May 18, 2012 8 comments
So, I was kinda expecting it to not be great.. Not because I havent made an effort, but because the last time I actually put my weight in here, was followed by a couple of horrible weeks in which I was too ashamed to put the weight I had gained,...
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10 minute jump start video!
Friday, May 18, 2012 6 comments
I tried this and omg! I was feeling so good yesterday after finishing my short 10 minute workout video without stopping or reducing intensity that today I tried to switch it up a bit and came up with this one, even though I saw the jump bi...
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Thursday seems fun!
Thursday, May 17, 2012 2 comments
I went to bed around 11-ish last night, so today I woke up pretty early, around 5:30am, so I stayed in bed a bit more and then got up, feeling great, found a different 10 minute workout video and went for it.. it went well, I feel I worked bette...
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First fitness!!
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 5 comments
So I joined the challenge to do 10 minutes of exercise at least five days a week for four weeks. I started looking for videos in here that I could start with, I found Coach Nicole�s 10 minutes kickboxing workout video. I know 10 minutes is not m...
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Government ministers pleased with US President's 'Israel-friendly' address before Jewish lobby. Opposition warns Netanyahu 'not to squander golden opportunity'
Ronen Medzini
Published: 05.23.11, 00:37 / Israel News
Ronen Medzini
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and his Washington entourage were not the only ones anxiously awaiting US President Barack Obama's AIPAC speech.
Netanyahu's fellow parliamentarians were just as anxious, although they seemed encouraged by Obama's overall tone.

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Things to see and do - Rimini
Leaving for Italy
Rimini :
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Rimini Travel guide
Rimini : Michelin's recommendations
Once a destination for the rich and famous, Rimini is now an internationally renowned and popular seaside resort. It also has an illustrious past, as witnessed by many of the monuments in the historical centre, such as the Tempio Malatestiano. Artists such as Leon Battista Alberti and Piero della Francesca worked in the court of Sigismondo I in Rimini; Giotto's work in the town helped to develop a Rimini School of art; and more recently, the film director Federico Fellini was born here.
Tourist attractions Rimini : Things to see and do
Tempio Malatestiano
Via IV Novembre 35 I - 47900 Rimini
Sigismondo Malatesta commissioned Leon Battista Alberti to transform this church in 1447. He built an Antique-style temple to celebrate the glory of the dynasty and serve as their mausoleum. In addition to exquisitely allegorical decoration by Agosti..
Rimini Town Museum
Via del Museo della Città 1 I - 47900 Rimini
Besides the archaeological objects obtained from digs in Ariminum (Rimini in Roman times), you can see a large collection of works from 14-19C, including wood paintings, a crucifix from the Rimini school, a Pietà by Giovanni Bellini (a representation..
Sigismond Castle (Castel Sismondo)
Piazza Malatesta I - 47900 Rimini
Sigismond I Malatesta (1417-1468), who had this austere château built, with the help of architect Filippo Brunelleschi, governed with a somewhat heartless fashion and without scrupules nevertheless conducted himself like a true patron in attracting P..
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Hotel Giulio Cesare
Via Battarra 9 I - 47921 Rimini
Prix Prices from : 55 €
Set in the historic city centre, this 3-star superior hotel is 600 metres from Rimini Train Station. It offers spacious rooms with free Wi-Fi and flat-screen satellite TV. Rooms at Hotel Giulio Cesare have modern-style décor and parquet floors. All ..
Hotel Atrium
Viale Cormons 50 I - 47900 Rimini
Prix Prices from : 20 €
Within a 600 metre radius of Rimini's popular beaches, Atrium is located near Rimini's historic centre and the famous Viale Vespucci promenade. Surrounded by greenery, Atrium is open year-round offering a relaxing and cosy environment in this lively..
Hotel Napoleon
Piazzale C. Battisti 22 I - 47900 Rimini
Set in the centre of Rimini, Hotel Napoleon is at the heart of the ancient capital of Signoria Malatesta, 800 metres from the beach and 5 km from the motorway. Rooms at the Napoleon come with a TV and a minibar. The private bathroom is complete with..
Restaurants Rimini
via Farini 13/15 I - 47921 Rimini
Hidden in the streets of the centre, this modern trattoria run by two capable young managers offers just a few top quality and imaginative dishes. Attractive inner courtyard for summer dining.
lungomare Spadazzi 12 I - 47900 MIRAMARE
This restaurant's relationship with the sea goes back to 1946. Situated right on the beach overlooking the water, it specialises in fish dishes based on traditional recipes from the Adriatic region.
Grand Hotel Rimini
parco Fellini 1 I - 47921 RIMINI
Dallo Zio
via Santa Chiara 16 I - 47921 RIMINI
Under new management, this restaurant close to the Arch of Augustus, is renowned for its classic fish specialties and elegant dining rooms.
Osteria de Börg
via Forzieri 12 I - 47921 RIMINI
Rustic but well laid out surroundings in this restaurant in Borgo San Giuliano. Sample meat specialities and a selection of locally produced cured meats and cheeses. Pleasant outside chairs in the summer.
Dolce Vita
parco Fellini 1 I - 47921 RIMINI
The hotel's gourmet restaurant serves creative fish and meat dishes in an elegant setting. It lives up to its name in all respects.


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i downloaded zcs-5.0.18_GA_3011.RHEL5.20090707164432 am trying to install in RHEL5.1
showing an error
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than the platform for which they were built.
This platform is
Packages found: RHEL5
This may or may not work.
Installation can not continue without manual override.
You can override this safety check with ./install.sh --platform-override
WARNING: Bypassing this check may result in an install or
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cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 (Tikanga)
is my OS compatible to what i downloaded plz suggest me.
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One of my first jobs in social work was at a youth facility for troubled or hard to reach kids. This was front lines social work which can often get quite intense. I went into the world of social work with a mission that I was going to change the world. That is why I studied it, why I earned a degree in it, and my passion was why I picked up several scholarships along the way as well. My inner world view at the time was that everyone would get a fair shake from me. And as much as I told myself I was true to this mantra, the fact was it wasn't true at all.
Little Joe was a "live-in" case in the toughest unit at the facility. No one liked him. I know I certainly didn't. He was loud, prone to violent or verbal outbursts, obnoxious, dangerous, and he didn't take care of himself very well, to the point where he smelled bad and would have to be told to clean up, just so we could tolerate him at meals or group sessions. Several times Little Joe would have to be physically restrained and usually for the most frivolous reasons. Anything could set him off. He had a mouth a sailor would envy and his favourite word was that "c" word, which I always found especially vile and offensive. And he would deliberately use it around me to provoke me, and engage me.
Truly, I didn't like him that much.
The staff had come up with an idea that every time he used foul language he would have to do 20 push ups. Since every other word he uttered was foul, I saw no purpose in this. Truth be told I was right. All that practice did was give him attention for a behaviour we were trying to eliminate. I saw right through it, so I would not participate in it. Instead if he was talking to me and he used such language I would either walk away with no explanation or I would take immediate interest, again with no explanation, to another kid near by. Several times I would leave him in mid-sentence and walk into the office and shut the door. No explanation.
More often than not, he would pound on the door and yell and scream. 'F--- You' I hate you!" I would not respond. This kid had really got to me and everyone else. All the staff could talk about was when he would be gone out of there and be someone else's problem, and how he was at least getting used to "institutionalization" since everyone knew this would be his life, no doubt about that.
The energy on every shift was always one of tension, and everyone attributed that to Little Joe.
One night I came to work on the night shift. All was quiet. That could only mean one thing. And yes, before I arrived Little Joe had to be restrained again and was locked in his room. Alright I thought, a quiet stress-free night for me. In fact it was so quiet I began going through the "good kids" files. There was seldom any time for that. On a lark and well, just plain old curiosity and since he was the topic of the evening, I decided to go through Little Joe's history as well. As usual there was a common thread here.
Truth be known, for about half the kids I ever worked with in social work, it wasn't the kids that needed institutionalization and structure, it was their parents.
Little Joe's situation was more of the same. In fact there were all kinds of notes on what a good and normal and happy kid he had been up till his life changed through no control of his own. His acting out behaviours that landed him in the facility were actually not all that evil. In fact I had probably done worse growing up, and I never got in to the kind of trouble he did. But once in the system, his behaviour and demeanour just changed for the worse.
It got me to thinking. My job wasn't to like him or not like him. My job also certainly wasn't to "fix" him. That attitude always bothered me about the people who chose social work, who were doing it more to meet their own needs than any true commitment to the work at hand. It also became obvious to me that his situation seemed to always arise out of behaviours laid out for him that he was to abide in; and if he jumped through these hoops, he would be deemed successful, but if he didn't, then he was a problem kid. It struck me just how intelligent he was underneath all of what he presented to everyone.
I changed my tactics with Little Joe. And even though I tried, I still did not like him, at all.
One night he started again with his vulgarity. But instead of reacting I had now been contemplating Little Joe for a while. I responded the only way that was possible at the time. I restrained him with help from other staff, and locked him in his room. However, what I didn't do was record the event in the "incident" log. At the time the kids were allowed to read whatever was recorded in an "incidents log" if it was about them. They couldn't read their file, but they could read an incidents log report so that all facts of the incident were in accord.
The next morning apparently Little Joe was even more shocked that I had not recorded the incident. He was reported to have said "F--- him, I hate him." I know this because he was of course, reprimanded and punished for his disrespect. The next night I came to work, Little Joe decided to "up the ante". He was even more belligerent and ready for violence than before. The pattern of physically restraining him and locking him in his room had to be repeated. From his room he yelled "F--- you, I hate you!" I remember saying back to him, "let's hope it's a long and healthy hate"
But once again, I refused to file an incident report. This could of course land me in trouble as well. But I wouldn't do it. I can't even say that at the time I was smart enough to know why. It was just a hunch. The next night I worked he was even more hell-bent on a confrontation. This time I man-handled him, flung him in his room. He yelled from his floor, "F--- you, I hate you." But something changed in him when he saw me turn around and instead of leaving the room; I locked the door, and faced him. I said to him, "you seem to really like violence. I can relate to that. You also like to think you don't have to play by the rules, and I can relate to that as well. So here's the deal, you can now react to me any way you want. You know I won't file an incident report and now it's just you and me. Make your move."
He yelled "F--- you, I hate you." I responded, "Let's hope it's a long and healthy hate." Before I left the room I paused and faced him so he knew leaving was my idea.
My next few shifts, Little Joe kept his distance from me. Not out of fear, that wasn't his nature. But I think he knew I was on to his game, even though I certainly didn't consciously know that myself. Some time later I found myself again on the night shift. Little Joe couldn't sleep. He came downstairs and appropriately asked if he could sit up a while. I allowed it. I turned the television to the music video channel which was all the rage back then. I engaged him as to what was his favourite video. He would tell me. I asked him why. He would tell me. This started a constant engagement between us over the next few weeks.
You know, all of a sudden it occurred to me I didn't notice that Little Joe had body odour. I don't even recall it at all now, except that I read it in his file. I also realized that I didn't, in fact, "not like him." Were things changing, or was I changing? As usual in life, probably a little bit of both.
But I was supposed to be the professional. And as a professional I also found it ironic that a troubled youth could consistently dictate a mood and energy of tension in a house full of professional adults. It struck me how much personal power that really represented.
I started giving Little Joe modest assignments. And I would spend as much time engaging him on his work as he spent doing it. It was directly reciprocal. Then one night after Little Joe had had yet another outburst with a different staff member on a different shift, I engaged him in his agitated state with another assignment. I made it sound really important to take his mind off his outburst. I seemed to have his minimal trust at this point which wasn't much, but it was certainly beyond the other staff members. Before I gave him the assignment I said to him, "there are only two rules, say what you mean, and mean what you say!"
Little Joe worked really hard on this written assignment. In fact he was gone so long and was so quiet we had to check on him to make sure he wasn't up to something.
But, there he was writing feverishly. When he came and presented this assignment to me, there must have been 5 pages full of writing front and back. I took it in my hand. I looked up at him and said "Little Joe, did you say what mean, and mean what you say!" He replied, "oh yeah, just wait till you read it!" But I didn't read it. I crumpled it up right in front of him and threw it in the garbage can. He looked at me stunned and howled, "F--- You, I hate you!" As usual I calmly reiterated, "let's hope it's a long and healthy hate." His reaction to this was to yell back the same profanity and I couldn't blame him. I never got to make my point.
He didn't speak to me for a couple of days. He didn't speak to any staff actually. He was such a strong-willed kid. In fact he was starting to remind me of, well, me. I was waiting for him to engage me so I could rekindle that conversation. But he beat me to it. One afternoon, he came completely composed and peaceful into the office and asked, "why did you do that to my assignment, that I worked so hard on. I really wanted to know what you thought?" I told Little Joe, you know what Little Joe that is the point. The whole point of that assignment is to always "say what you mean, and mean what you say." Don't look for anyone else to tell you its right or wrong or good or bad. If you start everything you do with that sentence, it will lead you where you need to go.
I'm not sure Little Joe understood a word of it. Lord knows I deal with all kinds of intelligent adults who don't get it. I've forgotten it myself several times over the years since then. Then I said to him, "When you say F--- You, I hate you", make sure that is what you mean to say, and say it if you mean it." But also Little Joe, know that when I say "let's hope it's a long and healthy hate;" that I also am meaning what I am saying, and saying what I mean."
Suddenly it was like time stopped but also like it moved ahead to some other parallel universe. We seemed to be engaged in a real conversation. The conversation was about nothing, but oh it had such meaning attached to it. At the end of the conversation, Little Joe noticed that I had been playing with a piece of string. It seemed so inconsequential. I can only even recall it now, because of the significance it ended up having. Little Joe made a quip about the string I was wrapping and unwrapping around my finger as we talked. I unwrapped the string, held it up to him, and said "See this string Little Joe, it starts here, and ends here. Take this piece of string, wrap it around your finger or whatever and tell yourself, "it starts and ends with me." Think about all the times you've been restrained or locked in your room. Look at the string and relate to the concept, "it starts and ends with me." Think of all the times I had to come to your room and know that I also hold a piece of string and I also hold the notion that my interactions with you all start and end with me."
Joe took the piece of string. He wore it instead like a bracelet. We never spoke of it again, but it was always there and it always meant something. I think in retrospect it seemed to represent the maturation of the both of us. I never had an issue with Little Joe again.
In fact going to work became lots of fun. We all did things together. The staff, the kids; it was all starting to mean something other than managing behaviour.
Then my contract expired. It was time to move on. Sometime over the next couple of weeks, when I was checking in at the front desk at the gym, there was a message for me. Everyone at the gym knew me of course. The girl at the front desk handed me one of those pink phone message slips, and told me, the "guy made me promise to hand it to you directly." I unfolded the message and it said:
"I am going to say what I mean, and I mean every word. Thank you. I'll never forget you. I will never lose my string bracelet."
A couple of years later I got a Christmas card. It said "Scott, it's Little Joe, I graduated high school, and I still have my string bracelet. Thank you, I will never forget you"
Several years later I had moved and was quite busy with my bodybuilding career. I had gone back just outside my home town to do a guest posing appearance and seminar. The local newspaper did a big article on me the day prior to it. The day after the event, while walking through the mall several people stopped and asked me for pictures. They had seen the article and recognized me. Several minutes later someone tapped me on the back. He said, "You are Scott Abel, I saw you in the paper last night, this is so cool." Being a little full of myself and assuming he was just another fan, I was surprised when he asked, "do you remember me?" Indeed I did not. He then told me how he was one of the boys at the youth facility I worked at, and how I changed his life. He introduced me to his wife. She said "he's been going on and on about you since he saw the article last night." I was indeed very touched.
At that moment I started thinking about Little Joe and wondering about him. I remember hoping that he was all right as well.
Very few boys with such backgrounds turn out to be real men. I couldn't picture a life for Little Joe of someone controlling for him, what time he went to bed, what time his lights went out, what he would eat and when. Such is the life of institutionalization. And it was what suffocated Little Joe even as a youth. His spirit would be too great to handle it as an adult. And then of course my mind went on to other things.
Not long after that, maybe a year or so, I got an email.
Dear Scott,
You used to call me Little Joe. I hope you still remember me. I now go by my full name, and he spelled it out. I just graduated University with honours, just like you. Thank you. I will never forget you. I still have my string bracelet.
And the truth remains I would never have remembered that piece of string or maybe even Little Joe had he not looked me up and reminded me of it so often, and the meaning it holds for him.
And then everything came full circle. This Christmas I heard yet again from Joseph. He no longer would refer to himself as Little Joe, not even in an email to me.
Dear Scott:
Its Joseph ..... I tracked you down from the internet. Great website by the way. I want you to know that I finished my MBA and am now doing well. My wife and I have a daughter, and we just had our first son. This is why I am writing you. We are going to give his first name David and his middle name Scott. I hope that is all right with you. I told you, I would never forget you, and thank you. But as for that piece of string, I have changed it. I now wear a small elastic band around my wrist as a bracelet. And although I still believe and have counted on all these years, "that it all starts and ends with me;" I also realize that people like you come along and stretch and expand us, so that "ME" keeps adapting and stretching and expanding always to new lengths before, like an elastic, it goes back to its original shape.
Thank you for stretching and expanding me. I will never forget you.
Yes; and the student becomes the teacher. It allowed me to recall the mentors in my own life. My academic advisor: And real mentors that never tried to fix me or change me. No. These mentors were beyond their own needs. What they did is enable me and stretch me to help me know and discover a much stronger me, than I knew existed. I am so grateful for them.
Little Joe, thank you man. You taught me to be a better teacher. I no longer judge people by files, emails, or other people's accounts. None of that matters. I don't coach people by rules, instructions and formulas. No. I coach "people." And the truth is Little Joe stretched me as well.
I learned to no longer care what people think of me. That is life. Some people will like us, some will not. Some will attract, and some will attack. I am attacked practically every day on some website somewhere. It doesn't faze me. The real lessons for me, that Little Joe taught me is that it is not who doesn't like me that counts. That is just my ego and pride: But who I don't like; Ah, there are lessons there. When I address why I don't care for someone, usually at the bottom of that answer is something about me, not something about them.
And again, I stretch and grow as Little Joe puts it.
Mentorship is not about dominance and submission. It is instead about sincere commitment. And "it starts and ends with me."
The truth was never in trying to change Little Joe or getting him to abide by some arbitrary house rules. The truth was in awakening his fighting spirit in a direction that served him, that he could count on, and he could grow from. In fact the truth was in mentoring what was already there, not changing it or fixing it.
Real work isn't accomplished by trying to rescue someone or be their hero. The real work is done when a person, as an individual can say what they mean, mean what they say, know in their own heart, "it starts and ends with me." The real work is when they become their own champion, their own hero. Helping anyone to find their inner map, and then find the strength to travel that territory that is revealed is all anyone can ever be to someone.
Sometimes a bird just needs to be told to trust his own wings, and fly.
Little Joe taught me the difference between reacting and responding. And he had to endure that journey in me first hand. That is unfortunate. He also showed me how strong people can take a mess and make it a message. And all these years later Little Joe also taught me to "treat every interaction like it matters!" You will never know what "strings" may be attached.
To Little Joe, I mean Joseph, let me say "Thank you. I will never forget you!"
Some of you will get, some of you will not.


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A couple months ago I received an invitation to Jodhpur, India, to be a part of the Let's Colour project. The idea was to bring colour to community spaces around the world in an effort to encourage the people in those areas.
I got a rush visa and was all set to go but there was a mix-up with my flights and I couldn't get there in time. Lucky for us, award-winning director Adam Berg made it to India (as well as London, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro) and has put together a beautiful look at this inspiring project.
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Tapas – Spicy Pork Skewers (pinchos Morunos) Recipe
- 1pork tenderloin(about 1 pound)
- 2tablespoonssweet paprika
- 1teaspoonground cumin
- 1teaspooncayenne, to taste
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 6-8tablespoonsolive oil
- Cut pork tenderloin into 1-inch cubes.
- In a bowl, combine paprika, cumin, cayenne, salt and pepper and olive oil.
- Marinade pork for a minimum of 4 hours to overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- or preheat grill to medium high.
- Thread pork cubes onto small wooden skewers.
- Bake for 10 to 15 minutes in oven.
- Alternatively grill over medium heat, about 10 minutes.
- While cooking turn once and baste with marinate until well browned.
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Is It Really An SEO Problem?
From time to time, we get emails from friends and prospects asking us about their websites and why their websites don't rank so well in search engines.
Many people assume it is an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) issue.
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They usually want to "fix" the SEO problem.
But is it really an SEO problem or is it something else? Many times, it is a combination of factors.
Seriously, you can focus on SEO all you want (and the easiest way to get right on the first page of Google is just advertise using Google Adwords and there you go, right at the top) but what's really the main problem?
Here's some email advice we gave Anita when she asked us why her company website wasn't doing too well.
Dear Anita
An SEO problem is not always about the keywords and search terms.
In most cases it is the overall website that has problems plus it concerns marketing because your website is basically your marketing tool that helps customers differentiate you from the rest of the other websites offering the same products or services.
To answer your question why your website isn't ranking well for the search terms that you need, you have to look at:
* how your website is built (its code, structure and overall architecture)
* if your website content is fulfilling the needs of your website users
* if each of your webpages include specific keywords not only within the website text but also in the page title?
* your internal links – are they done well?
* your images – do they have ALT and Title tags in order? Also, do they have captions?
* your calls-to-action?
* your compelling message about how your business is unique and can serve the customers who come to you?
* personality – does your website reflect the personality of your business?
Once you've done that, also check:
* how often are you updating your website and when you update it, are the keywords included?
* are you updating items that makes sense for your customers?
* how are other websites linked to you, if any?
* what ways are you using to market your website?
* how are you communicating with your customers?
* what campaigns do you have for them?
* what external PR work are you doing?
* how regularly do you tell customers about your website and what can they find there that's useful to them?
* what is your analytics programme telling you about the people who visit your website? (what can you infer from these data to help you improve your marketing?)
To help you further, here are 3 other blog posts we wrote about this SEO issue.


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Voice enabled technology is one of the most promising bridging tools available to society. Given that large portions of the worlds population remain isolated from the Internet community and as a result are often marginalized and disenfranchised can now actually use their voice as a means to communicate with the world.
Several teams are now working to build solutions in this area, with Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems that are accessible by phone and internet and provide a means to build bridges across the digital divide.
This presentation was delivered at the conference "Turn Up the Volume: Bringing Voice to Mobile Citizen Journalism" organized by the International Center for Journalists at the Rockefeller Foundation's facility in Bellagio, Italy between Oct 8-12 this year to bring some of the key thinkers of this space together.
In it, we provide a broad overview of how most IVR systems work, with Swara IVR as a case study and also talk about how mobile phones, the internet and other communication media can be linked together to form independent, community owned communication networks.
The OSI Reference Model is familiar to anyone who ever had to attend a Networking class as part of a technical course.
The OSI model is a purely theoretical model, i.e. no real-world system exactly corresponds to this series of layers. In that regard it is similar to the "perfectly frictionless surface" described in physics courses.
However, it does provide an excellent basis to analyse different networks and determine how they are structured, and therein lies its utility.
Here I've roughly split the model into two parts, Host Layers and Media Layers.
For the purposes of this discussion, Host Layers are comprised of components that go on a device within the control of the user/community
Media Layers are comprised of those components which constitute the "backbone", "grid" or "infrastructure" and are typically outside the control of the user/community.
Longer Computer Science-y description of what each layer really does. I sourced this from Wikipedia and you can find more here:
When we look at the OSI model in the context of voice enabled systems, we can start to group the components of the system into rough approximations of the layers in the OSI model.
For example, as mentioned above, the Media layers are typically merged and manged by one monolithic entity that controls the physical transmission media as well as the data representations and addressing system. This is typically enforced by some form of regulation that prevents private citizens from operating networks at the media layer.
Therefore, almost all voice (and other data transmission) systems depend at some level on a provider.
For infrastructural needs, such as power, the provider may be the utility company. For data transmission itself, it would likely be a cellphone operator or internet service provider (ISP).
The cellphone operator and/or ISP determine where to place infrastructure to best serve customer needs as well as how much to charge for data transmission.
In order to interface with the provider layer, a physical interface is required. This is typically a mobile phone, a GSM Gateway, a USB Dongle, a LAN cable etc.
Next, a logical interface is needed to manage the incoming data. This is usually a piece of software that reads the signals from the physical device and figures out what to do with them. It could be a software PBX system like Asterisk or an SMS gateway like FrontlineSMS or even an Email system. Typically the Interactive part of the IVR system is done here.
The next is the layer that does what I think is the most important job. It packages the data in such a way that it can be used by human beings. This could be a blogging software like Loudblog or WordPress that associates the raw data such as audio files or summary text with meta-information that is useful in indexing and accessing it later. It could also be as simple as a script that runs periodically and send all the accumulated content to an email inbox, as an attachment to an email containing text based meta-information about the binary data attached.
Finally there is the application layer that takes the data presented by the translation layer and serves it up in different formats for different…well…applications :), such as reporting, monitoring and evaluation, content sharing etc.
The Swara IVR system can be used as an example to illustrate this model. In our case we rely on telecom providers such as the ones listed to provide the data transfer services for voice and SMS. These are interfaced to the Swara servers via USB dongles and GSM Gateways, such as the Matrix SETU ATA 211G
The physical interface talks to a logical interface such as an Asterisk PBX server or a Frontline SMS instance. These logical interfaces are checked by automated scripts (mostly written in Python) which export the content in MP3 and text format to email.
The figure on the left shows email in the application layer. However in the case of Swara, email works both at the translation as well as the application layer. The email format has been successfully used for several years by thousands of organizations to share information and works extremely well in both one-to-one and one-to-many modes.
How Swara works is that a user calls a cellphone number (or goes to a URL), using their phone (or browser). Calls are received by an Interactive Voice Response system, while web requests go to a web server, running a simple blog interface.
Users on the IVR can either record fresh content or listen to content posted by others. The format is very similar to a bulletin board.
Consistent with the bulletin board concept, all messages are moderated, typically by professional journalists who volunteer for this task. In order to simplify this task and eliminate the need to learn a new CMS, we introduced the idea of email as a translation layer as well as an application layer tool. An automated script running on Swara IVR servers exports all incoming audio content as email attachments (mp3 files). The system is also set up to accept content over email, with the email body and subject line providing the text metadata that the system needs in order to know what to do with the content.
Once the content is on the email system, it can be pushed to blog platforms that support post-by-email, as well as social media (read Facebook, Twitter and Google +). We also send the emails directly to individuals and mailing lists.
Of course this entire system still depends on the cellphone and internet service providers, which somewhat limits its scope as a truly democratic tool
The limits imposed at the provider level affect both the affordability as well as the scope of content on community platforms.
Since providers are typically commercial entities with a revenue requirement, communities that do not represent a market of significant volume are typically not attractive as customers to them. As a result service quality for such communities and the areas that they live in are of a lower tier than services provided by the same providers in urban areas with a higher market volume.
Therefore, in order to provide some alternatives to support the general independence and sustainability of community platform, it is important to build on tools that can constitute part of the provider layer.
The possibilities are many and it is the intention of Mojolab to work on as many of these possibilities as we can.
We have already begun work on two areas, Citizen Band Radio and Wireless mesh networks. The long term idea is to create tools that can be used by communities to run their own local networks and link them as they choose to the rest of the world.
As such we typically consider the pricing of the solution from the standpoint of a hypothetical community of 300 people all earning INR 32 (less than one dollar) a day.
All of this is directed towards the long term goal of building a distributed, organic, self healing, replicable community content delivery network, that is owned by the community, is sustainable, blackout resistant and accessible by everyone. We believe that such a network, such a platform, can actually help make democracy more participatory and inclusive. While that sounds Utopian, we believe it can be done if all the stakeholders play to their strengths and stay willing to collaborate. We are always on the lookout for people and organizations willing to find ways to combine strengths and resources to work towards this vision.


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IDF forces conduct overnight sweep in major Palestinian cities; nine Hamas legislators taken in for questioning
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forces arrested nine of the Islamist movement's members in Nablus and two of its parliament members – Hatem Qafisheh and Mohammed al-Tal in Hebron.
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They called on the Palestinian Authority
to thwart such arrest in the future.
Sources in the IDF and the Shin Bet said that Hamas has been attempting to rebuild its infrastructure in the West Bank, which is Fatah-dominated, as means of leveraging the advantages the terror group alleges to have gained over Israel during Operation Pillar of Defense.
The sweep was conducted by forces with the IDF's Judea and Samaria Brigade and according to the IDF, the troops met no resistance by those wanted for questioning.
Palestinians residing in some of the neighborhoods, however, stoned the troops, who responded by using crowd-control measures.
A wanted terrorist was also arrested during the sweep, carrying a weapon believed to have been used in several shooting attacks that have taken place over the past few weeks.


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A 76-year-old Sugarloaf woman was found guilty Thursday in Luzerne County Court on charges in two criminal cases.
Township police Chief Josh Winters said Theresa G. Isabella was found guilty by a jury and awaits sentencing scheduled for Sept. 9.
Winters filed two cases against Isabella after neighbors complained the woman was harassing them.
The first case included 76 counts of various criminal offenses including forgery, stalking and harassment, and the second case, filed in 2012, included 31 counts of the same.
Police said they began receiving complaints about Isabella in August 2008.
According to court papers, the neighbors alleged that Isabella walked her large German shepherd in front of their son as he attempted to board the school bus, put fecal matter on their property, threw walnuts at their home and made obscene gestures.
In addition, the neighbors and others received hundreds of mailings consisting of subscriptions, letters and a wide variety of literature, and also were billed for them, court papers state. Police allege Isabella forged the recipients' names and had the items sent to their homes.
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I'll try my hand at it later. Probably not much to experiment with since it seems like there's just a bunch of pasting in c4d's. Could you possibly post that first c4d that you placed to the left of the render? It seemed colorful =p Nice tutorial, though. Keep it up. :mrgreen:
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A University of Mississippi professor says that a group of Ole Miss students, including football players, disrupted a production of a campus play with "hate speech" on Tuesday night.
Michael Barnett, the assistant theatre chair, says several students in the play told him that audience members were disruptive and used "derogatory terms" for homosexuals during a production of "The Laramie Project" on campus.
Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze confirmed to The Associated Press Thursday that football players were in the crowd. Barnett says a group of football players apologized after the play.
Freeze tweeted on Thursday morning, "We certainly do not condone any actions that offend or hurt people in any way. We are working with all departments involved to find the facts."
The Daily Mississippian first reported the disruption.
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…Seriously, you should really see this.
But before you do, I have a quick admission to make, Bits and Bramblers. See, I've written some posts about The Hunger Games before. I've talked to tons of librarians and a lot of you who lovelovelovelovelove the series, and they all want to talk to me about it, kind of…automatically assuming that I've read it, too.
Which…I…er…haven't. Okay, here's the thing. I started reading The Hunger Games, and I totally finished the first few chapters. It's just that…it didn't suck me in, you know? It wasn't the kind of book I had to KEEP READING because I NEEDED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AND I DIDN'T CARE ABOUT STUPID THINGS LIKE WORK OR SLEEP, ONLY WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BOOK. Also, a lot of you were waiting to read or re-read it, so I couldn't renew it, and I just…you know…never picked it back up. So I've totally been…well "lying" is kind of harsh. Let's just say I've been "faking enthusiasm" for a book series I've never read.
And then I saw this. OMG, HAVE YOU SEEN THIS? YOU HAVE TO SEE!
Is this what I've been missing?! Is this why you all love it so much?! I was practically biting my nails for Katniss, and I don't even really understand what's going on! So…guess what, Bits and Bramblers? Looks like I'm giving The Hunger Games one more try.
So…are you a big Hunger Games fan? Be honest…what am I getting myself into?! Should I be prepared for anything? I heard that a bunch of characters called "tributes" die, is that true? Should I have Kleenex on hand when I read? And more importantly…what do you think of the trailer?!


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January 10, 2010 01:12 PM by Britteny Elrick
That didn't take long. According to Access Hollywood, former Deal or No Deal host, Howie Mandel, will be taking over where David Hasselhoff left off. Howie will be joining America's Got Talent for its fifth season. Keep reading for more details…
Howie will join Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne to complete the panel of judges as David pursues a reality TV venture of his own. "David is leaving… and yes I believe Howie Mandell is replacing [him],†said NBC Universal Television Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin.
"As you know, Howie was a big part of our schedule for the last several years with 'Deal or No Deal,' and we thought he did a phenomenal job,†Jeff told Access Hollywood. "If you think about an expertise, Howie has had a Las Vegas show for years and he constantly performs in Las Vegas. So we actually though — not only is he a great communicator, but he's actually an expert.â€
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Alabama sophomore center Antoine Caldwell (6-4, 294, Montgomery) was named today to The Dave Rimington Trophy watch list of top collegiate centers for the 2006 season. This season marks the seventh year of the Rimington Trophy recognizing the most outstanding center in college football and the first as a Regular Member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA).
Caldwell was a second-team Freshman All-America and a Freshman All-SEC pick by the league coaches last season as a 12-game starter. He began the 2005 season at offensive guard, but moved to center for the 2006 AT&T Cotton Bowl game and played flawlessly. He did not have a single center-quarterback exchange problem and the offensive line did not allow a single sack in that game.
The spring Rimington watch list consists of thirty-nine of college football's top men in the middle and will be updated once prior to the beginning of the season. Five sophomores, eleven juniors and twenty-three seniors make up the very strong field.
"With only one returning finalist (Dan Mozes, West Virginia) from last season the competition will be wide open which will certainly make for an exciting race. Center is a very difficult position to evaluate and of course play so I wish all of the candidates and their respective teams a successful season", said Dave Rimington.
The winner will be honored at the awards banquet at the Rococo Theater in Lincoln, Nebraska, in January of 2007.
The 2006 Spring Rimington Trophy Watch List includes Pete Bier, Army; Mark Bihl, Michigan; Antoine Caldwell, Alabama; Aaron Danenhauer, Tulsa; Robby D'Angelo, Southern
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From the capitol building in Washington DC to Cambodia to Corban University, Amanda Brenneman, '12, is making a difference in the world around her.
In recent months she not only lobbied legislators about bills that could affect credit unions, but she also spoke about human trafficking in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Northwest. Additionally, she is building relationships with other university alumni through the new Corban Adventurous Professionals group.
Brennneman is now one of 15 credit union employees internationally vying for a $20,000, 2-year CEO training opportunity. The "Next Top Credit Union Executive" candidates are being selected through a voting process, which runs through July 29. Anyone can see Brenneman's video and vote through this link.
As she moves through the corridors of Maps Credit Union's Salem, Ore. headquarters, the confident 28-year-old Adult Degree Program alumna is already talking about her most recent trips to Washington DC and Florida as a crash lobbyist on behalf of credit unions in the United States. She works as a business development officer and in February was selected as one of 19 credit union employees, under age 35, in the United States and the United Kingdom, to represent the industry.
"The trip was definitely career changing," Brenneman said. "I had the opportunity to address Senator Jeff Merkley in front of the Oregon constituents. I was able to meet Representative Kurt Schrader and sit on his couch and as a group, talk to him about our desire to defend credit unions' tax status among many other issues."
In May she spoke about Maps nationally recognized Buy Local program to a national audience of credit union CEOs, presidents and other executives in Florida.
When she started the ADP program, Brenneman wasn't planning to working in the financial industry. She initially wanted to serve as a trauma counselor for survivors of human trafficking, but admitted an internship with Called to Rescue changed her mind.
"While I was there, I realized God did not equip me with the skills to counsel victims of trauma," she said. "I realized I was drawn to the business and inner working of running a non-profit." This internship gave her the opportunity to write grant proposals and speak to the public about the agency's mission. During Corban's 2012 commencement ceremony, she was recognized for her efforts and named the ADP Distinguished Graduate.
Brenneman's passion for the cause didn't end with the internship and graduation. She currently works with Called to Rescue as a grant writer, including applications for funding that could potentially be used as part of a $48 million matching grant to help human trafficking victims. She also serves as a board member for POLE Gems in Salem, which ministers to men and women working in the adult entertainment industry.
"I went to Cambodia in 2009 and what I saw during that month broke my heart," she said. "What I saw left me with an urgent desire to be involved in any way that God would use me."
Her experiences have shown her the importance of building relationships. After a conversation with Corban's Director of Alumni Relations Deleen Wills and several other Corban alumni, Brenneman made the decision to form Corban Adventurous Professionals, CAP, to get to know other young alumni and enjoy life together.
"We want to have spontaneous activities and have planned hikes and other events," she said. "We want to connect with other like-minded individuals." However, she noted that the group is not intended for business networking and that participants don't need to be firmly established in their professional careers. Although newly formed, she hopes to see it grow and thrive and to see new friendships formed.
"We want the common thread to be about Corban and our faith," she said. Currently, the group has a Facebook page and is working to establish other ways to connect.


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An interesting way to recycle tin cans is to make furniture. This guide is about making a footstool from juice cans.
My mom used to make a stool out of juice cans would anyone have a thought on how this would go together?
I have some idea but would really like some input!
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My gram used to make those stools also. And I thought it was her idea all these years. I remember them and loved them. I started one years ago and never finished it.
Does anyone have the instructions for making footstools out of large juice cans? These were made in the 1950's, as well as I can remember.
I bought a birdbath top in a sale, it was lovely, but I needed a leg to stand it on. I glued tin cans together with ''no more nails'', then I glued paper kitchen towels over them with PVA glue and water. Then I glued small stones to cover with ''hard as nails'' as well. It has been outside for three years and still looks brilliant. I hope this helps!


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A typical weekend sojourn to our favorite retail destination was nothing out of the ordinary until my daughter opted to make a purchase at The Gap. "They're emailing my receipt," she casually announced as we were exiting the store.
Good idea, I thought. How many times have I lost a receipt that I wanted to save or needed for a rebate? How many times has my handbag been taking over by receipts that I swear clone themselves when I'm not looking.
And let's not even talk about how many times I've struggled with an answer to "Receipt with you, or in the bag?" If I keep the receipt with me, chances that it'll fall into the hands of bad guys are next to nil. But then they're reproduce until they take over my purse. And if they're put in the bag, that's where they stay. You see my dilemma.
But wait, is this an innocent-looking ploy to get my email address? Nah, most retailers already have my address so I can get tipped off to sales and discounts.
The Gap and Nordstrom have offered the email option for the past couple of months and Finish Line and Bera Bradley are testing the option.
Now that your choice has expanded, will you want your receipt with you, in your bag or in your email inbox?


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By Forbes Carlile
SYDNEY, October 7. CHINA'S performance at the just-concluded Asian Games invites new questions about doping — not because her female swimmers were so spectacular in Busan –they weren't — but because their times were so much slower, with markedly less depth, than at recent meets in China.
At the Chinese Nationals in November, 2001 these were the first four finishers in the women's 400m freestyle:
1. Zhang Liang Age 15 4:O6.97
2. Pang Jiaying Age16 4:07.12
3. Chen Hua Age 19 4:08.27
4 Yang Yu Age 16 4:12.16
China sent a "B team" to the Pan Pacific Games in August, 2002 so that country's next big meet after its Nationals was the Asian Championships in Busan, South Korea in October.
Japan's Sachiko Yamada (20) was the winner of the 400 free in Busan in 4:07.23, followed by these Chinese swimmers:
2nd Chen Hua 20 4:12.24
3rd Tang Jingzhi 16 4:15.82
Zhang (15), Pang (16) and Yang (16) all have disappeared from the scene within a year, and Chen's time in Busan regressed four seconds from 4:08.27 to 4:12.24
Is there any other country in the world with three young women, aged 15 and 16, with times between 4:06.97 and 4:08.97 who have ever even come close to matching such an extraordinary drop in world class performances in international competition?
In practically every other women's event in Busan, the story of significantly slower times by China's women was repeated.
After the November 2001 Nationals held in Shanghai, we saw a substantial fall-off in performances when events were held outside the country. But it was not always sthe case that China's women swimmers failed to perform at their best when away from home. Casting our minds back to the FINA World Championships in 1994, it will be recalled that China's spectacularly-muscled women made an almost clean sweep of 12 gold medals, mostly in world record times.Their women certainly performed very well in distant Rome. Of course, one month later, seven of these same wwomen all tested positive for the steroid, DHT.
There has to be an explanation other than "stage fright" or "unusual food " to account for the Chinese women's performances drop-off in South Korea.
Is it being uncharitable to voice the suspicion that, once again, there is likely to be a story of performance-enhancing drugs being involved to unsettle the team? Of course as I write, no positive test results have been reported from Busan.
Remember October 1997, when Chinese women swam
"miraculous" times at China's Nationals. Three months later, when it came to performing in Perth at the World Championships, that Chinese team could only be described as abysmal following the discovery of enough human growth hormone for the entire team in the backpack of one of the Chinese swimmers. They had good reason to be very "unsettled" then.
Peaks and troughs in performances, with doping being at the core of the explanations for marked changes in standards — this has been the story of Chinese sports throughout the 1990s.
Could unreported doping of swimmers have been detected in China's domestic championships last November?
Notwithstanding the desperate efforts of many (not only China's government) to present a squeaky-clean Olympic image leading up to the hugely commercialized Beijing Games, in the six years ahead we can be sure that for China the drugs (and genetic engineering?) story is far from written.


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They say passing a kidney stone is like the closest thing to the pain of child birth. Combine that with the new technology of Tweeting, and you have Mark Cuban tweeting in pain.
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> queisser wrote:
>>I think a distinction between macro and micro-OO needs to be made. At a >>macro level OO may be as good or bad as any other method of structuring >>code.
Java insist putting everything in classes for "OOness" sake, but still have "primitive" (non-object) types and no first-order functions. AFAIC, Java is a braindead language. Too bad everyone and her little sister confuses OO with Java - this greatly deserves OO IMHO.
> This criticism obviously doesn't apply to languages with multimethods
> and functions as first-class entities.
> We're creating systems, not trying to emulate reality (in which, by the
> way, it's clear real hierarchies are rare).
Lol. But note that Simula was about, well, simulation - which may explain this trend...
> Emulating reality is
> another phantasm conjured by O-O.
Agreed. But see above.
>>It just seems impossible to learn unless you go through the above-mentioned >>stages.
Is it really so ?
> perhaps
> if industry and academia weren't so faddish, the teaching would
> suffice.
Agreed again. Most of the damage comes IMHO from dummies trying to teach ununderstood OO to other dummies - with of course dumb examples in dumb languages.
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10 Movie Stars Who Could Really, Really Use A Hit Right Now
Nic CageLets just say what were all thinking. What the hell happened? Nic Cage was a pretty sure bet for about a decade in the mid-90s to mid-00s when he was cranking out gems like Leaving Las Vegas, National Treasure, The Rock, Con Air and Face/Off. Even his lesser films like Snake Eyes and Lord Of War were pretty fun in their own ways, but since about 2010, hes been making a lot of shit youve never even heard of.
Quick. Ill hit you with four movies. Three of them have been released in the last two years. One of them I just made up. Ready? Stolen, Trespass, Alarm Code and Seeking Justice. Which one is fake?
Its a lot harder than you thought, right? The correct answer is Alarm Code. To my knowledge he has not starred in that film, but if the Left Behind reboot or the one hes currently shooting in China dont work out, its certainly possible hell get there eventually.
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Sept. 16, 2013
BURLINGTON, Iowa -- The University of Iowa men's golf team is ninth following the second round of the 15-team Golfweek Conference Challenge at Spirit Hollow Golf Course. The Hawkeyes posted a 291 (+3) during Monday's round of 18, improving seven strokes from the opening round (298).
Iowa's 36-hole total stands at 589 (+13). The Hawkeyes are one stroke back of Central Arkansas, Jacksonville State, LSU, and Winthrop, who are tied for fifth.
For the second-straight day, senior Ryan Marks paced the Hawkeyes, turning in an even-par 72. Marks posted a one-over-par 73 during the opening round, and currently is tied for 18th (145).
"He is acting like a senior," said UI head coach Mark Hankins. "He is going about his business and staying calm on the golf course. He is hitting the ball and putting well and playing to his strengths right now."
"I had a triple bogey on No. 6 today, but other than that played bogey-free with three birdies," said Marks. "I continued to hit the ball really well, hitting 11 fairways and 14 greens. I have been staying patient, which is what I have been working on."
Senior Steven Ihm and sophomores Nate Yankovich and Voramate Aussarassakorn rounded out Iowa's four counting scores. All three carded a one-over-par 73. Ihm is tied for 25th (147), Yankovich sits in a tie for 32nd (148) and Aussarassakorn is tied for 36th (149). Marks, Ihm, Yankovich and Aussarassakorn each improved their scoring during the second day of action.
Freshman Raymond Knoll finished his second career round as a Hawkeye with a 77 (+5). He is tied for 53rd.
"We were better prepared this morning," said Hankins. "We talked over a few things and got off to a better start today. For the most part we hung in there and played well on the back side again. If you play the back side under par like we did Sunday, you obviously have the talent to compete for a championship.
"We were close to shooting a really good round today. We need to put five good scores together tomorrow, and hopefully, someone will go low."
Oklahoma leads the team race, posting a 36-hole score of 568 (-8). Four individuals sit atop the leaderboard at three-under-par (141).
"As a team we want to move up as much as possible tomorrow and have everyone keep improving," said Marks. "Individually, I would like to stay patient and shoot as low as possible."
The fifth annual Golfweek Conference Challenge concludes Tuesday with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. (CT). Live stats are available at golfstat.com.


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Zen Buddhist Master Abbess Reverend Dai-En will be speaking on "When Loss is Gain and Gain is Loss". Rev. Patricia Dai-En Bennage found her path on Buddhism with A Manual of Zen by D. T. Suzuki in 1958. A resident of Japan for 23 years, she began practice with the Rinzai Zen Master Omori Sogen Roshi in Tokyo in 1975. She later received priest precepts from Noda Daito Roshi, and trained at the NiSodo, the Women's training monastery in Nagoya. After receiving Transmission, she graduated from the Shike` program ending in 1990. She practiced with the Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh before founding Mt. Equity Zendo in 1991. She is the translator of Abbess Shundo Aoyama Roshi's book Zen Seeds, and interpreted for her for the East-West Spiritual Exchanges between Buddhist and Christian contemplatives.


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Intercepted: GOP Foley Crisis Chatroom
EWM- (Oct. 10, 2006) It now can be revealed that moments before the resignation of disgraced Congressman Mark Foley a "crisis chat" took place among Foley and party leaders on the GOP's ultra-high tech instant messaging system. Through methods deemed by the Bush administration to be both constitutional and within the Geneva Conventions, EWM hacked the party server and obtained the IMs.
At considerable risk, EWM is printing their on-line discussion complete with the screen names used by the participants.
GOP Private Chatroom, Friday, Sept. 29, 2006. 1:30 p.m.
TheMadHastert: Well gentlemen, it would appear that the fag's out of the bag, so to speak. Mark, please explain.
Maf54: Easy with the name-calling big boy. At least I have a hot bod, you look like Jabba the Hut in a fucking necktie.
TheMadHastert: Whatever…just explain.
Maf54: Those brutes at ABC have some overly friendly emails I sent to the pages.
ReynoldsRap: Ah, shit Mark. I told you at least 20 times to stop that.
Maf54: It was 23, but who's counting? Besides, I put a hundred large into your little Republican reelection committee and agreed to play congressman for two more years. Can't a gal have a little fun?
HammerTime: Mark you're not a gal and the pages are not for diddling. Now shut up and listen to your leader.
ThrobbingBoehner: Excuse me Mr. DeLay, I'm the leader now. You had to quit because you're under indictment.
HammerTime: Don't remind me. You guys run the place like a road-side attraction. BTW, are there any pictures of Foley with Ronnie Earle?
TheMadHastert: One disaster at a time Tom. We have to tell the Vice President. I'll get him on line.
BigDick: Big Dick here.
Maf54: Love your handle.
BigDick: Fuck off Foley. Why don't you go back to chasing pages?
ReynoldsRap: Um, that's the problem Mr. Vice President. Brian Ross over at ABC has Mark's dirty emails.
BigDick: IMHO you should shoot the fucker in the face.
TheDecider: Hey Big Dick, I'm on the Internets!
ALL: Mr. President?
TheDecider: Yeah, IT hooked me up. Just emailed Ahmadinejad a picture of my ass–took it on the copier, old trick from my drinking days.
HammerTime: Uh, Mr. President, we're having a kind of personal conversation here, and I think in the name of deniability you should log off.
TheDecider: Now wait a damn…
BigDick: He's gone, I pulled the plug. Works every time.
Macacawitz: Hi everyone sorry I'm late.
ThrobbingBoehner: What now? No Senator Allen, your crisis chat is tonight, this is the chat about Congressman Foley's page problem.
Macacawitz: Wow, that sounds bad. Was she black?
Maf54: No silly, a boy.
Macacawitz: Was he a Jew?
TheMadHastert: Goddamnit, could we get back to the pages it's almost lunch time.
HammerTime: Great idea. Here's what you do, just follow my lead. Denny you blame it all on your staff and Mark you resign.
Maf54: Can I still come to the House gym?
MayorNey: Sure, I had to give up the House Administration Committee and resign from office after that asshole Abramoff ratted me out. Now I hang out there all the time, told everyone I was in rehab.
Jackoff: That's brilliant! Tell them you were drunk Mark.
TheMadHastert: Jack Abramoff? How did you get on here?
Jackoff: I'm everywhere fat boy, and don't you forget it.
TheMadHastert: Hit the road Jack! Let's get on message. Mark do you have a drinking problem?
ReynoldsRap: He does now. Foley just resign and go to the drunk tank. Shit, now I'm going to have to go to Buffalo and have a news conference to deny all this. I better round up some kids for a backdrop. I'm out.
TheDukester: Try sobbing for the press Reynolds. I used that trick when I had to cop a plea.
ThrobbingBoehner: Well if it isn't Duke Cunningham, how the hell are you? BTW, I thought you were in prison.
TheDukester: I am, got a job in the computer lab. Me and the other prisoners hacked the Appropriations Committee and we're inserting an earmark for a bunker-buster bomb. Gonna get the hell out of here. Nice fellows these prisoners. They call me "Neocon." LOL
HammerTime: Yeah, real funny Duke. Back to Foley, what the hell are we going to do people?
TheMadHastert: First, I'm going to go eat, then I'll tell the press I never talked to any of you and I'll blame it on Nancy Pelosi and George Soros. Then I'll have dinner.
TheDecider: I'm back, somebody unplugged me.
BigDick: I'll look into that Mr. President. As long as you're here, I think you are owed an apology. Congressman Foley, your ass grabbing is going to cost us the congress and we'll be shitting subpoenas till 2008. I think you should tell the President how you feel.
Maf54: A little horny ;- )
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A-changin' race
Let's not forget that Howard Dean was supposed to be the internet candidate. What did the official Dean blog (blogforamerica.com) have to say about Dr. Dean's stunning defeat? Just remember, it's never too early to spin: "Those of you who've lived in Iowa have seen and heard negative spin about Dean regularly-nitpicking, angry name-calling, a sense that the others have joined forces to resist the change that you are serious about making happen."
Robert Tagorda (tagorda.com), though, noted that other Democratic candidates had picked up much of the Dean message, so the campaign was boiling down to image: "If the three candidates shared the same message, and Dean came out last, what does that say about his image? Basically, the public dislikes the messenger. His organizational superiority, high-profile endorsements, and other advantages were not enough to overcome his high negative ratings. Maybe likability is a bigger concern than originally thought to be."
Finally, Gregg Easterbrook (tnr.com/easterbrook.mhtml) penned a song to the tune of "The Times They Are A-Changin'" for Kerry supporter Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) to sing on the campaign trail: "Come writers and critics/Who punditize with your pen/And swallow your hats/You've been wrong once again/And don't speak too soon/with your heads/still in spin/ For there's no tellin' who/Voters are namin'./Could the Democrat now/Be later to win?/For the race it is a-changin'."
Waterloo, not just a city in Iowa
Andrew Sullivan (andrew sullivan .com) saw Wesley Clark as the real loser in Iowa: Gen. Clark "was supposed to be the anti-Dean, but adopted Deanish rhetoric. Both positions are now somewhat redundant. The Iowa voters-not exactly centrists-picked Kerry and Edwards to be the anti-Dean candidate, and the shrillness of the Dean-Clark message (the shrillness that so appealed to Paul Krugman) was just as soundly rejected." Shrillness? Jeff Jarvis (buzzmachine.com) described Howard Dean's cheerleading "concession" speech as "[an] unearthly squawk ... like the last angry cry of the last dodo bird."
Deanophobe Jonathan Chait (tnr.com/deano phobe.mhtml) could not make up his mind whether Dr. Dean's loss was a good thing or a bad thing for Dean haters. Immediately after the news he was pessimistic. "Now the anti-Dean vote is terribly split. And Dean's vote is not going to go away. We could be looking at a long slog, and Dean has the money and intensity of support to stay in that game.... The best scenario (from my Dean-o-phobic perspective, of course) remains getting down to a two-candidate race as soon as possible. That day is now farther away."
After more thought Mr. Chait gave himself a little room to celebrate: "I hadn't realized how big an impact Dean's speech made. When I saw Dean make his crazed, pro-wrestling-style rant I had the same reaction I always have to Dean: This is a man who should not be allowed anywhere near the White House without security guards dragging him off the premises immediately. But last night's speech was more viscerally wacky, and more widely disseminated, than any other he'd given. I think Dean irrevocably turned off a huge number of voters. That speech may go down as his Waterloo."
Comeback Kerry?
With his comeback victory in Iowa, Sen. John Kerry may have finally settled a score with Mickey Kaus (kausfiles.com). In early December, Mr. Kaus sponsored a contest to find the best excuse for a Kerry withdrawal. The day before the Iowa caucus, Mr. Kaus wrote that his Democratic preferences were "Edwards / Dean / Gephardt / Lieberman / a Bush-Clark tossup / the complete telephone books of all major American cities / Kerry." Any surprise that Mr. Kaus titled his post on Sen. Kerry's victory, "Iowans Reject Kerry by 62-38 Margin"?
Mr. Kaus looked forward to New Hampshire with a look back to 1984: "The Kerry victory in Iowa reminds me, not unsurprisingly, of Gary Hart's come-from-behind victory in New Hampshire in 1984 ... the rest of the campaign did more or less correspond to a scenario in which Democrats found out more about Hart and decided 'on second thought, no.' ... The idea of John Kerry is appealing. The reality is less so (and a lot more less so than was the reality of Hart). As the primaries proceed, my guess is voters will learn more about Kerry and his support will fade."


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The Cleveland Browns sent two representatives to the Tuesday funeral of a Mansfield, Ohio man who had "respectfully" requested six pallbearers from the team in his Sunday obituary that was printed in the Columbus Dispatch.
Scott Entsminger, who died July 4 at age 55, made the request "so the Browns can let him down one more time." But the family of Entsminger, a lifelong Browns fan and a longtime season-ticket holder, wasn't let down at all.
Per the Akron Beacon Journal, new Browns communications director Zak Gilbert confirmed that both Michele DeScioli of the Browns Backers fan club and guest-relations manager Rico Rivera attended Entsminger's memorial service and presented a special gift.
The team, after learning from Entsminger's wife Pat that late Hall of Famer Lou Groza was his favorite all-time Browns player, made a customized jersey bearing Groza's No. 76 and Entsminger's last name.
Given Entsminger's passion for the team throughout his life and beyond, the Browns couldn't help but be touched, even as he gave them a little ribbing with his heartfelt last request.
"We thought it would be a good thing to do just to let him know that we really appreciate all the support he gave us over the years," Gilbert said.


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Activist's death leads void in Dominican Republic
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic Sonia Perez was the undisputed champion of people of Haitian descent living in the Dominican Republic, fighting deep discrimination and helping them get birth certificates, housing and education.
Her passing earlier this month of a heart attack at age 48 has left many activists wondering who will carry on her work at a crucial time.
"I don't see who can replace her," said Edwin Paraison, who worked with Pierre and was Haiti's former minister of Haitians living abroad. "Sonia is the kind of woman who is born once a century."
People of Haitian descent, or even just darker skin, have long been condemned to menial jobs, subject to deportation and denied access to school and jobs in the Dominican Republic.
In 30 years of activism, Pierre helped countless people obtain birth certificates over the resistance of government officials. She led marches and organized rallies, fighting for better conditions for people in the sugar cane camps, or bateys, where she grew up.
Pierre's passionate activism drew death threats, but it also earned her the 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and the 2010 International Women of Courage Award, which she received while standing between first lady Michelle Obama and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the island of Hispaniola, have long had a contentious relationship.
Haiti's military invaded the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo in 1822, occupying its neighbor for 22 years. Then in 1937, former Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo ordered the massacre of 20,000 Haitian migrants in a quest to "cleanse" his country.
Over the years, relations between the two countries slowly improved, with the Dominican Republic becoming a staging ground for aid efforts following the devastating January 2010 earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people in Haiti.
Roughly 100,000 Haitians fled to the Dominican Republic after the earthquake, and the Dominican government temporarily suspended immigration enforcement. But early this year, authorities began arresting and then deporting thousands of Haitians. Dominican officials said they feared the spread of a cholera outbreak in Haiti, but civil right advocates said hundreds of legal migrants were also detained.
An estimated 500,000 to 1 million ethnic Haitians live in the Dominican Republic.
Last month, the Dominican Supreme Court upheld a 2007 law aimed at reducing the use of fake documents, which has led the government to confiscate or annul birth certificates of those born to Haitian immigrants. Many of those immigrants were given work visas in previous decades that the Dominican government now refuses to recognize.
Nonprofit groups estimate that at least 1,600 people have been denied their documents as a result of the law, and activists worry others will follow now that Pierre is gone.
Pierre experienced the marginalization firsthand as one of 12 children raised in a Dominican migrant worker camp.
At just 13, she rallied her Dominican-Haitian neighbors and organized a march to demand rights for sugar cane workers, spending a day in jail while police threatened to deport her to Haiti, where her mother was born.
Pierre later founded the Dominican-Haitian Women's Movement, a nonprofit group that builds homes in poor communities, helps secure basic services such as potable water, organizes workshops for women, and fights for the rights of Dominican-Haitians.
Altagracia Jean Joseph is a 25-year-old law school student who credits Pierre with helping her obtain a copy of her birth certificate so she could enroll in college.
"I consider myself one of Sonia's daughters," she said. "I am sure there are many of us."
But thousands of others are still awaiting birth certificates needed to obtain a job or go to school.


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The world's leading venture capitalist of today shared the career advice below almost a decade ago. While the advice is targeted at the young, I think the experienced ought to pay heed.
Here's how recruiters and hiring managers sniff out resume facts from fiction.
A few blemishes on your credit record are unlikely to exclude you from consideration by recruiters and hiring managers, as long as you're prepared to explain and verify information.
Hiring professionals share common negatives on resumes and how job seekers can turn them into positives while maintaining integrity.
Use professionalism and these strategies in your resume, cover letter and interviews when answering this tough question about past employment: "Why did you leave?"
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Thoughts and notes from the editor-in-chief on how to portray your career in an honest but favorable way.
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A 20-year-old Central Islip man was in critical condition on Wednesday night after he was shot in his driveway, Suffolk police said.
Franklin Xavier Gallimore was standing in his driveway of his Ferndale Boulevard
home with a friend when he was shot in the face and left leg by an unknown assailant at 9 p.m., according to 3rd Squad detectives.
Gallimore was airlifted to the University Medical Center at Stony Brook with multiple facial fractures and a fractured left femur. He is listed in critical condition.
Investigators say that multiple shots were fired from a light-colored sedan that was stopped in front of Gallimore's home but only two struck the victim. The suspect's car was last seen fleeing southbound on Ferndale Boulevard.
Detectives ask anyone who may have information about this crime to call the 3rd Squad at 631-854-8352 or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.