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One of the side stories today is that Obama will be the first president in over 150 years not to attend the annual Gridiron Club dinner.
Since its members are all "well-known and respected" journalists, one would think BO would see this as friendly territory. I guess not. Now, I've not got much sympathy for disappointed Gridiron members. This kind of spat, after all, is so much like watching professional athletes fight team owners. No underdog to cheer for and it's nauseating no matter who wins. Still, this story is interesting because the press loved them some Obama.
Mediabistro had a blurb.
A Gridiron Club member tells FBDC first that President Obama will not attend this year's dinner next Saturday, March 21st. He will be the first president since Grover Cleveland not to attend the first Gridiron Club Dinner of his presidency.
This year's date coincides with the spring break of President Obama's daughters' school and club members have been informed the Obama family will be out of town, likely in Chicago.
He did find time to attend in 2005 though.
Each year the dinner includes satirical musical skits choreographed by the members, and remarks by the president and various members of each party. President Obama spoke as a Senator at the March 2006 dinner.
Here's how townhall saw it. Townhall is a conservative outfit, but I think they called it right here.
Although it seems like a minor thing for people outside the beltway, the dinner is a social highlight for many of the Beltway's most prominent journalists. The President's decision to ignore it carries with it a faint whiff of ingratitude, given that he's received over-the-top adoring press coverage — but then again, it's just part of a time-honored pattern of Obama stiff-arming his sycophants in the media, as he did during the campaign.
Occasions like the Gridiron Dinner represent opportunities to shore up relationships with people who can (at least on the margins) help or hurt a president. The fact that Obama isn't taking advantage of such an opportunity demonstrates one of two things: Either he doesn't realize the importance of such seemingly small gestures, or else, his self-confidence is such that he doesn't believe that he needs the help of the press to succeed.
Which reason sounds right to you? Or do you think they're headed to Lauderdale? Maybe Disney World?

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This is a guest blogging post by Julie Ali.
I have enough of it. But perhaps I write about money because I am interested in how money divides people. Rich people, or people with a lot
of money have something that poor people do not have. At its' simplest level, the presence of money makes choices available.
And I am a fan of choices. I like to be able to decide if I can work or not. I would like to be able to eat and have shelter during my retirement years. I know that there is a finite amount of money in my future and that makes me afraid. This fear, propels me in my current life to pay down debt and this pay down of debt, to some extent decreases the money available for current usage and therefore for consumption. And if consumption is the primary measure of our success and enjoyment of life, then I guess, I am not as privileged as the rich people are. This understanding that I am not rich makes me wonder: "if I am not rich, am I poor?"
But everything inside me rebels against the label of poor. To be poor is to be status less. To be poor is to be empty of labels = middle class ones at least. To be poor is to lack choices and freedom. To be poor is to be no body.
If indeed, I am poor and a nobody in this society – is that really so bad? I am free to think, read and write. I am free to do what I want to do for
most of my day. If I am tired, I lay me down to rest. If I am hungry, I eat. I am on nobody's schedule and nobody makes me do what I do not want to do. However, somebody is financing this way of life – my husband. Is it fair to him to ask him to pay his life energy for my freedom? I don't think so. We both need to do our fair share. Just staying at home with the boys is not sufficient return for the freedom of being a SAHM. Work needs to fill some of the available spaces in my life.
The work I do has function, form and a fixed schedule. It serves some role in the motion of the great dinosaur of a university but one day, I dream, I will move out of clerical work and do something better. But what? What types of work are better? All work involves some indignity to the natural soul of a person. Work crushes humour, bleeds out a person's rich and diverse character and creates in it's place a bland Tapioca ONE PERSON who does little but mouth stock phrases and leap from one mothballed response to another. There is a strong desire in me to rebel in the work environment; to throw off the incessant humming of the telephone, the computer, the printer and the cash register. I feel sometimes that I am going mad in the dead zone of the office.
But it gives me money. This money I show to myself to make me go to work. This money I stuff into envelopes to pay down our mortgage. This money buys me.
So if work and money are buying me – my time -then the topic of money does have relevance. It has relevance because my time is precious, the amount of time I have is limited and unknown, while in contrast, work is endless and painful.
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Based on the celebrated, best-selling novel by Marcus Zusak, the film stars Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson and "Monsieur Lazhar" youngster Sophie Nelisse in the tale of a young girl, living outside Munich during WWII with her foster parents, who has to help hide a Jewish refugee in their home. And it's the power of words that bonds them all through this difficult time, but it's also something that could split them apart and threatens their very life.
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We Need More (Steve) Jobs
October 7, 2011 - Joselyn King
It's no great observation that we need more jobs in America.
But we also need more people like Steve Jobs -- visionaries who inspire and grow the country collectively forward, investing their thought and creativity into making lives better for all.
Jobs' death this week comes at a particularly bleak time in America ... a time when it seemed we already feared the spirit of inspiration and technologicial advancement were dying in this country.
And Jobs' passing seems somehow seems symbolic -- the death knell of an energy force that has kept America ahead of the world for many generations.
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life," Jobs said in an address to Stanford University graduates in 2005. "Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Perhaps out of Jobs' death will rise someone inspired to create and innovate -- a very special skill set for which very few seem attuned.
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Uriah Ward, a senior graduating from ECU in the fall of 2014, announced his intention to run for North Carolina House District 9 in Pitt County on the Democratic ticket.
Ward, a Greenville native, is a Political Science major with a minor in Business at East Carolina University.
Uriah is a current member of the NC Grange and was a co-founder and former President of a local chapter. He was also one of the first people ever appointed to the Greenville Bicycle and Pedestrian Commission and eventually served as its Chair-Elect in 2012.
Here's what Ward had to say in making his announcement:
"Hello, my name is Uriah Ward and I was born right here in Greenville, North Carolina. I'm a community organizer and activist that has worked against the radical policies of our current state legislature. We have seen a decreased emphasis on public education. We've watched as guns have been allowed in bars, on playgrounds and on our school campuses. This legislature refused the Medicaid expansion that would have helped thousands of struggling families. They've cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires while cutting unemployment benefits for people who have been unable to find jobs in our slowly recovering economy. We are a state of common-sense forward-thinking solutions, not a state of ideologues. We have watched together as extreme legislation has been passed and implemented and North Carolinians know that this is not who we are. We don't just open doors for strangers at the store, we open doors for all of our children by providing them an affordable, quality education. That is who we are. We cherish the 2nd amendment but recognize that there are commonsense precautions that can make us safer. That is who we are. We may go to church on Sunday but Monday through Friday we're leading national discussions on policy, science and philosophy. That is who we are. Our medical and educational institutions may be elite but they are not elitist. We support our businesses while also making investments to improve our quality of life. We are the first in flight and we refuse to be the last in education. We are a great state and we must once again return to thoughtful, moderate leadership because that is who we are and that is what works. My name is Uriah Ward and I'm running for state house, because this is North Carolina, and that still means something to me."
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Phillips County Commissioners voted Monday, Aug. 19 to place the 51st state issue on the Nov. 5 ballot this fall.
The question put to the voters of Phillips County will be, "Shall the Board of County Commissioners of Phillips County, in concert with the county commissioners of other Colorado counties, pursue becoming the 51st state of the United States of America?"
The board decided to place the issue on the ballot to allow Phillips County residents to voice their concerns, positive or negative, on the recent actions taken by the Colorado legislature.
The county is still going forward, with a majority of the other northeastern Colorado counties, with an effort to change the way Coloradans are represented in one of the legislative houses from being based upon population to representation by county. That effort will take place by seeking to place a bill before the 2014 legislature.
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|Click to tip the Church Sisters!!!
| Savannah Church
Savannah Church, the lead vocalist, fiddler and now newly named songwriter of the group holds true to what the word "Special" means. With no formal vocal training, Savannah attributes her vocal ability to GOD. She has worked very hard to use the abilities that GOD gave her in a way most admired by many.
Savannah's talent has certainly lead to many opportunities over the last several years as well as accomplishments that most people would only dream of after a lifetime of performing. Performing for The President of The United States, Veteran Medal of Honor Recipients as well as singing The Star Spangled Banner on national television are just a few of the accomplishments she is proud to have achieved.
She attended public school but left right before her junior year and began home schooling due to her busy road schedule. She spends her days practicing fiddle, writing songs, and keeping up with her fans on social media. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, river tubing, kayaking and reading. Most recently Savannah was honored to learn her name had made it to the second round ballot for IBMA's female vocalist of the year.
| Sarah Church
Sarah Church, the harmony singer and hand held percussionist of the group , is in fact the twin sister of Savannah Church. For several years now, she has sung alongside her sister and added the most beautiful angelic harmony often spoken of as "blood harmony".
She is quiet and soft spoken in nature but her singing is strong willed and precisely in pitch perfect sync with sister Savannah. She also sings lead vocal on many of their stage show song selections. She has a very tender and kind personality making it easy to fall in love with her. Her accomplishments also stretch across a lengthy distance as her sister Savannah's, for they have been experiencing everything together thus far.
Sarah is a very important part of this gift from GOD and wishes to continue on by her sister's side as long as it's in the Lord's will. She enjoys making crafts of all types and has a very creative personality. Activities she enjoys include biking, walking, and anything involving water related activities on The New River in Galax Va.
|Josh Pickett
To anyone following the music scene, Josh is certainly no stranger. His tasteful lead work and hard-driving rhythm playing, and tasteful session work make him one of the top guitarists in the industry. Josh started his musical career at age eleven. A cousin that played at family gatherings sparked his interest in music. His parents got him a guitar for Christmas, and from that point on it seemed that a guitar was always in his hands.
Josh started playing with local band Fast Forward. They played mostly on week-ends and at various festivals around the state. The band also released an album called "1420 Broken Heart Avenue." At the time high school graduation came, Josh had several major accomplishments under his musical belt. In 2001 Josh won the International Guitar Championship at Merle-Fest, being the youngest ever to hold this title at age 17. From there things only got better. Josh went on to play music full-time with Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike, They toured though out the US at major festivals and various venues. In 2005 he was a founding member of the band No Speed Limit. They were a favorite Bluegrass band of Virginia's governor, Tim Kaine, and they performed at his 2006 inaugural celebration along with the legendary Beach Boys. Then, had the privilege of playing American's Cup of Polo and sharing the stage with Journey. In 2007, they also had the honor of being chosen to play at the welcome ceremonies for Queen Elizabeth in Williamsburg, Virginia as part of America's 400th Anniversary celebration. Josh most recently was asked to perform for The President of The United States at a ceremony in Roanoke with his cousins "The Church Sisters".
In his spare time he enjoys Golfing, teaching and anything to do with the outdoors. Having taken his career to an all new level, Josh owns his own recording studio and does session work as well as studio rentals and producing. Josh teaches, guitar, mandolin and Bass in his studio and via Skype for students of all ages and musical abilities. Having over ten years teaching experience Josh says he enjoys passing the art of music on to others. Josh can be reached at: 276-733-7199 firstname.lastname@example.com
| Spencer Strickland
Spencer Strickland joined The Church Sisters in March of 2013, playing mandolin, rhythm guitar, fiddle, and harmony vocals for the sisters. He grew up in a family steeped in music from Lambsburg, VA. His mother sang, and father played guitar in a family gospel band that performed at churches and community events. At the age of ten, Spencer began mandolin lessons with local musician and sound engineer, Wesley Easter.
Since his first mandolin lesson, Strickland has gone on to win prestigious awards such as 1st place mandolin in 2004 and 2008 at the Old Fiddlers' Convention held in Galax, VA, 1st place in the 2005 Merle Watson Mandolin Championship held at MerleFest, as well as the "Best All Around Performer" award at the 2004 Galax Old Fiddlers' Convention. Strickland has also won numerous other blue ribbons from fiddler's conventions he has attended since childhood.
In the fall of 2004, Spencer began an apprenticeship through the Virginia Folklife Program with guitar and mandolin builder, Gerald Anderson. The apprenticeship, in turn, led to a partnership business known as Anderson & Strickland String Instruments. Together, Gerald Anderson and Spencer Strickland made up the performing act "Anderson-Strickland". The two friends still perform together occasionally to this day.
Currently, Spencer works for himself under the name of "Strickland String Instruments", and has built over 40 guitars, 10 mandolins, and assisted Gerald Anderson in the making of over 100 instruments.
In August of 2009, Spencer began playing professionally for the award winning Kenny & Amanda Smith Band, and toured the roads for over two years as the band's mandolin player. To date, Strickland has opened his case to perform as far from his SW Virginia home as Scotland, Ireland, Canada, England, Wales, and many other venues across the United States.
When approached with the opportunity to play for the sisters, Strickland couldn't turn it down.
| Jacob Eller
A native Virginian, Jacob was born in Marion, Virginia and grew up in the neighboring town of Chilhowie. He learned to play bass at age of 15 on an instrument given to him by his father. Jacob began playing professionally in 2003, when he relocated to Berea, KY to play with his good friend Ryan Blevins' band, Canebreak. That same year he started playing with the bluegrass band No Speed Limit before joining Sierra Hull in 2007, and then beginning to work with The Church Sisters towards the end of 2014.
Jacob has been an active participant in The Crooked Road Tours, which is part of Virginia's Heritage Music Trail, which promotes the musical heritage of southwest Virginia. Jacob participated in three of The Crooked Road Tours; one tour of Scotland in 2005, a second on the west coast in 2008, and a third on the east coast in 2010. He plays and endorses D'Addario Strings and Fishman Transducers.
| Ricky Grubbs
On percussion, The Church Sisters are pleased to welcome a longtime friend, Ricky Grubbs, into the fold. He has known the family for years, and is excited to become a member of the band. Ricky first sat in with the band at the 2013 IBMA convention in Raleigh , North Carolina, and has been with them ever since.
Born and raised in Danville, Virginia, Ricky began his musical journey at the age of thirteen. He had always had an infatuation with music, and got his first set of drums after his parents realized how serious he was about learning to play. Having a late start, Ricky proved his dedication by earning a spot in the George Washington High School band and orchestra programs at the age of fifteen. He proudly went on to earn letters for his efforts in those programs, and was first chair of the orchestra's percussion section his senior year.
Since then Ricky has forged a reputation as a diverse musician, by performing in a variety of groups, covering a wide range of genres. He has toured nationally, and has shared the stage with a lot of great artists including members of The Allman Brothers Band, The Black Crowes, and The Marshall Tucker Band, just to name a few.
Ricky has a great love for the music, and strives to consistently lay down a foundation for the other members to build on. He get's your hands clapping, and your toes tapping. He lives to be on the road performing, and works hard toward becoming the best musician possible. He is looking forward to being in a city near you very soon. If you see him out on the road, stop him and say hello. He'd like that.
| Eddie Day
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I have been riding my Diamond Back Hybrid now for a couple of months and I am close to needing new tires. I have a little over 400 miles on this bike and the tires are showing some wear. The tires that came with the bike are 26 X 1.95, and I think I would like to replace them with something like a 26 X 1.5. I would like a little less rolling resistance but, I am not sure if the thinner tires can go on the same wheel. Most of my riding is in Town on sidewalks and roads (for exercise), with a little hard packed trail riding. I usually ride around 20 miles at a time and my longest ride is 30 miles. Any opinions on what tries I should be looking at?


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Olympic Park planners will draw on the community spirit shown during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee to map out the site's post-Games future.
The London Legacy Development Corporation is putting together a programme of events, including concerts and festivals to be held in and around what will be called the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from July 27 next year.
They will kick off in the North Park with a welcoming event for residents and visitors, before a weekend-long cycling festival for London in August.
The Park's South Plaza will then open in Easter 2014 with a public space hosting events, food and music festivals, concerts, cultural programmes .
Derelict buildings will be brought back into use while the Park is closed for refurbishment.
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Oil and gas industry claims nine spots in list of Oklahoma Inc. performers
Steady oil prices and improved drilling technology have led to another banner year for the state's energy industry.
The success came even as plunging natural gas prices all but wiped out the effort to search for dry natural gas.
Fueled by the strong oil drilling activity, Oklahoma's energy industry again topped this year's Oklahoma Inc. list, claiming nine of the top 10 places.
"Oklahoma has led the nation in job growth through the recession. We have gained back all the jobs that were lost and more," said Mike Terry, president of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association. "From a tax perspective, the oil and gas industry continues to pay almost one-third of the taxes in the state."
The Oklahoma Inc. rankings is produced annually by Standard & Poors, Capital IQ for The Oklahoman.
Improved drilling technology combined with strong oil prices have led to a new wave of oil drilling throughout Oklahoma and the country.
Much of the new drilling in the state is in northern, western and southern Oklahoma where companies have been producing oil for about a century.
"The exciting part is that there were old plays that were drilled a long time ago, but they are being rejuvenated," Terry said. "It's like hitting the reset button and starting again. Recoverable reserves, before it's all said and done, will be much higher than they were years ago when the fields were first developed."
While the industry growth has led to increased profits for energy companies and shareholders, it also has benefited royalty owners throughout the state. Much of the renewed drilling is in parts of the state where oil production previously peaked decades ago.
"A lot of that production had dwindled to the point that it was barely marginal and was at risk of being plugged and abandoned where the royalty owners would get no more money at all," said Jerry Simmons, executive director of the National Association of Royalty Owners.
"Horizontal drilling coupled with hydraulic fracturing has allowed them to go back into these old fields and produce so much more oil and gas than they could have gotten before. It's a boom to landowners."
The royalty owners association estimates that oil and natural gas producers in Oklahoma paid royalty owners more than $1 billion in 2011.
Nationwide, about 8.5 million royalty owners receive regular checks from oil and natural gas production, Simmons said.
"That's a lot of folks who aren't company executives, but are just regular people who rely on that income," he said.
While many aspects of the oil and gas industry are growing, the state's publicly traded pipeline and storage companies may have benefitted most over the past year. Five of the top 10 Oklahoma Inc. companies are focused on oil and refined product storage and transportation, which are known as midstream assets.
Increased domestic drilling has changed where pipelines are needed.
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It also has led companies to return to areas that produced decades ago, but where the existing infrastructure cannot support current and projected activity.
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Once a year, humans across the United States shy away from work and other usual behaviors to bunker down and watch as many hours of Discoverys Shark Week as possible. Its a desire that both celebrities and non-celebrities share, and this year Discovery has signed on a few celebs that you might expect and a few you might not to host the networks late night talk show Shark After Dark. The 2014 list includes Ashley Tisdale, Tara Reid, Matt Walsh and many, many more.
The full list is a little more extensive than two blondes and a really funny dude. According to Deadline, Chelsea Handler, Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr., Danny Trejo, Robert Rodriguez, Stone Cold Steve Austin and more will be joining the Shark After Dark lineup when it launches on Sunday, August 10. Just like last year, Josh Wolf will host, and Tom Green and Bob Oschack will pop up to play alien Blurb and Bob the Shark, respectively.
Reids the obvious given on the list. Shes appeared on Shark After Dark in the past, and shes one of the key people involved with Syfys Sharknado franchise, the most recent of which, Sharknado 2, absolutely crushed in the ratings. Its fitting that shed also appear in a lineup dedicated to one of the Earths most interesting creatures. On the other hand, its always interesting to see how directors, Disney Darlings, actually shark experts, comedians, wrestlers, talk show hosts and more can find some common ground in Shark Week. Its programming that brings people together.
Honestly, Shark After Dark is pretty alright, but for Shark Weeks 27th anniversary, Discovery is pulling out all the stops. Theres going to be a program about bioluminescent sharks in the Indiana Ocean, as well as plenty of educational programming sporting not-so-educational titles like Zombie Sharks and Spawn of Jaws 2: The Birth. Weve put together a breakdown of the stuff the network has coming up, although I personally feel that part of the joy of watching Shark Week is sitting down and getting sucked into whatever my HD TV has to offer. The lengthy list of new programming is an initiative that has carried over from last years Shark Week, when Discovery upped its game from 3 new programs to 11 brand new additions to the week-long lineup.
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NAGPUR: Young men gaze reverently at the flame-shaped memorial to a Hindu supremacist in the grounds of India's biggest grassroots religious organisation, which prime minister-elect Narendra Modi joined as a boy.
In the city of Nagpur, opposite a black-painted statue of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) founder Keshav Hedgewar, the solemn tribute to his successor Madhav Golwalkar is a reminder of what critics say is the group's deep-rooted religious prejudice.
Back in 1938, Golwalkar said India's non-Hindus must adopt Hindu culture, language and religion – "they must cease to be foreigners, or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment".
Across India, thousands of RSS followers campaigned for Modi ahead of his victory last week, which saw his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) win the first parliamentary majority in 30 years.
That effort, as well as longstanding ties with the BJP, raises questions about how much the group will influence its most famous alumnus.
"Since a person from RSS is going to be prime minister, we expect he will work not only for the nation, but also for RSS," said Rajeev Varma, a 23-year-old engineering student who campaigned for Modi.
But experts say Modi could disappoint the group and its four and a half million members, aware that his prospects depend first and foremost on meeting pledges of growth and development.
"He (Modi) has to win on the economy, and that's the thing on which he will be judged," Christophe Jaffrelot, a long-time expert on the Hindu nationalism movement said.
"What if he fails to relaunch the economy? The Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) plank is the plan B," added Jaffrelot, a professor from Sciences Po university in Paris and King's College London.
The RSS, whose members wear a uniform of khaki shorts and black hats, describes itself as a cultural outfit devoted to the betterment of the nation and upholding Hindu values.
Critics decry it as a pseudo-fascist organisation that has fuelled religious tensions.
After helping out as a boy, Modi became a full-time volunteer as a young adult – taking the requisite vow of celibacy – for more than 15 years before he joined the BJP.
He recently said the RSS "should be appreciated for their good work".
The group is widely described as an ideological parent of the BJP, although volunteers in Nagpur were wary of discussing the elections.
"When the RSS says we are a cultural organisation, it actually is," said Sameer Gautam, 39, who runs a software company – although he joked about "the wall" that comes down on inquiring journalists.
AFP was not allowed to film at the RSS headquarters, a closely-guarded compound in Nagpur, nor at one of the city's daily "shakhas" – a combination of physical training, yoga and religious chanting.
"Their approach is extremely secretive. Most of their communications are verbal," said Kumar Ketkar, a political analyst in Mumbai.
M.G. Vaidya, a prominent 91-year-old RSS activist, said it was difficult to understand the group "because it does not fit into the existing models of social, political or religious institutions".
"One basic value of Hindu culture is appreciation of the plurality of faith. Not only tolerance but appreciation," he said.
Critics such as Rupa Kulkarni Bodhi, a converted Buddhist academic, believe a more sinister agenda is at hand. She says the "dream" of the RSS and BJP is "to convert this nation into a Hindu nation".
At a rare post-election press conference in Nagpur, RSS general secretary Suresh Joshi denied his organisation would be a "remote control" over the new government, although he hinted at an advisory role.
The RSS has been banned three times since its inception, including after a former member assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 and the 1992 demolition of a mosque in Ayodhya.
Members have spoken out against concessions to religious minorities, homosexuality and the special constitutional status of Muslim-majority Kashmir. They favour a uniform civil code, the protection of cows – sacred to Hindus – and building a temple on the disputed Ayodhya site.
Jaffrelot said Modi would avoid building the temple and provoking tensions, but that he would probably use his power of patronage to pacify hardliners.
Poornima Joshi, who has written extensively on the RSS and BJP, said Modi might prove to be something of a let-down but the group would still welcome his elevation after the secular Congress party's 10-year rule.
"He may disappoint the RSS in some ways but they are a pragmatic bunch," said Joshi. — AFP
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In a 50-minute session inside the Temple of Justice in Olympia, the nine justices of the state Supreme Court repeatedly asked why they should believe the Legislature's promise that it will make more progress in the 2015 budget session than it has in all other sessions since the court's 2012 landmark school-funding decision.
"I thought the questioning was fairly aggressive toward the state's positions," said state Sen. David Frockt, D-Seattle, who serves on the Senate's budget committee.
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But what might the court issue in the way of sanctions, and when? That was much less clear.
"I think it's really hard to tell," Stephanie McCleary, the lead plaintiff, said after the hearing ended.
The unusual proceeding was the latest clash between the Legislature and the high court arising from the 2012 ruling in which the court declared lawmakers are violating the constitutional rights of the state's 1 million schoolchildren by failing to live up to the state constitution's requirement to provide them with a basic education.
The court called for the hearing in April, after the state failed to craft a funding plan by the end of the 2014 legislative session.
If the court finds the Legislature in contempt, it could punish lawmakers by imposing fines, blocking the funding of noneducation programs or even selling state property.
On Wednesday, the Temple of Justice felt like the proverbial woodshed, with justices demanding lawmakers to explain why they shouldn't be punished.
"It's been said that insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result," said Justice Charles Wiggins, questioning why the court should continue to wait.
The plaintiffs' attorney, Thomas Ahearne, argued that the Supreme Court risks becoming an irrelevant branch of government if it doesn't hold the Legislature accountable for failing to carry out the court's order to submit the funding plan by April — or at least by the end of 2014.
That would require a special session, like the one the Legislature convened last year to approve tax subsidies for Boeing and in 1995 to help finance what is now Safeco Field.
"Every year that we just keep talking about this, we're losing kids," Ahearne said. "They lose forever another year of their education."
If the court fails to act, he suggested that a saying emblazoned at the Temple of Justice, "Justice — Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" might have to be changed to "Justice maybe next year."
Deputy Solicitor General Alan Copsey, representing the Legislature, said the court shouldn't mistake honest political disagreement over how to fund education for contempt, warning that any premature sanction could upset the chances to reach a deal in the 2015 budget year.
"The Legislature has told you unambiguously that it understands the seriousness of the 2015 session," Copsey said. "I think it deserves the court's respect to give it a chance to follow through on that commitment."
But in their questions, justices repeatedly pressed Copsey on why the Legislature should be given the benefit of the doubt and not be punished ahead of the 2015 session.
In one exchange, Chief Justice Barbara Madsen noted that one excuse for inaction was that the political process requires a meeting of minds across party lines.
Madsen: "What is it that you think is going to change between now and say the end of the next session with respect to those reasons? Why aren't those reasons we're going to hear again at the end of the legislative session in 2015?"
Copsey: "There will be an operating budget. There will be legislation that the court can look at. The court will have much more information, much more detail after the 2015 session than it has now."
After the hearing, attorneys on both sides said they couldn't tell what the court will decide.
"The court was clearly concerned about whether the state was going to make additional progress in the 2015 session," Dave Stolier, senior assistant attorney general, wrote in an email after the hearing.
Ahearne, the plaintiffs' attorney, said the Legislature has "never blown off the court like this before, so this is all new ground."
Rep. Chad Magendanz, the ranking Republican on the House Education Committee, said no big surprises came out of the hearing.
"I think it's anybody's guess at this point," said Magendanz, of Issaquah, who watched some of the hearing on TV.
The case started in 2007 when the McCleary family of Jefferson County joined dozens of school districts, teachers unions and other organizations that filed the lawsuit in King County.
In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled in their favor and ordered the state to increase education spending enough to fulfill the Legislature's own definition of what it would take to meet the constitution's requirement of providing a basic education to all Washington children.
That means, among other things, the state fully covers districts' costs for school-bus transportation, smaller class sizes, daily operating costs and supplies such as paper and books.
The court set a 2018 deadline, which also matched what the Legislature had promised, recognizing it likely would take more than one legislative session to come up with the additional money, which has been estimated at between $3.5 billion to $7 billion per two-year budget period.
The Legislature added some of that money into its 2013-15 budget — approximately $1 billion more for education — but the justices in January said lawmakers weren't moving fast enough and ordered them to submit a complete plan by the end of April for meeting the 2018 deadline.
The short 60-day legislative session ended without an agreement on a plan, which prompted the contempt hearing.
The justices had not been expected to issue a ruling Wednesday and they gave no hint of when they will issue their decision.
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So I recently purchased a new bike and today while riding I experienced lower back pain. I did not have this problem on my first ride this Saturday. When I got home I whipped out the tape measure and checked the length from seatpost to stem and the seat tube length and compared them to my hardtail which I've ridden without problem for years. Both of these measurements are more or less the same.
I'm 5'10 and I'm riding a medium Stumpjumper which is about the same size as my 17.5 Trek 4500. Any theories about why the back pain? I'm thinking maybe I had the seatpost too high?
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So was looking around for a completely different stock art pose and happened across this [link] by . And I thought "Holy cow, it's Death!" The pose, the smile...she even has an umbrella! So I made a (*heavily*) photo-referenced vector drawing from it. And I intended to put buckles on her boots but for some reason I just liked the mostly-untied laces. She's like that I think: pretty casual, and not in any particular hurry.
Vector Drawing in Illustrator CS3, mostly using the pen and pencil tool, shades of black, no gradients.
Vector Drawing in Illustrator CS3, mostly using the pen and pencil tool, shades of black, no gradients.
For a second when I read the title of your deviation I thought Neil Gaiman had died and this was a tribute I like what you did with the pose!
Heh, I hadn't thought about it before you mentioned it, but you're right, that'd be one way to interpret the title, thank goodness it isn't so!
Glad you liked it!
Glad you liked it!
I used to devour each issue in about, oh - five minutes.
I only JUST finished re-reading the "Lucifer" graphic novel that has a guest appearance by Death, so this is REALLY timely. And also awesome.
Well then apparently the universe wanted me to work on this, because I was halfway through when I found out Neil Gaiman just won a Hugo for his Doctor Who episode. If that's not a sign to blow off violin practice in favor of noodling around in Illustrator, I don't know what is.
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I guess I'm like so many others believing this restaurant was for special events only.
I dined at The Maisonette once, back in 1986, and the memory remains etched in my mind.
It was a beautiful yet stuffy restaurant. I'm amazed my guests and I were able to make reservations for dinner the day we arrived in town. It's funny, I don't recall what I ordered, but I do remember grabbing the wine bottle and pouring for my guests. When our waiter noticed me doing this, he quickly moved from the other side of the restaurant, took the bottle from my hand, finished pouring the wine and said, "This is my job. You are here to enjoy your meal."
I was very impressed, and we later conversed with him as he reminisced about his 30 years of waiting tables at the restaurant.
Yet the days of jacket-and-tie restaurants seem to be dimming. The last time I dined at a restaurant like that was at Commander's Palace in New Orleans years before the city flooded. I wonder if they still adhere to that requirement.
And the three-martini lunch, well, it's a miracle if I'm still standing after two.
Even though The Maisonette's menu changed daily, it sounds like it really wasn't keeping pace with its clientele. I'm sorry it's gone, but it gives me an opportunity to try another restaurant in Cincinnati that otherwise I never would have considered.
-- David L. Bennett
In "Powerful Primates," a review of the Contemporary Arts Center's current Baroque Biology exhibition (issue of May 23), the artists and their corresponding work were mixed up about halfway through. Tony Matelli is the sculptor, and Alexis Rockman is the painter. We apologize for the mistake.
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-Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (teamed with LMS producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa) are back on board to direct the adaptation of Tom Perrotta's book The Abstinence Teacher. The project had been stalled after Warner Independent Pictures was shuttered. Production Weekly has posted Sandra Bullock and Steve Carell as attached to play a Middle American divorced sex ed teacher and her daughter's born-again soccer coach, respectively. That should help this attractive package to finally get made.
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- Larry King's replacement could be named as early as this week: Piers Morgan seems to be the man for the job, reports the NYT. Timing seems to be the determining factor in Morgan's edge over Katie Couric, his prime rival. While both are bound by their current network deals, some are more flexible than others. At one point King's contract with CNN and Couric's contract with CBS were due to expire within a month of each other, but with King's departure, the timing went against Couric, who is bound to her CBS contract until mid-2011. A familiar media figure in Britain, Morgan usually hosts tabloid celebs on the popular Life Stories. Morgan was fired as editor of The Daily Mirror in 2004 for printing fraudulent Iraq war photos. Stateside, he is best-known for hosting America's Got Talent and winning the first season of Celebrity Apprentice. While the NYT reminds us of these facts, CNN likely will not. Maybe they will mention his gig as the face of Burger King's 2009 meat-scented cologne campaign (pictured).
- Patricia Clarkson is a familiar face, an actress who has long held her own in an assortment of both studio and indie and roles: The Green Mile, The Station Agent, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Pieces of April (she was Oscar-nominated), Lisa Cholodenko's High Art and Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island come to mind. The NYT calls Clarkson the "perennial supporting player" who is not a leading lady, profiling her on the eve of the Thursday opening of Ruba Nadda's exotic romance Cairo Time, which has long played the global fest circuit. Clarkson tells the NYT that when she was immersed in her graduate studies at Yale, going from character to character, she thought, "this is what I want my life to be. I can never stop and rest on one character. I want to keep moving through." And so she has. Next up for Clarkson are supporting roles in mainstream comedies Easy A with Emma Stone (September) and the currently filming Friends with Benefits (2011).


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Argentinean Greenpeace activist Camila Speziale is one of the "Arctic 30". Twenty-eight activists and a freelance videographer and photographer are currently held in Murmansk by Russian authorities. Their arrest followed a protest against Arctic...
On October 5th, 2013, tens of thousands of people participate in more than 200 events held in 49 countries throughout the world. A Russian court has this week charged twenty-eight Greenpeace International activists, as well as a freelance...
On September 18, 2013, Greenpeace activists attempted to attach 'survival pods' to the Prirazlomnaya oil platform in the Pechora Sea in an attempt to stop it drilling the world's first offshore oil well in the Arctic.
This is the kind of protection the Russian oil industry gets from authorities, but the real threat to the Arctic comes not from peaceful activists but from oil companies like Gazprom that will stop at nothing for the world's riskiest oil. Sept 19...
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Tosh.hom0: Is Daniel Tosh Show a Gay Viral Sensation?
In the world of homosexuality, there is a fascination with fecality. This adage adorns the marble mantel over every faux-fireplace within a gay's chic apartment, flanking the flower pots and spent bottles of astroglide.
As we know, one of the greatest threats to America in this day and age is the Gay Agenda. The Gay Agenda (G.A.) is threatening the moral fabric of America with the raunchiest body man-must of drunken 4am shame, the twilight hours so secret that husbands think they can get away with a midnight polar plunge with the pool boy.
Gone are the days when the biggest threat to the family was the wife-udder-letting milkman sliding his slippers under the bed while you were gone to work. Today, gays are playing a game of psychological warfare with us and destroying marriages from the backside. They are using ironic humor and ripped abs to get us to laugh with them and covet their Godly-sculpted bodies, perfected with hours of tedious, glistening gym sweat and deep grunts until they pass out, spent of energy and bodies in need of a vulnerable massage.
At the front of all this imagery, is a new fresh-faced chap named Daniel Tosh who has has been hired by commie-pinko, yellow sputum mucking liberal smear-rag Comedy Central. Comedy Central is also responsible for reprehensible shows like South Park (a children's cartoon that teaches genocide and cat incist homocide as family values), the Golden Shower Girls (a black marketing production by R. Kelly, playing on 80s sitcom Golden Girls) and now most infamously, a new 'news.0' style show called Tosh.0.
Tosh.0 started off as a little followed 'webisode' show called Posh Tosh under the YouTube channel Homosexal Culture. It featured a jealous, Bob-Sagetesque host who made catty remarks about celebrity women's wardrobe and their latest boy-toys. He did this with a younger, more seminal Perez Hilton. The show was an unbelievable sensation in the homosexual community, catching a niche-market left behind by the late 90s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
Tosh's quick, firebrand humor dealings are somewhere between the fiery, angered New York Jew punchiness of Lewis Black, flowered with the diva thigh crescendos of a Broadway dancing Raquel Welch, a timeless eyecandy whose name illicits naughty thoughts and random chuckles of lust. Perhaps this is why the homsexual community is calling their little propaganda comedian 'The Pretty Cute Jew in the Greenlit Petticoat' and according to new findings by Christian's World Weekly, Tosh.0 is behind a new dangerous 'trend' of homosexual peer pressure that will fall-over our college campuses this fall.
Tosh Parties, The Newest Threats to Your College Sons
Pepperdine overlooking the Pacific Nestled within the rolling Santa Monica mountain's foothills of Malibu, Pepperdine University is a campus where the nation's most powerful parents send their sons and daughters to be sculpted into tomorrow's greatest leaders. Community safety officer Danny Alcada-Gonsalves reports that even within this glistening bastion of morality and wealth, summer school has already seen a 23% increase in suspected gay activity and a shocking 4 instances of 'toshing party marathons' socials reported between the local Sigma Chi and Sigma Nu fraternities in the Malibu locale.
Already appearing at summer school in college campuses nationwide, 'Toshing Parties' are being reported by university Public Safety Officers as 'dramatically vulgar in aftermath, a scene of brown-bathed scat stains laying beneath a waffling mixture of cherry blossomings in hippo ecstasy'.
All this makes sense when we rememer tosh.0 was originally called tosh.hom0 in the series pilot. Due to heavy pressure from corporations and moral watch centers, Comedy Central quickly veiled the true intent of Tosh's humor behind a very bland and uncreative name. It is this subtle approach that now has parents terrified and school officials dreading a school year of gay diseases and unprecedented cross-fraternity orgies with no-girl invites. Behind it all, Tosh.0.
Insider reports reveal 'toshing parties' start out with simple flier invites, saying 'cross-Greek' meetings will be taking place at fraternity houses, as to build brotherhood and do away with rivalry. These events are also 'recruitment' opportunities where college freshmen on orientation are invited to come, attend a chatty Tosh.0 sleepover marathon and then "Go Greek" in secret, closed door parties on campus.
These events are corrupting fraternities, once the strongholds of men who yearned for fiscal and academic prowess through social connections and strong work in focused career endeavor, into little more than corrupt cesspools of fecal exploitation.
School officials have no grounds to monitor these parties, as they promise to be 'dry events' that only serve cold-cuts, bagged chips and explosive Toshtinis, a drink made a Fiju-water and skunky Ozarka tap flavorings.
What officials have failed to realize is that gays are crafty and sneaky by their very nature, and are lacing these Toshtinis with a soluble version of chloroform, causing victimized college freshmen to pass out and find themselves awoken and surrounded in a room of straight-faced Greeks, collegiate bodies standing young in turgor in their togas, while 'the chosen one' from the fraternity is videotaped with a YouTube enabled Kodak camera.
The drugged orientee must then endure anal tinglings from the mounted fraternity boy until one of either two conditions are met:
1) He is able to come up with a funny quip that causes 75% of everyone in the room to laugh more than the prior snark Tosh made in reference to an outadated video clip.
2) Tosh.0 reaches exactly its 50th forced laugh track of the episode and he must yell "Tosh Posh!".
While both conditions are tough to meet when recovering from soluable chloroform in a .5 molar Fiji water solution drugging and being pommedled by a homosexually horny fraternity boy, it's even more scary to report that at the colleges where these summer toshings are taking place, there is a 3% increase in fraternity recruitment and Tosh.0 has increased its Nielsen ratings 8 fold, making it Comedy Central's top summer comedy billing in its time slot.
These toshing parties are here to stay, parents, and it's suspected that Tosh may host an underground website where these homosexual fraternity encounters are archived, ranked and then commented on by the 'saucy' factors. When we can find this site we will report it and ban it.
Now there are liberals out there who will try to deny these facts. They will say there are no toshing parties and that viral videos is not codeword for 'infestation of gay videos, just like a virus in your bloodstream' but to find the truth, we will go straight to the horses mouth.
After Tyson Bower's III's first expose into the gay culture agenda of Tosh.0, we emailed Daniel and his joke writers many letters, demanding he confess to masterminding these toshing parties and admit to having gay video clips. Reading his jokes from an Obama-styled cue card in expected fashion, we see Tosh responds to ChristWire and our suspicions.
Here, Daniel Tosh admits to ChristWire that it's all about a gay agenda and viral videos in his show. Be informed and spread the truth.
TV Show Review: Tosh.0 (formerly Tosh.hom0 and Posh Tosh)
Moral Rating: S & M (Sinister and Musty) for : unedited shots of anal tingling, unoriginal jokes, biting Bob Saget, gay agenda, toshing party phenomenon, fraternity corruption, laugh tracks at inappropriate moments
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