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Today Pro Elite and Showtime held media conference call promoting their new show "ShoXC: Elite Challenger Series" which is scheduled to debut Friday, July 27 at 11 PM EST live from the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California.
Present for the call was Doug DeLuca, Gary Shaw, and Ken Hershman.
Summary of the conference:
• Showtime plans on holding four ShoXC events before the end of the year. There were no specific dates mentioned for final three shows but they did say they would like to hold one in August, October and December.
• The main event this weekend will be K.J. Noons vs. Edson Berto. Also on the card will be a King of the Cage/Gladiator Challenge welterweight championship unification match between Jeremiah Metcalf and Aaron Wetherspoon.
• EliteXC plans on holding a card September 15th in Hawaii. The card is expected to feature an EliteXC middleweight title bout between Murilo Rua vs. Robbie Lawler. Shaw stated numerous times that the bout agreement has not yet been signed.
• Shaw was not sure when Frank Shamrock would be returning, but he did say that Shamrock won't be fighting Nick Diaz in September. Diaz recently went on the record calling out Frank Shamrock saying "I watched his last fight and no disrespect intended, but I think I would whoop his ass." Diaz is currently serving the suspension he received from the NSAC after testing positive for Delta-9-THC following his gogo-plata victory over Takanori Gomi. Due to the positive test the NSAC decided to change the result of the fight to a no contest.
• Gina Carano's future is bright with EliteXC, she signed a multi-year contract with the company. The face of female MMA.
• There has been interest in bringing Frank Trigg into the mix at 185 lbs.
• Jeremy Lappen was involved with the Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou deal. EliteXC thought they had him as they flew him into the last event and treated him very well and then at the last minute someone threw him a large offer that Shaw was not willing to match. Rumor has it K-1 offered Sokoudjou "significantly more money" than the $200,000 per-fight that Pro Elite offered.
• Gary Shaw hinted at implementing a 160 lbs. weight class. Shaw stated that through his experience in boxing he knows that there are guys who fight at 160 lbs. that cannot get to 155 lbs. so it provides them with another option. Nick Diaz would be a perfect fit for the potential division.
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Is it deep denial or just shallow ignorance that accounts for otherwise intelligent Americans overlooking the founding history that shames this republic each Fourth of July?
One such citizen suggested calling off this year's parades, fireworks, and speeches because of U.S. torturing of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. Such abuse, wrote Chris Satullo, a Philadelphia Inquirer columnist, violates prisoners' "inalienable rights" that "Founders ... pledged their lives and sacred honor" to defend for all human beings.
Did they really?
Lifelong torture and abuse of men, women and children was the very birthright of this slave republic, an unpleasant fact Satullo omitted in his rant about the universal rights of man. A dozen of the 55 Founding Fathers themselves owned human slaves, including Long Islander William Floyd, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, who once traded a slave for a keg of rum.
The current torturing of prisoners "on orders from the Oval Office," quite rightly disturbs Satullo. However, such abuses, he might have noted, are bottomed on a barbarism of human rights abuses that would, as Frederick Douglass stated, "shame a nation of savages."
From day one, President Washington — as commemorated by the historical group, Avenging The Ancestors Coalition — held nine slaves at the nation's first White House in Philadelphia, and he held hundreds of others in chattel bondage on his plantations.
The sly Benjamin Franklin, unlike Washington, went to his grave an abolitionist. But the angels awaited him with ledgers from Franklin's younger days as a slaveholder posting rewards for runaway human chattels in his Pennsylvania Gazette.
This factual interlude upon July Fourth mythmaking is all the more timely this '08 election year. The ancestors of Barack Obama's father escaped slavery and his mother's folks owned slaves. His wife's progenitors, however, did not escape slavery, a maternal legacy passed on to their daughters. Furthermore, because of his Kenyan ancestry, the presumptive Democratic nominee, and possible next U.S. president, has been subjected to what Jean-Paul Sartre might call the discriminatory "circumstance" of blacks in America.
This reality stands in judgment not only of the "birth defect" of this republic but also of the continuing denial of freedoms to the descendants of those slaves once held in bondage.
As the Bush-Cheney administration continues its abuse of prisoners — and the erosion of civil liberties at home — the hills resound with echoes of hypocritical holiday speeches. They boasted about strictures against cruel and unusual punishment, human rights of the individual, freedom of speech, religions, as well as of equal protection under the law, guarding against such state excesses as unreasonable search and seizure.
This latter provision colliding headlong with the hot-button issue of guns-on-the street was sorely tested in a recent New York court case. It might have further eroded civil liberties were it not for Justice Gustin L. Reichbach. This rare legal scholar understands that justice must indeed be colorblind and that the state must not be allowed to deprive citizens of liberty for a short-term appearance of street safety.
The case of the People of New York v. Garry M. Lopez, in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn, involved city police stopping two men on a bicycle traveling the wrong way on a one-way street. When the rear passenger ran away, the officer gave chase and Lopez was seen discarding what turned out to have been a pistol. Though the officers' "instincts" proved fruitful, Justice Reichbach ruled that the act was triggered by "the improper pursuit."
Such "arbitrary" stop-and-frisk police encounters, Justice Reichbach ruled, detect no violation 90 percent of the time — and that "minorities are significantly more likely" to be targeted. Such operations against whites are less arbitrary, more efficient, and thus more likely to lead to an arrest. Challenging police "suspicion" in the chase-down of Lopez, the passenger, as unreasonable, the judge suppressed the discarded weapon and voided the arrest in the "bicycling while black" case.
Reichbach scolded both police and the "sensationalist press" for a lack of sensitivity in matters of civil liberties toward minorities. In such cases, the Constitution, he said, values principle over expedience. Benjamin Franklin, yes the slaveholder, held that those who give up liberty to obtain temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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CinCity2000 (linked above) reports that they've come across the advance script of the God of War movie, which was written by David Self.
The the movie seems to be based on the events on the first God of War. The script (or parts of it) were not published, but the claim is big enough to spark this juicy rumor anew.
Spoiler Warning: We all know what happened in God of War one, and despite the close adherence of the movie to the in-game storyline, the ending will be different: Instead of accepting the offer to replace Ares as the God of War, Kratos refuses, continues his cliff dive, whispering "Your turn, Hades..." as he falls.
Now we turn to who's playing Kratos. For me, no one will ever make a better Kratos than Vin Diesel, and perhaps Goldberg would come a distant second.
Lead game designer David Jaffe, however, wants Djimon Honsou to take the role. Djimon's a great actor and everything, but he doesn't quite give out a fierce Kratos aura like Vin Diesel can.
Just a reminder - this is a rumor, so let's not get carried away... just yet. It's not clear whether the script was part of the Brett Ratner-directed movie that got shelved, or if this one is a new project under a new director.
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To Ames. Something a little more official but confirms what I had heard several months ago.
Development picking up, Chipotle coming in | Ames News Online
Ya not surprised on the new locations. Both spots are prime for business. Better build up the old sprint store land quite a bit.
Big whoop.
Where's the Texas De Brazil?
Billy Mays here!
Qdoba out, Chipotle in.
While I love Panchero's, the Ames location is subpar, so hopefully Chipotle gives some competition.
Hopefully Chipotle is as good as Qdoba and much better than Pancheros. Never had it though.
MMMM, Chipotle.
I love Chipotle but is there a market for that many burrito places, part of the reason Qdoba didn't go, theres not a market for it. Mr. burrito won't last now.
Panchero's will take the biggest hit from this, based on location alone. Mr. Burrito could really help themselves by going late night. Fighting Burrito is bulletproof based on their being open late and location in Campustown. There's room for 3 burrito joints in Ames. There isn't room for 2 of them on Duff.
For the record, Chipotle >>>>>>> Panchero's.
In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection.
It is really nice to see a lot of these new businesses come into Ames.
Originally Posted by Broodwich
Big whoop.
Where's the Texas De Brazil?
Whoa! No kidding man! Anywhere in Iowa would be nice.
Originally Posted by awd4cy
It is really nice to see a lot of these new businesses come into Ames.
Agreed. While I think Ames has the burrito market painted in to a corner, I do have to applaud the business owners and new-found "welcoming" demeanor to business that Ames has shown lately.
Originally Posted by Rhoadhoused
Hopefully Chipotle is as good as Qdoba and much better than Pancheros. Never had it though.
Better than poncheys and Qdoba. Not as good as bandit burrito, not even close.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775
There was also discussion in the past about a steakhouse coming to ames on duff, but i didn't see anything discussed in this article. Was that just a rumor?
Originally Posted by Al_4_State
For the record, Chipotle >>>>>>> Panchero's.
For the record, you are wrong. Panchero's pressed tortillas trump all and that is a fact. Sure Chipotle warms up their tortillas, but that is nothing, NOTHING, like a nice, warm, chewy, pressed tortilla.
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Who Eats What written by Patricia Lauber and illustrated by Holly Keller explores the intriguing world of the food chain. This simple text explains the intricacies of the food chain. Who Eats What reinforces the understanding that all parts of the food chain are necessary to the success of the overall cycle. The illustrations in Who Eats What clearly depict how "small fish are eaten by bigger fish, which are eaten by still bigger fish, which are eaten by even bigger fish." (pg. 23) The book explores and explains why "food chains are found wherever life is found" by creating food webs in the sea, on land, and in the air. (pg. 25) The informative text as well as the colorful and exciting pictures make this a great book use when teaching about life processes and living systems.
Here are a few excerpts from the book.
- "All food chains begin with green plants. Green plants are the only living things that can make their own food." (pg. 12)
- "Most animals are part of several food chains." (pg. 17)
- "A change in one link is felt up and down that chain. It is felt through the whole web." (pg. 32)
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Who Eats What is a simple text with wonderful illustrations for children in kindergarten and first grade to learn about the interdependent web of the food chain. For kindergarten students, this book will allow students to trace the entire food chain for one specific plant or animal. Furthermore, Who Eats What demonstrates that living things change as they grow, and they need food, water and air to survive and that plants and animals live and die. (VA SOL K.6) For first grade, Who Eats What is the perfect book to explain that plants have life needs and functional parts. (VA SOL 1.4)
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- This Science Teaching Idea Website offers over 50 resources for teaching life science to students in elementary grades.
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The Accidental Dragon (Accidentally Paranormal #9)by Dakota Cassidy
Firefighter McAllister "Mick" Malone knows he has a protective streak, especially when it comes to his deceased best friend's sister, Tessa. But after twenty-five years of verbal sparring, Mick can't help but notice that their recent arguments have started to feel a lot like foreplay. And while Tessa knows exactly what to say to get him going, Mick is thrown for a loop when he actually starts breathing fire.<P> Antique-store owner Tessa Preston has loved Mick Malone since she was ten years old--not that she'd ever admit it. Fighting with Mick is the only thing keeping her from an embarrassing romantic confession. But when the sexy firefighter accidentally ingests some ancient dragon scales masquerading as powdered aspirin, Tessa finds herself handling something much hotter than long-simmering sexual tension.
The Accidental Genieby Dakota Cassidy
She's all bottled up. Jeannie Carlyle is a caterer extraordinaire, more than ready to handle any challenge thrown at her. But when her client asks her to open up a rare bottle of gin for a party, Jeannie is shocked when a guy in poofy pants pops out and she gets sucked inside. Trapped in the bottle, Jeannie does the only thing she can think of and uses her cell phone to search the term "paranormal" and finds the number for OOPS--Out in the Open Paranormal Support. Until he sets her free. Werewolf Sloan Flaherty isn't keen on dealing with distraught women, especially since his sister-in-law Marty basically forced him to man the OOPS phones. But when Jeannie calls in a panic, Sloan is the only one available to find Jeannie's bottle. After giving it a good rub, Jeannie emerges dressed like a character from Arabian Nights and starts calling Sloan "Master." Now, they need to figure out how to break their unwanted bond, before the wishes Jeannie can't stop granting get them into more trouble than even the OOPS girls can handle...
The Accidental Humanby Dakota Cassidy
Immortality bites- new from the author of Accidentally Dead and The Accidental Werewolf. Wanda Schwartz is raking in the dough selling Bobbie-Sue Cosmetics-and she's a pro at recruiting new saleswomen. So, she's shocked when a man comes to one of her in-home parties-a very hot man. Heath Jefferson is sure to put some extra spin into a lot of women's color wheels. When Wanda is diagnosed with a terminal illness, it doesn't have to be a death sentence. With a werewolf and a vampire for best friends, she has options that most ordinary people wouldn't. As Wanda ponders what to do about her mortality, Heath reveals he has secrets, and one of them is that his former bloodlust has turned into an old-fashioned lust-for Wanda. And he's already given up too much to lose the love of his lifetimes.
The Accidental Werewolfby Dakota Cassidy
When Marty Andrews gets bitten by a mutt, the hair on her legs starts growing at an alarming rate and her mood swings put her dream job as a cosmetic sales rep in serious jeopardy. Then a drool-worthy man shows up at her door claiming that he accidentally bit Marty. And since he's a werewolf, that means she is now, too...
The Accidental Werewolf 2: Something About Harryby Dakota Cassidy
From national bestselling author Dakota Cassidy comes the latest in the series that "gets better and better with each book." (Bitten by Books) He's in a furry situation. Accountant Harry Ralph Emerson has always been a by-the-numbers kind of guy. But when he finds himself trapped at work sprouting an obscene amount of hair, he knows his odds for maintaining normalcy are zero to none. After a frantic internet search, Harry goes through the OOPS--Out in the Open Paranormal Support--checklist and comes to a disheartening conclusion: He's turning into a werewolf and he needs help ASAP. She might be the only solution. Werewolf Mara Flaherty has long carried a torch for Pack Cosmetics's sexy single accountant, even after her attempt to seduce him went down in flames. When her sister-in-law, Marty, shows up to handle Harry's OOPS emergency, she tasks Mara with showing the hirsute hottie the ropes. But Mara knows Harry's condition is a result of her lab experiment gone wrong--and the previously mild-mannered object of her affection is about to give her a piece of his mind...
Accidentally Cattyby Dakota Cassidy
A purrr-fectly scintillating new novel from the national bestselling author of Accidentally Demonic. Katie Woods never thought she'd be forty-one, divorced, and thrust back into the dating world. To start fresh, Katie uproots her veterinary practice to upstate New York-not exactly the hottest dating scene on the planet. But when an unconscious cougar appears at her clinic, Katie's newly single life gets a much needed jolt of the supernatural kind. After Katie examines the cougar and leaves him caged overnight, she's shocked to find a big strapping specimen of young, hot man in its place. And when the scratch she got during the exam results in some unnatural side effects, Katie has more to deal with then her animal attraction to a much younger guy-she has to figure how to stop herself from becoming a cougar of the four-legged variety.
Accidentally Deadby Dakota Cassidy
Nina always loved the nightlife. It's a lousy first day on the job for dental assistant Nina Blackman when a patient, loopy from the anesthesia, bites her. At least he was cute. But for real drama she can't beat the next evening when she wakes up with a set of razor sharp fangs, bionic vision, super-sonic hearing, and a taste for blood. There must be a good explanation. There is. It's her patient, Greg Statleon. She just never expected to be the nightlife. A visit to his Long Island castle hardly results in a cure. Greg claims there isn't one. Unfortunately, Nina isn't wild about her lifestyle change--or the danger that goes along with it. She's determined to prove this infuriating vampire wrong. It's a shame he's so irresistible. It's a bigger shame that he's dead. On the other hand, they're perfect for each other--if Nina's willing to commit to one man for eternity...
Accidentally Dead, Againby Dakota Cassidy
He was just looking for a night of fun. After a wild work-sponsored Halloween party, entomologist Sam McLean wakes up with a spotty memory--and a pointy set of fangs. Sam's one-night stand wasn't just dressed as a vampire; she had the bite to match. Somehow, Sam's unconscious body ends up at the OOPS office, where paranormal crisis counselors Nina, Marty and Wanda give him the down-low on accidentally becoming a creature of the night. What he got was an eternity of trouble. Dealing with a newbie like Sam is no easy task, but things get even more crazy when Phoebe Reynolds--a woman who claims to be Nina's sister--storms into the office and causes a catfight that ends when Phoebe is accidently bitten by Sam's recently formed fangs. Now, the OOPS girls have two fledgling vamps on their hands, and their powers--and the attraction building between them--are unlike anything they've seen before...
Accidentally Demonicby Dakota Cassidy
The devilish new novel from the national bestselling author of The Accidental Human When mild-mannered Casey Schwartz wakes up in jail, she has no memory of how she got there. But after her sister, Wanda, bails her out, Casey has more to deal with than a foggy memory-like abrupt mood swings and fireballs shooting from her fingertips. But things really head south when a vampire shows up on her doorstep... Vampire Clayton Gunnersson is seriously hot. And seriously taken-by a demon. In a ritual gone wrong, Clayton tried to get rid of his unwanted bond, but spilled some demonic blood on Casey, getting her possessed in the process. Now, Casey has to share her body and manage to keep her growing attraction to Clayton in check, because falling for her demon's boyfriend just might get Casey killed-from the inside out.
Burning Down the Spouseby Dakota Cassidy
If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen...the latest from national bestselling author Dakota Cassidy! After discovering that her famous chef husband was cheating, Frankie Bennett lost her mind-on live TV. Now Frankie is broke, unemployed, and hiding out in her aunt's retirement village. That is, until Maxine Henderson-Barker-reformed trophy wife and owner of Trophy Jobs Inc. employment agency-arrives to give Frankie a much needed kick in the pants. Soon, Frankie lands a job as a prep chef at a Greek diner in New Jersey, home to the world's best meatloaf and an owner who resembles an exquisitely chiseled Greek statue. Falling into bed with Nikos isn't the best idea, but after years of living in a man's shadow, this ex- trophy wife is ready to get busy cooking...
Kiss & Hellby Dakota Cassidy
Hell's not the only thing that's hot in the sinful new novel from the author of Accidentally Dead. Delaney Markham doesn't just see dead people, she hears them too. And FYI-communicating with tortured souls all day can really wreak havoc on your love life. Sans boyfriend, Delaney makes the best of her gift by holding séances to make ends meet-that is until one incredibly annoying ghost just won't go away. Besides being sinfully hot-in a college professor sort of way-all signs point to Clyde Atwell being much more than the ordinary spirit. In fact, he's a newbie demon whose first assignment is to take Delaney back down to hell with him. Yeah, like that's going to happen on the first date.
My Way to Hellby Dakota Cassidy
View our feature on Dakota Cassidy's My Way to Hell. A hilarious new romance that really turns up the heat, from the national bestselling author of Kiss and Hell. After defying Lucifer to save her best friend Delaney, ex-demon Marcella Acosta has been banished to exist in the plane between heaven and hell-and there isn't a shopping mall in sight. After numerous failed attempts to contact Delaney through a bunch of hack mediums, Marcella's at her wit's end. But there's one medium she's hasn't tried yet, and he just happens to be Delaney's scorching hot brother Kellen- the one guy who never gave Marcella the time of day.
Something to Talk Aboutby Dakota Cassidy
www.DakotaCassidy.comSexy is as sexy does. And in Plum Orchard, sugar, it does! Emmeline Amos is sick of her ex saying she's boring and prissy. After all, she works for a phone-sex company! (As general manager, but still.) On a rare girls' night out, fueled by blender drinks and bravado, Em accepts a shocking dare-to handle a call herself. But it's tipsy Em who gets an earful from an irate single father on the other end of the line. Awkward. But not as awkward as discovering that same mad dad is Call Girls' gorgeous new programmer. Jax Hawthorne is still upset that his daughter called the "girlfriend store" on his behalf, but he can't deny he'd choose a hot-librarian type like Em if he were looking for love. Which he's not. Em wants to do more than just talk the talk. So she makes a bawdy bargain with Jax. They've both been burned before-this time, they'll keep it strictly physical. Except as soon as they settle on no strings attached, things start to get tangled....
Talk Dirty to Meby Dakota Cassidy
Former mean girl Dixie Davis is back in town and it's payback time. Literally. Dixie is flat broke and her best-make that only-friend, Landon, is throwing her a lifeline from the Great Beyond. Dixie stands to inherit his business...if she meets a few conditions: She's got to live in Landon's mansion. With her gorgeous ex-fiancé, Caine Donovan. Who could also inherit the business. Which is a phone sex empire. Wait, what? Landon's will lays it out: whoever gets the most new clients becomes the owner of Call Girls. Dixie has always been in it to win it, especially when it comes to Caine, who's made it clear he's not going down easy. (Oh, mercy.) Can Dixie really talk dirty and prove that she's cleaned up her act? Game on! Plum Orchard, Georgia, is about to get even juicier...www.DakotaCassidy.comPlum Orchard, Georgia, is about to get even juicier... Notorious mean girl Dixie Davis is back in town and it's payback time. Literally. Dixie is flat broke and her best-make that only-friend, Landon, is throwing her a lifeline from the Great Beyond. Dixie stands to inherit his business...if she meets a few conditions: She's got to live in Landon's mansion. With her gorgeous ex-fiancé, Caine Donovan. Who could also inherit the business. Which is a phone sex empire. Wait, what? Landon's will lays it out: whoever gets the most new clients becomes the owner of Call Girls. Dixie has always been in it to win it, especially when it comes to Caine, who's made it clear he's not going down easy. (Oh, mercy.) Can Dixie really talk dirty and prove that she's cleaned up her act? Game on!
Talk This Wayby Dakota Cassidy
In her sexy new series, bestselling author Dakota Cassidy introduces the Call Girls, a spirited group of friends ready to take on lust, love and everything in between.... Find out where it all began in this delicious novella!If life is like a box of chocolates, Cat Butler has tasted them all-and decided on none. It's no wonder she can't keep a job, even though her mother's health depends on it. Just when she finds herself up a creek without a paddle-again-a benevolent friend throws her a lifeline. In the form of a job at, of all places, a phone sex hotline. Not exactly what she had in mind, but if it pays the bills for her mom's expensive nursing home, what's the harm?Successful entrepreneur Flynn McGrady knows a thing or two about responsibility. So when his mother has a stroke, he knows the right thing to do is relocate to Atlanta to be near her while she recovers. He's got a plan for everything-except for feisty Cat, who finally gets his mama to talk again. Talk dirty, that is, and he's not pleased. Cat is gorgeous and sassy to boot...too bad she's not the type to settle down.Cat and Flynn may have bigger fish to fry, but the sparks between them are hotter than hell. And when they finally give in to temptation, the results are explosive. Can a girl who follows her heart and a guy who follows his head find their way to forever?Want more sizzling stories of the Call Girls? Their exploits continue in Talk Dirty to Me, available soon from Harlequin MIRA.
Talking After Midnightby Dakota Cassidy
www.DakotaCassidy.com Shields up, sugar-things in Plum Orchard are about to get real. Marybell Lyman is notorious for two things: Her look. The wicked hairstyle, multiple piercings and practiced sneer that say: "Stay back-I bite." Her voice. The syrupy lilt that's her bread and butter at Call Girls, the prim little town's flourishing phone-sex company. Hunky handyman Taggart Hawthorn is mesmerized by the contradiction: such sweet tones inside such a spiky shell! He wants to know more about mysterious Marybell, to hear more of her sexy talk-all for himself. But Tag's attentions, delicious as they are, have Marybell panicked. She's been hiding a long time. She's finally got a home, a job and friends she adores. She won't have it all snatched away by another stupid mistake-like falling in love. So when Marybell's past comes calling, she and the Call Girls will prove no one handles scandals like a Southern girl!
Waltz This Wayby Dakota Cassidy
In her new novel, national bestselling author of Burning Down the Spouse, Dakota Cassidy takes on life, love, and championship ballroom dancing. Get ready to rumba. Left without a partner... When former ballroom champion Melina Cherkasov found out that her famous husband was cheating, she was devastated, especially since she was informed by a sleazy reporter on national TV. Thanks to an ironclad prenup and a scumbag ex, Melina has to pack up her dog and her dignity and take refuge in her dad's retirement community in New Jersey....it's time to take the lead. To make ends meet, Melina puts her dancing shoes to use as an instructor at Westmeyer-a private school for boy geniuses. Teaching a bunch of hormonal teenagers to waltz is trying, but the school's sexy handyman provides ample distraction. Drew McPhee is perfect, except for one thing: He doesn't like dancing. Thankfully, the finesse Drew lacks on the floor is more than made up for by his skills in the bedroom. And after one steamy night, the ballroom diva is the one getting swept off her feet...
You Dropped a Blonde on Meby Dakota Cassidy
A delightful new romantic comedy from an author who "never disappoints."* (New York Times bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson) She was the perfect party-planning, haute-to-the max trophy wife. Now Maxine Cambridge is broke, unemployable and living with her mother and teenage son in a retirement village, with her self-esteem kicked to the curb. Until her geeky former classmate Campbell Barker returns, all grown-up- and off-the-scale smokin' hot. Campbell refuses to believe Max isn't that smart, funny girl he's crushed on since high school. The more Max tries to show him he's wrong, the more she rediscovers her long-retired mojo. Now, she's ready to throw down some payback on her ex-life and fight for what she deserves...
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If all those paternity claim rumors are getting Justin Bieber down, he might want to check out this video of Jimmy Fallon. Donning his best Bieber garb, Fallon managing to make light of the whole situation on his late night show Wednesday night.
Set to the tune of Bieber's aptly titled hit, "Baby," Fallon has this message for anyone claiming the teen pop star gave them a baby: "You said we did it and I'm a dad / My lawyer's tripping 'cause this looks bad / You only said this to get my cash / Now Selena Gomez is going to kick my ass."
Oh, and the performance art piece even had props – in the form of condoms that Fallon/Bieber whipped out mid-song. And those claims that the experience was short-lived? Well, he's got this message: It wasn't 30 seconds, it was 45 seconds. Ok? Ok!
Check the clip out after the jump.
These days there's a lot of denying going on from Camp Bieber. On Wednesday, Bieber called into Ryan Seacrest's radio show and wanted to clear the air about a few things, namely that he and Selena Gomez did not adopt a puppy together.
"I don't even have a dog! I have a dog. His name is Sam, but he lives with my grandparents. I never got a new dog," he told the radio host. "I didn't adopt a dog, no. A friend of mine did. I don't take credit for the dog. I don't have anything to do with that dog. I think he's a cute dog, but he's not my dog. I love dogs. I condone people adopting from shelters."
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Sarah Kervin – Passing Through
Sarah Kervin – Passing Through (CD)
Genera: Pop, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter
URL: http://www.sarahkervin.com/
by Heather Savage edited by Devin McAlister
"Passing Through" by Sarah Kervin (2012) has much to commend it. Admittedly, there is a whole lot of variety to these arrangements and performances. First: Kervin's impressive band delivers rock solid playing like a well oiled machine. This is testament to hundreds of hours of rehearsal time no doubt. Second: Kervin's sultry voice is the perfect fit for this writing style. Kervin has the attributes required of an effective Singer/Songwriter. Third: Kervin's sound and amazing songwriting touch are as good as it gets. All songs are a skillful combination of modern pop rock yet with a slight New York aftertaste that will remind you of Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Marc Cohen, Paul Davis and Harry Connick Jr. to Nora Jones. Kervin has the creativity and songwriting prowess to be extremely dangerous behind the mic. There's also a unique quality to this catalogue that breaks the mold when compared to the mundane pop-rock that's been filling the airwaves lately. What am I trying to say – well let m start by saying there is nothing fake and superficial about Sarah Kervin. Not every square inch is filled with musical ambience delivered under duress – but musical space this allows the music to breathe on its own and vocal passion that cannot be faked. Equally as impressive is how marketable this 10 song catalogue truly is. It covers so much ground and despite this it manages to not spread itself to thin across to many lines – nice touch. I've always said if you can play it a party, then it's marketable. The music is extremely marketable – with a fresh Jazz-Pop-Rock sound that is passionate and entertaining. All 10 tracks will genuinely lift your spirits unlike most music you hear on the radio these days.
Let me go on record by saying this latest release from Sarah Kervin has no real notable weaknesses that I can hear. Her latest release "Passing Through" is an endearing album limited by nothing. I would imagine in time we will hear more from this vocalist from Brooklyn as the years unfold. Time will tell but I can honestly say this is one artist that is set up for marketable success down the road with respect to her vocal style and approach. All of this gives modern day Pop well deserved wake up call.
Official Rating 8.5/10 stars
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Reviewed By Robert M (PORT CHARLOTTE, FL) Reviewed for a 2015 Honda CR-V —2/25/2015 3:16 AM
Easy to use, works with both womens and mens type bikes. Does not tip away from vehicle so bikes need to be removed to get in rear hatch.
Reviewed By David L (QUINCY, MA) Reviewed for a 2013 Honda Accord —7/28/2014 9:08 PM
This rack is very sturdy but with sturdiness comes heft. At 45lbs, it's not the lightest rack on the market but it feels very stable even without the stabilizing strap. I have plenty if clearance to open the trunk without having to use the tilting feature . I gotta knock a point off for not having keyed hooks to prevent theft, but the fact that it comes with a bike cable and a locking hitch pin standard makes it worth the price difference between the XTC.


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Australian Distributor Madman Entertainment To Release STREET FIGHTER: ASSASSIN'S FIST Late 2014
Excellent news! The highly stylized and well produced web series will be getting a slick home and digital release in Australia and New Zealand as Madman takes keen interest.
From the official statement:
Madman Entertainment are pleased to announce the acquisition of Street Fighter: Assassins Fist. FUNimation will handle distribution in the United States and Canada, whilst Manga Entertainment will be distributing in the United Kingdom.The 12 episode web series premiered on Machinima in late May, and has already received millions of views, along with praise from entertainment and games media alike.Madman will release the web series as a 143 minute feature-length film, containing an additional 13 minutes of exclusive bonus footage not seen in the web series, as well as behind-the-scenes clips, interviews with the cast and crew, deleted scenes, and much more.
Trailer and poster is attached. Stay tuned to Twitch for a full review of the release, pending date (TBA this year).
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- Boards (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/boards/)
- - Looking for interesting tech. may have found it with Head. What do you think? (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/boards/60585-looking-interesting-tech-may-have-found.html)
Looking for interesting tech. may have found it with Head. What do you think?
Hey everyone. I am in the market for a new board. I currently ride my Ride Highlife with rome targas, bataleon evil twin with flux sf45s and my Nidecker Ultralight with Now IPOs. Boots for all are ride insanos. Now im not sure what im looking for other than another unique board.
Anyway I have been searching for something that sparks my interest for the last few days and have stumbled upon the Head AK SC I. and the Head. Force I. KERS. I noticed the force has Kers and the AK SC I. does not list it. Wondering if anyone knows how they compare. Im an electrician so i find the idea that there is a microchip in the board that collects kinetic energy and releases electricity into ths fibers to stiffen them while adding pop amazing. I read it was tKen from F1 racers and helicopter blades. Anyway what do you guys think?
Dude did you type this on a mobile phone? I'm having a hard time reading your post the punctuation is all over the fucking place. Also Now IPOs are more of a park binding arn't they? Combining that with an Ultralight strikes me as odd.
Rider in Mind: All mountain guy that's going from the peak to the park and then some. Or a jib kid that wants ankle flex for going through kinked rails.
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A. NOW's are capable everywhere. That's part of what makes them awesome.
B. OP, this tech is very gimmicky. I think someone tried this on skis some years ago, and it failed. It wasn't reactive right and just fucked with your turn initiation and whatnot.
If you want to drop for something techy grab yoself a Nitro Ultimate with a full Koroyd core.
Hey everyone, I am in the market for a new board. I currently ride my "Ride: Highlife" with "Rome: Targas", "Bataleon: Evil twin" with "Flux SF45's" and my "Nidecker: Ultralight" with "Now IPO's". The boots I used for all of my setups are my "Ride: Insanos". Now, I'm not sure what im looking for other than another unique board.
Anyway, I have been searching for a new board to spark my interest over the last few days and have stumbled upon the "Head: AK SC I." and the "Head: Force I. KERS." I noticed the "Head: Force" has "Kers" and the "AK SC I." does not list it. Wondering if anyone knows how they compare. Im an electrician so I find the idea that there is a microchip in the board that collects kinetic energy and releases electricity into ths fibers to stiffen them while adding pop amazing. I read it was taken from F1 racers and helicopter blades. Anyway what do you guys think?
Hopefully you can understand it in this format.
Anyway, I could care less if they were geared towards park pipe freeriding or anything else. My now bindings function 10 times better than any other binding I have tried. I would suggest them to anyone doing anything. Again that is my opinion and it will not change. Also the low highback literally means nothing in my opinion. They changed the binding in a way that you have a very thick heel hoop that acts like the highback. Thats why most people take the highbacks off. That was one of their big marketing points if I remember correctly while I was going through the specs.
Nivek, curious how you know the tech is gimmicky. Have you personally ridden these boards? I have been doing a lot of reading and it seems the tech has been improving every year so I am curious where you got your opinion?
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It was a friend who was a ski racer trying the tech. Basically it cant react fast enough to the conditions at the speeds at which it will be useful. K2 also did the whold soaking up static thing in Skis in the early 90's. They arent playing with it now cause it doesnt have a big enough effect. On top of that, tech like this only decreases the effective life of a board.
In short, the problem wasnt the tech, it was the concept.
Now Koroyd. Its the first aramid construction to be designed in cooperation with a snowboard company, Nitro. When I first heard of it last year I googled it right away and the only references were to Nitro. Its a cicular honeycomb not built from cardboard and epoxy. The sonicly fuse plastic tubes together to create the matrix. One of the benefits of that technique is being tubes instead of hexagons like in Nomex you get consitent flex behavior in every direction. And using plastic instead of cardboard means the boards are damp AND lively. The Nitro Ultimate is a full Koroyd core. If you want something fancy and stupid expensive get that. Unless you want a straight pow board then look into one of the Eneavor offerings for 2014 or if a split, the Jones Ultracraft. Also this way you're giving money to more snowboard oriented brands.
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Why Maine marriage vote matters
As Emily Belz reported Wednesday, Maine voters this week repealed that state's law legalizing same-sex marriage.
For supporters---and opponents---of traditional marriage, the vote is important for a number of reasons.
First, money didn't make the difference. According to Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, groups such as Stand for Marriage Maine (supporting traditional marriage) were outspent by a margin of 2-to-1.
The passing of Proposition 8 in California (which overturned court-ordered gay marriage) galvanized proponents of same-sex marriage, and Maine was seen by many as an opportunity to stop any momentum gained on the West Coast. According to Brown, "Same-sex marriage activists saw Maine as their best chance to win a direct marriage vote." But despite resources, energy, and plenty of media attention, the momentum to maintain traditional marriage was not slowed.
Maine's vote was the first time in history that voters overturned action taken by a legislature on this issue. This in a state not considered conservative by a long shot.
Brown calls the vote "a decisive and historic victory for marriage." No doubt supporters of same-sex marriage will downplay its significance.
But consider this from an October Associated Press article leading up to the vote:
"Supporters of same-sex marriage, in Maine and elsewhere, are cautiously hopeful of a landmark victory, which they believe would have an impact in other states including California. But they acknowledge that defeat---by an electorate known for its independence and moderation---would be crushing."
As Brown put it, "The voters in a deep New England state have now joined 30 other states in directly affirming marriage as the union of one man and one woman. If we can win in Maine, we can win anywhere."


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Mesa, AZ (Sports Network) - Donald Lutz hit a three-run home run to lead the
Cincinnati Reds in an 11-1 rout of the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday.
Todd Frazier hit a solo home run while Jay Bruce and Cesar Izturis each added
two hits, an RBI and a run scored for the Reds, who totaled 15 hits in the
game. Johnny Cueto gave up just four hits and a walk with five strikeouts over
six innings.
Steve Clevenger had two hits and drove in the lone run of the game for the
Cubs. Jeff Samardzija gave up a run on five hits over five innings.
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According to Tony Grossi of ESPNCleveland.com, the Browns and Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels have been talking again.
Confirmed: #Browns and #Patriots OC Josh McDaniels had more conversations this week. Possibly back in mix.
— Tony Grossi (@TonyGrossi) January 23, 2014
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Is Blue The New Black?
by Leslie Morgan Steiner
Dear Maureen Dowd:
Thank you so for your recent column, Blue is the New Black. Thanks for enlightening me about how women today are SO unhappy because of all the choices heaped upon us since the feminist revolution began in 1972. I always knew my troubles were all Gloria Steinem's fault.
Thanks for explaining that:
- Unlike today, before the 1970s, women in America felt greater well-being than men (I'd like to insert a smiley face here, please)
- That having stepped into male-dominated realms (you don't say which ones, but I assume you mean paid work like journalism, politics, medicine, academia, professional sports, television and entertainment, and perhaps the gym) we women have put more demands upon our wittle selves
- That women are much harder on ourselves than men are on themselves (how could we CHOOSE to be so dumb?)
- That women's lives are increasingly crowded yet increasingly empty, even with all these darn choices
- That having kids makes us unhappy, even though of course we'd never admit that publicly
Maureen, I'd really like you to meet my mother. She graduated from Radcliffe in 1956 – when you were four years old. She got married in 1958, and like your mother, gave birth to five children long before the Pill or reliable birth control made reproductive choice available. My mother had her last child in 1972, the year your source, The General Social Survey, began tracking Americans' moods.
Mom mostly stayed home with us kids while my father worked long, intellectually stimulating hours in the relative peace and quiet of his law firm. He traveled frequently throughout the United States, Europe and Asia for his work. He earned lots of money. Unfortunately we kids were a handful, always hungry and thirsty and just a tad bratty, energetic and insouciant; one of my favorite memories is of Mom throwing her black high heels at us because we would not be quiet while she took a phone call. She'd played three varsity sports in college so she had darn good aim.
She raised us kids without benefit of an involved husband, disposable diapers, carseats or even regular use of a car, a microwave, a breast pump, childcare, a computer, the Internet, or even a cordless phone. Dad kept her on an allowance. I recall her crying in frustration when she did not have enough money to buy us shoes or pay the pediatrician's bill. We did in fact have the money, Dad just controlled it rather stringently, spending it on Redskins season tickets and new suits instead. His contribution to the household was to take us to the zoo for two hours on Sundays, if the weather was good and there was no football game on tv.
When she could, Mom worked off and on in the one field open to her and many other women born in the 1930s: teaching. Then after 32 years of motherhood and marriage, my father left her. He was a partner at a prominent international law firm, with lots of professional legal relationships in our town's courts. Let's just say Mom had to fight like a proverbial female dog to get any economic support whatsoever. She hadn't really worked in 30 years, people said; what was she due financially anyway?
Was Mom happy? Happier than Dad? Happier than I am today?
Amen to your column, Leslie, and bravo to your mom.
Thank you for this terrific and moving article. I loved the way you couched this as an open letter to Maureen Dowd using your mother's experience as a counterpoint to Dowd's flippant conclusions. I couldn't agree more with your view that having "too many choices" is not what's making women unhappy and that life for women was much harder (and is much harder) when they don't have real choices. I blogged about this today (and quoted you) in my Work Wednesday blog on www.CurrentMom.com - "National Work and Family Month: Happiness and the Working Mom" at http://www.currentmom.com/currentmom/2009/10/my-office-is-celebrating-na...
I'll grant you some women are unhappy (me included sometimes). I know this from my friends (and I read truuconfessions.com where the women are brutally honest). There are always going to be reasons to be unhappy but go back to how it was before when we didn't have choices that is the most ridiculous thing I have heard. I have to wonder about any woman who would say that.
My grandmother almost died after giving birth to her fifth child. The doctor ordered her to not even think about having a number six and advised her to have her tubes tied. Back in the fifties the husband had to sign a consent form for tubal ligation. My grandfather refused to sign and my grandmother became pregnant with number six. Her doctor was certain she would not survive. He told my grandfather that if she did he was going to perform the tubal ligation even if my grandfather would not consent. Fortunately my beautiful grandmother survived. She was an amazing woman who managed to raise six kids in the turbulent sixties with an alcoholic husband. She never complained...who would have listened anyway?
So no, I don't agree that women are more unhappy. I think that the feminist generations have forgotten how to just "suck it up" and deal with life. Women disect their lives and feelings ad nauseam. Maybe Maureen should have talked to our older generations to see what they thought before sticking her foot into her mouth.
As a society we have stopped taking the time to "smell the roses" and enjoy small moments. If women are so darned unhappy maybe they should get their faces off of Facebook and devote their time to talking to their husbands and being with their children!
Bravo! I agree entirely! Since when did having choices/options mean being more unhappy? I'd like Ms Dowd to meet my grandmothers, my MIL and even my mother - whose choices were very limited. They certainly are/were not happier than I am.
'Being tired' does not equal 'being unhappy'.
Also the fact that some women make bad choices and are not realistic in what they can do, does not mean that the rest of us shouldn't be given the opportunity to have a choice. How about people take responsibility for their choices and their lives and stop blaming the 'feminist revolution'?! Or is that a too radical thought?
I have to say, that regardless of how one woman lived in 1950 to how one lives in today's culture...is it not so much the career choices, breakthrough technology or media sources that make a woman happy with her choices in life but rather the man or partner that she chooses to share her life with and how much she values her family along with that spouse/partner?
You can find many a grandmother out there who were once housewives with many children and a busy household to tend to with little money but had loving husbands and a wonderful life of memories in raising their families. And today, I still see women who are career oriented, highly educated and married and still experience a shovenistic and dominating marriage full of unhappiness and regret.
In either the past or to the present. I believe that our happiness does indeed depend on choices...for certain...and that most important choice being to choose a partner who is loving, giving, respectful of them and most committed to their family and life together...if a woman could put as much weight and consideration into their choice of life partners as they do into their education and career paths; we may have many more happier and content women; no matter which lifestyle they wish to lead...
Unfortunately, either way you wish to turn the clock there will always be men/partners out there whom are not ideal life choices for us as was there were many a man in his day; even decades ago, who cherished, loved and made their wife/partner very, very happy individuals.
Rock on!! I completely agree. And perhaps I am the exception, but I think being a working mother is a blast!! My kids are lots of fun (well, at least sometimes), I love my job, and a hectic schedule and a lot of crock-pot dinners are no great hardship in my book. One of the reasons, I think, that working mothers feel so stretched is that many of us have unrealistic expectations for how challenging it is to be a parent. Plus, we are raising children in an era where mothers are required to provide an enormous amount of stimulation to their children- much moreso than our mothers ever did. If we didn't feel so compelled to shuttle everyone to piano lessons and judo class, and if we didn't feel so guilty and sending the kids down to the basement and telling them to amuse themselves, our lives might be quite a bit easier.
This is a debate that has so many layers. Leslie, I agree with your assessment, were our moms and grandmas really happier at home without choices. And vlarson, I agree with you that choices can cause anxiety, but we have to remember communication regarding expectations can relieve a lot of the stress. Women have every right to pursure and relish in their careers and when we choose to communicate with our spouse, share the responsibilities (and that means accepting that he might do things differently than us) and delegate a little more we really can have it all...almost (there really is no cure for lack of sleep, is there?).
I say thanks for the choices, I am happy and empowered because I choose my situation.
I totally agree with you that "Lack of any real choices – and no ability to bitch about it — is much worse."
And happiness is a very hard thing to measure — and what we think will make us happy in the futures is based on what we think and feel now; all subject to change!
But I will say that our unrealistic expectations of things — work, marriage, children — have created a lot of stress. Look at Parenting magazine's "Mad at Dad" article last January. Of the 1,000 moms who responded, most feel angry: "we're mad that we spend more mental energy on the details of parenting. We're mad that having children has turned our lives upside down much more than theirs. We're mad that these guys, who can manage businesses or keep track of thousands of pieces of sports trivia, can be clueless when it comes to what our kids are eating and what supplies they need for school. And more than anything else, we're mad that they get more time to themselves than we do."
Is that making women unhappy? Granted, a study of 1,000 moms isn't the full picture, but I see and hear similar things among the moms in my community. (Of course, many of them are "hover" moms, and that's one thing our moms didn't do.)
Choices do create all sorts of anxiety, but, as you say, I'm truly glad I have those choices, anxiety be damned. Men, however, don't have the same choices as women do (how many men ponder whether they'll work full time, part time or not at all when they get married?) I wonder why they say they're "happy"?


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Jennifer Lawrence Visits Nobu, Kate Upton Dines at Landmarc
This week's Celebrity Settings.
This week's Celebrity Settings.
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ST. LOUIS - Andrew Sorenson advanced to the quarterfinal round in the 165-pound bracket of the NCAA Wrestling Championships Thursday evening in the Scottrade Center. Sorenson, the No. 3 seed, defeated Cornell's Marshall Peppelman, 4-2 to advance to the round of eight against 11th-seed Brandon Hatchett of Lehigh Friday morning. Penn State leads the team scoring after the first day with 38.5 points. Iowa State is 25th with 10 points.
Three Iowa State wrestlers, Ryak Finch (125), Luke Goettl (141) and Matt Gibson (HWT) won their consolation matches and remain in the tournament.
"We have four of our five guys surviving into day number two," Iowa State head coach Kevin Jackson said. "Andrew did a good job today. The scores do not matter. He wrestled tough and not at 100 percent and showed poise."
Sorenson racked up more than two minutes of riding time against Peppelman. The Cyclone received treatment immediately after the win. Sorenson and Hatchett have never met. Sorenson is 29-2 this season.
Finch got back on the winning track by pinning Tyler Iwamura of Cal-Bakersfield in 52 seconds. Finch, now 15-11 this season, will wrestle Jon Morrison of Oklahoma State Friday morning. Finch beat Morrison, 3-2 in Stillwater, Okla. in January but lost to the Cowboy 4-1 at the Big 12 Championships.
Goettl followed Finch's victory by fall with another pin. The Cyclone stuck Kevin Fanta in 1:40 to improve to 12-12 this season. Goettl will face Mitchell Port of Edinboro in the first of two rounds of consolation Friday morning.
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Iowa State Results
Second round
165 - Andrew Sorenson (IS) beat Marshall Peppelman (Cornell), 4-2
Consolation round
125 - Ryak Finch (IS) pinned Tyler Iwamura (Cal-Bakersfield) :52
141 - Luke Goettl (IS) pinned Kevin Fanta (Northern Illinois), 1:40
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Back in January, I shared what I thought at the time was a stunning fact about Iraq in 2012:
On average, there were 18 bombings and 53 violent deaths a week.
…yes, that's right, 18 bombings, per week, over the course of 52 weeks. Not in 2006, mind you, but in 2012.
And I got that statistic from this article in The Economist, which also came with this graph:
My post had — and still has — zero comments.
Not that that is not surprising. Most of my blog posts have zero comments. Which is to be expected. I make no claim whatsoever that anything here is worth reading, nor do I do much to promote this blog. Whenever I tell people I have a blog, I always add this little caveat, "…not that I suggest you read it."
But what is stunning — not at all surprising, but stunning nonetheless, if that makes sense, as I'll explain in a minute — is that there can be 18 bombings in Iraq per week, for an entire year, and that barely registers on the American consciousness… yet an equally senseless, mind-numbingly tragic, horrible and logistically similar event in Boston, becomes a national sensation.
We "feel" for Boston, as a nation, yet a similar event in Iraq hardly makes a headline.
Now, let me state very clearly what I am not saying:
- The difference in attitudes towards domestic vs. foreign death is surprising.
- There is anything "normal" about attacks like these.
- Iraq is similar to America.
- The White House's American flag should not fly at half-mast from now until next week.
- …etc.
None of those are what I'm getting at, and I don't believe in any of them.
Instead, I'm making just one, simple point: that there is this phenomenon, moral and psychological, that really does deserve a lot more attention than it gets. This phenomenon, of caring more that something happened, when it happened to people who are similar to you, than when it happens to "the other."
It's a very strange thing, when you think about it, because all of the most popular moral and ethical systems — from utilitarian consequentialism, to Kantian categorical imperatives, to born-again evangelical Christianity, to Buddhism, to Judaism, to atheistic humanism, unthinking intuition, and all the rest — tell us that it does not matter whether a tragedy happens to an 8-year-old American, Iraqi, or Guatemalan. It is equally a tragedy whether it happens to "us" or "them."
Accordingly, we all kind of "know" that when an 8-year-old dies in a terrorist attack it is a cruel, tragic, violent event, irrespective of almost any other fact about that 8-year-old. The mere fact of his nationality, or his physical proximity to my body or my workplace (I have worked in Dorchester, where he grew up, and for two years lived right around the corner from where he died), should have no bearing whatsoever on the magnitude of that tragedy, from a strictly moral standpoint. I should be equally horrified irrespective of distance or nationality — that is what my (and almost everyone's) moral/ethical system tells me.
Yet psychologically, we all — all of us — have this dramatically different response to a senseless death when it is an 8-year-old in Boston, vs. when it's an 8-year-old in Fallujah. That flies in the face of almost all of our ethical worldviews, yet it is an inescapable psychological phenomenon.
It's like, we all know that this thing is wrong — this vacillation between caring and uncaring on the basis of arbitrary things like distance and nationality — yet we all do it anyway.
Again, this is not at all surprising, and I don't mean to "normalize" or minimize Monday's tragedy in any way. I only mean to call attention to this fact about our individual and collective moral psychology, because I do believe it bears more thought, more attention, above and beyond all of the (very valid!) things we're all thinking and feeling and writing about this one, individual event. Because things like this do happen to other people, all the time, yet we (strangely, from an ethical standpoint) tend not to care at all.
And I don't mean to restrict that comment to just terrorist attacks. This is a problem that affects all types of human behavior.
Over the last two weeks people have been sharing a variety of other thoughts about this attack. I agree with many, if not most of them, and will not repeat them here. You have probably read them too, and probably agree with them, like me. But the weight of this one, particular, strange, and (I think) ethically unwarranted characteristic of our moral psychology has for the most part somehow gone unnoticed, just when we and those abroad should be feeling solidarity, and empathy.
That mental defect almost certainly contributed to this attack. It might even be that had someone overcome it, the Boston Marathon bombings wouldn't have happened.
In any case, back in January, shortly after I shared that stunning fact about Iraq in 2012 — about the 18 bombings per week — Robert Wright left his position at The Atlantic so he could spend more time to work on writing a book. He wrote the following in his last post:
The world's biggest single problem is the failure of people or groups to look at things from the point of view of other people or groups–i.e. to put themselves in the shoes of "the other."
That is an incredibly strong claim — it's about the world's biggest single problem [!] — but it might just be right. And even if it isn't right, it isn't far off.
Robert's book is about Buddhism, but as he argues in his post, it is relevant to international relations, and I would argue it's relevant to attacks like this one.
So the single most stunning fact about the Boston bombing, to me, is how much we care about it relative to similar attacks going on in countries all around the world — a significant number of which clearly do have to do with us, our leaders, our shopping habits, and our moral innocence or culpability. Tonight there are no candle-light vigils for anyone other than the victims of Monday's attack, as far as I know, and that is something worth thinking about.
If there were one thing I would say you should do with this observation, it's this: take the anger, the solidarity, the sympathy, and every other emotion you have about the Boston Marathon bombings, and put it to work. Use your understanding of this event as a lens for understanding how other people think and feel, when they suffer. Then, the next time something tragic happens — and there will be more tragedies — do the same thing, again. If you do — if everyone does — I believe it will not be too long before people start to see things from the point of view of other people or groups. And on the margin, over time, events like these will become less common.
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The Florida Transportation Builders Association delivered close to 3,600 petition signatures to Scott on Monday, urging he strike the fund shift. Builders say losing the money will hurt construction efforts and cost 8,400 jobs.
The association's president, Bob Burleson, said in a letter to Scott the move "will only add to Florida's strained unemployment compensation and healthcare systems.'
Joining Burleson in the pitch are six transportation building organizations, along with Associated Industries of Florida and Florida TaxWatch. The $69.7 billion budget now before Scott is almost certain the cause more layoffs in Florida economists warn, even as the state's April unemployment level fell to 10.8 percent, its lowest level since September 2009.
Scott, though, has voiced little support for public spending as an economic driver. "I"m focused on building private sector jobs," Scott said last week, when he raised the possibility of vetoing millions of dollars spending on university and college construction.
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I have to say that over the years I have received some great advice about how to build my system, from virtually nil to where it is today and I have appreciated this greatly. However, it is true that in recent times, it has become a forum for people to sell things. This in itself it not a bad thing, especially since I have benefited from some of the ideas contained within these threads. The down side is that there are some who are merely wishing to expand their commercial interests. Worse still when there are undeclared conflicts of interest.
As I said elsewhere not so much bothered about this forum as it has a lack of any really helpful threads anymore. People are more interested in selling things, or else arguing over who has the biggest screen.
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thanks for the offer Mel, given your substantial experience it will be the best hand job of my life
Posted 19 February 2012 - 01:32 PM
thanks for the offer Mel, given your substantial experience it will be the best hand job of my life
sounds to me like youve already started without me
Posted 19 February 2012 - 02:46 PM
It's not that I'm homophobic (or in denial like areGAYtwo ) .... it' s just that I;m not gay
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 03:20 PM
BTW, they don't offend me so it aint about dat.
Also, I'm not supporting the OP by refraining from the bagging. It's just that another +1 from me is flogging a dead horse.
Finally, If calling someone gay is offensive to gay people then calling someone 12 years old may be offensive to 12 year olds.
Posted 21 February 2012 - 03:33 PM
and as pointed out by another member, it is not against the law to call someone a wanker when they very likely are.
Posted 21 February 2012 - 04:33 PM
Calling someone a "wanker" is offensive in the context it was used in by Chopsus. Its the context that matters most
No, what matters most is that calling someone a wanker is mainly offensive to the target. Calling someone gay can offend people who had nothing to do with the spat that's going on.
Posted 21 February 2012 - 05:17 PM
Oh and by the way, refering to yourself as "Gspot" might offend some of the ladies around the place, of which there appears to be quite a few just an observation, don't get all aroused
My rule is that just because someone finds something offensive, it doesn't mean it's offensive.
Offending women??? My friends call me "G", this is my "Spot" Also GS (GSpot as opposed to Gspot) are my initials. What is offensive about that? Oh, y'all have dirty minds.
Posted 22 February 2012 - 12:19 PM
... if there are any other brands people would be keen on send me a pm and if theres enough interest we'll offer those too
So, let me get this straight arextwo, you are now running a GB for a projector screen, but you are not 100% sure which size, AR, or brand the GB is about, or who is supplying it!?
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Due diligence is advised after you receive prices from this GB
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spoilt this GB and I'm looking for a screen.
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Good Luck! You're gunna need it!
Leave it be Chops. Not worth the angst.
This surely has to be the most farcical GB I've ever seen on this forum.
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And your mate Webbsy with 12 of his last 13 threads about group buys and has one retailer no commercial interest there you tossbag!!
Who cares which retailer the Gb is through as long as potential buyers are happy with the price they are offered. Noone has a gun to their head and they are aren't under any obligation to purchase if they do not like the price. Purchases can decide by themselves if Webbsy's GBs are a good deal or not. Same with your own GB.
Posted 09 March 2012 - 06:37 PM
We have one at work and with the JVC HD950 the picture is fantastic with out of the box settings.
They are an expensive screen, but well worth the money.
The Supernova One is also shipped "assembled" as it one piece construction.