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Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- ZS (Talk) 22:45, January 15, 2010
Hi. Just wondering where you got the population figures from? We need to make sure we aren't guessing or making things up (without some evidence behind it). Thanks - Gboyers talk 00:12, January 16, 2010 (UTC)
- Calm down - no need to get angry. Your edit is still in the history of the page. I just don't think that the first thing people need to know about the different boroughs (in their one-line description) is their population number. That is more detail that should go on each borough's individual page (eg Dukes). Can you explain how you found or calculated those numbers? Unless they are somewhere obvious, we'd need some evidence or explanation to back them up. Gboyers talk 00:41, January 16, 2010 (UTC)
Okay, could you find it again? We can't just put random guesses on this wiki, otherwise people will think it's true. Don't forget that the other site might have made it up themselves! I still don't think they should go on the main Liberty City in GTA IV Era page - just put them on the individual borough pages. You could also make a Population page that shows all the figures for all GTA games (even if you can't fill in all the numbers just yet). Gboyers talk 01:12, January 16, 2010 (UTC)
- I've just seen you mention that you used NYC population data. That's probably the best guess we're going to get. So on each page (eg Algonquin) you can say "Based on the population of Manhattan in 2008, the population of Algonquin is expected to be ____". That okay? The heights of the buildings is probably fine to take from real-life too, so long as you mention that. Gboyers talk 01:17, January 16, 2010 (UTC)
Britain is quite interesting, but can be a pain sometimes (just like living anywhere else). Instead of putting the population figures at Liberty City in GTA IV Era, go to Algonquin, Broker, Dukes, Bohan and Alderney. On those pages, instead of just saying "The population is 8000", add this: "Based on the population of <the real new york borough name> in 2008, the population of <this borough> is estimated to be 8000". That make sense? That way it lets us show those figures, whilst not pretending that they are completely accurate. Gboyers talk 01:44, January 16, 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, it is 3am here. To create a page, just click a red link (like Population), or go to Special:CreatePage. Gboyers talk 03:03, January 16, 2010 (UTC)
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I see your text in GB's talk page. It says: HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO GET THOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY DID YOU DO THAT IT WAS AN INTRESTING FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!
Please don't spam next time. That leads to a week ban. |0ComeKillLah, Meh|Talk to me!| 04:25, January 16, 2010 (UTC)
- It's okay, this user was upset as I'd removed his edits. That's not spam, that's getting angry. But everything's fine now. Gboyers talk 04:50, January 16, 2010 (UTC)
Please leave messages on my Talk page rather than on the board. As you can see in Recent Edits or the Deletion Log, the BAWSAQ HQ Building article was unnecessary as the information could all be put into the BAWSAQ article. There isn't enough separate, useful information that means it would need its own separate article. If you disagree, put all the information on the BAWSAQ page, and if it would be better as a separate article, then we can move it out. We have to think of the usefulness of a page (would people really search for that?) and how easy it is going to be to maintain the page in the future (lots of duplicate articles makes that difficult). Gboyers talk 19:29, January 18, 2010 (UTC)
- Stop getting angry, I won't warn you again. As I said above, you can see all deletions and their reasons in the Deletion Log. You can see all edits to a page by clicking "History" at the top. I assume you forgot that it moved to Tallest Buildings in GTA IV. Gboyers talk 20:13, January 18, 2010 (UTC)
Again, please leave messages on my Talk page. See Help:Tables for information on how to make tables work. Just carefully copy the code that I wrote, from one |- to the next |-, and only change the bits that need to change. Use the preview button before saving. Gboyers talk 20:16, January 18, 2010 (UTC)


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Alan: Yes. What happened was, Lost was conceived by Lloyd Braun, who was then the head of ABC, and who was on the verge of being fired, and needed a Hail Mary to prevent that from happening.
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Alan: Oh, yeah, Heroes was one of those classic "Emperor's New Clothes" situations. It was just that we were all so frustrated by what Lost was doing at the time, and then it was like, "Hey, look! Here's this show that's shiny and new, and it's giving us answers right away! Everything! And clearly they're building to something!" And it turned out they were building to somebody beating someone else up with a parking meter.
Matt: That whole thing is a testament to how incredibly ungrateful and easily distracted the heads of these major entertainment companies are. Lost, whatever problems it had in Season Two, was original, and a hit. That was ABC's big, shiny thing. Then they looked at somebody else's big, shiny thing that was slightly newer, and they said, "Let's make it like that!"
Alan: And you remember all these terrible Lost imitators. Threshold and Surface and Invasion and Flash-Forward. All of them sort of took the most superficial aspects of the show and said, "Oooh, let's do things that are weird and have mysteries and sci-fi," and that's not really what made Lost special.
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(indieWIRE/12.15.00) -- Whether it's the number of new distributors picking up films or some sort of lull in the creation of artistic and accessible works, there was very little consensus in our annual poll of the top movies of the year without U.S. distribution. As indieWIRE Editor-in-Chief Eugene Hernandez writes, "There was not a single film on my list of films without distribution that didn't ultimately find a home. Maybe this says something about the quality of the work, or maybe this also says that places like Cowboy Booking, Lot47, and IFC Films have cropped up to get some of the tougher films into theaters."
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Paul Pawlikowski's "The Last Resort" first caught indieWIRE's attention at the Edinburgh Film Festival, where Pawlikowski won an award for Best British Newcomer. But it wasn't until the Venice Film Festival, where regular contributors Andy Bailey and Andrea Meyer screened the film, that its impact was felt. In Bailey's review of the film, he wrote, "On the penultimate day of the 57th Venice Film Festival -- when grizzled festival-goers were least expecting it -- a 75-minute gem from Britain called 'The Last Resort' emerged as this year's undisputed Venetian swoon." Bailey championed the film's cast, noting "irresistible newcomer Dina Korzun" and "Paddy Considine, in another winning performance," and compared the film to "Breaking the Waves." "Though," he clarified, "Pawlikowski isn't after cheap hand-held melodramatics and heart-tugging pathos -- he's a committed documentary filmmaker who has tried (with unqualified success here) to inject his social realism with a more genuine narrative thrust."
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Another festival crowd-pleaser, veteran Hal Hartley actress Adrienne Shelly's "I'll Take You There" also made our list. The quirky comedy follows regular-guy Bill (Reg Rogers) in his quest to get his beautiful, seemingly perfect wife (Lara Harris) back in his life. Ally Sheedy co-stars as a whacked-out unlikely love interest that forms along the way. After screenings at Telluride, the LAIFF, the Hamptons, and a Best Director win at the U.S. Comedy Arts fest, this endearing road-movie with a hilarious supporting performance by Alice Drummond as a sharp-tongued grandmother seemed ripe for the plucking by one of the smaller distribs. Back in April, Shelly noted the distribution search to be confounding. "I'm quite a nice mixture of amusedly bitter and rapturously zen about the whole thing," she wrote.
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"Songs from the Second Floor" are the sort of rigorous, aesthetically bold films that apparently proved too daring for U.S. art-house distributors. Writing from Cannes, Mark Peranson wrote of "Blackboards": "Samira Makhmalbaf's second film (again co-written with father Mohsen, who also served as editor and producer) continues with the same main themes as 'The Apple,' the battles between parents and children and the need for education versus the need for survival. . . . At the age of 20, Makhmalbaf has already reached a level of complexity, both visual and narrative, than directors twice her age."
Regarding Swedish director Andersson's return to feature filmmaking after 25 years, Peranson recently filed this observance. "Oddly, 2000 had a noticeable lack of 'millennial' films; but along with Tarr's 'Harmonies,' the stand-out comes in Andersson's crafty, apocalyptic burlesque, an odd duck of one-shot, 'in medias res' wonders. It's what many people assumed was supposed to happen as the calendar struck triple-zero. For viewers familiar with the director's award-winning commercials, the film may feel like 40 ads strung together; others may find it a series of one-strip cartoons. Still, Andersson is selling a distinct, bleak view of the human condition: life is staying alive."
Fans of Arnaud Despeschin (and many have been cultivated since "La Sentinelle" and "My Sex Life. . . Or How I Got Into An Argument") would likely salivate at the chance to see his latest, "Esther Kahn," an English-language film starring Summer Phoenix as the eponymous, emotionally-empty heroine who aspires to be a stage actress in late 19th Century London. What more could you want? This Cannes competitor also features Ian Holm as Esther's acting teacher, providing for some of the more perplexing and engaging interactions to be found on screen all year. Not to mention one dreamy, unforgettable scene filled with balloons and existential questions.
Another Cannes premiere, Hungarian master Bela Tarr's "Werkmeister Harmonies" may drag in the slow first half, but as Peranson writes, "the four-years-in-the-making 'A Short (for B&etilde;la Tarr) Film About Revolution,' builds and builds, combining (believe it or not) ten minute takes, a narrative drive, deep-focus imagery, and a plangent musical score into a stunning climax that truly merits the oft misused adjective 'transcendent.'"
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The episode begins at a group therapy session, where the topic for the week is "Partner Intimacy"; and it does not mean sex! It is about knowing your partner and in the group we have an "Odd Couple", Wes and Travis. The counselor, Dr. Ryan asks Wes to share some information about Travis; but he doesn't know much. Travis tells the group that Wes' ex Alex did know quite a bit about Travis. So, Travis has an ex-girlfriend and the counselor tells Wes that he keeps his loved ones at an arm's distance as he tends to get too serious about the relationships. Travis tells her that she is perfectly right about that one! But then she moves on to Travis and tells him that he has a difficulty in keeping meaningful relationships. Nailed him! The group actually thought that they were gay partners; but hey, they are Police partners.
They are detectives and they work together. They are here to save their crumbling partnership. They are about to play a game, when their phones ring. They have a case to work on and they leave. It appears that Wes pulled his gun on Travis as Travis wasn't apologizing for a reason yet unknown. And that is how they end up in this therapy. They arrive at the crime scene. Wes examines the body; white male and unidentified. Wes tells the cops that the victim was killed someplace else. He doesn't look homeless as he is wearing designer jeans and his finger nails are manicured. Just then Travis finds the murder weapon and it says "Scouts". They find a boy standing in the crowd suspicious and they chase him. They catch the guy. He tells the duo that he only took his cell phone and his shoes and wallet. They recover the victim's belongings from the guy and they find an identification in the wallet; Toby Whitaker. The find a letter in the wallet and it is a note from his father. And Toby's father is Chief Judge Franklin Whitaker.
Captain Sutton wants this case solved and fast! His two best detectives are the biggest pain in his ass; so he says! It appears that the DA wants the case handle but two other detectives; Scott and Gooding. Wes argues that what is the point of the therapy when they aren't given a chance to change. Sutton agrees to put them back on the case. Next, the forensics expert, Ellen tells them that this particular scout knife was handed over in 1911. And the blood on the knife did belong to Toby; but she only managed to get a partial print on the hilt and those prints did not have a criminal record. By the way, Travis is dating Ellen and Wes hates it when Travis dates women at work. Back to the case, Judge Whitaker has a son named Zach who lives with his father and the mother died five years ago. They arrive at the Judge's house. There is a lot of media present.
Whitaker tells the duo that Toby was addicted to heroin for years and had finally agreed to go to the rehab and he was sober for the past nine months. He spoke to Toby three days ago. He had gone to meet Toby with Zach. But Zach isn't around now as he is upset and has gone for a drive. Whitaker tells them that Zach was a scout when he was a kid. They tell the Judge about the murder weapon and the Judge is not happy that his other son is being accused of murder. The Judge tells them that Zach has dyslexia. He tells them that Zach is a good kid. Next, the duo goes to the sober house Toby was kept in. They check his room. The manager Marcus and Vincent don't discuss about the patient's personal life. Just then a girl, Gretchen, walks in and tells them that the Judge and Zach killed Toby. She tells them that the Judge told Toby that he wishes him dead and that the family could be saved from a lot of trouble. Vincent tells them to not take her seriously.
But Gretchen also tells them that she and Toby broke off a long time ago. So, a jilted ex-girlfriend is definitely on the list of suspects. But Travis feels that she doesn't seem to be the types who would kill somebody. He knows a lot about scary Exes. Just then Wes receives a call and he is told that Zach is found. And guess where he is; on the top of the Rosslyn Hotel, trying to jump off from the roof. The detectives reach atop. Zach tells them that he is sorry that his brother is dead because of him. Travis tries to instigate Zach and Zach decides to talk to Wes. Travis leaves. Zach tells Wes that Toby had asked for $5000 from him and Zach did not give it to him. Toby wanted that money to pay off his dealer and he always used to lie to Zach while borrowing money from him. Zach thought that this too was a lie and didn't give Toby the money. And Toby lost his life. Wes asks him about the scout knife. He tells Wes that the knife was his but he gave it to Toby.
Just then Zach slips but they manage to save him. Travis does not buy Zach's story. Not many dealers sell their stuff on credit. Next, they arrive at the office and Ellen hands them the call list for Toby's number. There is a particular number that Toby dialed multiple times. It belonged to a guy named Dominick and Travis remembers Randi, an officer from Narcotics, mention that name a couple of times. They go to meet Randi. Dominick Suntory sold high end cars and it is known that he uses those cars to sell drugs. But Randi tells them that their dogs have never been able to pick up any scent. They go to Dominick's showroom. They ask him about Toby and Dominick decides to lawyer up.
And guess what the repercussion is for that one? Travis shoots the back of one of the most expensive and hard to find Lamborghini and they find a leak, but instead of oil there is a leak of white powder; heroin. They seize the vehicle. Dominick is ready to tell them everything about Toby. But Dominick wants to settle the matter then and there and does not want any complaint filed against him. He tells them that Toby was calling him for money and he needed 5k and Dominick wasn't even in town. He doesn't know why he needed that much money but he says that Toby sounded desperate. He gave him the money; but he also mentions that there was someone else in the car with Toby. He also says that he arrived this morning from Phoenix, where he was attending a car show. The two leave the showroom, go out and inform Randi about the cars and the drugs. Next, they go to a junkyard and there are guys who draw guns at the detectives.
But it appears that Travis knows their leader, Money; he is his foster brother. Contacts! Travis tells him that he needs his help to find a car. Money has received a recent mail regarding a 69 Cheval. They check the license plate number. Wes makes a note of it. They go to the house where the car is at the moment. They find Toby's girlfriend, Irene with his son, an infant. She tells them that after Toby saw his son in the ultrasound, he was a changed man. And she confirms that Toby took the money from Dominick to pay the bills and she was in the car with him. Next, Wes goes to meet Alex. She tells him that he was a better lawyer than a cop and he tells her that the people need better cops than lawyers. Next, the duo goes to meet the Coroner. But Travis is reluctant as he had a one night stand with her and he didn't call her up. Oops.
She tells them that the COD was hemorrhaging and that there was heroin in the blood. There is a puncture wound on his neck. They think that he relapsed. Wes thinks that he was forcibly injected. They go to the sober house and Vincent says that if a resident is found possessing drugs, he is chucked out. Wes still has his doubts on Gretchen. Travis decides to go to a store and get something to eat. He realizes that there is going to be a robbery. He informs Wes. Wes arrests the accomplice e sitting outside in the car. In the store there is a gunfight and Wes rams into the shops with his car. They arrest the guys. Ellen finds a match for the fingerprints; it matches with Zach's. They arrive at the office and the scene there doesn't look good. Sutton tells them that the DA is coming to the office. The news about Zach being a suspect is out and Wes thinks it is Travis who leaked it. Next, Laura arrives at the office and she isn't happy to see Wes and Travis on the case. Laura wants to know why Zach isn't arrested.
Wes tells her that there are several loose ends that they need to tie up and if they arrest Zach at the moment, his lawyers would make sure that they get nothing and his future also could be destroyed. They need two more days. Laura wants them off the case and the two get into an argument which leads to a tussle. They are definitely off the case now. Laura asks Scott and Gooding to make the arrest. Next, Ryan meets Wes and talks to him about the "break up". She tells him that they fight because they are alike. They are like brothers. Just then a thought strikes Wes and he goes to meet Travis. Travis is making out with Ellen. Wes is outside and tells him that Toby too was dyslexic like his brother, as it is a hereditary disorder.
All the numbers he dialed were on speed dials except for the last one. And owing to his condition, he must have mixed up the digits. They were tracking the wrong number. Wes apologizes to Travis. Wes realizes that Brady Gooding, the officer on the case was the leak. Wes tells him that he tried all possible combinations for that number and found out that the number belonged to Marcus, the guy from the sober home. Toby found out about someone who was using again and tried to report it. They get Randi's dogs along to make sniff out stuff from the sober home. They find the drugs in Vincent's room. Vincent is trying to escape but they get him. They tell the story to Laura.
Vincent had two strikes against him and one more conviction against him could send him to prison for good. So, when Vincent found out that Toby knows about him using, he killed him. He injects Toby with heroin but Toby fights back and grabs the scout knife to protect him. But the heroin started acting and so Vincent could easily grab the knife from him and stabbed Toby with his own knife. This happens in the bungalow. He then dumps Toby's body in the alley. There is Toby's blood trace found in Vincent's car. Laura apologizes to Sutton. Next, our Odd Couple is back at the group therapy session and this time they happen to know a lot about each other...a little too much. The episode ends.
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text: Home Culture 2011 Commencement: Rutgers University to Pay Toni Morrison For the first time, New Jersey's flagship university will pay a commencement speaker. By: Nsenga Burton Posted: March 28 2011 6:59 AM 0 Nobel Prize-winning poet Toni Morrison (Getty Images) Rutgers University is breaking with tradition by paying its 2011 commencement speaker for the first time in the history of the university. The Associated Press is reporting that Nobel Prize-winning poet Toni Morrison will be paid $30,000 to deliver the main address at the university's commencement in May. Traditionally, schools have offered honorary degrees to commencement speakers instead of cash. Rutgers spokesman Ken Branson told the Record newspaper that neither state funds nor tuition money will pay the fee. He could not say whether the money was coming from a private donation. Who cares? There's nothing wrong with getting paid and receiving an honorary degree. Schools do it all the time -- they just do it quietly. Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated poets of our time, so in our minds, she's worth every penny. Sometimes you have to pay to play. Rutgers clearly knows this. Read more at NJ.com. In other news: Michelle Obama to Speak at Spelman's Commencement. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Get what we're watching delivered to your inbox everyday! Sign up for our daily video newsletter below. Powered by Livefyre 0


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Cursing Explodes with Crisis
Shit! God Damn it! Fuck Asshole! In that order, please, from most favorite at the top. Most of us probably out there in the real world won't be too surprised that those are the three favorite words that come out of everyone's mouths when they need to let off steam somehow. It's better and safer than punching the wall of the board room and getting yourself a fine. But, it can still cost and sometimes it can cost you a lot. A new study has revealed that cursing goes up proportionally as the crisis sets in and that means CEOs have been cursing their way to the top any which way they can for over five years now.
Bloomberg carried out a study and it has just been published. It covers conference calls from 2004 to 2014 and it analyzes how American CEOs speak and what words they use. By looking at the graph you will see that 2010 was the height of cursing for those at the top. Apparently the cursing has now waned since that peak year and the 'economy is getting better' (according to Bloomberg). Or rather, those companies that were analyzed are doing better because they are being kept alive and afloat by the buoyancy of the Federal Reserve and the loose money that they have had all these years. It would hardly seem that the economy is doing any better in general terms. But, they might be cutting back on their swearing because the flow of money has continued into the financial markets thanks to quantitative easing.
In the conference calls that were analyzed by Bloomberg, the overriding favorite word was 'shit', being used 197 times over that period. Next came 'God damn it!', used 34 times, followed by 'Fuck!' (17 times) and there were 6 'assholes' that will go down somewhere in history.
Apparently, it was James Hagedorn, Chairman and CEO of Scotts Miracle-Gro (Ohio) that came out tops in the league table with 16 'shits', and 3 'fucks' plus 1 'god damn it' in 10 years, making a total of 20. Hardly a lot by anyone's daily standards and a lot of us could probably do better than that.
It's a little bit like the study that was published in 2012 which showed the closer we got to the financial crisis the more the people at the Fed were telling jokes and laughing at the Fed meetings than actually doing anything else. According to the reports published with the transcripts of conversations, laughter was more common as things got more worrying. Take a look at the graph below and see for yourself. The closer the crisis the more they laughed. Was that nervous laughter or was that because they were blind as to what was coming? Just one example is the August 8th 2006 meeting in which the following was said: "As the comments indicate, this is probably the most challenging time that we have had before us in my long history at the FOMC [laughter]". Still how many of us will be surprised to see that board meetings are for doing anything but work. We all know that things are decided before the meeting actually takes place. The table is just there for show, that's all, isn't it? But, laughter doesn't beat cursing, does it?
Whether you choose scatology, profanity and blasphemy or downright straight-forward sexual references it's a taboo word in society. Usually, taboo words are watered down in public and replaced by something that everyone gets but you don't need to say. It's only when you are feeling right at home that you let rip with what you want. Perhaps the study doesn't so much reveal that the CEOs are under pressure and have been since 2008, but more that they are now fully at home in their environment and so they can say and do just as they like. Well, almost. Cursing is like honking the horn of your car. It lets you express yourself, whether that be happiness or downright anger and frustration.
Just take a moment and look around the office. Who's at the top of your office league table?
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I've started using the phrase 'dick receptacle' as in Hillary Clinton's only claim for experience in a political career was that she was periodically used as a dick receptacle for Bill Clinton.
In between copious helpings of sashimi
I suspect the conversation starts something like "Hi, first things first i'm crazy are you crazy too?"
No matter how much swearing goes on, 'cunt' is still the showstopper. It's a great word when applied correctly.
I prefer adding the faux adjective 'disorderment' after the word cunt. A description i've been using for decades and always gets good laughs. Except from the bitch being spoken to.
It's a real sex stopper with my wife.
They swear because they lack the linguistic capability to come up with more descriptive words. In brief, they regress to a state of childlike behaviour and instead of sucking their thumbs they swear for shock
effect hoping that the emotion will have a desired outcome of changing behaviour. Moreover, swearing essentially signals that there is little
substantive comment left to state and this signals an end to the discourse. Swearing signifies to all that action must be taken immediately. A lack of swearing indicates that no actions are needed to
continue on as usual. Swearing in this sense indicates that one needs to be motivated to take action. Motivation is prompted by
angry outbursts and swear words that make people uncomfortable in terms of acceptable discourse in the workplace. People in suits
are out of character when they swear and hurl epithets. The prompt to change behaviour is subtle.
They swear because they lack the linguistic capability to come up with more descriptive words. In brief, they regress to a state of childlike behaviour and instead of sucking their thumbs they swear for shock
effect hoping that the emotion will have a desired outcome of changing behaviour. Moreover, swearing essentially signals that there is little...
Incorrect. I used to be one of those C-Level guys who spoke hourly with the CEO and VP's.
People are polite, quiet and mannered at those levels. Language ability is *very* high, subtle, nuanced and specific.
If the CEFRL had a level C3, these people would be assessed as speaking at that level.
No one would think things were bad if everyone kept their cool and continued with the upper middle class, SES, peer-reviewed language. It would have an air of normalcy and normalcy was NOT what was going on back then. It would not impart the dire urgency to act. They would simply think within their existing mindset, and that mindset had just disappeared and a new reality had taken its place.
So I could say something such as "The cashflow and quarterly figures are being impacted due to a confluence of unforseen mitigating factors that are affecting our micro and macro economic outlook for the foreseeable medium term (2 qtrs to 8 qtrs) future. We will need to be very judicious with expenses and any expansionary actions need to be taken with the utmost prudence and caution at this time in this environment." Lots of wiggle, weasel words, nothing concrete. The norm.
Or, I could have said this. What I actually said to him the first week of October, 2008.
He called. Too busy. Leaving a message with one of the girls. I yell down the hall: "Tell him to fucking call me as soon as possible.""
The entire staff froze, looked at me, realised I swore (and I never do) and it got the result. He called back asap.
Polite language does not work when trillions are leaving the country every hour.
I told him:
"The phones have stopped ringing. No one is paying. We need to cut costs NOW and you and the VP's need to call your friends in the other companies TODAY to call in favours and get them to cut a check for (Pick Project Name), or we have no money for payroll in 2 weeks. I don't know nor care what you two have to do, but they won't fucking answer my calls. Credit has evaporated, my counterparts at all the other firms won't answer my calls and everyone is going into cash hoarding mode."
This was it, for real guys. This was 10 days after the Sept 18th meeting.
Businesses can die in <6 weeks when it goes pear shaped. Those of you who have not run one have no idea. I saw this happen then. Industry respect to "they are shit and we no longer talk of that company"' <<direct quote BTW.
Swearing judiciously is *extremely* useful. It imparts a concept in the fewest possible words, it expresses EXTREME urgency and intensity of emotion behind the rest of the statement.
Which this survey from Bloomberg shows. The excrement hit the fan, and the obscenities began to flow. Why? Because it was DIRE and they were expressing this.
Things were very bad, guys. Very. That's why all the screaming, yelling and swearing.
No one would think things were bad if everyone kept their cool and continued with the peer-reviewed language. It would have an air of normalcy and normalcy was NOT what was going on back then. It would not impart the dire urgency to act.
Spending hours or days convincing someone would be counterproductive.
This worked:
"Get him on the fucking phone NOW! I don't care where he is or what he is doing...".
^ +100 Too bad your comment started with italics; a ZH snag. I am also in regular business contact with C level people. Judicious use of cursing is a useful tool. I find its use, like no other choice of words, is often the best method in expressing passion for the subject at hand.
Al Sweringen and Mr.Wu prefered "Cocksuckers".
Cursing/tattoo beta=.99
This is something I've actually notice lately at lower levels, directors, VPs, etc. 10 years ago, I don't recall ever hearing people curse in a professional business setting. Now it seems to becoming more acceptable. Even interviews, the person interviewing me has curse. I just don't get it...
Most people are fucking morons and don't deserve one iota of respect.
Just ask them who they respect and why, then you will know.


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- James F. Jarboe
- Section Chief, Counterterrorism Division, Domestic Terrorism Section, FBI
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Before the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime
- Washington, DC
- November 07, 2001
Good morning Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee. I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the law enforcement response to bioterrorism.
The Bioterrorism threat has risen to a new level. The federal government, in partnership with state and local law enforcement agencies, has always taken the threat concerning intentional release of a biological agent seriously. However, neither the federal government nor state and local responders have been required to utilize their assets to coordinate a response to an actual release of anthrax. The intentional introduction of bacillus anthracis into the infrastructure of American lives has resulted in significant panic and alarm concerning our health and safety. Today, I would like to comment on the manner in which the law enforcement community responds to a suspected act of terrorism involving biological agents, and reinforce the cooperative effort that is in place between the federal government and the myriad of first responders who provide guidance, assistance and expertise.
The response to a potential bioterrorist threat can be broken down into two different scenarios: overt and covert releases. The distinction between the two involves the manner in which the biological threat agent is introduced into the community and the nature of the response. Regardless of whether a biological release is overt or covert, the primary mission of law enforcement and the public health community is saving lives.
An overt scenario involves the announced release of an agent, often with some type of articulated threat. An example of this would be the receipt of a letter containing a powder and a note indicating that the recipient has been exposed to anthrax. This type of situation would prompt an immediate law enforcement response, to include local police, fire and emergency medical service (EMS) personnel. Each FBI field office is staffed with a Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Coordinator whose responsibilities include liaison with first responders in the community. Due to this established relationship with first responders, the local FBI WMD Coordinator would be notified and dispatched to the scene. The FBI investigates these articulated threats involving a biological agent. The response protocol would involve securing the crime scene and initiating the FBI's interagency threat assessment process. The FBI's Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters, coordinates this threat assessment which determines the credibility of the threat received, the immediate concerns involving health and safety of the responding personnel, and the requisite level of response warranted by the federal government. The FBI obtains detailed information from the on-scene personnel and input from the necessary federal agencies with responsibility in the particular incident. In a biological event, representatives from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are the key agencies called upon to assist FBI personnel in assessing the particular threat. Based upon the assessment, a determination is made as to the level of response necessary to adequately address the particular threat, which could range from a full federal response if the threat is deemed credible, to collection of the material in an effort to rule out the presence of any biological material if the threat is deemed not credible.
The method of collecting suspect material is established by protocols set forth by the FBI's Hazardous Material Response Unit (HMRU). These protocols, recognized and followed by state and local Hazmat teams, are necessary to ensure that sufficient evidentiary samples are collected, screened and over-packed according to scientific safety guidelines for transportation to the appropriate testing facility. Over 85 State Health Laboratories perform this analysis on behalf of CDC and belong to a coordinated collection of facilities known as the Laboratory Response Network (LRN). Once the testing has been completed, results are provided to the FBI for dissemination in the appropriate manner. The results of the analysis are then disseminated to the exposed person or persons, local first responders and to the local public health department. Additionally, results will be forwarded to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA.
A covert release of a biological agent invokes a different type of response, driven by the public health community. By its nature, a covert introduction is not accompanied by any articulated or known threat. The presence of the disease is discovered through the presentation of unusual signs and/or symptoms in individuals reporting to local hospitals or physician clinics. In this situation, there is initially no crime scene for law enforcement personnel to respond. The criminal act may not be revealed until days have elapsed, following the agent identification and preliminary results obtained from the epidemiological inquiry conducted by the public health sector. Contrary to an overt act where law enforcement makes the necessary notification to public health, in a covert release, notification to law enforcement is made by the public health sector. The early notification of law enforcement in this process encourages the sharing of information between criminal and epidemiological investigators. Once an indication of a criminal act utilizing a biological agent is suspected, the FBI assumes primary authority in conducting the criminal investigation, while public health maintains responsibility for the health and welfare of the citizens. At the local level, involving the FBI WMD Coordinator and the State or local public health department, and at the national level between FBI Headquarters and the CDC, an effective coordination has been accomplished to address the requisite roles and responsibilities of each agency.
The response to an actual threat or one that is later determined to be not credible, or a hoax, is indistinguishable. This includes deployment of a Hazmat team, thorough examination of the potentially contaminated area (including situations where a telephonic reporting is received) and the disruption of the normal operations of the affected entity. Additionally, the individuals potentially exposed to the WMD may experience extreme anxiety/fear due to the reported release. Potential victims may have to be decontaminated or transported to a medical facility. The first responders must treat each incident as a real event until scientific analysis proves that the material is not a biological agent. To both the responding entities and the potentially exposed victims, the presence of a powder threatening the presence of "anthrax" is not a hoax, or something to be taken lightly. The individuals perpetrating such an activity must be held accountable for their actions.
In 1999, the FBI testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, discussing the need for improved Federal statutes which address the threatened use and possession of biological agents. During this testimony, it was reported that in 1998, the FBI opened 181 cases related to WMD events, of which 112 were biological in nature. The number of cases has increased since then, with 267 in 1999, and 257 in 2000. (threatened biological releases accounted for 187 and 115 respectively.)
Prior to the events of September 11, 2001 the number of cases initiated for 2001 was 100, of which 67 were biological, and a large percentage of these cases involved the threatened release of anthrax, necessitating a law enforcement response. However, the combined terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the subsequent publicity afforded to a handful of anthrax threats, and the tragic death of four persons, have resulted in a dramatic increase in calls for help from the public. Since mid-September, the FBI has responded to over 7,000 suspicious anthrax letters, 950 incidents involving other WMD matters, and an estimated 29,000 telephone calls from the public about suspicious packages. In that same time frame, the FBI has initiated 305 new anthrax related investigations which exceeds and virtually doubles the normal annual average of all WMD cases. Resources available by law enforcement in responding to the alleged threats and public health laboratories in testing suspicious material for the presence of biological agents are limited.


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POSTED: 8:58 AM Jan 29 2013 UPDATED: 8:59 AM Jan 29 2013
The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center raised the avalanche danger to "HIGH" in parts of the Bridger Mountains.
The "HIGH" danger rating covers all wind loaded slopes and slopes greater than 35 degrees.
That means natural avalanches are likely and human triggered avalanches are very likely. Travel into avalanche terrain is not recommended at this point.
The danger on all other slopes is "CONSIDERABLE."
According to the GNFAC, continued snow fall could raise the danger in the Southern Gallatin, Southern Madison and Lionhead area around West Yellowstone.
The danger is currently listed as "CONSIDERABLE" on wind loaded slopes and "MODERATE" everywhere else.
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Re: Each day pass, more idiot come to provoke me, NOBODY answer the question!
Posted by T-Hopper on 1 June 1998, at 7:27 p.m., in response to Each day pass, more idiot come to provoke me, NOBODY answer the question!, posted by Robert on 1 June 1998, at 7:09 p.m.
I told you who could answer the question. Why should we duplicate the work of someone we trust?
As for the insult, it was starting to sound like a trick question when you listed all those games that you could beat. How else could you really win at all of them?
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Standoff stories differ
Police: 'exigent circumstances' called for immediate action
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Last week, the Herald reported on an incident in Rockville Centre in which a Nassau County Police Department SWAT team forcibly entered a home on Old Mill Court after the village Police Department received a tip about a man with a gun inside.
According to eyewitnesses, however, the Rockville Centre Police Department's account of what happened doesn't match what they saw.
According to what village police officials told the Herald, they received a tip from a reliable source that a man in the Old Mill Court complex had a gun. When officers arrived at the scene, they said, the man and two others fled into an apartment. Police later learned that a woman and a baby were inside as well. Police said that none of the men lived in the apartment.
But according to its resident, Cathy Mitchell, who was not at home at the time, that was not what happened. The three men were her son and two of his friends, and there was no gun. "My son was in the house with his baby, his girlfriend, my daughter and his girlfriend's friend," Mitchell said. "My 15-year-old daughter tried to leave, but couldn't."
Mitchell's daughter couldn't leave, she said, because RVCPD officers were arresting her son's two friends on Mitchell's stoop after they voluntarily came out of the apartment, but her son remained inside. Video taken by a witness shows the two men face-down on the stoop, asking the police what they had done while they were being handcuffed and an officer searched a bag. In the short video, the officers did not answer.
Other residents of the complex said they saw what was going on and called Mitchell's son. He then called his mother, and she told him not to go out while she called a lawyer. "My son notified me right away," she said. "I was in Brooklyn, at my other son's basketball game. I told them not to go outside."
Because Mitchell's son would not come out — and because RVCPD officers had been told not only about the gun, but about the baby, they called in the county SWAT unit, and the standoff began.
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The RVC Police were wrong AGAIN!!
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Our Police Comish is out 0f control!! He will have to answer on this one YOU NEED A WARRENT!! cant continue to make things up!! Roxen Rd remember that one he convicted those kids when it happen the next day he was on the phone with the school thyank God we have a GOOD supt of schools Dr Johnson who believes and understands our Costitution!! The Police comish DONT!! He made up a bunch of LIES!! the injuries and all THANK GOD FOR OUR COURTS This last one is going to cost RVC a Lot Of MONEY$$$$--We don't need the Marines in RVC and in the same breath
he complains about the cost the Village pays NCPD!! Thank God for the NCPD! We have the Best Mayor a Villge would want--we got to get rid of yhe COMISH---soon as we can!
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17 October 2008
The Department of Health has launched a consultation on No Secrets, its 2000 guidance on preventing the abuse of adults.
17 October 2008
The death of 26-year-old Emma Kemp was raised in a Westminster debate into healthcare inequalities for people with a learning disability.
16 October 2008
Mencap calls for a commitment to implementing the necessary legal powers and duties to ensure real protection for vulnerable adults with a learning disability.
14 October 2008
A new report says that young people with a learning disability need to feel safer in schools.
10 October 2008
Newcastle Falcons rugby club has teamed up with Mencap, naming them as their official charity partner for the 2008-2009 season.
6 October 2008
The Learning Disability Coalition and Mencap welcome the appointment of Phil Hope as the new social care minister.
6 October 2008
A cabinet shake-up by Prime Minister Gordon Brown has seen Phil Hope appointed as the new social care minister, with Ivan Lewis moving to the Department for International Development.
1 October 2008
London newspaper The Evening Standard has launched a new cashless card and announced Mencap as one of its charity partners.
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Esther Foreman has joined Mencap, the UK's leading learning disability charity, as campaigns manager.


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The Billy Graham StoryThe Authorized Biography
By John Pollock
ZondervanCopyright © 2003 Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
All right reserved.
Chapter OneSunshine in the South
William Crook Graham, a Confederate veteran with a bullet in his leg, died in 1910 at the age of sixty. He had a patriarchal beard and a large family, but nothing else biblical about him. He drank, he swore, and he neglected his farm and would not pay his debts.
He was born at Fort Mill in York District and after the Civil War bought the land a few miles away near Charlotte, North Carolina, which he left to two of his sons, William Franklin and Clyde. Together the sons built up a three-hundred-acre dairy farm of rich red soil, with woods and streams and gently rolling contours, and delivered milk in the city.
William Franklin Graham married Morrow Coffey of Steele Creek near Charlotte in 1916. Their eldest son, William Franklin Graham Jr., Billy Frank to his family, was born in the frame farmhouse on November 7, 1918, three days before his father's thirtieth birthday and four before the Armistice.
All four of Billy Graham's grandparents were descended from the Scots-Irish pioneers who settled in the Carolinas before the Revolution. His mother's father, Ben Coffey, had fair hair and blue eyes (like his grandson) and the tall, clean-limbed, strong-jawed physique immortalized in the North Carolina monument at Gettysburg, where he fell badly wounded. A one-legged, one-eyed veteran, he was a farmer of intelligence, spirit, and sterling honesty, with a tenacious memory and a love for Scripture and literature, which he imparted to his daughters.
In the frame farmhouse and then in the red brick home nearby, which the Grahams built when Billy was ten, with its pillared porch, paved paths, and shade of oaks and cedars, Morrow Coffey Graham kept the books, did the cooking and housework, and chopped the wood with the aid of Suzie, her black maid. A blend of determination with gentleness and affection won for Morrow the complete devotion of her two sons and two daughters: Billy Frank, Catherine, Melvin, and Jean, who was fourteen years younger than Billy.
Frank Graham was an equally strong character. At six foot two, with dark hair and a fine bass voice, he was a farmer through and through. In early manhood he had experienced a religious conversion, but his faith had lost urgency though it remained the foundation of his integrity. Straight as his back in business dealings, he was adored and a little feared by the farm hands and his children. His scanty education was offset by shrewdness and a lively curiosity. He had a dry wit and a warm and generous nature, kept in close control because agricultural bankruptcies were frequent in the Carolinas. His one indulgence was the smoking of large cigars. He scorned relaxation and hated travel. His world was the South - placid, sunny, but smarting from the Civil War and the economic depression and poverty that it had left.
The Graham farm was comparatively prosperous. Billy Frank's hero was the black foreman, Reese Brown, an army sergeant in World War I. He was a splendid person who could hold down a bull to be dehorned, had a wide range of skills, and was tireless, efficient, and trustworthy. Billy crammed down Mrs. Brown's delicious buttermilk bread, the Brown children were his playmates, and Reese taught him to milk and herd.
Billy was a bit too prankish to be of much use at first. High spirits and a love of adventure frequently cost him a taste of his father's belt or his mother's long hickory switch - such discipline was normal and expected. "Billy was rowdy, mischievous," recalls an older cousin, "but on the other hand - he was soft and gentle and loving and understanding. He was a very sweet, likeable person." His parents were strict but fair, and the house was full of laughter.
Billy Graham's early education was almost as poor as Abraham Lincoln's, a primary reason being the low level of teaching. Yet even if the teaching had been better, he would have made little use of it. By the age of eleven, he thought "horse sense" was enough education for a farmer, an attitude slightly encouraged by his father and stoutly resisted by his mother.
Billy's main interest was baseball. He had been taught the game early by the McMakins, three sons of the sharecropper on his father's farm. Mr. McMakins was a redheaded man of high temper but strict Christian principles, who had once been a southern champion bicycle racer. Billy's fondness for baseball was not matched by his skill. He barely made the Sharon High School team as a first baseman, and though he dreamed of being a professional, the dream died before he left high school. Baseball influenced him most by interfering with his studies. The one redeeming feature of Billy's early intellectual life was an exceptional love of reading history books. By the time he was fourteen, he had read about a hundred.
When Billy was young, Sunday was rather like an old Scottish Sabbath. Its highlights included the five-mile drive by car to the small Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, which sang only metrical psalms, in Charlotte, a city then rated the most church-going in America.
Billy never thought of his parents as particularly religious. Then, when he was about fifteen, his mother joined a Bible class at the urging of her sister. Her husband remained indifferent. His energies were absorbed by the farm, especially since he had recently lost his savings in the bank failures of 1933.
Three weeks after she joined the Bible class, Frank Graham's head was smashed by a piece of wood that shot out from the mechanical saw. The surgeons believed he would die. Mrs. Graham, after calling her Christian friends to pray, went up to her bedroom to pray. When she finished, she had the assurance that God heard her prayer. Both the Grahams believed that the Lord really spoke to them in Frank's accident and full recovery. They spent more time in Bible study and prayer, and Mrs. Graham read devotional books to the children.
The adolescent Billy Frank thought it was all "hogwash." He was in a mild rebellion, though his chief wildness was to borrow his father's car and drive it as fast as it could go, turning curves on two wheels, and racing other boys on the near-empty roads of North Carolina. As Billy recalls, "Once I got the car stuck in the mud, and I had to call my father. He was more angry than I had ever seen him. He had to get mules to come and pull it out."
Physically Billy Graham developed fast, like most southern country boys. At high school he was much the ladies' man, with his height, wavy blond hair, blue eyes, tanned skin, neat clothes, and fancy ties. He was in and out of love, sometimes dating two girls successively in the same night. But Billy remembers, "[Our parents expected us] to be clean and never doubted that we would be. They trusted us and made us want to live up to their confidence."
Farm labor gave Billy the needed release of physical energy. Every day he was milking before dawn, fast and smoothly; then he helped pour the Holstein, Guernsey, and Jersey milk into the big mixer before bottling. From school he hurried back to the afternoon milking. He reveled in sweat and exertion, whether cleaning out cow stalls, forking manure, or pitching hay.
In May 1934, Frank Graham lent a pasture to some thirty local businessmen who wanted to devote a day of prayer for Charlotte, having planned an evangelistic campaign despite the indifference of the ministers. During that day of prayer on the Graham land, their leader prayed - as Frank Graham would often recall between Billy's rise to fame in 1949 and his own death in 1962 - that "out of Charlotte the Lord would raise up someone to preach the Gospel to the ends of the earth."
The businessmen next erected in the city a large "tabernacle" of raw pine on a steel frame, where for eleven weeks from September 1934 a renowned, fiery southern evangelist named Mordecai Fowler Ham, and his song leader, Walter Ramsay, shattered the complacency of church-going Charlotte.
Ham, who was then pastor of First Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, charged scandals and prejudices and was a mighty protagonist for Prohibition. Despite his old southern courtesy, he tended to "skin the ministers," as his phrase was, and cared not at all that Charlotte's most powerful clergy opposed, or that newspapers attacked him. His passionate preaching left hearers with an overwhelming realization that Christ was alive.
The Grahams did not attend Ham's campaign for at least the first week - possibly because of the tabernacle's distance and their minister's guarded neutrality toward Ham. Some neighbors then took them. After that they claimed they couldn't stay away.
Billy, too old to be ordered to attend, was "definitely antagonistic," until the Ham-Ramsey campaign exploded new controversy when Ham flung at his audience a charge of fornication among the students at Central High School. Infuriated students marched on the tabernacle, the newspapers featured the sensation, and Billy was intrigued.
Albert McMakin, the second of the sharecropper's sons, now twenty-four and newly married, had been attending the campaign regularly because a few months earlier, at one of the small preparatory meetings, he had discovered that an upright life was not enough. He filled his old truck with people from the neighborhood, both whites and blacks, and telling Billy that Ham was no "sissy" but a fighting preacher, he invited him to drive it to the meetings.
Albert's party sat at the back of the largest crowd Billy had ever seen. Far away up the "sawdust trail" of wood shavings sat the choir, and when vigorous, white-haired Mordecai Ham began to preach, Billy was "spellbound," as he wrote thirty years later. "Each listener became deeply involved with the evangelist, who had an almost embarrassing way of describing your sins and shortcomings and of demanding, on pain of divine judgment, that you mend your ways. As I listened, I began to have thoughts I had never known before."
That night in the room he shared with Melvin, Billy gazed at the full moon. As he recalls, I felt "a kind of stirring in my breast that was both pleasant and scary. Next night all my father's mules and horses could not have kept me away from the meetings."
Billy's sixteenth birthday passed. Albert McMakin detected that Billy's self-righteousness was crumbling. Ham had a habit of pointing his finger. His analysis cut so close to the bone that once Billy ducked behind the hat of the woman in front, and to escape the accusing finger applied for a place in the choir, though he could not carry a tune and his vocal efforts in the bath were a merriment to all the Grahams. He was accepted and found himself next to Grady Wilson, a casual acquaintance from another school.
The maneuver was futile. By now, as Billy remembers, "[I had] a tremendous conviction that I must commit myself. I'm sure the Lord did speak to me about certain things in my life. I'm certain of that. But I cannot remember what they were. But I do remember a great sense of burden that I was a sinner before God and had a great fear of hell and judgment."
The more he struggled to assert his own goodness, the heavier his burden grew. He now had no doubt in his mind that Christ had died on the cross to bear Billy's sins, and each night the conviction grew that Christ, whose resurrection Billy had never doubted in theory, was actually alive, wanting to take away that burden. If only Billy would commit himself unreservedly, Christ would be his Savior and Friend. Billy was far less conscious of Mordecai Ham than of Christ. Yet the price of Christ's friendship would be total surrender for a lifelong discipleship - Billy would no longer be his own master. A price he was not yet prepared to pay. When Ham invited those who would accept Christ to move toward the pulpit in an act of witness and definition, Billy Graham stayed in his seat.
The inward struggle continued, at school in his desk, in the gym playing basketball, in the barn milking. He did not tell his parents (who suspected and were hoping and praying), but talked with his cousin Crook Stafford, who encouraged him to go forward although Crook had not yet done so himself. Billy moved again the next night and sat near the front. Ham's smile seemed consciously directed. Billy, quite wrongly, was certain Ham knew about him and quoted specially for him, "God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
Ham made the appeal. Billy heard the choir sing, "Just As I Am, Without One Plea," verse by verse, as people gathered round the pulpit. Billy stayed in his seat, his conscience wrestling with his will. The choir began, "Almost persuaded, Christ to believe." Billy could stand it no longer and went forward.
As Billy recalls, "It was not just the technique of walking forward in a Southern revival meeting. It was Christ. I was conscious of him."
A short man with dark hair and dark eyes, an English-born tailor whom Billy knew and liked, approached him and they talked and prayed. Billy had a "deep sense of peace and joy," but around him many were in tears, and he worried a bit because he felt so matter-of-fact. His father came across, threw his arms round him, and thanked God for his decision.
That night Billy Graham walked upstairs past the old family clock ticking loudly the time, day, and month, and undressed in the dark because Melvin was already asleep. The moon rode high again and Billy looked out across his father's land, then laid for hours unemotionally checking over in the context of his adolescent world what should be the attitudes of a fellow who belonged to Christ. He drifted into sleep content and at peace, with just a grain of doubt: "I wonder if this will last."
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Do U.S. history classes really need to teach about Benjamin Franklin?
Conservatives are calling for the College Board to suspend changes to its Advanced Placement U.S. History course, set to take place for the next school year. They are concerned the new curriculum framework, used to guide AP high school classes across the nation, gives a biased, negative, and narrow view of American history while overriding state education standards.
Last week, the Republican National Committee passed a resolution saying the new framework "reflects a radically revisionist view of American history," according to Education Week. The resolution asks the College Board to delay the new course exam to allow for further investigation and revision.
The nonprofits American Principles in Action and Concerned Women for America also posted an Aug. 4 open letter to David Coleman, president of the College Board, that has garnered more than 1,150 signatures.
"The new framework inculcates a consistently negative view of American history by highlighting oppressors and exploiters while ignoring the dreamers and innovators who built our country," the letter says. "[Teachers] wonder how they can reconcile the twin goals of preparing their students to score well on the APUSH [AP U.S. History] exam with the traditional goal of preparing their students to be well-educated citizens."
The College Board decided to change the course and exam because teachers said "the course required a breathless race through American history," according to the frequently asked questions page on the organization's website.
But Larry Krieger, a retired AP U.S. History teacher and author of AP U.S. History study guides, was shocked to read the new curriculum framework. "I thought to myself, I can't teach this," he said during an Aug. 4 conference call.
The framework describes Manifest Destiny—the 19th century idea that the United States was destined to spread across the continent—as "built on a belief in white racial superiority and a sense of American cultural superiority."
Krieger also was dismayed at the treatment of WWII: "There's no discussion whatsoever of the valor and heroism of American soldiers—none." Instead, the framework says, "Wartime experiences, such as the internment of Japanese Americans, challenges to civil liberties, debates over race and segregation, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb raised questions about American values."
The framework also faces criticism for its failure to align with state standards. The new framework is 98 pages long, compared to the five-page topic outline teachers used previously, Krieger said. The framework states in underlined and bold letters, "Beginning with the May 2015 AP U.S. History Exams, no AP U.S. History Exam questions will require students to know historical content that falls outside this concept outline."
By providing such a detailed outline, the College Board is unilaterally assuming the authority to prioritize which parts of history are taught and which are left out, American Principles in Action and Concerned Women for America said in their Aug. 4 letter to Coleman.
In response, the College Board released a sample exam and said conservatives' concerns are based on "a significant misunderstanding." The board plans to release a clarified version of the framework soon. But Coleman insists the framework does not omit important people or events from a student's course of study. Teachers must still "populate" the framework with content from their state's standards, he said.
Coleman also notes the exam begins with an excerpt from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. But it doesn't require students to know anything about the book's author, conservatives say: "Neither the excerpt nor the three following multiple-choice questions have anything to do with Franklin's life and achievements. Thus, a student could know the answer to the question without ever having heard of Benjamin Franklin."


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Sweet as always, man.
Not all the maps I get asked to do are full colour multi-page affairs. Pantheon Press contacted me back in the spring to ask for some black and white maps for their tarot card based game system Fortunes Fool. These maps were for their Grimm Tales adventure Im sure youll recognise a lot of the references:
Theres a special challenge to maps like these. Each map has been uploaded at 100dpi, so the size you see it on the screen is roughly the size it appears in print. Thats not a lot of space to get a lot of detail in, and when you can only use greyscale you lose more tools for differentiating different features.
The sites were fun to walk through, and I got to design the Manor house from scratch which had some unique challenges due to the nature of the residents. Its not often that I get to reference Jurassic Park in design discussions on maps. Nothing like a bear the size of a T-rex
These are commissions so they are rights reserved.
Sweet as always, man.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
Thanks I'm clearing my backlog of commitments and getting them up here.
As wonderful as always Love that theya re as easy to read as your color work
They look sweet but I get red Xs on all but the third one. Looking forward to seeing the rest full size. Really nice work! I'll have to try some greyscale someday. I rely on a lot of cheap tricks to get my maps to read...and greyscale definitely seems as if it would be a skill-builder.
Hmm, that's odd. They're all working for me. Is this appearing anywhere else on the guild for you?
Looks great, as usual.
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Ghoraja Juun, my largely stagnated campaign setting.
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
Ah, I see, that's the product for which I made the regional maps!
I saw your name was on there too


text: Jeremy Irons talks trash 09 May 2013 Hollywood actor Jeremy Irons has been speaking to This Morning about his new documentary Trashed, which looks at the environmental consequences of landfills and dumps around the world. Share Share Share Story by UTV Staff, Belfast In the film the actor visit places such as Lebanon where he sees firsthand the extent of the global problem. "I hope anybody who watches this film will do whatever they can to reduce the amount of waste," he told presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. "We produce an enormous amount of rubbish. We bury it, which has huge problems and we burn it, which has even greater problems."There are only two things we can do, we can recycle and we can produce less.Every year more than 58 billion disposable cups are thrown away, as are 200 billion litres of water bottles and billions of tonnes of household waste.Jeremy explained that not enough is being done to tackle the statistics."What's happening (in the UK) at the moment is that people are trying to deal with the problem by burning it, but what the chimneys let out is hugely damaging to our health," he said.The actor also revealed more about the upcoming new series of The Borgias, which follows the Borgia family dynasty at around the turn of the 16th Century.Jeremey said it will be an interesting series for his character Rodrigo Borgia, who has just become Pope Alexander VI."It's a time that the man really questions his faith and maybe takes the law even more into his own hands."So there is mayhem and also controlling his own family, which is not easy, so a lot happening in that series." © UTV Share Share Share


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