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Bill de Blasio is not the only red coming to power in New York City. He will also be joined by a "progressive" majority City Council. Here is a sampling of three of those he will be working with:
--Melissa Mark-Viverito, top contender for City Council Speaker, went down to Bolivia to campaign for that nation's marxist dictator, Evo Morales, in 2009. Records of the infamous red narco-terrorist organization FARC show that ties between that organization and Morales stretch all the way back to at least 2003, with meetings organized in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela between senior FARC operatives and Morales. That was two years before Morales's Chavez-bought "election" in 2005, and the collaboration continues unabated.
Additionally, in 2010 Mark-Viverito pushed for the release of a jailed leader of the extremely violent Cuban-controlled Puerto Rican terrorist-separatist group FALN, which in the 70s and 80s killed and maimed hundreds in New York, Chicago, and Puerto Rico. Until recently, Mark-Viverito refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of her support for Puerto Rican separatism.
--Inez Barron, a more quiet but equally radical sidekick to her husband Charles Barron. Their views, as voiced by Charles, include: "a special fondness for Castro because of the Cuban leader's efforts to help several African nations, particularly Angola, in their march toward independence decades ago" (the late Bayard Rustin, a true civil rights champion and architect of the 1963 March on Washington, recognized the Soviet-Cuban rape of Angola as among the most tragic outrages in African history.
Far from any form of "liberation," the Communist invaders aborted the planned democratic process, plundered the wealth of Angola, and resorted to indiscriminate force and even used chemical weapons. An estimated one million people died in the Angolan civil war. "Robert Mugabe is my hero, and guess what, so is Muammar Qaddafi!" Charles Barron declared in November 2011. In addition to being a tyrant in his own right, Mugabe is sheltering the former Communist dictator of Ethiopia who murdered over one million of his own people--a regime that was defended by Barron's other hero Fidel Castro, bringing the number of black Africans murdered with Castro's help to over 2 million. No comment necessary on Qaddafi. He has also expressed hatred of Israel, which earned Charles, a former Black Panther, the endorsement of former KKK leader David Duke.
--Margaret Chin, former spokeswoman for the Maoist Communist Worker's Party. She first ran for the City Council in 1991, but thanks to the activism of outraged Chinese-Americans and a man known to New York talk radio fans as "Jimmy from Brooklyn," her attempt was defeated. In 2009, however, she returned and managed to win the election. It is a sad commentary on society that a longtime fanatical follower of the most tyrannical and bloodthirsty form of Chinese Communism--responsible for the death of some 70 million Chinese people and tens of thousand of Americans in Korea--could get elected on the 20 year anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre.
In 1983, Bill de Blasio took a student trip to the USSR. Now he and his allies are making the rest of us relive their youth.
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Our standards must and will satisfy you. We will recommend the procedures and methods appropriate for restoring your British or Special Interest automobile to meet your specific needs. You can be assured that the entire project will be accomplished with full attention to the details you can't see, as well as the finish you can see.
We know that your British or Special Interest automobile is important to you. Whether you are the new or a long-term owner of your Special Interest automobile, you treat your car with utmost care and attention. When you entrust that car to a repair and restoration specialist, you want and expect them to give your car the same careful treatment as you would give it.
The older Special Interest automobile presents its own situations in servicing and parts sourcing that the mainstream service mechanic has difficulty addressing. As a service customer, you can be assured that we have the experience and knowledge to anticipate and care for the needs of your special car.
When restoration time comes, it is very important that the needs of the car and owner are met. You can be confident that Ragtops & Roadsters will guide you through the maze of concerns and considerations which arise during a restoration project. We work with you to achieve a standard within your budget requirements. From driver to Concours winner, we can help you achieve the restoration standard you desire.
We believe in and stand by the service we supply. That belief is reflected in our customers' enjoyment of their cars. Read the comments of some of our satisfied customers, or better yet, drop in to the shop, telephone, or e-mail us to review your needs.
A restoration shop is not your average auto repair garage. Restorations usually involve the entire car while repair work can be a single item. Most gas stations and body shops would turn away the kind of work that is done here. The mere mention of British automobiles makes the local garage uncomfortable.
Because of our years of experience with British cars we are familiar with the construction methods used in these automobiles. Our technicians worked on these vehicles for years, they research assembly methods, communicate with other knowledgeable individuals, and participate in club events and shows. Vehicles from our shop have won numerous awards, ranging from ribbons and plaques at small local shows to top awards at the national level.
Most cars destined for restoration are at least 30 years old. The first step in a repair or restoration is to determine what the problems are and what will be necessary to correct them. Any deterioration and damage that your classic car has should be dealt with first, and in an original manner, before modifications and appearance are considered. We may often find things that you don't want to know about your car, but you should be prepared for.
Next we give you options for the levels of restoration possible and their approximate costs so that you can make an informed decision.
We try to make the final product as close to original as possible within the boundaries of time, money and practicality. These boundaries are at the wish of the customer.
One reason for originality; the factory had many skilled people put a lot of time, money and effort into the design of these cars. Ultimately, from the collector's point of view as well as durability, this is the best approach. We can, of course, make changes, updates, and modifications at the owners request, but as a small restoration shop we can't duplicate the testing facilities of the manufacturers.
The most necessary, but least maintained, component on an automobile is the body structure itself. Like the foundation of a house, the body and frame hold the other subsystems together and in the proper relationship to each other.
With a house, you can paint the outside, or renovate the kitchen, but if the foundation is cracking, and the basement is leaking water, the improvements are only superficial. Sooner or later, the basic structure must be dealt with.
Unfortunately, many owners think they can wait until later, letting the deterioration continue. Then they have to sell the house, and foist the problems off on someone else.
Much like a house, a classic automobile, if it is to last for many years, must be maintained. Sure, if you want, you can throw a coat of paint on it, and dump the car on some unsuspecting individual, but if you expect to keep it, or to get the best price when you sell it, the foundation must be in good condition.
Do you often wonder how those squeaks and rattles develop? The body integrity, and its mounting to the chassis, determine how solid and sound proof the vehicle is. Many owners change their own oil, but how many people remove the seats and carpets to inspect the floorboards every year?
The front suspension can be rebuilt, but if the body mounts are worn or missing, the handling cannot improve very much. The squeak in the dash may never go away until welds, broken long ago, are repaired.
Most people, driving mediocre cars, never have to deal with the basic body and frame. They just send the heap to the junk yard.
So you will have to make this decision. Are you going to treat your British automobile like a Yugo or a valuable piece of real estate?
Located in Perkasie, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, our main shop was built in the early 1920's for Branch Moving & Storage. The building has been used as a hosiery mill, carpet store and furniture repair shop. In the 1970's it housed a slot car track and for 25 years was the home of Dudley Baseballs, the maker of the official baseballs of the American and National Leagues. It was also home to an automobile dealership in the 1950's.
The 6,000 square foot, two-story, secured building houses all the equipment necessary to care for your automobile. We also have access to a separate building for paint and bodywork, as well as four separate storage buildings.
Ragtops & Roadsters was founded in 1990 when Michael Engard struck out on his own with 20 years experience in British automobile restoration and service. An avid British automobile enthusiast himself, he understands the concerns of the Special Interest car owner. Michael has been working on British cars since he got his first TR-3 in 1974. He has worked at many of the area shops since then before starting Ragtops & Roadsters. He currently owns three British cars, a 1970 Rover 3500S, a 1954 Triumph TR2 and a Triumph Italia 2000 GT that will be raced in vintage events.
Our carefully chosen staff has an appreciation for the cars and understands what these cars mean to their owners. Their combined experience in British and Special Interest automobiles is over 135 years. They are heavily involved in the British car community as participants and officers in various area Clubs.
A former client and fellow British car enthusiast, David comes to us from a background in communications and computer technology. His foundation in project management, coupled with a strong focus on communication and customer service, will serve to keep our restoration projects and repair work on track, and our clients' experience very positive. David is the proud owner of a Spitfire and an MGA that was purchased new by his uncle in 1960 that he revived back in 1990.
Rick was our Shop Manager for 18 years and has recently retired from that job. He is working part-time supporting our computer network and advising when needed. His training is as an electrical engineer, but he has long been involved in British cars as a hobby. His experience as a project manager was a great asset when he worked as Shop Manager. He is active in the Austin Healey Sports and Touring Club and currently owns an MG Midget and an Austin Healey 3000 project.
Dave is Ragtops & Roadsters' Operations Manager. He handles our marketing, advertising, building maintenance, and coordinates the workflow within our buildings. He is part of our team representing Ragtops & Roadsters at Concours and car shows during the summer and is likely the person you will first speak to when you call our shop. He is a long time British car enthusiast with a 1961 Triumph Italia (restored here in 1995) and a 1967 MGBGT. Dave is actively involved in The Vintage Triumph Register as well as the local chapter of the Delaware Valley Triumphs.
Chris Engard's first car was a Morris Mini and he drove a TR-3A in High school. An MG1100 provided transportation during college and he purchased a new 1979 MGB while in the Navy. After 30 years in the building and machine maintenence industry he has come back to the automotive industry as our parts manager. He is married with two boys and still has his 1979 MGB.
Bill Dittrich had worked for Dick Stockton in Willow Grove for 17 years. Many of you know Dick as the owner of one of the best British car shops in the area. When Dick retired in 1996 I contacted Bill about his plans and he agreed to come and work at Ragtops & Roadsters. Bill brings more than 20 years of automotive experience with him and he currently owns a 1980 Tr8, a 1974 MGB and a 1977 Spitfire.
In October of 1997 we lost one of our more valuable people to cancer. George Melick came to the shop in the spring of 1994 because he wanted to work on British cars, especially the MGs that he had been involved with his entire adult life. He wanted to work one or two days a week, but he saw how the business was growing and he ended up working almost full time for two years. He was willing to work on any car, but what he enjoyed most was working with the MGs. His knowledge was encyclopedic and anything he wasn't sure about he would find in his large collection of old car magazines . His last major job with us was John and Darley Hobbis' 1950 MG-TD, and he created an excellent example with his attention to detail and great care in assembly. The way he fretted over that car you would have thought it was his own. That's how he was about all the cars he worked on and that's what made George a special person.
Michael Engard fixes toys. But don't take him your limping Barbies, frozen Lionel engines or rusted Flexible Flyers. Engard, 41, specializes in aging Jaguars, Triumphs, MGs and Land Rovers, cars which were on the road in Britain before the Beatles. "It's a luxury market," he explained from his 10-man shop in Perkasie recently. "This is discretionary cash for a lot of these people. It's a toy for many." Customers at Ragtops & Roadsters, which Engard opened in 1990, are willing to pay up to $150,000 and wait three years for their repairs, he said. Doing everything from a tune-up to a complete restoration of a pre-World War II car, the company's sales have grown steadily since the beginning... More...


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And the final push to Calais
... it off and stowed it.
Another long drive took us to Chamery. This pretty little village is in the heart of the Champagne region. The whole village is full of champagne houses - small ones, but probably exclusive. And there is a boulangerie, but no general store. There is a huge 'centre commercial' about 5km away.
A bit of a bun fight to get spaces. Lots of 'no camper van' parking signs which the French and Dutch cheerfully ignored.
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... only as a relay tower between the towers of Crozant and Eguzon. At this time it had a wooden drawbridge and a wide, deep moat. In the 17th century, it became a home. The moat was reduced in width, and the drawbridge was replaced with a bridge of stone. Yet, in between the 18th and 19th century, it became a simple agricultural home, and when it was bought in 1906, it had nearly been in ruins. At this point, 110 ...
Exploring on the Scooter
Tuesday, 14th April 2015
Straight after breakfast, I take a trip to the supermarket, on the scooter, much to my surprise, on my return, Kathleen is all kitted up, ready to go on the scooter, exploring the area.
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To Eguzon-Chantome
... Part 22 of 28, Part 23 of 28, Part 24 of 28, Part 25 of 28, Part 26 of 28, Part 27 of 28, Part 28 of 28
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... the historic center for a bit, but it was wet and miserable so we only stayed in the city for an hour. The cathedral was definitely worth the slight detour, though.
Rather bedraggled, we got back in the car and headed to our motor inn outside of the city of Chateauroux. We never actually went to Chateauroux, so I have no idea what that city is like. This stop was simply a midway point right off the highway at which to spend the night. We loved it; it ...


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OK, next thing about me. I collect coffee mugs. Isn't that silly??? I collect coffee mugs...and pens, but that's another story. I try to get a coffee mug everywhere I go. Let's face it. It's the practical souvenir. If you are a coffee drinker (I love coffee), this is at least something you will use. Really, what are you going to do with a collection of tiny spoons? Unless you know a colony of leprechauns, these are useless.
So, I've told you these things so I can tell you what I got today.
Sorry, I've wandered. Anyway, my good friend Lara goes to Disney World every chance she gets, which these days seems to be every other weekend. The last time she went I told her to send me a mug. Here we are a month later, and today it appeared on my door step.
I thought it was so great, it was worth pulling out my photo box to take pictures of it.
I am well aware that some of you are laughing at me right now. I'm OK with that!
Aside from the 3 mugs I have with my son's art on them (it was a school fundraiser, and I think he drew the same picture for all 3), I think this is my new favorite. It has 50, yes 50 Disney Characters. I'm proud to say that I knew all but 1. It's bigger than the average mug. That means it holds more coffee...YAY!!!!
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Lack of merchant focus tripped up Indian group buying sites: Groupon India CEO Ankur Warikoo
Founded by Andrew Mason in 2008, Groupon created a niche as a group buying site. Although copycats jumped in, the early mover was one among the slew of high interest internet IPOs in the US two years ago. Then it all came crashing down. Today, the company is valued some one-fourth of its original ma...26 March, 2013 | More »
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Groupon India has won back 'brand' name but battle for domain name groupon.in still in court
World's largest group buying site Groupon has recently rebranded its Indian operations for the second time in almost a year – from Crazeal to Groupon India – and now sports the mother brand. The site crazeal.com now redirects to www.groupon.co.in, but the legal battle is not over yet, Ankur...22 November, 2012 | More »
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Crazeal to become Groupon, finally!
One year after rechristening itself from the earlier avatar of SoSasta (after acquiring the local deals site), world's largest group buying company Groupon is all set to rebrand its India operations again. The firm, which changed its brand name in India to Crazeal, will soon move to a new domain�...30 October, 2012 | More »
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Groupon's Indian venture Crazeal claims to be selling a deal voucher every 33 seconds; eyes profit by 2013-end
Crazeal, the Indian arm of the world's largest online group buying site Groupon, has completed its first year of operations in the country. Techcircle.in caught up with Ankur Warikoo, who heads the Indian venture, to get a lowdown on the business directly from the horse's mouth as several player...25 October, 2012 | More »
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Crazeal launches Merchant Center app; introduces microsites for fashion, travel & more
Crazeal, the Indian arm of the world's largest online group buying site Groupon, has brought the Merchant Center app (Groupon's global offering) for its partner merchants in the country. Merchant Center is an intelligent app that provides merchants with a platform to evaluate and track the perfo...23 October, 2012 | More »
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TimesDeal tweaks biz model, no upfront payment for consumers
TimesDeal.com, the daily deals site of Times Internet Ltd, has changed its business model wherein it has done away with asking consumers to pay a token amount for availing the deal upfront, which is cusomary in peer group. Earlier, TimesDeal charged users for 20-40 per cent of the deal value upfront...3 October, 2012 | More »
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Travel search site Wego unveils new-look deals feature
Singapore-based travel search site Wego.com, which has recently launched Wego India, has unveiled a new-look travel deals feature that lists top travel deals across markets at any given time. The updated feature will be available in English on all its 42 country sites. In India, Wego has domestic pa...12 September, 2012 | More »
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If done in the right way, deals biz does work out: Ankur Warikoo, CEO of Groupon's Indian venture Crazeal
If you thought 'deals' are dying down and the industry itself is on the verge of extinction, here is a rejoinder. Many players may have shut shop (read our story here) and some of the large players could have pivoted to being horizontal ecommerce firms. Big deal? So, why is it that the Indian ar...5 June, 2012 | More »
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GroupOn Rebranding SoSasta As Crazeal: Why, How & When
The world's largest online group buying site GroupOn is re-branding its Indian unit SoSasta.com, acquired early this year, into Crazeal.com as it implements the global parent's technology platform in India and seeks to cut out the negative branding connotation of the existing brand. The re-brand...2 September, 2011 | More »


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Secondary Struggles: The Ole Miss secondary just isn't as good as it was last year and is feeling the loss of Senquez Golson. There's blame to share back there. This isn't all about Tony Bridges, but he hasn't made quite the transition from junior college that coaches thought he would.
Hugh Freeze touches on that here when he talks about the entire unit's inability to make plays in one-on-one situations.
Kellys' Big game: Chad Kelly said running the football for him was not necessarily part of the grand plan, that he was just taking what the defense gave. My guess is he was encouraged to take a few shots in the run game. Kelly led the run game, but Jaylen Walton had a nice night too with 76 yards and 5.8 per carry on 13 attempts. Kelly rushed for 110 yards and three touchdowns and passed for 368 and three more scores. He did not have a turnover.
Treadwell did his thing: Seven catches for 132 yards and a score for Treadwell, another very physical performance.
Conner's Day: Tony Conner did not start but was in the game on the very first series. He played more than I thought he would and finished with four tackles and a half tackle for loss. He moved around well. We'll see how the knee handles the game action.
Haynes's showed up: Marquis Haynes had five tackles and a sack and has had at least one sack in three straight games. He also had the facemask call on the two-point conversion. Without it, of course, the Rebels would have won. You can't lay the game on Haynes or any single play, even the fluke lateral. The bottom line is Arkansas wore out this defense. There were many single plays that could have led to an Ole Miss win had the Rebels made them.


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The bubble is bursting. Again.
A major shakeup is in the works in the Okaw Valley Conference. League president Sean German, from Argenta-Oreana, confirmed Tuesday that nine schools plan to leave as soon as conference bylaws will permit, the end of the 2013-14 school year.
It's the latest development in an ongoing, four-month saga that originated with five schools looking to exit (Central A&M, Meridian, Shelbyville, Sullivan and Warrensburg-Latham) followed by a proposal where none would leave but four would be added.
"When we talked expansion, I was hopeful," German said. "It was a solution our AD (Dan Sheehan) brought forward. We thought it addressed the needs of everyone."
About 50 letters of inquiry were sent to schools of similar enrollments throughout the area. The reaction surprised German.
"I didn't receive one application," he said.
In recent weeks, four Okaw schools that were either on the fence about leaving or preferred not to said they were willing to move: A-O, Clinton, St. Teresa and Tuscola.
Meridian Principal Jack Blickensderfer was the first proponent of reorganization.
"Each school has a different reason (for leaving)," Blickensderfer said. "People say if you can't compete, get better. As a basketball coach I believe that, but as a principal, there is a competitive imbalance from our perspective. In the last 10 years, for the 10 sports, we've won two conference titles."
Unity athletic director Scott Hamilton said the announcement wasn't unexpected.
"It's not what we were hoping for, but we've seen writing on the wall," he said. "I'm not sure how it'll shake out. The three (remaining schools) will sit down and see what is left for us. We've started doing some legwork. Now, it's a matter of moving forward."
The Okaw shuffle
A conference that was chartered on Dec. 12, 1925, is in the midst of a major shakeup. Nine of 12 Okaw Valley Conference schools on Tuesday submitted letters expressing their intent — pending school board approval — to leave the league after the 2013-14 school year. Here's how it looks:
Argenta-Oreana 315 1982
Central A&M 280 1997
Clinton 504 1990
Decatur St. Teresa 287 1971
Meridian 338 1995
Shelbyville 343 1989
Sullivan 381 1990
Tuscola 289 2006
Warrensburg-Latham 333 1990
Maroa-Forsyth 306 1995
Monticello 559 1925
Unity 482 2006
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Generis Zine 2# (review for AEA zine by D)
This zine is another zine issue I got from Dave Wolfe of Aea Zine and it is a glossy, well printed out zine of underground death black metal and various other genres of metal in Spanish from Mexico. The zine has been around since 1999. 20 extreme pages written in Spanish, size A4, B/W offset for the issue, with a pro printed glossy cover, interviews with bands such as DISGORGE (Mx), SHUB NIGGURATH, AIWASS, ADVENT, CRYFEMAL, WARFIELD (MX), SATAN (MX), ALFA ERIDANO AKHERNAR. Plus news, reviews and tons of info from the Metallic Underworld. This zine comes with FORJANDO EL METAL VOL. 2
CD-R Compilation (12 Tracks) courtesy of METAL INSIDE Rock Shop with bands like ERESHKIGAL,VOUHIVASARA, ANTON, EVIL ENTOURAGE, ADVENT, SUICIDAL INC, DELIRIUM, LEPER MESSIAH, MORDSKOG, ALFA ERIDANO AKHERNAR, INSEPULCHRAL, RAPTURE. My issue didnt come with a copy of the cd but this looks like a overall good zine issue for people fluent in the spanish language and also has very good art and structure within it. Many album reviews and this is only the 2nd issue so there should be more to come from Generis editors. Keep up the good work Generis zine.
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As football season kicks off and baseball season wraps up, now's a good time to check out some of the great new sports apps for the iPhone and other mobile devices.
From real-time scoreboards to live video -- and, of course, mobile games -- there are plenty of options.
Click here to see the 10 best iPhone and mobile apps for sports fans →
One company making a big splash this season on the iPhone is ESPN, the top sports cable network and Web site. The company has recently released several apps for the iPhone, including ESPN ScoreCenter, which keeps track of scores for your favorite teams, an ESPN Fantasy Football app, and an ESPN Radio app, which lets you stream live nationwide and local sports radio programming.
They've been a hit: ScoreCenter has been downloaded more than 2.7 million times since debuting in June, and ESPN's iPhone apps have been downloaded more than 4.5 million times in the last year. (ESPN also maintains an excellent mobile Web site for people using other phones.)
NFL and college football fans hoping to watch live games on the iPhone have some new options this year.
DirecTV is offering an app for its SuperFan service. While the app is free, the service is very expensive: You must be a DirecTV subscriber, pay $300 for NFL Sunday Ticket, and another $100 for the SuperFan service. But if you're doing that already, the iPhone app is a no-brainer add-on. (This app is also available for the Palm Pre and select BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices.)
Meanwhile, Sprint customers -- no iPhone, but Palm Pre and BlackBerry -- can access a Sprint NFL app, which includes live video streaming of the NFL Network, plus live radio streams of NFL games. Sprint tells us that more than 1.5 million subscribers have downloaded it.
And CBS is streaming some live college games -- one football and basketball game per week -- to the iPhone via its new CBS Sports: College app, which costs $9.99.
The best live sports app of them all is still Major League Baseball's At Bat for the iPhone, which keeps getting better as the baseball playoffs approach. This year, the league added live game radio and video feeds to the app, and recently allowed users to purchase live streams for individual games for $0.99 each. The paid At Bat app and the free "Lite" edition are on 1.1 million phones, MLB tells us.
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After a long deliberation with myself, I made the decision to join the crew team. Having never rowed before, I had no idea what I was getting myself in to. To my surprise, I have come to love the sport of rowing. The guys on the team are awesome and the practices are actually kind of fun. Seriously, if you come to the Academy and you're looking for something new to do, come down to the boat house. You won't regret joining crew.
I guess my biggest word of advice that I've acquired during my time here so far is this: get the enjoyment out of everything you can. I've had some great laughs and some fun times during these past few weeks. It's tough because 4th class year is almost designed to keep you down in a way, but there are definitely chances to have fun. Your time here will be so much more enjoyable if you just laugh when you have the opportunity.
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By Daniel Ellsberg
After Downing Street
For the second time in two weeks, the entire U.S. press has let itself be scooped by Rupert Murdoch's London Sunday Times on a dynamite story of criminal activities by corrupt U.S. officials promoting nuclear proliferation. But there is a worse journalistic sin than being scooped, and that is participating in a cover-up of information that demands urgent attention from the public, the U.S. Congress and the courts.
For the last two weeks — one could say, for years — the major American media have been guilty of ignoring entirely the allegations of the courageous and highly credible source Sibel Edmonds, quoted in the London Times on January 6, 2008 in a front-page story that was front-page news in much of the rest of the world but was not reported in a single American newspaper or network. It is up to readers to demand that this culpable silent treatment end.
Just as important, there must be pressure by the public on Congressional committee chairpersons, in particular Representative Henry Waxman and Senator Patrick Leahy. Both have been sitting for years on classified, sworn testimony by Edmonds — as she revealed in the Times' new story on Sunday — along with documentation, in their possession, confirming parts of her account. Pressure must be brought for them to hold public hearings to investigate her accusations of widespread criminal activities, over several administrations, that endanger national security. They should call for open testimony under oath by Edmonds — as she has urged for five years — and by other FBI officials she has named to them, as cited anonymously in the first Times' story.
And this is the time for those who have so far creditably leaked to the Times of London to come forward, accepting personal risks, to offer their testimony — and new documents — both to the Congress and to the American press. I would say to them: Don't do what I did and waste months of precious time trying to get Congressional committees to act as they should in the absence of journalistic pressure. Do your best to inform the American public directly, first, through the major American media.
But perhaps today the alternative media and the international press are a necessary precursor even to that. It shouldn't be true, but if it is, it's a measure of how far the New York Times and Washington Post have fallen from their responsibilities to the public, to their profession and to American democracy, since I gave them the Pentagon Papers in 1971. They printed them then. Would they today?
It's impossible to believe that they — or Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal — could not have acquired documents and testimony that Murdoch's London paper reports on today. Now the challenge to them is to end their silence on that reporting and do their job.
Otherwise, like the now-Democratic-controlled committees, they are complicit in cover-up. That's not what these institutions should be doing. It's not that "the cover-up is always worse than the crime": that favorite media mantra is itself a cover story. The criminal cover-up by the FBI revealed by Edmonds and the Times' documents is, as often the case, to conceal extremely serious crimes endangering our security, and to protect the official perpetrators. But if "freedom of the press is mainly for the people who own presses," it is time for those owners to stop using that freedom to help conceal official wrongdoing. And the people who own computers should be using them to light a fire under the owners of presses and television networks.
In support of the official cover-up, various American journalists in the last weeks have reportedly received calls from "intelligence sources" hinting that "what Sibel Edmonds stumbled onto" is not a rogue operation by American officials and Congressmen working to their own advantage — as believed by Edmonds and some other former or active FBI officials — but a sensitive covert operation authorized at high levels. If there is any truth to that, we clearly have another prize candidate — giving us, as blowback, the Pakistani Bomb and nuclear sales — in the category of "worst covert operation in U.S. history," rivaling such contenders as the Bay of Pigs, Iran-Contra, and the secret CIA torture camps abroad.
In the first two of those, the American press gullibly responded to official warnings of "sensitivity" and sat on information they should have reported (as did the New York Times, for a year, on the illegal NSA surveillance program). If the Washington Post had heeded such warnings and demands with respect to the covert torture camps, they would have missed a well-earned Pulitzer Prize and the camps would still be torturing.
Many, if not most, covert operations deserve to be disclosed by a free press. They are often covert not only because they are illegal but because they are wildly ill-conceived and reckless. "Sensitive" and "covert" are often synonyms for "half-assed" or "idiotic," as well as for "criminal," as the pattern of activities revealed by Edmonds would appear to be if it were truly presidentially authorized. These activities persist, covertly, to the point of national disaster because the press neglects what our First Amendment was precisely intended to protect and encourage it to do: expose wrongdoing by officials.
Daniel Ellsberg is a former American military analyst who sparked a national uproar in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of government decision-making during the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.
ED NOTE: A short video compilation (appx. 1.5 minutes) of a number of previous public comments made by Ellsberg, in support of Sibel Edmonds, has now been posted here by Edmonds expert Luke Ryland.
Daniel Ellsberg supporting Sibel Edmonds
Added: January 20, 2008
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Turkey & America: the Corridors of Intelligence and Geopolitics by John Stanton (Sibel)
Sibel Edmonds: Kill The Messenger (must-see video)
What if the FBI Hired Someone Honest to Look into 9-11? By David Swanson
New Whistleblowers Back Sibel by Scott Horton (Interview w/Sibel Edmonds & James Bamford)
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Op-Ed: Keeping porn off Social Media — Whose responsibility is it?
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Leave the ongoing debate over Web filtering to the side for the moment to consider - shouldn't social media sites declaring pornographic content as prohibited in their terms of use statements keep this content off their sites in the first place?
"Big Box" social media portals, such as
, have come to play a significant role in our lives, guiding how we interact with our friends and colleagues and how we share information with those we know (and sometimes those we don't).
Suddenly our every thought matters, and we upload the most minute and private details of our personal lives. In doing so, we place a huge amount of trust in these websites that this information will not be abused or made more available than we intend. We greedily peruse the thousands of photos that our friends upload and are ready to click on any link that shows up in our news feed.
It is undeniable that these portals have changed the inherent definition of social interaction, as we hide behind our computers yet somehow feel closer than ever to our friends and followers.
But have you ever stopped to question social media's commitment to our well-being?
While these sites, on the surface, are vibrant and innovative platforms for staying connected to people and the world around you, there is a darker, sometimes even nefarious side that often goes unnoticed.
Community standards and acceptable use policies may give us the warm and fuzzy feeling that somebody is watching out for us, but these are little more than words without proper enforcement. With all the recent press regarding pornography and child pornography on Facebook, I'm left wondering: What is being done to enforce these standards?
Thanks to the Nov. 14-16, 2011, porn spam attack that hit Facebook,
it is more or less common knowledge
that the social network's enforcement policy relies on live human moderation of content flagged by community members via the "report/mark as spam" option – a mechanism that failed during the porn spam attack because users trended towards commenting on posts rather than reporting them.
This begs the question: Is this passive moderation enough to deserve my trust as a user? And more importantly: Whose responsibility is it to keep the porn off Facebook?
In a given week, some 52.4 percent of the total volume of blatantly pornographic images newly identified for blocking by filtering company
Dynamic Graphic Inspection mechanism
are found hosted on Facebook's servers, as well as 75 percent of the total volume of newly detected images flagged as problematic in nature and in need of further inspection. One can assume these images are just a drop in a bucket given the sheer volume of photos uploaded daily to the social media portal.
Facebook's total active subscriber base is inching toward the 1 billion user mark, and a
2012 projection of $4 average annual revenue per user
translates to $2.5 billion in profits for Facebook, all because of our blind faith in the security of the "world" the social network has built for us. With this in mind, is the expectation that Facebook take a more proactive stance in enforcing the terms of its "
Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
," which explicitly states, "You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence" really so ridiculous?
Automated detection software
is already in use to inspect images against a database of child pornography images from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in an attempt to control the distribution of child porn over the social network, yet the content is still being uploaded and accessible before it is detected for removal, leaving me to ask, "Why?"
If a solution exists that is capable of high-volume scanning of image uploads to accurately confirm that the images do not violate the most severe of content prohibitions, why is this technology not being implemented? When did Facebook delegate to its subscriber community the job of flagging the inappropriate content for inspection, and what emotional and/or mental harm is this causing those users (particularly the thousands of underage users active on the site)?
Perhaps Facebook should look to YouTube for direction in this arena. The video-sharing portal has developed a number of safety features, including the ability to enable safety mode and the YouTube for Schools educational video library, to ensure that appropriate content can be accessed reliably and responsibly, without risk of exposure to harmful content.
I don't deny Facebook's contribution to the Internet, or its usefulness as a social connector. But at the end of the day, I have to say I feel a bit let down by its general disregard for social responsibility and hope that my ad-click revenue will be put to better use in 2012.
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Swiss Racing Driver Harold Primat Enters Third Year Of LMP1 Racing With Aston Martin Racing
Swiss racing driver Harold Primat will enter his third year of LMP1 racing with the prestigious Aston Martin Racing team in 2011. Today it has been announced that he will continue as an official works driver for the British-based team in its 2011 campaign.
The partnership between Harold and Aston Martin has already generated strong results with three podiums being recorded in the 2010 Le Mans Series and American Le Mans Series and a sixth place finish in the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2010. 2011 marks Harold's sixth full season competing in LMP1 in which time he has achieved over ten podium finishes.
In 2011, Harold will partner Mexican racing driver Adrian Fernandez and British racing driver Andy Meyrick in the Aston Martin AMR-One '009' car. The car is a new open-top LMP1 race car featuring a 2.0 litre turbocharged six cylinder direct injection petrol engine which has been developed for a new bespoke carbon fibre chassis designed and manufactured by Aston Martin Racing.
Based on the new regulations for 2011 instigated by the Le Mans governing body; the ACO, Aston Martin Racing has chosen to change strategy this year in designing an open cockpit car. In line with the new 2011 rules, the AMR-One features the new blade-fin and has a significantly down-sized engine in keeping with the championship's efficiency focused regulations. Power is fed to the rear wheels via a six-speed transverse semi automatic pneumatic shift, Xtrac racing gearbox.
Harold will be contesting both European and American races, which form part of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, including Paul Ricard, Spa, Silverstone, Petit Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with a few more races likely to be confirmed in the coming months. The AMR-One is expected to test for the first time in early March.
Team Principal George Howard-Chappell said: "We are very pleased to be confirming Harold Primat as part of the Aston Martin Racing team that will be contesting a programme of selected races around the world including Le Mans in 2011. Harold has helped the team to some great results since he began racing with us and is very much part of the Aston Martin family. We are all looking forward to working with him again this year."
Harold Primat said: "Embarking on a third year of racing with this prestigious team is a real honour for me and represents a mark of trust from the team in my ability to help them successfully contest their 2011 programme. The team and I have a strong working relationship which has already generated some very good results over the past two years and I am looking forward to building on these in 2011 with the new car. The team at Aston Martin Racing have done an incredible job on this season's car which is a very exciting project. They have been working day and night over the winter and I would like to thank each and everyone of the team for their hard work and look forward to driving the AMR-One car in the coming weeks."
"I would also like to thank my personal sponsors for their continuing support this year; Banque Baring Brothers Sturdza, Harwood International, Crans Montana and Primland;" continued Harold Primat.
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Simon Moon Teaches Korean BBQ 101
Chef Simon Moon is the owner of Korea Garden Grille, the subject of this week's Café review. If you have never eaten Korean barbecue before, this is a great place to try it, because chef Moon makes the experience really easy. When several people in our party confessed that they didn't know where to start, Moon took them through the entire buffet line, explaining it item by item.
The chef lit the grill in the middle of our table and suggested that we get some cold banchan dishes like kim chee, seaweed salad and cold noodle salad to start. And while we were eating those appetizers, Moon came over to our table with a pile of raw kalbi (marinated short rib meat) and raw bulgogi (marinated rib eye steak) and arranged them on the hot grill. Moon proceeded to cook our entire meal for us.
Of course it was the middle of the afternoon on a weekday, and the restaurant was nearly empty. Don't expect personal-chef service on a weekend night. But if you have any questions about Korean barbecue, don't hesitate to ask chef Moon -- he is a very helpful guy.
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Nikon AF-S Nikkor DX 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED Review
Sharpness at 10mm
For these sharpness tests the Nikon 10-24mm lens was attached to a Nikon D7000 body, which in turn was mounted on a sturdy tripod. Slight tonal changes are due to slight changes in natural light during the session. The 100% crops represent about 1/400th of the total frame area.
The full frame at 10mm
At 10mm the centre is remarkably sharp wide open, with peak performance achieved in the f/5.6-8 range. Diffraction sets in at around f/11, with its effects becoming more visible at f/16, but the only aperture setting you'll want to avoid is f/22.
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Prince William and Prince Harry Visit Prince Philip in the Hospital
Prince William and Prince Harry emerged on Friday, June 14, visiting their grandfather, Prince Philip, at a London hospital. On Thursday, June 6, Queen Elizabeth II's 91-year-old husband was hospitalized for an "exploratory operation," a Buckingham Palace rep told Us Weekly.
An eyewitness tells Us that William and Harry's father, Charles, and stepmom, Camilla, arrived at the London Clinic first, with the brothers arriving 15 minutes later in a chauffeur-driven Jaguar.
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William and Harry visited with their grandfather for 40 minutes before leaving the hospital, wearing almost identical navy blue suits with button-up shirts. Their cousins, Beatrice and Eugenie, also visited earlier in the day, a source tells Us.
Outside the hospital, Charles told Sky News that Philip was doing "much better."
Indeed, a Palace rep told Us on June 10 that the Duke of Edinburgh "is progressing according to plans at this early stage" and "is comfortable and in good spirits." They added that Phillip "will remain in hospital for two weeks and will take a period of convalescence for two months."
Philip will not be at the Trooping the Colour on Saturday, June 15, but the rest of the Royal family, including Kate Middleton, will be in attendance.
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Jewish World Review Nov. 8, 2013/ 5 Kislev, 5774 John Kerry Throws Freedom-Seeking Women Under the Bus By Michelle Malkin
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | It's confirmed: The "F" in John. F. Kerry stands for "Feckless." Women around the world no longer need to wonder whether America's secretary of state will stand boldly with them in defense of their basic rights. He won't. On Monday, Kerry was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Anyone with a phone or an Internet connection inside and outside the country knows what's been going on there. The kingdom has been rocked by women of all ages protesting the Muslim nation's retrograde ban on female drivers. Over the past two weeks, the protesters and their supporters have taken to social media to pressure the oppressive sharia-enforcing regime. It is the only country in the world that won't allow its women — 20 million of them — to obtain driver's licenses. Women can own cars. They just can't drive them. They are forced to hire male drivers, who often harass them, crash their cars, can't be trusted and soak up half of their paychecks. Most women rely on taxi drivers, who turn 10-minute commutes into two-hour commutes. Others are held hostage in their own homes. Foreign women are not even allowed to use their native licenses to drive in the Saudi kingdom. Over the weekend, a Kuwaiti woman was arrested in Saudi Arabia for driving her sick father to the hospital. The Kuwait Times reported that "according to a Khafji police report, the woman was caught driving a Chevrolet Epica ... in front of a hotel in the area located near the border with Kuwait, while a Kuwaiti man was in the passenger's seat. The woman told the officers that the man was her father, adding that he is diabetic and cannot drive and that she had to take him to the hospital for treatment." The woman remained in custody "pending investigations." Manal al-Sharif, the 34-year-old female computer scientist leading the protest movement, spent nine days in jail in 2011 for "incitement to public disorder" for driving her brother's car in public. Fourteen other women faced arrest for participating in last month's demonstration; many more faced death threats. Tariq al-Mubarak, a male supporter and high school teacher who helped the October protesters, was held in custody by Saudi interior ministry investigators for several days.
This was the roiling cultural context for a reporter's simple question to Kerry on Monday. "I was wondering," the journalist asked, "what your take is on women driving in Saudi Arabia?" Kerry's take was ... to take cover. "With respect to the issue of women driving here in Saudi Arabia," he filibustered, "it's no secret that in the United States of America we embrace equality for everybody, regardless of gender, race or any other qualification." And then came the "but." The crapweasel "but." "But it's up to Saudi Arabia to make its own decisions about its own social structure choices and timing for whatever events. I know there's a debate. We actually talked about this at lunch," Kerry ducked. What he "actually talked about" he wouldn't say. "There's a healthy debate in Saudi Arabia about this issue, but I think that debate is best left to Saudi Arabia, the people engaged in it, all of whom know exactly where we in the United States of America stand on this issue." Wimpy, wimpy, wimpy. No unequivocal shout-outs for the brave women risking arrest for simply getting behind the wheel? No paean to the cherished freedom to move about as we please? No stirring affirmation of the connection between mobility and women's dignity? Nada. Of course, we've come to expect nothing less than pure fecklessness from the foggy minds at Foggy Bottom. Kerry's predecessor, feminist hero Hillary Clinton, who preferred "quiet diplomacy" on the matter, had to be dragged into the Saudi women driver's debate in 2011. Even then, she soft-pedaled her message: "I want to, again, underscore and emphasize that this is not about the United States; it's not about what any of us on the outside say," she said. "It is about the women themselves and their right to raise their concerns with their own government." These "progressive" Democrats are all for championing women's rights and international human rights when it suits them: at Hollywood soirees, Vogue photo shoots, fancy state dinners and black-tie award ceremonies. But stick their Hermes-wrapped necks out once in favor of basic human dignity and risk upsetting the mullahs to their faces? Never. This is Obama's America: leading from the sidelines. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here.
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This Great Horned Owl (GHO), affectionately called "Styles" by her team, came to us with a fractured right humerus. She had an external fixator placed during surgery to stabilize the fracture, which was then removed a few weeks later once the fracture had healed. In these pictures, the team is measuring the extension of her wing. We cannot release a raptor that cannot fly well enough to hunt, and this measurement is one of the criteria we use to asses the recovery of our patients. Styles' fracture healed well, and she has now been sent off to a wildlife rehabber. Hopefully, she'll be back on her own in the wild very soon.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Great Horned Owl
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Educational Events!
Our resident raptors had two great education events this week. On Tuesday evening, Odin, Nokomis, Noel, Penelope and Pistol attended a meeting of the U of I Pre-Vet Club. The future vets got to hear about the medical history of our birds and some other cases at the WMC. This evening, the birds visited Robeson Elementary in Champaign for Robeson's Math and Science Night. The students were great, and we had a lot of fun. If you want more information about booking an event with our residents, look at the online submission form.
Orphan Feedings
We feed most orphan species 5 times daily. One team is assigned to feed all of the orphans in the clinic everyday, and the responsibility rotates through all of our teams. This afternoon, members of Team 9 fed our young squirrels.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Our first group of spring orphans came to the clinic this afternoon. Every spring brings an influx of orphaned birds, bunnies and squirrels to the clinic. Unfortunately, many of the orphans we receive would have been better left alone. Parents will often leave their young for long periods during the day, leading people to think the young have been abandoned. Our recommendations are to call us when:
1) you know the parents are dead (evidence of a dead adult nearby)
2) the animal is obviously injured, weak, thin, very cold or sick
3) the animal is covered with flies or insects , or
4) the animal is in unavoidable, unnatural danger.
If the "orphan" is fat, bright eyed and apparently healthy it is probably best left alone. You can return the animal to its nest (if you can find it) or move it out of the way to a safe location. If a baby bunny's eyes are open or a baby bird is completely feathered, they are typically old enough to fend for themselves.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Doodle for Wildlife Photos
As promised, here are some of the photos from Doodle for Wildlife. I hope everyone had a great time!
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Doodle for Wildlife
Thanks to everyone who joined us at ihotel last night for Doodle for Wildlife! The event was a success, and I hope that everyone had a great time. (I know that I did.) Pictures (and possibly video...) of the event will be posted soon. We really appreciate everyone coming out to support the clinic!