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International Style Stars: The Chicest of the Spring 2013 Streets
International Style Stars: The Chicest of the Spring 2013 Streets
If there's one thing this past Fashion Month has taught us it's this: street style is here to stay. It's become as big a part of Fashion Week as the presentations, afterparties, and shows, and those swarms of photographers outside the venues only seem to be multiplying by the season. Of course, there are plenty of willing subjects. In Paris we witnessed a particularly curious phenomenon: established fashion folk and gussied-up newbies alike making multiple treks up and down the Tuileries path just to ensure that their pictures were sufficiently snapped. A prime example of Fashion Week peacocking? Yes. Are we complaining? No. In fact, we enjoy a stellar display of style just as much as anyone, and sometimes the circus outside the tent is just as interesting as the show itself.
That said, there are certain people who manage to knock their show-attending ensembles out of the park repeatedly — and pretty authentically to boot. There's no doubt in our minds, for example, that Caroline Issa — with her well-appointed menswear looks and coolly chic power suits — actually wears these pieces every day; the same can be said for Yasmin Sewell, Giovanna Battaglia, and Julia Sarr-Jamois too. So, in honor of them and others of their stylish ilk, here it is: our rundown of the chicest ladies to hit the streets of the Spring 2013 Fashion Weeks.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Observing Student Communication
|Introduction | Hidden Pattern Blocks | Describing a Hexagon | Problem Reflection #1 | Classroom Practice | Problem Reflection #2 | Observe a Classroom | Your Journal
Let's look at another example of a student developing her communication skills in the same activity.
Mira: My piece has lots of sides and fat corners.
Ms. Wright: What else can you say about your piece?
Ms. Wright: Tell us about the sides of your piece.
Ms. Wright: Can you feel all of the sides of the piece and tell how many there are in all?
Ms. Wright: How many?
Ms. Wright: Look at the pieces in the box. Are there any with eight sides?
Ms. Wright: Does anyone know how many sides the yellow piece has?
Ms. Wright: Can you draw a shape with six sides?
Ms. Wright: Show the class your drawing. Let's count the sides.
Ms. Wright: Mira, what else can you tell about your piece?
Ms. Wright: Let's look at the drawing. How many corners does your drawing have?
Ms. Wright: Take out your piece and let's check.
Ms. Wright: Does anyone know the name of this shape?
Ms. Wright: This piece is called a hexagon. Everyone say "hexagon".
Ms. Wright: What do you know about a hexagon?
Ms. Wright: What else?
Ms. Wright: Anything else?
Ms. Wright: What shape has six sides and six corners?
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Miscues send King Felix to first loss of season
SEATTLE -- Felix Hernandez prides himself on a lot of things, including being the ace of his team and the guy who steps up when things get tough. But not even The King could put an end to the Mariners' rough skid as Houston handed Seattle a 7-2 setback Monday night.
Hernandez suffered his first defeat of the season as the Mariners saw their losing streak reach seven on a night not much went right for a team badly in need of a break.View Full Game Coverage
SEATTLE -- Felix Hernandez prides himself on a lot of things, including being the ace of his team and the guy who steps up when things get tough. But not even The King could put an end to the Mariners' rough skid as Houston handed Seattle a 7-2 setback Monday night.
Hernandez suffered his first defeat of the season as the Mariners saw their losing streak reach seven on a night not much went right for a team badly in need of a break.View Full Game Coverage
"Pretty tough," Hernandez said in a quiet clubhouse. "I wanted to stop the losing streak, but we didn't. It was not my best stuff today."
Hernandez wasn't alone on that front as the Mariners committed two errors that allowed four unearned runs, struck out 14 times and went 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position against a Houston club that snapped its own seven-game losing streak in the process.
"It was a tough ballgame," acknowledged first-year skipper Lloyd McClendon. "Things are tough right now. But we'll be okay."
Hernandez fell to 3-1 with a 2.04 ERA as he allowed seven hits and six runs (two earned) with one walk and four strikeouts on 96 pitches. He'd allowed just seven runs in his first four starts combined, and had a one-hit shutout through four innings Monday before things started to unravel.
Astros designated hitter Matt Dominguez ended a scoreless duel in the fifth with a two-run home run to left off Hernandez, the first runs Houston had scored off the Mariners' ace in 17 innings over three starts since entering the American League West last year.
The Astros then took advantage of an error by third baseman Kyle Seager in the sixth that opened the floodgates to a four-run frame that included a pair of doubles and a triple off Hernandez. Seager couldn't hang on to a throw from Mike Zunino, who aggressively jumped on a short bunt by Dexter Fowler and gunned to third hoping to catch the lead runner, Jose Altuve.
"I came in, read that Zunino was going to get it and there'd be a play at third," Seager said. "I got back to the bag in time, I just went for the tag a little too quickly and obviously I need to catch the ball first."
Zunino said the Mariners were being aggressive on that play, but the result backfired.
"That's a tough play for Kyle," Zunino said. "He needs to read the bunt and retreat back to the bag, so it's a tough play all around. It's an aggressive play, we were tied at 2, just trying to take a shot there and it just didn't go our way."
That was pretty much the story of the night for the Mariners, who couldn't take advantage of a young Astros lineup that came in batting .192 on the season. Houston equaled its season high with the seven runs and have now won seven of their last nine games at Safeco Field.
"They were aggressive all night and swung the bats quite a bit," Zunino said. "It was one of those where the few mistakes you make, they're swinging and being aggressive and they ended up connecting on them."
With Houston improving to 6-14, the Mariners now own the longest active losing streak in the Majors with their seven-game skid as they've fallen to 7-12.
Hernandez has started the year 4-0 only once in his 10 seasons, in 2009 when he went on to win a career-best 19 games. Like McClendon, he said it's far too early for this club to panic.
"We just have to do the little things," Hernandez said. "We have a lot of confidence, but we need to go out there and execute. That's always true."
For four innings, that held true Monday. But Alex Presley singled with one out in the fifth and took second when the ball slid past the glove of center fielder Abraham Almonte for an error. When Dominguez followed with his two-run shot to left, it snapped Hernandez's 0-for-18 streak against hitters with runners in scoring position this year.
Almonte atoned in the bottom of the fifth with a two-run double to re-tie the game at 2 after a leadoff single by Seager and double by Zunino, but that was all the scoring Seattle managed.
The Astros took advantage of another error in the sixth on Seager's miscue. Houston wound up with runners at the corners and then took the lead with a sacrifice fly before Marc Krauss laced a two-out RBI single, Presley banged a run-scoring triple off the right field wall and Dominguez doubled off the left field wall to score Presley and make it 6-2.
Krauss added a solo home run off reliever Tom Wilhelmsen in the eighth as the Astros equaled their highest scoring game of the season.
"That was arguably our best game that we played all year as far as complete baseball, from pitching to defense to timely hitting" Astros manager Bo Porter said.
The Mariners were on the flip side of that, but McClendon maintained his post-game poise.
"When you lose seven in a row, you're looking for a lot of things," McClendon said. "You're looking for good pitching, you're looking for defense, you're looking for hits. The one thing I tell my players is the only people that are going to right the ship is us. You can talk about stats or defense or offense or what should have been done or what wasn't done. But you've just got to go out and play. Relax and play the game."
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog.


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Did social media just prematurely kill off the leader of North Korea?
Rumors that Kim Jong-un, the country's supreme leader, has been assassinated just months after he took power originated on Chinese microblogging service Weibo and have now spread all over Twitter.
Others are reporting that Jong-un, believed to be 28 years old, may be on the run rather than dead, but both reports claim that some kind of coup is taking place.
One person on Weibo wrote (loose translation): "north korea's biggest leader kim jung un, this morning in beijing time 2:45 am, had his residence broken into and was assassinated by unidentified people, who were shot dead by his bodyguards in korea's embassy in beijing, vehicles are rapidly increasing in number, and have surpassed 30 of them, this sort of battle formation hasn't been seen in over two years. please verify this."
The rumors remain unsubstantiated. However, the reports are beginning to attract a great deal of attention, especially now that a couple of American news outlets including the Atlantic Wire have reported on them.
Weibo is in many ways the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, and disseminates news at a rapid pace. People were tipped off that there was something happening that involved Jong-Un, who succeeded his late father Kim Jong-Il, because of the mass of cars parked outside of his resident.
For good reason, many Twitter users are exercising caution, aware that news like this can spread without much to sustain it.
A sample of the dubious tweeters:
"Kim Jong Un apparently assasinated in Beijing. Source: 'Chinese Twitter'. What does that even mean? One Chinese person's account? or @China?" AdamThompson1 tweeted.
"Wait for confirmation on Kim Jong Un death rumors. Twitter is also reporting that 'Jonas Brothers are the best band,'" Matt Binder wrote.
"Rumors from Chinese twitter that Kim Jong Un assassinated this morning in Beijing. pretty unlikely," Dan Bennett posted.
So did social media spread the news or cause unnecessary hysteria? We will update when the news develops.
Michelle Ong contributed to this report.


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The Music Program at Skyline College
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In addition to a wide variety of courses, we offer three Associate of Arts Degrees in Music, two of which are specifically geared for students looking to transfer to a four-year institution.
Please note, students may be asked to audition or test for placement in sequential courses.
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Through performance, creative activity, research, and exploration of the art of music, the Music Program prepares students for transfer to a four-year institution and for careers as performers, composers, teachers, producers and more.
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I'm sure there are people who ask themselves...
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We do it because it's a cool thing to do -- that's it. Lower prices and the fellowship of other cruise enthusiasts you meet here in CruiseMates. Our cruises are more affordable and more fun.
Can I get the same or even lower prices elsewhere?
Maybe, and you're certainly welcome to try, but our prices are pretty hard to beat. But that's not the only reason to book into our group cruises. The fun of sharing these sailings and itineraries with a bunch of like-minded "net friendly" cruisers is what truly sets these cruises apart.
Here in CruiseMates you get the opportunity to get together online, in our message boards and chatroom, and to correspond with the people you meet here via email before you go. Then you actually get to meet the same people in person during the cruise, to share the fun that cruising with a group offers.
Does it really make a difference to know people on board?
Take it from us -- It makes the entire cruise experience much richer when you share it with friendly people -- people you have things in common with. Here in CruiseMates you can get to know your fellow cruisers before you go - so you can find the people you have things in common with, and avoid those you don't.
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Share your enthusiasm with other people who are as excited as you are -- other CruiseMates! Plus, your fellow CruiseMates are an asset in helping you plan your vacation. Ask them what they are planning to do in port, share tips about excursions, packing and planning. You'll not only get new ideas and invaluable information, you'll make new friends in the process. Friends with whom you will soon be sharing a cruise.
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The "Start/Stop" button may be utilized to shut the vehicle off while not in the "Park" gear. If this occurs, the vehicle could roll away unexpectedly. Dealers will reprogram the wireless ignition node module to eliminate this possibility. The Chrysler recall number is H29. This recall began on September 15, 2008.
Our Quick Take
The "Start/Stop" button on the vehicle is a convenience item intended to replace keys for starting and shutting off the vehicle. The factory computer could stop the vehicle from running in a gear other than "Park." If this happens, the vehicle may not be secured and the vehicle could roll away.
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We at RepairPal have designated this a high priority recall; the vehicle could be shut off and not be in the "Park" gear, which may allow the vehicle to roll away without warning. Please contact your Dodge dealer. They will check to see if your specific vehicle is affected and advise you on what to do next. Always have your vehicle identification number (VIN) handy when you call.


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New York, NY - January 15, 2013 - AMC and Fox Television Studios (FTVS) announced today a new deal which will return "The Killing" to AMC for a third season. As part of the deal, Veena Sud returns as executive producer, writer and showrunner along with actors Mireille Enos (Sarah Linden) and Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder). Season three will focus on a new case, which will be resolved over the course of 12 episodes. Production on season three begins February 25th in Vancouver.
"'The Killing' from day one has been a truly original take on the crime drama. Veena Sud and the rest of the talented creative team are hard at work shaping the lives of Linden and Holder, portrayed by the terrific Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman," said Charlie Collier, AMC's president. "We're so pleased to welcome back 'The Killing' for another season."
Fox TV Studios President, David Madden, said, "We have always believed in 'The Killing' and remain extremely proud of it, which is why we all worked so hard to find a scenario that could give it new life."
"I couldn't be happier to know that I will be returning to work with AMC, FTVS and Mireille and Joel on what is and has always been a passion project for me. To the fans that have supported the series, thank you for doing so. My team and I will work hard to deliver the best story that we can for season three," said Veena Sud.
A year after closing the Rosie Larsen case, Sarah Linden is no longer a detective. But when her ex-partner Stephen Holder's search for a runaway girl leads him to discover a gruesome string of murders that connects to a previous murder investigation by Linden, she is drawn back into the life she thought she'd left behind.
"The Killing" is produced by Fox Television Studios and executive produced by Mikkel Bondesen for Bondesen Productions. Kristen Campo serves as co-executive producer.
The series premiered on AMC Sunday, April 3, 2011, with season two premiering Sunday, April 1, 2012. The Killing averaged 1.9 million viewers over the 2 seasons.
AMC's Joel Stillerman, executive vice president of original programming, production and digital content, Susie Fitzgerald, senior vice president of scripted development and current programming and Jason Fisher, senior vice president of production oversee production of the series for the network.
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We have decided to offer all genuine Model Railway Clubs the chance to purchase items from our store, at a discounted price. The discount is in the region of 10% lower than the online catalogue list price. We will be pleased to quote for items that are not listed online.
There is no minimum order quantity, or minimum order total.
All you have to do is to create an account including the name of your model railway club, then send us an email using the contact us form on this site, stating that you would like to be included in the discount scheme. We will do the rest and will notify you of a discount code that should be used on every checkout as long as the products are for your model railway clubs layout. If we suspect any type of orders that we believe are not for the club layout we will cancel the discount code for any future payments and orders. What we are basically saying is do not abuse the system.
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IRS's 'feeble' grip on big political cash
The Billion-Dollar Buy: About this series
Like never before, big dollars are having a big impact on politics and governance. This series examines how the new wide-open fundraising landscape will affect the 2012 campaigns.
See also: Sheldon Adelson: Inside the mind of a mega-donor | Inside Koch world | GOP groups plan record $1 billion blitz | Rove hits big: Birth of a mega-donor | Myth of the small donor | The new normal: $9 million for a rural House seat | Secret money funds GOP door-knockers | The billion-dollar bust?
The deep-pocketed conservative group Americans for Prosperity has spent $72 million on ads bashing Democrats so far this year.
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It spent $39.4 million on ads and organizing in 2010, when it helped deliver the midterm elections for Republicans.
So when the Koch brothers-backed nonprofit set up shop back in 2004, how much did it tell the Internal Revenue Service it planned to spend on elections?
Surely, the IRS is hopping mad and has a team of auditors trying to get to the bottom of this massive discrepancy.
Actually, no.
Since the IRS granted its tax exemption in 2004, Americans for Prosperity has never received so much as a phone call, a letter or an inquiry from the agency about its spending , according to Chairman Art Pope.
AFP has turned in its tax returns every year, just as the law requires, reporting that it did not spend a dime on politics — an answer that seems implausible from a common-sense perspective, but one that the IRS appears to have accepted as consistent with its vague and ambiguous definition of political activity.
AFP isn't alone; at least $134 million in ads , mail, phone calls and other political spending this election have come from tax-exempt groups that said they didn't plan to spend money on political campaigns, according to a POLITICO analysis of records filed with the IRS and the Federal Election Commission, as well as news reports and press releases.
If you're looking for the cop on the beat for much of the outside spending in 2012 — when Republican-allied groups alone intend to spend upwards of $1 billion — stop by the IRS, one of the most feared and hated government agencies around.
Except when it comes to political spending, the IRS is more like a toothless tiger.
Unlike campaigns or super PACs, which the FEC regulates as political committees, groups like AFP operate under a once-sleepy section of the Tax Code — 501(c)4 — written decades earlier to allow a range of groups to avoid paying taxes while serving a social benefit. The 501(c)4 groups are able to:
• Raise and spend unlimited donations, without ever publicly disclosing where they got the money.
• Pay no corporate income taxes on any of those donations.
• Do all that raising and spending without filing a single piece of paper with the IRS until months after Election Day.
• Operate in the shadows of an IRS bureaucracy that won't tell reporters, or even members of Congress, who has applied to create 501(c)4 groups, how it evaluates applications or whether it's approved particular groups.
Even some members of Congress say they feel stonewalled in their requests for basic information.
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), one of several lawmakers dogging the IRS over its apparent inaction in the face of the 501(c)4 spending surge, sees the irony in the situation.
"We have case after case in this office of little folks that the IRS goes after for assessments — small business that they go after — where they used their highly aggressive tactics," Levin said. "And you've got huge amounts of money being spent here, but very, very feeble, weak enforcement of the law."
Levin and other lawmakers such as Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), have spent months trying to get the IRS to explain itself. "Getting information out of them is like pulling teeth," Levin said.
Pretty sweet deal? That's right. Just ask the groups. who have essentially written their own rulebook for political spending in the wake of federal court rulings and FEC gridlock that have eroded election laws over the last few years. Operatives and their billionaire donors have taken full advantage of the leeway given them by the IRS, which has yet to raise even the first public question about any of the 501(c)4 groups behind the explosion of TV ads.


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The 140-ton machine is powered by Eaton heavy-duty Series 1 pumps that power track drive and conveyors, Vickers screw-in cartridge valves for conveyor controls, and Aeroquip hose and fittings for all fluid-conveying arteries. At the heart of the rock crusher is a sophisticated control system equipped with Eaton's comprehensive F(x) electrohydraulic architecture.
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After weeks of rampant speculation, wild rumors and unconfirmed sightings, as well as the leaking of grainy photos and shaky video footage, Sony has finally revealed the truth: Bigfoot does, in fact, exist.
Sorry. What I meant to say is that Sony today revealed that the PlayStation 3 Slim exists. And consumers will be able to buy the new game console — a PS3 that comes with a thinner, lighter shape and a 120-gigabyte hard drive — for $299, which is a whopping $100 less than the PS3 has been previously priced at.
During a press conference in advance of the GamesCom video-game convention in Cologne, Germany, Sony executives announced that the PlayStation 3 Slim will be available starting Sept. 1 and that the company will also drop the price of the current 80 gigabyte PlayStation 3 to $299 — effective immediately. Meanwhile, its 160-gigabyte model will drop from $499 to $399. (Both the 160- and 80-gigabyte models will be discontinued once they sell out.)
The price drop comes as good news to video-game enthusiasts who have criticized the high price tag hanging on Sony's powerful game machine ever since its launch in 2006. But is Sony's move too little too late? The new machine and price cut come as Sony finds the PS3 in third place behind its competitors — Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii — and also as game sales overall plummet.
Games analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan Securities said that, in one sense, it is too little too late, in that Sony has lost and will likely never get back the millions of gamers who bought Microsoft's less-expensive-but-still-powerful Xbox 360.
But he says it's hardly too late in the big picture. Instead, Sony's price cut means the three-way console competition is back on — and is about to get very interesting.
"Sony is making it a horse race again," he said.
PS3 pickle
How is it that Sony — creator of the phenomenally successful PlayStation 2 — found itself running in last place in the first place?
"I think they relied on their market leadership from last cycle and thought they could ride that in this cycle," Pachter said. "I think they thought everybody who had a PS2 — which was 70 percent of the install base last cycle — was going to buy a PS3 this cycle regardless of price. And I think they've been kind of rudely surprised."
By way of example, as sales of gaming systems tumbled 37 percent in July , the Wii sold 252,500 units, the Xbox 360 sold 202,900 units and the PS3 sold only 121,800 units, according to Market researcher NPD Group.
Gamers have been critical of the PS3's high price and have been calling for a significant price drop since the machine launched in November 2006 for $499 and $599, depending on the model. And consumers weren't the only ones complaining. In June, Bobby Kotick, CEO of publishing giant Activision, called on Sony to drop the price of the PS3 or risk losing them.
Pachter pointed out that, yes, the PS3 is a muscular gaming machine that comes with a Blu-ray player and Wi-Fi connectivity built-in.
But the problem is, "We console owners have never paid more than $300 for a console before this cycle, and 90 percent of us never paid more than $200 for a console before this cycle," he said. "So, we've been conditioned that $199 is what you pay for a box. And all of a sudden you had Sony asking you to pay three times that. And 2 1/2 years and counting after launch and they were still at double the price point most people have in their heads as the right price."
So why the price drop and why now?
"We track purchase intent very closely and we know that consumers have been interested in buying a PS3 for some time," Peter Dille, Sony senior VP of marketing, said after the Cologne press event. "A lot of people have been waiting for the price to come down. We understand that. That's why this new unit has been configured and conceived."
Good for gamers, good for the biz
But this isn't just a price move, he said, it's the introduction of a new hardware unit that has been reduced significantly in size. PS3 Slim is 32 percent lighter, 36 percent smaller and consumes about 34 percent less power. And it's this new form factor that allows Sony to manufacture the PS3 at a lower cost and then pass the savings on to consumers.
"We've been talking about the value of the PS3 at $399 but now at $299 we feel like that value takes on an entirely different dimension," Dille said. "I think this is a game changing moment for the industry."
And Pachter agreed. He said the PlayStation 3 Slim means Sony doesn't have to spend as much money making the PS3 and is thus probably no longer losing money on the hardware.
"That allows them to subsidize better content, get more exclusives and expand their online offering, which has to be losing them money right now, as well as expand the variety of content they offer online," he said. "And I think it positions them to actually penetrate a lot more deeply because they are priced within $50 of the Wii and they're priced at the same price as the Xbox 360."
And when you compare the PS3 hardware to the Xbox 360 and Wii — especially with the close pricing — the PS3 with its Blu-ray player and Wi-Fi looks very appealing.
"On a pure hardware basis, Sony would win," Pachter said.
Sony's competition is certainly expected to respond. Rumors and leaked photos have led many to expect that Microsoft will announce tomorrow at GamesCom that it is discontinuing the Xbox 360 Pro with a 60-gigabyte hard drive and will be dropping the price of its Xbox 360 Elite with a 120-gigabyte hard drive from $399 to $299.
And Microsoft might cut even further to $249, Pachter believes.
"Microsoft will wait until September and October and see how things are going and more than likely they'll probably wait through Christmas. But at the earliest they'll cut in November and only if Sony starts outselling them 2-to-1 or something like that," he said.
As for Nintendo, Pachter said he expects them to change their bundling — perhaps sell the Wii with the new " Wii Sports Resort " and the Wii MotionPlus — and even drop the price of the $249 Wii to $199 perhaps by the end of the year but certainly by February.
"I think Nintendo has got to do something and that makes it really interesting," he said.
No matter which console comes out on top in the coming months, it's the consumers who are going to be the big winners.
"You'll get more choices at lower prices," Pachter said. "They're turning it into a competition again and I think that's great. It's healthy for consumers. It's health for the industry."
According to some video game industry rumors, Winda Benedetti really is Bigfoot and she's tweeting about it on Twitter.
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The EPA uses the recommended fuel, so for the numbers above both turbos burn premium fuel. The site says so specifically, even estimating prices for the fuel.
So if you run regular the knock sensor will be forced to retard the timing to compensate which will reduce power and fuel economy slightly from the advertised figures achieved on premium.0
Yeah, but probably not much.
When Subaru's H6 came out and they recommended premium, it made 212hp on 93 octane. Subaru stated the power output with 87 octane was 208hp.
Not all that significant.
It might be a tad more with a turbo, but both the CX7 and F-XT have plenty of power, so I doubt they'll feel slow at all.0
It's not the power difference - that's minimal and would hardly be noticed except under WOT. Fuel economy would also be lower by 1-2 mpg in most cases.0
Dunno about 2mpg, but I'm sure it would drop a bit.
Any how, even if you put premium in the Forester you will save hundreds per year on fuel costs vs. the Edge V6, so the price of gas shouldn't stop anyone from getting one.0
Any how, even if you put premium in the Forester you will save hundreds per year on fuel costs vs. the Edge V6, so the price of gas shouldn't stop anyone from getting one.
That's what happens when the Ford weighs approximately* 700 lbs more than the Subaru. They're just in different classes altogether. The Edge is more Tribeca-sized.0
True, but the Tribeca offers a 3rd row.
Also, inside, besides width, the Forester doesn't really sacrifice much useable space.
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Ok, a Murano competitor then.
The Edge is really roomy (and I know roomy, at 6'5"), and three across do actually fit in relative comfort in the third row.0
You mean 2nd row. :shades:
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"He was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished , one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." And he said to them, "When you pray, say: "Father, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread; and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation." (Luke 11: 1-4)
Jesus sets forth the framework for a lifestyle of prayer in this prayer we call the "Our Father". After this response, he tells the disciples a parable concerning one type of prayer, persevering prayer for needs. (Luke 11:1-13) However, His entire time with the disciples is an instruction in Prayer. He shows them by example the pattern of living in continual communion with the Father. He invites them – and he invites us – into the communion of love which He has with the Father, in the Spirit. That is the heart of prayer.
Through His Incarnation, which includes – His Life, Death, Resurrection and Ascension – he removes the impediment to our entering into that communion. He capacitates us to begin living in that communion right now. We are called to a lifestyle where prayer becomes naturally supernatural; like breathing. After the Resurrection, the Apostle Paul wrote these compelling and challenging words: "Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit." (1 Thess. 5:16-19)
St. Paul wrote those words to the early Christians in Greece. They did not live lives of ease, in any sense of the word. They had families, occupations, and struggles beyond what many of us could imagine. They suffered greatly for their faith. He instructed them to "Pray without ceasing". Did he really mean it? I believe that he did. The older I get, the simpler life gets. That does not mean it is "easy". I speak of spiritual simplicity, the kind of attitude which gets right to the root of what really matters. I believe that Paul's words are vital for those who bear the name Christian today.
Prayer is an ongoing dialogue of intimate communion with God that makes life different. God fashioned men and women as the crown of His creation, creating us in "His Image", for this loving, relational conversation of life with Him. At the heart of understanding what it means to be "in His Image" is to understand the immense gift of human freedom and what has happened to our capacity to choose properly. Love is never coerced. Love is freely given and freely received.
Our relationship with God was broken, separated and wounded through the first sin, the sin of origins or "original sin". That sin, like all sin since, is at root a misuse of freedom infected by pride and self sufficiency. Our ability to exercise our freedom rightly, to live in His Image by directing our capacity for free choice always toward the good, was impeded through that fall. You can say that our freedom was fractured. The only way it can be healed and restored is through the applying the splint of the Cross and the healing oil of the Holy Spirit.
The "Good News" is that through Jesus Christ, our fractured freedom can be healed. The way has been opened for us to have an even fuller communion with God than our first parents did before the Fall; a communion restored through the Incarnation – the Saving life, Death, Resurrection and Ascension – of Jesus Christ the Savior. In Jesus Christ we are being re-created, re-fashioned and redeemed. The Christian life is an invitation to conversion, to being made new. He comes to live in all who make a place for Him within the center of their lives and their lifestyles. This "making a place" is the essence of Christian prayer.
Prayer is not about doing, but about being, in a continual and growing communion with God. Jesus said, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him." (John 14: 21 – 23) The Lord wants us to freely choose to respond His continual invitations to love. By the power of the Holy Spirit at work in every believer, he gives us new eyes to see Him at work, new ears to hear His voice and new hearts within which He can make His home.
We will find our fulfillment as human persons only in communion with the Lord. This is the meaning and purpose of life itself. As we grow in faith through our participation in the life of grace, lived out in the Church, our capacity to respond to His loving invitation grows , through prayer. Prayer is about falling in love with God. Isaac of Ninevah was an early eighth century monk, Bishop and theologian. For centuries he was mostly revered in the Eastern Christian Church for his writings on prayer. In the last century the beauty of his insights on prayer are being embraced once again by both lungs, East and West, of the Church. He wrote these words in one of his many treatises on Prayer:
"When the Spirit dwells in a person, from the moment in which that person has become prayer, he never leaves him. For the Spirit himself never ceases to pray in him. Whether the person is asleep or awake, prayer never from then on departs from his soul. Whether he is eating or drinking or sleeping or whatever else he is doing, even in deepest sleep, the fragrance of prayer rises without effort in his heart. Prayer never again deserts him. At every moment of his life, even when it appears to stop, it is secretly at work in him continuously, one of the Fathers, the bearers of Christ, says that prayer is the silence of the pure. For their thoughts are divine motions. The movements of the heart and the intellect that have been purified are the voices full of sweetness with which such people never cease to sing in secret to the hidden God."
The Christian revelation answers the existential questions that plague every human heart and trouble every generation. Jesus opens full communion with God for all men and women. He leads us out of the emptiness and despair that is the rotted fruit of narcissism, nihilism and materialism. When we pray, we can experience a progressive, dynamic and intimate relationship with God and He can transforms us from within. We, as Isaac said, can "become prayer" as we empty ourselves in order to be filled with Him.
Through prayer, daily life takes on new meaning and becomes a classroom of communion. In that classroom we learn the truth about who we are – and who we are becoming – in Jesus. Through prayer we receive new glasses through which we see the true landscape of life, darkness is dispelled and the path to progress is illuminated. We begin to understand why this communion seems elusive as we struggle with our own disordered appetites. Without grace we live in a manner at odds with the beauty and order of the creation within which we dwell. Through Grace we find a new beginning, whenever we confess our sin and return to our first love. Prayer opens us up to Revelation, expands our capacity to comprehend truth and equips us to change.
Through prayer we are drawn by Love into a deepening relationship with Jesus whose loving embrace on the hill of Golgotha bridged heaven with earth; His relationship with His Father is opened now to us; the same Spirit that raised Him from the dead begins to give us new life as we are converted, transfigured and made new. Through prayer, heavenly wisdom is planted in the field of our hearts and we experience a deepening communion with the Trinitarian God. We become, in the words of the Apostle Peter "partakers of the divine nature." (2 Peter 1:4) That participation will only be fully complete when we are with Him in the fullness of His embrace, in Resurrected Bodies in a New Heaven and a New earth, but it begins now, in the grace of this present moment.
The beloved disciple John became prayer. He writes in the letter he penned in his later years: "See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Beloved, we are God's children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure. Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness" 1John 3:1-4
As we "become prayer" our daily life becomes the field of choice and we are capacitated to choose the "more excellent way" of love of which the great Apostle paul wrote. (1 Cor. 13) Pondering the implications of the exercise of our human freedom becomes a regular part of our life, as we learn to "examine our conscience", repent of our sin and become joyful penitents. Prayer provides the environment for such recollection as it exposes the darkness and helps us surrender it to the light of Love, the Living God dwelling within us.
"Becoming prayer" is possible for all Christians, no matter their state in life or vocation, because God holds nothing back from those whom He loves. This relationship of communion is initiated by Him. Our part is to respond. That response should flow from a heart that beats in surrendered love, in the process of being freed from the entanglements that weigh us down. The God who is Love hungers for this communion with His sons and daughters – and we hunger for communion with Him – because He made us this way. Nothing else will satisfy. The early Church Father Origen once wrote: "Every spiritual being is, by nature, a temple of God, created to receive into itself the glory of God."
We were made in the "image" of God and are now being recreated into His likeness in Jesus Christ. As we "become prayer', that likeness begins to emerge. We give ourselves fully to the One who gave Himself to us and cry out with Jesus Christ "Abba Father." No longer alienated, we participate in the inner life of God who now dwells within us. We also dwell in Him through His Spirit. This dwelling is prayer. It is not about doing or getting but about being, becoming, receiving, giving, and loving. We will live the way we love and we will love the way we pray.
Mother Teresa once wrote:
"God is the friend of silence, in that silence he will listen to us; there he will speak to our soul, and there we will hear his voice. The fruit of silence is faith. The fruit of faith is prayer, the fruit of prayer is love, the fruit of love is service and the fruit of service is silence. In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Silence gives us a new way of looking at everything. We need this silence in order to touch souls. God is the friend of silence. His language is silence. 'Be still and know that I am God'."
A wonderful spiritual writer of our own time, Henri Nouwen, understood the intimacy of prayer and the call to live in God. He wrote these words in his work entitled Lifesigns: "Jesus, in whom the fullness of God dwells, has become our home by making his home in us he allows us to make our home in him. By entering into the intimacy of our innermost self he offers us the opportunity to enter into his own intimacy with God."
We will live the way we love and we will love the way we pray.
Fr Nouwen continued: "By choosing us as his preferred dwelling place, he invites us to choose him as our preferred dwelling place. This is the mystery of the incarnation. Here we come to see what discipline in the spiritual life means. It means a gradual process of coming home to where we belong and listening there to the voice which desires our attention. Home is the place where that first love dwells and speaks gently to us. Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God."
We are His contemporary disciples. We need to ask Him the same question this day, "Lord, Teach us to Pray". Then, filled with His very Divine Life within us, we need to "become prayer" by learning to "make our home in God" and let Him make His home in us.
I have not written a column for Beliefnet in a long time. I have been writing a lot – just in other venues. As is the case with all of us, my life just seems to get busier and busier. However, I have not been able to get Beliefnet – and its potential for good – out of my mind or my heart. So, I begin again, I start anew with this column.At every new beginning I am reminded of one of my favorite passages from the Bible.
"The one who sat on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." (Jesus to St John, recorded in the Bible, in the Book of Revelation 21:5).
Those five words from the Book of Revelation or the "Apocalypse" hold out the promise of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all men and women in every Nation under the sun. They were spoken to the beloved disciple John on the Island of Patmos when he received a vision of the new heaven and new earth where the completion of the Redemption of Jesus Christ will be fully manifested.
Those words "Behold I make all things new" took on new meaning for me several years ago when I watched a powerful scene in the Mel Gibson masterpiece, "The Passion of the Christ." In it Mary, the Mother of the Lord, runs to her wounded Son. He has fallen for the third time from the weight of the Cross. There is a flash back to an earlier day when that same son, as a child, is seen playing in the dusty streets of Nazareth and is about to fall.
With the tender love of a mother, Mary reaches out to her Son. Then the viewer sees her hand touch the wounded face of the Adult Son and Savior who looks at her, and through words addressed to her – He speaks to every human person – from the beginning of time until the end – saying: "Behold, I make all things new." That is the hunger in the heart of every person.
Every New Year's eve, many of us resolve to "be better" in the coming year. Very quickly thereafter we are confronted with the reality of our human condition and our fractured freedom. We know that our resolutions to change often end in failure. We are prone to making wrong choices in daily life. We sin. Classical theology speaks of this inclination as "concupiscence".
The Apostle Paul wrote about this experience to the early Christians in Rome in the seventh chapter of his letter: "For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want. Now if (I) do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me… Miserable one that I am! Who will deliver me from this mortal body Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Our freedom is a reflection of the Image of God within us. However, it was fractured by the effects of the first sin. Our ability to exercise it properly by choosing the good has been undermined as a result. In the words of Blessed John Paul II taken from his marvelous letter entitled "The Splendor of Truth", our "freedom itself needs to be set free." Through the Incarnation, Saving Life, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ it can be. By grace we are capacitated to live our lives differently now. Jesus can make all things new! Life is about beginning again, and again, and again.
Every New Year we read numerous articles about the efficacy of New Year's Resolutions. However, the fact remains, we all make them. The experience is nearly universal. The question is why? I suggest that they reveal something of our universal longing.
So too do our calendars. Some Nations use different calendars, but the passing of one year to another is marked by a deliberate period of reflection over the past year and a pledge to begin anew, to change, in the year to come. This is because we all hunger to be made new!
GK Chesterton wrote: "The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions."
"Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven."
We all want to change, to be better, to live our lives more fully and learn to love one another more selflessly. As we end one year and look to a new one, we pause and take inventory. In a rare moment of near universal reflection and honest self assessment, we admit our failures.
We pledge to learn from them and move toward a better future. In Little Gidding written by T.S. Eliott we find these often quoted words: "For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning."
Over the years I have realized that every end really can become a beginning, for the man or woman who has faith in the God who invites us to begin again, again and again. He alone makes it possible by sharing His very Life with us. This gift is called grace and through receiving it we become what the Apostle Peter called "Partakers of the Divine Nature".(2 Peter 1:4)
The older I get the more grateful I am that the promise to begin again is always available. The choice to receive the grace to begin again is also waiting, at the foot of the cross, for those who ask. In fact, we are always beginning again in life.One of my heroes of the faith is St. Jose Maria Escriva once wrote these words:
'For a son of God each day should be an opportunity for renewal, knowing for sure that with the help of grace he will reach the end of the road, which is Love. That is why if you begin and begin again, you are doing well. If you have a will to win, if you struggle, then with God's help you will conquer. There will be no difficulty you cannot overcome.' (St. Jose Maria Escriva, The Forge, 344)
In and through Jesus Christ, there is a way to be made new. We can always begin again. That is at the heart of the Gospel, the Good News! St. Paul reminded the Christians in the City of Corinth – and reminds every one of us "whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come." (2 Cor. 5:17)
So, I am back at Beliefnet, beginning again. I look forward to sharing with my readers, once again, all the reasons I am, a Catholic by Choice.
On Sunday, October 9, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI presided over Second Vespers with the Carthusian monks at Serra San Bruno. From the Chapel of that Carthusian monastery he shared beautiful insights on silence and prayer which should be considered by all who bear the name Christian. His words brought me back to the days surrounding his election to the Chair of Peter.
Those who study the early days of Popes often watch for two things at the beginning of their service, the name they choose and the content of their first homily for clues to their pontificate. When Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger chose the name Benedict he sent a signal concerning the centrality of prayer. He has spent his pontificate teaching about that centrality.
One of the young priests offering commentary during those historic days noted that then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger visited Subiaco before all the events in Rome began. He prayed and rededicated himself to the work of the Church for the future. Interestingly, a short while later he was called to occupy the chair of Peter. He took the name Benedict.
Saint Benedict is the father of Western Monasticism. As a young man he fled a decadent and declining Rome to give his life entirely to God and went to Subiaco. The cave that became his dwelling is now a shrine called "Sacro Speco" (The Holy Cave). It is still a sanctuary for pilgrims. The Pope who took his name went to that same cave for prayer just before he was elected. He has not stopped showing us the way of prayer ever since.
The Pope did not enter the monastery for the rest of his life. He entered the monastery to make a point. He told the monks: "Dear brothers you have found the hidden treasure, the pearl of great value (cf. Mt 13:44-46); you have responded radically to Jesus' invitation: "If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me" (Mt 19:21). Every monastery — male or female — is an oasis in which the deep well, from which to draw "living water" to quench our deepest thirst, is constantly being dug with prayer and meditation. …
"Technical progress, markedly in the area of transport and communications, has made human life more comfortable but also more keyed up, at times even frantic. Cities are almost always noisy, silence is rarely to be found in them because there is always a lingering background noise, in some areas even at night… Some people are no longer capable of remaining for long periods in silence and solitude…"
We are all called to prayer, no matter what our state in life or vocation. We are invited to build a virtual monastery in the midst of a world which has lost its soul. However, we need to grow in our understanding of what prayer is and grow in our understanding of who we are called to become in Christ. Prayer is an ongoing dialogue of intimate communion with God, through Christ and in the Holy Spirit. In an age of fast food, fast cars and fast internet, we seem to be running all the time. Yet, even with our digital calendars, we risk missing the most important meeting of all, our appointment with the Lord. We place our very selves at risk.
That is not to say that these technological advances have to be an impediment to the encounter with the Lord called prayer. Rather, when we allow them to become our measuring stick for satisfaction in every area of our lives, we will look for quick prayer and quick "results", from what we believe are "our" efforts. Prayer is not about results or even our efforts, but about love.
In fact, prayer is really not about us at all, but about the "One" who hungers to be known and loved, the "Other", who calls us into the intimacy of communion with Himself, in and through His Son and lives His life within us – and through us – by His Spirit. The Lord whom we seek is outside of time, having given time as a gift to those whom he now prepares for eternity. He dwells in the eternal now and invites us through prayer along a path to the fullness of life.
Preparing ourselves for prayer means learning to silence the clamor of the age, stop the ever accelerating pace of the futile quests that so often occupy our hearts, and live in the eternal now by surrendering ourselves – and even our best aspirations- to the One who created us –and now re-creates us- in His Son Jesus Christ. It is there, in the emptied place, in the stillness of the eternal now, where we prepare a room for the King of all hearts. And, in that encounter, we soon find the longing of our heart fulfilled.
The Holy Spirit is calling for a generation of contemplatives in every state in life and vocation in Christ. We tend to believe that the contemplative life is reserved for those who, by special vocation, can "leave" the world, such as contemplative monks and nuns. They are a true treasure and a prophetic sign of the life to come. However, all who are baptized into Christ are called to the same encounter with a different response.
Isaac of Ninevah was an early eighth century monk, Bishop and theologian. For centuries he was mostly revered in the Eastern Christian Church for his writings on prayer. In the last century the beauty of his insights on prayer are being embraced once again by both lungs, East and West, of the Church. He wrote these words in one of his many treatises on Prayer:
"When the Spirit dwells in a person, from the moment in which that person has become prayer, he never leaves him. For the Spirit himself never ceases to pray in him. Whether the person is asleep or awake, prayer never from then on departs from his soul. Whether he is eating or drinking or sleeping or whatever else he is doing, even in deepest sleep, the fragrance of prayer rises without effort in his heart. Prayer never again deserts him.
"At every moment of his life, even when it appears to stop, it is secretly at work in him continuously, one of the Fathers, the bearers of Christ, says that prayer is the silence of the pure. For their thoughts are divine motions. The movements of the heart and the intellect that have been purified are the voices full of sweetness with which such people never cease to sing in secret to the hidden God."
There is a growing fascination with books about prayer and the monastic life across the entire Christian community. There is also a resurgence of interest in the Rule of Benedict and the writings of the early fathers of the Church about prayer. It all reflects the deep hunger in our hearts for God. We were made for communion with Him. Pope Benedict XVI entered the monastery to show us athe way we can all find the intimacy of that communion in the midst of our daily lives and be changed in the encounter. That way is prayer.


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Former U.S. Ambassador: A Fresh Start in Pakistan?
Then-Senators Joseph Biden (2nd L) and John Kerry (2nd R) with Nawaz Sharif (C) during a U.S. congressional election monitoring trip to Lahore, Pakistan, in February 2008. (John Moore/Getty Images)
New people can bring new energy to a relationship. The maxim offers hope in Pakistan; the country just elected a new President; they will soon select a new Chief of Army Staff, and choose a new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Moreover, new American Secretary of State John Kerry and his counterpart in Islamabad recently announced the resumption of high-level discussions, and new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been invited to Washington to meet with President Barack Obama. The Pakistani public, skeptical and battered by the difficulties of recent years, has reason to wonder: might things get better? Most of my Pakistani friends are reserving judgment. But they clearly ache for good news, both at home and in their relations with America.
The elections that brought Nawaz Sharif to power raised hopes in Pakistan that his Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) government could make progress on the country's key issues, such as the power crisis and fiscal management. And indeed, led by the efforts of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, the new government has done its best to come up with energy reform plans and agreements with the international financial institutions. Yet it seems clear that Sharif is now becoming aware of the enormity of the challenges he faces; it also seems clear that he sees the need to create effective mechanisms to work together with Pakistan's military and intelligence leadership to address the militant threat to society. In both economics and security, the tasks are intractable and difficult.
Despite a long history of skepticism, and the ongoing crisis of self-confidence that plagues Pakistan's political class, it appears that even Sharif's longtime critics are still willing to give him a chance. Witness recent writings by Ahmed Rashid in the Financial Times, who despite his famed pessimism and clear-eyed portrayal of Pakistan's difficulties, gives Sharif a chance of success, or at least hopes that the new government can match its focus on the economy with effectiveness against terror.
The question for Americans is how best to help, find common cause, and define common actions. We are emerging from some very difficult years: the era of President Asif Ali Zardari was marked by repeated blows to bilateral relations despite enormous expenditure and great effort. There are many reasons why these problems, culminating in the series of crises in 2011 caused by the Raymond Davis affair, the Abbottabad raid, and the Salala incident, led to such bitterness that some even call for a divorce between the two countries, or for a new containment doctrine. But before we leap to such unhelpful conclusions, we might want to take a good look at why things went so badly. One cause is that the American approach to Pakistan has been lopsided.
Our domestic discussion about Pakistan has been almost exclusively focused on countering terrorism and on Pakistan's perceived resistance to a just and equitable solution in Afghanistan. Despite significant investments in other areas (many millions of Kerry-Lugar-Berman development funds spent on refurbishing power plants, building schools, training health workers, and creating jobs) our recent government-to-government dialogue usually reflects our common efforts (and significant differences) on how to deal with the Taliban or mitigate terrorist attacks.
With a new government in Islamabad and Secretary of State John Kerry (a man well versed in Pakistani affairs) paying his first visit since taking office, we have the chance to move past some of the damage our relationship has suffered in recent years. Sharif has realized that he truly does have a problem with militants and is talking to the Army and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) about it. In the past, we've sought first and foremost to enlist the cooperation of Pakistani leaders and institutions in the fight against militants, against those who would attack the United States and its friends, those who destabilize neighboring Afghanistan by killing Americans and NATO allies, and those who would plot more Mumbai-style raids against India. This remains our goal. But the narrative has taken hold among Pakistanis that this is all Americans care about; or, put crudely, that our policy is about killing bad guys regardless of anything else that happens.
Secretary Kerry and Prime Minister Sharif are both well placed to move past that narrative, to put to rest in Islamabad the unhelpful prejudice that America cares only about the war on terror (not about Pakistani concerns about its future or regional stability in South Asia). Similarly, they can seek to do the same in Washington, countering the unhelpful prejudice that Pakistan is a worse-than-useless partner that needs to be punished rather than respected.
Kerry and Sharif have taken a positive step by relaunching the Strategic Dialogue. This initiative, launched in 2009 under former U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, was originally too grand and, increasingly, out of step with the crises that emerged in the relationship after Holbrooke's death in 2010. But a more modest set of bilateral discussions, using the framework of the Strategic Dialogue to address topics from energy and water resources to public diplomacy and regional stability, can only help rebuild the trust that was so badly damaged in 2011.
Sharif has his work cut out for him at home. Additionally, the obstacles to a fresh start to Pakistani-American relations are daunting, and many depend on factors outside the traditional bilateral channels. But when we look past 2014 to a new focus in the region, we may see reasonable discussion and setting of goals, regional developments such as slow but steady growth of confidence-building measures between India and Pakistan, and the gradual seasoning of the team of leaders around Sharif. Add this to a more balanced American concept of what's important in our relation with Pakistan, and there's reason for hope.


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Babies Need Books
Penguin, 1995 - 255 pages
Dorothy Butler believes passionately that books should be a vital part of children's lives -- even in their very first months. But how do we go about introducing books to children? Which books should we share? When should we begin? Babies Need Books is an invaluable resource for parents, teachers, and librarians -- indeed, for any adult eager to share with small children the pleasure books offer. Butler provides important guidelines for choosing appropriate books and recommends hundreds of titles. And for this revised edition, Butler's book selections have been supplemented by an extensive index of recently published titles readily available in North America.
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Why did they do it? The quote I used in the title is from Carolyn Kirk, the mayor of the town, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Does she really know why the girls did it? She's dishing out the cliché reason why young girls have babies, but how can your life be empty if you have 16 dedicated friends?
ADDED: Of the 17, "nearly half became pregnant after making a pact to do so and raise the children together." We don't know how many may have been in on the pact who did not become pregnant. So I'm speculating about how many friends these girls really had. It could happen that many girls would join such a pact in an effort to win favor from other girls, not because they were really true friends. Eh, for all I know the pact was b.s. made up after the fact.
IN THE COMMENTS: Paddy O. writes:
What is frustrating is that by emphasizing the stock response to this they, the officials and likely the church leaders, miss the really key part: "They think that a baby can give them love or give them status or fill an empty space in their life."
What is the point of having churches around if not responding to these precise feelings? That's what churches should be emphasizing — helping these girls find love, and acceptance, and status and fill the empty space in their lives. If churches aren't doing that then they should really just shut up, their words and their doors, because clearly they've missed the point of their message and existence.
Instead of arguing about contraceptives or debating yet more sex education what about responding to the core issue of their self-value. This story isn't about sex and these girls are certainly responsible for their own decisions, but they're also victims of their elders who have decided policies, whether liberal or conservative, are more interesting than people.


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