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I came to Asheville to kayak the region's amazing rivers. I came so I could see the mountains from the UNCA library's steps and look forward to being on them every weekend. I came because, when I found yoga in high school, I realized there were other people as weird as me — and that maybe I wasn't so weird … I was just in the wrong place.
Arriving in Asheville, I'd begun falling in love with contra dancing at Warren Wilson, hiking at Black Balsam, singing at Jubilee and relishing all the art and creativity that make this town, when suddenly I was sick — diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, hospitalized with a blood sugar close to 800 (it's supposed to be around 80), and sent home to Atlanta for Christmas break. (At least I got to skip finals.)
Needless to say, these experiences shook my foundation. And while I still feel loyalty to those old loves, the task of weaving together these different parts of myself comes up repeatedly as I continue my journey from rejection to resentment to acceptance to embracing diabetes in my life. Lately, it's yoga that's been occupying my body, brain and soul. Whether I'm practicing at the Asheville Yoga Center, at Asheville Community Yoga or at home, yoga asks me over and over to identify and honor my seedling self, to nurture it as it continually grows and dies and re-seeds. It's a thread that's so flexible (pun intended) it harmonizes these voices of my soul into a chorus that sounds better than I (a joyful yet inept singer) ever imagined I could.
More and more, I'm seeing the field of diabetes self-management as a clear calling — I mean, how many signs does a person need? I'm working in the YWCA's Diabetes Wellness and Prevention program, and my blog is called "Adventurous Living with Diabetes in Mind,"; it's also guiding my work as a yoga teacher. Suddenly, however, I start wondering how to embrace this cause without letting it consume who I am apart from diabetes. If a cure came tomorrow, how would I recover?
Yoga is teaching me that I choose the kindling in my life for a reason. The stuff that feeds my fire is already integrated: It just takes some patience to recognize those connections. Living with diabetes is itself a form of yoga: not bhakti, based in chanting, nor kundalini, beckoning the energy "serpent" to uncoil (or not in my case anyway), but still an intimate mind/body connection.
In yoga, we talk about letting the heart lead, or putting your mind in your belly and moving from that intuition. In diabetes management, we empathize deeply with the pancreas and liver. We come to know our stress responses, our illnesses and their effects on our body's functioning and vigor. This body wisdom isn't buried deep within us but is buzzing and accessible as we take over for our organs and glands, executing functions other people don't have to think about. Translating between intuition and intellect isn't easy, but using careful calculations and constant practice, we greet and manipulate this energy every day.
My studies toward becoming a certified yoga instructor are already enriching the classes I teach at the YW. But I've learned just as much about navigating the territory of my life with greater ease and power. And what more is power good for than getting the maximum fullness we can from this life experience?
I was speaking with a diabetes educator the other day, and she asked if I'd met my diagnosis with resistance and anger. Thinking back over the past seven years, I had to answer yes. I'd been so angry at how diabetes had changed my plans, often struggling with the emotion that cries, "This isn't fair!"
Now I realize that it's OK. Diabetes has brought me to the present moment, connecting me with countless amazing people and experiences along the way. At this point, I could never untangle the positive and negative ramifications in my life. Sometimes I even catch myself being slightly grateful to this calling that had to take hold of my body before I acknowledged it. So I replied, "But it's why I'm here talking to you, and I'm excited about what I'm doing."
That's not to say that living with Type 1 diabetes isn't harder than I ever imagined, and in ways I would never have guessed. People ask, "Does that hurt?" when they see me take a shot, but when you do it four to seven times a day you accept the pinch.
What hurts more is confronting your own vulnerability and the way the condition requires you to adapt and plan for everything you do, from a single bite of food to a walk with friends to a weekend trip. Diabetes is an undercurrent beneath it all, and the ripple effect means you can't forget it for even a single moment.
For all the challenges it brings, diabetes leads me toward inspiring individuals who make my life bright. Today I spoke with a yogi who strives for a healthy lifestyle while being a mother, a community volunteer and an unyielding positive force. Like all of us, she deals with challenges in her health, her family, her work; particularly trying is her volunteer work as a companion to aging individuals who are often sick and otherwise alone.
As they struggle with ailments and bodies they may have come to resent, my friend's mantra is, "I am well." She says it to herself dozens of times a day. And she is well: She embodies well. Her "well" doesn't look like the woman doing king pigeon on the cover of a yoga magazine, but her face radiates the kind of well that's contagious — and that is something worth spreading.
Asheville resident Katie Souris is a care counselor in the YWCA's Diabetes Wellness and Prevention program.


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Trolling around the internet this afternoon I was reading an article from Bruce Arians' weekly press conference with the Steelers media. He mentioned this during his talk, about how the Browns are one of the best in utilizing the 5 yd. cushion to beat up receivers. The Broncos also do this very well too he said. Link
Have you faced a lot of teams that press, man-coverage like the Broncos:
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How important is it for your receivers to be able to beat that?
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Internet Explorer and Excel security updates are the most pressing patching priorities from the bumper crop of 16 bulletins issued as part of Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday updates.
Nine of the bulletins carry a maximum severity of "critical" while the remaining seven earn the lesser tag of "important".
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Other high priority bulletins MS11-042 and MS11-043 tackle critical flaws in the SMB and DFS clients on Windows. All supported versions of Windows will need patching for one reason or another.
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Tennessee State University senior Lawrence Washington earned Ohio Valley Conference Male Tennis Athlete of the Week after completing a 4-0 mark last week for the Tigers. The award was announced Wednesday by the league office.
Washington picked up a 7-5, 4-6, 10-2 win over Western Kentucky's Josh Smith and a 2-6, 6-3, 10-8 victory over Jacksonville State's Alex Sundberg last weekend.
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While coaching the Knicks for an abbreviated 59 games in 1995-96, Nelson told me a story involving John Starks. He said a fan approached the former Knicks guard after a game and asked him to sign a pennant for his brother. "His name is Marc. Marc with a 'C.' "
When the fan got the pennant returned, Nelson said, it read, "To Cark." Marc with a "C," get it?
Nellie delighted in telling that story, prefacing it with, "This is how stupid John Starks is." He wanted Starks traded and was prepared to give up any information that might lead to that end.
a Ron Artest story
These anecdotes just bounce off people now. Artest is a benevolent crazy. Or so we think. Being around this nuttiness every day is a little different from merely hearing about the nuttiness in secondhand anecdotes. I know for a fact he routinely broke plays on offense and is still a handful behind the scenes, and the Rockets buried every 2008-09 story that would have made this patently clear. For instance, Artest routinely walked around in his underwear in public places: the Rockets team bus, hotels, you name it. People around the team barely flinched after a while. Before Game 7 of the Lakers series only the biggest game of the entire season they finally flinched.
Heres what happened: Artest missed the first two team buses (the ones for players, coaches and team personnel) from Houstons hotel to the Staples Center and barely made the third and final bus, which was reserved for business staff, sponsors and friends of the team. These stunned people watched Artest sprint to the bus right before it left, jump on and take one of the remaining seats yes, wearing only his underwear. Owner Leslie Alexander happened to be sitting on the bus and witnessed the whole thing. And you wonder why the Houston Rockets didnt make any effort whatsoever to bring back Artest.
Former Knick, Qyntel Woods
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Portland Trail Blazers forward Qyntel Woods pleaded no contest Wednesday to marijuana charges stemming from a traffic stop last year, according to court records.
Woods was cited last March 29 when he was stopped for speeding. He reportedly offered only his basketball trading card and two credit cards as identification.
Loose Balls: Easy Money, Hard Fouls, Cheap Laughs, and True Love in the NBA - Jayson WilliamsBefore signing me up, the Sixers' top guys met with me in a Midtown hotel in New York City. They heard I was fat, out of shape. They were worried about the broken foot, too. It was Harold Katz, then the owner, and Gene Shue, then the general manager. They wanted me to run up and down the hotel ballroom. They thought I might be damaged goods. I told 'em I understood their concerns, but I had a better idea. Instead of running up and down in a damn ballroom, why didn't I run up and down on a basketball court for them? I said, "We can go to a park by my house." They thought it was a great idea and we agreed to go on down there.
Harold and Gene didn't know it, but the park we were going to was down on the Lower East Side, right next to the school I went to, P.S. 137. And before we drove down there, I called the principal, and I told him what's happening.
So when we got to the park, he's let the whole school out early, and there's nine hundred kids in the park, surrounding the court, hanging on the chain-link fence, screaming and yelling and cheering, "Williams! Williams! Williams! Williams!."
And I'm running and dunking and jumping, up and down and up and down. I'm flying! It's like one of those bad made-for-TV movies. I mean, I'm two feet above the rim, scraping my elbows on metal. And the kids are screaming and Harold and Gene are happy about the whole thing. They're talking to each other.
"Holy smokes!" they're saying. "We got a steal with this guy!"
Harold and Gene spent the next two years watching me miss layups, stumble around, saying, "What the heck happened at that park? Was that an optical illusion or what?"
They told Charles Barkley they were confused, because they'd seen me playing about two feet above the rim.
Charlie says, "You seen who? Doing what? When?"
What Harold and Gene and Charlie didn't know is that the basket at that park is only nine feet high.
- Marvin Barnes
When flying from Kentucky to St. Louis in the 70s, the plane was to cross a time zone and technically arrive four minutes before it took off, Barnes said, "I ain't gettin' on no time machine," left and rented a car.
Some Oakley stories
Charles Oakley and Tyrone Hill were both kicked out of a 2000 preseason game when Oakley slapped Hill in the mouth during warmups,
It turns out Hill owed Oakley $54,000 from a dice game and was slow to pay up.
Later that same season, Oakley was suspended again after throwing a basketball at Hill face during a shootaround. Hill eventually settled up, but because of his "coward move," Oakley insisted that he pay double.-Charles Oakley was dating a woman in Charlotte, NC. He called the womans house and LA Clipper Jeff McInnis was there. Oakley went hunting for Jeff that night, but couldnt find him. So, the next time their two teams played, Oakley walked up to McInnis on the bench and punched him in the head before the game. Oakley blamed one of McInnis coaches at the time, Alvin Gentry, for telling reporters the story.


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DETROIT (AP) – Detroit has become the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy.
State-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr on Thursday asked a federal judge permission to place the city into Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.
If approved, the filing would allow Orr to liquidate city assets to satisfy a host of creditors and city pensioners lined up to recoup losses from bad bond investments and unpaid contracts.
Read full article after the jump
A number of factors – most notably steep population and tax base falls – have been blamed on Detroit's tumble toward insolvency.
Detroit lost a quarter-million residents between 2000 and 2010.
Orr was unable to convince enough creditors, bondholders and employee pension representatives to accept pennies on the dollar as he attempted a fiscal restructuring of Detroit.


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Seattle Cheap Eats: 10 Great Dishes Under $10
Seattle doesn't have the depth of international cuisines available in New York, nor the extensive selection of fine-dining restaurants that crowd Chicago. But the one thing that wows food-loving visitors from those places when they're in Seattle is the value. "Why can't we have this in San Francisco?," a friend once asked after pasta at Il Corvo. The answer, of course, is because it would cost twice as much. Cheap eats in Seattle run from one end of the food spectrum to the other; from the elegance and indulgence of lunch at Le Pichet to the sheer amount of amazing food at El Paisano, each checking in at under $10 a meal. So where do you go in Seattle when your budget is tight? Here are our picks:
Spicy Chicken and Gyoza Combo at Nasai Teriyaki
Teriyaki is to Seattle what pizza is to New York City—it's plentiful, cheap, and everyone has one place that they love, even though most of them are largely the same. One could argue in favor of any number of other teriyaki restaurants as the best in town, but it's hard to debate Nasai's sweet spicy chicken, crispy gyoza, soft rice, and crunchy iceberg salad as the classic rendition of this ubiquitous Seattle dish. Nasai's University District location has remained virtually unchanged over multiple decades, catering to the students' need for quick, budget-friendly food in its dim hallway of a space. There's a comfort to coming back after years away and seeing the same cast of characters at the tables: kids studying, stoners giggling, everyone in line for their spicy chicken.
Daily Special at Il Corvo
It's impossible to recommend a particular dish at Il Corvo, because the menu of three pasta dishes changes daily. One of the reasons Chef Mike Easton can keep the prices so low is that he only uses ingredients at the peak of their season—in other words, at their cheapest and, of course, most flavorful—be it local morel mushrooms in spring, or hearty kale come winter. But those ingredients are secondary to the impeccable pasta, made fresh each morning, with its perfectly chewy-tender texture. The Pioneer Square shop is no secret—there's rarely a time when the line doesn't stretch out the back door—but Easton and his crew work fast, and the tables turn as quickly as the food comes out.
Half Chicken Meal at El Paisano Rosticeria y Cocina
Seattle's Mexican food leaves a lot to be desired, but at El Paisano, they buck the citywide trend of mediocre tacos. The fresh homemade salsas are without a doubt the best in town: a trio of red, green, and pico de gallo. They arrive with chips when you order, but the best way to eat them is slathered on tacos—specifically the roasted chicken that puts the "Rosticeria" in the restaurant name. The half-chicken meal is huge, cheap, and comes with tortillas to split it into DIY tacos. The bird rests on a heap of beans and rice, dripping the red adobo and meat juices down into the sides; the meaty beans are a hidden treasure buried beneath this mountain of Mexican food.
Poori Masala at Chili's South Indian Restaurant
The Ave is famous for serving students cheap plates of crap, but Chili's breaks the mold by serving excellent south Indian food in a converted convenience store. To some, it might seem a risky venture—the spicy cuisine of the south means that there's no naan on the menu, no familiar tandoori chicken. But those willing to sit down at the plastic, elementary-school-style tables and try a dosa, a paratha, and maybe a goat curry, are rewarded with rich curries loaded with intricate flavors and spices. The poori masala is a top pick for the price-conscious: two huge disks of fried bread, puffed up from the cooking process so that they are the perfect shape for scooping up spicy potato and pea curry.
Burger and Salad at Wedgwood Broiler
The Wedgewood Broiler is a steakhouse, which means they trim their steaks on-site. That meaty, delicious trim, is then ground up and made into the perfect beefy burger. The burger is, like the restaurant itself, unintentionally nostalgic by stagnation. It's a throwback to the '70s, a reminder of a time when the most important thing about a burger was how much it tasted like beef, not what topped it or the origin of its bun. The salad, offered as one of the side options, is similarly ignorant of changes to food fashion, arriving sprinkled with slices of salami and entire Cheez-its on top.
Spam Sliders at Marination Ma Kai
Any hungry diner on a budget would be wise to get to Marination Ma Kai, the local Hawaiian-leaning taco truck-cum-micro chain, where only one thing on the menu is over $10. Pick and choose from various tacos (kalbi beef, spicy pork, sexy tofu), fried rice, or quesadillas, but do not miss the Spam sliders, no matter what preconceived notions you have about canned meat. The soft, sweet-bunned mini-sandwiches show mainlanders why Spam is practically its own food group on the islands. The meat is sliced and grilled, the edges crusted with char, and then slathered with Marination's signature Nunya sauce. Coleslaw completes the sandwich, offering a cooling, bland crunch to contrast with the overwhelmingly bold flavors of the rest of the slider.
Nasi Goreng at Kedai Makan
If fried rice brings to mind frozen peas and carrots afloat in a sea of white rice, it's time to check out Kedai Makan's Nasi Goreng. The Capitol Hill takeout window's execution of this Malaysian fried rice dish is pretty phenomenal, considering the minuscule space it comes out of. In the true spirit of Asian street food, everything here is cheap and fast, and there's nowhere to sit. The pro move is to bring Kedai Makan's food to gorge on at bar next door, Montana. Through some sort of tiny kitchen trickery, the egg stays perfectly cooked, even after the extra time in the takeout box; fried white, runny yolk, ready to spread out over the flavorful rice, which has an impressively even distribution of tofu and vegetables throughout, making each bite perfectly balanced.
Bún Chả Giò Thịt Nướng at Ben Thanh
In a city full of pho shops, this is a sleeper hit. Not only does Ben Thanh serve excellent pho; it also has an extensive menu of the usual Vietnamese hits and some rarer finds (eel, goat, alligator, or deer, anyone?). Among those usual hits is a Hanoi street food favorite, bún chả giò thịt nướng, a long name that means rice vermicelli noodles with spring rolls and grilled pork. They get as close to the blue-smoke char flavor of Vietnam's street grills as any restaurant here. Ambience is minimal in this Rainier Valley hole-in-the-wall, but the friendly service more than makes up for it—servers are patient enough to go through all the options on the menu, making suggestions and offering advice.
Foul at Café Selam
Foul is pronounced "fool"—as in what you are if you haven't tried this northeast African breakfast of fava beans sautéed in olive oil. The beans take on a stew-like consistency, dotted with tomatoes, onions, peppers, sliced hard-boiled eggs, and feta cheese. The cheese is tangy, the egg cool, and each makes an excellent partner for the rich, thick beans. At Café Selam, crusty French bread comes as both side dish and utensil to scoop the beans from bowl to mouth. This little hut of a restaurant in the Central District doesn't look like much—from the inside or the outside—but one bowl of foul and it won't matter where you're sitting. Just make sure to come early; it's a breakfast dish and sometimes isn't served after noon.
Le Pichet: Green Salad
Calling a salad a meal would normally go against both my personal beliefs and the spirit of a cheap eats article. But when you consider that this impeccable Parisian bistro will serve it with all of the excellent baguette and good butter you want, the green salad (bibb lettuce, hazelnuts, and the mustard dressing that all salad dressings aspire to be) is plenty of food. Le Pichet is the kind of place where time slows down during lunch. Maybe there's no need to rush back to work...and maybe you should order a glass of Lillet, too.
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Institutional Change and the Chicano Movement
Some Not Too Objective Observations
by Abelardo B. Delgado
Somewhat less romantic or idealistic, is the dedication of life-times to education and institutional change.
Basing the concept on the old-fashioned notion that natural change is more lasting, more effective, and more meaningful.
Some Chicanos within the movement have pledged themselves to institutional change. Examining any life you wish, from the lowest socially and economically speaking, to the most affluent and aristocratic, we see life responding to old-established institutions, but tend to do some steering and setting up of the rules, leaving poor individuals no "agraviando mas de nosotros Chicanos" to move according to these institutions which mercilessly slash our destinies.
These institutions, not necessarily in that order of the importance with which they shape or destroy our lives, are the educational, political, economical, and the church and business institutions: the family, the welfare system, the prison, the law enforcement agencies, the employment agencies, and other octopus-like state, local, and federal agencies.
Examine yourself any day, and see if during one single day you do not respond to these institutions more than a dozen times. For the sake of corralling them, we refer to them as "The System."
A reason for believing such well-founded bodies can be altered, is that it was we humans who originally got them in motion, and we are capable of either destroying them or changing them. Changing them is not necessarily the easier of the two, but I guess because some are lazy in nature and do not wish the burden of starting from scratch and creating others in their place, they settle for changing the wrong or putrid parts of these systems by healthier parts.
Most Chicanos in the Movement have a better answer, and that is the one of setting up counter-institutions of their own making and of their own control. Examples are the Colegio Chicano Jacinto Trevino and the Escuela de las Tres Culturas, Tlatelolco, to mention two challenges into educational systems. They are saying, "Look, you have not done so hot with us Chicanos; let us give it a try ourselves." Aztlán, in itself, is a replacement of the whole nation which was deaf and dumb to our needs.
What, I ask, can we do to substitute our beloved Catholic Church which is so rooted in us and yet has done us so much harm?
I must interrupt here to inject a report and an insight. Again, I'm on a plane headed back to Denver from the Midwest Chicano Conference where we have learned that our number one institutional reformer had been placed in jail. Cesar Chavez is in jail until he calls off the lettuce boycott.
The national reaction which will follow in the next day is of historical significance as we proceed to change the institution of historians by not only writing our own history, but making it.
At the conference, ten "Becas Scholarships" for Chicano law students were received. What we must interpret that to mean is that we are finally getting to the mightiest institution of them all, the economic one, for steering our own destinies means exactly steering our own economic destiny, since the other one has at best, kept us at the fringe.
When you interpret the Movement in getting our fair share of the pie in our own country, you can bet those used to dispersing but crumbs are going to react and try to anticipate our direction and advance ahead to stop our every move.
Institutions are willing to use flexibility and even allow us to lick their walls, but when we talk seriously of making them responsible to us, we threaten their matrix, and the fight pursuing is more viscous and bloody than a bloody revolution.
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Smart move in Mumbai
Smart move in Mumbai A hotel is your home from home when you're away; the receptionist, your janitor. His (or her) general disposition really makes a difference to your comfort. Receptionists can give you a good or bad room at an extortionate or fair rate with late check-out thrown in – or throw you out on the dot of 12 or 11 or 10. Been there, suffered that – in both hungover and bright-eyed state – and sadly often without breakfast, too, because I'm a late riser even in hotels. Late check-out means 1 or 2 p.m., rarely 3. Some want ten euros an hour on top for late check-out, others nothing. Capable receptionists are capable of anything. Their remit ranges from providing service to the letter to all manner of assistance beyond their official duties, possibly even erring on the dubious side. For this I am happy to leave a generous tip at reception when I check out – you never know when you might be back, or what your status might then be.
I frequently don't book a room in advance, and that was the case recently in Mumbai, formerly Bombay. I walked into the small lobby of a hotel I had stayed at seven years before. It's just a stone's throw from the Gateway of India, right beside the ocean. Its good location, reasonable rates and cleanliness are all good reasons for the hotel to normally be fully booked, but the man behind the reception desk recognized me straight away and also appeared to recall my nice tip: The room he gave me was equally nice. Through the window, I could see the big ships on the horizon, and directly below me, the palm trees on the waterfront promenade. Also nice, of course, were his words as he handed over the room key: "Welcome home, Sir!"
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Our columnist, Helge Timmerberg, an irrepressible globetrotter since 1969, writes travel books and contributes monthly to our magazine.


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Thanks for the friend invite Carol, it helps to balance out the sociopath remark that I received today from my lovely friend mr. Jubinsky.
Hello, and welcome! And thanks for the friend invite. Sorry for the delay in replying, but I've been trying to get two little typing jobs finished by tonight (Thursday), do some baking, etc., and so forth, and I never was any good at multi-tasking.
It's been more than 50 years since I last visited Asheville, and the buybull belters weren't as aggressive then, so most of my memories of the area are very pleasant. It was the first time in my life that I had seen autumn colors in all their glory...breathtaking! (And I still have a menu from a cafe there...the prices would make a cat laugh today.)
Again, welcome, and if you're ever in SoCal, Beautiful Downtown Burbank to be exact, I'm here. The door is open, the tea kettle is on the back burner, and if I ever get these *bleeping!* sugar-free cookies in the oven, we can relax and have a chat.
One warning...I live with my mildly autistic (Asperger's Syndrome) sister, who is also a dedicated JeHoover's Witless. She knows better than to mess with me, but sometimes she seems to consider visitors fair game.
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Of the functionality I included, there was at least one function that I debated on implementing... reverse. Should you be able to reverse a Queue or a Stack? On one hand, after you reverse a queue, it still operates on FIFO, however, none the first element you added will now be the last one you remove, which certainly is not FIFO.
What if I made reverse return a copy of the queue rather than make it in-place?
What do you guys think? Should I keep it or pitch it? What other functions do you think these data structures should have that might not seem obvious?
Also, feel free to lament over stupid implementations of these structures
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and my test lisp script hello.lisp:
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LoadModule lisp_module modules/mod_lisp2.so
LispServer 127.0.0.1 4005 "lisp"
AddHandler lisp-handler .lsp
<Location /lisp>
SetHandler lisp-handler
Alias /lisp/ "d:/Program Files/emacs/site-lisp/"
<Directory "d:/Program Files/emacs/site-lisp">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
DirectoryIndex index.lsp
what I get http://localhost/lisp/hello.lisp is "Internal Server Error".
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(format t "Content-type: text/html~%")
(format t "~%")
(format t "~%")
(format t "~%")
(format t "<title>why do I like "titular"</title>~%")
(format t "~%")
(format t "")
(format t "
What is it?~%")
(format t "It's a simple CGI program~%")
(format t "in Lisp
~%")
(format t "~%")
(format t "~%")
and the apache error log is "[error] (70014)End of file found: error reading from Lisp"
I do get help from google time and time again. I read most of article on this topic I can obtain. I can't tackle it! help me please.
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Since 2005, I've blogged here at naturalartificial.blogspot.com. With a nostalgic sort of sadness, I'm leaving this platform to continue my blog at the newly designed stephanieperkins.com.
It was a hard decision to make. I have so many memories here—so many friendships were made here—but it was time to leave Blogger.
It felt very, well, 2005 to be relying on so many different companies and products (Blogger, GoDaddy, Fetch, BBEdit, Photobucket, as well as my friend and web designer Manning Krull) for one single website. Also, GoDaddy is pretty gross.
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Sour Poi Awards 2011
Celebrating the best of the worst of 2011—the strange, the stupid and the scandalous.
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APEC Follies
Honolulu put its best face forward for the international dignitaries who swept into town for the November APEC conference. In addition to clearing out the embarrassing homeless population in Waikiki, the state gussied up Nimitz Highway with a $1.3 million beautification project that included transplanting 87 trees yanked from Farrington Highway (maybe they considered the West Side a lost cause already?), and, in general, slapped a fresh coat of paint on the city. The stage dressing seemed to go off well, although many residents were less than thrilled about the week-long series of random roadblocks and security checkpoints that led to gridlock all over town.
School of Hard Knocks
In April, Kailua High School woodshop teacher David Izume threw a hammer in his classroom, hitting one of his students on the head hard enough to require four stitches. Izume later pleaded no contest to misdemeanor assault, saying that he had been under a lot of stress.
But Sour Poi Never Forgets
If Sour Poi had a hall of fame, former Honolulu Councilman Rod Tam would surely be its first inductee, thanks to years of weirdly inappropriate gaffes, snark-worthy legislation and financial misdeeds. After all of it, though, Tam is getting off easy. In November, he was sentenced to two days in jail and 300 hours of community service in exchange for pleading guilty and no contest to 34 charges of theft, falsifying documents and violations of campaign spending laws. In addition, if Tam manages to stay out of trouble for an entire year, his record will be cleared.
Good Start, No Follow-through
In May, a man suspected of two hit-and-run crashes tried to elude police by jumping 20 feet off the H1 Freeway onto the roof of the Makiki Post Office. He had to be helped down from the roof by firefighters.
If You're Going to Invade Our Privacy, at Least Be Good about It.
In June, the Transportation Security Administration gave "proposed termination" notices to 36 of its workers and suspended 12 more, after an investigation found that pieces of luggage at a local airport were not being properly screened for explosives. The shakeup followed a March sting operation in which a TSA employee at the Kona airport was arrested for allegedly stealing cash out of the bags of Japanese tourists.
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Farmer Alec Sou scored the most regrettable quote of 2011 when, in August, a judge dismissed the forced-labor charges against him and his brother, Mike. Walking out of the courtroom, Alec was, in his words, super elated. "It's like 10 tons of watermelon lifted off my shoulder."
Friends in Low Places
Robert R. Titcomb, a close friend of President Barack Obama, was nabbed in April for solicitation of prostitution. The charge was wiped from his record later in the year, after six months of good behavior. Obama didn't seem to hold the legal problems against his buddy—the two were seen golfing together in November during Obama's APEC visit. As Titcomb said in a 2007 Punahou School tribute to Obama, "He's honest, he's truthful and he's always encouraged the better things in you. And you always go back to those people who water your plant, who water your garden."


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R4.2: Next release of OSGi, and what's next (0 messages)
Like any other software standard, OSGi moves slowly toward achieving consensus among the various people that make up its working group. In this post, Erick Newcomer writes about what's new in the world of OSGi with Release 4.2 and what is expected in future releases. Read Erick Newcomer's post 'R4.2: Next release of OSGi, and what's next': http://modualrit.blogspot.com/2009/07/r42-next-release-of-osgi-and-whats-next.html
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The revised SAT will make its debut in six short weeks — which is just enough time for students to cram in a test prep course with one of many local tutoring firms.
The changes to the test are the most wide-ranging in its history. On the verbal portion of the test, the analogies section has been deleted and a 25-minute writing test plus questions about grammar were added. The math section sees a slight increase in difficulty, adding questions on trigonometry and advanced algebra. And to cap these changes, the test is now scored out of 2,400, rather than 1,600. The writing test accounts for the additional 800.
With the scale of the changes, it's no surprise that more local students are turning to extracurricular SAT training. Huntington Learning Center has expanded its SAT offerings to cope with increased demand, said Karen Helm, director at the Fairfax Huntington branch.
SAT tutoring begins with an assessment. At Huntington, that assessment takes the form of administering an actual SAT, with additional skills assessments to zero in on student's shortcomings. Once that's done, a tutor sits down with the student and parents to outline options.
"We say, 'This is your SAT, this is your GPA, these are schools you could get into, these are schools that would be a reach,' and then we design a program to help achieve their goals," Helm said.
The changes to the SAT are both good and bad, said Cheryl Feuer, director of Herndon-based Tutoring for Success. For example, the removal of analogies makes it unnecessary for students to learn vocabulary out of context. Instead of memorizing lists of "SAT words," Feuer recommended that students read widely to help reading comprehension scores.
THE WRITING SECTION, which asks that test-takers evaluate a quote, then back up their opinion with examples from culture, history, or their own experience, is expected to be a challenge.
"Students don't necessarily have that much experience," with the desired style of writing, Feuer said.
Beverly Weaver, director of Kingsbury Northern Virginia Tutoring Center, said that the current fashion of teaching writing through the "whole writing" process, in which students start with an idea web and work on an essay through several drafts, also serves to make the writing portion challenging.
"Kids aren't used to writing on the spot," she said. "It's a good process, but you can't do it in 25 minutes." Kingsbury tutors help students make a web or outline a few minutes and then move directly into a final draft.
Another new section — word usage, which asks students to make grammatically correct sentences — is so challenging that, Feuer said, tutors who took a practice test averaged four out of 20 wrong, and no one's test was completely correct.
STUDENTS SEEKING SAT prep can choose between one-on-one tutoring and small groups. Prep classes are offered by private companies and by local school systems.
Huntington offers only one-on-one sessions, Helm said. "It allows us to vary instruction based on student needs. In a class, if the majority of the class is weak on verbal but you're weak in math, you may not be able to get as much benefit."
She added that one-on-one tutoring can help even students with weaknesses in very specific areas, such as geometry. On practice tests, these sessions have caused student scores on the revised SAT to improve by an average of 200 points.
The cost is $195 for the initial consultation, and then $45 to $65 per hour for instruction. The number of sessions needed depends on the student, Helm said.
Tutoring for Success offers both small groups and one-on-one sessions. Feuer said that the small groups are often more energetic, and allow students to interact, while one-on-one sessions allow students to work on whatever specific problems they have. The hourly rate for individual sessions is $65-$75, while students in the small groups will pay $700 for eight three-hour sessions.
Kingsbury also offers both one-on-one tutoring and group sessions. Generally, the one-on-one sessions are for students with learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, or other special needs, Weaver said. The cost is $70 per hour for individual tutoring and $550 for six two-hour sessions for the group. Students will get out of group sessions what they put into them, she said. "When you take SAT prep courses, a lot of people think taking the course makes the difference. That's not entirely true. The course lays out information, but what prepares you is doing the work again and again," Weaver said.
Whatever tutoring option is chosen, Feuer cautioned students and parents not to get too wrapped up in SAT scores.
"They need to remember that most better colleges consider other things. Part of your score is going to be chance, and this doesn't tell you whether you're dumb or smart."


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The government on Tuesday got its first bitter taste of coalition politics as pressure from its oldest ally, Shiv Sena, and also the BJP's own state unit in poll-bound Maharashtra forced it to partially roll back a proposed increase in the fares of the suburban train service announced last Friday.
In what was reminiscent of the days of the UPA government, a group of nine MPs from the Shiv Sena and BJP and RPI MP Ramdas Athavale visited Railways Minister Sadananda Gowda at Rail Bhawan in the morning to protest the fare hike. With his party deciding to relent under pressure — Sena chief Uddhav Thackery had spoken to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and also BJP president Rajnath Singh — Gowda had no choice but to give the green signal for a rollback in the afternoon.
Now the Monthly Season Ticket of suburban trains across India will see a flat increase of just 14.2 per cent, much like the rest of the classes decided last Friday, instead of an increase through a computed formula that was causing a 100 per cent hike for daily commuters. There will be no increase for travel up to first 80 km in second class for non-passholders.
As in the higher classes, the hike is for 10 per cent, while the remaining 4.2 per cent is on account of a Fuel Adjustment Component. For local trains, this change will come into effect from June 28, while for the rest of the classes the changed fares are applicable from Wednesday.
Sources said Gowda along with senior railway officials had tried to work out a different formula to pacify the allies that had meant delayed collection of the differential amount from the passengers. But the Shiv Sena and the BJP state unit reasoned that since all other classes had a 14.2 per cent hike, it would be easier for them to explain to the people if that number was applied to the suburban season tickets as well.
The Railway brass had dug its heels in its resistance to a rollback. It is learnt that the top officials had explained to the minister — and the minister in turn to the protesting MPs — that without the fare hike the suburban service would be difficult to run efficiently, which would adversely impact the passengers. Nearly eight million passengers use the train service daily in Mumbai, known as the lifeline of the mega-city.
The BJP-Shiv Sena alliance is widely expected to form the next government in Maharashtra, which goes to polls in December. The hike in the suburban train fares was threatening to give Congress there the much-needed boost, the Shiv Sena MPs reasoned.
Railways had expected to mop up Rs 902 crore from the proposed increase in suburban tickets during this financial year. That figure now comes down to less than Rs 300 crore. Railways generally earns around Rs 2,000 crore from suburban services in a year, which is just about five per cent of its total earnings from the passenger segment.
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year after receiving his Nobel Prize. As some other Nobel Laureates in a similar position, after an introduction, he choose to read the text of the Nobel lecture that he had delivered in Stockholm the year before. This is a very unusual and personal Nobel lecture and from a formal point of view constitutes a kind of breach with the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation. These state "It shall be incumbent on a prizewinner…to give a lecture on a subject relevant to the work for which the prize has been awarded". The idea is partly that the members of the Prize-Awarding Institutions should hear "from the horse's mouth" how the prize-awarded work came about. But already from the very first Nobel Prize, this rule has been broken. The 1901 Nobel Laureate Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, e.g., never delivered his lecture. Since he also burned all his papers before he died, no one really knows what happened in his laboratory when he discovered X-rays! In 1923, Albert Einstein choose to speak about the gerenal theory of relativity and not about the cited photo-electric effect. In 1974, Albert Claude read a short poetic text which discusses the impact of discoveries in cell biology during the preceding fifty years and at the same time brings in some personal memories from his life as scientist. Today, this text would probably fit better as part of the autobiography that the Nobel Foundation asks the Laureates to write. In Lindau, the contents of the lecture probably came as a surprise to the students and young researchers in the audience, but for many of them probably as a pleasant surprise!
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DENVER — On Sept. 13, Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver opened a new chapter in the history of the Augustine Institute by blessing and dedicating a new campus for the Catholic graduate school that focuses on the New Evangelization.
Since its founding, the university has been a member of the Register's annual Catholic Identity College Guide.
Augustine Institute president and sacred Scripture professor Timothy Gray said members of the institute think of the new building as "Augustine Institute 2.0."
"It's a new beginning for the Augustine Institute," he said.
Gray said the fiber-optic connection in the new building will allow for Internet streaming of classes, question-and-answer sessions and training for youth ministry.
"This gives us an incredible platform for video, radio and education, so we can reach the world," he said. "This gives us a platform to reach the world for Christ."
The Augustine Institute was founded in 2005 to provide graduate studies in theology. It has 60 students on campus. More than 200 students from 35 U.S. states, Canada and Australia are enrolled in its distance-education program.
The institute's new campus, located in the Denver Tech Center, houses a larger chapel, a video-production studio and the Tolle Lege Coffee Bar.
The coffee bar takes its name from a passage in St. Augustine's Confessions in which the great thinker and theologian recounted a distraught time in his youth when he heard children sing in Latin the phrase "Take up and read." Their words inspired him to read the Bible and turn from his pagan life.
Archbishop Aquila said that the archdiocese is "truly blessed" to have the Augustine Institute, which he described as "part of the New Evangelization."
He said the institute is "a way to join the intellect and the heart and to help not only the minds of these young people grow to understand the teaching of the Church, but, more importantly, to let their hearts grow to truly fall in love with the Lord and to come to know him as the Way, the Truth and the Life."
Gray said the school drew inspiration from Pope John Paul II's 1993 visit to Denver.
"He wanted to show that the Gospel belongs in the modern, high-tech, secular world," Gray asserted. "Now, here's the Augustine Institute, answering his summons for an evangelization. And where are we? God provides for us to be right in the heart of the Tech Center."
The institute aims to form students in a Catholic worldview that is "deeply biblical," but also engages with "postmodernism and secular culture."
Archbishop Aquila praised the institute's work in catechetics and Scripture, as well as its New Evangelization programs.
The archbishop said he was impressed with a young man from his former Diocese of Fargo, N.D., who studied at the institute. The young man's heart is "truly on fire for the Lord," and he has used his studies to deepen his faith and the faith of others.
"He's only one example of the many that I know who have gone on to become directors of religious education, principals or teachers in different schools."
Gray credited God with the success of the Augustine Institute, which was previously at the campus of Denver's Teikyo Loretto Heights University.
"Every step of the way, in our young seven-year history, God has intervened and blessed us," he said. "God wants this New Evangelization to happen."


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Do the Republicans Deserve to Lose?
by Leland B. Yeager | Posted January 28, 2012
Liberty readers presumably want to defeat President Obama and the Democrats. Apart from his beliefs, policies, and associates, Obama is a decent man. His challenger, to have a chance of winning, should be one also. Moreover, he should not have so much in his background requiring excuses and apologies — no matter how valid — as to preempt the voters' limited attention from policy issues.
No one has a right to the nomination, or to complain about unfairness if he doesn't get it. Electability is a reasonable requirement even for the most decent person.
Gingrich's excuses and apologies are not even good ones, in my view, even though they may work in campaigning. His undistinguished record at West Georgia College, his questionable ethics and other reasons for being forced out of the speakership and even out of Congress, his half-truths, his "grandiosity" (so identified by Rick Santorum), and his marital infidelities all testify to his character. His claim to have changed his character and to have received or at least to have asked for God's forgiveness strikes me as disgusting hypocrisy.
In a column in the Opelika-Auburn News of January 21, the paper's publisher aptly calls Gingrich "an arrogant, hypocritical, corrupt blowhard" who "is disliked most fervently by those people who know him best. . . ." In my word, he is a slimy character.
Mitt Romney seems competent; and if he commits himself to so-called conservative policies, however belatedly, I suppose that he will faithfully pursue them. He could quite probably justify how he made his money and why he paid low taxes; but his doing so, however soundly, will leave a residue of doubt with many voters and will divert time and attention from real issues. He lacks charisma. Again, it is not unfair to expect electability of a candidate.
Rick Santorum appears to be a decent person, but he devotes too much attention to pushing socially conservative views rather than to real economic and fiscal problems. Ron Paul is sincere and passionate; but the voting public is not ready for consistent libertarianism, perhaps especially not on foreign policy. Gary Johnson would have been a more persuasive candidate inclined toward libertarianism. In comparison with the now remaining four aspirants, Jon Huntsman appealed to me.
It is hackneyed but relevant to recognize that the personal characteristics required of a successful campaigner are quite different from those of a high government official. What could be done? The Founding Fathers, well versed in history, had foresight. The Constitution, Article II, Section 1, says that each state shall appoint presidential electors "in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct. . . ." The legislatures might constitutionally specify the appointment of electors otherwise than by statewide direct popular vote, conceivably even by lot (although better ideas may turn up). And the electors from all the states might be encouraged to meet and discuss candidates before casting their votes. Of course, no such reform is in the cards.
As things now stand, I am afraid that Bret Stephens is right in his Wall Street Journal opinion piece of January 24: "The GOP Deserves to Lose." I'd appreciate being shown why my pessimism is mistaken.
Leland B. Yeager is Ludwig von Mises Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Auburn University.
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The author gives too much credit to Paul for "consistent libertarianism".
Paul's position on immigration is far from Libertarian. Let alone his back room deals to obtain federal funding for his district. And there is his kooky past talks of tri-lateral , illuminate oddities.
But the author is correct that Republicans do not want to vote for libertarians. Which is a very good reason for libertarians to not run in Republican primaries.
Wed, 2012-02-01 17:40
Rodney Choate
Mr. Visitor,
Your critique of Paul's position on immigration assumes that what is considered to be the standard libertarian position on it is completely thought out and just, both as a short term solution as well as a long term goal. This is not the case. Paul's position is correct for the time being. In a free world borders would be open. But the world is not free.
Regarding his continued securing of a certain amount of federal funds for his district even as he votes "NO" for the bills- this too is completely correct. If everyone else also voted "NO", then the bills would not pass and there would be no bad money. But if the bills pass, the people of Paul's district have every right to equal treatment to the rest of the country. I consider it a compliment to Paul's ability if he actually pulls off what I've described. As long as he votes "NO" for the bad bills, he is morally white.
Responding now to the main article. That the conservatives now expect to win, not because they are so moral, but because their opponents are so evil, shows just how little our voters have learned from the danger we are in.
Fri, 2012-02-03 22:08
Ron Paul votes no for spending he has purposely put in, and he knows will pass despite his "principled" no vote. It is very hypocritical. Very similar to his taking of taxpayer money for his runs for office.
It is very much a "do as I say, not what I do" situation. He is a fraud.
Tue, 2012-02-07 10:30
Unfortunately, it's not the last time when we get to choose between politicians who never stand by the principles they promote in their campaigns. I often have the feeling there is no one left in there for whom I could actually vote...
Mon, 2012-09-03 08:26
Not a dimes' worth of difference might be an understatement these days. Maybe a pennies worth of difference.
Obama, Romney, Newt, McCain, Bush..All the exact same policies. And the US public recognizes this. Probably why near 50% do not bother to vote for statist "a" against statist "b".
Wed, 2012-02-01 17:23
You libertarians need to realize that you're never going to win any major elections, and you're never going to create a viable 3rd party.
Even if Ron Paul, by some miracle, were to receive the nomination, he'd go down in flames worse than Walter Mondale or George McGovern come November.
Got it?
What you should be concentrating on is enacting your good ideas via special interest groups. Team up with NORML to help end the drug war, team up with the NRA to maintain our gun freedom, etc.
There's no reason why Libertarians cannot be one of the most powerful and feared lobbying groups in America. But you'll never create a 3rd party.
Tue, 2012-01-31 18:22
Herb Schaffler
If Ron Paul was going down in flames in a race against Obama, why does he do as well in the polls against Obama? He is second to Romney and does much better than Santorum and Gingrich. Gingrich does the worst.
Wed, 2012-02-01 13:27
@Herb Schaffler,
"If Ron Paul was going down in flames...why does he do so well in polls....?"
Because they are "polls". Not very realistic ones at that. Very few americans know who Ron Paul is, let alone his policy positions. When they do learn of his positions, they do not vote for him. As evidenced in his previous and current elections.
The american people are far from libertarian, unfortunately. If Ron Paul were to run in the general election, he'd receive only slightly more than the LP candidate. Maybe 2% instead of 1%. That extra 1% would be for his nationalist positions, which are giving him 7% of Republicans. Of course, he does win his district in Texas. Because he is adept at paying off his supporters, while appearing to be against such government funded payoffs. Wink, wink, nod, nod.
Thu, 2012-02-02 18:02
Jon Harrison
Yeager sums things up quite nicely as usual. I mentioned in a comment here some time ago that Obama was likely to win in 2012; I feel more certain of it today. The Republican Party has gone astray since its great victory in the Congressional elections of 1994. Indeed, the party as reshaped by Gingrinch, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, and the neocons bears only passing resemblance to the party of Goldwater and Reagan. The Republicans deserve to lose, and to keep losing until they finally adopt sensible and realistic policies.
A further point to consider is the low quality, generally, of people in politics today. Take the current Republican field, Ron Paul excepted. Gingrich is everything his former friends say he is. Santorum is so sanctimonious he makes Joe Lieberman seem likable. Romney is the best of the bunch, but really is a flip-flopper, a weathercock on most issues. He would be a disaster in terms of foreign policy, in my opinion. And he utterly lacks the common touch -- a major drawback at a time when the proletariat is in ferment.
We've been through such times before; the period between Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt was an age of brass in American politics. But given the media environment of our age, which keeps most honest and able people from seeking office, it seems likely that we are in for a very long reign of mediocrity. Thank goodness the power and reach of government are bound to decline. Either bankruptcy or retrenchment is in our future, and one way or the other government will have to shrink.
We could do worse than another four years of Obama. But we won't have to, because the man is going to win another term.
Sun, 2012-01-29 00:52
"We've been through such times before; the period between Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt was an age of brass in American politics."
This is to overlook Grover Cleveland, one of the few men ever to occupy the White House possessed of both integrity and restraint, and one who thus, sadly, would not be welcome in either major party today.
Sun, 2012-01-29 08:49
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Has Obama built a Midwest firewall?... New NBC/WSJ/Marist polls: Obama leads Romney 51%-45% in Wisconsin and 51%-43% in Iowa… Romney camp insists the Iowa race is MUCH closer than our poll suggests… Why the campaigns are pushing back on polls they don't like: Both sides want to look like winners with 18 days to go… AP raises more questions on Libya… Obama stumps in Fairfax, VA, while Romney hits Daytona Beach, FL with Paul Ryan… And "Meet the Press" has Axelrod, Portman, and Rubio.
The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd talks about the last presidential debate, which will focus on foreign policy.
*** Obama's Midwest firewall? Is this campaign about one region and one region alone? How the Midwest goes, so goes this election? Now the question is whether Mitt Romney and Republicans have made inroads in the Midwestern battlegrounds or not. They say they have. But our new NBC/WSJ/Marist polls of Iowa and Wisconsin, plus our survey last week of Ohio, suggest that President Obama has built a firewall in the Midwest, even after Romney's momentum from that first presidential debate. In Wisconsin, Obama leads Romney by six points among likely voters, 51%-45%, which is virtually unchanged from the margin last month. In Iowa, Obama is up by eight points, 51%-43%, which also is nearly identical to where it was in September. And as we revealed last week, Obama was ahead in Ohio, 51%-45%. What's significant here: If Obama wins all three states, he surpasses 270 electoral votes. But if Romney is able to pick off one of them, that widens the GOP's path to 270 and narrows the Democratic one.
*** Romney camp: The Iowa race is much closer: The Romney campaign insists, however, that the contest is MUCH closer in Iowa than our NBC/WSJ/Marist poll shows. The X-factor here may very well be early voting. Per our poll, 34% of likely voters say they have already cast their ballots, and the president is winning those people, 67%-32%. Another 11% say they are planning to vote early, and Obama is up with them, 55%-39%. On the other hand, Election Day voters have Romney ahead, 54%-39%. But Republicans have pointed out that 285,000 early and absentee ballots have been received in Iowa, which is about 19% of the 2008 electorate in the state -- so less than the 34% in our poll. But an overall total 463,000 absentee ballots have been REQUESTED in the state, and that comes to 30% of the 2008 electorate, which is much closer to that 34%. So what's going on here? Are likely-voter models overstating those who have voted early? Are Democrats just more apt to say they've voted early (even if they haven't), because Obama is asking them to do so? Are these requested absentee ballots already in the mail but haven't been received by the Iowa secretary of state? These are all fair questions to ask. And, yes, it makes polling in these heavy early-voting states much harder.
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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney greets supporters at a campaign rally at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio in this file photo.
*** The importance of looking like a winner: Given the reaction from Romney World about our Iowa survey, and also given the Obama campaign's reaction to the recent USA Today/Gallup poll, it's important to make a broader point: Both sides want to look like a winner with 18 days to go until Election Day. The fact is, Republicans have very little margin for error in the Midwest, and need all of their voters to turn out. And the same is true for Democrats in what promises to be a close election, especially say in a place like Florida or Virginia. No campaign wants to lose a single vote from someone who might say, "It looks like my side is going to lose, so why vote?" And that's probably why they're aggressively pushing back on polls that appear to poke holes in the narratives they're telling -- that Romney is gaining ground in the Midwest, and that Obama maintains a big gender-gap advantage with women. The bottom line: The Democrats have NO margin for enthusiasm error in Florida and Virginia, and Republicans have NO margin for enthusiasm error in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Ohio.
*** More questions on Libya: Three days until the final Obama-vs.-Romney debate -- on the topic of foreign policy -- don't be surprised if this story gets raised. The AP: "The CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington within 24 hours of last month's deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate that there was evidence it was carried out by militants, not a spontaneous mob upset about an American-made video ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, U.S. officials have told The Associated Press. It is unclear who, if anyone, saw the cable outside the CIA at that point and how high up in the agency the information went." And this is the central question: Did the intelligence community not quickly share that information with the Obama administration? (And if that's the case, why not?) Or did the administration get the intel quickly -- but chose to sit on it until it had no choice (including sending out Susan Rice to relay outdated intelligence on the Sunday shows)?
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In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.
*** On the trail: Obama holds a rally at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA at 11:45 am ET… Romney and Ryan stump in Daytona Beach, FL at 8:30 pm ET, and Ryan hits Tampa before that… Biden is in Sun City Center, FL… First Lady Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton hold separate events in Wisconsin… John McCain and Kelly Ayotte campaign for Romney in New Hampshire… And Chris Christie holds a rally in Richmond, VA.
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Father Pat's Pastoral Ponderings
Sunday of the Forefathers
December 12, 2010
Although Jesus sometimes spoke reproachfully to His disciples (cf. Mark 8:17-21, 33), He was reluctant, it seems, to let others do so. Thus, we find Him, on occasion, defending these disciples against their critics and enemies (Luke 5:33-35; 6:1-5). The most notable instance, surely, involved Jesus' concern for their safety at the moment of His arrest: "If you seek Me, let these go their way" (John 18:8).
Jesus' instinct to protect His loved ones extended in a special way to the women. The gospels give no example of someone criticizing a woman in Jesus' presence and getting away with it.
The gospels are emphatic of this point. For instance, on the occasion when Jesus restored a crippled woman in the synagogue, He became incensed and shouted "Hypocrite!" to the synagogue leader who embarrassed the woman and blamed her for being healed on the Sabbath (Luke 13:10-16). Likewise, Jesus was quick to defend a sinful woman against the self-righteous sneers of a Pharisee named Simon (7:36-50). Most memorable, perhaps, was the occasion when He put to shame the accusers of an adulteress (John 8:2-11).
We know of two instances when Jesus came to the defense of Mary of Bethany, one of those three siblings of whom we are told, "Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus" (John 11:5).
The first these stories — recorded by Luke (10:38-42) — describes the time when Jesus came to "a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house." This last detail is important: Jesus came to Martha's house. Martha was in charge, and, to make Jesus feel welcomed, she went to great pains, "distracted by all the preparations that had to be made" (10:40 NIV).
As the day wore on, and the finishing times for the various dishes started to converge — the bread to come out of the oven, the salad to be mixed, the roasted corn to be stirred, the cups to be filled, the table to be set, and so on — Martha's dedicated industry began to assume a note of impatience. One of the reasons she was so busy — or at least Martha thought so — was that this younger sister of hers was not helping with the chores: "Mary, seated at the feet of Jesus, was listening to His word."
When Martha felt she could endure it no more, she mentioned this concern to their Guest: "Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her, then, to give me a hand." That is to say, Martha accused her sister of wasting time when there was work to be done. It must have seemed to her a perfectly reasonable observation.
Perhaps to her consternation, however, Jesus' response not only defended Martha's sister, but went on to assert the superiority of Mary's peaceful occupation: "Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the better portion, which will not be taken away from her."
In order to understand how Mary's occupation represented the "better portion," it is useful to consider her activity — sitting and listening to Jesus' word — within the context of Luke's larger story. For starts, this description supports a comparison of Mary of Bethany with Jesus' own mother, who "kept all these things and pondered them in her heart" (2:19, 51).
In addition, both Jesus' mother and Mary of Bethany are portrayed as true contemplatives, who embody the model described in the parable of the sower. In Luke's version of that parable, the seeds "that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good [agathe] heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience" (8:15). For Luke, that is to say, true contemplation involves the hearing of God's word in purity of heart. In Luke's view, both Jesus' mother and Mary of Bethany are occupied with the "one thing necessary."
The second story of Jesus' defense of Mary of Bethany is narrated by John (12:1-8). It was she, John tells us, who, just six days before the Passover, "took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair."
Whereas in the former story, Mary was reprimanded for wasting time, in the present instance she is accused of wasting money. Her critic now is none other than Judas Iscariot, that famous apostolic book-keeper, who knew a thing or two about finances: "Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred silver pieces and given to the poor?"
John, the narrator, aware that Judas is about to sell Jesus out for a fraction of that amount, lets his readers in on a dirty little secret. Judas, he explains, "said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it."
The reader is struck by Jesus' restraint in this story. He says very little here to Judas Iscariot, even though He knew "it was he who would betray Him, being one of the twelve" (6:71). Jesus does, however, defend Mary of Bethany by placing her action in the context of that murder to which Judas's betrayal will lead: "Let her be, that she may preserve it for the day of my burial."
Whereas the first story contrasts Mary's "better portion" with the good activities of her sister, this second story opposes her loving generosity with the evil being plotted by Judas.
Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon is pastor of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago, Illinois, and a Senior Editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity.
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