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By Father Kenneth J. Doyle
One in a series
On June 19, at a vespers service in St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Benedict XVI formally opened what he has proclaimed as the Year for Priests.
The purpose of the year, the pope has noted, is to encourage among priests a deeper prayer life and a renewed effort toward the "spiritual perfection" on which, says the pope, "the effectiveness of their ministry primarily depends."
Let me say something about how the priesthood rolls out on the ground level and then make a modest suggestion.
The pope has timed the year to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the death of St. John Vianney, who is the patron saint of parish priests. But the life of the Curé of Ars, who spent several hours each day in the confessional in a rural town in France, bears little resemblance to the (mythical) "average day" of the priest in America right now.
Yesterday (as I write) was a Thursday, which is theoretically my "day off." (A wonderful hospital chaplain generously takes the parish Mass on Thursday morning, so that the pastor can "get away," which lately rarely happens.) This, in fact, was how yesterday went. It started at 8 a.m. at a board meeting of our local Catholic hospital, where the discussion is always spirited (and often lengthy). The hospital is building a quarter-billon-dollar addition, so there are financial issues surrounding that. It is also in the process of merging with a secular hospital, so there are ethical dimensions to address.
Finishing the meeting at 10, I drove to our parish office to draft a report on parish consolidation. The five Catholic parishes in our area this year are merging into three because of population shifts and the scarcity of priests. Lots of questions are on the table — new staffing patterns, revised Mass schedules, shared religious ed. programs, sale of vacated properties — and we have the next few months to figure it all out.
As I was writing that report, I was at the same time fielding phone calls: final arrangements for weddings (11 of them over the next few weeks) and baptisms (four this weekend); the ever-present calls from people with certain needs (the lonely woman who calls frequently simply to ask if it's "all right if I call you tomorrow"; the man beset by scruples who calls most days, and many nights, to ask if I will "place your hands on my head, put the scapular around my neck and sprinkle me with holy water"). The challenge is to remember that "God is in the interruptions" and that a priest, like Christ, must always be kind.
Then it was off to the hospital and a local nursing home to visit parishioners, back to the parish for a wedding rehearsal, a 20-minute respite to pray the Liturgy of the Hours, a supper-sandwich wolfed down at a local deli before repairing to the rectory desk to write a funeral homily. Soon it was 10 p.m. and time to fall asleep while watching the television news.
I'm not saying that the life of the priest is all work and no play; if you let it be that, you'll soon be in trouble. Next Tuesday and Wednesday, I'm going to Baltimore with two high school classmates who are also fellow inveterate Red Sox fans to see Boston play two games against the Orioles. (Tickets at Fenway Park are nearly impossible, but at Camden Yards you can walk in off the street.)
What I am saying is that a monastic spirituality, with a large dose of quiet built in, just doesn't work for today's parish priest. Instead, how about this as a practical alternative: 10 minutes a day, early in the morning before the craziness begins, 10 minutes to talk things over with God, to measure progress on our journey to heaven. Let's do it just for a year — the Year for Priests. It could even become a habit.
Father Doyle, a priest of the diocese of Albany, N.Y., has served as pastor of a large suburban parish for the last 17 years; he is also chancellor of the diocese for public information. Ordained in 1966, he has also been a high school religion teacher, editor of a diocesan newspaper, bureau chief in Rome for Catholic News Service, lawyer/lobbyist for the New York State Catholic Conference and director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.


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I am going to go through the entire process from start to finish in creating your own DVD burner laser pointer. This will allow you to build your own laser pointer from a dvd burner capable of burning and cutting. I welcome feedback to this review and if I have left anything out please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
What you will need.
1 DVD+/-RW. I do not know of any other brands of dvd burners that are going to net you a good solid laser diode other than the ones listed here: http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=166188
A flashlight. Mini Dorcy purchased from Target, Dorcy Metal gear purchased at walmart, MiniMaglite or various other flashlights. I will only be showing the three flashlights for time saving purposes.
An Aixiz Laser module found here: http://mfgcn.com/_wsn/page2.html You will want the 650nm 5mw 12mm X 30mm full brass case $4.50 USD.
Soldering iron. I use a Weller 25W soldering iron. Solder.
Small set of nut drivers available at radio shack.
Multi-meter with diode checking ability.
Assorted things including batteries, black and red sharpie pen, some side cutting wire dikes.
Once you have assembled all the things you will need sit down with a screwdriver and a bit of time to pull apart the DVD burner to harvest the laser diodes. Remove the screws from the casing to get to the guts. Inside you will see a circuit board usually just resting inside. Remove the board and toss. You will then reveal the sled and all of the components we are looking for. Remove the screws holding the rails in place and slide the laser assembly off the rails. Slowly taking your time not to damage anything valuable remove all the screws and pieces off of the assembly until you are down to the bare metal housing the diodes. I never remove the cabling off of the diodes until I have them out of the metal housings. This is where I take out my Side cutting wire dikes and nip away the metal around the housing. I use several sizes to make sure Im cutting away the metal and nothing else (like the diode.) BE GENTLE. DONT RUSH. Take your time doing this. Nothing is gained by going quickly. When you have removed all of the metal around your diode take heatsink pliers from radio shack (these are made from solid aluminum) and place them on the diode pins you are going to de-solder one at a time. With your soldering iron and a wick remove the solder from the pins and toss the connector. I always use a fair amount of rosin in the wick to make sure I get all residual solder from the pins quickly. Heat is an enemy to the diode hence the reason we are using the heatsinking pliers. Use a very quick touch to the pin then quickly remove the solder off with the wick. TOO MUCH HEAT WILL KILL YOUR DIODE.
Once we have the solder and connection loose from the diode its time to determine which of the two diodes is the red one. I use the diode tester feature on virtually every multimeter I have ever seen. It is an arrow with a line at the end. This tells us three things. 1. what wavelength the diode is 2. if the diode is still functioning and 3. which of the pins is negative and which is positive. I use a red sharpie to mark the positive and a black to mark the negative. You will find which of the diodes is the IR diode and which is the red one. I toss the IR diode, however you can keep it and do whatever you want with it. The power generally on the IR diode is usually very small but still enough to burn your eyes if collimated.
Once we have found which is red, we take our Aixiz module and pull it completely apart. Removing the lens and spring found inside and unscrewing the two halves. In the smaller of the two pieces you will find a small hole on the opposite side of the lens threads. This is where our newly harvested diode is going to go. Place a small amount of thermal grease inside this hole and place the diode in the hole. Grab a nut driver that is going to have a large enough hole to fit the pins on the back of the diode inside the driver yet still rest on the diameter of the diode. Drive it in with a smack from something hard like a hammer but not very hard. We are trying to drive this in not destroy it. Make sure you keep the diode centered and drive it in completely parallel with the module. You should not, once you have it in place, have one side sticking out more than another. You want this completely centered in the hole. If it is sideways in the hole the light from the diode is not going to center on the lens. Using a Q-tip remove any thermal grease that has gotten on the diodes window, you may need to use alcohol and if you do, make sure you use alcohol that is 90% or above. Remove ALL the thermal grease. Leaving behind grease is going to impact the effectiveness of our laser. Before replacing the lens I usually take a exacto knife to the opposite end of the optics. You will notice it is a very small diameter hole and we are going to cut very carefully to make the hole bigger. This allows more light to get to the lens and not be reflected back into the chamber. You can now replace the spring and lens into the module and test to make sure you still have a functioning diode after the pounding and placing. If you have ruined the diode pound it out from the inside and start over. At this point you should be able to play around a bit by driving it directly from 2 AAA batteries. We dont wanna play too much cause we are not quite finished and you will find that the module warms up pretty quickly.
In this portion of the walkthrough I will refer to 1, 2, or 3. These are the particular flashlights that we are going to use. I will start with 1 and go to the next and so forth.
1. Dorcy mini. You can get this badboy at Target for under $20. The first thing we are going to do is unscrew the head. With the head off, you can see a small spring sticking out of the bottom of the head. Grab ahold and gently pull this out. The entire thing will come right out.
The reflector and led are held in place by two black rings. Remove both of those rings paying attention to how it is mounted in place. You do not need the reflector, so place it in your save file for later. Unsolder the diode off the mounting plate and using a pair of pliers pry the diode off the plate. If you do this right you can salvage the led. It is not going to be used for anything we are doing so set it off in your save pile. Using a file remove all traces of solder from the plate with the exception of the two contacts that are soldered. One a white wire coming from below, the other is grounded to another metal piece. Those are your positive and negative connections. We are going to clean those up and make sure they are low profile but not totally de-solder them. Once you have removed the solder from the other connections we are now going to isolate those contacts from the positive and negative. Using a sharp implement, preferably a knife, cut into the board on the small lines under the black covering leading from the negative and positive. Sever the connection completely. Make sure you are not getting juice to the other 4 points by using a multi-meter. If youre not getting voltage to those points any more then we are good. Grab the Aixiz module. Unscrew the lower half of the module and grab a pipe cutter. Using the pipe cutter we are going to cut off all but what we need to bring the focus ring to the end of our flashlight head. In my case it was 9mm of the barrel remaining, the rest was cut off. So my entire module top and bottom is 16mm. Using a dremel tool I notch the bottom of the now tubed bottom so that I have a place for my two leads to come out of. I then take a cut the leads off of a normal led about ¾ inch long for soldering onto the pins of our Laser diode. I solder the leads of the led onto the pins from the laser diode and replace the hollow cap back onto the bottom of the module. I with a pair of pliers bend the diodes new pins so that they are exiting sideways out of the grooves that we cut into the bottom of the barrel on the module. Making sure that they do not come into contact with the side of the module we then solder the diodes new pins onto the negative and positive places we cleaned up. Make sure also that the positive connection on the board itself does not come into contact with the module either and epoxy it in place with some thermal epoxy. Power the diode up again one more time to make sure we have electrical connection.
Replace the black rings onto the board to hold everything together once the epoxy has dried and use the built in circuitry below on the battery holder of the flashlight to power it. Slide everything back together once its been assembled and everything should power up. If you have not got power to the diode then somewhere you have a short. Most likely in one of two places 1. the barrel of the Aixiz module is grounding to the positive or 2. You have the pins from the diode grounding to the Aixiz module.
Take a us nickel and cut a small section of thin plastic of your choice the same size or a bit smaller. This is going to be placed in the top portion of the head of the flashlight for aesthetic purposes. Find the exact center and cut a hole for the focus ring to exit through and you have a finished product.
Now no walkthrough would be complete without video's. links to teh video's are here
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Intruder shot in UCF-area home invasion dies
2 culprits jumped from second-story window, deputies say
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – An intruder who was shot in a home invasion near the University of Central Florida last week has died, deputies said.
Gabriel Mercado-Gonzalez, 19, was pronounced dead Wednesday morning at a hospital, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies continue to search for two other intruders who jumped from a second-floor window during a gunfight between Mercado-Gonzalez and a resident.
The home invasion occurred around 8 p.m. last Thursday at 3528 Khayyam Ave. in Orlando.
According to Orange County sheriff's deputies, the residents inside the home said three gunmen entered the back of their home. One of the victims retrieved his gun and a shootout took place, with Mercado-Gonzalez being struck multiple times, deputies said. He was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center in critical but stable condition and later died.
The other two intruders jumped from a second-floor window and fled on foot.
No other injuries were reported by deputies, and no other details have been released.
Anyone with information about the home invasion is urged to call Crimeline at 800-423-TIPS.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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On Oct. 8 the U.S. team at the 24th Izumo Ekiden had its best-ever showing, tying last year's best-ever placing at 8th but running over a minute faster for the six-stage, 44.5 km course. Fifth Stage runner Brendan Gregg was one of five men on his leg to break the standing course record, second on his stage on time and missing the win by only two seconds behind Ryu Takaku of defending champion Toyo University. Historically an Ivy League alumni team, its makeup has shifted over the last two years to become more of an overall U.S. post-collegiate team lineup. Taking in Tokyo for a few days post-race, the team's members gave JRN their impressions of the Izumo Ekiden, Japanese collegiate runners, the system under which they train and compete and how it compares to the NCAA, and more.
Elliott Heath (Stanford Univ., First Stage, 8.0 km – 4th, 23:33)
Running in a Japanese ekiden opened my eyes to the Japanese running culture in a way that I didn't really know existed. I had no idea how much excitement and interest there is in running in Japan and the extent that people support it.
The experience of running in the ekiden was very different from the collegiate experience in the United States. The discipline of the Japanese runners to have to run on your own basically the entire time is very different from the NCAA, the U.S.A. college events, because there you're always racing someone. In Japan you can find yourself out there by yourself for a large period of time, and that takes much more discipline.
My ekiden experience made me wish that the American experience was more like this, where people are far more interested in running. There's definitely much more excitement about running culture here than there is the United States, and the whole ekiden experience was very rewarding for sure. I can't wait to come back to Japan again and race in another ekiden or in some other race. It was a lot of fun.
Julian de Rubira (UC Santa Barbara, Second Stage, 5.8 km – 9th, 17:27)
Running the Izumo Ekiden relay was the best way I could imagine of experiencing Japan for the first time. I was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm, the generosity, the hospitality. The competition was very, very good, more than I had expected. Japanese runners are very, very strong and tough, and it's inspiring to see the effort that they put into it, and their talent.
I was extremely impressed with Izumo in general. It was really cool to be able to interact with the people of the town, and it was so beautiful running in that valley with mountain ranges on both sides and the ocean, crossing over the river and looking around and seeing just how beautiful everything was here in Japan.
I'm really, really thankful for this opportunity and I want to say thank you to everyone who made it possible. It's an amazing event and I really wish that the ekiden would be taken more seriously. Then in the future Americans could send a really, really strong team, maybe a few teams, and make it something that college teams would be more excited about and come over here and want to do well. I definitely hope to come back, whether for any ekidens or other road races, and just be a lot more prepared.
Landon Peacock (Univ. of Wisconsin, Third Stage, 7.9 km - 8th, 24:26)
Running an ekiden requires a lot more mental strain and you have to be prepared to race right from the start. It requires constant calculating and strategizing throughout the entire duration of the run. In the United States there is much more of a sit-and-kick sort of attitude that requires no thinking until the last 200m of a race. Even in races that get broken up early there is generally a mutual understanding amongst competitors that it is beneficial to work together for as long as possible.
Racing the ekiden has a way of denying me of all the racing styles I have grown comfortable with. In an ekiden you are not just racing to get to the finish before your competitors, but instead to give the next man on your team as big of an advantage as possible. You are constantly figuring out how you can catch the next group and not just sit on them and beat them in the last 100 m but also to gap them and give your team a greater advantage. Racing the ekiden is for a true racer, a man with grit. At no point are your competitors companions on the run or pacers to help you run a faster time. They are always your competitors. Their success is not only your failure, but also your next man's disadvantage.
J.T. Sullivan (Stanford Univ., Fourth Stage, 6.2 km – 11th, 18:39)
I was amazed at how accepting and polite all the Japanese athletes were and how excited everyone in Izumo was for us to be there, and at the incredible determination and tradition of Japanese distance running.
Something I found very difficult and was impressed by about the other Japanese runners was their ability to run on their own for such a long period. The ekiden leg, especially deep into the race, is pretty much just an individual time trial once it separates out, and the tenacity and the single-minded focus of the Japanese athletes was really incredible and something I'd love to see more of in the NCAA. I think the ekiden-style race is really fun, an awesome idea, and something I'd like to see in the U.S. The relay-type atmosphere really brought everyone together, not only on each individual team but also the athletes on all the teams.
I want to thank all the people of Izumo, all the people of Japan, all of the Japanese runners in the Izumo Ekiden. It was an incredible time, something that I'm never going to forget, and hopefully I'll come back next year and the Ivy League team, the American team, will finish even higher. Thank you very much.
Brendan Gregg (Stanford Univ., Fifth Stage, 6.4 km – 2nd, 18:13)
The Izumo Ekiden was a really wonderful experience unlike any other racing experience that I've ever had. It was a true team race where you're not racing your teammates but just the other teams. 8th place is a good finish for us, but I certainly think that we could have finished much higher had we all been on our A-game and I would love to come back next year and take a shot at the top three. But as it was this year, I think it was a very positive race for the American Select Team. We had some great performances and it was really exciting to get out and experience a completely different type of competition and see how we stack up against some really great Japanese competitors.
I was disappointed to get the sash a little further back than we had hoped to be, but at the same time it was very, very exciting to get to chase people down, and that really motivated me to see how many guys I could catch. That was my goal, to run down as many people as I could and get us as high as we could be leading into that last leg. I was trying to drop people the whole time, and they gave no quarter. They pushed me to a higher level than I had been pushed in a long time, throwing in surges and trying to get some distance on the other teams. I got the sash right next to the Komazawa runner Kazuhiro Kuga and he took off like a rocket. I didn't think I could go with that, but I followed him out for the first couple of km and he pulled me to a better performance than I thought I could muster. The competition level was very fierce, and I think it drew the best out of us.
The hosts were so friendly, and the level of community involvement, community support and excitement that goes into these races was really amazing, unlike anything in America. Watching the races on TV in the holding area before our own legs got started, seeing how involved everything was, the opening ceremonies and the closing ceremonies and the after-party were unlike anything in the U.S. I'm very honored to have been a part of it and very grateful to have had the opportunity.
Matt Llano (Univ. of Richmond, Sixth Stage, 10.2 km – 10th, 31:08)
I really had no idea what to expect coming into it, which was a first for me for a race. I've never raced internationally before, so this was a first there as well. I couldn't find a whole lot online in English about what the race is like, but I didn't mind having that unknown. The whole atmosphere of the race was just electric. I'm really, really impressed by the ekiden system over here and I wish that the United States had something similar. It helps build incredibly strong runners that have really quite amazing range. I've been really impressed by the range that a lot of the Japanese athletes seem to have, from what it seems, 5 km through the half marathon.
This year I think we could have been a little bit more competitive. We should have been farther up front, but it's difficult with the travel that we have to do before the race, and the different system, and being peaked at different times in our training, us all being on different schedules. But I still think that all things considered we ran pretty well. The hard thing for my stage in particular was that by the time I received the sash there was a big gap to the people in front of me, so I think that kind of hurt me in that I didn't have the other runners around me to help push me to a faster time or a higher finish. It forced me to really be in the race a little bit more, whereas I think a lot of the Japanese athletes were more experienced with this kind of racing. They have really incredible mental strength to push through that kind of situation on their own and still produce quite stellar times and performances.
I think coming back next year the goal will be to have people around you to really race against and to be a little bit more mentally prepared for it if that's not the case. I'm really looking forward to it. I hope that I have the opportunity again to come back next year and run stronger, run closer to my potential. I think our team as a whole has a lot of room for improvement and I hope that we can capitalize on that and really make a statement here in Japan. Ideally, maybe sometime in the future we'll take some of the concepts of the Japanese ekiden and bring them back over to the States with us and get something similar started, because I think that it's an amazing system for building huge numbers of incredibly strong athletes.
Brendan Martin (Columbia Univ., Alternate, 2nd in 5000 m, 14:06.03 - PB)
I thought the Izumo Ekiden was awesome. It was unlike any race I've ever been a part of thanks to all of the excitement surrounding it as well as the relay-style nature of the event. Not many races are shown on live TV in the USA. Even the Olympics were tape-delayed. For a university race to be on TV with everyone in the community watching was incredible. The great opening and closing ceremonies, attention to detail and community-level importance made this event feel very special.
The different race tactics necessary for a long relay and the planning that goes into arranging which leg each runner completes were things I had never considered before and adds great character and excitement to the event. I ran the 5000 m track race after the ekiden and it was a very cool experience to race in an all-Japanese field. I could not understand any of the splits that coaches were calling out, though. I was extremely impressed by the depth of Japanese distance running. The Japanese runners are fierce competitors and I respect them greatly. There are so many talented athletes on every team. I noticed many runners wearing magnet belts while they raced/trained. Wondering if I need to get myself one of those...
Everyone I met was extremely welcoming. I have not experienced that level of hospitality in the USA. Last but not least, I learned that Japanese girls are very beautiful. I can't wait to come back to Japan.
Ethan Shaw (Dartmouth College, Alternate, 8th in 5000 m, 14:12.86)
I ran the track race. Izumo was an inspired race. Japanese runners tend to run extremely strong through the entire leg, and I think there are a lot of things that we could learn from them. Being able to experience Japanese culture, Japanese racing, Japanese life is extremely important for American runners and American culture. It's something that you can't recreate in any other way. Coming to another culture is something that you can't expect people to understand without the experience, so this is a program that just could not exist in a classroom environment. I'm really excited for this to happen again next year and for decades beyond this.
Matt Duffy (Brown Univ., alternate, DNF in 5000 m)
This is my first trip to the Izumo Ekiden and my first trip to Japan. It was great to experience the entire culture of what the ekiden means in the university system there. They focus very much on the team, where I think the NCAA focuses more on the individual. Individual glory is the king, where in Japan the individual is praised for his performance but only as it adds to the team's performance. I think this is a style of racing that really tests the true distance runner, and I think that the American university system could benefit a lot from looking at the lessons of the Japanese distance runners, their discipline and their commitment to the team.
I had known about this race for four or five years ever since my preview trip to Brown University, and it was great to be a part of it, great to see it. Unfortunately I wasn't able to run, but I was very happy to see the United States team finish 8th again and be disappointed about that finish because I know that in the past we have looked just to go there and run. But every now and then you need to step up and make the team better, so I was very glad when people like Elliott Heath, Matt Llano, Brendan Gregg and others came and performed as well as they did. I look forward to coming back next year, hopefully, and contributing to the team, and hope that the team finishes higher. Thank you.
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Psystar is vigorously defending itself against Apple's latest charge that the Florida Hackintosher has destroyed documents relevant to the two companies' ongoing legal brawl.
"Psystar has not destroyed documents," Kiwi Camara of Camara and Sibley, Psystar's recently retained lawyers, bluntly told The Reg.
Apple says they did. In a letter filed with the US District Court of Northern California last week, Apple was equally blunt. "Defendant, Psystar Corporation," it reads, "has destroyed relevant evidence that it was legally required to preserve."
Although the letter goes on to enumerate the destroyed evidence, large chunks of it are blacked out, presumably to protect Apple's trade secrets. Apple alleges Psystar has overwritten earlier versions of its code before Apple had a chance to examine them, deleted or lost relevant emails, and failed to satisfy "other deficiencies in... document production."
The letter requests that the court order Psystar to produce the code described in the blacked-out sections. If they fail to do so: "Apple requests that the Court issue and order: (1) requiring Psystyar - under penalty of perjury - to admit that it has destroyed documents and (2) making a factual finding that prior versions of Psystar's software included [blacked out text] and were destroyed by Psystar."
Exactly what was in that allegedly erased code, we may never know
Psystar has taken its own potshot at Cupertino, as well. In a posting on the company's community blog entitled A taste of their own medicine, the Hackintosher invites its supporters to suggest questions to ask the nine Apple execs whom the company will depose for the trial.
The Floridians are apparently quite happy that they're readying the depositions. "After numerous depositions of Psystar employees and associates the shoe is finally on the other foot," the posting reads, "oh the joy!"
And the list of Cupertinians who will be required to squirm under Camara and Sibley's questioning is an impressive one. Among the nine are senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller, SVP of Mac hardware engineering Bob Mansfield, and vice president of finance and worldwide business management Mark Donnelly.
When The Reg asked Psystar lawyer Camara why the company was soliciting questions for the deposition from its supporters, Camara replied: "Psystar has nothing to hide in this litigation," adding that: "We welcome the public's input and participation in our case."
Camara also told us that from his point of view, the case has ramifications beyond one underdog Hackintosher in Doral, Florida. "This case is about issues," Camara said, "the enforceability of EULA's [end-user's license agreement], the scope of the interoperability exception to the DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act], the scope of section 117 and the First-Sale Doctrine," concluding that the issues at question are "much broader than Psystar's particular business."
The case is scheduled to go to trial on January 11, 2010 in San Francisco. We expect that there will be plenty of maneuvering before that date. According to Camara: "Psystar plans to do its best to keep the public and the industry informed about the important legal issues being decided."
Apple, as is its habit, will likely make its positions known only through court filings. Although, as Phil Schiller's recent emails to a concerned developer and blogger about App Store tribulations, perhaps Cupertino's veil of secrecy might part a wee bit in this case, as well.
But we'd advise against holding your breath. ®
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TORONTO — Another front opened Friday in the war of words between Toronto's top cop and Rob Ford's brother over accusations the chief had helped leak information that police were preparing to subpoena the mayor as "payback."
In a statement, Chief Bill Blair lashed out at Coun. Doug Ford, for making the comments.
"Doug Ford is lying," Blair said through his spokesman, Mark Pugash. "I am prepared to take legal action."
Pugash refused to elaborate on the legal threat.
Earlier Friday, the Toronto Star cited sources as saying police were about to subpoena the mayor to testify at the preliminary hearing for his friend Alessandro (Sandro) Lisi, who faces drug and extortion charges.
In response, Coun. Ford suggested the leak — which he blamed on the chief — was politically motivated.
"Rob's changed his life. I just hope the top-ranking person in the police would change his life and follow the rules," Doug Ford told the Globe and Mail.
Speaking later to reporters at city hall, Doug Ford continued his attack.
"When you tell the media there's a subpoena and don't tell anyone else? That alone says it all right there. That says it all."
Ford refused to elaborate on what he meant by "payback."
"That's my opinion. You know exactly what I'm talking about," he said.
"It's disappointing that the police chief, in my opinion, would condone this behaviour from his own department."
The mayor has yet to be served with the subpoena, his brother said.
"Maybe the chief should just let the Toronto Star serve him, because God knows, they've got a direct line to the chief."
This week, the city's police services board announced that it would not extend Blair's contract again, effectively terminating his position as of next April.
Both Fords have repeatedly claimed that an ongoing police investigation of the mayor is politically motivated.
Blair found himself the target of the mayor's anger over the police probe that turned up a video apparently showing him smoking crack cocaine. At a news conference last October, Blair said he was disappointed at what it showed.
Ford, who later admitted to smoking crack cocaine in a "drunken stupor," has publicly accused Blair of wasting taxpayers' money with the investigation and challenged the chief to arrest and charge him.
The mayor also made disparaging comments about Blair during a videotaped tirade he said happened when he had been drinking.
Blair called the profane rant "disgusting" and "shameful."
The mayor was expected to talk to reporters later Friday.


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The Someone Project is pleased to release its second white paper: "Thinking Chickens: A REVIEW OF COGNITION, EMOTION, AND BEHAVIOR INTHE DOMESTIC CHICKEN"
- "It is now clear that birds have cognitive capacities equivalent to those of mammals, even primates…" — Dr. Lesley Rogers
- "Chickens do not just live in the present but can anticipate the future and demonstrate self-control…something previously attributed only to humans and other primates…" — Discovery Magazine
- "Chickens are . . . complex behaviorally, do quite well in learning, show a rich social organization, and have a diverse repertoire of calls. Anyone who has kept barnyard chickens also recognizes their significant differences in personality." – Dr. Bernard Rollin, Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University
When people tour Farm Sanctuary, they are often most intrigued by the chickens and turkeys. Most are not surprised to look into the eyes of a cow or pig and bond with the animal, but many are surprised to learn that chickens and turkeys possess strong personalities, form friendships, and have a range of interests — which includes a deep fascination with many of the human visitors to our farm. Scientists who study chickens and turkeys are not surprised because, as ethologist Dr. Lesley Rogers explains, they know that "it is now clear that birds have cognitive capacities equivalent to those of mammals, even primates…"¹
Indeed, chickens are intelligent animals, outperforming dogs and cats on many tests of advanced cognition. As just one example, in a study by the Silsoe Research Institute in England, researchers showed that chickens have the ability to make a conscious choice to delay gratification. In this study, the chickens figured out that if they refuse some food now, they will get more food later. Discovery Magazine explained the importance of the study this way: "Chickens do not just live in the present but can anticipate the future…something previously attributed only to humans and other primates…"²
Like humans and other primates, chickens are also socially complex, forming well-ordered communities and learning from one another in sophisticated ways. Scientists from Macquarie University in Australia won the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for research in which they showed that chickens are "social, intelligent creatures complete with Machiavellian tendencies to adjust what they say according to who is listening…chickens can share remarkably precise information about the presence of predators and the discovery of food."³ As Macquarie scientist Chris Evans explains, "As a trick at conferences, I sometimes list these attributes, without mentioning chickens, and people think I'm talking about monkeys."4
And, as The New York Times reports, "Perhaps most persuasive is the chicken's intriguing ability to understand that an object, when taken away and hidden, nevertheless continues to exist." Explains Amy Hatkoff in The Inner World of Farm Animals, discussing research by Dr. Giorgio Vallortigara and Dr. Lucia Regolin: "[C]hickens have complex cognition and can grasp abstract concepts," including an ability to recognize "a whole object even when it is partly hidden…a capacity it was thought only humans possessed."5
Two chickens who would convince anyone who met them of the many and varied capacities of chickens, even without the scientific support, are Symphony and June.
Symphony is very old for a chicken — especially for a hen raised in a factory farm. She has lived a life of contentment at Farm Sanctuary since fall 2000 when she was pulled out of a cramped and mangled battery cage at Buckeye Egg Farm in Central Ohio when tornadoes shredded the warehouses.
Symphony is a quiet girl and a little bit shy. But she's no longer afraid. She has found a best friend in Amy, a red laying hen, who also found new life outside the horrors of the factory farm system. Symphony moves a little slowly these days. Like your aging aunt with her cane, she needs just a little extra time in the morning to get down from her perch. She makes her way to the yard to find Amy, and then the two of them can be found scratching in the dirt, picking their way through the blackberries, and resting catlike on a summer afternoon. Life is good for this old gal!
June and her brood came from New York City after a cockfighting bust. Hens are notoriously protective of their chicks, but, for June, she was also protective of chicks who were not related to her — an indication of her "fundamental capacity to empathise."6 When June came to us, she had known only cruelty, and she had been accustomed to the fruitless task of attempting to save her babies and the babies of other hens from the cockfighting ring.
For months after coming to Farm Sanctuary, whenever a caregiver entered the barn where she spent her nights, her chicks were not in sight. But when their heads would pop out from under her wings or tail, she would scurry and tuck them beneath her — even when they were too big to hide — and then puff up her neck feathers and peck at anyone who tried to pick them up. She never forgot the abuse of human beings and the pain of separation. Until she died, after years at Farm Sanctuary, she continued to keep her children close.
¹Rogers, L. The Development of Brain and Behaviour in the Chicken, Oxfordshire, UK: CABI Publishing, 1995.
²Lorenzi, R. (July 14, 2005). Study: Chickens think about future. Animal Planet News.
³For farmyard smarts, chickens move up the pecking order. Australian Museum, accessed January 31, 2012. .
4Grimes, W. (Jan. 12, 2003). If chickens are so smart, why aren't they eating us? The New York Times.
5Hatkoff, A. The Inner World of Farm Animals, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2009, p. 33. Research discussed in depth by Dr. Rogers on "A Question of Balance," an environmental radio program from Sydney, Australia.
6Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe. (March 9, 2011). The Telegraph.


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I don't know how many times I've said I don't care about the players in any other way than their performance. Over the years I have stressed this so many times I've lost count. One of the reasons why I wrote each year about how good Carlos Zambrano has been in his career was to point out that all that matters to me is their performance. I don't care about the sideshow.
That he alienated every teammate he had didn't bother me. It didn't affect my opinion of him because my opinion was always about what he could do on the field. The routine blow ups by Zambrano didn't bother me either. He's an emotional player, I said. I believed it and I still do. Even if he wasn't, I still wouldn't care. He threw teammates under the bus all the time. Didn't bother me. He fought with teammates. Didn't care. He quit on the Cubs. I'd have quit too if I played for the Cubs.
The performance of the player is the reason why we spent an entire day on Another Cubs Blog celebrating Sammy Sosa following the announcement of his retirement in 2009. It is at least why I thought it a good idea that perhaps the only Cubs blog still supporting Sosa do something anyway. I guess I can't speak for everyone else who helped out on what is probably my favorite day on that blog.
Sosa cheated in at least two different ways that we know of. He corked a bat and was caught. Who knows how many times he used it. He used steroids. He lied to people about the corked bat, steroids and lied through an interpreter to the US Congress. Like Zambrano, he pissed off every teammate he had, he quit on the team. I remember when Don Baylor was hired and Baylor was talking about how Sosa was going to be working harder than he had the last couple years. Clearly this was a problem, but one that didn't bother me.
I wanted the Cubs to sign Milton Bradley because he was a damn good ballplayer prior to joining the Cubs. I didn't care about the theatrics for him just as I didn't for Zambrano.
Let's say that Ryan Dempster flat out lied to Theo. He told them straight up he'd accept a trade to the Braves and then when it was completed called them up laughing his ass off because he was lying. I wouldn't care because it doesn't affect his ability to play.
I also wouldn't care because I've already decided it's OK to cheat in multiple ways, lie to the fans over and over, lie to the government, treat players like shit, quit on your team and be an inssuferable asshole that nobody in baseball wanted to be around.
Dempster? He was known as a great teammate. Nobody ever questioned his work ethic and nobody has ever suggested he consistently lied about anything, cheated or quit on the team. I haven't heard anything about him being an asshole either. So even if he had plotted all along to lie to Theo in a way that would fuck them he's a fucking saint compared Sosa, Zambrano and Bradley.
I can't defend the despicable Milton Bradley and the likes of Sosa and Zambrano and then pretend to give two shits about what happened with Dempster and the front office. Here's my only question and it is the only one that matters to me: did it affect Dempster's performance?
These players owe the Cubs nothing beyond what they're being paid for. No employee owes his employer anything beyond what they're being paid for. No employer owes any employee anything they aren't paying for.
I'm not saying this is for everyone. I'm just saying that I don't have the time, energy or patience to sift through the mountains of shit the sportswriters publish to figure out what's true and what isn't. I have no interest in this shit. I want the Cubs to be good. I don't want them to be the most honest, hard working, pleasant, team in baseball. If they are, great. It's just not the least bit important to me. I couldn't care less what any of these guys do off the field.


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1/160 King William Road, Hyde Park
Telephone 08 8272 8186
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Serving European, Pizza, Spanish, Italian, Tapas.
i have been coming to melt for a few years now and just adore the place, recently had a dinner there with a few people, there ended up being 2 extras, but i was told during the day that they could squeeze a couple more in than i had booked for if it happened. However the staff were really unimpressed at this, which i apologised for. when i made the booking i had specifically requested a couple of menu items due to my fussy partner (we were having the shared table option) they told me this was not a problem, however when i asked on the night it was just ignored. Of our very large booking, 2 people were vegetarian, however 80% of our food was meat free, which doesn't bother me but did disappoint a few others. There was always 2 or 3 people that missed out on a piece of the tapas, giving me the impression that we were only given food for the original number of people, but charged for the extra two. Wait staff were pretty surly and snapped at a friend for lifting up her glass in an attempt to make it easier for them. I still love this place, and will be back, but probably only with a maximum of 6 people, it just didn't seem to work well that night.
I stumbled across this restaurant on the Web Menu site by accident and dined there last night. It was THE most amazing experience - from the food, to the service, to the wine to the atmosphere. EVERYTHING was spot on. I highly recommend the White Anchovy and Egg Gribiche Tapas. I cannot see how you could go wrong dining there. Loved it, loved it, loved it!
Thought it was fantastic, had been wanting to go for a while. Booked in to take a friend from interstate & then had been reading some of the reviews on here. I felt a little worried to be taking someone there as i had read some bad things. Just goes to show you need to go check out for yourself & that sometimes people expect too much all for $37. Was amazing so no complaints whatsoever we were so full. Great job guys
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Melt... Love the staff.. Love the food.. Love the setting... simply amazing! Melt mondays we call them now as we go almost every monday! The best Pizza by far in SA. Never disappointed.. good wines too! If you get a chance taste some of the tapas avaliable and the bubbaganosh dip... THE BEST! Well done Melt...
A bustling yet laid back atmosphere is what to expect. It's popular, so if you don't like a crowded house maybe it's not for you, but it it is worth it for the best pizza in SA. The Albondigas (Spanish meatball) is superb and the Pizzini Brachetto 2008, if you like your sweets goes nicely with. Remember to book.
Recently celebrated a friends birthday with a casual Saturday lunch. Our whole experience was nothing short of fabulous! All four in the party agree the pizzas are now the best in Adelaide. Have replaced GoodLife at the No. 1 spot. Great wine list and quick attentive service. Always busy, would not go without a reservation. Well done to the Melt team.
We had a great meal at melt. The service was good and the pizzas were fabulous!the duck calzone and a spanish meatball pizza were to die for. Will definitely be going back.
I really enjoyed the atmosphere at this restaurant and the staff were friendly, the food was really wonderful.
Absolutely divine!!!! Delicious tapas and pizzas. Great value for money too
We had the 'shared table' option with a selection of tapas, pizza and dessert for a per person charge. Great value for money, every dish was great. Service was excellent even though it was busy. Quite loud for a Sunday night dinner. Will definitely be back!
What a great place!!! Went there for my son's 15th birthday and we wer all blown away by the quality of the food and the friendly (anf helpful) service. The restaurant always appears to be busy so booking is essential. Great atmosphere. My son is a plain eater yet he tried different Tapas items and had a ball. Will be back again soon to celebrate my wife's birthday!
Having always wanted to go to Melt I finally did on the weekend. Absolutely sensational. The Duck Calzone is superb, the service was fantastic and the decor great. The only, minor, thing a tad annoying was being wedged between a table of 4, looking out at the footpath and a table of 6 along the wall. Cannot wait to go back
simply the best pizza in adelaide.
Not really much more to add than what others have already said! This is always my first choice for eating out. As a vegetarian it is one of the few places in Adelaide that has genuinely original and delicious vegetarian options! The potato pizza is absolutely amazing and the tapas are always delicious , fresh and unforgettable. The only issue I have with this place is I wish they would get a larger premises so it's not so squashy and loud - but really - when the food is this good you live with it happily.
I had a fantastic experience at Melt last night. The staff were friendly and welcoming and made room for us even though we didn't book. The tapas we tried were flavoursome, and the meatball pizza was delicious! Can't wait to go back
The pizzas from Melt are to die for. I have eaten pizza from all over Adelaide and have found Melt to be in the top handful of places I would confidently recommend to friends. Also, don't be afraid to try the Chocolate and Pistachio Pizza with Frangelico Cream - it's awesome. To anyone who's looking to dine at Melt you can expect a relaxed yet funky atmosphere and pizzas that are superior to most pizza restaurants in Adelaide.
Great vibe for a small venue. A huge selection of food to choose from so we had some tapas and pizza. Some quirky wines on the list and new beer I havn't had before either. Friendly staff and all open kitchen so you can se what's happing!! Definitely be back!
This is the perfect place to meet with friends for a lovely lunch or over dinner before heading out to a night in the City as EVERYONE likes pizza and the range of cocktails and drinks available at the bar will also suit everyone. There is a wide range of unusual pizza toppings and you just cannot leave before trying the dessert pizzas with hazelnut and chocolate toppings!!!!!
Great spot - it's crowded because its popular and its popular because the food is great. Definitely need to book. Even though it was packed to capacity the service was speedy. The tapas is fresh and the pizzas are tasty. Reasonable wine list too.
I stumbled across Melt one Sunday afternoon. Having recently been bitten by the Spanish food bug, I chose the albondigas tapas as well as the 160 pizza, both were fresh and delicious. The staff were friendly and provided great service, however perhaps a cocktail list could be introduced? I did enjoy my late afternoon Negroni, though. I'd definitely return to sample more of the pizza menu.
The food is very good here and it is matched by friendly service. It is not a cheap way to enjoy pizza (probably best to leave kids at home) but the tapas are very tasty and it is a fun place to eat out.
Everything is so fresh and beautiful-literally melts in your mouth! Great atmosphere and if you can't get a seat the take away is great too!
A great place to meet with friends... pretty good risotto balls too! Can get a little too warm inside.
Second visit to Melt and the food is amazing. Has replaced Good Life for pizzas and the tapas dishes are delicious. Service is friendly and speedy.
The pizza & tapas are delicious - I recommend The Turk. Friendly staff. Great place to share food with friends.
This is a favourite of mine. Whilst the pizzas are great we are always drawn back for the everchanging tapas menu. Very good wine list which wont cost a fortune. We were in a group this time so opted for the "shared table" which was a good choice in that a good range of dishes appeared although the dessert pizza was a let down after the rest of the meal. There are two sittings 6.30pm and 8.30pm. Be warned that if you attend the 6.30pm table you will be moved on at 8.30pm on the dot.
Love love love!
swanky with a silent s and maybe a tad over priced but the staff were pleasant enough and the pizzas were yummy, I would go back again simply for the meat ball pizza
We were taken to Melt by family and friends and thoroughly enjoyed our meals from an exellent pizza & tapas menu and small but definately good selection of accompanying wines. The perfect place for a group to enjoy.
Melt on Saturday night. Food was absolutely supurb as always. Friendly waiting staff who provided good advice about food and wine selection, however, were a little hard to get the attention of at times. The ambiance is fantastic especially if you are perched at the bar with a friend. My only criticism is that patrons who indulge in the wine list are being absolutely ripped off. Take the bottle of Eliza sparkling we started with, $44 when it is only $32 down the road at Mantra! We were quite shocked with the dramatic difference especially when Melt offers less in terms of a setting than it's mate down the road. If you don't mind the price hike, get in on it. Well done.
Food fantastic,service great. But busy thursday night and only fault I can complain about was noisy +++. Not recommended for an intimate quiet evening but will go back
I dig the tapas, I love that you can get a cocktail on a Saturday afternoon and I wish there were more places like it. Keep up the good work. Cheers!
Yum, yum, yum.. tastiest pizza I have ever eaten! A bit noisy but worth it for the food.
great pizza. good service. better than organic pizza house, but still not as good as amalfis. recommended nonetheless
My dining experience at this restaurant six months ago was actually fantastic. The food was great and the service was fantastic; the barman was chatting to us making sure we were always satisfied, as were the polite and equally interested barwomen. However I went there last night with my partner and we sat at the same spot at the bar as we did last time, to which we had a different experience than anticipated. The tapas of pan fried haloumi cheese and some chicken wings were good. We had an El Diablo pizza to share as a main, this was good too however I discovered half-way through that it was missing something the mozzarella. I felt silly for not realising this earlier and given that nearly half was gone, I didnt feel the need to say anything at this point. Our night was not affected too much by this incident, but the poor inattentive and disinterested service is what did it. I think the only words offered to us all night by one of the three (somewhat depressed) people in front of us was what would you like? when it came time to take our order. I had to ask to order the cocktails and wine, and my water glass was only filled once all night despite being empty for some time. The sad looking girl behind the bar gave my partner an overtly disappointed/pretentious look when she declined more wine, I actually found this distasteful. I didnt feel we had been reserved at all at this point, especially since I spent $200 the night before at XO Super Club (where I highly recommend you go if you havent!) and I had planned to still order a chocolate pizza for dessert plus coffees and a cognac for myself; but it was here that I decided to finish and end our meal elsewhere, in an attempt to redeem some satisfaction from our evening. Also, there was lots of noise which I hadnt experienced last time. For example cutlery being thrown by staff into the tubs, glasses breaking behind the bar and just general clanging (not sure what from though). This didnt happen at all last time, despite the modest floor space and continuous conversations by many guests. Im not too happy Melt and I wont be coming back unfortunately, nor recommending you like I had previously; I can only hope those who went under my advice did not encounter an experience like mine last night. I will opt for pizzas at Farina Kitchen & Bar or Sparrow in the future. I was actually happier prior to entering Melt than when I left lol! I would spend your money elsewhere guys, there are plenty more restaurants to attend throughout Adelaide where I know you will go home happy and also frequently return.
The pizza description on the menu sounded amazing, however the pizza's that were served where nothing special at all. All reasonably priced. It was an awkward dinning experience with tables so close to one another it was hard not to overhear other peoples conversations. It felt as though you needed to watch what you were saying due to the company sitting right next to you. Due to this it was also loud, creating an unsatisfying ambiance. Do not understand what the fuss was. Will not return. If you want a good pizza place try Goodlife Pizza's where there ingredients are organic and found within S.A.
Fantastic Pizza, severely overpriced wine and staff that are annoying and unprofessional.
melt was recommended to me by a friend so I was quite disappointed with my experience there. Too much noise from the kitchen, too congested and too many flies. Couldn't see what all the fuss was about, the waitress while attentive with drinks mucked up my order and then tried to tell me it was my fault. Maybe I picked the wrong night to go but I won't be going back to find out if that is the case. A definite pass for me.
I had heard good things about this resturant however I was disappointed by the service. The tables & chairs are quite short & as a result the waitress was literally putting her arm in my face several times in the night to pour our wine. We were asked to vacate the table despite my prepaying for the tapas, pizza & desert pizza, at that stage we still had not received our desert pizza. I paid for all on the table & was disappointed that the number of food items was not equitable. Three people were paid for, I would have expected three pieces of each tapas not two. When I complained to the manager at the end of the dinner there were no concessions given to us..... later we were outside the restuarant waiting on one of our guests to join us & the manager & the staff were laughing. Poor effort from whoa to go & I will be making sure that any who mention dining down King William Road best avoid Melt.
RECYCLED COKE! i have been a chef for ten years and think i have a pretty good idea of restaurants so far, went there the other night with my girlfriend for pizza and coffee, pizzas were nice bit to much rocket on the jamon and no actual jamon on the pizza but prociutto instead which if fine, but the thing that got me was when we ordered a simple glass of coke and received it, it was flat so i asked for another one politely knowing how much workers can hate complaining customers didnt think it was a big deal and got the fresh glass with a bit of a grunt then witnessed the girl pour the flat coke into the new bottle opened up! now i know cutting costs is needed sometimes but that is taking it a bit to far in my view a bottle of coke costs $2.30 for a 2lt and they sell a glass of 150 ml for $3.50 now its pretty easy to see you make your money on one glass and to see that just made it cheap and nasty in my eyes that was the put off other wise i would of happily dined there again and again but knowing how bad you need to recycle coke come on pull your finger out
Although food was nice....it wasn't worth the 1hr wait. It was a saturday night when we visited Melt so it was packed which was to be expected however, we also came in hungry so the hunger had gone and passed by the time our meals arrived. Plus it was a little squishy and loud so not ideal if you want to have a conversation with friends etc. Although nothing wrong with food, nOt in a hurry to visit again.
I was disappointed with Melt. The food was OK but not fantastic. We ordered the three course package, assorted tapas, pizza for the main & a desert pizza. For three people the tapas was short on equal portions, we paid for three but in reality would get only 2 pieces. I complained, more food came. We sat on little stools with low tables, nothing wrong with that. However the waitress insisted on pouring our wine which resulted in her arm one inch from our faces a number of times. Insult to injury.... we were asked to vacate our table as other patrons needed it, rude as we still hadn't received our desert pizza already paid for! I complained to the manager quietly at the end of the evening, he made all the right noises of commiseration. Shortly after we were made aware of the "team" laughing about our expectations of a good restaurant. Disappointing, I work on KWR & will let all & sundry know of the disappointment "waiting" for them at Melt.
my experience at melts on waymouth st was terrible the food was awful there was no room to move i ordered a scotch n coke and when i got it my drink was warm asked for another and that was warm and flat so i had to drink water most the nite we deffinately wont be going back there and i wont reccomend it
I went to this place because of the recommnedations of this website and was very disappointed. Who are writing these reviews. Judging by the disagreements it must be the owners. Slow service, bad attitude, small serves, over priced, and very loud. I felt I was in a disco. Do your self a favour and gie ita miss.
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#1 President Obama's Tax On Soup Kitchens09-15-2011, 04:55 AM
With poverty on the rise let's tax donations to non-profits so more will have to look at the gov't for help...a great way to buy votes!
Yesterday, it was announced that an astounding 1 in 6 Americans are living in poverty. President Obama's response? To demand a tax on donations to soup kitchens and other charities that help people desperately in need. The President's proposal will impact approximately 40% of all the tax deductible contributions, and essentially penalize soup kitchens, hospitals, and churches that provide essential services to those who need them most. Its no wonder this tax hike has been rejected on both sides of the aisle.
How about we tax the non-profit UAW???
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Donald Trump was on Greta last night and he said this was a stupid idea because donations by large donors would dry up. Removing the tax exemption would hurt the poor. What we have is a bunch of Democratic left wing lunatics making policy decisions. These Manhattan elitist don't have enough common sense God gave a jackass. This is just another money grubbing attempt to steal from the haves to fund the government. Plus, liberals are likely to make smaller donations to charities than conservatives based on a percentage of their income. There are many tax exempt organization like Unions, AARP, political and environmental,etc that should have their tax exempt status removed.
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Stupid is the word for it. It won't generate any additional tax revenue for the Government, it will just dry up donations...while at the same time driving up demand for Government social services.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri's chief elections official said Monday she was asked for photo identification at the voting booth despite a court ruling striking down the requirement.
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House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
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"I'm guessing this may be happening in other parts of the state," warned Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, a Democrat who had opposed Republican efforts to mandate a photo ID in Missouri.
She said that a worker at the St. Louis Election Board asked her three times to show photo ID when she went to cast an absentee ballot Friday.
Carnahan said that she tried to explain a photo ID was not necessary, but that the election worker replied that she was instructed to ask for one anyway. Carnahan said she eventually was allowed to vote without displaying a photo identification.
"To have that experience personally was very troubling," she said.
The Missouri Supreme Court last month upheld a lower court's ruling overturning a law that would have required voters to show a photo ID issued by the state or federal government.
Scott Leiendecker, the Republican director of the St. Louis Election Board, did not immediately return a call Monday.
Carnahan said she spoke with Leiendecker, who assured her that the identification requirements would be clarified and that voters on Election Day would not be pressed to present a photo ID.
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These were some of my neighbourhood chickens when I was living in Jogja. Yes, they have been painted. Yes, it was done on purpose...
Chicken is by far the most common meat to be eaten in town. No farmed birds here, only free ranging, garbage eating, florescent poultry.
But such changes weren't just for the sake of aviary fashion, it was also a way of distinguishing your future dinner from the neighbours.
This pic has been sharpened, colours saturated, and blur has been added to the background to reduce distraction.
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flip89 (3418) 2003-11-18 17:44
Funny and sexy ... and disturbing. But at least there's a utility to the colors. The photo is well composed ... the balance of the two elements is pleasing.
chartwigp (152) 2003-12-20 15:41
This pic didn't receive the critiques it deserves ! I really like it, much more since I read your note.
I took pics of chickens in Marseille today (1M inhabitants !)...
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I love fashion chicks, especially as they strut there stuff on the catwalk. Their poise, elegance- and those legs!
Nice shot Alex, crisp, clear and with vibrant colors. I've been to Indonesia numerous times, but never seen this practise. Very intersting!
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I gotta admit, the environmental optics for car racing aren't great. Burning all that fossil fuel, just to go round and round?
But how much fuel is burned flying the National Hockey League across the continent?
The fact is, entertainment - and recreation - costs.
And how many NHL teams fly in Diesel airplanes?
Because this weekend, I'm going to run a Diesel race car at Mosport.
No, not the multi-Le Mans-winning Audi (they have my number - make me an offer).
But a Volkswagen Jetta TDI, as part of a race series run by the Sports Car Clubs of America.
(I run a TDI Wagon as my normal car - think that will help?)
The race (Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m.) is a supporting race for the Grand Prix of Mosport weekend, which features the American Le Mans series.
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It's the second year of the so-called Jetta TDI Cup series - www.volkswagenjettacup.com
Ten races on some of the great road racing tracks of North America (Mosport is the only Canadian stop) pit 25 young drivers against each other in identical, nearly-stock Jetta sedans, equipped with a 2.0 litre turbo-Diesel engine running on SynDiesel B5 biodiesel fuel, and six-speed Dual-Shift gearbox.
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To keep it real, drivers may show up at the track and find their car has been swapped out for another, this to prevent anyone from gaining any sort of technical advantage.
(Cheating? In a car race? Hard to imagine…).
The drivers who have to be between 16 and 26 years old, are selected following a series of audition tests.
The cost is $45,000 (US) for the season, dead-cheap if you know anything about racing. It gives these kids a chance to see how a truly professional series operates.
The Travelling Road Show includes huge tents and garages, technical assistance, and driving coaching, before and after each practice session and race. By the time these kids finish the season, they should know if they've got the Villeneuve gene or not.
The series champion gets a cool $100,000. Other purse money totals $50,000.
There are three Canadians in the series this year.
Andrew Cordeiro (I'm sure you can tell which one he is in the above photo) is the only Toronto-area entrant. Andrew comes from a Solo background, and is currently sitting tenth overall in his second year in the series, with two top-five finishes as of late.
Jake Thompson of Calgary was the Canadian National Karting champion in 2004. He won the second race of this year's TDI Cup season, in just the second car race he had ever competed in. He currently sits fourth overall.
David Richert from Winnipeg is, like Cordeiro, in his second season. Currently 18th in the standings, Richert's greatest successes may be off the track - he is raising money for water purifying systems to be installed in impoverished regions of the world.
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This weekend's race also will see myself and my Montreal auto journalist colleague Marc Lachapelle join the field as guest drivers, which means there will be one journo up front battling for the lead (him) and one trying to stay ahead of the course-closing car (me).
Marc and I figure we raise the average age of the field by about nine years all by ourselves.
Performance testing has proven that Diesel-powered vehicles offer 20 percent more torque than traditional gasoline engines, providing quicker off-the-line acceleration that's well suited for the race track, although it feels weird to upshift a race car at 4200 r.p.m.
During the season, the Jetta TDI Cup cars will consume approximately two tanks of B5 biodiesel during the ten races.
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text: Show Hide image Culture 15 November 2012 Paul Goodman: America's classic bad teacher Growing Up Absurd - review. Sign-up Growing Up Absurd Paul GoodmanNew York Review Books Classics, 312pp, £9.99 In an essay about Paul Goodman written after his death in 1972, Susan Sontag referred to him as "our Sartre, our Cocteau". This was then – and remains today – an eccentric opinion. Far from enjoying the centrality of a mandarin, Goodman remained on the fringes of American public life for most of his career. A prolific writer in many genres, he received little critical attention and is today remembered mainly by those with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the milieu of the New York intellectuals. The one time when Goodman's obsessions intersected perfectly with those of the age came in 1960, when he published Growing Up Absurd. This long essay or tract, just reissued by New York Review Books Classics, was one of the early tremors of what would become the 1960s earthquake. Like Herbert Marcuse and Norman O Brown, Goodman was taken up by the counterculture and the new left, who found in him a rare member of the older generation who really got it. Goodman's ghost would be appeased to see all the tributes to Growing Up Absurd that proliferate on the internet, more than 50 years later. Young readers still find it relevant, inspiring, intimate, true; they write of copying out long passages by hand and giving copies to everyone they know. The personal power they feel is registered in the title of a recent documentary about him, Paul Goodman Changed My Life. For, like The Catcher in the Rye, a book with which it bears a spiritual affinity, Growing Up Absurd brilliantly evokes the adolescent's private sense of being misunderstood by a heartless and empty world. It is, as Holden Caulfield would say, the kind of book that makes you want to call up the author on the phone. The persistent power of Growing Up Absurd is also, however, a kind of paradox, since Goodman was writing so specifically about the social conditions of mid-century America. The book takes the form of a report on a "modern" social problem then much in the news: juvenile delinquency. "Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents," Goodman writes in his preface. "The school system has been subjected to criticism. And there is a lot of official talk about the need to conserve our human resources lest Russia get ahead of us." In addition to delinquents and sputnik, Goodman invokes the beats in America and the angry young men in Britain, those quintessentially 1950s literary phenomena. What, he asks, is making so many boys – and his concern is explicitly with boys and men – unwilling or unable to "grow up" properly? The answer, reiterated at length throughout the book, is a simple but radical one. The world of 1950s America, Goodman finds, is just not worth growing up into. "Pretty soon it becomes clear," he writes, "that people are uneasy about, ashamed of, the world that they have given the children to grow up in. That world is not manly enough, it is not earnest enough . . . I assume that the young really need a more worthwhile world in order to grow up at all." Each chapter of the book shows how this failure manifests itself in various areas of life: "Jobs", "Patriotism", "Faith" and, crucially, under the rubric "Social Animal", sexuality. The problems that Goodman identifies are all problems of affluence, of a society that for the first time in history has more than it needs to satisfy its members' animal wants. It is no longer difficult to get a job, Goodman assumes; the middle class is taken care of by large corporations and the working class by large unions. The problem is that, material needs assuaged, spiritual needs can come to the fore and the system of interlocking bureaucracies that makes the economy run so smoothly leaves no room for individual initiative or manly spiritedness. "It's hard to grow up when there isn't enough man's work. There is 'nearly full employment' . . . but there get to be fewer jobs that are necessary or unquestionably useful." There is a great irony in reading these words today, in a recession-racked economy that looks back to precisely Goodman's moment as a lost paradise. In a golden age, the poet Randall Jarrell once wrote, everyone goes around complaining about how yellow everything looks. Just so, Goodman does not imagine that the alternative to a middle-class, highly unionised, steadily growing economy might not be an anarchists' paradise of meaningful labour but what we have today: a world in which unions are emasculated, the middle class is shrinking and incomes are highly stratified. Indeed, from a certain point of view, the liberalization of the economy in America and Britain in the 1980s solved the problem of the need for "man's work". As Goodman writes: "To produce necessary food and shelter is man's work. During most of economic history most men have done this grudging work, secure that it was justified and worthy of a man to do it." Today, when many men – and many women, too – have to work several jobs just to provide "necessary food and shelter", the luxury of worrying about meaning has been priced out of reach. Why, then, does Growing Up Absurd retain its power, even in a very different economic climate? The reason partly has to do with Goodman's acute, compassionate observations about the effect of modern urban life on childhood. Housing projects destroy neighbourhoods and leave children without a community of adults to monitor them. Children marked early on as delinquents are handed over to a bureaucracy of police and social workers that treats them as problems rather than individuals. Worst of all, there is no room, physical or social, for children to have adventures. Goodman understands much of what is categorized as juvenile delinquency – up to and including vehicle theft – as "animal expression and some spirited enterprise". "Where everything has become property and order, it is quite impossible to be vivacious, aggressive, undeliberate, exploratory and venturesome, without being out of order and sometimes smashing things," he writes. It is easy to hear in this admiration of boyishness the echo of a long American tradition – of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, even of Thoreau in his cabin. It would be a mistake to ignore the nostalgic, conservative strain in Goodman's vision – a vision of childhood as a pastoral paradise lost. One of the virtues unavailable to modern children, he argues, is old-fashioned patriotism: "For the first time in recorded history, the mention of country, community, place has lost its power to animate . . . A man has only one life and if during it he has no great environment, no community, he has been irreparably robbed of a human right." Delinquency and beat-style "dropping out", Goodman concludes, are a rational response to an adult world that no sane and honourable person would want to enter. In this way, criminals and dropouts become not a problem but a symptom and perhaps something more – a heroic counterculture and even the spearhead of revolution. "The fatalistic destruction of the kids struggling for life in an environment not suited to produce great human beings is more interesting than the successful doings of that society," he concludes. That is why Goodman devotes the last two chapters of Growing Up Absurd to a quasi-anthropological study of the mores of the beats – whom he categorises as "the early resigned" – and of delinquents, "the early fatalistic". They are two expressions – one for the middle class, one for the poor – of resistance to a bankrupt order that seemingly cannot be challenged head-on. It is all so humane and sympathetic and plausible that one can easily lose track of the fundamental and dangerous error of Goodman's diagnosis and prescriptions. The problem becomes clear in the last chapter, "The Missing Community", in which he comes closest to offering a programme for solving the problems he has identified. The US has failed, he argues, to carry through to completion a number of the promising revolutions that the modern world began and abandoned – the Enlightenment revolution of reason and science, the democratic revolution of individual participation in government, the sexual revolution of free sexual expression. If we were to successfully finish these revolutions, Goodman writes, the result would be a society where – and he goes on to list its qualities – the community is "planned as a whole, with an organic integration of work, living and play . . . Where production is primarily for use. Where social groups are laboratories for solving their own problems experimentally . . . Where all feel themselves citizens of the universal Republic of Reason . . . Where ordinary experience is habitually scientifically assayed by the average man." "To grow up," he concludes, "the young need . . . society made whole again." Yet it could hardly be clearer that society was never as whole as all that; for what Goodman desires is not a return to any actual past but the new Jerusalem, a realm of perfect plenty, freedom, justice, fraternity, reason and equality. If only such a society can be considered decent, then it stands to reason that any existing society is indecent and therefore worthy of rejection. Those who hold out for perfection and are disappointed become morally superior to those who consent to live imperfectly, mitigating the world's evils as best they can and learning to endure the suffering that cannot be mitigated. In other words, children become superior to adults. It's not hard to see, then, why Growing Up Absurd became so popular among the young. Nor is it hard to see why a left conceived in such terms should have contributed to destroying the liberal consensus that ruled the US during the time Goodman was writing. Today, Goodman looks like a classic bad teacher, the demagogic kind who flatters his students' ignorance and conspires with them against the dull, grown-up world – when he should be teaching them that this world is, as the poet said, where we must find our happiness, or not at all. Adam Kirsch's most recent book is "Why Trilling Matters" (Yale University Press, £20) Subscribe £1 per month This article first appeared in the 19 November 2012 issue of the New Statesman, The plot against the BBC SUBSCRIBE More