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I almost felt bad testing out these bags in San Francisco. Detours bags are made to handle the constant drizzle, mud and muck of a Pacific Northwest commute—which makes sense, since the company hails from delightfully drizzly Seattle, WA—the misty fog of the Bay just doesn't seem like enough of a challenge for the tough, all-weather gear. I said "almost," because the truth is, these bags are awesome regardless of the weather.
Fair warning, there are going to be a lot of photos in this post. The Detours gear is just too stylie to not show off. I had a chance to try a small selection of bags of various styles, sizes and uses. I'll start from smallest bag and work my way up to the magical three-in-one pannier bag.
I have been on the hunt for a contraption to hold my phone so I don't have to dig into my backpack to consult the route before getting hopelessly lost. The Roadie definitely does the trick. A simple ratcheted attachment allows you to securely affix the bag to the stem of your bike (my bike, Stallion, who finally gets to be featured in a post, does not have room for Roadie on the stem, but plenty of other spots work great as well).
The clear, water-repellant phone pocket is touchscreen friendly making it easy to access information or refer to your phone as needed. The phone pocket is really more of a flap with a magnetized closure to the main utility pocket. The zip pocket has plenty of room for minor necessities. I fit my patch kit, allen wrench, levers, keys, and ID in there, no problem. The Roadie also comes in gray with a bright green interior (pictured here) and in red with a grey interior. The Roadie retails for $32.
Yes, you can definitely put your coffee grounds in here and keep them safe and dry. But that's not the only use for the super versatile Coffee dry bag. Throw in your mid-ride snacks, any electronics you want to keep safe (besides your phone since it'll be in the Roadie), or maybe protect your other belongings from damp, sweaty bike spandex? The adjustable straps make it easy to secure the Coffee dry bag wherever needed. However, while the top strap is a quick release buckle, the bottom strap must be undone completely, which can be a bit of a hassle.
Detours offers the Coffee dry bag in several different state designs:
• The Evergreen Blend: ride through the forests and around Mount Rainier in our home state of Washington.
• The Mile High Blend: ride through the alpine wonderland of Colorado.
• The Highway 1 Blend: ride down the Pacific Coast Highway in California (pictured here).
• The 10,000 Lakes Blend: ride through the 10,000 lakes and Twin Cities in Minnesota.
• The Lighthouse Blend: ride along the rocky coast in Maine.
The Coffee Bag retails for $20. Or $80 for the set of five.Â
The Rainier Duffel has two adjustable straps to secure the bag to your handlebars and, when you reach your destination, it can transition seamlessly into a cross-body bag thanks to a built in shoulder strap. Plus, the clever folks at Detours designed the duffel with a little side pocket just to hold the shoulder strap so it doesn't flop around when attached to the handlebars. Attention to detail—I love that. Speaking of detail, the flap of the duffel, which like the Roadie has a magnetic closure, features a sparkly banana design (you can see a better photo here). I think this is a great touch. The zipped interior compartment also contains a smaller zip pouch and two slip-in pockets. The Rainier Handlebar Duffel also comes in black and "Golden Gardens," a cheery floral pattern. Retail price is $50.
The Ballard Market Pannier
Ok, I might have saved the best for last. The Ballard Market Pannier is the most versatile bag of the bunch with three different carrying options (Elizabeth reviewed and loved this pannier back in 2012). First and foremost, it is a pannier bag, which attaches with two simple, yet secure rack clips. The bottom is a heavy-duty waterproof material to reduce wear-and-tear and keep belongings safe. The interior space has a small zip pocket, key hook, and a laptop compartment, making it an ideal commuter bag.
As promised, the Ballard Market Pannier is not just a pannier! The bag also has padded straps to carry as a shoulder tote. And the tote straps convert into backpack straps for heavy loads! So clever.
Overall, the Ballard Market Pannier is a large enough (11â€W x 15â€H x 5.5â€D) to easily accommodate commuter gear—for me, that includes my 15″ laptop, running shoes & clothes, notebook, wallet, and a few other essentials. Plus, this nifty 3-in-1 setup comes in black (pictured here) and two colorful patterns. The Ballard Market Pannier retails for $80.
The bags I review here are only a small portion of the overall variety that Detours offers—from ultra-tough touring rack trunks to playful, more petite seat post bags. I'm confident that riders will find a bag to suit his or her need whether for trips to the farmer's market, daily commute or more rigorous rides.
Please click here to read our review disclaimer as required by the Federal Trade Commission.


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I think I'm going to post links less often, maybe only monthly. I feel like once a week was too much as I was not posting that many links in one post. We'll see how it goes just once a month, and I might change it again to twice a month. Feel free to let me know what you like better, too.
Anyway, here are the articles I've read this July:
- Who Wants Prosciutto Ice Cream?
- The Allure of Restaurant Menus
- Truck Farming 2.0 | NYC's Mobile C.S.A.
- 12 Reasons to Look Beyond the Usual Wine Selections
- The Hors d'Oeuvres That the French Call Cake
- For Dessert, Elderflower Pancakes
- How to make the most of summer's rambling raspberries
- Comfort food — trendy or timeless?
- Just Desserts
- Cupcakes get 'butch' with sweets for manly men
- Fruit pies, perfected
- At many restaurants now, you can take your dog to dinner
- America's Unwavering Passion for Ice Cream
- 10 Boozy Ice Creams (and Sorbets) That Make Summer a Whole Lot More Delicious
- Farallon's Whole Wheat Flour Carrot Cake
- Wood-fired baking with a master in Vermont
- More than matzo balls: Kosher cooking revisited

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Words fail me. Here's a video that was just sent to our tips box: a little ditty called "See My Dong" to the tune of Lionel Richie's "All Night Long," which is just pure goddamn genius.
I mean, "Well my friends, the time has come. To don the Crocs and have some fun." Jesus Fappin' Christ. Thanks to the mysterious "BradyFan83" who put this thing together. And just in time for Music Week!
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Late Night Confession Tuesday
It's been a week since my last confession, a week and a crazy weekend I am thankful turned out the way it did. Almost Thanksgiving. Almost. There will be some gratitude journals here this week, I promise. And the drawing for that Norton PC Tuneup Service as well. I'll even throw in a broadside from the Making of Peace series I edited.
But back to confessing...let me begin.
Thank you all who dropped me notes about my the mall shooting and my daughter being at a birthday party there when it happened. I appreciated each of them very much. I confess my little blog post was a little reserved, a little reflective, but honestly, I was scared in ways I have never been scared before, as a parent, I had never seen danger close to my daughter. Never seen danger in the same room and not have been there.
Know when it was happening, I could have very easy fallen apart. But I didn't. Fall. Apart. And for me, someone who keeps anxiety near her nightstand, that was a big. I don't want you to believe I have it all together. I don't. I'm not even close to having it all together, but for that moment when I needed to, I did. I had it together enough.
I am someone who can create docu-dramas in my mind of things that never happen, things that would be horrific if they happened, that part of me that wakes me up when I'm sleeping, asks, "What have you forgotten?" But I guess, this real moment where I had to wait, where something terrible could have happened, has slapped my free-floating anxiety around. In fact, I've watched a lot of normal anxiety evaporate, all those imagined seas I swam have dried up a little, and I don't know how long this will last, if it will last, but is a reminder to me that we are all stronger than we think we are.
I'm beginning to believe the demons we can create in our minds are a thousand times scarier than real life, even in the worst of times, I think creative imaginations can be harmful when they make us live in worlds that don't exist, and we live like they exist.
So thank you for your notes. For asking, "Where you terrified?" Yes. For saying how worried you would be. For knowing how worried I was.
Here Let Me Show You My Hand Before I Give You My Heart--
Jeannine looked at my second manuscript and said I had ordered the poems in a sort of self-protection fashion, I thought that was probably the most insightful thing anyone has ever said about my manuscript.
And I'm going to try to reorder them and not protect myself as much.
Alternative to the Material Girls Club--
We're not buying Christmas gifts this year for the adults in our family, only the kids. Our gift to each other is to do 3 acts of kindness from now until Dec. 25, each act to be determined by each of us alone.
On Christmas day we will share the 3 things we did. I'm going to try to do something for a stranger, something for someone I know, and something for a group. We'll see how it all works out. We're discussing the details of this "exchange" on Thanksgiving.
What's my blog personality? Oprah's Favorite Things Meets June Cleaver
I got this blog personality type via PoetMom via Avoiding the Muse: C. Dale Young.
Here's the personality they give my blog:
The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves.
The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.
My blog is never planning ahead. I knew that's my Capricorn self gets annoyed with it.
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It's always exciting to come across the project of a guildie being advertised on WoW.com. I say "always" as if it happens all the time…It doesn't. In fact, just having something come out of Moonrunner is a cause for celebration.
But yes,
I remember when Puggable was an idea posted by an innovative warrior on our guild forums… I had pretty much forgotten about it until seeing the article at wow.com.
Basically, Puggable is a site with information on the characters you PUG with and, more excitedly, voice chat service. The advantages Puggable has over Ventrilo and other voice chat services is that its free and you don't have to share your private server information.
I haven't participated in the beta yet so I can't speak from experience, but Vivox, the company behind Puggable, has an excellent track record for providing voice chat in MMOs. If any of you random passerbys reading this blog would like to know more, signups for the beta are still open on the Puggable site. I strongly encourage you to check it out.
Grats Vetali! And I hope your experience of 3-manning an HoL PuG with a level 70 rogue, a healing warrior and a tanking priest was exceptional. ;DExplore posts in the same categories: Guild actions
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Blaine County Cooperative Extension Service
Welcome to Blaine County Cooperative Extension
Under the general management of the county extension director, farmers, community leaders, homemakers, and youth are provided access to educational resources in the following area:
Agriculture - Crop and livestock production and management; pest management, marketing systems, natural resource management, and farm safety.
Rural Development - Community and economic development, business development, management and leadership programs, community infrastructure and services such as fire protection, solid waste management, transportation, etc., and public official education and assistance programs.
Family and Consumer Sciences - Human nutrition and food safety, health and wellness, parenting education, individual family financial management, stress and resource management, and family and community leadership programs.
Blaine County 4-H - Leadership and citizenship programs and technical skills development of youth in agriculture, home economics, health, science, and conservation.
The Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service is tied to the United States Department of Agriculture. Federal state laws provide for funding personnel and programs through a cooperative agreement within USDA, Oklahoma State University, state government, and county government. Counties benefit from this partnership. The majority of the cooperative extension professionals and staff are assigned to counties.
Program development starts with local input. Every county has a Program Planning Advisory Council (PPAC) made up of local residents appointed by the county extension director. Representatives from the county council serve on a district Council. Representatives from the district council are appointed to a state council, thereby allowing equal input from every region of the State.
Blaine County OSU Extension Service
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The 30-year-old Danish musician, whose name in real life is Nanna Øland Fabricius, performs electropop that is so cool it makes you want to dance and dream. Her latest album Earth Sick is no exception. Lufthansa Magazin took a quick peek into her carry-on case at Berlin Tegel airport


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Calls for additional school resource officers have surfaced in Carteret County in recent weeks, raising questions of how to pay for them.
Calls for additional school resource officers have surfaced in Carteret County in recent weeks, raising questions of how to pay for them.
Commissioners in the Town of Cape Carteret adopted a resolution at their Jan. 21 meeting that asks that Carteret County put school resource officers in all elementary and primary schools in the county.
Mayor Dave Fowler said the resolution was in response to comments from parents and leaders from White Oak Elementary School at the town board�s workshop the previous week.
�During the work session, we received a letter from the principal, and a contingency from the school�s PTO spoke during the public comment period and asked that the town reinstitute the school resource officer at White Oak Elementary,� he said.
Their request to the board came a month after a mass shooting tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
The Cape Carteret action also followed on the heels of similar concerns raised in Newport, where there have been increased police calls to schools in the town since the loss of a school resource officer due to funding cuts.
While there is support for having school resources on school campuses, the ongoing question is how to pay for them.
Fowler said the town provided the bulk of the funding for the Cape Carteret police officer who served as the past school resource officer at White Oak Elementary with the Town of Cedar Point contributing $2,000.
Due to ongoing staffing at the town police department, it hasn�t been able to maintain a resource officer this year.
Fowler said he fully supports having the school resource officers at all the elementary school and believes it can be done through collaboration.
After reviewing enrollment statistics for White Oak Elementary, Fowler said the town sees sharing in the cost with others, including the county.
He said town officials were surprised to find that only 22.5 percent of the school�s nearly 800 students live within the town. And while children from Cape Carteret, Cedar Point and Emerald Isle make up about 60 percent of the student body, the other 40 percent come from outlying locations such as county areas along N.C. 24 and N.C. 58.
�We�re willing to do our share but we expect others to step up to the plate and do their part,� he said.
Commissioners in the Town of Newport haven�t made a formal request for a school resource officer but town officials did meet last week with representatives from the county and the school system to make them aware of their concerns.
Town Manager Dick Casey said that due to funding cuts at the county level there has not been a school resource officer at Newport Middle School for nearly three years.
Since then, the police department has responded to an increased number of calls to the middle school as well as other schools in town.
Casey said that without an SRO, there�s no one on campus to respond to those calls, pulling officers off their patrol. And the SRO presence can help deter incidents on campus.
�We are hoping that once all the entities involved have had a chance to digest the information there will be discussion of how to mitigate the problem, whether it�s with a SRO or some other action,� Casey said.
County Manager Russell Overman said last week�s meeting with Newport representatives was informational only, and the county has just received the resolution from the Town of Cape Carteret.
He said they�ll wait for direction from the county commissioners on how to address the town�s request. He said they could discuss the issue at an upcoming meeting, address funding during budget discussions or possibly send it to the Board of Education for consideration.
The school board contracts with the sheriff�s office and Morehead City Police Department to put SROs at the three high schools using state funds.
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A small state commission sent a big message to its boss late Thursday, voting to oppose the governor's twin tunnels plan even before it has been formally proposed.
A small state commission sent a big message to its boss late Thursday, voting to oppose the governor's twin tunnels plan even before it has been formally proposed.
In front of an unusually large audience of more than 100 people in a Courtland gymnasium, the Delta Protection Commission heard details of several alternative plans to fix the estuary, and then voted decisively to oppose the tunnels.
The commission - made up mostly of local elected officials and farmers - has no real say over whether Gov. Jerry Brown's project moves forward, but the vote shows how the level of concern in the Delta has increased now that specific details about the tunnel plan are emerging.
Larry Ruhstaller, a commissioner and a San Joaquin County supervisor, said it wasn't too early to take a stand.
"It's only in the past several months that the project has come out of the fog, and now you have a shot at it," he said.
Ruhstaller said he expects the tunnel plan as it exists today is what will be formally proposed later this year.
"They're not going to study any of the other alternatives, that's for sure," Ruhstaller said.
He addressed the audience: "You have to hang together. You all basically had better realize that water flows uphill toward votes and money, all of which is in Southern California and along the west side" of the San Joaquin Valley.
A few years ago, such a vote from the Delta commission would have been unlikely. The twin tunnels, after all, is a project proposed by the state of California, and the commission is under the auspices of the state.
But water reform legislation in 2009 reshaped the membership of the commission so that it had fewer state representatives and more locals.
On Thursday, all of the local commissioners voted in favor of opposing the tunnels, including Ruhstaller and Stockton City Councilwoman Kathy Miller.
The two lone "no" votes came from the minority of state employees who serve on the commission.
Commissioner Todd Ferrara, deputy secretary for external affairs with the California Natural Resources Agency, said the vote was premature.
"We're taking a formal position tonight on something that is not available," he said. Drafts of the tunnel plan have been released, but the project has technically not yet been proposed.
Other commissioners weren't buying that argument, including south Delta farmer Bob Ferguson.
"We probably should have done this a lot sooner," he said.
The board did not take a position on any specific alternative to the tunnels but urged the state to study all of the options and argued that Delta voices have been absent from the discussion.
The tunnels would divert water from the Sacramento River near Hood, bypassing the Delta. The state says the project is needed to stabilize a portion of the state's water supply and assist the Delta's ailing environment.
Contact reporter Alex Breitler at (209) 546-8295 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/breitlerblog.


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16-30 April 2011
Table of Contents
Hindutva Terror against Christians (Dominic Emmanuel) 1
Nation stands behind Hazare against Corruption (Sandeep Pandey) 1
Cartoon (MG/Yusuf) 1
Issue / Opinion
Pot calling kettle black (Sumit S. Paul) 2
Anna Hazare moment (Ghulam Muhammed) 2
Was Quaid-e Azam Jinnah the only founder of Pakistan? (S.M.Pasha) 2
Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan (Aiman Siddiqui) 2
BJP deceived Hindus with fake Hindutva (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 3
Attacks on Libya condemned (Ghitreef Shahbaz) 3
Delhi Waqf Board has no lands in Delhi (NA Ansari) 3
"Quote, Unquote" (Akhilesh Mithal, John Pilger) 3
Rape in Malegaon (Mustafa Khan) 4
Atrocities galore against Christians 4
Compensate Muslims wrongly arrested on terror charges (MG News Desk) 4
Ex-gratia in fake encounter case (MG News Desk) 4
Marginal rise in Shakhas: RSS (MG News Desk) 4
Attend RSS shakha: M.P. CM (MG News Desk) 4
UP tops in human rights violations (MG News Desk) 4
Muslim MPs meet Planning panel 5
Prisoner # 100 speaks (Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander) 5
Azam Khan and his "sedition" story (Haider Abbas) 6
Maulana Jalaluddin Umri re-elected chief of JIH (Ghitreef Shahbaz) 6
Bengal Muslims worse than Gujarat (NA Ansari) 7
Muslim reservation movement keeps up momentum (Haider Abbas) 7
Dalits homes burnt after they celebrated Holi (MG News Desk) 7
India fourth most corrupt in the world: survey (MG News Desk) 7
Seventeen murders in five years in Gujarat's temples (MG News Desk) 7
NHRC asks govt to report on 17,305 missing children (MG News Desk) 7
NIA to probe into "Hindu terror" cases from 2003 (indianexpress.com) 8
M.P. govt on land squandering spree (AG Khan) 8
No permission for conversion: SC judge (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 8
Wikileaks opens India's dirty Pandora Box (Badri Raina) 8
No action yet on Liberhan (Haider Abbas) 9
Imam-e Ka'ba in India (Ghitreef Shahbaz) 9
Modi betrays his anti-Muslim bias (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Complaint to PM about Gujarat Muslim's plight (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Darul qaza conference held in Ahmedabad (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
SIT grills Modi loyal in riot case (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Is Gujarat a vibarant state? (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Human Rights / Terrorism
NIA to take all Hindu terror cases to their logical end: Chidambaram (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 11
Purohit was the mastermind behind Orissa and Karnataka violence: Pragya (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 11
SC warns police on torture and custodial deaths (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 11
BJP MP Yogi Adityanath funded terror attacks: Bharat Bhai (MG News Desk) 11
NIA to probe Kanpur blast (MG News Desk) 11
HC grants bail to Ajmer blast accused (MG News Desk) 11
Samjhauta coaches sold as scrap (MG News Desk) 11
Urdu in India: victim of
Hindu nationalism & Muslim separatism - ii (Syed Shahabuddin) 12
Assam alienates its natives (Ram Puniyani) 13
Biased exam paper in Gujarat (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 13
Loopholes in Hazare's Stand (Nilofar Suhrawardy) 14
Many Fukushimas within (Ahmad Javed) 14
Jammu & Kashmir
Dateline Srinagar: Afsana Rashid 15
Govt still in denial regarding the disappeared 15
J&K to impose property tax 15
Consumption of alcohol on the rise in the Valley 15
J&K Sikhs demand minority status 15
No peace sans detente between India-Pak 15
Newsmakers 16
Mohammad Shafi Moonis (1918-2011) (Ghitreef Shahbaz) 16
Special Reports
Solidarity with Arab masses 17
Conference on minority rights 17
Aurangzeb's sword and pen stand re-discovered at AMU 17
Emperor Jahangir's portrait auctioned in London 17
Cartoon (MG/Yusuf) 17
Community News
Assam looks towards Mamata and Ajmal 18
Muslim groups revolt against Congress in Bengal 18
Free education in Iqra Sopken World in Okhla 18
High Court's notices to Centre, JMI on minority status 18
AMU's Maulana Azad Library second biggest in Asia 18
Appointment of Ajmer Dargah administrator stayed by High Court (NA Ansari) 18
Teachers for Urdu and Punjabi in Delhi schools 18
Role of Maulana Mazharul Haq in the rebuilding of Bihar 18
Whole Muslim population of Lakshdweep in the list of ST 18
Scholar School's first Annual Day function 18
Christian political outfit to field candidates in Kerala 18
Community News
Golden Jubilee of UNI news agency 19
JMI hostel for trainees of career building courses 19
PTI, ASI officials and Hindi newspaper fined by High Court 19
Creating educational awareness first preference of DMC 19
Akashwani's Urdu service is "dying" 19
Hindu outfits angry over Arshad Madni's remarks about Patel (NA Ansari) 19
Islamic laws are capable of solving every problem 19
14 arrested by Orissa police for "unlawful conversion" 19
Indo-Iranian relations thousands of years old 19
Advani not apologetic over Gujarat riots 19
Retired men occupy posts meant for J&K youth 19
11 of 16 Rahmani 30 students clear CA entrance 19
Seminar on Nehruvian vision 19
Community News
Godhra case: two months time given (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 20
AMU students organise Khilafah conference (Showkat Nanda) 20
Zero tolerance for wife-beaters: Shia board 20
In Modi's Gujarat, Muslims assume Hindu names 20
American Centre English Training Programme for AMU 20
Former J&K militants are now being hired to commit crime 20
Budget for minorities not spent by Delhi government 20
Amnesty expresses concern over misuse of PSA in Valley 20
Imam Askari Centenary celebrations 20
Community News
Commendable community service 21
JIH leader quits post over support to LDF 21
AMU Sunni Theological Society celeberates Salsabeel 21
I have never seen Sabarmati Express: Godhra 'mastermind' 21
SIT arrests three more in SHO murder case 21
Jamia Islahul Banaat now a minority educational institution 21
A dozen injured in bloody fight over Imam's salary 21
Sciences are helpful in the understanding of Qur'an 21
Community News
Destitute Muslim women commit suicide (Jagran Plus) 22
Jagran Plus (Khalid Khan) 22
Mosque closed in Bihar since Independence rehabilitated 22
Anjuman Falaah-e Adeeb wa Sahafi formed 22
Muslim women activists in Hyderabad discuss history, politics, and society (Nikhat Fatima) 22
Work being done to make Urdu a professional language 22
SC seeks reply from govt on creating SIT on black money 22
Depriving Urdu schools of privileges is regrettable 22
Target Israel, Not Libya (Stephen Lendman) 23
Israeli War on Palestinian Memory (Ramzy Baroud) 23
Jerusalem - Past and Present - ii (Zafarul-Islam Khan) 24
US: another anti-Muslim hearing (Abdus Sattar Ghazali) 25
Qaddafi's Bloodlust is Helping Western Neo-Imperialism (Karamatullah K. Ghori) 26
Gaddafi wealth: billions in 35 nations across four continents 26
Rip Not the Sore: an anthology of poems Book: Rip Not the Sore: an anthology of poems, Author: A. Naseeb Khan, Publisher: Writers Workshop, Kolkata, 2010, Pages: 110, Price: Rs. 200 (Hardbound) (Yoosaph A.K.) 27
Islamic Perspectives
Women's Day and Muslim Women (Asghar Ali Engineer) 28
MG Classifieds 29
Rejoinder / Opinion / Letters
MG (Shoeb Shaik) 30
Indian Muslims: Identity Crisis? (Sharjeel Imam) 30
Living legend Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (G.A.Rahim) 30
Gujarat riots (Farooq Abdul Gaffar Bawani) 30
Road in Delhi named after Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan (S.A. Frank) 30
"The Soul of the Desert" (Kamer Muneer) 30
Be clear on Gaddafi (PA Mohamedameen) 30
"Vishwa Hindu Parishad was paid by US to demolish Babri" (Ghulam Muhammed) 30
Shame on you, Dr. Syedna (Farooq Abdul Gaffar Bawani) 30
AMU can be another Georgetown Uni (Captain Kh Nasirul Haque) 30
Violence in Kashmir (Syed Adfar Rashid Shah) 30
Rejoinder / Opinion / Letters
Anna Hazare's movement against corruption (J.S.Bandukwala, Dr. Abdul Hameed Maqdoomi, Dr Mookhi Amir Ali, Nazneen O. Saherwala) 30
Indian first or Muslim first? (Dr. Mustafa Kamal Sherwani) 30
Budget: trickle for minorities (Ajaz Ahmad) 30
Misuse of wakf land (Aziz A.Mubaraki) 30
Yes, Qur'an has the answers (Farhana Siddiquie) 30
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Storrs - Growing up, Shabazz Napier wanted to be Superman.
"Everyone wants to be a hero," Napier said.
As he's done so many times in recent years, Napier did his best Superman impression on Monday in an intense nonconference battle against No. 15 Florida at Gampel Pavilion.
Napier rescued the 12th-ranked Huskies with a buzzer-beating, game-winning jumper from just inside the foul line, securing a 65-64 victory.
After the buzzer sounded, Napier ran off the court, passing a frenzied Gampel Pavilion student section. His teammates took off after him. Officials checked the monitor and confirmed the basket, setting off another wild celebration when the Huskies returned to the floor.
"As soon as I let it go, I felt like it was going in," Napier said.
Napier scored six of his game-high 26 points in the final 33 seconds to help the Huskies (8-0) overcome a 3-point deficit with 1:12 remaining.
"Shabazz was phenomenal," coach Kevin Ollie said. "Whenever we need a big shot, he makes it. � He's got so much heart. I love the kid to death."
Napier scored his game-winning basket despite being the focus of the Florida defense. After Michael Frazier II scored off a driving layup to hand the Gators (6-2) a 64-63 lead with 17 seconds left, the Huskies came out of a timeout to set up for the final possession.
The Gators trapped Napier, who nearly lost the ball while splitting the defense. Napier's off-balance runner badly missed. But junior DeAndre Daniels tipped the loose ball back into the lane where Napier was waiting.
Napier did the rest.
"I missed it terribly," Napier said of his first attempt, "and I was glad DeAndre ran to the boards. DeAndre put a hand on the ball and it bounced up higher. I was able to be in the right spot at the right time."
While the Huskies were badly outmuscled on the boards, they grabbed several key rebounds, including the biggest one of the game by Daniels (14 points, team-high seven rebounds).
"I was just trying to crash the boards hard and just trying to get a tip just in case he missed," Daniels said. "I guess I glanced it a little bit. But what an amazing shot. Shabazz, he's a great player. He willed his team to win the game. He never gave up. The heart the kid has, everybody on the team follows his lead."
The Huskies won for the fourth time this season in a game that came down to the final possession.
They fought back from a seven-point deficit with about 12 minutes remaining and trailed 62-59 after Florida strongman Patric Young (17 points) converted a three-point play. The Gators played the final three minutes without guard Scottie Wilbekin (15 points), who left with an ankle injury.
UConn kept the ball alive on its next possession with two offensive rebounds. Napier buried a game-tying 3-pointer and got fouled. But he twisted his ankle on the play and stayed down on the floor.
The crowd went wild when Napier got back up. He drained the free throw to finish the four-point play and push UConn in front 63-62 with 33.5 seconds left.
Napier had one more heroic act left to perform to save the Huskies from defeat. Florida coach Billy Donovan called the game-winning shot a fluke play.
"His shot was really luck, the fact the ball was tipped to him." Donovan said.
Ollie pointed to UConn's heart as a major reason for the win.
"I'm happy, but I'm a little exhausted," Ollie said. "Another one-point game but, once again, we showed our resolve. We didn't do a lot of things but, at the end of the day, we got a win, because it's all about our heart."
As long as UConn has its Superman in Napier, the Huskies will be tough to beat.
Napier doesn't think he's Superman.
"Nah, Superman does it on his own," Napier said. "I can't do it without my teammates. They made sure I got the right picks. DeAndre put a hand on the ball in the last second. We found a way to win when we knew we couldn't rebound."
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Tom Kerpert-k9 Shut Eye Dog/Cat Sleeping Place
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Interview with Tom Kerpert : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Tom Kerpert : To provide a save, comfortable sleeping place for dogs and cats .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Tom Kerpert : A comfortable place for the animal to rest combined with easy maintanance and durability for the owner .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Tom Kerpert : Expansion to overseas markets .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Tom Kerpert : The project took about 4 month from concept to final tooling .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Tom Kerpert : The design was comissioned by a client to design a completely new concept for a sleeping place .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Tom Kerpert : The design is currently in production in South Africa, licensing will be available .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Tom Kerpert : The end product had to be acceptable by both clients, dog and owner, easy maintainable, easy produceable and visually pleasing inside a dwelling .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Tom Kerpert : no .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Tom Kerpert : Any dog or cat owner .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Tom Kerpert : Ease of production, ease of maintenance, 100% recyclable, strong visual impact .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Tom Kerpert : K9 Shut Eye was created during a brain stroming session with the client .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Tom Kerpert : CAD solid modelling and Stereolithography for design evaluation .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Tom Kerpert : The ergonomic shape of the design modeled on the animals sleeping position .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Tom Kerpert : The design was completely created in-house right to the final CAD model for tooling .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Tom Kerpert : Rotamoulding provided an economical way to produce this particular design .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Tom Kerpert : The main challange was to ensure that the original concept was easely mouldable with simple tooling .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Tom Kerpert : Having won product of the year by ARMSA I decided to submit my design to an international audience .
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Two weeks in the West
"With no disrespect to the eagle, I've always thought that the horse should be our national emblem."
—Singer Willie Nelson, arguing against the slaughter of horses for human consumption
Interior's fuzzy science. If it were up to many U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists, the Endangered Species Act would now protect the Gunnison's prairie dog, the Gunnison sage grouse, the white-tailed prairie dog and a host of other critters. But none of those species made the list, thanks in part to Department of Interior Deputy Assistant Secretary Julie MacDonald, who tinkered with or ignored agency biologists' findings. Documents obtained in October by conservation groups reveal MacDonald's interference with her own scientific advisers. MacDonald, a Bush appointee whose background is in engineering, not biology, "edited" her scientists' reports, adding or deleting phrases to reverse the meaning of their recommendations. In a document recommending protection of the Gunnison sage grouse, she injected doubt regarding the grouse's designation as a species, despite almost universal agreement in the scientific community that it is a distinct species.
Water scales may finally be in balance. More than a decade in the making, the Platte River Cooperative Agreement is almost ready to come to life. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne signed the three-state agreement divvying up Platte River water in late September. Colorado and Nebraska have also approved it, and Wyoming is expected to sign soon. The river provides drinking water for more than 3 million people, irrigates 2 million acres of farmland, and provides a vital migration stopover for birds in Nebraska. The $317 million agreement tries to balance these needs while restoring habitat for several threatened and endangered species. It calls for the acquisition of 10,000 acres of wildlife habitat in Nebraska and for flows to be increased by 130,000 to 150,000 acre-feet during critical times. Groundwater irrigators along the river will be hardest hit — they can't drill any new wells, and must reduce their groundwater usage to 1997 levels. The Interior Department will pay $157 million of the total and the states will pony up the rest.
Going great guns in
Glacier? In 2004, an avalanche blocked a section of
railroad tracks running through the southern edge of
Montana's Glacier National Park for 29 hours. That prompted
Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad to propose shelling
slide-prone slopes within the park, as is done to manage avalanches
along highways throughout the West. But park officials worry that
the use of explosives would endanger park visitors and alter the
natural role of avalanches. Instead, they want the railroad to
build new snowsheds and upgrade existing ones; the sheds are both
more effective against avalanches and have less impact on the park.
Railroad representatives say the expense — estimated at $110
million — would be prohibitive, but few take that claim
seriously. According to Steve Thompson of the National Parks
Conservation Association, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, which had
$13 billion in revenue last year, can, and should, cover the costs
as a normal part of doing business in the mountains. In October,
the draft environmental impact statement for the plan was released,
listing snowsheds, not explosives, as the preferred alternative.
The park will take public comment on the plan until Dec. 22.
Biodiesel isn't just old French fry oil anymore. The country's largest biodiesel refinery is being built in western Washington. Upon completion in mid-2007, the Imperium Renewables Inc. plant will produce up to 100 million gallons of fuel each year from soybean, canola and other crops. That amount exceeds last year's nationwide production total of 75 million gallons, and is enough to replace up to 10 percent of the state's conventional diesel supply. Until Washington farmers can produce enough feedstock for the $60 million plant, it will import palm oil from Malaysia. Nationally, biodiesel production is likely to hit the 150 million gallon mark by the end of 2006, and half of it will come from the dozen major biodiesel plants already operating in the West. Imperium and other producers hope to cash in on the rapidly expanding interest in alternative fuels and the new laws promoting them, including a Washington statute requiring that by 2008 all diesel fuel sold in the state contain at least 2 percent biodiesel.
A Border Fence or a Border Band-Aid?
A fence — sort of — President Bush signed a bill in October authorizing 700 miles of fencing to be built along the U.S.-Mexico border. It's the only federal immigration bill passed during a year of congressional debate on the subject.
Critics on both sides of the debate question the bill's effectiveness: It will leave some 1,300 miles of border unfenced, and it doesn't contain enforcement measures. Nor does it help foreign workers enter the country legally.
But the fence may never be built, anyway. The double-layer steel fencing will cost between $2 billion and $7 billion, and so far, only $1.2 billion has been appropriated. Whether Congress will pony up more money after the mid-term elections remains to be seen.
Did you hear a pop?
The housing bubble, particularly in the West, is showing signs of deflating or even bursting.
1:127 Ratio of foreclosures to households in Colorado in the third quarter of 2006.
1st, 2nd Foreclosure rate rank, nationally, of Colorado and Nevada respectively.
23.8 Percentage drop in existing home sales in the West between September 2005 and September 2006.
$332,000 Median home price in the West in September 2006 — 4.3 percent lower than a year earlier.
-9.7 Percentage median home prices are expected to drop in Stockton, Calif., in the coming year. Six cities in central California, two in Nevada, and one in Arizona are among the 10 cities with the highest projected drops in home prices.
$390,138,000 Total amount spent nationwide on constructing new, single-family homes in September 2006
-12.8 Percentage drop in new home construction from the same period last year.
Sources: Realtytrac.com, the National Association of Realtors, U.S. Department of Commerce, and CNNMoney.com


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So yesterday I woke up with an odd shaking and feeling of wobbliness. I'd originally put it down to me just being plain old knackered (seeing as it was about ten to seven in the morning), but it wasn't until I went down for breakfast I was told what had really happened.
At roughly that time an earthquake occured in the Fukui Prefecture, and we felt it here in Osaka. Some people at Uni (living in Kobe) also felt the quake. Not a big one mind you, in fact with a lot of people sleeping through it and what appeared to be no mention of it on the news, you'd be forgiven for thinking that this never happened. But it did, my first earthquake in Japan and it barely made me budge. Not like the one in Leeds last year. So far I'm two-for-two then.
As part of my Education & Culture class, yesterday we went to a Japanese high school to both ask and be asked questions by students, and also to observe a homeroom period. The only times I've seen a Japanese school prior to this were from media resources, and of course they were fictional. Films such as Battle Royale and anime such as Myself, Yourself and Azumanga Daioh, had given me some insight and prior knowledge of what they might be like, but given this comparison you could also claim that you can tell what London's like just from watching Eastenders.
The school building itself was ironically very reminiscent to those titles mentioned and I found myself liking the building and atmosphere more and more as time went by. It was rustic, there were cracks in the white, (well … dingy grey) walls, and due to a lack of a central heating system it was frickin' cold, but they were some of the aspects I found quite indearing. Though truth be told I was thankful when we ended up in the AV room and found that it was warm.
Throughout the time there I spoke to four groups of 3-4 students in different environments. The first group took myself and another Konan student for a short tour of the site. Due to us having only ten minutes or so, I can honestly say that it was shorter than a stereotypical Japanese mini-skirt. However in that brief look around we did get to see areas such as the lunch room, sports ground (no grass of course, just gravel … goodluck there football goalies) and some of the class rooms also.
Everyone then re-assembled for a short period of general chatter. As well as finding out the opinions of the high-schoolers about their schools, I also learned a few things about my fellow Konan student.
The next stage of the visit was to break into other groups where we'd be interviewed individually by groups of three students about our experiences in Japan. During my interview sessions with the two groups I came to realise how little I've actually accomplished since landing in Japan, especially in comparison to things I'd wanted to. However, this is also countered by doing things that non of the other 留学生 (ryuugakusei, exchange students) have done, like the Okamoto to Juso walk for instance.
The final conversation was in a room with refreshments (woohoo! Fanta and biscuits!) where we chatted with three more students, only this time I was joined by another two Konan students. Again this conversation was quite open so we talked about whatever things popped into our heads. Unfortunately my dead goldfish in a sieve type memory means I can't remember a lot of the conversation, but I do remember that we discussed that they liked, and were rather proud of, their uniforms, the fact that they'd all been to Taiwan … oh wait, that was the first group … and that there are some teachers they don't like.
When compared to the UK, Japanese schools are very different, and since the visit I had the liberty of reading a little bit more about them. Unfortunately the only things I read were how they differed from North American schools, but from what I can tell one of the main differences is the number of years of compulsory education. In the UK, starting with infant school (or primary school if your infant & primary school years are combined) you have 11 years of compulsory education, with the option to leave (and hopefully get a job) when you're 16, unless you were born later in the academic year. However, in Japan you don't have to start school until you're six years old, with the option of leaving at the age when British students begin their final year, giving just 9 years of compulsory learning.
Wanting to save myself a tidy 180 yen (£1.33) I chose to walk from the school to Okamoto train station, and put that money to my food on Sunday. The walk took longer than expected by about half an hour or so, but oddly enough I arrived home at the same time as if I'd have stopped in Konan's Ajisai room until it's closure at around six.
I'll end this by saying that I didn't sleep much last night. I was compelled to watch the end of Higurashi No Naki Koro Ni (Kai) (about 10 episodes I think), which kept me out of bed until about one. By which time I was in such a state of awesomely smily happy joy that even though I went to bed I kept running through various aspects of the story in my mind. Seriously folks, if you must watch any series for the sheer experience, this is the one. Won't spoil any of it by saying what happens, so maybe I'll write a review one day.
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Here in the Executive Education division, we've been thinking an awful lot about risk, ethics, and governance. More specifically, we're fascinated by the decision making process that can lead to major crises, and the ensuing cover ups. What goes through the executive mind as they look back and wonder: "How did we get here?"
A recent Around the Nation talk on NPR covers a very similar topic: From Enron to Penn State, How Cover-Ups Happen. From the sex-abuse case at Penn State and in the Catholic Church to the unethical accounting practices at Enron, top officials sometimes opt to hide and obscure instead of telling the truth. Cover-ups often start small, and grow into scandals that tarnish the reputations of entire institutions. The process is reminiscent of Professor Thomas Beamish's recent blog on crescive risk, where he explains how troubles can develop gradually and incrementally over time, building toward catastrophic proportions.
Our goal is always to provide executives and leaders with the tools to successfully navigate management of their companies. When it comes to ethics and governance, the main question is: how do you prevent your company from falling into just such a trap? Did these situations happen because these companies and managers are "evil"—or is wrongdoing more normal than is commonly thought?
Donald Palmer, Professor of Management and expert on organizational behavior, recently published a book: Normal Organizational Wrongdoing: A Critical Analysis of Theories of Misconduct in and by Organizations. In the Summer 2012 Issue of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management Innovator Magazine, he wrote an article to provide readers with a high-level overview of some of the principles described in the publication.
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When people such as Bernard Madoff or firms such as Enron are found to have engaged in shady dealings, news commentators, social critics and even scholars loudly condemn the offenders. For the most part, they have framed wrongdoing as an abnormal phenomenon.
Recently though, theorists and researchers have begun to view wrongdoing as a normal phenomenon with a range of explanations. This turn has important implications for those interested in finding ways to curb wrongdoing.
Wrongdoing is normal in at least four respects:
- It is prevalent. As Don Palmer began this article in April, three major instances of misconduct made the news over two days: Wal-mart de Mexico's bribery case; fraud perpetrated by top managers of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency; and Rupert Murdoch's testimony regarding his newspaper's illegal phone hacking.
- Wrongdoing is often not much different than right doing. This is particularly true of bribery, where lines are blurred between legal and illegal exchange, or at least officially tolerated gifts.
- Even though wrongdoers are often cast as malevolent, for the most part they are ordinary and even morally upstanding people and firms.
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For this, load the .dsd, it will be in drives 0 and 2 (the two sides of the first drive).
Use the menu to make a new .ssd in disk 1, *OPT 4 3, *COPY 0 1 *.*, eject the disc and repeat copying 2 1 for the second side.
No need to *OPT the second disc, beebem creates a formatted image, so no need to format either.
I've also done the same in reverse to create double sided images.
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State GOP lauds Jeb Bush, ignores Rowland
STAMFORD -- They did not dare speak the name of the elephant in the room: John G. Rowland.
Not with Jeb Bush -- testing the waters for a presidential run in 2016 -- front and center on the dais at the Prescott Bush Awards Dinner.
Trying not to let Rowland's indictment upstage their party's marquee fundraiser, which is named after Bush's late grandfather, nearly 800 Republicans gave the former Florida governor a hero's welcome Thursday night at the Hilton Stamford Hotel.
Bush, 61, the son of former President George H.W. Bush and brother of former President George W. Bush, gave GOP donors perhaps a rough draft of a 2016 stump speech filled with applause lines critical of President Barack Obama.
"The new normal means that we have to lower our sights, lower our expectations," Bush said. "What we ought to do is say that we're young and energetic and emerging as a nation again. To me, the great challenge is that economic and social mobility has stalled out."
Not until Obama "leaves the stage," Bush said, will the nation be able to fix its broken entitlement programs and languishing immigration reform.
"We must repeal Obamacare," said Bush, who was interrupted by applause.
Bush called for the Affordable Care Act to be replaced by a consumer-
directed health care model.
"It's also important for us to now be for things," Bush said of Republicans.
Republicans haven't won a statewide election in Connecticut since 2006.
"Yes, Connecticut, the comeback begins tonight," said Jerry Labriola Jr., the party's chairman.
Bush said it's not just about message.
"Making a point is not important anymore as winning," Bush said.
The selection of Bush to be event's keynote speaker presented somewhat of an ironic juxtaposition for the party's far right.
Bush is a staunch defender of the Common Core curriculum and a moderate on immigration, a departure from some factions of the GOP.
Introducing Bush was his cousin, Debbie Walker Stapleton, a longtime Greenwich resident who is married to Craig Stapleton, the former U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic and then France under President George W. Bush.
Named after Prescott Bush, a former U.S. senator from Greenwich, the state GOP's highest honor went to foiled Senate candidate Linda McMahon.
Unable to win in 2010 and 2012 -- the most expensive races this state has ever seen -- the wrestling matriarch said Democrats won't have Obama's coattails to run on in the midterm elections.
"Democrats are counting on Republicans to remain divided," said McMahon, the former CEO of WWE. "Let's rebrand Republicans as the party that gets things done."
Edward Dadakis, a GOP stalwart from Greenwich who serves on the Republican State Central Committee, received the Fenton "Pat" Futtner Award for his service to the party.
"Jeb, is it OK to call you Jeb?" Dadakis turned to Bush. "I could call you 45 if you prefer."
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#534 in "The Pictorial Wonderland Art Tone Series, issued by the Stanley A. Plitz Company of San Francisco, probably in the late 30s or early 40s.
The color toners did a wonderful job in making the colors on this card "look bigger than life"!
These great Southern Pacific Daylights and Starlights ran from LA to SF, and I think in later editions all the way to Seattle.
The second card is #147 of The Manhattan Post Card Publishing Company, Inc. It depicts the original Penn Station, NY in all of its glory! As many of us are aware, this grand edifice was demolished (with myopic vision) in 1966. Madison Square Garden has sat on the since those days, with a soulless new Penn Station beneath it. Some vestiges of the old station are still in use, especially on the train levels and stairs leading to them.


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Adobe MAX Speaker Aaron Draplin – Q&A Part II
"You can expect a spirited, ferocious delivery of our "Tall Tales" speaking fiasco! With, some surprises…." says Aaron Draplin of Draplin Design Co. on what to expect at his Adobe MAX session this year in our Twitter Chat with him. During the Twitter Chat, many had their burning design questions answered by Aaron, while others were just excited to connect with the brilliant creative. We want to give a big thanks to those who participated – especially Aaron! Check out a quick sample of the Twitter conversation using the #AdobeMAX hashtag below.
Watch our video to learn more about Aaron Draplin's love for junking and estate sales, and read Part II of our Q&A with him below.
Be sure to come see Aaron Draplin speak at MAX this year in his session, "Tall Tales from A Large Man". Visit MAX.Adobe.com and don't forget to use promo code MXSM13 when you register and save $300.
Here's Part II from our Q&A with the "Large Man" himself:
Adobe: When you were first starting out, what's the biggest mistake you can remember making?
Aaron Draplin: Thinking I'd need some big degree to make it. Complete bullshit. As much as I loved going to art school and learning as much as I did, I'm pretty sure I could've made it on my own. I caved in to the pressure system. I thought I'd get called out for teaching myself or something. And sure, school was awesome, but man, I paid a lot for those couple of years.
How (and at what times) does a typical day start and end for you?
I'm usually out of bed by 9:00am, getting down to the shop and getting going by 10:00. And hell, I hate going to get lunch, cuz you lose an hour. I'll work until 7:00 or 8:00pm (sometimes later), then I head home for supper, and will get the late shift going around 9:00pm—until 1:00am. I end my day by going to sleep, which is a pretty common theme.
Things you love? Or things you hate? Which influence your work more?
Things I love definitely influence the way I work, and the outcome. And I know it's not cool to hate stuff, but hell, I've got some bad blood with some stuff and am not afraid to say it, and, let it fuel me to make better things. My buddy Ryno in Minneapolis made a list, and inspired by his vitriol, I did too. Here are some spirited links: Things I Love and Things I Hate.
about how to make things better, instead of selfishly tearing them down. I loved that part of school. Thank you Santiago and Kali.
If you could choose just one artist (use that term as loosely as you wish) to "surround" yourself with, who would it be? Why?
I would've loved to work for Saul Bass. He's my favorite graphic designer.
Since most people will never have the opportunity to participate creatively with the Obama administration, can you tell us (in more words than "awesome") how you felt when you learned you were getting THAT assignment?
When the Mode Project from Chicago first called me, I thought I was in trouble or something. I mean, a call like that is going to be really, really good or really, really scary. When they offered the chance to work on a logo to help the new Obama administration, I instantly accepted, cleaned off my plate and got down to it. When they call you up to the big leagues, you produce. For your country. Seriously, my heart was filled with patriotism. The chance to help out in the slightest way was a big deal to me. I freaked out a bit, then got down to work with Chris Glass from Cincinnati and we made some logos for America. Will forever be proud of that one.
And, now that you've completed that one… what's your (next) "dream" project?
I'm scheming up some kind of road trip for the fall, but have to keep my lips sealed about the details. But when I really think about it, I dream about getting enough loot in the bank to where I can slow down my pace, go explore the earth a bit more and mellow everything out some. I've been running pretty hot these last bunch of years, so I daydream about downshifting things in a creative way. No real specific plan comes to mind, hence why I continue to charge as hard as I do. Oh well. If I could pick something out of the air…I sure would love to design a record for the Flaming Lips. Break me off a little piece, George


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Let's wrap up mystagogy:
249. To close the period of postbaptismal catechesis, some sort of celebration should be held at the end of the Easter season near Pentecost Sunday; festivities in keeping with local custom may accompany the occasion.
250. On the anniversary of their baptism the neophytes should be brought together in order to give thanks to God, to share with one another their spiritual experiences, and to renew their commitment.
251. To show his pastoral concern for these new members of the Church, the bishop, particularly if he was unable to preside at the sacraments of initiation himself, should arrange, if possible, to meet the recently baptized at least once in the year and to preside at a celebration of the eucharist with them. At this Mass they may receive holy communion under both forms.
Sometimes these observances are more or less combined on the parish level. Let break them down carefully and ponder the possibilities for both parish and diocese.
Regarding #249, the celebration of closure for the sacramental process takes place. The rite doesn't mention this being a Mass, but it might be. Before the observance of the Ascension was moved to Sunday in much of the US, I thought that holy day was an ideal setting for such a celebration. The Gospel gives the Great Commission, and the midweek holy day might turn into a real festivity with a meal, and parish activities to complement the celebration of the Eucharist.
I've always read #250 as referring to a first baptismal anniversary, but an annual event would seem to be a better option. A parish anniversary for adult initiates might take place during the week of Easter, observing the liturgical anniversary, if not an exact calendar one. That said, how many Catholics are aware of their own baptismal anniversary? Are these dates a time for us to give thanks, to share spiritual experiences, and to renew baptismal promises? Do Catholic parents rfecognize and support this for their children?
Many dioceses celebrate a Mass for neophytes. The rite doesn't link this either to the observance in #249 or to the Easter season. My opinion is that these should be separate events. Parishes should celebrate a Mass for neophytes and annual anniversaries for the adult baptized. The event with the bishop should be a third observance. Separating the observances intensifies and fleshes out the experience of mystagogy.
With this post, we've come to the end of RCIA part I, Christian Initiation of Adults. When we pick up with RCIA 252, we'll begin part II, "Rites for Particular Circumstances," those dealing with children, emergency situations, uncatechized Catholics, and Christians from other faith communities.


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Back in 1999 artist Chris Ofili smeared elephant feces and pasted pornographic photographs on an image of the Virgin Mary and hung it in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It caused a firestorm of protest. Ofili's detractors were outraged at the sacrilege. His defenders retorted with the predicable arguments citing freedom of expression and artistic autonomy but avoided any serious engagement with the real meaning of the piece.
Ofili's desecration is nothing new. In recent years we have seen "Piss Christ" where a crucifix was submerged in a jar of urine, Neonazis painting swastikas on synagogues, even Madonna simulating sex acts in a set designed as a church.
Shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin ordered soldiers into Russian villages that resisted the imposition of the Communist yoke. Lenin discovered that religious faith informed much of the resistance. Especially troublesome was the teaching that the statutes governing human affairs were subject to the higher judgment of God. It repudiated the Marxist denial of the ideal and everything it implied including the establishment of the state as the final arbiter of all human affairs.
Religious faith was a grave threat to Marxism and Lenin knew it. The soldiers struck at the heart of this faith by striking at the symbols that defined it. Churches, when not burned, were turned into the village dump — a kind of lasting testimonial of desecration. Soldiers urinated in chalices and defecated on altars. Almost all priests were killed. The offense caused by this desecration ran deep. It proclaimed that a new way of ordering the universe — a new faith — had entered the world.
The word symbol in the Greek means the place where two realities come together. Religious symbols have a particular power because religion speaks of the higher unseen things like meaning, purpose, value, and destiny, and thus represent a moral comprehension about how the universe is ordered and how man ought to live within it. In fact, the symbol itself can be said to contain this view. The symbol in other words, functions as a placeholder in space and time of eternal and timeless truths.
Religious symbols bind an individual to a religious community and testify to the sacred inheritance of that community. They represent the body of teaching and instruction inherited from the past that directs how the community ought to live today. This tradition shapes the culture of the community so that the tradition itself can be passed on to the next generation. The symbol identifies the community by what it believes and how it lives.
Desecration is more than the destruction or misuse of the symbol itself. Desecration is sacrilege; the use of the symbol in ways hostile to its meaning and in ways that the tradition considers profane. By desecrating the symbol, the desecrator not only defiles the symbol, he also denies the legitimacy of the community to whom the symbol belongs.
Secularists are unaware of the turmoil that desecration can cause because they have acculturated the Marxist denial of the ideal even though many may not realize it. The secularist perceives transcendence as social universals expressed in the language of "rights" and applied through politics. He regards the state as the final arbiter of truth and falsehood, justice and injustice, good and evil, all the constituents that shape culture, because the state is both the source and end of political life.
There no Moses and no Paul in the secular tradition — no sense of eternal or timeless truth. Rather, the secular prophets like Rousseau, Marx, Lenin, Hitler, Sanger, Gramsci, Alinsky, and others, reduce transcendence to social utility and thus establish the state as the guarantor of heaven on earth. Today this secular view dominates public discourse and explains why most discussions about the desecration of religious symbols address only their political and legal ramifications. The cultural ramifications seldom show up on the radar screen and when they do, the secular censors are quick to dismiss them.
Religion is not the product of culture, religion is the source writes philosopher Russell Kirk. "It's from an association in a cult, a body of worshipers, that human community grows...when belief in the cult has been wretchedly enfeebled, the culture will decay swiftly. The material order rests on the spiritual order."*
When the dominant religious symbols in the culture are desecrated, the beliefs and values that define and shape culture are weakened and can be overthrown. The overthrow of culture is why Lenin destroyed churches and Hitler destroyed synagogues (and why the Taliban blew up a 5000 year old Buddha). This is why a crucifix was submerged in urine and an icon of the Virgin Mary was smeared with feces.
There is contempt of the past, a senseless denial of any possibility of enduring meaning, in desecration art. Desecration art functions like the parasite; it destroys the heritage from which it draws its meaning. Ofili's piece illustrates this. The icon gives the piece meaning, yet the icon is what the piece seeks to destroy. Destroy the meaning of the icon and the meaning of the piece is destroyed with it like the parasite that dies with its host. The artist is vandal and the museum the gate to this cultural barbarism.
If the artist succeeds in destroying the heritage of western culture, the precepts that give his desecration meaning will die along with it. He follows the same path as the Marxist soldiers sent in to quell rebellious villagers: destroy the enduring truths to prepare the way for a Utopia that will never arrive.
*Russell Kirk "Civilization without Religion?" The Heritage Foundation Report (July 24, 1992).
This article was published on Front Page Magazine website under the title "Desecration as a Political Weapon."
Copyright © 2002 Johannes L. Jacobse. Rev. Jacobse is a priest in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse is an Orthodox priest living in Naples, FL. he directs the American Orthodox Institute, and editor of OrthodoxyToday.org. Fr. Hans provides Orthodox Christians today with updated news and articles on social, cultural and political events from an Orthodox Christian moral tradition. His editorials and essays have been published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Duluth News Tribune, International Herald Tribune, Hellenic Voice, Breakpoint website, Front Page Magazine website, Institute for Religion and Democracy website, Discover website, and more. He is also a past fellow at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.


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Gov. Mike Beebe on Monday urged public school administrators to cooperate with a statewide study of broadband capacity in schools.
In a speech at a conference of the Arkansas Association of Education Administrators in Little Rock, Beebe said the task force Faster Arkansas, the state Department of Education's Quality Digital Learning Study and his office are gathering information on what capacity for broadband exists at K-12 schools across the state to determine what is needed, with the ultimate goal of making high-speed Internet available in every school district.
"Not only can we not do it without you, I wouldn't even want to try to do it without you. So you've got to figure out what you've got, you've got to figure out what you don't have, and you've got to do some analysis to see forward," the governor said.
Beebe said some school administrators are understandably wary about sharing the information, but he urged them to be forthcoming.
"If you get a call from Jerry Jones (the chairman of Faster Arkansas and chief ethics and legal officer at Acxiom), he's not a vendor," he said. "He works for Acxiom. He's got knowledge in it. They're not in the mix. They're not trying to get a contract. They're not trying to make money off it. He's doing this at my request and that group's doing it at my request, just like Ed Franklin (chairman of the Quality Digital Learning Study and executive director of the Arkansas Association of Two-Year Colleges) and his group are doing it at my request — to gather information. For God's sake, share it."
The governor said some superintendents have suggested connecting school districts to the Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network. He noted that current law limits AREON to use by higher education but said, "I've never seen an obstacle that we couldn't overcome. … and an option on the table certainly is to look at that legislation."
He acknowledged that some have raised concerns about the cost of expanding broadband capacity but assured the association that costs would be kept to a minimum.
"We've got folks that'll hold you up and try to charge you an arm and a leg. I'm the sheriff. I'll take care of that pert of it, OK? We'll get it at the most reasonable cost we can get it," he said.