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The heavy wet snow prompted Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell to declare a state of emergency as more than 200,000 residents lost power. In Chicago, a roof collapsed under the weight of the snow and parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania were also hit hard. NBC's Tom Costello reports.
Like so many things in Washington, D.C., the late-winter storm that was supposed to bring the nation's capital to a crawl on Wednesday proved to be overhyped and underwhelming.
The official forecast was 4 to 8 inches, but by late evening no snow had accumulated, only slush that could make for a slick roads for the Thursday morning commute.
"We just didn't have the cold air that we needed to produce a snow event here at the capital. It was not produced by the storm and it did not come in from the storm," Weather Channel meteorologist Jim Cantore said on NBC's Nightly News.
Boston may see as much as 12 inches of snowfall as the storm moves through the East Coast, and strong winds are expected to batter the New England coastline. Weather Channel meteorologist Reynolds Wolf reports from Front Royal, Virginia.
The real snowfall occurred west of Washington, in towns like Front Royal, Va., which got pummeled with 17 inches of heavy, wet snow. It caused power outages up and down the mid-Atlantic, with crews struggling to keep up.
National Weather Service spokesman Chris Vaccaro described the snow as gloppy and "consistent with wallpaper paste."
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell declared a state of emergency and more than 200,000 residents of the state were without power, especially along the Interstate 81 corridor, which tracks the western border of Virginia. Emergency crews in northern Virginia responded to dozens of weather related accidents throughout the area.
In D.C., fear of a commute-crippling storm closed federal offices and most school districts in the area. Nearly 4,000 salt trucks and plows set out to clear roads throughout northern Virginia.
More than 600 flights were canceled at Reagan National airport and more than 500 at Washington Dulles.
The storm spun just off the mid-Atlantic coast, feeding moisture to the west. Where the air was cool, particularly around Baltimore, it produced sleet. Where it was colder, outside of Washington and especially the Shenandoah Valley to the west, it produced snow.
As the storm lumbered north, it threatened high wind and waves along the coast, including in some cities and towns battered by Hurricane Sandy last fall.
Authorities in Delaware urged people to get out of flood-prone areas and the New Jersey towns of Brick and Toms River issued voluntary evacuation notices and encouraged people in low-lying areas to get their cars to higher ground.
Jim Mone / AP
A storm system stretching from the Dakotas to the Florida Panhandle is predicted to bring snow to the mid-Atlantic states.
The storm originated in Montana and moved east over the Ohio Valley, dropping 6 inches of snow on Chicago on Tuesday. More than 1,100 flights were canceled in and out of that city's two airports on Tuesday, according to NBC Chicago.
In the Chicago suburbs, part of the roof of a banquet hall caved in Tuesday afternoon, and snow poured into one wing of the building. Fire officials in the city of Des Plaines said that the building was empty and no one was hurt.
Illinois banquet hall roof collapses under weight of snow
The storm was forecast to dump a mix of rain and snow on the New York area Wednesday, leading to as much as 2 inches of accumulation in New York City.
On Thursday, the low-pressure storm powering the storm is expected to move off the New England coast, but bands of snow wrapping back to the west should complicate travel there.
Andrew Rafferty and Reuters contributed to this report.
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By Rusty Miller | Associated Press
COLUMBUS -- Hoosiers and history are on the checklist for No. 4 Ohio State this Saturday.
The Buckeyes carry a 22-game winning streak into their one-sided series against Indiana -- the longest active major-college streak.
On top of that, however, if the Buckeyes win they'll eclipse the school record set by the 1967-69 Ohio State teams.
That accomplishment comes only if they take care of business, however.
"Right now, we're just focusing on beating Indiana," center Corey Linsley said. "Because Indiana doesn't really care about our winning streak."
Even coach Urban Meyer, who runs screaming from just about anything other than the X's and O's of the next game, says it would be an impressive accomplishment.
"Any time a player plays at a place like Ohio State, and you can make a name for yourself or a dent in this great tradition, that is certainly worth being recognized," Meyer said.
The Buckeyes (10-0, 6-0) can also clinch a division title and a spot in the Big Ten championship game.
Here are five things to watch for in the game:
n GET YOUR POINTS HERE: Ohio State won last year's matchup, 52-49. This year, the two offenses may be even better -- they're combining for more than 1,000 yards per game. Plus, the defenses may be worse.
"Defensively, it's a couple teams that have given up some points," Indiana coach Kevin Wilson said.
Don't be shocked if 40 points are scored -- by the end of the first quarter.
n FAILING HISTORY: The Buckeyes have made it an almost annual occurrence to beat the Hoosiers. Not only are they a 32-point favorite this time around, but they've won the last 17 meetings with Indiana.
Amazingly, that's still not their longest streak in the series. The Buckeyes did not lose to the Hoosiers from 1952 to 1986, going 31-0-1 and winning the last 23 in that span.
n MOVING ON UP: Ohio State is third in the BCS rankings and needs to impress voters and the computers over its final two games plus a potential date with Michigan State in the Big Ten title game.
Meyer is angry with himself that he's been distracted by all of the BCS talk, and that in turn his players have been distracted by it.
"When I started getting asked questions about the BCS, (I should have just said), 'Move on,'" Meyer said. "Because (the players) watch me and I'm saying, 'Don't pay attention to it' and I'm paying attention to it. Then it's a mixed message. But the best thing they can do is just play."
n CLOSING STRONG: The Hoosiers (4-6, 2-4) need to win their final two games -- they finish up at home against archrival Purdue on Nov. 30 -- to be bowl-eligible.
If they were to accomplish that, it would be Indiana's first bowl trip since the 2007 Insight Bowl and only the second since 1993. But it'll take a huge upset, first.
"With two weeks to go, (we still have a) chance for a bowl opportunity," Wilson said. "Our goal is always constant improvement. I just met with our leaders, our seniors. I need their best two weeks. We need to get better on offense from a week ago. We've got a great challenge this week, and we have to bring every phase of our defense along."
n SENIOR LIVING: Ohio State bids a fond adieu to 18 seniors, along with redshirt junior CB Bradley Roby who has already announced he's giving up his final season of eligibility to jump into the NFL draft.
"It's been a great ride," said OL Jack Mewhort, who was on a 2011 team that went 6-7 and then experienced the other extreme by not losing since. "I owe everything, I owe who I am to this university and this program. It's going to mean a lot to me running out for my last time."

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Apple designers are working on a wraparound screen for its mobile electronic devices, according to reports.
The news came in a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filing "Electronic device with wrap around display", according to AppleInsider. The new screen will be a foldable AMOLED display wrapped around a transparent structure.
Apparently a curved display gives more screen space and the transparent display means it can be layered like a 3D screen. It will also allow users to see a "broader set of graphics" compared to the typical smartphone, however it also means that it also needs sensors to figure out how a user is interacting with the device. That's when facial recognition software is needed to track the user, according to the filing. We assume it's necessary so the device can figure out when a user is looking at it from a certain angle.
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The wraparound screen is a new innovation, but the current filing seems a bit difficult to use and understand. Perhaps in a few years it will come up with something that doesn't need facial recognition software.


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Companies are buying each other again.
This year was shaping up to be one of the biggest for mergers and acquisitions since 2007. Then, on Thursday, two more blockbuster deals were announced: A $11 billion merger between American Airlines and U.S. Airways, and a $23 billion takeover of ketchup maker H.J. Heinz Co. by a group including billionaire Warren Buffett.
Conditions seem ripe for more deals. Financing for them has rarely been cheaper with interest rates near record lows. And companies have plenty of cash for acquisitions- nearly $1 trillion for those in the Standard and Poor's 500 index.
Another reason to expect more buying: After years of cutting expenses and squeezing more work out of remaining staff, companies are struggling to grow earnings. In the January-March quarter, they are expected to grow earnings less than 1 percent compared with the year earlier, according to FactSet, a financial data provider.
Global merger activity has been tepid since 2007, when $4.6 trillion of deals were announced, according to financial data service Dealogic. Last year's total was $2.7 trillion.
So far this year, $219 billion worth of deals have been announced, compared with $85 billion over the same period in 2012.
These are the biggest recent deals, according to Dealogic:
Healthcare company Abbott Laboratories spun off its pharmaceuticals arm to create a new company called AbbVie in January. AbbVie was listed on the New York stock exchange with a value of $56 billion.
Billionaire Warren Buffett and investment firm 3G Capital announced Thursday that they are buying Heinz ketchup company in a deal valued at $23 billion. Buffett has been hunting for elephant-sized deals. At the end of September he had $47.8 billion cash to finance investments.
The struggling personal computer maker Dell sold itself to founder Michael Dell and a group led by investment firm Silver Lake, in a deal that valued the company at $24 billion. The deal was announced Feb. 5.
An $11 billion tie-up will create the world's biggest airline. US Airways Group Doug Parker, who will run the combined airline, sought a merger almost as soon as American parent AMR Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2011. The deal was announced early Thursday.
The Phoenix-based miner said in December that it was buying Plains Exploration & Production Co. in a bid to become a natural resources conglomerate. The company is paying $17.2 billion for the oil and gas exploration company.


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Gradually I came to learn what every great philosophy has been up to now, namely, the self-confession of its originator and a form of unintentional and unrecorded memoir, and also that the moral (or immoral) intentions in every philosophy made up the essential living seed from which on every occasion the entire plant has grown. In fact, when we explain how the most remote metaphysical claims in a philosophy really arose, it's good (and shrewd) for us always to ask first: What moral is it (is he —) aiming at? Consequently, I don't believe that a "drive to knowledge" is the father of philosophy but that knowledge (and misunderstanding) have functioned only as a tool for another drive, here as elsewhere.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Future Philosophy (Kindle Locations 163-168). The University of Adelaide Library. Kindle Edition.


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Unique constraints ensure that the data in a column or combination of
columns is unique for each row. A table's primary key, for example,
functions as an implicit unique constraint. In JDOR, you represent
other unique constraints with the
unique attribute
or the
unique element. These attributes and
elements are used during table creation to generate the proper database
constraints, and may also be used at runtime to order
UPDATE, and
DELETE statements. For
example, suppose there is a unique constraint on the columns of field
F. In the same JDO transaction, you delete an object
A and make persistent a new object
B, both with the same
F value. The JDOR
runtime must ensure that the SQL deleting
A is sent
to the database before the SQL inserting
B to avoid
a unique constraint violation.
unique attribute can be either
false. When placed on a mapping
element, it applies to all columns of that element. The following
elements accept the
unique attribute:
Example 15.34. Using the
unique Attribute
The following adds a unique constraint to the columns of the
Article.title field:
<class name="Article" table="ART"> <field name="title" column="TITLE" unique="true"/> ... </class>
The contextual
unique element serves the same purpose
as the
unique attribute, but allows you to specify
more information about the constraint. Any element that accepts
unique attribute also accepts a nested
unique element. The element goes after any nested
foreign-keys, and
indexes. The
unique element has the
following attributes:
name: The constraint name. If left
unspecified, the JDOR implementation will choose a
suitable default or create an unnamed constraint.
deferred: Set this attribute to
true if this constraint's actions actions are
deferred. Deferred actions wait until just
before the database transaction commits before running.
This means the JDOR implementation doesn't have to worry about
ordering its SQL statements to meet constraints. Unfortunately,
many databases do not support deferred constraints.
unique element also allows nested
extension elements.
Here is our previous example using a
unique element
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text: TOWELHEAD follows the dark, bold and shockingly funny life of Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, as she navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening. When Jasira's mother sends her to Houston to live with her strict Lebanese father, she quickly learns that her new neighbors find her and her father a curiosity. Worse, her budding womanhood makes her traditional and hot-tempered father uncomfortable. Lonely in this new environment, Jasira seeks friendship and acceptance from her neighbors Mr. Vuoso, an Army reservist, and Melina, a meddling but caring expectant mother. Thrown into an unfamiliar suburban world, Jasira must confront racism and hypocrisy at home and at school - and at the same time struggle to make sense of her raging hormones and newfound sexuality. Her boyfriend, Thomas, though a few years older, provides some comfort - but even that relationship causes problems when her father discovers that Thomas is black. Surrounded by adults who are just as lost as she is, Jasira yearns for understanding, even amidst often brutal acts.


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LITTLE ROCK — A bill that would prohibit insurers from offering coverage for abortion through Arkansas' health insurance exchange failed to clear a House committee Tuesday.
Another House committee endorsed a bill to ban certain sex offenders from some state park play areas. A bill to establish a new state veteran's home passed the House and the Senate approved legislation that would let judges impose jail time and a fine for driving without a license.
House Bill 1100 by Rep. Butch Wilkins, D-Bono, received 10 "yes" votes and 7 "no" votes in the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee, falling short of the 11 votes needed for a "do pass" recommendation in the 20-member committee.
Three members of the panel, all Republicans, were absent when the vote was taken.
"We just didn't get our people here," Wilkins said after the vote, adding that he plans to make another attempt to get the bill through the committee.
Wilkins' bill would ban insurers from offering coverage for elective abortions through the exchange except through a separate rider with a separate premium paid with no government subsidies. It defines an elective abortion as abortion for any reason other than to prevent the death of the mother, and would not apply in a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest.
"This bill will prohibit taxpayer money from being used for abortion," Wilkins said during the committee meeting. "That's all this bill does. It will not prevent anybody from getting an abortion if they so choose."
Bettina Brownstein, a cooperating attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas, spoke against the bill, saying the measure was unnecessary and the state could face a legal challenge if it becomes law.
"No federal money can be spent on any kind of abortion," Brownstein said. "Even if you don't opt out … on the individual exchange there will be no public money to fund that coverage, no subsidy and no money.
"This bill is unnecessary to prevent funding of elective abortion," she said.
Victoria Leigh, an attorney in Little Rock, also spoke against the measure, saying it would prevent anyone with health insurance under the Affordable Health Care Act from purchasing private health insurance with their own money for a medically necessary abortion.
She also said the measure wasn't necessary because federal and state funds are already prohibited from being used to pay for abortions.
Meanwhile, the House Judiciary Committee endorsed Senate Bill 12 by Sen. Missy Irvin, R-Mountain View, which would prohibit Level 3 or 4 sex offenders — the two highest ratings — from visiting a swimming area or a children's playground in a state park.
Irvin said the Legislature passed a law two years ago banning Level 3 and 4 sex offenders from city-owned water parks and said her bill would "provide consistency" because the swimming areas and playgrounds at some state parks serve as community swimming pools and playgrounds.
Arkansas State Parks asked Irvin to sponsor the bill, she said.
Lynn Gilmore, CEO of Sex Offender Solutions and Education Network, testified against the bill, saying it would prevent the families of sex offenders from enjoying the swimming areas and playgrounds at state parks.
"When are we going to stop punishing the innocent family members?" she asked.
The bill, which passed previously in the Senate, was endorsed in a voice vote. It advances to the House.
HB 1013 by Rep. John Edwards, D-Little Rock, passed in the House in a 96-0 vote and heads to the Senate. The bill calls for the creation of a new veterans' home to replace the one in Little Rock that was closed in November because of safety and financial problems.
"I am not very proud about what I've seen in the last couple of years in taking care of veterans in Arkansas, and that's why I have this bill, because I want to be a part of fixing that. And I need your help to fix that," Edwards, an Iraq War veteran, told House members.
Edwards has estimated that building a new veterans' home would cost about $21 million. He said the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has a program under which the state would only have to pay 35 percent of the cost, with the federal department paying the rest.
Edwards' bill does not include funding for the project. Sen. Jane English, R-North Little Rock, has filed a bill, co-sponsored by Edwards, that would create a 14-member task force to look for funding sources and help select a location for the home.
Arkansas currently has only one veterans' home, in Fayetteville.
The Senate Tuesday approved SB 55 by Sen. Jon Woods, R-Springdale, which would allow a judge to sentence a person convicted of driving without a driver's license with jail time and a fine, rather than just one or the other.
Woods said he sponsored the measure at the request of the Springdale city attorney and that the proposal would give judges more options when considering an offender's sentence. The bill passed 34-1 and goes to the House.
The Senate also passed SB 107 by Sen. Uvalde Lindsey, D-Fayetteville, which would amend the state law concerning the operation of all-terrain vehicles by municipal employees.
Under the bill, a firefighter or an on-duty emergency medical technician would be allowed to operate an all-terrain vehicle on a public street or highway. The measure passed 35-0 and goes to the House.


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Gravenstein apples make an easy crostata
Growing up on the East Coast, I tend to equate apple season to crisp weather and leaves changing from green to yellow or red. Even after 30 years living in Northern California, I am continually caught by surprise with the arrival of Gravenstein apples in August. My head is still filled with peaches and berries.
By the time Gravensteins are on my radar, weeks of their too-short season have already passed. Yet they're such a great apple for pies and baking you don't want to miss a minute.
The nice part of Gravensteins appearing in late summer is they combine beautifully with blackberries as I have done in the accompanying recipe for Gravenstein Apple Blackberry Crostata.
Of Italian lineage, a crostata is basically an open fruit tart. It's often called a rustic tart because no pan is required and its shape is irregular. Roll the dough into a circle, pile on the fruit, leave a border of dough around the edge and fold it over the fruit. It's ready to bake.
The dough can be made a day or even two in advance with a food processor, stand mixer or by hand. But the crostata should be baked the same day it is going to be eaten. The pastry is at it lightest and flakiest, and the fruit looks best and has the most flavor. It also hasn't had to chance to make the dough soggy.
The flour for the filling absorbs excess watery juices from the berries. The lemon juice and salt, although in small amounts, are critical to bringing out the taste of the fruit.
The crostata is baked at a high temperature because the bottom crust needs to get golden brown. Nothing worse than soggy crust. You can reheat it if you want to bake it earlier in the day and still serve it warm.
When Gravensteins are only a memory, you can move on to Jonagold, Braeburn or Pink Lady, whose seasons come a bit later. In winter, Fujis or Galas work, too.
I like the crostata served without any garnishes, but I doubt anyone will argue if you accompany it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, creme fraiche or whipped cream.
Gravenstein Apple-Blackberry Crostata
Serves 6 to 8
Gravensteins have a short season but you can also use Jonagold, Braeburn, Pink Lady whose seasons comes a bit later. In winter, Fujis or Galas work, too. The crostata - best served the day it is made - can be served plain or with whipped cream, creme fraiche or vanilla ice cream.
- Crust
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt
- 4 ounces (8 tablespoons) cold unsalted butter
- 3 to 4 tablespoons ice water
- Filling
- 3 large Gravenstein apples, about 1 pound 4 ounces
- 1/2 pint blackberries
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt
- To finish
- 1 beaten egg
- 1 teaspoon sugar
For the crust: Put the sugar, flour and salt in the bowl of the food processor. Cut the butter into 1/4-inch pieces. Add to the bowl. Process with short quick pluses until the butter is the size of small pebbles, about 20 pulses. Watch carefully so you don't over process. Stop the machine and sprinkle the water over the dough. Process with longer on-off pluses until the dough just begins to come together. Remove the dough from the machine and gather it together and press into a 5-inch by 1/2- to 3/4- inch thick circle. If the dough is soft, refrigerate for 30 minutes before rolling.
Move a rack to the middle of the oven and preheat the oven to 400°.
Roll the dough into a 12-inch circle. Transfer to a large cookie sheet. Refrigerate it while you make the filling. The crust can be made a day or two in advance, wrapped well and kept refrigerated.
For the filling: Peel and core the apples. Cut into 1/2-inch pieces. In a bowl, gently mix the apples, blackberries, lemon juice, sugar, flour and salt.
To finish: Place filling on top of the dough, leaving a 2-inch border. Fold the edge of the dough over the fruit, pleating where the dough doubles over. Press together any cracks of dough to prevent leaking during baking.
Brush the crust edge with the beaten egg. Sprinkle the 1 teaspoon sugar on top of the crust edge.
Bake until golden brown, about 45 minutes. Cool slightly and serve warm or at room temperature.
Per serving: 267 calories, 3 g protein, 37 g carbohydrate, 12 g fat (7 g saturated), 51 mg cholesterol, 75 mg sodium, 3 g fiber.
Emily Luchetti is the executive pastry chef at Waterbar and Farallon in San Francisco, the author of several baking books, and the winner of the best pastry chef award from the James Beard Foundation. E-mail: email@example.com


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Augsburg College students share research findings
Nearly three dozen undergraduate students will present findings from their on-campus research during the URGO Summer Research Conference from July 25-26.
Augsburg College's Office of Undergraduate Research and Graduate Opportunity (URGO) provides summer research grants for students interested in professional study. Students further classroom learning with critical thinking and thoughtful analysis through faculty-led research that complements their degree programs.
This year, students' topics include how individuals use tattoos to reflect self identity; studies of the motion of Dapnia magna, a water flea; the influence of rap music in the Arab Spring revolutions; and the expression of gender nonconforming identities, among others.
Augsburg's research program is designed to help students achieve their educational goals, which range from attending graduate school to publishing work in academic journals, and from developing a mentor relationship to gaining extensive knowledge in their discipline.
Most URGO students devote 40 hours per week to the projects for 10 weeks, and half-time URGO students conduct 200 hours of research between May 21 and July 27. Each student works with an Augsburg faculty mentor to complete research that culminates in a final paper and their URGO Summer Research Conference presentation.
"The students have prepared interesting and academically sophisticated 15-minute presentations in which they'll present their research methods and findings," said Colin Irvine, URGO summer research coordinator. "The conference is open to the public, and we encourage everyone to support the students by attending a session or, if pressed for time, just one presentation."
URGO students also participate each spring in Zyzzogeton, the annual celebration of the creativity and scholarship of Augsburg College undergraduate students.
Some students also conduct research through the academic department in which they are majoring. Others conduct summer research through the McNair Scholars Program, a 10-week original research program meant to help prepare students for graduate school.
Download the complete URGO Summer Research Conference schedule.
URGO Summer Research Conference
Wednesday, July 25
Kennedy Center Room 305
9 a.m. to 4:40 p.m.
Thursday, July 26
Sverdrup Hall Room 206
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Detroit mission trip includes visit to mosque
May 6, 2013
For the second consecutive year, Dr. Richard Shaw took a group of Wayland Baptist
University students on a spring break mission trip to Detroit and Dearborn, Mich.
and a key component of this year's trip was the opportunity to visit a local mosque.
Shaw is an associate professor of religion at the university and also the director of the Wayland Mission Center. One of his goals in taking students on mission trips is to give them opportunities not only to serve others, but also to grow in their own Christian maturity and understanding of other cultures.
To that end, Shaw has led the university to establish a partnership with the Greater Detroit Baptist Association — a partnership that not only allows them to experience inner-city mission efforts, but also to gain a better understanding of the Muslim culture and religion. Dearborn is a good place for that because according to the Website, www.muslim-academy.com, "more than 33,000 Arab-Muslims from Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen are living in this state in America."
Shaw said that concentration of Muslims was one of the driving forces behind establishing the partnership with Baptists in the area, and in particular it was a key area of focus for this year's mission trip.
"The impetus for that entire mission, I believe, came from the Lord and when we began evaluating a city, a place we could go to as the Wayland Mission Center, in the United States, I felt very, very burdened for Detroit and Dearborn," Shaw said.
In preparation for this year's trip, however, he ran into a problem. Baptists in the area were not working with Muslims. As he did his research, he discovered that neither the Greater Detroit Baptist Association nor the state convention had any active ministry efforts aimed at the Muslim community. In fact, he discovered that not even the North American Mission Board, which coordinates Southern Baptist mission work in the United States, had any active work among the Muslims of Dearborn.
Eventually, though, he was able to find three organizations that were conducting ministry efforts in the community and was able to team up with one of them. It was through that partnership that Wayland students were able to gain some insight into Muslim culture and religion.
Shaw explained that as part of their work with the organization, students helped local workers teach English to Arab immigrants. They also taught them citizenship — things such as the Pledge of Allegiance, the components of the Constitution and the different branches of the government — because many of the immigrants are seeking U.S. citizenship.
However, one of the highlights of the partnership was a visit to a local mosque where the Wayland students were able to observe prayer time and also have a conversation with the Imam, and Iraqi immigrant.
For Ashley Price and Sam Martin, the trip to the mosque was an eye-opening experience.
Price is a sophomore from Pampa who is studying business education and intercultural missions. One of the things she cited as being a memorable experience for her was "working with the women at the mosque."
"Before, I hadn't had much contact with anybody of an Islamic faith, just kind of hearsay and from my opinion. When I started working with the women I got to see how sweet they were, but you could just see in their eyes how oppressed they were and how they don't have the opportunities that we do," she said.
It was that contrast between what she saw in the Muslim women's eyes and the freedom that she felt as a Christian that had a great impact on her, and the contrast wasn't confined to the women. She felt the same thing as she listened to the Imam, who she believed saw the session with the young students as "game."
"I hadn't realized how suffocating that religion would be and how free I am in Christ and the forgiveness that we have that other religions don't have because they are based on works. They have to work their way into heaven and you're never good enough when you're working for something. But God gives us that forgiveness and that grace and that's really eye-opening for me because I haven't thought that before," Price said.
Martin, who is from Plainview, is a sophomore as well, and he is studying justice administration. He explained that his biggest challenge on the trip centered round the visit to the mosque.
"My biggest challenge is I like to argue," he said matter-of-factly.
"We went to the mosque and they told us specifically, 'Don't argue with (the Imam), just listen to him,' and it was really hard for me to just sit there and be quiet and just listen to him try to convert us."
Martin said that after a tour of the mosque and a brief presentation on Islam, the Imam opened the discussion for questions. The sophomore said he and his fellow students took advantage of that opportunity and asked "really good questions."
Both students expressed that they had felt a heaviness in their souls as they watched the people pray at the mosque that day and Shaw said that was a topic of conversation afterward as he helped the students process the experience.
"I assisted them in processing their sentiments and feelings by discussing what Christ did on the cross of Calvary," Shaw said. "His atoning blood shed for all humankind is for the salvation of all; notwithstanding, forces of evil are present in the world today, working in divergent and often unassuming ways."


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BALDWIN PARK, Calif. —
A cat is recovering after it was dropped off at a Southern California animal shelter with its head and paws wrapped in duct tape.
The San Gabriel Valley Tribune ( https://bit.ly/Z7ekHU ) says the 2-year-old male cat was found Thursday at the Baldwin Park shelter. A worker spotted a box in the parking lot, opened it and found a cat with its mouth and nose wrapped in red duct tape, gasping for breath. Its feet also were taped.
Los Angeles County animal control officers say the cat is recovering but will need more rehabilitation time before he's ready for adoption.
Information from: San Gabriel Valley Tribune.


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One of my readers sent me a write-up about the secret of frozen lemons. Rather than just using the lemon juice and wasting the rest of this nutrient-rich fruit, freeze it. Wash it first and once frozen, grate the unpeeled lemon and add it to salads, soups, stews, ice cream, cookie dough, chicken and fish dishes, rice, martinis, whatever, for much added nutrition and taste. What a great idea!
We all know that lemons are chock full of Vitamin C, which helps to neutralize free radicals linked to aging and most types of disease, as well as fight colds and flu. But did you know that lemons contain more health benefitting nutrients than other citrus fruits like oranges or tangerines? They contain citric acid, flavonoids, B-complex vitamins, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and fiber. Surprisingly, the lemon peel contains as much as 5 to 10 times more vitamins than the lemon juice. Below is a list of some of the many benefits of this powerful and flavorful little fruit:
- Lemons contain more potassium than apples or grapes.
- Lemons help restore balance to the body's pH even though they are acidic.
- Lemons help detoxify the liver and improve regularity. A large glass of water with fresh lemon juice is an important way to start the day.
- The citric acid in lemon juice helps to dissolve gallstones, calcium deposits, and kidney stones.
- The lemon peel contains the potent phytonutrient tangeretin, which has been proven to be effective for brain disorders like Parkinson's disease.
- Lemons have powerful antibacterial properties; experiments have found the juice of lemons destroy the bacteria of malaria, cholera, diphtheria, typhoid and other deadly diseases. They can also destroy intestinal worms.
- The Vitamin P (bioflavonoid) in lemons strengthens blood vessels and is useful in treating high blood pressure.
- Lemons contain 22 anti-cancer compounds, including naturally occurring limonene, which studies have shown slows or halts the growth of cancer tumors in animals.
As we make our way through what is being reported as a severe cold and flu season, throw a couple of lemons into the freezer and "grate" your way to good health!
Information compiled from www.care2.com and http://www.nutrition-and-you.com.


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Nick Clegg has all the staying power of a new toy that cannot withstand its initial popularity. "He is the new Fisher Price gizmo: it's being pawed, smashed, and it's starting to look a bit worse for wear. I don't think he is going to make it through to election day in a pristine state."
Friday, April 30, 2010
Boris on Nick
21st Century spin
Sounds like a reasonable plan to me.
But apparently Labour State Services spokesperson Mr Robertson is not happy.
Mr Robertson said National did not have a plan for developing "21st century" public services.
"Of course the public service needs to adapt and change, but this needs to be done by working with communities, businesses and public servants themselves rather than cutting services and staff," he said
His solution to the undoubted need to change, by "working with communities, businesses and public servants", has bullshit written all over it.
The first plan Labour would develop should they ever get back into power, would be to re-employ these people faster than Clark getting to a test match or Goff U turning the Axe the Tax bus.
I am happy to see $25mil+ ($80m as Adolf points out) shaved off government spending, while a real plan for surviving this century is worked out.
(I don't use the word surviving lightly. I hear it every day from friends and customers)
Something along the lines of providing only what we need, at a price we can actually afford.
Conservatives and Lib Dems will hold each other's target seats
It gets more interesting though if you look seperately at the Conservative-held LibDem targets, and the Labour-held LibDem targets. As Julian Glover rightly warns in his commentary, only 15 of these seats are Labour held so the sample size isn't huge and some caution is necessary, but it appears to show that the Lib Dem advance in marginals is wholly concentrated in Labour held ones: taken separately, responses in Con-v-LD seats shows no discernable swing to the Liberal Democrats, but a swing of about 8 points in Lab-v-LD seats. That would result in the Lib Dems taking about 28 or so seats from Labour, but few if any from the Conservatives. If this finding is at all accurate, it will be key to the resultI have read elsewhere that the Lib Dem vote is holding up in Tory target seats currently held by Lib Dem. This is certainly consistent with my own involvement which suggests we are extremely confident of taking Reading West from Labour whilst Zac Goldsmith in Richmond is less likely to win against the incumbent Lib Dem Margaret Kramer.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Only In America...........
On the Gordon Brown gaffe and referring to the old girl complaining about all them damned immigrants from Eastern Europe.
If the British were smart about border security, they would put something like a moat around the entire country.
YYZ on April 28, 2010 at 11:44 AM
Not far away from this gem is a headline:-
"Illegal Immigrants Threaten to Leave Arizona"
At Least He Didn't Fart on Live TV
Why, of why, would anyone be stupid enough to set up a live media lapel mike during an election campaign walk-about?
As he went to get into his car, Mr Brown told her: "Very nice to meet you, very nice to meet you."
But off camera, and not realising he still had a Sky News microphone pinned to his shirt, he was heard to tell an aide: "That was a disaster - they should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? It's just ridiculous..."
Asked what she had said, he is heard to reply: "Ugh everything! She's just a sort of bigoted woman that said she used to be Labour. I mean it's just ridiculous. I don't know why Sue brought her up towards me."
Reminds Adolf of a particularly bumptious Presbyterian minister who had some unsavoury remarks to make in his office five minutes before morning worship. He forgot he was broadcasting.
But nothing can match this audible effart from Mr Obama's chief of staff.
What Forest and Bird Don't Tell You
There have also been social benefits. For the first time since the ag-sag of the 80s farmers' adult children have returned home for work. There were eight houses on our road before the scheme was launched, now there are 13.
This is the sort of thing which is anathema to the Luddites who would have most of the country depopulated if they could.
Common Sense Peeps Through The Door
At long last it looks as though the insanely dopey Emmissions Trading Scheme will get the arse.
The Government said yesterday it would probably ditch the rest of the emissions trading scheme as scheduled beyond 2013 if its major trading partners did not have schemes as well.
It's an interesting move. Dr Smith plays to the home audience and PM Key addresses the international wankers who still believe the junk science of the warmeniser extremists.
Dr Smith said the Australian Government announcement was no surprise and that it was not the only important market.
He said of 38 countries with obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, 29 had an ETS in place.In fact only two of them, Norway and Switzerland, of the 29 are not members of the European Union scheme.
I'd be interested to see Dr Smith's list of the twenty nine countries he alleges already have instituted their own version of the economic disaster. Methinks they will include few of our serious trading partners.
Is this a case where bloggers can quietly take a little credit for bringing pressure to bear?
"Take only the drugs issued to you by your boss or supervisor"
Remember how fucked up they were? They'd pull shit like increasing the taxes on smoking and drinking, despite existing taxes already covering the negative effects of those activities, just because you're smoking and drinking more than they'd like you to. Or they'd try and restrict the supply of tobacco and alcohol, and the advertising of it, because you obviously can't be trusted with it like they can. Never bothered trying to enforce the laws we already had to prevent people misbehaving, just thought up new ones to add to the pile.
Fuck it's a good thing we got rid of those guys, eh?
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Tobacco tax
There will be an increase in burglaries and robberies of dairies and petrol stations targeting cigarettes.
That's as certain as night follows day.
Super-regulator to the rescue
Here he is on the left.
As I pointed out here, there is stacks of regulation. But it seems that's not the problem. No. The problem is that investors' money fell "through the cracks between regulators".
Maybe the XT network was down when the Companies Office tried to phone the Securities Commission to see if Bridgecorp's audited prospectus, checked by lawyers and regulated by the Securities Commission, was correct.
Sure, neither Labour nor Winston did anything to stop the elderly in this country losing the "thick end of $3 billion of savings".
But no matter how hard you try, you cannot save people from themselves, despite successive governments trying their hardest to do so.
Test Patterns
"Banned from the pubs, can we have a drink? No!"
How unlike the home life of our own dear Law Commissioners...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
First vote for the Tories in the 2010 election
CO2 is not a pollutant
Racial extermination is supposed to be funny?
I watched it with a growing sense of concern, then disgust and revulsion, waiting for some kind of redemption. But there was nothing. That clip takes what was a kind of socially acceptable racial prejudice to a whole new level. I am not going to link it, you know where kiwiblog and whaleoil are.
Randy Marsh's Wrong Answer on Wheel of Fortune: This was the most brilliant opening scene in South Park history. The producers were smart in not giving away any part of this episode in the previews. Randy Marsh is in the final round of Wheel of Fortune. The category is "people who annoy you". It is seven letters long and after receiving the letters "r", "s", "t", "l", and "e", it is spelt out _ _ _ _ E R S. Randy guesses B, G, N, and an "O" to reveal N _ G G E R S. The audience looks on with blank faces as the black cameraman has an angry look on his face. Randy becomes nervous and starts to say how he knows the answer, but shouldn't say it. Eventually, with time running out, he exclaims eagerly in anticipation of winning a lot of money "NIGGERS!". Time runs out, Vanna (looking very ashamed) walks over to the puzzle to reveal that the answer was actually naggers. Extremely funny and genius opening scene to a great South Park episode.
First The Aussies, Now The Dreaded Hun
Frustrated by the climate change conference in December, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is quietly moving away from her goal of a binding agreement on limiting climate change to 2 degrees Celsius. She has also sent out signals at the EU level that she no longer supports the idea of Europe going it alone.
What's a poor little Key Wee to do?
REPEAL THE BLOODY THING John, before you get trampled in the rush.
ETS meetings
Come and hear why we should too.
To learn about how the Emissions Trading Scheme will cost you, your family and our farmers, businesses and exporters come to one of John Boscawen's upcoming Public Meetings:
Morrinsville: Morrinsville Community House, 43 Canada Street, 11 a.m.
Matamata: St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 22 Meura Street, 2.30 p.m.
Hamilton: Mellow Manor, Hamilton/Cambridge Highway, Tamahere. 7.30 pm
Te Awamutu: – Te Awamutu Rugby Sports and Recreation Club Inc., 420 Albert Park Drive Te Awamutu, 9.30 am
Otorohanga: Otorohanga District Library Meeting Room, 27 Turongo Street, 11.30 am
Te Kuiti: St Johns Hall, 2 Jennings Street, Te Kuiti, 2.00 pm
New Plymouth: Beach Street Hall, 40 Beach St, New Plymouth, 7.30 pm
Auckland: Royal Akarana Yacht Club, 12 Tamaki Drive, Orakei, Auckland, 7.30 pm
Christchurch: Heaton Normal Intermediate School, 125 Heaton Street, Merivale, 7.30 p.m.
TUESDAY 11 MAY - Timaru and Ashburton
WEDNESDAY 12 MAY - Rimutaka, Lower Hutt, Wellington
For more information call 09 531 5531To receive emails from John Boscawen specific to the ETS campaign, including ways you can help us to have the ETS deferred, email johnboscawen.mp@parliament.
No Excuses Left
Well, actually it has been shelved for three years which is as good as an axing.
So Mr Key, your time has arrived.
REPEAL THE BLOODY ETS before it terminates your tenure.
A question
My question. With some supplementaries.
Why are so many servicemen (and women I presume) travelling to Galipoli?
Are they funding themselves or is it funded by the military?
If it is funded, do they normally have such a large presence?
I do have issues with the military in this country, based mainly around the fact that they used a VC recipient for publicity and successive governments have neglected them and bought armoured personnel carriers that are useless, boats that make people ill and are unsafe and we have an airforce that seems to strugle getting past Brisbane without a breakdown. However I would not want anybody to think I am showing any disrespect to the personnel of our armed forces. Because none is intended.
Just wondering why such a large group has gone.
I Thought Money Was Tight
Readers may be surprised to learn the ASB Community Trust is a regular funder of the left's flagship anti Amerikan, anti military, anti business, anti sovereign nation outfit, The Foundation for Peace Studies Aotearoa NZ otherwise known as The Peace Foundation.
This outfit is a regular supper at the ASB trough. During the last three years, it was been handed over $125,000:-
- 2009...............$50,000
- 2008...............$30,000
- 2007...............$45,168
A vice president of the CTU, an ex head of Greenpeace NZ, a senior office bearer in the Values Party and The Greens, a ex Labour Party president and soon to be unemployed city mayor, a Labour appointed flunky to the UN and several proponents of World Government and a World Court.
Funnily enough, the Companies Office does not list the personnel of this incorporated society.
The last set of accounts was lodged in 2007 and shows income of $790k including grants of $73k.
Adolf is intrigued to know how this outfit maintains its tax free status when its accounts show little evidence of charitable activity and when no accounts have been filed for the last two years. One wonders to whom it paid out $350k worth of 'wages' and for what work.
In 2007 the Foundation gained some $390k revenue from 'contract income' but shows only $116k unspecified contract expenses.
It is be based at 29 Princes St Auckland which appears to be very close to the Auckland branch of the Labour Party. Adolf would be extremely interested to know how much of The Foundations' funds (and the ASB Trust's funds) travelled the short distance from the Foundation to the Labour Party. There were some $57k worth of donations.
Adolf wonders if the ASB ever checks up to see how these funds are expended. It's about time they started looking.
Goff on Maori seats
Goff responded "Oh yes, it's in there".
Williams said "Really? I couldn't see it."
Goff then bumbled his way through an answer that supported racist seats on the council. But he lied with regards to it being in the speech.
I guess Labour has changed its position.
But Goff still lied. It's not in the speech. In fact, if you search for the word Maori, it only appears once and nothing is said in the speech about guaranteed Maori seats.
What Deaths? Who Died?
A Federal Environment Department insider has told tonight's Four Corners program that senior bureaucrats were warned about insulation worker deaths under a scheme rolled out in New Zealand in 2007, but safety issues were considered "of less importance than job creation".
Maybe I was asleep in 2007 and 2008 but I don't remember any publicity about people dying as a direct result of kindly Helen's Killer Government and its generosity to her cold and shivering hordes of low income welfare dependent indentured Labour voters.
Help me out, will you?
Obviously the Aussies know something we don't.
Update: Here's the Four Corners transcript.
Did Clark's Killer Gummint programme allow for DIYers (later to be DIEers) to obtain a subsidy to insulate their own homes?
DENNIS D'ARCY, INSULATION COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA & NZ: Peter said well you know if, ah, if ah, foil insulation is included in this programme, ah, you should be aware that, ah, there has been, um, some fatalities in New Zealand and this needs to be taken into account.
WENDY CARLISLE: The minutes of the meeting clearly reveal...
(Voiceover reading from the report)
"Peter Ruz provided an example in New Zealand, where a similar program had to be suspended because three people electrocuted themselves."
Monday, April 26, 2010
Being offended.
But, hypocrisy is as hypocrisy does and the latest front page of the Daily Hate Mail has stirred me from the comfort of my bean bag to share a few tortured thoughts with you all.
Let us look for a moment at the worlds oldest and most evil criminal conspiracy.
At its head they have a geriatric ex Nazi who is without a doubt tarnished by his youth and forever damned for his aiding and abetting after the fact of animlas who preyed on children for sex.
Personally I blame the French.
It was a French pope who decreed that priests must be celibate and not take wives. Not for any godly reasons but because those randy fuckers were marrying and breeding and as part of their vulture like duties were encouraged to hang around the nearly departed to ensure people left their posessions to the church. They then left it to their families. Rome was not happy to share and decided that it should come to the church. Thus setting us on a path of depravity that has seen us arrive at this point where the Roman Catholic church is squirming on a pole.
The plain truth is that these paedophiles and poofters have preyed on the weak and young for hundreds of years and no amount of blaming; Jews, poofs, media, British foreign office will allow you to wriggle off the hook.
The only reason they are not the most evil religion currently is because they do not strap explosives to retarded members of their flock to blow people up.
Note to AF, Milt and Gooner. Sorry I did not make dinner. Will call tomorrow. Today has been a nightmare.
Australia's mining industry has called on the Rudd government to respond carefully to the Henry tax review, warning that a new super-tax on the sector could undermine the nation's economic recovery.And:
The industry faces a nervous wait until Sunday's release of the Henry review, amid growing speculation that it will recommend a new national resource rent tax, in addition to the various state-based royalty systems already in place.
Andrew Michelmore, chief executive of China Minmetals' Australian arm, Minerals and Metals Group, said the industry supported tax reform but not a tax grab.
"The worry is that the speculation is all around a tax grab (which) can have an impact on investment, particularly in changing the mood on foreign investment in Australia," he said
The aluminium industry has rejected claims it should not get compensation worth $10.5 billion under Australia's proposed emissions trading scheme, and that aluminium smelting will prove marginal or unviable in this country...Same shit. Different country.
Australian smelters competed against the Chinese, not European or North American smelters, which may use nuclear power or hydro, and a shift of capacity offshore - ''an appalling outcome for the Australian economy'' - would not necessarily result in lower greenhouse emissions, he said.
Cheese and canned fruit are healthy
Herewith definition of Healthy Food:
"healthy food means—
(a) fruit and vegetables (including fresh, frozen, canned, and dried):
(b) breads and cereals (including all bread, grains, rice, and pasta):
(c) milk and milk products (including cheese, yoghurt, and plain milk, but excluding ice cream, cream products, condensed, and flavoured milk):
(d) lean meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, nuts, seeds, and legumes".
The following McDonald's burgers contain cheese:
Quarter Pounder
Big Mac
Filet 'O' Fish
These will be exempt from GST under nanny's bill, and therefore more affordable to those who Nanny is trying to protect. Don't get me started on the amount of cheese on a Domino's Pizza.
But the best part of the bill is the exemption for lean meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, nuts, seeds, and legumes. We could call this the Euro exemption.
All the rich pricks who eat at fancy restaurants like Euro (on Auckland's waterfront) will now be charged less for their meat dishes, seafood dishes, dishes that contain eggs, etc. Of course if a dish contains cheese and poultry and eggs, (like a chicken filo wrap) then said rich pricks will be getting even richer by foregoing 12.5% of the bill.
I love it.
We should all submit in favour of this bill. It's delicious.
*Idea for this post stolen from Cactus Kate.
Week after week of left wing tripe dished up.
And yesterday's effort rates amongst the worst.
This coward seems to think that freedom and free speech come from "rights".
How wrong he is.
His ability to get up in the morning and express his point of view is not only the end result of 95 years of fighting and sacrifice, but thousands of years of toil, warfare, defeats and victories.
Our ancestors only ever did what they thought was the right thing at the time - fight or be conquered.
I am glad they chose to fight. And sad that many made the ultimate sacrifice.
Their brave actions reflect the essence of the human spirit.
To slag them off and belittle them now is about as low as you can go as a human.
Maybe one day McCarten will write an article expressing horror at the needless deaths of the millions murdered, unarmed, in the hands of the Stalin and Lenin's of this world.
All in the name of creating their perfect world.
But I won't be holding my breath.
War delivers freedom.
Socialism only ever delivers death and slavery.
In 100 years, on ANZAC Day, we will still remember.
And McCarten will thankfully be long forgotten.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
The Wankers' Bar Round
Fresh from his triumphant expose of the North Shore's greatest ever idiot, he is featured today - listing the long list of misdemeanours committed by the Herne Bay miscreant, Matthew 'don't you know who I am?' Ridge.
The funniest and most shameful gem is the news that not too long ago Ridge was chased down and caught in a foot race by a lumbering fat old copper!
And a year earlier the former All Black was arrested after a
checkpoint incident in which he stopped his car and ran away. Ridge was chased
on foot, caught and pepper-sprayed.
Well done Jonathon.
Now all you have to do is start tailing Trevor Mallard.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Who do you think the Sun supports
The harmony at the heart of Europe! Or not.
Dutch-speaking Liberals, one of Leterme's five coalition parties, quit the Cabinet, accusing their Francophone counterparts of blocking a deal to break up the Brussels-area district the constitutional court ruled illegal in 2003.
In 2003 the constitutional court ruled the bilingual Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde voting district illegal as it violates the separation of Dutch- and French-language regions. It comprises officially bilingual Brussels but also 20-odd towns in Dutch-speaking Flanders around the capital.
Dutch-speaking politicians have long complained the district lets Francophones – who have moved from Brussels into Dutch-speaking suburbs – vote for French-speaking parties in the capital.
Leterme's alliance of Christian Democrats, Liberals and Socialists – split into Dutch and French-speaking camps – agreed to resolve the voting district issue by Easter 2010, a deadline that was missed, leading to the government's collapse.
"We are the end of our rope," Guy Vanhengel, a Flemish Liberal, said yesterday. "I think that efforts to come to a negotiated settlement are not succeeding."
Yep, thought so
I could have written the LC's report in four words:And then today this comes from Rodney Hide and Heather Roy in a press release.
Ban, restrict, prohibit and tax.
These are the usual responses to any problem in New Zealand.
"The Law Commission's reported proposals on alcohol are frankly ludicrous", ACT Deputy Leader Heather Roy said today.Pretty basic truths. It'll be interesting to see where this goes.
"They cannot possibly pass the government's tests for good regulatory and tax policy."
"It seems the Commission wants to take New Zealand back to the days of punitive excise taxation and nanny state regulation of shop trading hours, closing times for bars and the purchase age.
"We have been there and done that with alcohol policy and it didn't work," Mrs Roy said.
Since liberalisation that commenced in 1989, consumption per head has declined significantly and there has been no increase in hazardous drinking. The vast majority of New Zealanders have a responsible attitude to alcohol.
Question of the day
Why does the State prefer that person go on the dole and receive $180 from you and I?
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Memories of Malcolm
Classic Cameron
Which way are the UK newspapers heading on the day of teh second debate.
In a move designed to defuse criticism in tonight's leaders' television debate that the Tories have allied themselves with extremists in the EU, Cameron has revealed that the shadow environment secretary, Nick Herbert, will attend a gay rights march in Warsaw in July.
Andrew Grice: Lib Dem leader's ultimatum to rivals seeking party's support: Only proportional representation will satisfy us
Slams Clegg for being anti British
Nick Clegg has claimed that the British people have 'a more insidious cross to bear' than Germany over the Second World War.In an astonishing attack on our national pride, the Liberal Democrat leader said we suffered from 'delusions of grandeur' and a 'misplaced sense of superiority' over having defeated the horrors of Nazism.
BUYERS of new homes face a £14,000 VAT levy under plans drawn up by the Liberal Democrats.
The Sun
He dismissed the hit as the "first of the campaign".
The day before he had been confronted by someone in a giant chicken suit. He quipped: "Now I know which came first – the chicken, not the egg."
NICK Clegg was plunged into a sleaze row last night after it was claimed cash from Liberal Democrat donors was paid into his private bank account.
Nick Clegg faced questions last night about payments of up to £750 a month directly into his personal bank account from three Liberal Democrat donors.
Nick Clegg received a series of payments from party donors directly into his private bank account, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Thanks Ele
She did a great job of promoting blogs in general, so a big thank you.
Anyway. Why are blogs of all persuasion important?
Simply because they give ordinary people a chance to air their opinions.
Politicians are really only interested in one thing.
Convincing enough people to vote for them.
So they say whatever needs to be said to achieve that goal.
And their point of view will twist and turn with whichever way the wind is blowing on their day of reckoning.
A principle is only a tool to be pulled out every 3 years to win a vote and then parked up on some never read vision page of their website.
Blogging is one of the few ways to hold these people accountable.
Otherwise they will merrily impose their world on you, for as long as they can get away with it.
And when the main parties swap sides in the house, nothing really changes.
Don't be fooled into thinking that voting= accountability.
Maybe one day MSM will stand for Main Street Media.
Labour unveils new branding strategies
Well, he would say that, wouldn't he?
Well Might They Change Their Brand
In the same week that Ian Wishart blows the whistle on the tawdry sordid goings on within Clark's Labour administration (also Goff's and King's), National reveals that Labour is desperately trying to give itself a make-over.
If one takes with a grain of salt some of the more lurid claims of the child involved in this latest media ignored scandal of a scandal laden Labour government, there remains a hard core of factual detail which calls into question the judgement, morals and ethics of Labour. It is clear the parliamentary wing of the party not only condoned but actually contrived to have a vulnerable thirteen year old youngster (a) given the run of the parliamentary precinct, (b) plied with alcohol and (c) exposed to the unspeakable evil of left wing politicians.
Adolf can easily describe Labour in six words:-
Nick Clegg for change
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Funky Labour
Here's the "funky" news story and video by Fran Mold.
Cool, retro, far out and funky.
Check out some other funky, cool, far out, retro Labour moves.
Da plane, da plane. Site of the MONTH
And they are off...... Live radar over europe
I know a few people who are waiting for family to get home and a few others who are waiting for family to f*@k off. This is for them
Once you have clicked through.. Click on a plane and it tells you everything upto but not including how many drinks it takes to get into the trolley dollies.
From the BBC:
US President Barack Obama has played golf 32 times since he took office, more than his predecessor George W Bush did during his entire presidency.I await the howls of outrage from the Left.
He most recently played on Sunday, when the volcanic ash cloud over Europe forced him to cancel plans to attend the funeral of Poland's president.
Question of the day
And The Plot Thickens
Today the story started to grow legs with an intrepid but juvenile Herald chappie failing to ask the right questions.
You'd think Mr Bennett (whom Adolf has not met) would learn to ask the obvious and learn something about English grammar to boot.
QV says Lace Bark sold the property last year for $4.82 million.
Lace Bark boss Lloyd Cundy said the deal was "a normal commercial transaction". He was not aware of anything unusual in his dealings with ACC's property team.
"I'm a developer, I'll develop where I'm needed and that's what I've done. I've moved on and it's as simple as that."
He could not recall whom he had sold the building to.
If he has bothered to phone the local council and get a QV report he might have established a few interesting facts which no doubt will exercise some minds at the SFO and should be raising a few eyebrows over at IRD.
- Why was a property valued in September 2009 at $2.55m sold at that same time for over $4.8m? Was income tax paid on this apparent remarkable capital gain?
- Why was it bought by a company 100% owned by a Rotorua based charitable energy trust whose official objects contain not the slightest reference to owning commercial property?
- To what purpose are the untaxed profits of this commercial property owning charitable trust put?
Oh yeah, Mr Bennett. What you should have said was:-
"He could not recall to whom he had sold the building."
Most developers I know can remember to whom they sold a $2.5m building for $4.8m less than a year ago.
Funny, that.
How to deal with annoying hecklers.
Watch This Sleeper
Who ever imagined in their wildest dreams that the Serious Fraud Office might be called in to investigate ACC?
Here's the real teaser:-
"......over possibly fraudulent property dealings stretching back several years."
Which several years happen to be those during which Labour was running riot, turning ACC into an extension of the welfare state. The civil servants would have taken their moral lead from the government of the day.
Adolf suggests interested bloggers should be looking for (a) evidence of Labour Party membership and or activism on the part of these gummint funded serious fraudsters and (b) evidence of their ill gotten gains finding their way into Labour Party bank accounts.
Look forward to a fascinating report shortly before election time.
Regulatory desert
This quote of Diplock got me thinking:
There are many, many factors that led to the finance company collapses, and the regulatory desert was one of them.
I think we certainly, looking back, could say we needed a better regulatory framework at the time.
Regulatory desert? Really?
In this country we have at our disposal as a regulatory framework in this area (inter alia):
- Fair Trading Act, specifically sections 9 & 14 concerning misleading and deceptive conduct.
- Contractual Remedies Act, particularly sections 6-10 regarding misrepresentation and breach/cancellation.
- Companies Act, specifically sections 131-138 concerning directors duties, including reckless trading and director's duty of care.
- Securities Act, which includes a myriad of provisions regarding prospectus and statements made in them.
- The criminal law/police, which includes fraud, theft by appropriation and other ancillary offences.
- The Serious Fraud Office (see above).
- Standard and Poors ratings on said finance companies.
- Auditors and their reports on said companies.
- Common law torts including deception, negligence and negligent misstatement.
There are more - feel free to add them in the comments.
The best way to finish this post is with this comment from Brent Sheather:
The answer to this problem is not regulation. It needs to be driven by the investing public - demanding realistic annual fees from their advisers and threatening to leave the money in the bank as per Warren Buffett's good advice of April 2004.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
In defence of cowboy cops
Chill. I won't defend him too much. I think he should, and will be, charged with dangerous driving causing death. It's possible a manslaughter charge could be laid. At the very best, it will be careless driving causing death.
But there are some mitigating circumstances.
The motorcyclist that the officer was chasing was reportedly travelling 154 km/h. That's almost categorised as dangerous driving. If that is the case, then the officer had a duty to chase him.
The next question is whether a U turn should have been performed, especially on that stretch of road. The answer is plainly no. U turns are notoriously dnagerous manoeuvres and that part of the road seemd particulalry narrow, meaning a three point turn was required which would have kept the patrol car in the path of oncoming traffic for much longer.
Yet the option I heard someone discuss on the news tonight was that the officer could have driven 150 metres up the road and driven into a side road to perform the turn.
Forget it.
At 154 km/h the motorcyclist is almost a kilometre away by the time you get back to the chase. So the only real option is to complete the U turn. Tragically it was the wrong decision.
Police officers should never fight their training and instincts when faced with such situations. They are trained to catch people breaking the law. You can argue until you're blue in the face whether they should bother with speeding motorcyclists, but as I say 154 km/h is pretty quick, and if you ignore dangerous driving where do you draw the line?
And I don't doubt it was 154 km/h because I am sure the officer got the speed on radar and this will be the justification for completing the U turn. The PR thus far suggests so. But every km/h below 154 km/h, the justification diminishes.
The very sad thing in all of this is that the speeding motorcyclist was the dead man's good friend. It really will be tragic if his excessive speed was a causing factor in the accident.
It will rain one day
Labour leader Phil Goff says Prime Minister John Key is a good politician, but he believes the public will tire of him.If you wait long enough, yes the public will tire of him. Eventually. That's human nature. It's also called hope. It seems hope is all Labour has right now.
I was talking to a parliamentary insider about 9 months prior to the last election. This person was imbedded in the walls of the Beehive. At this time, Key and National were plenty ahead of Labour. Clark seemed nonchalant. Not fussed.
Her strategy, as Labour's chief political strategist, was to give Key the longest honeymoon he had ever seen and then bring him back to life, with a thud.
Then H Fee flopped.
Then Labour hoped.
And still Labour hopes.
On TV is where we learn about who we really are
3News cute girly... er, reporter, Rebecca Wright covers Phil Goff supposedly heaping praise on the PM in an intervew Wright found "strange" and "spectacularly off-message." What praise was Phil offering? Key is
"a very good politician"
"very slick"
"very good at photo opportunities"
"says what the public wants to hear"
To Wright, this is apparently not sticking the knife in and twisting it, it's "talking up the Prime Minister." At this point the phrase "The stupid! The stupid! It burns!" was passing through my mind, but on reflection it all makes perfect sense.
To the juvenile airheads reporting for TV news, Goff's statements genuinely were expressions of praise. It's not that they're stupid, it's just that for them, creating good photo opportunities and saying what the public wants to hear are the acme of excellence in politics - there is nothing more.
All of which is good reason not to get your political news from the TV...
Why say it then?
The appetite of Dr Cullen and this Government for more taxes is legendary, 43 new and increased levies and taxes have been introduced. The latest is the carbon tax. It will add 6c per litre to the price of petrol, 7c per litre to diesel, 6% to all power bills and put the price of coal and gas up by 9%.
This week National launches the axecarbontax.co.nz campaign. The new finely balanced Parliament gives us the opportunity to send the carbon tax the way of the fart tax.
The madness of the Government's new carbon tax is that New Zealanders will be the only people in the world paying it. It will drive up the costs of living and undermine the competitiveness of New Zealand business for negligible environmental gain.
Labour Ministers may take pride in being toasted at International Climate conferences for being so bold and brave, but there is no justification for New Zealand going out in the cold by itself on this issue.
New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions made up only 0.4% of the global total and on a per capita basis our emissions are half those of countries like Australia and the United States. We are the only Southern Hemisphere country with binding legal obligations under Kyoto and giants like China and India have got off scot free.
The carbon tax will cost the Nelson and Marlborough regions $25 million a year. We are particularly hard hit because industries like fishing, farming and forestry are big fuel consumers. The tax is particularly insulting to the forestry sector and those farmers who have woodlots because the Government has taken the carbon credits for themselves. Only a Labour Government would have the audacity to impose a carbon credit on the forester for his diesel use but steal the carbon credits from his growing forest.*
A further concern of the carbon tax is its impact on inflation, interest rates and the exchange rate. It will add to the costs of fuel and power and these flow right through the economy to basics like food. This puts pressure on inflation, which in turn drives up interest rates and the kiwi dollar. The Government's carbon tax is a classic example of the way the Government is making things tougher for the productive exporting sector. It just makes their policies of 2006 being the 'Year of Exports' an exercise in shallow spin.
Dear Nick - why say this when you never meant it? Absolutely none of it.
* Ha ha ha ha ha. Only a Labour AND a National gummint Nick!
Why sign it then?
A United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous people that New Zealand signed up to overnight will have no practical effect, Prime Minister John Key said this morning.Why is John Key signing international declarations that will have no effect?
What's the point?
Is this the same as the poor souls who invested in Blue Chip joint ventures being told that the mortgage documents they signed on their family home "had no practical effect?"
How much did it cost for Dr Sharples to fly to New York to take part in something that will have "no effect"? How much was his carbon footprint?
Selling a Nation.
Key's proviso, that "Maori rights will only be progressed under our current legal and constitutional frameworks" sounds to me like a Claytons clause.
Every aspect of our lives will now have this UN decree hung over us, right along side the Treaty.
And I mean every. The gravy train just got a few carriages longer.
You will not read a newspaper, hear a radio report or watch a TV news without seeing or hearing the words "UN, Indigenous, Decree, Rights, Treaty" in some shape or form.
It just reinforces a sad conclusion that I have reached.
New Zealand is fast becoming a place where "every man for himself" will be the underlying principle.
A multicultural society living under a long black cloud.
Buying a Race by selling a Nation.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Comment of the week
Hey Marty,
You said "and actually has a cooling effect, slightly counteracting climate change." I'm confused, isn't the cooling effect a change in climate in itself? Or by "climate change" do you mean Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)? If you mean AGW would you please say AGW because a cooling of the planet due to a downturn in solar activity is by definition "Climate Change" as well.
You said "Volcanic eruptions also emit carbon dioxide" can you tell me how much we should tax Iceland for all the CO2 and other pollutants their Volcano is pouring into the atmosphere? Bear in mind that Iceland just voted to kick out the banks as well as Gordon Brown for bankrupting them so they probably don't have much money.
While we are working out how much to carbon tax the Icelanders, can you tell me who should pay the tax for all the undersea Volcano's erupting in the Pacific ocean? Or how about the ScienceDaily (June 26, 2008) article titled "Fire Under Arctic Ice: Volcanoes Have Been Blowing Their Tops In The Deep Ocean"
ScienceDaily (June 26, 2008) — A research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has uncovered evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ice-covered surface of the Arctic Ocean. Such violent eruptions of splintered, fragmented rock–known as pyroclastic deposits — were not thought possible at great ocean depths because of the intense weight and pressure of water and because of the composition of seafloor magma and rock.
The ScienceDaily article reports "that a tremendous blast of CO2 was released into the water column during the explosive eruption" – considering this, who should be paying all the carbon tax for all these CO2 events occuring from erupting undersea volcanos?
Actually can anybody tell me how many Volcanos are erupting under the sea? Does anybody know? If nobody know's how many volcanic events are occuring around the world, how do we know how much CO2 is being released into the atmosphere and consequently how do we know what percentage of that CO2 is due to our labour? I thought the Science was Settled so surely the IPCC knows where every single volcano is on the planet and not only that the IPCC know's how much CO2 is being released and the IPCC knows that all of the volcanic CO2 released by every volcano on the planet is inconsequential compared to our labour.
I guess the next time Ruapehu or White Island erupts all us Kiwi's need to dig deep into our wallets and cough up for Nobel Peace laureate and all around good guy Al Gore, the UN and the IPCC.
When Will They Learn?
This latest gloom mongering bullshit from the upper echelons of Auckland's highest agricultural sky scrapers fails to take into account the plain old common sense which was passed onto Adolf by a grizzled old Farm Management lecturer in 1969. His words still ring in my ears.
"Corporate farms are the current fad. They are being set up all over the world but they will never out perform the ordinary New Zealand family farm. The one unassailable competitive advantage the family farm possesses in attitude. It takes a personal stake in the business to motivate a farmer to get out of bed at 0200 and go to check that his cows are not dying of bloat."
In the forty years since that time, Adolf has seen and dealt with many corporate farms in Australia and New Zealand. They all started off with a hiss and a roar and they ALL failed for the same reason. The people actually doing the work had the attitude of employees, not owners. Oh, the fact that poor management decisions were taken by directors who had their fingers in all sorts of other pies contributed too.
Witness the most dramatic recent case, the Crayfar debacle.
KPMG cite Eastern Europe and Uruguay as examples for corporate excellence.
Well, it's not that long ago that the whole of Eastern Europe was a collective called the Soviet Union, the largest scale corporate farm ever. And if you want to see commentary on Uruguay, just ask HomePaddock why she and her husband sold their shares.
The only meaningful thing that the average person is going to understand is the fact that their cost of living has risen, whilst their opportunities to create real wealth have diminished.
The Greens wet dream
One of the Britain's biggest fresh fruit importers said business had ground to a halt. Anthony Pile, chairman of Blue Skies, said the company was losing £100,000 a day.And:
British and Irish scheduled airlines are losing up to £28 million ($60.6 million) a day, with the total bill to European carriers hitting US$200 million ($282 million), according to the International Air Transport Association.There will plenty of line dancing and spirulina drinking going on today. I also heard on the wireless that GDP across Europe has been slashed by at least 2%.
More than three-quarters of flights were lost yesterday across Europe, with barely 5000 taking off or landing, the Eurocontrol air traffic agency said. This compares with a typical 22,000.
Around Europe, 73 transatlantic flights landed yesterday morning, less than a third of the 300 that would normally arrive. The situation deteriorated from Saturday, when 10,400 flights made it out of the normal 28,000.
Russell will be doing cartwheels.
More Cheek Than A Chinaman
Even Neville Chamberlain had enough brains to refrain from publicly complaining that Britain's air force in 1939 was in no state to take on the mighty Luftwaffe.
However Ms Dipstick, the person in charge of policing all the rogues who have fleeced millions of their millions, now finds it necessary to pontificate about the deficiencies in the very regulations she so dismally failed to administer.
"They're not good enough for it at the moment.
"Investors in Hong Kong and in Singapore have a better regulatory framework of managed funds than we do, and they won't recognise our managed funds framework......."
...........Diplock told Q+A that inadequate regulation was a factor in finance company collapses which have put more than $6 billion of investors' money at risk.
"There are many, many factors that led to the finance company collapses, and the regulatory desert was one of them.
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I think we certainly, looking back, could say we needed a better regulatory framework at the time."She cited a lack of resources as a reason why it has taken so long to take action against finance companies and their directors.
"It's clear that the commission is under- resourced, there's no doubt about that.
In a nauseating display of self serving self righteousness, she resorts to the time honoured excuse of all failures - the blame game. The tools were no good and she didn't have enough money.
Adolf has some news for this jet setting Lady Jane.
The MAJOR factor in the whole fiasco was the failure of her Securities Commission to robustly use many powers it has always had at its disposal. She is a national disgrace, as is the idiot who interviewed her on Q and A and failed to ask the hard questions.
Bad news for Len Brown
It puts Phil Goff at just 8% support - 40 behind Key - with Labour 21 points behind National.
As Brown is Labour's candidate for Auckland's top job, he will be worried to see his leader and his party with little support. That'll translate into little support for him in a few months as Aucklanders realise a vote for Len is a vote for Sue Bradford and a Labour-led Auckland.
Not a good start to the week for Len, Labour and Sam Cash.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
You'd Think They'd Wake Up
No one seems interested in bringing to the attention of our leaders a comparison with the amount of greenhouse gases our much hyped and economically disastrous Emmissions Trading Scheme might prevent.
Adolf is prepared to wager that in just one week, Eyjafjallajokull has emitted more GHGs into the atmosphere than might have been saved my man's puny and futile efforts over the next ten years.
Repeal the bloody thing, Mr Key. If you don't, you will go down in history as New Zealand's very own John Queyote.
Sour grapes and stupidity
I figure that it could have been her.......
.....if only she hadn't lied, cheated and stolen in a desperate attempt to rort another 3 years of power.
Thankfully NZ moved on. There were enough intelligent voters to finally dump her, her motley crew and another barrel scrapping side kick (who shall not be named).
Then he adds this wonderful piece of intelligence to the debate on world security.
"Iran logically understands the sooner it gets a bomb the safer it will be."
It must drive him nuts that he now has to hate the USA on one hand and love Obama on the other.
No wonder the poor chap lives in such a constant state of confusion.