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This mountainous region of northeastern Italy is characterized by the unparalleled beauty of majestic mountains and lovely scenic lakes. It is divided by the Adige River. Trentino is Italian-speaking and Alto-Adige, the German-speaking area is known as the South Tyrol. Alto-Adige was part of Austria until after World War I.
Cortina is home to many fashion juggernauts including Bulgari, Gucci, Benneton and Geox. Trentino is the home of Cavit's wine empire.
In the 1960's Provincial Road #14 was transformed into the Winestrasse (Wine Trail). The South Tyrol Wine Road in Alto Adige runs along the right bank of the Adige River between Salorno and Bolzano. It is one of the most scenic roads in Italy. Pristine vineyards carpet lush Alpine valleys. Stop at the wineries for a "Vino con Vista." This region produces grappa.
In 2009, UNESCO added the snow-clad Dolomites on the east side of the Province to Italy's World Heritage List. This area has frequent landslides, floods and avalanches and UNESCO hoped to secure more rigourous defense and preservation of this area. The Dolomites are Italy's most distinctive mountains and were formed 200 million years ago from the Primeval ocean. Their majestic mineralized coral forms magical spires, pinnacles and rock walls. The mountains include 18 majestic peaks with interesting rock formations that are perfect for skiing. The "Cinque Torri" rock formations include five towers that soar to heights of 7,762 feet.
Holiday Events with Germanic traditions and Italian flavors
During the Christmas period the towns of Bolzano, Merano, Bressanone, Vipiteno, and Brunjco offer Holiday markets. The Christmas tree (Christbaum) and the Nativity scenes are common themes in this region. There are ancient nativity rituals in Bressanone and the Gries Abbey during Advent.
In Passo dell Stelvio, the first Saturday in December celebrates "Festa dei Klosen" dedicated to Santa Claus. Locals dressed in costumes wander the streets until the Church bells ring and everyone unites in prayer
In the historic center of Arco attend "Festa d'Immacolota" on December 7th for fireworks from the castle and a Christmas market with local delicacies like apple brule, cheeses and honey until December 23rd in the historic center of town.
In Bolzano attend "Christkindlmarkt" in Piazza Walter until December 23 with delicious Germanic sweets like "zelten," a sweet from Bolzano, based on dried figs, almonds, and candied fruit. Local tradition provides crowns made of fir branches interwoven with ribbons and four candles. In Bolzano, they light one candle each Sunday for the four weeks of Advent.
On December 5th Bolzano celebrates the arrival of Saint Nikolaus, protector of children. During this traditional celebration, Nikolaus is accompanied by angels and he is bearing gifts for good children. The festivities juxtapose this symbol of Good flanked by Evil, personified by "Krampus." Krampus is a two-horned furry demon. In Brunico, 150 of these "Krampus" demons parade, armed with chains and whips.
In Bressanone visit the "Il Presepe" exhibit at the Episcopal Palace until January 6th and the "Weihnachtsmarkt" Alpine Christmas Market until January 8th at the Piazza Duomo. Vin brule is distributed after the concerts and mass at the cathedral.
The 18th Annual Merano Christmas Market where most of the historic center is transformed into an outdoor market until January 7th.
Tastes of Valsugana in Levico in Parco della Terme until January 6th with Hapsburg-style horse drawn carriage rides.
In Trento attend the Christmas Market until December 23 in Piazza Fiera
In Cavalese attend the "Trial of the Witches" the first week of January.
In Cortina d'Ampezzo on Christmas Eve there is a torchlight parade of skiiers. There will also be a "EuroChocolate Ski" Event in this upscale Dolomite ski resort between December 16th and 19th.
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-My beliefs summarized in words much more eloquent than I could come up with
How the Universe came from nothing
Put it in the tour thread IMO, TBH.
Yeah, we knew this was going to happen - it's not absolutely ideal, but I don't really know what else anyone was thinking was going to happen. You can't have players being signed for multiple thousands of dollars then not being available because of some (in the scheme of that) meaningless tour-game.
In future, we're just going to have to try our best to schedule tours to the maximum extent possible around the IPL, as has been said many times. If that reduces the absurdly over-crowded international calender in favour of some easy-aess, working-holiday Twenty20 games, excellent.
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Atleast it's cricket (regardless of type) VS World Class players. Rather them play in england though.
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The time has come to make things right
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Im all good with it. They miss the meaningless festival opener and a four-dayer but theyll be back for two more four-dayers before the first test.
And its not like they'll have come in cold, they will have at least played some form of competitive cricket prior.
And if you ask me, the most important warm-up of them all will be the final match against the British Lions before the first test as that will be the best hit out they'll get out of all the initial warm-ups.
Last edited by Tim; 27-03-2008 at 03:47 PM.
Am also not too concerned though I do believe its a shame that the side obviously won't be flying out together as a team and beginning the tour as a team. Thats cricket these days, I guess.
Out of interest, with five players missing and presumably a 15 man squad, wheres the 11th player going to come from for the first two warm up games?
Last edited by Somerset; 27-03-2008 at 10:52 PM.
They'll bring in an extra wicket keeper, and some young batsmen.
Gareth Hopkins I heard is the replacement for McCullum.
This may well be the beginnign of a trend. You can't blame players if they aren't that well paid by their boards for making as much as they can.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of mans oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - JK Galbraith
"Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality." - Bob Hawke
#408. Sixty three not out forever.
It's all the Astle effect. I argue since his innings, every batsman around the country think they can chase down impossibly huge totals VIA the frequent flybys.
Especially when we all know NZ will be 100 for 5 every innings probably and our batting really starts when Taylor and McCullum arrive at the crease.
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I first met Mitt Romney in 2005. I was very impressed. I described him in this magazine as "informal, conversational, enthusiastic and speedy." Mitt Romney? Yes, indeed. But then, we were talking about something he really believed in, or seemed to: his universal health care plan for Massachusetts, which included an individual mandate--an idea I'd admired since it was proposed by Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation in 1989. Romney's plan wasn't the Full Butler, which would eliminate the deductibility of employer-donated health care benefits. But it was a huge step in the right direction, and Romney had mastered every detail of it. He seemed a near Clintonian policy wonk, a guy who certainly wouldn't have offered the disingenuous comments about health care that Romney did Sept. 9 on Meet the Press. In an attempt to sidle toward the center, Romney said he would embrace aspects of the Obama health care plan, like the mandate for insurance companies to cover all comers, including those with pre-existing conditions.
(PHOTOS: The RNC in Pictures: The Delegates by Grant Cornett)
Let us leave aside for a moment the well-known fact that Obamacare is, at its core, Romneycare taken national--and Romneycare taken national was the fondest hope of the fellow I met in 2005. What annoyed me was that, for the umpteen-hundredth time in this campaign, Romney was playing dumb on a subject he knew extremely well. His health care scheme and Obama's were dual-mandate plans. The insurance companies had to cover everyone, and the government had to require everyone to buy into the system. The insurers needed the larger pool of healthy policyholders to offset the cost of covering those who were already sick. And so I was prepared to whap poor Romney upside the head for this phony concession.
But then Romney retracted it. Or an anonymous campaign aide did, saying Romney "was not proposing a federal mandate to require insurance plans to offer those particular features." And there, my fellow Americans, you have it: the Romney campaign in full flight yet again, embarrassed yet again. This is terribly sad. The guy I met in 2005 had potential. But the guy who ran for President in 2008 ran away from the guy I met in 2005, and the guy who's running this time has been even worse. He has made a public fool of himself, and it's important to ask why.
(VIDEO: Mitt Romney's RNC Speech in Three Minutes or Less)
Romney's health gaffe came at a moment of peril for his candidacy. His party's convention had failed to lift him and would be remembered eternally for Clint Eastwood's empty chair. The Democratic convention, by contrast, had been extremely successful, even if Obama's speech wasn't. Indeed, the Obama people seem to have a far more sophisticated sense of how to run a campaign than the Romney people do. The Obama campaign remembered what Karl Rove had done to John Kerry in 2004 and performed an early advertising demolition job on Romney, defining him throughout the summer. Romney's campaign responded with an ad blitz in early September, "but there are diminishing returns for ads that run during the general-election campaign," a Republican strategist told me. "The public has been inundated."


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By JONNATHA MAYBERRY, Associate Editor, Chem.Info
Over the years, the majority of my New Year's resolutions have been health-related, with varying levels of success. Some years I have run on the treadmill for a few months, only to ditch that good habit in favor of watching Seinfeld re-runs. But other years, I succeeded in eating more fruits and vegetables, going to the gym more frequently or simply standing up to stretch more often.
For many of us, trying to make healthier choices for ourselves is challenging enough. But for some, every workday revolves around improving the health of others. When I envision such a person, I often picture a doctor or a nurse, but in all actuality, the work that goes on behind the scenes is equally important — and often quite unexpected.
Around the first of the new year, I came across a Reuters article about Larry, a "humanoid-simulated vomiting system." This robot, appropriately nicknamed "vomiting Larry," was created by researcher Catherine Makison from the Health and Safety Laboratory in Derbyshire, England.
My initial, slightly revolted and entirely amused reaction quickly turned into pure fascination. Larry's work is important: Scientists are studying his projections, which consist of an easy-to-spot fluorescent "vomitus substitute," in order to better understand contagion. I must admit that I have never felt so relieved to see the word substitute.
Currently, Larry is hard at work simulating the projections of someone suffering from norovirus, a dangerous and easily spread illness that affects millions each year (21 million in the United States alone). "'It takes fewer than 20 virus particles to infect someone. So each droplet of vomit … from an infected person can contain enough virus to infect more than 100,000 people,'" says Ian Goodfellow, a professor of virology at the Department of Pathology at Britain's University of Cambridge.
Furthermore, the article explains that the virus can "remain alive and well for 12 hours on hard surfaces and up to 12 days on contaminated fabrics such as carpets and upholstery." Therefore, scientists are working hard to determine the behavior of Larry's "substitute," and determine how it can be better contained and cleaned up in order to help halt the spread of the virus.
As researchers create inventions such as Larry to help better understand how illness spreads, they hope that this awareness leads to a healthier future.
Increased understanding has led to the development of an experimental vaccine that may prove to be effective against norovirus. "Early tests in 2011 indicated that around half of people vaccinated with the experimental shot, now owned by Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., were protected from symptomatic norovirus infection," the article explains.
While the rapidly changing nature of norovirus makes drug development difficult, the scientists and researchers who work behind the scenes have resolved to find an answer, and with innovative inventions at their fingertips, their goal may be a little easier to achieve.
Another year has begun, and while I may struggle with my own healthful resolutions, I admire the resolve of those who strive to better understand the world around us.
Science isn't always pretty, but it's definitely remarkable.
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On the books, we have thousands of gun laws obeyed by our go...od citizens while ignored by criminals. Most of our mass shootings have been perpetrated by those suffering from mental illness who were not armed with "assault rifles". The massacre at Virginia Tech involved a handgun and resulted in significantly more victims.
In order to solve the problem, let's begin by confessing that we cannot stop it from happening again. We cannot fix all the sick, broken people determined to do others and themselves harm. We cannot take away all of the guns. We cannot afford cops at every entrance to every school.
We can, however, harden the target and limit our vulnerabilities if we become aggressive in our response to potential threats. There are school districts in our country which have adopted a proactive approach to security threats. Within their schools are certain staffers (known only to the administration) who carry concealed firearms within the school. These trained individuals are designated as "Guardians" and they represent a vigilant line of defense for those we must protect. They are equipped and ready to stand in the gap. Like Sky Marshals, School Guardians remain behind the scenes unknown to all, but prepared nonetheless.
We can opt to provide less lethal technology, such as Tasers, to select staff within our schools. While their effective range is limited, they could provide a line of defense for those who currently have nothing at their disposal. This would require minimal expense and training and could be in place within a matter of weeks.
How I wish one or more of the staff at Sandy Hook Elementary had been a "Guardian" or equipped with a Taser. How differently might the outcome have been.
We must change the way that we view mental health issues and options in our country. We closed the doors on institutions during the 1980's only to provide no alternatives. The results surround us and it is politically incorrect to even discuss the issues. If we feel your conduct or actions place our society at an undue risk, your liberty should be in jeopardy. We recognize this when it comes to passenger aircraft, and it is time we recognized it outside of the airports as well.
The media must police itself or be subjected to fines for sensationalizing instead of simply reporting these types of tragedies. Most of these murdering crazies seek celebrity status, even in death, and the electronic media is generally only too glad to oblige. Why do we understand this when it comes to streakers at a televised event, yet fail to grasp it in these situations? There is a balance missing that the media desperately needs to find or we can find it for them.
Preparing our children to take their place in civil society is the responsibility of parents. Teachers, mentors, and the rest of society can only reinforce what parents are instilling. There are some who advocate taking certain guns from responsible citizens while simultaneously letting junior play the most hellish video games available night and day. What's wrong with that picture? Training a child is the toughest, most important job if we are to preserve a civil society for the coming generation. In this, we must hold each other accountable. We simply must stop subsidizing and making excuses for antisocial behavior.
I will introduce legislation in the next two weeks which would:
Authorize a Maryland School District to implement a "Guardian" program;
Authorize a Maryland School District to issue Taser style less-lethal weapons to select personnel within a school;
Authorize persons who possess Conceal-Carry Permits along with Active or Retired Law Enforcement Officers (who are certified to possess firearms) to carry a concealed firearm on the campus of a public school.
It was Benjamin Franklin who proclaimed, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Let us be a people who truly understand how to provide safety while maintaining our liberty.


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Best of the Net: Numbers
October 30th, 2009
And the onslaught of fall commitments continues. While work, school, and life conspired to eat up most people's time, a bunch of you did manage to hammer out some pretty solid games this month. Let's view them, shall we?
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Explore a three-dimensional world solely made up of colored numbers in this visually compelling game. Use the mouse to control the camera and arrow keys to navigate.
Target moving numbers using +, -, *, or / to approach your target number. Use the right mouse button to change operation, and the left mouse button to perform the operation. Requires the Love engine.
Search the screen for hidden numbers by dropping physics-enabled balls. Also check out Magic Brain Training, which is more of a brain exercise than game.
Part Sidoku, part rubik's cube – all mind-blowingly challenging. I need a bigger brain to play this game.
A puzzling-platform like game. Navigate using the arrow keys.
Swap numbers around until you get them in order. The name on this one is exceedingly accurate.
An interesting spatial reasoning/math solving combination – compete to see who can solve this in the least number of moves.
Virii, by Dustin
Virii have attacked your computer, changing some of the 1s and 0s into… 2s! Use the + and – keys to add or subtract from any number on your screen. Surround a virus with either all 1s or all 0s and it will be neutralized. Press 'r' to reset the puzzle. Requires the Love engine.
At last, a game about solving multiplication problems and crushing rodents with an over-sized mallet!
A run and gun game. Try to defeat the giant robot boss using a gun that changes numbers – interesting concept here.
Number Ninja, by Peter Groeneweg
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Infinite Number Adventure, by Vazor
I wish I knew what was going on in this game.
Make the Number Bigger, by Ben Wilhelm
Click to make the number bigger every 30 seconds. You too can construct numbers with significance like the one to the left.
Number to Number Combat, by J Tremblay
Quick addition/subtraction combat combined with light RPG elements!
Buy and sell stocks in this frantic trading game.
Shoot 1Up, by Mommy's Best Game's
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Eat static and moving numbers which are less than your level,then you can up your level after get 10 score.
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Jessica Simpson already has a lot to celebrate this week: She recently gave birth to a baby girl, her NBC show "Fashion Star" got renewed for another season and she's still got that reported multi-million dollar contract with Weight Watchers to crow about.
Today, however, the star announced another deal to expand her already massive retail empire: a maternity line, created in partnership with Destination Maternity.
According to WWD, Destination Maternity was eager to create the partnership as soon as Simpson announced she was pregnant, and the collection will be available in the chain's over 700 retail outposts this fall.
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WWD reports that the collection has a "vintage Seventies feel," including Simpson staples like denim, maxi dresses, and jersey dresses — all under $100. As Simpson herself told WWD: "You want to wear clothes that are flattering to your baby bump; you want to show your bump off."
Simpson may have been pegged as a less-than-savvy blond bombshell in her reality television career, but she's proven a very smart businesswoman when it comes to retail, creating an empire that reportedly may come close to $1 billion in sales this year. Here, too, Simpson is making a pretty slick move: Launching a maternity line around Mother's Day, just after she gave birth herself.


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Choreography by: Jerome Robbins
Forgoing elaborate costumes, set design, and even musical accompaniment, Moves enthralls with the unexpected intensity derived from sounds produced by the dancers themselves.
Whether a ballet tells a story or concerns itself with pure dance, its form is determined by the web of music on which it is composed according to the interpretations of the choreographer. The score conditions, supports, predicts, and establishes the dynamics, tempos, and mood, not only for the dancers, but also for the audience. The music acts as a base for the spectators' responses to the happenings on stage and creates a pervasive atmosphere for reaction. Moves severs that guidance and permits the audience to respond solely to the action of the dance, to become aware of the potential to gesture, to respond directly to the curiosity of movement, and to be released from the associations evoked by scenery, costumes, and music.


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When Kanye West rushed onstage and grabbed the microphone away from Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards the other day, was he being a racist? Or was he just being rude?
Me, I thought he was just being rude. In any case, he apologized. And life moved on.
When Serena Williams yelled at a line judge at the U.S. Open Saturday night, was Williams being a racist? Or was she just losing control of her temper during a hard-fought match?
Me, I thought Williams was just losing control of her temper during a hard-fought match. In any case, she apologized. And life moved on.
When Joe Wilson yelled at President Barack Obama during a joint session of Congress last Wednesday, was Wilson being a racist? Or was he just being an incredible jerk?
Me, I thought he was just being an incredible jerk. But others thought he was being a racist. (After the incident, he called his wife, and she asked him, "Joe, who's the nut that hollered out?" And he said, "It was me." And she said, "No, really, who did it?")
In any case, Wilson apologized. But life has not moved on.
First, the House of Representatives demanded that Wilson apologize again, and when he refused the House passed a "resolution of disapproval" against him.
I watched the House debate figuring that at least one or two of the representatives would denounce Wilson for racism. But not a single one did. Steny Hoyer, a Democrat from Maryland who is the House majority leader, said he knew Wilson and "I have found him a man of measured conduct" in the past. Hoyer said he was "surprised" by Wilson's behavior.
Jim Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina, who represents the only majority-black district in his state, had every opportunity to call Wilson a racist but didn't even hint at it. Clyburn said it was all a matter of civility. "There are certain things that you do and certain things you don't do," Clyburn said. "And when you do the things that you don't do, the proper thing is to show contrition."
President Obama, who could have used Wilson to create a "teachable moment" on race in America, did not. Instead, Obama said he "appreciated" Wilson's apology, though Obama did think the incident was an example of the "coarsening of our political dialogue."
It looked like things would move on. And then came Jimmy Carter, who seems to believe that if something is worth stating, it is worth overstating.
"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he's a black man," Carter told NBC's Brian Williams.
I think it is impossible to disagree that some of the animosity directed against Obama is racist. You can't look at some of the disgusting signs that people have carried at protest marches and listen to some of the deplorable things people have said and believe otherwise.
But Carter has decided that "an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity" is racist. How he quantifies that, I don't know.
I do remember that the extreme right wing also hated Bill Clinton, a white guy. Clinton was accused of being a cocaine smuggler and having murdered his friend Vince Foster and all sorts of other dastardly things. (And this was way before Monica.)
Also, having been in college in the late '60s, I do remember the extreme left wing hating not only some Republicans but some Democrats, too. ("Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" was not a love song.)
So extreme feelings can be based on things other than race. And people can act rudely and not be racists.
But Jimmy Carter sees it differently when it comes to the attacks against Obama. He says extreme attacks against Obama "have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African-American."
He could be right. He could be wrong. But as Jason Zengerle, a senior editor at the New Republic, wrote, if Carter "wants to help Obama, he should just shut up."
Why? Because Carter is describing an America that Obama says does not exist. Certainly there is racism in America, but Obama has always insisted that it is not as big a deal as some think. (And he was, after all, elected president. Let's not forget that as we scourge ourselves.)
Obama officially took issue with Carter through White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. "The president does not believe that the criticism comes based on the color of his skin," Gibbs said. "We understand that people have disagreements with some of the decisions that we've made."
So is it not race but merely disagreement over decisions? Or does race still lurk? Along with rudeness. And extremism. And a coarsening of the political dialogue.
All of the above, anyone?


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Dan Bovenmyer
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March 16, 2007, 05:22:23 pm »
I really like the idea in the Statement of Weakness about having a book of government. I told my dad so in person yesterday, and am going to bring this up in our local church leaders meeting. I think that there are some thing in place already about this, but they are not well publicized at all. Many people dont know about our statement of early weakness, I think have more focus on that in some way would be very good. I do know that GCC recently publish a longer version of our church history including mention of the statement of weakness. You might want to check that out.
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March 16, 2007, 05:22:57 pm »
Its noteworthy that the Statement of Weakness paper is linked on that write-up of the history.
Dan Bovenmyer
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March 16, 2007, 05:23:20 pm »
Things that Im in the process of doing personally as a result of this site.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.George Santayana
I keep thinking of this quote. I dont want that to be true of me.
Ive been trying to take inventory as Im reading here. I want to watch for hurtful ways in myself first before I look elsewhere. I have felt rightfully reproved as Ive read here. I intend to keep reading and thinking.
Im in process of personally talking to every person in my sphere of influence about what I know of our failings. Im going to make sure they are exposed to our weaknesses paper. Im asking them to join with me in keeping watch that we dont return to those weaknesses.
Im also asking them how we are currently doing, we have a growingly diverse church here of many personality times with different religious and personal backgrounds. I think it will take many different types of people to really watch for the differing types of weakness that we could have.
I just wanted to give you guys some view into my own thoughts please make suggestions as you feel I need correction.
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March 16, 2007, 05:23:37 pm »
Youre more bold than I am in this. Only my closest friends have seen the Weakness Paper or any of the books and documents I got from the GCMWarning dudes. While my involvement here has affected my personal life and leadership deeply, Ive been hesitant to circulate much stuff.
My reasons? 1.) Especially after what happened with Gene, Debbie and Steve Bush over on the Lets Talk About Sex thread, Ive been gunshy about talking before I have tangible facts. 2.) Gossip has been something that makes me red-in-the-face, so Im being careful about that. I dont want to make anyone stubmle.
I realize that Gossip and make people stumble can be trigger-words for alot of people here, but please believe that I mean them in the correct sense. The way I like to operate is to quietly work behind the scenes and build up a huge amount of credibility, then enter the scene already competent and well-versed, and ready for action-action-action, rather than lots of discussion and brainstorming.
My personal goal here is to assist in reconciliation as best as I believe I can. A goal Im gaining since making that one is to not allow myself or my peers to cause similar wounds to what you guys here have in our own student group.
Princess Buttercup
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March 16, 2007, 05:23:58 pm »
That history link it outrageous.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s a concerted effort was made to reach out to people who felt that they had been hurt by GCI and GCI churches. At the initial urging of Tom Short, the GCI leaders and pastors published a paper as part of a plan to follow the Biblical standard of humility and reconciliation in relationships. This effort towards reconciliation, formally called Project CARE, was led by Dave Bovenmyer and was instrumental in building unity with Christians within and outside of Great Commission. (For a copy of this paper, click here.)
Excuse me, an effort was made to reach out to people who felt they had been hurt?
Thats just plain arrogant. A sincere apology would not put the blame on the person who felt he was hurt. A sincere apology would say we recognize we have made some decisions that hurt people, we are going to change, and then would be followed by sincere humility, restoration of broken relationships, and change. A sincere apology would also not involve a national leader 15 years later saying the statement was too self depricating.
GCM just cant admit they did something wrong.
Looks like the spin control is in motion though. Cant wait to see the next set of talking points.
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March 16, 2007, 05:24:27 pm »
The wording of that paragraph does seem extremely evasive of responsibility. people
who felt that they had been hurt
by GCI and GCI churches not people who had been hurt by GCI and GCI churches.
At least they are including the error statement on their website now. Thats a step forward.
Princess Buttercup
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March 16, 2007, 05:24:38 pm »
No mention of the hundreds of excommunications. Just hurts.No mention that people are still excommunicated. Just words like reconcilliation in relationships.
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March 16, 2007, 05:24:57 pm »
I can understand your tone, even though its not the one Im chosing right now, Princess.
It has struck me as off for a while that it seems several of the people that were present at the forming of the Weakness Statement dont speak of it in a way that the language within the statement seems to demand.
Almost like saying I apologized a long time ago, and hey, I wasnt even that wrong. Get over it! Hmmm Maybe Ive got a cold and Im tired, but I feel grouchy right now.
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March 16, 2007, 05:25:13 pm »
Nate, thanks for posting that.
Thats one of those things about GC that just doesnt add up to me. When I think Ive figured out GC, I often come back to that and rack my brain. At this point I am tempted to believe the apology was sincerely meant by Dave and a maybe few others, but many in the movement (used to years of having to go along with whatever McCotter or others above them said) just went along with it at the time, not necessarily wanting to disagree or rock the boat. After all, just a few years earlier people were being thrown out in the hundreds for disagreeing with leadership, including some national leaders. 15 years on, we find that some churches seem to have taken the error statement seriously, and others (unfortunately many national leaders) want to forget it.
One thing that contradicts even this theory: has any pastor ever taught a GC history sermon that even mentioned the hundreds excommunicated, or bad theology back then. Or taught a sermon that didnt skip/gloss over the serious problems of the past? Ever? The closest Ive heard to an accurate history sermon is Steve Nelsons, and that one practically paints McCotter as a saint.
If there was such an effort to reconcile with members hurt by the movement, who exactly did they reconcile with? Where are these people? Where are the GC was bad to me, but look, they changed, I am proof of that stories?
Another theory Ive had about the odd dichotomy is that they published the statement to counter bad press they were receiving (Dave has stated the error statement was prompted following news that Churches That Abuse was going to be mentioning GCI in it, and some other events occurred around that time), and so many people perhaps went along with the statement realizing it was what the movement had to do to pacify their critics, but not necessarily what they wanted to.
Whatever it is, something just seems to suggest that not everyone has maintained the same level of seriousness about the error statement.
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March 16, 2007, 05:26:03 pm »
Good thoughts. Ive brainstormed in several of those directions and cant find many explicit, black-and-white conclusions. It seems very complex and multi-faceted.
About painting McCotter as a saint, Ive heard a few thoughts from current members that further complicates, but also explains some stuff. First, McCotter lead many of the national leaders to Christ. I know that was the case for Dave Bovenmyer, even. If I remember correctly, Jim really believed in Dave, and I think Jims influence in Daves life largely got him to a place spiritually where he became an elder at a young age and was consistently involved in leading the Movement in different ways. I read a letter to GCI in a Cause Magazine where Jim highly praises the hard, diligent work of Dave and others in putting out the (bi-monthly) editions of Cause.
I think theres a sense of loyalty and/or respect that goes along with saint-ing McCotter, or at the very least refusing to demonize him.
Another thing is that I doubt that many people in The Movement today have the foggiest idea of what McCotter is up to. Dave was surprised to hear that Jim is a millionaire. Many people here on decommissioned have mentioned that their pastors refused to read any documentation by Wellspring & Co. - and thatd further lead to a sense of pleasant ignorance. I frankly cant imagine the horror of learning that someone that was your spiritual father in many senses has tanked spiritually so badly. I think about the handful of men that persevered with me when I was a much younger christian and helped me to become the man I am today. It would make me sick to find out that they were living extremely worldly or worse - very deceptive, manipulative lives. I would probably want to know the truth, but I wouldnt want to dwell on it for sure.
So to summarize for the too long, didnt read crowd, I think some people either have a sense of loyalty or respect for the 1970s version of Jim (which by most accounts was much more reasonable and Godly than other incarnations), and many are simply pleasantly ignorant of his lifestyle today and arent too interested in bursting that bubble of bliss in his memory.
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March 16, 2007, 05:26:43 pm »
And dont forget that in the too long, didnt read crowd there are those that still think that there was nothing wrong. There are those who still believe the same way today. In courtship pressure, no moving away except for the kingdom of God, careers are bad, and so on. I know plenty of those types, and they seem like the nicest people in the world if a little odd. And then you find out why all their kids have followed in their footsteps because there is no other acceptable path.
Glad to be free.
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March 16, 2007, 05:27:11 pm »
Speaking of communicating history, the original Columbus church (Linworth Road - Tom Shorts current home church) began a 4-week, Wednesday night series last week that is recounting the history of GC, a decade at a time. Martindale talked about the 70s last week, from what Im told. Im not sure who is slated for the other three weeks.
Part of me wants to go to hear what is said and, more importantly, what is left out. But I dont think that I could listen without getting really upset - not because of my own experiences, but because hearing white-washed revisionist history would really make me angry for the sake of the people listening, thinking they were getting the real story. Its such a great opportunity to show a humble, servant-leadership attitude .but Im not hopeful.
Ex-shep, you said you wanted to visit with Chris Martin sometime .this might be a great time to drop by the Columbus area . I would suggest the week that they will be talking about the 90s, since thats when the Weakness Paper came out, right?
Another option, for those who are interested in what current national leaders are recounting as GCs history (btw, I was told that Chris was recently appointed to the GCM board, which, if true, would lend further authority to this version of history) would be to contact the church and see if they will be taping the series and making it available.
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I was around when the Weakness Paper came out. And I told one of the national leaders that our local church was still operating according to pre-Weakness Paper mentality and practices. People were being hurt. People were leaving, and unable to even pray for years. Some people were staying in the church JUST for damage control, once new people saw what was really happening.
What did this national leader say to me, when I told him how our pastor was operating? "But he works so hard!"
So be it. And we fell through the cracks, and "church" keeps on keepin on.
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 1902–74, American aviator who made the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight, b. Detroit; son of Charles A. Lindbergh (1859–1924). He left the Univ. of Wisconsin (1922) to study flying. After service as a flying cadet, he was commissioned (1925) in the air force reserve and later became an airmail pilot. On May 21, 1927, Lindbergh astounded the world by landing in Paris after a solo flight from New York across the Atlantic in The Spirit of St. Louis. Upon his return to the United States he received an unprecedented welcome, was promoted to colonel, and made a nationwide tour to foster popular interest in aviation.
Lindbergh married (1929) Anne Morrow (see below), the daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico Dwight W. Morrow, and with her made several long flights. After the kidnapping and death of their son (see Hauptmann, Bruno Richard) in 1932, the Lindberghs moved (1935) to England. In 1936, Lindbergh collaborated with Alexis Carrel on the invention of a perfusion pump that could maintain organs outside the body.
After inspecting (1938) European air forces, Lindbergh became convinced of German air superiority; he favored a U.S. policy of isolationism with respect to the struggle threatening in Europe. He returned (1939) to the United States and made antiwar speeches for the America First Committee. When these were branded pro-Nazi, he resigned his reserve commission and quit the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Upon U.S. entry into the war Lindbergh offered his services to the air force; he subsequently flew combat missions in the Pacific. In his later years he emerged as a spokesman on conservation issues.
See his We (1927), Of Flight and Life (1948), The Spirit of St. Louis (1953; Pulitzer Prize), and The Wartime Journals (1970); memoir by his daughter, R. Lindbergh (1998); biographies by W. S. Ross (1968) and A. S. Berg (1998); T. Kesssner, The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation (2010).
His wife, Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh, 1906–2001, b. Englewood, N.J., grad. Smith College, 1927, was a writer and aviator. Her more than two dozen works include North to the Orient (1935) and Listen! the Wind (1938), both accounts of flights she made with her husband; The Wave of the Future (1940), a tract advocating isolationism; Gift from the Sea (1955), a poetic, highly personal, and best-selling study of the problems of women; The Unicorn and Other Poems (1956); a novel, Dearly Beloved (1962); and a volume of essays, Earth Shine (1969).
See her diaries and letters, Bring Me a Unicorn (1972), Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead (1973), Locked Rooms and Open Doors (1974), The Flower and the Nettle (1976), and War Within and Without (1980); biographies by S. Hertog (1999) and K. C. Winters (2007).


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A running discussion on the Cincinnati Reds and everything else in the baseball universe.
Monday, June 6, 2011
2011 Draft: Players the Reds Should Target
So, here are a few guys that I'd like to see the Reds target. Anyway, away we go...
Chris Reed - LHP Stanford
Reed stands 6'4" and weighs 195 pounds. He both throws and hits from the left side. He's a junior and served as the closer for the Stanford Cardinal.
Reed's fastball sits in 91-94 range, which he compliments with a power slider and an above average change-up. His three pitches all have plus potential, but remain inconsistent likely due in no small part to his limited experience. Reed worked only a grand total of 60 collegiate innings at Stanford. In fact, during his collegiate career, Reed worked almost exclusively as a reliever, but his arsenal certainly should translate to the starting rotation. He provides the type of power stuff that you don't often see from the left side.
As for mechanics, Reed has very clean, efficient mechanics. Here's a look at him in action courtesy of BaseballAmerica:
Reed has simple, compact mechanics, but still generates good velocity and incorporates his body into his delivery. He has a nice high leg kick and coils his body to generate potential energy. He gets a good push off the mound and incorporates his legs effectively into the delivery, which should reduce some of the stress on his arm. He works from a high three-quarter arm slot and has a quick arm and a clean throwing action.
The obvious red flag on Reed is his limited workload. Will he be able to hold up under a professional starting pitcher workload? Will his repertoire translate into success the second and third time through the batting order? That's the great unknown. If not, then he'll be developed as a high leverage reliever, but you hate to burn 1st round picks on relief pitchers. So, there is some uncertainty and development risk at work with Reed, but he's one of my very favorite southpaws in the entire draft and certainly among those southpaws who should be available in the second half of the first round. The Reds have had good success in developing pitching prospects as of late, but as the continuing struggles of their MLB rotation attest, you can simply never have too much pitching.
Tyler Beede - RHP H.S.
Tyler Beede stands 6'4" inches tall and weighs in at 200 pounds. He throws from a high three-quarter arm slot with a clean arm action.
Beede catches the eye because of very clean, efficient pitching mechanics. Clean mechanics, at least in theory, should reduce his risk of injury and allow him to more efficiently transfer all the energy he generates to the baseball. And, the ability to efficiently transfer all the energy generated by the windup to the baseball should have performance benefits.
Here is a look at Beede in action, courtesy of dbtung:
As you can see, Beede has a very fluid windup and one move flows naturally into the next. He steps towards first with his left foot and then shifts his right foot down onto the rubber. He then brings his leg up into a high, strong leg kick with his knee up by his chest. He generates good potential energy by taking a high leg kick with some body coil from hip rotation. He then begins to unpack his leg kick as he drives to the plate. He has a quick arm and very smooth throwing motion. His push off the mound is strong and he utilizes a good stride to the plate. Overall, Beede both generates good potential energy and effectively transfers it to the baseball. One thing I like to see in pitching prospects is the ability to generate good velocity without sacrificing balance. The combination of power and body control portends well for the future and I think that's apparent in Beede's mechanics.
As for his repertoire, Beede works with a 89 to 93 mph fastball, a sharp biting curveball, and an emerging change-up. Additionally, probably due in no small part to his clean mechanics, he has good command and control over all three pitches. Beede also has a good feel and understanding of pitching, which helps his stuff play up a tick.
To me, the real question on Beede, and the one that will likely define his professional career trajectory, is whether he'll be able to add velocity as he gains strength and adjusts to the rigors of the professional workload. If he can improve his velocity a tick or two, then he could become a legitimate top of the rotation pitcher. Given his age and ideal pitching frame, it seems a reasonable possibility that he will. At the very least, he looks like a polished high school arm with a nice ceiling. Of course, the remaining consideration is signability, as Beede has committed to Vanderbilt. So, the Reds might have to go over slot to convince him to sign a professional contract, but the more I see of Beede the more I really like what he brings to the table.
Jason Esposito - 3b Vanderbilt
Esposito caught my eye in a Vanderbilt game in 2010. At that point, I thought he was the guy for the Reds to grab in 2011. Something similar happened when I saw Brandon Crawford play shortstop for the UCLA Bruins. However, instead of building on their respective sophomore season success, both players regressed somewhat in their junior years. Crawford regressed to the point where he would have been an overdraft by the Reds and the same might be true of Esposito. The lesson I've learned from these two players is that you can't count on an impressive sophomore to continue to improve as a junior. Instead of linear progression of elite college players, there can be regression.
In 2011, Esposito hit .362/.429/.560 with 8 homeruns and 15 steals in 25 attempts. He started out the season slowly, but got hot later in the season to bring his numbers up to a very respectable level. The final numbers look very good, but his production was erratic, happening in fits and spurts. He had a few significant slumps that raise a bit of a red flag.
In his swing, Esposito uses a high leg kick as a timing mechanism, which caused the timing of his swing to get out of whack at times. He stands very upright and can seem a bit stiff and mechanical at the plate. There are also questions of whether he can handle elite velocity.
Here's a look at Esposito at the plate:
On defense, Esposito plays a very nice thirdbase. He has good range, soft hands, and a strong arm. In fact, his defensive game is so strong that he spent some time manning shortstop for Vandy, but he projects as a third baseman in the professional game.
I'm still a fan of Esposito, but the questions about his hit tool have increased to the point that I no longer view him as a lock for the Reds if he's available. Another lesson I've learned over the years of doing this is that it's not wise to gamble on a questionable hit tool in the 1st round. I still think Esposito has a nice, well rounded game and could develop into a very good MLB player. He has good defensive skills and a nice power/speed combo.
I'd love for the Reds to get Esposito, but whether he's worthy of a first round pick or should more realistically be a second round guy remains an open question in my mind. If we were to pass, then I'd hope he slips to the Reds in round 2, which would be similar to Ryan LaMarre in 2010. As a result, I wouldn't mind seeing the Reds land him at 27, but I don't have the same concrete opinion on it that I did before his 2011 season.
Jose Fernandez
Jose Fernandez is an interesting story. He fled Cuba, twice, to make it to the U.S. As a result of that hardship, he takes nothing for granted and is driven to succeed. Additionally, he is a mentally tough pitcher, which should be an asset as he endures the rigors of professional baseball and climbs the ladder. His work ethic and (over?) confidence rival any pitcher in the draft class.
Fernandez features a power repertoire. He throws his fastball in the mid 90s with very heavy sink. He features a true 12-to-6 curveball and a biting slider. By all reports, his arsenal is big league ready right now and all three pitches are swing-and-miss offerings. He needs to continue to refine his secondary offerings, but his control of the fastball is already quite good. And, not many power pitchers are also ground balls pitchers, but Fernandez might fit that bill. The ability to avoid contact and get ground balls would be intriguing for the Reds in Great American Ballpark.
In addition to a power repertoire, Fernandez also has clean mechanics. Here is a look at him in action:
All in all, his mechanics are sound. There is some effort to the delivery, which could add stress to his arm. He also has a slightly different coil than is typical, as he reaches apex before he coils inward, but it effectively generates potential energy. Despite the effort in the delivery, his arm action remains fairly clean.
His build reminds me quite a bit of Chad Billingsley, as he's a stockier type pitcher and has a thick lower half. Some view that build as being ideal for power pitchers and workhorse starters, while others feel he'll have to work hard to keep his body in shape and avoid adding bad weight to his lower half.
One possible red flag is that some question his age. According to his listed age, he'll be 19 before the end of the season, but some question whether he's even older than that. A belief driven perhaps in part by his stockier build and thick legs. Even if he was found to be 21 or 22, then it wouldn't be the end of his prospect status, as even if his performance would be skewed by being more advanced than the competition his stuff and mechanics would remain. Obviously, age is a key factor in development, but pitchers are less beholden to the ticking clock of Father Time than position prospects. Still, his age is something to consider.
Overall, Fernandez is an interesting arm. He has big league stuff right now and is fairly polished for a high school pitcher. There are questions about his age, but he has a nice blend of stuff and mechanics. He might be off the board before the Reds select, but if not he should be in the conversation.
Final Thoughts
In the end, I'd slot these guys on my draft board as follows: 1) Tyler Beede, 2) Chris Reed, 3) Jose Fernandez, and 4) Jason Esposito.
Unfortunately, each comes with some measure of risk that you won't find in the more "sure thing" prospects taken in the first half of the draft. Beede has signability concerns, Reed has workload and positional issues, Fernandez has body type and age risk, and Esposito has performance risk with the hit tool. So, to a certain extent, you have to pick your poison and manage your subsequent risk.
For me, Tyler Beede is the guy to target. He has the best combination of ceiling, floor, and risk and could develop into a special talent. He's projected as a sandwich pick, but I like him just a tick better than that. After that, I'm really intrigued by Chris Reed and would be interested to see if he can make the successful transition to the rotation. If he can, then he could be a sneaky good value. As for Fernandez and Esposito, my gut tells me that Esposito is the better option, but my head is saying Fernandez. So, this time, I'll go with my head.
6 comments:
- smittyJune 6, 2011 at 8:39 PM
interesting guys lark, however stephenson was my guy and thats who they drafted. i win :]ReplyDelete
Congrats on Stephenson. I hope you and the Reds are right. Personally, I'm disappointed and really surprised that Tyler Beede flew off the board. Every mock draft I have seen projected him in the sandwich round or round 2. So, to see the Jays pop him that early is disappointing. I really thought he would be a nice sleeper and I was really hoping that the Reds would snap him up. Unfortunately, the Jays saw something in him and may have worked out a pre-draft deal, so they'll reap the benefits.
And, of course, Chris Reed was grabbed by the Dodgers, which surprised me. The Dodgers seem to favor high school prospects, but maybe they felt Reed would give them cost certainty in a time of financial crisis. Still, another disappointing development.
All in all, Stephenson is probably the best the Reds could have done with the way the draft unfolded. He's got a live arm and the potential to dominate, but obviously needs a little refinement and development time.
Thanks for the comment!
- smittyJune 6, 2011 at 11:20 PM
yea i was surprised by quite a few picks today, im still holding out hope that norris is still available for our second pick and they chuck money at him until he signs..ReplyDelete
how have you been man? it's been a while
Evidently, Norris has real signability issues, so it would likely take a lot of money to get him signed. Given how vocal the organization was about its financial situation this past offseason, I tend to doubt that they will be willing to go significantly over slot to sign Norris. Not that it wouldn't be an idea worth exploring.
It's been a pretty hectic last month or so. Lots of work and family stuff going on, which made it impossible to do much with the blog. But, hopefully things are looking up.
Anyway, thanks for the comment! I'm liking the Stephenson pick more and more. It's not often you can get that type of arm with the 27th overall pick. I still prefer Beede or Reed, but given they were off the board I don't mind Stephenson. So, you might have been right on that one.
- smittyJune 7, 2011 at 1:44 PM
yea i know it would take a lot more for norris but honestly i wanted bell much much more. You know me, power hitting switch hitters that play the outfield? yes please! oh well, cant get everyone you want.ReplyDelete
I am liking the draft so far, although not as much as last years
Yeah, Norris would have been great...if they could have signed him. It's a tough draft for the Reds due simply to draft position. Not easy to make a lot of noise that late in the draft.ReplyDelete
But, I'm still pissed Tyler Beede was off the board. I thought he would be a great addition, but such is life.


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Note: This is the first part of a multi part series on Nitish Kumar and his efforts to build a New Bihar.
When Mayawati became Chief Minster of U.P. for the first time, she shook up the entire bureaucracy and police by shifting more than 150 officers in one day. When Lalu became CM, he soon landed up at the Patna Medical College Hospital with the media in tow, to inspect whether Doctors were attending duty properly. He publicly rebuked those who were found derelict. He did the same when he became the Central Railway Minister, by ordering the office gates to be locked after the scheduled time so that the habitual late-comers could not get in. Yet, when Nitish Kumar became CM of Bihar in November 2005, after 15 long years of Lalu-Rabri rule, there was hardly a flutter.
Save one or two key bureaucratic changes, there were hardly any changes anywhere. So much so that even the official residence of Chief Minster, 1 Anne Marg, continued to adorn the outgoing Chief Minister, Rabri Devi more than two months after he was sworn in. People started to wonder what, if any, were the changes. Nitish Kumar went to work with practically the same bureaucratic and executive team as his predecessor. Sure there were reshuffles later on but the pace was unremarkable. He started off by conducting long meetings with the senior bureaucrats that routinely went on till late nights. The bureaucracy was rattled a bit but not too much thinking that the initial enthusiasm will soon run out of steam. They were, however, in for a rude shock. Nitish was digging his heels for a long seize, not a guerrilla war. Assiduously he went to work to put the state back on track, bit by bit.
One of the first challenges was to stabilize law and order situation. However here too, those who were looking for some high profile, quick fix solutions, were disappointed. In fact the first full year barely saw any change. High profile kidnappings and murders continued to rattle the state. Nitish came in for criticism for his pre-election claim that he will fix law & order within three months. Change however, started to become visible later after a few cases were cracked by the Police and the accused were charge sheeted promptly. Another significant change appeared in the form of unshackling of several upright senior Police Officers who had been completely sidelined during the Lalu Rabri era.
Another turning point was the gusto with which the state embraced the centrally sponsored Fast Track Court scheme. More and cases were transfered to the FTC especially those belonging to high profile criminal politicians ( even those from his own JDU Party) . Suddenly things started to look up after the conviction rates started to inch up. In the past two years 2006 – 2008, more than 26000 convictions have taken place. Several dreaded political criminals have been awarded capital punishment and lesser sentences. Today, even thogh the law & order situation may not be ideal, but at least it has turned a corner . A clear proof of this is that Bihar has already ceded its monopoly over prime time television news to a lot of other states. No news is indeed good news.


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Hundreds of businesses on Wednesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a 1996 federal law barring benefits to same-sex couples, including Silicon Valley tech titans Apple, Google, Oracle and eBay.
In a friend-of-the-court brief, a broad range of businesses, ranging from the insurance industry to the Walt Disney Co., argue that the federal Defense of Marriage Act places an unfair burden on employers, forcing them to create a "dual" system of treatment for same-sex couples by denying them benefits that heterosexual married couples receive. The brief stresses that DOMA is particularly troublesome in the nine states that permit same-sex marriages.
Business interests, including Apple, eBay and other valley companies, are expected to also file a brief with the Supreme Court by Thursday arguing that Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, is discriminatory and should be declared unconstitutional.
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