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Rupert Murdoch: Mr. Sleaze, I Presume?
[Speaking Truth To Power]
Emperor of News Sleaze Is Naked
Last Sunday, media mogul Rupert Murdoch closed his English newspaper "The News of The World," founded in 1843, amid the widening probe into revelations his reporters were involved in phone-hacking and bribing police to obtain news scoops.
Given the continuing, unfolding magnitude of this journalistic malfeasance—and its implication regarding ethics in journalism and media consolidation—isn't it time mainstream media take a good look in the mirror?
According to Scotland Yard, and English police sources, several reporters and executives of "The News of the World" have hacked into the voicemails of over 4,000 people, including victims of the July 7, 2005 Subway Attacks in England.
Some of the victims, of these privacy intrusions, include: former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, parliamentarian George Galloway, Prince William Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry of Wales. Also, allegedly, "The News of The World" employees bribed police officials for information regarding people the newspaper targeted.
"The News of The World" is operated by News International, the global arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp—the world's
second-largest media conglomerate behind the Walt Disney Company. New York-based News Corp is part of Australian-born Murdoch's global media empire. Its assets total close to $60 billion.
Murdoch bought "The News of the World" in 1969. In a statement, Murdoch's son, James said "The good things the News of The World does…have been sullied by behavior that was wrong. The News of the World is in the business of holding others to account. But it failed when it comes to itself."
The elder Murdoch has been somewhat silent during the expanding scandal. And, a $19 billion takeover bid to merge Murdoch's Sky News with British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) may now be in jeopardy. Murdoch already owned 39 percent of BSkyB. The deal would give him the remaining 61 percent of BSkyB.
Several executives and reporters, from "The News of The World," have been arrested in the fallout from the phone hacking scandal including: Ian Edmonsen, Neville Thurlbeck,James Weatherup, Clive Goodman and former reporter Andy Coulson.
Coulson served as public relations chief to British Prime Minister David Cameron, from 2007—after he left the News of the World—until Jan 21 when he resigned citing "continued coverage of events connected to my old job at The News of the World." James Murdoch is also facing possible prosecution over allegations he misled the English Parliament. The role of editor Rebekah Brooks is also being investigated.
The News of The World phone hacking scandal has been ongoing for several years. However, it has now gained international notoriety because of the case of 13-year-old Amanda "Milly" Dowler who was kidnapped, in 2002, by British serial killer Levi Bellfield. Bellfield was convicted, on June 23 2011, of murdering Dowler.
Last week, The Guardian reported Scotland Yard's findings that Ms. Dowler's voicemail had broken into by reporters from "The News of the World" and their private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. Mr. Mulcaire was arrested when the phone-hacking charges first surfaced around 2006. Scotland Yard announced "The News of The World" reporters had deleted messages from Dowler's voicemail destroying potential evidence and giving Dowler's family false hope that she was still alive.
The reporters, presumably, deleted the messages because her mailbox was full. Deleting the messages allowed them to listen to the other messages on the phone. According to police sources, there is also evidence "The News of the World"
executives deleted millions of internal e-mails in an attempt to obstruct Scotland Yard's investigation. However, the inquiry continues and there are accusations that some Murdoch news outlets, in America, are guilty of the same things.
This story highlights some of the primary problems in today's corporate media culture, not just in England, but here in America too. Unfortunately, shallow, sensationalistic, unethical journalism is the standard. This is because men like Rupert Murdoch have been allowed to monopolize media and mass produce ignorance to the detriment of democracy.
Media barons, like Murdoch, don't give a damn about informing the public. Theirs is a money-driven mindset that has made mainstream media nothing more than the mouthpiece of power. We're told "The News of The World" reporters paid police for gossipy news tips. This sort of behavior isn't peculiar in the profession.
American journalists are often bribed—or bullied—into burying important stories, or publicizing others, by politicians, or, those with deep pockets. Do you remember when Armstrong Williams was fired from America's Black Forum for not
disclosing he was paid $240,000 to tout President Bush's "No Child Left Behind" program? That disclosure made Mr. Williams' zeal for Republican ideals crystal clear. Is it any wonder then that we have sycophantic journalists who are aware they must behave if they want to be invited to those lavish parties given by the rich and famous?
Now, Mr. Murdoch can pretend he didn't know what his reporters were doing. But his "news" outlets have a track record for publishing and broadcasting junk journalism. Let's take a look at two of his other media operations: FOX News and
The New York Post. Recently, the Post ran a story claiming the African woman who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan of a sex attack is a prostitute. So far, has the Post given us anything other than hearsay evidence and a supposed unnamed source to support this claim? The woman promptly filed a lawsuit against The Post.
Remember when Mr. Murdoch, basically, said the Post's portrayal of President Obama as a chimpanzee, being shot down by the NYPD, was just an unfortunate misperception being made by African-Americans? Does any honest person, who saw that hideous cartoon, really believe that?
Then there is FOX News. This "news" outlet by itself broadcasts a staggering amount of lies and half-truths every single day. This is the same network that pressed false and misleading stories—like the ACORN and Shirley Sherrod debacles—from the likes of Andrew Breitbart. In the end, this phone-hacking story illustrates the problems of a media corrupted by monopolization and greed from the likes of Rupert Murdoch. Ironically, he is paying the price for his own depraved and unchecked greed.
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When I looked outside this morning more new flowers had opened. I love Sunflowers. I did not plant this one...so it must have came from last year.
I love this pretty pinkish-purple one
Sorry if I'm boring you with the flowers, but I'm posting about these more for myself... so I can look back next year and beyond to see what we had. Sort of like a flower or gardening diary.
Today is a lazy day for me. I'm playing around with Instagram (I added a link to the sidebar) and looking back at old photos of vacations...making me want to go somewhere. Maybe in a couple of weeks.
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So apparently Material Mama's main website was hacked. Ugh. No, those aren't pictures I've put up. Apparently someone stole my domain. iPowerWeb was the provider and they have not been very helpful in dealing with the issue.
I'm doing my best to resolve it. I have no intention of paying to get my site back so I guess he'll just have to pound sand. I think they try to use porn to extort people like myself. I'm working on a whole new portal for all my sites.
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"Family Guy," during its 12-season run, has consistently proved an equal-opportunity offender through irreverent humor that makes some cringe and others laugh. But "Family Guy" crossed a new line Sunday night by committing its worst sin yet: turning serious with the shocking – and senseless – death of Brian Griffin.
Getting upset about the demise of a talking dog on a TV cartoon that turned depictions of projectile vomiting and battles with a giant chicken into comedic art seems as silly as some of the outsized reactions to controversies spurred by the Fox program over the last nearly 15 years.
But Brian's earned from viewers the kind of loyalty he gave the Griffin Family: On a show that plays primarily on a silly and surreal level, the paunchy, middle-aged Snoopy-inspired canine served as the most grounded – and most human – of characters.
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Brian not only talked – he had something to say. He brooded (over his faltering writing career). He lusted (after Lois, the one woman he could never have). He sang (beautifully, taking the stage with Frank Sinatra, Jr.) He drank (to excess, winding up in bed with Quagmire's transsexual dad). He loved and was loved by everyone (except Quagmire).
Brian was closest to Stewie, the genius baby once bent on world domination, now a mellower adventurer. Not only could Brian hear Stewie, he understood him – they were parts of the same being, with Brian's super-ego usually unable to contain Stewie's id.
They teamed on flights of fancy, via Stewie's time machine, turning some episodes into twisted homages to the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby "Road" movies. Stewie and Brian tweaked Hitler. They saved Christmas (after ditching Stewie's plan to assassinate Santa). In perhaps the best installment in "Family Guy" history, they traveled to parallel universes, delivering a brilliant Disney parody.
The "Multiverse" episode that spanned space and time showed great imagination – unlike killing off Brian, which smacks of a cheap gimmick from a show out of ideas and desperate for attention, even amid a solid season. Generating negative publicity isn't new for "Family Guy." What's different in this case, though, is that the outrage isn't coming from interest groups, but from devoted fans, as evidenced by a flood of #BringBrianBack tweets.
Perhaps the most stunning aspect of Brian's death is the almost pedestrian way he went: hit by a car while getting ready to play street hockey with Stewie, who had just destroyed his time machine after altering history one time too many. The emotional deathbed scene felt out of character for the show. So did Stewie, unable to get a key part for a new time machine, quickly giving up on plans to rebuild his contraption and go back in time to save Brian.
Stewie's already been won over by the new family dog, Vinnie, who might have been at home with the crowd at a certain summer share in New Jersey – and certainly fits in with the "Family Guy" tendency toward characters equal parts offensive, funny and likable.
It's difficult to believe that show creator Seth MacFarlane would allow the death of the Griffin family member closest to him in voice, and, we suspect, in spirit. Anything, as MacFarlane has shown us via Stewie and Brian's adventures, can happen in a cartoon. Let's hope we'll somehow again see Brian back in Quahog working on that novel he'll never finish.
In the meantime, fans are left to mourn an oddly compelling TV character – as well as a show that's lost its best friend, and perhaps its way. If you think you can stand it, check out this video salute to Brian Griffin, who was struck down before his time in dog years and TV years alike:
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.


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The Library Card by Jerry Spinelli
Age: 10-13
Four kids, with difference backgrounds, families and lives, come into contact with a simple blue library card that soon changes their lives and helps shape their most important decisions.
The book is broken into four section, each section devoted to one of the 4 kids. The first section is about Mongoose and Weasel. Both are slackers in school and dream of dropping out and running away. Although once Mongoose finds a library card amongst a stash of candy loot that he lifted from the grocery store, their plan to drop out and run away is no longer all that simple.
Brenda is a TV addict who has to turn off the TV for one entire week for the Great TV Turn-Off and turns to the library for comfort.
Sonseray is a troubled child who lost his mother to a drug overdose. He and his uncle are constantly moving from place to place because of Sonseray's antics until he one days steps through the library doors.
Finally, April takes a trip on a bookmobile in a new town that soon changes her perspective on life and the people in it.
I really liked this book and I think it sends a good message to kids. I'm not just saying that because I'm a librarian. Each child faces a slew of difficulties, from peer pressure to feelings of abandonment. The stories are funny, tragic and hopeful. Lives can change when someone is presented with a different set of options. For these kids, it was a change of routine and a friendly face in an air conditioned building.
I would say this book is a good read for both boys and girls because of the three male characters in two of the sections. I think the boys will enjoy the girl chapters too, because of the content (what kid can't relate to the torture of no TV for a week?) The themes of friendship, identity and creativity are good for the pre-teens who are just starting to discover things about themselves and are looking for a direction for development.The Library Card Jerry Spinelli Scholastic Books, 1997 ISBN 0590386336 148 pages


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Domestic violence was a crime too common to make the news
Ever wonder how TV stations know to show up at all those fires, shootings and freeway pileups for the "if it bleeds, it leads" style of news coverage? When I was trying to break into the news business in 1992, it was my job to find the bleeding.
I thought I knew something about journalism. I had interned at a high-minded but doomed international news program at Minnesota Public Radio. But the first paying job I could find was in television.
I grabbed the bottom rung: overnight dispatcher. I would sit in a closet-sized room monitoring 200 police, fire and ambulance radio frequencies and wake the camera crews to roll on breaking news.
"You'll move up in no time," the guy at the assignment desk told me. He had done a brief stint as a dispatcher himself and now worked daytime hours, writing actual news copy.
My trainer took out the sheet of police codes I would have to memorize. A 187 meant murder.
"You'll get really excited when that happens on your shift," he told me.
Minneapolis had about 65 homicides a year back then (20 more than the current average). It was the lucky dispatcher who caught the code and launched the camera crew before the competitors. The daytime bosses might even learn her name.
I showed up at midnight for my first shift. The "dispatch shack" was awash in noise. Imagine 200 radios tuned to different stations and trying to make sense of what you're hearing. But the human brain is a strange organ. As the sound washed over me, I'd somehow catch a strand of a story and block out everything else. My brain became a kind of purse seine, filtering for the codes I'd memorized.
I began to see crime not as random, but as predictable.
Patterns: The first two hours of my shift were jumpy. From midnight until 2 a.m., the metropolis was settling into a summer night: car accidents, robberies, apartment fires. A convenience store clerk might get shot, or a post-bar drug deal would go bad.
I paced the shack trying to plot the calls against the maps that covered the walls. The action hovered in neighborhoods unknown to me.
After 2 a.m. the club scene died down, and across most of the city it was lights out.
I wandered through the newsroom looking at the fakey sets, the drab cubes, the makeup room. I brewed coffee and tried to stay awake.
A scrap of chatter would rouse me like an evil alarm clock.
"Hurry, she says he's got a knife," a female police dispatcher told the squad car. "She says he's trying to break down her door."
These were the domestics. From 2 until dawn, domestic disputes dominated the emergency frequencies.
I had this creepy feeling of flying over the city in an airplane, seeing houses below lit up with violence.
Domestics were not news. They happened all the time. They were messy and private. Stranger murders were more pleasing to the news formula: relatively rare, a slight chance it could happen to you, but probably not scary enough to keep you from falling asleep after weather and sports.
The violence in households was a steady din. I looked at my maps and wondered how many women at that moment were being choked, hit and violated in their own homes, probably with kids around.
At 8 a.m. I'd give my report to the next dispatcher and stumble out onto Nicollet Mall. People looked fresh and beautiful striding to their offices. I walked past them feeling like I'd just watched a horror movie and didn't know where the bad guy was lurking.
The person who trained me had been a dispatcher for five years. I was pretty sure I wouldn't last that long.
Many nights, I heard nothing that required any action from me. When I did hear something that sounded newsworthy, I second-guessed my ability to make sense of the chatter. One night I heard a fire dispatcher call for help from surrounding departments. It was an apartment fire that sounded pretty big.
"Wha-at?" the photojournalist on call said when I woke her up. I introduced myself as the new dispatcher and explained the situation. She waited. "Um, this fire sounds pretty bad..." I faltered. She must have been warm in her suburban bed. She pounced on my insecurity. "It's probably nothing," she snapped and hung up.
I was too chicken to call her back. How much trouble would I be in if we missed a big story? The next day I watched the competing stations and saw with relief that whatever fire it had been, their dispatchers had missed or dismissed it too.
A month went by. The daytime people hadn't noticed my vigilance and I was heading for five years of oblivion in the dispatch shack. It no longer seemed so important to stay awake all eight hours of my shift.
One night I put my head down on the desk and woke up to the feeling my barrette was moving across my hair. I spun around and did a Farrah Fawcett flip, tossing a large cockroach to the floor.
So much for the glamour of television news. I was making minimum wage. I hadn't broken a single story. Domestic violence was an epidemic we didn't report on.
Public radio called. Gary Eichten had broken his arm and needed a typist. Would I be interested?
It's been almost 20 years. I've had thousands of assignments and stayed late many nights, but never with the profound loneliness I felt in television. That month in the dispatch shack I was sifting for the strange, rare and random, and missing the biggest story of all. Why are so many houses lit up with violence? What are we supposed to do about it? It's a life's work in journalism to find out.
Sasha Aslanian is a reporter for MPR News. Her brief experience in TV news sparked a conversation with MPR Youth Radio reporter Valencia McMurray about coverage of domestic violence. Valencia tells the story from the other side: looking back at the day her family's home lit up with violence when she was 6, and how it influenced her family and her own decisions.


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Itivuttaka: The Buddha's Sayings
The Section of the Ones
26. Giving
This was said by the Lord…
"Bhikkhus, if beings knew, as I know, the result of giving and sharing, they would not eat without having given, nor would they allow the stain of meanness to obsess them and take root in their minds. Even if it were their last morsel, their last mouthful, they would not eatwithout having shared it, if there were someone to share it with. But, bhikkhus, as beings do not know, as I know, the result of giving and sharing, they eat without having given, and the stain of meanness obsesses them and takes root in their minds."
If beings only knew—
So said the Great Sage—
How the result of sharing
Is of such great fruit,
With a gladdened mind,
Rid of the stain of meanness,
They would duly give to noble ones
Who make what is given fruitful.
Having given much food as offerings
To those most worthy of offerings,
The donors go to heaven
On departing the human state.
Having gone to heaven they rejoice,
And enjoying pleasures there,
The unselfish experience the result
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The pot-in-pot refrigerator or zeer (Arabic: الزير) and its manufacturing process was engineered by Mohammed Bah Abba, a Nigerian teacher from a family of pot-makers, who patented a pot-in-pot refrigerator in 1995 to help Sudanese families preserve food. Bah Abba was awarded the $75,000 Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2000 and the World Shell Award for Sustainable Development in 2001, and elected to the Ashoka Fellowship in 2008 for its development.[1][2][3] It is a refrigeration device which keeps food cool without electricity by using evaporative cooling. A porous outer earthenware pot, lined with wet sand, contains an inner pot (which can be glazed to prevent penetration by the liquid) within which the food is placed – the evaporation of the outer liquid draws heat from the inner pot. The device can be used to cool any substances such as water, foods or temperature sensitive drugs.
There is some evidence that evaporative cooling was used as early as the Old Kingdom of Egypt, around 2500 B.C. Frescos show slaves fanning water jars, which would increase air flow around the porous jars and aid evaporation, cooling the contents.[4] These jars exist even today and are called "zeer", hence the name of the pot cooler.[citation needed] Many earthenware pots were discovered in Indus Valley Civilization around 3000 BC which were probably used for storing as well as cooling water similar to present days ghara or matki used in India and Pakistan.
Despite being developed in Northern Africa, the technology appears to have been forgotten with the advent of modern electrical refrigerators. However in the Indian Subcontinent, ghara, matka and surahi, which are different types of earthenware water pots are used to cool water.[6] In, Spain the popular botijos, porous clay containers to keep and to cool water, have been in use for centuries (and are still relatively widespread), favored by the low Mediterranean climate; locally the cooling effect is known as "botijo effect".
The idea of using the physical principle that cools water in these traditional containers was re-engineered by Mohammed Bah Abba so that perishables such as food could be stored as well as water. Bah Abba's desire to help poor Nigerian women led to his idea of a new design and coupled this with low cost production techniques.
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-in-pot_refrigerator
- http://www.rolexawards.com/profiles/laureates/mohammed_bah_abba/project


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Jennie Durant holds an M.F.A. in Writing from Saint Mary's College of California and specializes in both fiction and nonfiction. Jennie has taught literature, creative writing,and composition in universities such as U.C. Berkeley in California; Metropolitan State University in Denver, Colorado; and Suleyman Demirel University in Isparta, Turkey.
A California native, Jennie has lived and traveled around the world, hiking 1000 miles of the Pacific Crest trail, raising bees, and volunteering on an organic farm in the Philippines. In 2007, she returned to the Philippines for a fourth time to live in the rice terraces as a Fulbright scholar and work on a nonfiction travel narrative. In 2008, Jennie appeared in Oprah Magazine as one of 80 Women Rule! participants, and she was recently chosen as one of Saint Mary's College's 40 most influential female graduates. In December 2010, Jennie returned from living abroad in Turkey and Italy and now teaches creative writing and composition at Saint Mary's College and UC Berkeley.
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Barring some brief, miraculous frosty transmogrification, the garden is gone for the year. I'm ready to burn what I can and cut the rest. Winter's barely here and I want to move on.
I have projects, changes to make, things to do. I was recently notified, you see, that the garden will be on the Garden Conservancy Open Days next year. Nothing like a deadline for motivation. Right now, unfortunately, this feels like work. Where's that delight in gentle, impulsive garden making? I want play and pleasure--not work. For years toiling in the corporate coal mines I kept as my mantra (or complaint) Robert Frost's words in Two Tramps in Mud Time:
It seems I never accomplished that goal, so as next best, I've semiretired to garden play, or so I thought. Could it be the competitive instinct is inborn, so deeply ingrained, I can't stop it? So to prepare for next summer, I've started on a series of changes, "improvements" as they were fond of calling them in 18th century English landscape culture, more I'm sure than I'll have time or money for. Down the road, I hope I'll be able to remember this is play too.
The first project is this one ...
We just finished the new reflecting pool. Much work remains--building a low stone retaining wall for the gravel bed, deciding what pattern to use for the paving, entirely replanting the area around the pool. I want a touch of formality, probably mostly shaped box wood and Thuja spires, contrasting with the wildness and informality, especially here near the house and pool, where straight lines and right angles lend a greater sense of geometric order.
Hidden under the bank going up to the house, I hardly see this new pool area from above. But from down in the garden, it's been an annoyance. The garden is young--barely seven years--and I just hadn't had time to deal with it. I planted a Salix 'Hakuro-nishiki', which grew fast and helped cover up the inattention, but it was time to fix this.
|View coming down the stairs from the house.
My initial thought was to create a simple path and paved area, and new plantings, to add strolling options and a more engaging experience in the garden. Then it occurred to me I could make room to add a reflecting pool. (I've been exceedingly happy with the new pool in the small Brooklyn garden, so the thought of adding a reflective element at Federal Twist caught my interest.) The ideas started morphing and I realized I could also take this opportunity to remove a gravel path I've always disliked, reuse the gravel in the new pool area, and turn the unsuccessful path into a new planting area, even mound new soil on the path, creating a kind of irregular berm, with the hope the improvement in drainage will allow me to grow some plants that don't thrive in heavy wetness.
Once the pool was finished, however, I wasn't satisfied. I wish it were larger, but topography prevents that. Much more importantly, it doesn't look like it belongs. So instead of using this new area as open negative space, which I had planned to do, I'll enclose and partially hide the pool within close plantings of shrubs, grasses and perennials. It can be glimpsed through the plantings, but will remain an enticing, seemingly out-of-reach mirage from many parts of the garden. The photo below shows something of the veiled, partial glimpses I'd like to create.
|When the area around the pool is fully planted, it will be partially hidden, veiled by vegetation.
I made these mark-ups with a simple program called Skitch to better envision how massing might work to make the reflecting pool a private area for contemplation. First, the view from the south, shown below. Small paths will allow entry from the left, the right, and the back. The green shapes may be shrubs such as box wood and spires of Thuja occidentalis (Arborvitae), which does very well in my wet soil, and is an extraordinarily beautiful, native evergreen in spite of what you might think! The yellows and blues show how various mounding and vertical grasses and perennials might be used to create privacy and screen views into and out of the area--and to hide the unsightly deer exclusion fence at the back (another problem solved).
Below is a view from the opposite (north) side. Another aspect of the new plantings--apart from screening and visual pleasure they can give--is controlling reflections in the pool. To some extent I can experiment by moving plants around in containers, but intuition will certainly play an important role. I can already see that distant trees will probably dominate the reflected view, and am pleased with that. Again, apart from the green lines, which indicate Thuja and box, the other colors represent general concepts for massing of grasses and perennials, and perhaps other shrubs such as Lindera angustifolia (if I can find it), viburnums, or coppiced willows (I'm particularly interested in finding Rosemary willow, Salix elaeagnos 'Angustifolia'.)
This final view shows the area from behind the path I'm removing. This will become a messy, sprawling (read "naturalistic") berm planted with shrubs and perennials, giving some added height. Though I will order a few "prize" plants from remote sources, I need large, well established specimens from local nurseries to get a finished effect in time for next summer. That means using what's available locally and remaining open to improvisation.
I think using Skitch has awakened my sense of play. We'll see.


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31243, Hymns, O Saints of Zion, no. 39
1. O Saints of Zion, hear the voice
Of Him from courts on high.
Prepare the pathway of the Lord;
His reign on earth is nigh.
Prepare the supper of the Lamb;
Invite the world to dine.
Behold, the mighty Bridegroom comes
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2. Entreat the Lord in humble prayer
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And shout the glad "amen."
The sacred keys are now restored;
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Make known the wondrous words of truth
Revealed again to man.
3. Behold, the glory of the Lord
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For Zion is an ensign pure;
All nations to her flow.
O Saints of Zion, tread the paths
Your faithful fathers trod.
Lift up your hearts in gratitude
And serve the living God!
Text: Ed M. Rowe, 1878-1951. © 1948 IRI
Music: Robert P. Manookin, 1918-1997. © 1948 IRI


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The Waiting is the Hardest Part
I hate waiting. I hate waiting more than burnt pizza, cold weather, and wearing wet socks combined. Of course, if I were waiting for burnt pizza in cold weather with wet socks, that'd be much worse than just waiting. But I still hate waiting.
I am an impatient person. And what's worse, I'm a New Yorker. I'm not sure if that chicken came before that egg, but I do know that being a New Yorker makes you more impatient, and being impatient makes you more of a New Yorker. I'm so impatient, I'm annoyed that I've only finished two paragraphs of this column.
I hate waiting in any form. I hate waiting for my train, and then I hate waiting while I'm on the train. I hate waiting for a phone call, and I hate waiting on hold when I'm the one who calls. I hate waiting to meet someone, and well, I really hate waiting to meet someone. And above all else, I hate waiting on lines. At the post office, at the movies, at a baseball game, for the bathroom. Lines are one of the things I hate most, because not only am I waiting, I am standing. I know that hate is a strong word. But I'm too impatient to look up another one.
There's that commercial with Catherine Zeta Jones where she talks about a bored guy waiting on line for something, and she hands him a phone. When I first saw it, I figured he'd pass the time by playing video games on it or by making a few calls. No - he dials his buddy and has him put his phone up to the TV for a kung fu marathon. I don't know if I've ever been bored enough to listen to kung fu, but I did sympathize with his desire to get off that line.
But worse than lines is the idea of a slow-person-in-front-of-me (otherwise known as a SPIFOM). Often, I'll be on a stairway, or trying to walk on a subway platform, or making my way down a crowded street, and the person in front of me is a turtle. They are not green, and they do not have a shell (usually), but I have met plenty of turtles that have a better ability to move out of the way when someone is trying to pass. So I wait for the SPIFOM to move, and they do not. The person in front of me is so slow that I have time to mock their sluggishness to whomever is standing next to me. You may find that rude, but so is being a turtle on a busy sidewalk. And it would be much ruder if I actually placed both hands on the SPIFOM's shoulders and gave a hearty shove, which I've thought about doing quite often. When you are stuck behind a SPIFOM, you have plenty of time to think.
What all of this comes down to is that waiting equals boredom. A lot of people enjoy the alone time, but I'm not all that interesting to myself. I've already heard all my stories, and I never really need to ask how my day was. I know how my day was. It was boring, because I spent half of it waiting.
In college, I didn't wait much because I didn't have time to. I had my classes, and my friends, and my extracurriculars, and my jobs, and occasional time to eat and sleep. Sure, I would have to wait for a few things--mainly appointments with advisors--but actual time to sit and do nothing was so rare that I was thrilled. Now, my life is based around sitting and doing nothing, so sitting longer and doing more nothing isn't such a reprieve.
Doctors have waiting rooms, which try to help you wait by offering unpleasant chairs and substandard magazines. It's a nice thought, but cracked vinyl and a six-month old issue of Prevention don't help the cause. Then I'm just as bored as I was before, only more uncomfortable. Though I'm not sure which makes me uncomfortable - cracked vinyl or reading Prevention. And once my name is finally called and I exit the waiting room, I'm sent to an examination room where I wait some more. But now I'm waiting in my underwear with the door slightly open, which is slightly more comfortable than reading Prevention.
I know that I sound bitter and jaded in this column, and I expect lots of e-mail telling me that I should lighten up. But I don't mind - see, I can check my e-mail on my phone, which gives me something to do while I'm in line at the post office, at the movies, at a baseball game, or for the bathroom. Or even while a particularly slow SPIFOM is in front of me. Besides, writing those e-mails will give all of you something to do instead of sitting around. I know you're bored - you'd have to be to read this far.
So go ahead and send those letters. I'll wait.


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I encourage looking at these threads, topics and posts today ...
Please remember that we are in our Treeleaf Global Service Days: January 11-25 2014 ...
How to turn into a tree ... turning into what we already inter-are ...
Formula-non-formulas ... every day is a good day ... The answer is probably not 42! ...
A simple moment ... Zazen and a toothache ...
A Re-MINDER on SIMPLICITY:
In a Zen Monastery, SILENCE or A FEW WISE WORDS are cherished over MANY WORDS. Thus, I advise folks to restrain the need to speak unless the heart truly calls. If you find yourself posting many times each day, maybe consider what truly needs to be said ... and when it is best just to answer with silence and an inner Gassho.
SILENCE OR A FEW HESITANT WORDS OF FRIENDSHIP AND SUPPORT OFTEN SPEAK MOST PROFOUNDLY. Post when it is truly important to you and needs to be spoken from the warm heart.
(too much silence or shyness can also be excessive ... so take the Middle Way!)
Also, to those who may get lost among the many threads and conversations in our Forum, please think of a monastery made of wood or brick, with 100 monks holding 10,000 conversations in the hallways, kitchen, Abbot's rooms and library (I assume no chatting in the Zendo where people sit Zazen).
Would you need or want to hear or join in all or most conversations? Of course not! You would, at best, pick and choose the conversations relevant and helpful to you.
So here too in our Sangha, NO NEED TO READ EVERY CONVERSATION: Try to note the ones that seem helpful to your Practice or interests, leave the rest. The above threads are a few suggestions.
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Mike Lewis, Don Schumacher Racing senior vice president, and Pete Hylton, director of motorsports for the Motorsports Engineering program at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, detailed plans of the partnership at a 2:30 p.m. (EST) press conference during the fourth annual International Motorsports Industry Show being held at the Indiana Convention Center.
IUPUI, located in Downtown Indianapolis, and DSR, which is based in nearby Brownsburg, began collaborating four years ago and major strides were made after one year in the development a new Top Fuel Dragster chassis that debuted in 2010 with what at the time was the quickest run ever at 3.752 seconds by former DSR driver Cory McClenathan.
For various personnel reasons, the program was on hiatus last season but it resumed running at full speed this fall and plans to expand in 2013.
In addition to offering the country's only four-year motorsports engineering Bachelors degree, IUPUI will introduce a Masters degree program with a motorsports concentration in January.
A few months ago, Hylton met with Lewis and Mike Green, crew chief for DSR's U.S. Army Top Fuel dragster driven by seven-time NHRA world champion Tony Schumacher, to reenergize the internship program.
"There is such a great synergy between our program and DSR that it was only a matter of time before we would reactivate it," Hylton said, "and we see several areas where we can achieve mutual benefit for the team, the university, the students and the sport."
Schumacher, who will be inducted next year into the prestigious International Motorsports Hall of Fame, has been an innovator in drag racing since he was a pioneer Funny Car driver and owner in the mid-1960s. His emphasis always has been on safety as well as performance.
"The future of our great sport of NHRA drag racing is not just in finding talented drivers but in cultivating mechanics, crew chiefs, machinists and engineers," he said.
"Our wonderful relationship with IUPUI and its dedicated and intelligent faculty and students contributed to our DSR teams winning two NHRA world championships this season. And with the reciprocal relationship between IUPUI and DSR we hope to win more while keeping our drivers safe."
Lewis added, "DSR's relationship with IUPUI partners our engineers and crew chiefs with IUPUI instructors and students on specific research projects related to the safety and performance of our Top Fuel Dragsters and Funny Cars. Students learn from their real world experience in the DSR race shop and we've enjoyed tangible benefits from this joint effort."
Green said, IUPUI students' involvement with DSR has expanded to other projects including the study of Funny Car chassis dynamics and failure analysis of engine components.
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This Hour has 22 Minutes is a satirical "news" program that has gained considerable notoriety in Canada and contributed to not insignificant governmental shifts.
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Season 13[edit]
October 28, 2005[edit]
- Go [BLEEP] yourselves! [to the people who had won the lottery in the past weekend]
Season 14[edit]
October 11, 2006 [14.2][edit]
- Shaun Majumder: So are you concerned about these cuts to literacy programs?
- Graham Wilson (Conservative strategist played by Mark Critch): Not at always. We analyzed the data and realizated that we issue the tackling of literalness through learning adults, and continuing edufication.
- Shaun Majumder: I see, but is it really necessary to cut given the surplus?
- Graham Wilson: Sure it's thinking to tempt "oh, we have a money of surplus here, let's not eliminize anything", but we want don't just surpluses, we want gooder programs delivered more better.
- Shaun Majumder: Yes, but over nine million Canadians have trouble reading and writing.
- Graham Wilson: I know, it's repressing, especially since many of them are childs. I believe me, we feel a great deal of symphony for these people. It may surmise you to know, I too had trouble learnifying to read.
- Shaun Majumder: But doesn't cutting these programs have a broader economic impact with these people having trouble getting jobs?
- Graham Wilson: Not really. Look at me. A few months ago, I could barely spill my own mane. Now I have a grape job at the Monastery of Finance.
- Shaun Majumder: Well, thank you very much for your time.
- Graham Wilson: My pressure.
March 10, 2006 [14.13][edit]
- [Segment entitled "Really Important Canadian History"]
- Mark Critch: July 1, 1867: the date when Canada's provinces were first united by the British North America Act, so called because at the time Britain was a part of North America. It would remain so until the Halifax Explosion of 1958. It was our first president, Sir Ronald A. McDonald, who realized that if united, the provinces would be much stronger. So he took his idea to King Elizabeth, and faster than you could say "boo" Nova Scotia; New Brunswick; that island; Quebec; Ontario, which at the time was called Manitoba; and Manitoba, at the time called Ontario, were joined together. A Capital was picked: Toronto. And a name for the new nation was chosen: Canada, a native Incan word meaning "greater Toronto".
Season 15[edit]
February 28, 2008 [15.15][edit]
- "Danny Williams": Pakistan and Newfoundland have a lot in common: we're both economically challenged, we man a lot of call centres, our people feature heavily in jokes about people walking into bars.
- "Pervez Musharaf": Hello New-found-land. You know, I admire your premier very much. I love people who make me seem not insane.
Season 16[edit]
February 24, 2009 [16.15][edit]
- Spokesperson: We here at the national Do Not Call Registry would like to sincerely apologize. The registry fell into the wrong hands; many of you who signed up say you're now receiving more telemarketing calls than ever before. We hear you when you say you feel royally screwed, that's why we're launching the national Do Not Royally Screw Registry. Here's how it works: once you've signed up you'll be paired with one of our nation's many lonely seniors. The next time you get a telemarketing call - [voiceover continues while showing a man picking up a phone]
- Man: Hello?
- Spokesperson: ...Simply press #65 [the man does so], and the call will be forwarded to them.
- Elderly woman: [Answers her phone] Hello? I can't find my good scissors and that home-care worker is stealing my shoes!
- Spokesperson: She gets someone to talk to. You get peace of mind. And the telemarketer gets an ear-full of this:
- Elderly woman: Do you remember Mrs. Cherninky? Lived on Eugeny Street. Well, she borrowed a dress from me in 1974 and I have not seen it since!
March 10, 2009 [16.17][edit]
- "George Bush": It's good to be in Canada; best country north of North America. I am inspired by you snow-Mexicans. Take your old president, Gene Curtains [Jean Chrétien]; I mean, I had to torture people in secret prisons, he strangles people right out in the open, man, that takes balls!
- Gavin Crawford: Last Sunday was International Women's Day, the global day connecting women around the world and inspiring them to achieve their full potential. To celebrate the event, Prime Minister Stephen Harper cancelled it.
March 17, 2009 [16.18][edit]
- Mark Critch: The National Museum of American History announced this week that they discovered a secret message inside one of President Lincoln's watches, which they claim was not even seen by the president. Insiders say it's too bad, because the message said, "DUCK!".
March 24, 2009 [16.19][edit]
- Gavin Crawford: As the Obama administration pushes through its 800 billion dollar deficit-spending economic stimulus plan, the American public is largely unaware that the true deficit of the American government is actually 65 trillion in total obligations, exceeding the Gross Domestic Product of... the world.
- "Rex Murphy": Last week Canada's science minister refused to say if he believed in evolution, because a question about his religious beliefs was inappropriate. So it is then the utmost delicacy that I say to Minister Goodyear, "grow up, boy!". And by the way, I think you can safely cancel the feasibility studies into the cost of a fence around the earth so nobody falls off.
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- Jerry Boyle: If you can mark an 'X', you are my kind of people!
- Rick Mercer: At this time, we need to look to Canada's poets for inspiration. And when we think Canada, when we think poets, we all think... Trooper! [followed by footage of Canadian politicians singing along to "Raise A Little Hell"]
- Announcer: [after opening] Warning! To France! If you don't go to war now, you won't be able to surrender later.
- Announcer: [after opening] Warning! To Nazi war criminals in Canada! Your decades are numbered.
- Announcer: [after opening] Warning! To the students of Cole Harbour High, these are the best days of your lives.
- Rick Mercer: We demand that the Government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this", you may ask? Because it'll be fun.
- Mary Walsh: [on the territorial government's refusal to legalize same-sex unions] This news has sent shockwaves through the gay community of the Northwest Territories. We go to him now.
- Rick Mercer: Jackie Biskupski is running for a seat in the Utah Legislature, and she's attracting a lot of attention because she's a lesbian. Her Republican opponent, Dan Alderson, is a staunch Mormon, and is running a negative ad campaign calling her lifestyle abnormal and deviant. His six wives agree.
- Rick Mercer: The US is our ally, our trading partner, our neighbour, and our friend, and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack.
- Rick Mercer: [on the US and Canada] We're bigger, and we're on top. If this was prison, they would be our bitch.
- Mark Critch: Warning: To Stephen Harper! You realize you'll have to sit next to Elsie Wayne, right?
- Marg Delahunty: They're out there now, busy bombing for peace. Next I suppose they'll be screwing to get their virginity back.
- Rick Mercer: If the United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies... delusions of grandeur... medicate heavily.
- Rick Mercer: Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.
- Gavin Crawford: Go recuse yourself you mother recuser!
- Don't pay any attention to that. This Hour Has 22 Minutes is an accurate portrayal of the week's events. It is the real news. [Opening of the second episode to bear the warning, 1994.]
- Mark Critch [as Danny Williams]: I have requested that seals be renamed cheezies, so that people don't feel bad eating them.
Repeated lines[edit]
- [at end of show] Well, that's the way we saw the world this week.
- This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a satirical examination of daily events. Some viewers may not share this sense of humour. [Opening of every episode of the series except Seasons 1 & 12 and onward]
- Babe Bennett: I'm just goofin' around, that's all!
- Cathy Jones (1993–present)
- Shaun Majumder (2003–present)
- Mark Critch (2005–present)
- Gavin Crawford (2004–present)
- Greg Thomey (1993–2005)
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We're a Health & Safety, and environmental consultancy firm. We care passionately about the environment and empowering people with very important life saving skills.
This is an existing market and our target audience are, businesses - large established corporate firms (including industrial), schools, child minders and parents.
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Terracing was banned from Britain as a result of the Taylor report following the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989 when 96 Liverpool fans died.
I watched that happen live on TV and it was truly horrific, many reasons have been put forward, firstly terracing as the blame, the Sun newspaper blamed drunk Liverpool fans (and since that day the Sun doesn't sell in the Liverpool area) others blame the Police for opening the gates and letting the Liverpool fans in on mass, but I believe what caused the disaster was the cages that stopped the fans spilling onto the pitch.
And that was down to the FA, the same people who have allowed the ban to be enforced.
I remember that year, George Graham refused to play Wimbledon in midweek after the game as a mark of respect and the FA threatened to dock Arsenal 2 points, and boy we needed them, fortunately we ended up winning the league that year anyway and that was why our team took flowers onto the pitch, to say how sorry we all were.
So as a result the knee jerk reaction from the government was to ban terracing, not to sort out the real problem, ironically one of the few places where they still ignore the seating rule is the Kop at Liverpool and at Goodison park, where they all stand, what could be more dangeros than standing eh? Ask the stewards at Arsenal, it's a heinous crime.
They still have terracing in Germany, they still have terracing in the lower leagues and they still have terracing at Rugby games, so why aren't we allowed it in the Premier league??? If Arsenal allowed it in the North and South stands we could have a 90,000 capacity and a real atmosphere, we could have a section where you could buy tickets on the day and it would be safe, there is no evidence anywhere in world spectator sports that terracing is dangerous, so why on earth don't the premier league clubs tell the government we want it re introduced?
I grew up on the terraces and never once saw anyone hurt on them, I've seen plenty of accidents in the seating sections though.
Maybe it's because the stewards would all be unemployed as they would have nothing to do, save politely showing you to your standing area. It would cost nothing to convert and the benefits would be immense, I can't see how legally you can have one law for the premier league, another rule for the Germans and another one for the lower leagues, it's discrimination.
So let's bring back terracing, at this time of the year at least we could all stay nice and warm.
Still no news on Arshavin but we have a few hours left and I still think it will happen, it's no use saying we have no money as even if you take out the prize money and the transfer budget we had, we still got enough from the sell ons of Bentley, Diarra and Muamba, plus the transfers of Gilberto and Hoyte, and that doesn't include the saved salaries of Hleb and Lehmann.
So please stop saying we are skint, if we can't afford it from that little lot then we should never have moved in the first place, it was a disaster if we still have no money.
I watched the West Ham game again last night on Arsenal TV and there are positives we can take from the match, well two anyway, the first is we still have time to get rid of Eboue and the second is we still have time to buy the man of the match, Mathew Upson, and they were the only things we can take from that game.
5 points behind the Chavs and Villa and plenty of games left but we need to buy three players, a defender, a defensive midfielder and a creator, so for me we need Upson, Arshavin and we need to bring back the Flamster, all are affordable and all are acheivable, so stop telling us how much you believe in this team, because we don't and you still have time. It's time to say you believe in us and get your cheque book out.
There, no moans, just advice, we can still qualify and win some trophies, if we don't buy, we will do none of the above and we'll be going into the summer with Wenger saying his team are older and wiser and spend nothing in the summer as it's too expensive.
We need PHW to stop saying it won't be a disaster if we don't qualify for ECL football, because it will, a horrible disaster, and DD needs to stop crowing about why he left Arsenal, because he didn't quit, he was quitted, tin tacked and lobbed out.
Please, please buy now Arsene, this team are not good enough. Yes I believe that we can overtake Villa and the Chavs but we can't rely on that.
Today is last chance saloon, don't blow it.
Tomorrow I talk about Cardiff, if of course that game is not cancelled, if we sign no one today, I'll bet he blames the snow!
Have a great day Grovers, I'm in my office and I'm the only one that made it, true grit!


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Wellington is sometimes referred to as New Zealand's craft beer capital - not so much for its breweries as for the choice of fine beer-drinking venues.
Wellington's rise as a world class beer destination is a relatively recent phenomenon, but one quickly growing in popularity. Fuelled by a liberal population of musicians, students, tech wizards (like those at Weta Workshop) and foodies, the craft beer scene is transforming the city from the political capital, to the capital of beer.
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By Benét J. Wilson, DJTF co-chair, Online Managing Editor-Business Aviation, Aviation Week Group
I found an interesting conversation on Facebook started by NABJ Student Rep candidate Marissa Evans on this interesting column from Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten on why he thinks journalists branding themselves is a bad idea. I must respectfully disagree with Mr. Weingarten. He seems to be living back in another time — and I say this as a journalist who began her career using a typewriter.
NABJ Presidential candidate Charles Robinson made an interesting point during a candidates' forum sponsored by the Washington Association of Black Journalists and the NABJ Baltimore's Association of Black Media Workers. Robinson noted that while all the tools and technology is good, sometimes the "J" in journalism is missing in the discussion.
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At the beginning of my career, the focus was on the writing and reporting. You chased that story, you wrote it, you got your byline and moved onto the next one. Those days are gone. Now writing and reporting is only part of the job. You also have to do podcast, shoot photos and video, do social media, find creative ways to illustrate data, to name a few. If you're doing it the right way, your brand develops.
These days, Mr. Weingarten, your brand plays a big role in getting that next job or even starting your own thing, whether we like it or not. Thanks to Mindy McAdams of Teaching Journalism Online for pointing me to how Steve Buttry of TBD.com used Storify to show the reaction to Weingarten's column. And Buttry also links to Leslie Trew McGraw's paper on journalists and branding. She's the Leslie identified in Weingarten's column. I say don't hate the player-hate the game!


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Gareth Bale scored a stunning solo goal to earn Real Madrid a dramatic 2-1 victory over Barcelona in the Copa del Rey final on Wednesday night.
After Angel Di Maria's first-half opener was cancelled out by Marc Bartra, Bale stormed down the left wing – running half the length of the pitch before poking the ball past Barcelona goalkeeper Jose Pinto with just five minutes to play.
His outstanding run – which started close to the touchline – saw him leave Bartra for dead with his pace, before he produced a composed finish to cap an outstanding performance, as Real won the trophy for a 19th time.
Neymar, who struggled throughout the 228th edition of the famous derby, then hit the post with two minutes left as Barcelona fell to a defeat that signals the end to a disastrous seven days for the Catalan giants and their under-fire coach Gerardo Martino.
First, they were knocked out of the Champions League quarter-finals, with Atletico Madrid's 1-0 second-leg win sealing a 2-1 aggregate triumph last Wednesday, before a 1-0 loss at Granada on Saturday that appeared to end their Liga title defence.
And their latest loss means that they are now likely to finish without a major piece of silverware for the first season since 2007-08, one in which then-manager Frank Rijkaard was sacked.
For Madrid, the victory marks Carlo Ancelotti's first trophy in charge of the club and he will be hoping to add to that with success in both La Liga and the Champions League.
As expected, Madrid talisman Cristiano Ronaldo was absent as he continues to battle knee and thigh problems, but Sergio Ramos recovered from a neck injury to start for Ancelotti's side.
Barcelona coach Martino had hinted that Carles Puyol could return from a knee injury in the build-up, but he left the captain on the bench, as fellow centre-back Bartra returned from a hamstring strain.
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Lionel Messi shot wide from 20 yards just before the break – in which Adriano replaced Alba – but Barca were still sluggish when play resumed, as Bale shot into the side netting before firing over six minutes later.
The introduction of Pedro, for the ineffective Cesc Fabregas, did little to stem the flow as a Benzema strike was touched onto the outside of the post by Pinto, before Bale had a goal correctly disallowed for offside after the goalkeeper had charged off his line from a corner.
Pinto was ahead of play, meaning just one defender was between Bale and the goal, and less than 60 seconds later the ball was in the back of Real Madrid's net, with the effort counting on this occasion.
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