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WASHINGTON — Meryl Streep received her next film assignment over the weekend from a friend — to play the role of Hillary Rodham Clinton in a future film — as Streep and four others were saluted with the Kennedy Center Honors.
The jesting offer came when writer Nora Ephron said Streep's talent, versatility and resemblance to Clinton made it "inevitable" that she would one day play the Secretary of State and former First Lady. Clinton, who flew home for 36 hours to celebrate the honorees over the weekend, just laughed, while Streep jokingly stood up for a better look at the nation's top diplomat.
Along with Streep, pop singer Neil Diamond, Broadway singer Barbara Cook, famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma and jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins joined in receiving the nation's top award last Sunday night for those who have influenced American culture through the arts.
Caroline Kennedy, who hosts the show as part of a living memorial to her father, John F. Kennedy, acknowledged her personal connection to one honoree.
In a nod to Diamond, she said he was "a Brooklyn lad with a gift of melody who grew into a solitary man, 'reaching out, touching me.'" That was enough to draw big laughs as the crowd of celebrities and politicians recalled that Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" was named for her.
"I'm going to have to thank her for that," Diamond said before the show, noting that the song is a story about him and his former wife. But he took the name from Kennedy.
Smokey Robinson sang "Sweet Caroline" with help from Kennedy and fans brought in from Boston's Fenway Park where it's a favorite anthem.
Lionel Richie, who sang, "I am… I said," told The Associated Press he got into the music business because he wanted to be Diamond.
"He's a great storyteller," Richie said. "He's not an acrobatic singer. Basically he told the story in a very simple voice."
Classical music stole the show's finale, though, with surprise tributes from Stephen Colbert — who seemed lost at first — and the puppet Elmo from TV's "Sesame Street."
"Tonight we celebrate the greatest living cellist," Colbert said "We chell-ebrate, if you will."
Ma, one of the best-known classical musicians, has played cello since he was 4. At age 7, he played for presidents Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Now at 56, he is hailed as a musical ambassador to the world that has spanned styles from Bluegrass to sounds from the Silk Road with an ensemble he founded. Many of his friends performed in his honor.
Elmo, dressed in a tux, said he came to honor his friend, Ma who taught him that "music is like a playground" that makes everybody happy.
James Taylor and conductor John Williams joined in a performance of "Here Comes the Sun" with a string ensemble.
CBS will broadcast the show on Dec. 27.
Earlier President Barack Obama lauded the actors and musicians at the White House.
"They have different talents, and they've traveled different paths," Obama said. "And yet they belong here together because each of tonight's honorees has felt the need to express themselves and share that expression with the world."
He said everyone has that desire for self-expression in common.
"That's why we dance, even if, as Michelle says, I look silly doing it," he added to laughter.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton flew home between visits to Myanmar and Germany to honor the artists with a dinner Saturday night. After visiting the isolated Southeast Asian country also known as Burma, Clinton said such U.S. artists have worldwide influence by using their freedom of creativity.
"You may not know it, but somewhere in a little tiny room in Burma or even in North Korea, someone is desperately trying to hear you or to see you, to experience you," Clinton said. "And if they are lucky enough to make that connection, it can literally change lives and countries."
Streep, 62, has made more than 45 movies and won two Oscars in her career. Her movies have spanned Shakespeare and "Angels in America" to portraying chef Julia Child in "Julie and Julia."
In her upcoming film, Streep will play British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the upcoming "The Iron Lady."
Streep said she was in awe of the accolades from the president and others.
"Look where we are, look who's here," Streep told The Associated Press. "It's overwhelming. I feel very proud."
Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway who co-stared with Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada," joined Kevin Kline and Stanley Tucci for a musical tribute to Streep.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick opened the tributes to Cook, recalling the days when they first started dating and went to hear Cook sing at the Café Carlyle in New York.
"I don't think Matthew at the time knew what kind of special memory he was creating for us," Parker said.
"Oh, I knew," Broderick said back.
Cook, 84, made her Broadway debut in 1951, and later Leonard Bernstein cast her in his musical "Candide." She topped that performance as Marian the Librarian in 1957's hit musical "The Music Man," for which she won a Tony Award.
A film tribute noted Cook went silent for a decade, due to drinking and depression, but she came back.
Glenn Close called her an icon for anyone who has worked on Broadway.
"I think we have the biggest respect for her because she really has survived, survived and prevailed," Close said.
Rollins, 81, is a jazz saxophonist who has shared the stage with Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, among others.
"America is the home of jazz. It's what we started," he said. "By the way, hip hop music is a part of jazz, believe it or not."
Friend Bill Cosby marveled about how he has heard Rollins' distinctive sax around the world in Greece, Hong Kong, Italy — and found so many people who knew the musician's work.
"All over the world, Sonny Rollins," Cosby said.
Benny Golson and Herbie Hancock joined in playing some of Rollins' tunes.
Fellow sax player and former President Bill Clinton said earlier that he has been a fan since the age of 15 or 16 when he bought his first Rollins LP and played it until it was worn out.
"His music can bend your mind, it can break your heart, and it can make you laugh out loud," Clinton said. "He has done things with improvisation that really no one has ever done."

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Humane Reader's $20 offline reader : needs only an external display, cables, and keyboard for a 38x25 monochrome display of Wikipedia or whatever text you please. Offered in XO green, it has been designed more as a tool for hackers than a scalable solution for offline reading. From its own website:
The palm-sized device comes with an SD Card reader for storage and a micro-usb connector for both power and USB device action! The expansion headers break out maximum hackability, and are compatible with most Arduino expansion shields. Use most existing Arduino software, or write from fresh to take full advantage of the audio, video, IR, and keyboard capabilities of the platform.
And there's talk of a $35 touchscreen tablet : Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal is personally promoting a reportedly $35 tablet computer, which he says will be available sometime in 2011. Charbax makes the case that he is referring to (and demoing) an AllGo reference design, which was on display in June's Freescale Tech Forum. They are still looking for a manufacturer.
Fast Company is extremely skeptical, since India's last $10 computer was overhyped and misleadingly promoted. It wasn't a laptop or even an entire computer, it was… hey, wait a minute… it was a cheaper Humane Reader, only done in white and with no industrial design!Â
These look like fun, but not something I would necessarily want to use for too long at a stretch. In contrast, I've been toting my XO-1.5 HS around all week, and it is very satisfying… more after the jump.
I've been testing my 1.5's clicky keyboard to see how the non-membrane version handles crumbs and liquids, and how easy it really is to pop the keyboard out for cleaning or replacement. It is just… comfortable. Picking it up, unsuspending, and doing a spot of work is very natural. It's so nice to have a device that suspends in a way that makes sense to me; even my phones never do the right thing — either too aggressive to shut off their screen, too ready to wake up, or too awkward in their "wake me up!" dance.
Also, over the weekend, Blake Setlow was visiting Cambridge, and came to visit me and Michael Stone. Between us we had three people writing or coding on their XOs in the same house. (I believe we may carry around three different models too, a 1.0, a 1.5, and a 1.5 HS) I though we would start spontaneously speaking Uruguayan.
Today Gillian and resident imaging scientist Mike Massey are tearing down an HS series to replace the keyboard on camera and add a howto page about it. Stay tuned for the photo series, here's a teaser:


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Wu-Tang Clan
The Wu-Tang Clan is an elite group of ninja revolutionaries and mind control cult, under the leadership of reverend Bob Diggs, that arose in the early 1890s to challenge the authority of the various secret societies ruling the world, including the Illuminati, the Freemasons, Newscorp and the Spanish Inquisition. The Clan pledged to free the world from impending doom and usher in a brave new era in which everyone will be stoned, wear their own clothing line and talk in incomprehensible but nonetheless impressive speech, a.k.a Wu Ebonics.
Spoiler alert: The Wu-tang clan made Orange Slice soda originally called wu-tang, because of the color orange. Like Tupac Shakur was once a Jewish holiday.
History[edit | edit source]
The name "Wu-Tang" comes from a Chinese mountain, whose name literally translated meant "Great Hill that is nothing ta fuck with". Not to be confused with the common internet expression of when you've just received a tasty powdered orange drink (*w00t*Tang!)
Their methods of fighting include Shaolin Shadowboxing,Wu-Tang sword style, as well as a vicious type of torture creatively named Torture, nigga... Torture!. They recorded the E.P. "B-Dale Ballin'" With central Pennsylvania Hip-Hop/Rock group West B Dale. Who consists of Dj Durtay Mittins and Greez-E Fingaz. The E.P. was an underground Rap hit and was certified Gold by the RIAA.
There is some debate as to whether or not they actually invented the martial art Tiger style,
It is more commonly known by the Wu-Tang as"Tiiigaah Style!". As of yet there is only one student who graduated to Wesely SnipesBelt of the ancient Tiiigaah Style. Mostly because the Wu-Tang Clan has deemed it too "ass rancid dangerous to be taught to just any sucka." That man is the eternal emperor of Thailand, who then used his power to shove tigers up women's asses around the world. (See what they meant, too dangerous)
It is, however, plausible that anyone can learn the ways of the southern-style Tiger...um..er...style.The southern style differs from the northern style in that it is based on focusing rage rather than spamming cheap projectiles at someones chest and knees. It is simliar to bojutsu, however the practitioner will go ape-shit on the person with a five iron instead of a stick.
It was rumoured that only a select few would be able to learn the rest of these methods. All others who tried would be subject to travelling to the 4th Chamber never to return. The rumour was proven trued in 1992 by Stephen Colbert and his team of Lindsay Lohan clones... all of whom did not survive.
Charismatic leader of the Wu-Tang Clan, RZA, describes the group's philosophy as so: "It was Grandmaster Flash and Huey P. Newton, the true older gods, who showed the people of Earth the math of the 26th dimension which proved that all Rap was meaningless, and that the world was calling for the Wu with desperatation <sic>. Realmatizing <sic> this, I gathered from all people on earth the most mythical of all the mythic mathematic martial artists for an ultimate competition. The winners of this competition were chosen to form the Wu-Tang Clan. The Clan, along with all the suns, moons and gods, built the 36 chambers to contain the truth of the Grandmaster and Huey P's mathematics, all 26 dimensions plus room for 10 extra dimensions". In response to this, Wu-Tang fans unanimously responded, "Huh?"
Speculation has recently risen that Barack Obama will appoint the Wu-Tang Clan to become his Cabinet. At this time is is unknown which positions each member will take, only that Raekwon will be subjected to becoming the White House cook and that Method Man will be sent to help interrogate prisoners held in guantanamo bay.
Founding Members[edit | edit source]
Since their inception, the Wu-Tang Clan has grown to a point where they are considered "their own pingas" Fo' rizzle.
- RZA: Both Quentin Tarantino's film production professor and the undisputed leader of the Wu-Tang Clan. Nobody knows for certain what his powers are, but they must be unspeakably awesome to command the Wu-Tang. The strongest existing theory is that he keeps all members in check by endlessly spouting babble with such confidence that all figure it must be terribly profound. RZA is also known as Bobby Dig-It-All, due to his passion for amateur treasure hunting. RZA also has the leadership of Barack Obama and the smarts of Thomas Edison. It is a known fact that RZA is both of them and Bobby Dig-It-All is just one of RZA's clones that he made himself with his golden pubes. You should soon expect a Nigga Tax. If you turn the other cheek, he'll break your fuckin...JAW (chin).
- GZA: A pupil of Jesus, Bruce Lee, and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, He is a renowned scientologist as well as a member of Mensa, CIVIQ Society, Prometheus Society, Top One Percent Society, the Klu Klux Klan, the Iluminati, and Intertel. GZA has an IQ of 23495842 (he insisted on taking the IQ test over and over until he got a question wrong, but eventually got tired). He can approach speeds of over 1000 MPH while on a segway, and roughly twice that on foot. The GZA also claims to be "all formin' like Voltron," which leads scholars to believe that he could be descended from robots. Another little known fact is that the character of Jack Bauer from the hit tv series 24 is actually based on the GZA. The GZA was also the creator of the liquid sword and a co-developer of the "Special Technique of Shadowboxing". If he asks you for permission to demonstrate said technique, it is highly recommended that you comply, as refusal gives one roughly a 0.036 per cent chance of survival. The reason there is still this minute chance of survival is due to the fact that every so often instead of decapitating his enemy, his liquid sword simply soaks everything in sight. Don't count on this happening too often.
- Ol' Dirty Bastard: A reincarnated Ultra Jesus fused with the DNA of Mr. Miyagi. With his awesome powers he was assigned to be "the Osiris of this shit" (most likely by himself). He is so powerful that "Jacques Cousteau can never get this low." (Note: This low is quite low. One could say it is lower than low, but that could detract from its lowness rather than enhance it.) Founder of the "Baby I like it raw" shrimp cocktail and assorted sushi food line. According to him, his flow is like diarrhea. He thought he got it once, but it was really gonorrhea. Widely renowned for his bad breath, he was approached by close friend Busta Rhymes inquiring if he would perhaps like a toothbrush, or possibly a tic tac. Unfortunately the dirty one replied that he keeps his breath and thus his rhymes "dirty like a girls poo poo."
- Method Man: The only member that can rival GZA's intellectual skills (a distant second place, thanks to hyper-frequent smoking). Method Man's name refers to his precise method of using the Wu-tang swords technique. He is a master of the all deadly dragon techniques of blowing smoke out of his nose. Next to GZA, he is the second most powerful and ruthless member of the cult who is known to get creative in his "torture nigga... torture" styles. On very common occasions he has been known to place his enemies nuts on a dresser, just their nuts, and bang them shits with a spiked bat like BLAAAH!
- Inspectah Deck: A freed ex-convict once incarcerated for his fraudulent deck and patio termite inspections. Deck was brought to court after having falsely claimed for the decks of his clients to be termite infested and charging them for costly termite extermination. Upon release from jail, Deck moved on to inspecting gazebos rather than decks, but did not change his name to Inspectah Gazebo because well, that just sounds gay. Deck is an avid reader, but experiences great difficulty writing, as every time he puts pen to paper a tremendous explosion occurs. He frequently does public PSA's in which he explains to children that; "you thought you was the future, you was the loser." To his own amusement. By the time he was to start his training under RZA, to help him reach his full potential, the 40 day flood struck. Only Noah knew how to make the best of it.
- Raekwon: The chef of the clan. His main fighting techniques include beating people with frying pans, throwing boiling water at them, and sticking forks in them. Sometime he eats them. It is unknown whether or not he can really cook, and boxes of empty Micro Magic have been discovered in the kitchen where he prepares his suspiciously named "All So Simple Raekwon Fries". Currently Raekwon is preparing himself for the sequel to Alvin & The Chipmunks in which he'll reprise his role as Theodore (the fat chipmunk). Being the method actor that he is, Raekwon took on the task of transforming himself to look exactly like a chipmunk; apparently, he already knew he would get this role at the time he was born. He lives in hell but he's not exactly sure so his current location could be "Heaven and Hell". IF you plan to piss him off and you are a man be careful that a) he doesn't have a spiked bat or a dresser near by or else your nuts will be fucking banged like BLAOW! (See Wu Tang Speak) or be cautious around 12 story buildings and Raekwon with a rope unless you plan to belay down a Shoalin skyscraper by your dick. Know as the only other member but Method Man to have exclusively brutal "torture, mothafucka torta nigga, what, what" powers. In high school his classmates voted him "Most likely to have the faster blade".
- Ghostface Killah: Wooot. Finally. It took me a severe acid overdose and 2 years in SWAT training to gather the courage to write a paragraph about *gulp* *heavy sweat* *puke* *clean keyboard* *gulp* Ghostface Killah *shiver*. This ancient being, known for putting rappers' jaws in wires and getting shot in the back while stealing some old man's tv set now spends his days breaking up the concerts of 50 cent and others that displease him by merely showing up. Why does he do this, you ask? Don't. His name is derived from the fact that he looks like a normal human being, but his face happens to be a ghost. The ghost is widely recognized to be the ghost of John Wilkes Boothy. It is said that Ghostface Killah has not aged since the collapse of the Persian Empire. And that was a minute ago. Moreover, if you stare directly into his eyes, Ghostface can and will consume your soul, as he has done many times before. Additionally, he has the ability to force a man's eyeballs out of their skull and crush their hearts by forming a fist with his right hand. To Ghostface, time and space are just minor annoyances in his quest to rule the world with an iron fist. He can travel through time and instantly materialize on any given terrain. This has allowed him to assassinate many of his foes with ease. His favorite method is looking at his enemy while swirling his index finger around in the air. An onlooker would see the target writhing in pain and may have no idea why. What Ghostface is really doing is swirling his foe's brain from the inside until it becomes some gooey muck that then proceeds to pour out of either earlobe. Obviously if your name is Ghostface Killah you have to be the most bad ass muthafucka out there.
- Masta Killa: Originally known as Pasta Killa, Killa changed his name when he lost his can opener and could no longer eat Chef Boyardee products. However, he sticks to his pasta-loving roots with his Wu Gambino name, Noodles. The little-known 10th member of the Wu Tang Clan, ZZA was assassinated by the renamed Masta Killa when he jokingly referred to him as "Masta Bayta" after the covered-up "Victoria Secret in the McDonalds Restroom Incident". In 1992, Masta Killa was released from prison after killing 17 drunken men in a bar fight with a spoon, just in time to appear on one song from the debut album of the Wu-Tang Clan.
- U-God: Formerly Lamont Hawking, brother of Stephen Hawking, while Stephen pursed astrophysics 'U-God' ran blue top specials 2-for-5 in the hoods of Shaolin. In a recent interview with Telemundo, Rza explained that U-God is actually comedian and actor Steve Martin. Rza and Steve met on the set of Roxanne(1987) of which Rza produced the soundtrack. After knocking up TV's Kimmy Gibbler, U-God had to get a full time job at a New Jersey pastry factory to support his family. Reportedly had a feud with fellow clan mate Ghostface Killah, in which Ghost accused U-God of being a, "cinderella frontin' in 'em glass shoes" and that he'll, "homo thug, bitch ass nigga, I'll smash you!" U-God was deeply offended until it was later clarified that he was actually attacking the Avon Lady, they have reconsiled since.
- Cappadonna: A member of the Wu-Tang Clan, but actually not. Or actually, he belongs to the group, but he doesn't belong to the group. Know what I mean? If the other members are nine really hot girls that you bring on a date, Capadonna is the fat friend that they insist on bringing along so her feelings won't get hurt. And then her subsequent appearance ruins the entire evening. Ya fuck Cappadonna. He is a frequent visitor to this well to do website. [1]
- Steven Seagal: Drafted the original Declaration of Wu-Tang in September of 1990. After several intense edits with the RZA, the document was finalized into the form we all know and cherish today. The next day, while rollerblading to the recording studio, he was attacked by the Yakuza. After incapacitating them, Seagal fled the scene hastily, forgetting to look both ways while crossing the street. He was hit by a city bus and suffered a severe wrist sprain. He returned to the studio in 1993 and appears in every Wu-Tang Clan song except for three. Can you guess which three? In 2000, Steven was spotted at a cafe in Providence, Rhode Island sipping an espresso with 2pac, who had faked his own death four years earlier. Seagal denied the encounter after being approached by the BBC, but after being shown footage of the event, he admitted that he had been one of the chief conspirators in the 2pac case. After it was discovered 2pac was alive, 2pac and his wife Janet held a press conference. Seagal retired from the music industry in 2004 after the death of Rick James. He refused to comment on the event. In 2011, Seagal bought the popular but declining social networking site "Myspace" and immediately tripled its net worth. He is currently the thirteenth richest man in the world an has not spoken to any of his former Clan pals in eight years, except for Method Man, who he shares a timeshare with in Germany.
Enter The Wu-Tang[edit | edit source]
The entrance to the Wu-Tang is next-door-but-one to the butcher's on Walnut Street, Staten Island. According to legend Raekwon discovered this entrance by accident one day when he was building some Cuban links out of Lego. The story goes that 'The Chef' had run out of red Lego bricks and was attempting to procure some more from a local 'Horse Nigga' round the back of the butchers when he tripped and fell into the Wu-Tang entrance. This has been noted as one of the biggest coincidences ever, as Raekwon had been looking for such an entrance a year previously, but had given up after becoming distracted by eating some Ben & Jerry's ice cream and being so impressed that he had to write a song about it. Since this day, the group has put up a spiffy neon sign that makes it much easier to find.
Wu-Tang Forever[edit | edit source]
In 1997 the Wu-Tang Clan became immortal. Apparently this was achieved via some secret process which involved Ol' Dirty rubbing moonshine on his fellow clansmen's asses, after which he traveled back in time to the late 1970's to do battle with a kraken in Lake Placid, New York.
Whilst Ol' Dirty was in the past, he also found a moment to interrupt the 1979 Oscars. During Francis Ford Coppola's acceptance speech for the Best Dressed Heathen Award, ODB grabbed the microphone and loudly proclaimed that "Wu-Tang is for the Railway Children!", before setting fire to Dustin Hoffman's curtains and running off cackling into the night.
The W[edit | edit source]
In 2000 the Clan decided to erect a giant W in Central Park, Manhattan so no-one would forget what the 23rd letter of the alphabet was. Ghostface and Raekwon painstakingly constructed the W out of palm Trees whilst RZA dug a huge pit and filled it with gravel to use as the base. Within the gravel pit they buried 5,000,000$ and told their extremely good friend Jimmy Durante about the cash and he proceeded to drive himself off of a cliff in the desert. Somehow Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, and Mickey Rooney found out from Durante, and upon taking a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad quest across the country they were greeted by The Entire Clan who proceeded to employ the Wu-Tang Sword Style, flying guillotine, as well as Shaolin Shadowboxing to dismember the washed up Vaudevillians.
Unfortunately the W was turned upside down by vandals in 2004 and now looks like an M, the 13th letter of the alphabet, resulting in all round bad luck for the group (as well as the symbol for a California based Mexican gang of prison hoodlums). This incident angered Ghostface so much that he changed his alias from Pretty Tony to Furious Tony and spent several months punching a hole through Ben Stiller's pancreas. Raekwon was less annoyed and merely walked around looking slightly miffed for a week or so.
It is also rumored that the W was intended to pay homage to George W. Bush, who is part of the Illuminati. This was done in order to protect the interest's of the clan, such as Ghostface's coke smuggling business (refer to Fishscale album cover).
Iron Flag[edit | edit source]
Iron flags are believed to be the tenth most useless objects in the universe. Little is known about the reason behind Wu-Tang's purchase of the world's biggest iron flag in 2001, but the decision to donate it to a local Burger King was hailed as a tremendous act of selflessness until the flag fell on two children two days later, crushing them instantly (along with their Whoppers).
It appears that Inspectah Deck was asleep at the time of this generous hand out (as well as the tragic crushing), but when he woke up and heard the news he was compelled to rush out and buy several biographies of Benjamin Disraeli and read them at high speed. He was so impressed with Disraeli's political genius that he was moved to set up a modeling agency - Urban Iconz Models. Mostly females are selected, but all the hermaphrodite models are hand picked by Inspectah Deck himself.
8 Diagrams[edit | edit source]
Following Ol' Dirty Bastard's ascension to heaven, the Wu-tang Clan reformed to produce 8 Diagrams. Unleashing long held secrets of The Beatles, these diagrams are now considered some of the greatest works of art ever produced with Denny's placemats and Crayolas. Jesus, the guitarist from the Red Hot Chili Peppers also appeared on the album. Rolling Stone magazine voted 8 Diagrams the most likely album of 2007 to be used as a doorstop. The prediction was correct.
Racial Draft[edit | edit source]
The Wu-Tang Clan is now largely considered half Chinese, half Wu-Tang and another half Chinese because of the events of the Racial Draft as related by Dave Chappelle in one of his documentaries. This also resulted in Ol' Dirty Bastard becoming known as the Ol' Dirty Chinese Restaurant, and the Year of the Monkey being renamed the Year of the Uzi (or pinky ring). The Year of the Dragon became the year of the Chessboxing. The year of the snake became the Better Year of the Snake and the Year of the Pig became the year of the Raekwon. Under the orders of Betty White's evil twin, the Year of the Dog became the Year of the Gravel Pit.
The Secret of the Wu-Tang Clan[edit | edit source]
Nice try. We will never reveal the Wu-Tang Secret.
Clansmen Method Man has issued this statement to all those who wish to try to attempt the secret of the Wu Tang. "What? I'll fuckin I'll fuckin tie you to a fuckin bedpost with your ass cheeks spread out and shit Right? Put a hanger on a fuckin stove and let that shit sit there for like a half hour Take it off and stick it in your ass slow like Tssssssss. Yeah, I'll fuckin Yeah I'll fuckin lay your nuts on a fuckin dresser Just your nuts layin on a fuckin dresser And bang them shits with a spiked fuckin bat.Ooooohhhh Whassup? BLAOWWW!! I'll fuckin I'll fuckin pull your fuckin tongue out your fuckin mouth and stab the shit with a rusty screwdriver, BLAOWW!! I'll fuckin I'll fuckin I'll fuckin hang you by your fuckin dick off a fuckin twelve sto-story building out this motherfucker I'll fuckin I'll fuckin sew your asshole closed, and keep feedin you and feedin you, and feedin you, and feedin you."
Now please note that this is the punishment for simply wishing to try to attempt to reveal the Secret. Method Man is one of the less violent members of the Klan. Ghostface Killah caught Indian Jones trying to unravel the puzzles in the 36 Chambers of the Sacred Temple of The Wu in the Slums of Shaolin. Ghostface came up behind Dr. Jones and used a rust katana to slice open the poor adventurers back. He then proceeded to peel back his sholderblades and rip out Indy's lungs. Ghostfaced used a combination of black magic and awesomeness to kepp Kones alive and completely awre while all this happened. He then ripped off every single finger and toe nail off of Jones and proceeded to shove them into his urethra. Jones screams and begs for mercy could not make him stop. Next Ghostface fed Indy his own stomach while it was still attached to him. He eventually swallowed himself and seased to exist. Except for his lungs wich where lying on the floor and got fed to Cappadonna, Ghostfaces pet.
However this was not sufficient for Ghostface. He resurrected Indian Jones. Now, what happened next is much worse than what happened earlier, so the faint of heart should not read on. First Ghostface forced Indy to watch Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 69 times non stop. Then he brought in Short Round and beat him with a spiked bat like BLAOWWW! while jones watched. Shortrounds corpse was then turned inside and fucked by Cappadonna through the inverse b hole. Jones, unable to handle the horrible horrible fate of Short Round asked if he could be tortured again instead of his friends. But then Ghostface brought in Marrion from the first movie and had sex with her. It was consensual but Ghostfaces penis is so massive that when inside it literally ripped her in half. Jones sat chained in the corner trying to kill himself. Ghostface would have none of that and began a practice known as lava borading. When that was done he summoned Satan to take Indy to hell for awhile so Ghostface could go make Fishschale. When that was done Satan was relieved of his torture mothafuckka torture dutties, and Ghostface was back to fuck up the good doctor. Indy decided that he had only one possible way to escape torture, or at least feel deaths sweet embrace. He challenged Ghostface to MORTAL KOMBAT! [2] Indiana knew that he probably had no chance but could at least die honorably. As Ghostface showboated infront of the weak human, Indy pulled out his pistol and shot him in the face. Ghostface only laughed as the bullet passed through his ghost face. He then proceeded to beat the shit out of Dr. Jones. One man who saw the fight said that "The black one just beat the hell out of the other dude. It was like 90,000 shaolin monks beating a racoon to death." Ghostface then ripped Indiana's skull and spine and skull out through his ass because he thinks that Sub Zero is one cool nigga and wanted to pay tribute to him. He then used the skull/spine to beat the hell out of what was left. FATALITY! GHOSTFACE KILLAH WINS! FLAWLESS VICTORY!


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Amazon may be working on a smartphone with hologram-like 3D
Past 3D smartphones havent caught on, analyst notes
Amazon is reportedly developing a smartphone that sports a 3D screen that relies on retina-tracking technology to make images seem to float above the screen like a hologram.
With the smartphone, users would be able to navigate through content by using their eyes alone, according to two unnamed people who discussed the phone with the Wall Street Journal.
Word that Amazon could be working on a smartphone has surfaced in the past. In April, Amazon hired a former Microsoft executive, Charlie Kindel, fueling speculation that work on a Kindle smartphone running Android could be under way for release in late 2013.
The Journal also reported on four projects now in the works at Amazon. Dubbed the Alphabet Projects and labeled Project A, B, C or D, they include the latest 3D smartphone and another smartphone (possibly the Kindle one), a set-top box for streaming movies and TV shows and an audio-streaming device.
Amazon would not comment on the report or confirm the projects.
Amazon already makes several versions of the Kindle Fire tablet, and has staked a claim on providing books and movie content that it sells to mobile users.
The 3D concept in smartphones is not new, even though Amazon may be prepping a different technology for 3D images, especially if they float above the screen as holograms.
Two years ago, Sprint launched the HTC Evo 3D smartphone for US$200 with a contract. That phone offered 3D viewing without the need for special glasses, but the images did not appear to float above the plane of the screen like a hologram.
The 3D effect in the HTC Evo is produced thanks to a series of slits in the front of the LCD screen that block light, so that your left and right eyes see different images. The LG Optimus 3D and the Nintendo 3DS handheld gaming console use the same technology.
Whether a 3D smartphone from Amazon would be popular is questionable, one analyst said.
The LG and HTC 3D smartphones weren't followed by others in the market, showing a lack of interest in the concept by buyers, said Ramon Llamas, an analyst at IDC. "3D on smartphones [haven't] really taken off," he said, noting that the two 3D smartphones, as well as 3D computer monitors and 3D TV's, generally haven't sold well.
Part of the problem is the lack of 3D content for smartphones, which requires special cameras and production. Producing a holographic 3D image would be complex, Llamas said.
"How many cameras would it take to get that hologram effect, and you can't do it with conventional cameras you have today," Llamas said. "Yes, I'd love to exchange holograms on my smartphone with my wife, but that would mean you would have to be surrounded by cameras."
Perhaps Amazon is working to produce holograms with special software that lessens the need for cameras. But, said Llamas: "I'm not looking at 3D holograms coming any time soon.... It sounds cool, like what we've seen in Star Wars movies, but it also sounds like neat technology on paper."
If an Amazon's 3D smartphone uses retina tracking, as reported, analysts wondered how different that technology would be from Samsung's eye-tracking capability called Smart Track in the now-available Galaxy S4. Smart Track is used to pause a video when a user looks away from the phone.
Matt Hamblen covers mobile and wireless, smartphones and other handhelds, and wireless networking for Computerworld. Follow Matt on Twitter at @matthamblen or subscribe to Matt's RSS feed. His email address is email@example.com.


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RIM Announces Workaround Contingency for BlackBerry Customers
Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today provided an update in the patent litigation between RIM and NTP, Inc. (NTP). RIM has developed and tested software workaround designs for all BlackBerry® handsets operating on converged voice/data networks in the United States. Although there is no injunction order in place, and RIM believes it has strong legal and factual arguments opposing an injunction, RIM has developed these software workaround designs as a contingency to allow BlackBerry service to continue should the court implement an injunction in the current litigation involving the NTP patents.
RIM remains pragmatic and reasonable in its willingness to enter into a settlement that would generously compensate NTP while protecting RIMs business and partners, said Jim Balsillie, Chairman and Co-CEO at Research In Motion. NTPs public offer of a so-called reasonable license, however, is simply untenable. It comprises illusory protection for RIM and its partners and requires a lump-sum payment for the theoretical life of the patents even though the US Patent Office is expected to nullify them.
Mr. Balsillie added: RIMs workaround provides a contingency for our customers and partners and a counterbalance to NTPs threats. This will hopefully lead to more reasonable negotiations since NTP risks losing all future royalties if the workaround is implemented.
RIMs Workaround Strategy: Workarounds are a legitimate strategy that have been respected by the courts as a means to avoid infringement. In the years leading up to its public launch in 1999, BlackBerry was invented wholly independently of NTPs patents and comprises a wide spectrum of designs and inventions that are outside the scope of NTPs patents. There are only 9 claims relating to 3 NTP patents remaining in dispute in this litigation and those claims are only directed to specific implementations of certain aspects of the BlackBerry products and services. As a result, RIM has been able to modify its underlying BlackBerry message delivery system to work around the NTP patent claims. Although the development of this modification required substantial R&D effort from RIM and would require software updates in the event of an injunction, RIM has ensured that the industry leading functionality, performance and user experience remains intact.
Legal Opinion on Workaround: RIM has received a confidential and privileged legal opinion confirming that RIMs software workaround designs do not infringe any of the NTP patent claims remaining in the litigation. This legal opinion was provided by a leading expert in patent law and workarounds from one of the worlds largest law firms. As mediation, litigation and reexamination proceedings and activities continue before the courts and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Patent Office), RIM will continue to protect the confidential and privileged nature of certain information.
Multi-Mode Edition Software: RIM has incorporated the workaround designs into a software update called BlackBerry Multi-Mode Edition that has been developed and tested as a contingency. RIM has also filed new patent applications with the Patent Office to cover its workaround designs. BlackBerry Multi-Mode Edition is so named because the software is capable of operating in different modes that can be remotely activated by RIM through its Network Operations Center (NOC). In the absence of an injunction, the software and the underlying message delivery system can continue to run in Standard Mode (identical to the manner in which the current BlackBerry software and system operate) and the workaround will remain dormant. In the event of an injunction, RIM is able to remotely activate US Mode via its NOC and the workaround designs would automatically engage for each handset containing the Multi-Mode Edition software update.
User Impact: RIM invested significant engineering effort to develop workaround designs that remain invisible to users and maintain the existing platform benefits for system administrators, application developers and network operators, while modifying the necessary underlying elements of the BlackBerry message delivery system to be fundamentally different from the NTP patent claims.
Pre-Existing BlackBerry Customers: There is no injunction currently in place and any potential injunction would not necessarily apply to customers that purchased a BlackBerry handset prior to the effective date of any such injunction. RIM believes there are persuasive legal grounds for (at least) exempting pre-existing customers from any injunction and RIM has raised these arguments in its court submissions. In the event of an injunction without such an exemption however, the BlackBerry Multi-Mode Edition software update would allow continuing service for pre-existing customers.
New BlackBerry Customers: In the event of an injunction barring new sales of products utilizing RIMs current system designs, RIM will have already pre-loaded the new BlackBerry Multi-Mode Edition software on to BlackBerry handsets and incorporated it into BlackBerry Enterprise Server software prior to shipping.
Software Availability: RIM has commenced the network certification process required for all software updates and will soon begin to ship the new software latent on new handsets in addition to making the software update generally available at the web site listed below for corporate IT departments and others to download and implement in accordance with their IT procedures. RIM, NTP and the US Department of Justice have all raised issues that would warrant a transition period following a potential injunction order. NTP has proposed a 30-day transition period, but RIM has argued that the transition period should be longer if the court were to grant and implement an injunction.
Patent Office: The Patent Office has already soundly rejected each of NTPs patents on two occasions. These rulings from the Patent Office were based on multiple grounds, required the unanimous agreement of three senior patent examiners, and are expected to withstand all future appeals by NTP. NTP, however, is attempting to exploit and widen a gap in timing between separate proceedings underway in the court system and the Patent Office. RIM developed its software workaround designs as a contingency for the possibility that an injunction is implemented prior to the cancellation of NTPs patent claims.
RIM Opposes Any Injunction: NTP made clear that it is seeking monetary compensation from RIM and it is therefore evident that NTP can be fully compensated through ongoing royalty payments. There is also clear evidence that an injunction has become increasingly impractical and inappropriate given the specific facts of this case, including NTPs failure to present a plan that is acceptable to the United States government. There are over 3 million BlackBerry users in the United States today and the United States government estimates that nearly 1 million of those users would need to be exempt from any injunction. In addition, final rejections of NTPs patents are expected from the Patent Office in the coming weeks. There are also significant public interest concerns relating to any potential suspension or interruption of BlackBerry service in the United States, including a potentially significant impact on national security and the US economy.
Web Site: RIM will make the software update available at a later date on a special web site: www.blackberry.com/workaround. Additional information on the BlackBerry Multi-Mode Edition software update is already posted on this site and periodic updates will be posted prior to the effective date of any potential injunction order. The software workaround designs remain a contingency plan because the court has not yet ruled on RIMs argument that the aggregate effort to deploy this software update for millions of users is not warranted under the circumstances. There is no need for any customer action at this point in time.
About Research In Motion
Research In Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including e-mail, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity. RIMs portfolio of award-winning products, services and embedded technologies are used by thousands of organizations around the world and include the BlackBerry® wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld product line, software development tools and software/hardware licensing agreements. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. RIM is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq: RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: RIM). For more information, visit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com.
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Canadian securities laws relating to RIMs plans and expectations regarding its dispute with NTP and its intention to implement a software workaround if necessary to maintain the operation of BlackBerry services in the United States. Forward-looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by RIM in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that RIM believes are appropriate in the circumstances. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including, in particular, the inherent uncertainty regarding the outcome of any litigation, and the risks and uncertainties and potential outcomes that are described in the risk factors titled The Company May Infringe on the Intellectual Property Rights of Others, The Company may not be able to enhance its products or develop new products at competitive prices or in a timely manner, Defects in the Companys products and services can be difficult to detect and the other risks described in the Risk Factors section of RIMs Annual Information Form for fiscal 2005, which is included in its Annual Report on Form 40-F for fiscal 2005, and Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations for the three months and nine months ended November 27, 2005 (copies of which filings may be obtained at www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov). These factors should be considered carefully, and readers should not place undue reliance on RIMs forward-looking statements. RIM has no intention and undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Russell Simmons Compares Farrakhan to Foxman
Abraham Foxman said Russell Simmon's likening of the Anti-Defamation League's national director to Louis Farrakhan was "outrageous and ugly."
Simmons, appearing in Jerusalem at this week's Israel Presidential Conference with his Foundation for Ethnic Understanding co-founder Rabbi Marc Schneier, defended his friendship with the Nation of Islam leader by saying that just as Farrakhan had alienated Jews, Foxman had alienated African Americans.
"What's surprising is that Simmons did it in Jerusalem," said Foxman, who also attended the conference, although it was not clear if he attended the session with Simmons and Schneier. "What's disappointing is that someone who has a history of having a blind spot to one of the most vociferous and ugly anti-Semites would be given a platform in Jerusalem. And what's outrageous is how divisive and ugly his attack on us was. And, finally, what's shocking is that his colleague and partner, Rabbi Marc Schneier, stood by in silence."
Schneier, in an interview with JTA said Simmons, the founder of the Def Jam hip-hop label, was "winking" when he said it, and that it was in "jest," which the audience understood.
"I find it sad that Abe would expend so much time and energy in attacking Russell Simmons, who is one of the greatest friends of the Jewish people and a tireless advocate of the state of Israel," he said.
Schneier said he had "profound disagreements" with Farrakhan, but also that it was the objective of his foundation to engage with people who have such disagreements.
Foxman has publicly praised Simmons for his outreach work between African Americans and Jews, but also has faulted him for his praise of Farrakhan, who has likened Judaism to a "gutter religion" and has for years peddled anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
Simmons has said his admiration for Farrakhan derives from his efforts to promote black self-respect.
Foxman in his statement noted the ADL's decades of involvement in civil rights battles.
Speaking of Schneier's silence, Foxman said, "Where was his defense of this 100-year-old organization that has not only defended against anti-Semitism but has worked alongside the African-American community on some of the most important civil rights struggles in our nation's history? Shame on Simmons, and shame on Schneier."
Schneier said he and Simmons were in Israel not only to attend the conference, but to bring their mosque-synagogue twinning project to the country.
The annual twinning project, launched in the United States but now occurring in a number of other countries, brings together the Muslim and Jewish faith communities for shared projects.


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Russia, WHO differ on when approval will come for Sputnik V
Russia is ready to provide up to 300 million doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the U.N.-backed COVAX initiative, a top Russian official promoting the shot says, even though the World Health Organization hasn't yet signed off on it and production issues have fanned customers' concerns worldwide.
Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO Kirill Dmitriev and the World Health Organization had vastly different takes Wednesday on when the Russian vaccine would get WHO's stamp of approval.
Sputnik V has been authorized for use in 70 countries around the world despite not yet being approved by the U.N. health agency even for emergency use. Some countries, especially in Latin America, have expressed fears lately that they are not getting the vaccine's second shot in time to properly innoculate their people from COVID-19.
Dmitriev told The Associated Press that the Russian vaccine will be made available to COVAX, the U.N.-backed program designed to share vaccines more evenly around the world, once the shot is approved by the WHO. He said he expects WHO's approval to come in the next two months. The COVAX program cannot use a vaccine that is not approved by the WHO.
"We believe that we can supply COVAX around 200 million doses a year, 200 to 300 million," Dmitriev said in an interview. "We just need the WHO approval to work with COVAX."
But Dr. Mariangela Simao, the WHO's assistant director-general for access to health products, wouldn't make any commitment to that timetable. She said the approval process for Sputnik V is currently on hold, and once the legal procedures are sorted out, "we will reopen the assessment, which includes the submission of the data in the dossier — it's still incomplete — and resuming the inspections in the sites in Russia."
"The timeline will depend when we get these legal procedures done and then we will be able to assess, with the applicant and the manufacturer, what would be the next step and how long it will take," Simao said at a briefing in Geneva. "So we don't know yet."
Dmitriev's comments came even as Russia has run into delays in providing the contracted amounts of Sputnik V to countries in Latin America and is facing a surge in infections and record-breaking daily virus deaths at home amid a slow vaccination rate.
Dmitriev, however, insisted that Sputnik shipments to Latin American nations are back on track.
"All those issues have been fully resolved," Dmitriev told the AP. "All of the issues with the second component are resolved in all of the countries."
Despite his assurances, countries such as Argentina and Venezuela said they are still waiting for the promised vaccine shipments.
Dmitriev argued that "there is not one vaccine manufacturer in the world that didn't have vaccine delivery issues." including Russian plants making Sputnik V.
He claimed that by year's end, there will be the capacity to produce 700 million doses of Sputnik V and its one-shot version, Sputnik Light. He said 50% of the output will come from abroad through partnerships with more than 20 manufacturers in more than 10 countries.
Dmitriev noted that Russia has a three-month vaccine stockpile, allowing it to boost exports now, and hailed Sputnik V's reported efficacy and the lack of side effects.
The European Medicines Agency's expedited approval for Sputnik V began in March. Experts from the EMA visited some of Sputnik V's manufacturing sites earlier this year and the agency said further visits could be required depending on additional data submitted.
The EMA's head of vaccines strategy, Marco Cavaleri, said last month the agency was still waiting for some outstanding data from Russia. He noted that the timeline for a decision was "uncertain," but estimated the EMA might make a decision on Sputnik V by the end of the year.
Russia, meanwhile, reported another record daily coronavirus deaths amid a slow vaccination rate and authorities' reluctance to tighten restrictions to stem the spread of the virus.
The government coronavirus task force reported 984 coronavirus deaths over the past 24 hours, the pandemic's new high. Russia has repeatedly marked record daily death tolls over the past few weeks as infections soared to near all-time highs, with 28,717 new cases reported Wednesday.
The Kremlin has attributed the mounting contagion and deaths to a lagging vaccination rate. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said Tuesday that about 43 million Russians, or 29% of the country's nearly 146 million people, were fully vaccinated. Experts say vaccine skepticism and vaccine disinformation are widespread in Russia.
Dmitriev attributed the low vaccination uptake to Russians widely underestimating the danger of COVID-19, which is already straining hospitals in some regions.
"Russia was a little bit victim of its own success, because early on it was very successful in fighting COVID," Dmitriev said. "Many people basically assumed that COVID is already defeated, but then the delta variant came and it's a big challenge."
Russian President Vladimir Putin has emphasized the need to speed up the vaccination rate, but he also has cautioned against forcing people to get vaccine shots. The Kremlin has also ruled out a new nationwide lockdown like the one during the first months of the pandemic, which badly crippled the economy and dented Putin's ratings.
Some Russian regions have restricted attendance at large public events and limited access to theaters, restaurants and other places. But life remains largely normal in Moscow, St. Petersburg and many other Russian cities.
Overall, Russia's coronavirus task force has confirmed 219,329 deaths — the highest death toll in Europe. The state statistics agency Rosstat, which also counts deaths where the virus wasn't considered the main cause, has reported a much higher toll — about 418,000 deaths of people with COVID-19.
Both those numbers put Russia among the top five hardest-hit nations in the pandemic, along with the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico.


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Having used a naked Xoom for a couple weeks I hastily purchased an official Folio case, which has been doing it's job, just. After a couple weeks of use the Folio case is providing excellent protection when travelling, but it's nothing less than awkward when trying to use the Xoom with it fitted! A desk-stand it is not! Having looked at various options for a replacement Xoom case I decided the SD TabletWear case was perfect. A faux leather (this case is only £20 remember) outer skin with soft innards and a decent mechanism for using the case as a desk stand, it ticked all the boxes.
My concern around the case being too flimsy were quickly dispelled as the case is reinforced with some pretty stiff material inside. It's not as protective as the hard plastic of the official Folio case but it's not as ugly either! Book-style cases suit tablets really well and the solid magnetic fastener on this one keeps the case firmly together whenever required.
Continue reading "SD TabletWear Advanced Motorola XOOM Case [Review]"


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The Workforce Division at Shoreline Community College works in partnership with a number of outside agencies, companies and organizations. Through such partnerships, the college is better able to support students while they are in college and facilitate their success when they complete their studies. Our partners are an important asset to our students and we want to acknowledge their services and their efforts.
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Cares provides individualized and long-term support for people with disabilities and those experiencing adversity due to low income.
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DSHS help to improve safety and health status, increase education and employment success. They offer protections, comfort, food assistance, financial aid, medical and behavorial care.
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ESD helps Washington's workers and employers succeed by offering superior employment services, timely employment benefits, and a fair and stable unemployment insurance system.
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Goodwill helps to enhance the quality of life of individuals and families by strengthening communities, eliminating barriers to opportunity, and helping people in need.
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The Veterans Program serves low-income, homeless, disabled and at-risk veterans and their families. The program helps to provide financial, housing, and employment services.
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Neighborhood House helps diverse communities of people with limited resources reach their goals for self-sufficiency, financial independence, health, and community building to eliminate poverty.
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NSCC provides education and training opportunities to students from a variety of backgrounds.
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The Opportunity Center for Employment and Education (OCE&E), located on the North Seattle Community College campus, provides integrated education, vocational, employment and supportive services through a partnership of multiple community-based agencies and community colleges. These organizations are working together to provide seamless employment and educational services and public assistance benefits to the unemployed, the underemployed, students and their families.
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Seattle Jobs Initiative (SJI) offers low-income individuals training that leads to college credentials in growing local industry sectors. They align support services- intensive college navigation, housing, childcare and transportation- to provide participants the best opportunity to complete their career pathways and to secure and retain well-paying jobs.
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This page lays out our rules for children at Arisia. Please make sure you're familiar with them if you're an adult with a child, a free-range child, or a teen. If you have any questions or concerns about Arisia's Youth Rules, please email @email.
Children as Fans
Arisia makes every effort to protect fans of all ages and provide a healthy environment with many opportunities for fun and learning. Children are a valued part of our community, and we welcome their appropriate participation.
- All children aged 8 and under must be accompanied by an adult, unless in Turtle Track or Fast Track con areas as appropriate to their membership type.
- Parents of children aged 9-12 who believe their children are mature enough (and who have their own paid membership) may choose to allow their children to freely roam the convention on their own. Such children will be given a green ribbon to wear with their membership badge by the Fast Track staff. Children whose parents do not allow their child to freely roam the convention, and any child under the age of 9, will be given a red ribbon.
- Youth aged 13-19 are welcome in the Teen Lounge. It is available to them as a safe place to meet, play, or chill with other teens. They may attend any function of the convention, with exceptions for panels or events labeled as containing adult themes. These panels are limited to attendees 18 years of age or older and will have a member of The Watch checking IDs at the door. Although youth under 18 years of age may register as 'adults', membership in the convention in no way supersedes any local, state, or federal laws.
The Watch
Any unattended children (which includes: children not picked up at the close of Fast Track/Turtle Track; children who do not have free-roaming ribbons found outside of Fast Track) will be brought to The Watch, who will follow procedure to ensure the safety of the child.
At the Fast Track front desk, when children are checked in for the first time, the parents/guardians will provide the names and contact information of any adult that is authorized to pick-up their child. The primary contact and their phone number will be written on the back of the child's badge for quick reference in emergencies.
At Turtle Track, when children are checked in for the first time, parents/guardians will provide the names and contact information of any adult that is authorized to pick-up their child. They will also be asked to provide a password (like "melon" or "pigfoot") that allows the caregiver to send someone for pick up who might not be on the initial authorized pick up person list (in case of emergency or convenience).
The location of Turtle Track is not broadcast to the general assembly of the convention to ensure the safety of our youngest attendees. Upon pick-up of badges, the parents of any Turtles will be directed to Ops to be informed of the location - the Ops staff has a list of all the adults linked to a Turtle Track registration and will only provide the location to those persons. The location of Fast Track is subject to change, but currently resides at the end of a hallway on the Lobby level right next door to The Watch.
If a child engages in inappropriate, disruptive, or dangerous behavior, they will be taken aside and spoken to by a Youth Services staff member with the intent of defusing the situation and reinforcing the need for respect of people and property. If the child cannot be calmed down, the parents/guardians will be notified and asked to come pick-up the child. If the child engages in repeated inappropriate or disruptive behavior, or has behaved in a manner that could seriously harm others, they are subject to having their free-roaming privileges (if applicable) or their entire membership revoked.
Special Needs
If a child has special needs, we encourage an authorized adult to stay and participate with them in any activities that may prove difficult. Youth Services staff strive to be as helpful as possible, but they are not trained in the specific needs of any one child.
Volunteers & Staff
All volunteers for Youth Services must receive approval by the area's senior level staff as well as Staff Services. The volunteers in Turtle Track include childcare professionals, parents, and teens. Fast Track volunteers include parents, teachers, librarians, teens, and others with a passion for teaching our younger fen! Volunteers in Teen Lounge are all teenagers themselves, with contact info for an adult staff member should it become necessary. If you would like to volunteer to work in any of these areas, please contact @email.
Incident Reporting
Should any child or parent have concerns, they may be brought to any staff member available, as denoted by a white STAFF ribbon. Should our response to the concern not meet your expectations, they can be escalated as follows:
- Respective Area Heads for Turtle Track, Fast Track, or Teen Lounge
- Division Head(s) for Youth Services
Anyone is also welcome to submit an official incident report to the convention. The incident report policy and instructions can be found here.


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Yes. Customers can use the Water Customer Portal to view their water consumption data and sign up to receive email alerts. The portal is updated nightly so customers can view up-to-date data regarding their hourly, daily, weekly and monthly water usage and use the information to identify potential problems, manage their water use and aid in water conservation efforts. Simply click the blue water usage button on the home page or the following link to learn more about the Water Customer Portal.
Step 1: Make sure you are not running any water inside or outside your home.Step 2: Locate your water meter (in the ground by the entrance to your driveway and adjacent to the sidewalk). The cement lid to your meter box has a hole in the middle of it. Stick a large screwdriver in the hole at an angle to lift up the lid, and set the lid to the side of the box. The top of the meter extends out on one side so you can lift the cover and view the numbers on the digital screen underneath the cover. If the numbers on the far right of the digital screen are increasing when you are not using any water, you have a leak.Step 3: If you have a leak, your next step is to figure out if it is inside or outside your home. You can do this by turning off the water valve to your house (frequently located on the front of the house near your hose) and going back to your water meter. If the numbers have stopped increasing, your water leak is inside your house. If the numbers are still increasing, your water leak is outside of your house.Step 4: Turn the water valve to your house back on, put the meter cover back down and put the cement lid back in place over the meter box.Step 5: Identify the exact location of the leak and repair it to prevent further damage and/or water waste. Additional Water Leak information


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It must be a ZOMBIE Phone!!!!
Green dribble and red oozing pustules are a sure sign. That and the fact that it keeps trying to eat my brains. Time to do another back up.
What kind of smart phone should I get next? iPhone? Blackberry? Another HTC? Halp!
Thanks @BigDaddySaid.
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You already purchased a server — now you need to set it up, which includes the administrative stuff like your username and password.
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- Set Overage Protection — Bandwidth Overage Protection shields you from costly bandwidth overage fees by automatically suspending your account when its allotted bandwidth is exceeded. Your suspended account is reinstated at the start of your next billing cycle or when additional bandwidth is purchased.
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Topic: Recommend Action RPG Games
I'm playing Borderlands at the moment with a friend and am loving it!
But I need another game to play single player so what would people suggest in the Action RPG niche?
Gears of war is another one of my favorites because of the game-play but doesn't have the RPG aspect... Also just finished splinter cell and am looking forward to the next due to the strategy involved... can be frustrating sometimes though!
I used to be into fantasy type games like Diablo but haven't found any to be all that great on 360... yet...


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Sketching out an idea is the first manifestation of any design. Using graph paper when sketching is a great aid for drawing in proportion and scale. Here are downloads for isometric graph paper which will allow you to easily and quickly draft objects in 3D and keep everything regular and looking good, just like you would do with normal graph paper only in 3D. You will also find that once you have a rough 3D drawing on paper it is a lot easier to put your idea into your electronic drafting tools.
The way you use isometric paper is simple. It's just like regular graph paper only the boxes are angled so you automatically end up drawing in 3D. Draw your vertical lines the way you would normally do and then draw your faces and depth on the angled lines. You count boxes to keep square just like you would do on regular graph paper but here you get instant 3D.
Feel free to download and print as many copies of our isometric paper as you want for your personal use. The PDF contains two sheets, one vertically and one horizontally oriented.
note: you can download and print the paper to some scale but in general the best way to do it is to pick an arbitrary unit for example: 1 block = 2" and just count boxes. When you later go on to really draw the item out just count boxes again.


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When January hits, all I want to do is snuggle under the cozy covers and hibernate for a few months, but since that's not a possibility, I turn myself towards other fun pursuits – freshening up the wardrobe.
While some of the concepts I shared in 5 simple ways to dress fabulously for less definitely apply to this, my 5 tips for freshening up our 2012 wardrobe will focus on key things we can do to make our wardrobe feel new to us, and still not break the bank.
1. Maximize Your Wardrobe by Minimizing What Doesn't Work
While most people love spring cleaning, I take this New Year's Resolution month of January to go through my closet. Most of us have way too many items which we don't wear, don't feel good in, or don't even remember that we have sitting in your closet.
Search those pieces out. Our first step needs to focus on going through our clothes and purging. Yes, I know it's not rocket science, but considering I JUST donated my last maternity clothes to Goodwill this week, and our youngest child is eight, there's huge merit to this point.
Stream line your wardrobe to only those pieces that you feel good wearing. If you didn't wear it in 2011, you won't wear it in 2012. Take one hour and just do it! This advice comes from a Type Z personality who likes nothing more than to run the other way from this advice, but it's critical.
I have way too many clothes, and with that excess, I miss out on quickly putting together great outfits because I spend too much time weeding through things that are just "maybe's. Do you remember my Designer Clothes for Less and Why I Said, "No" post?
I then further reinforced the idea by writing about how we all spend hours trying to make the "Almost" outfits work. I have an entire wardrobe of "almost" outfits, but I'm kissing that goodbye for 2012. It's not a good deal if it doesn't look great on you.
Begin the process of filtering through and identifying your best colors for your skin tone skin tone and body type, which is key in finding out how to make you look ten pounds slimmer. Donate the rest and allow someone else to enjoy them.
One you have done that, you can really have fun maximizing what is left and filling in the gaps with a few investment and statement items. I created the winter white "Land's End" look with clothes I have had for years, but had gotten buried on a high closet shelf over my head. I've had fun duplicating Land's End, Gap and Eddie Bauer looks all week with my new turtleneck and sweater finds. (Now, in full disclosure, since I have gained 15 pounds in less than a year, and plan on getting those off over the next few months, I am being a bit hypocritical because I do have a stack of clothes that I will not donate yet. But if you are still hanging onto those size six jeans that haven't seen the public arena in years, toss them.)
2. Keep your eye out for fashions you love, and copy them.
This is the fun part, and something you do without thinking, yet now I want you to make it reality. Women have an uncanny knack of observation. Yes, it's the good, bad and ugly of how we are wired, but now I want it to work for you.
Designers call them Mood Boards. It's a collection of things you love and helps in the brainstorming process. For my ease, I use Pinterest?
It's a place to quickly categorize all the things you come across on the web that you like, without having to remember where you found them. I recently just started a Pinterest board, and have started putting easily duplicated outfits on my My Frugal Fashionista board. Follow my board for inspiration, as I am inspired by others and tackle how to wear those same outfits for pennies on the dollar.
When I see someone, and I think, "Wow, I love that outfit." I ask myself why it caught my eye. What was it about the look that I loved? Often, it's a great pair of boots, a fabulous jacket or possibly some fun earrings that makes it pop. I've begun to notice that things I love can be easily duplicated with just a few accessories.
Yesterday, I got my daily email from Zulily. It's one of those daily deals sites that offer baby, kids and mom items at fabulous prices. As I scanned their sales, I noticed that I felt at home with every outfit they offered. I liked them and would wear them. Then I realized another key fact; once I whittle down my wardrobe, and went back to my core pieces, I already owned almost every article of clothing they had on sale. They might be in different colors or textures, but I was ready to go with new and fresh ideas, just by taking note of someone else's creativity.
3. Invest in a Great Pair of Boots
Trust me on this. If you have extra Christmas money and it's in the budget, I highly recommend this.
One can not have enough cute boots to freshen up a wardrobe. Ok, that might be an exaggeration, but now that you have whittled your wardrobe to things you love, a main way to freshen up your wardrobe is not by investing in lots of new clothes, since I firmly believe many of the core pieces one needs can be found at consignment, thrift stores or yard sales (besides jeans), but by buying a great pair of boots.
Yes, long boots, ankle boots, rain boots, cowboy boots, slouchy boots – they are all the rage right now and boots will not be leaving the fashion scene any time soon. Many trendy boots are featured in magazines, and while they are fun for a season, invest in a classic pair that will last year for years. Ten years ago, I purchased a tall, classic, pair of black leather boots, and they are still as fashionable today as they were then. They were worth the investment. I save my trendy boot purchases for second hand shopping, and if you question whether you should seriously wear second hand shoes, I address that.
I wrote a post Can you wear black and brown together? As I began noticing looks that caught my eye, I realized that these tall, brown boots with a LBD (little black dress) kept popping up. You all know my horrible addiction to LBD's and now, just by copying other people's creativity, I have a new look to try out.
Again, here is another outfit that I have in my closet already, minus the rain boots. Right now there are so many great after Christmas sales and rain boots add such a great pop of color to this otherwise, basic black jacket. Last week, a friend at church had on a cute classic dress paired with plaid rain boots. I never thought the two could go together until I saw her. Now I am on the hunt for discounted rain boots. (From a personal finance perspective, make sure you always search for on-line coupon codes first for even better savings. I always use my coupon code data base to search.)
4. Add Pops of Color
First you must know what colors work for you, both with clothes and make up, and then sprinkle these colors liberally throughout your entire wardrobe. I shared the fall fashion colors from this past year, and these are still going strong. If you tend to stick closer to neutrals, and a lot of color scares you, bring subtle pops of color into your new look. This is a great example of making this neutral outfit spectacular with pops of color from the turquoise heels, earrings and purse.
Color is power. I've stated before, a shirt can go from blah to beautiful, just by changing your choice of color or accessorizing with pizazz. I'm not a huge proponent of getting your colors down to an exact science, but you must understand if you are Cool or Warm Toned. Again, find inspiration from others.
Have you ever thought of mixing a pink scarf with a orange-ish, red sweater? Well, I will now.Don't be intimidated by color. Have fun with it. It's only clothes, and it's only for a day. You never know the impact it might have to brighten your whole day and completely change your perspective on how you dress.
5. Accessorize, accessorize, accessorize
I will never tire of proclaiming this as one of my single most important tips for turning frump fashion into fabulous and yes, I say it often. Whether it's accessorizing with scarves and learning how to tie them, necklaces, bracelets, handbags, hats, or boots, start somewhere.
We all have basic shirts, sweaters and jackets that can become fabulous if we just accessorize correctly. Many of you have asked for help in this department. Often, there are no wrong or rights, but again, begin paying attention to what you like and please don't say, "that's not me." If you like it on someone else, there's a great chance that if you dare to be different just for one day, by the end of the day you will love your new look.
Last month, I took five minutes to see how I could change up a basic black shirt. I look back and think, oh, there are so many other better things I could have done, but it was an experiment to see how quickly I could do it. It proves the point on the importance of how new accessories will freshen up your wardrobe. How to accessorize: 5 Minutes, 10 Looks
Look at the picture below. Many of us have similar turtle neck sweaters. Yes, the neckline creates a dramatic look, but what polishes this outfit is her layering of the bracelets and watches. I love doing that, and it's something we can all do with what we have on hand.
Wow, I never knew I had so much to say on five simple tips. I am erasing the other paragraphs of info I have on freshening up your 2012 wardrobe, and saving them for additional posts. If you are still with me after all that information, thank you.
Fashion is fun and often we make it into something it's not – too much pressure, too much comparison and too many feelings of inadequacy. Hopefully, as you follow along with my Frugal Fashionsta series, you'll see that we can dress for less and change our perspective on what true fashion is all about.
Do any of these "Ways" specifically stand out as something you need to dive into a bit more in 2012?
I'd love to hear in the comments, which will give me a great idea for future posts.


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According to a press release today from FamilySearch, they've added to the records (both indices and images) to the pilot FamilySearch site (http://pilot.familysearch.org). For some time, they've had all of the images for the 1850 U.S. census (population schedule). Now the everyname index is 83% complete with the recent addition of Louisiana and Wisconsin. The indexed states are Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia.
They have also added to the available indexes for the 1850 slave schedules. All of the images for the slave schedules are available for browsing, even for the states that aren't yet indexed.
It isn't just U.S. researchers that are benefitting from FamilySearch's efforts. Among their international records groups are new church records for Mexico, Norway and Spain.
This is such a wonderful time to be a genealogist!


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[How To Lou] sure has shown us how to do quite a few things. This time he's dealing with an electric clothes dryer that won't heat. We've been elbow deep in our own appliances and we think [Lou's] matter-of-fact demonstration will help you gain the confidence to investigate problems before deciding if it's a job to be relegated to the repair man.
This picture shows the back side of a clothes dryer after having a protective panel removed. Just out of frame is a functional schematic which lists each part and it's resistance measurement. Lou has labelled those parts in this image to help us understand what we're looking at. In the video after the break he begins doing the same troubleshooting that a repair would use. He grabbed his multimeter and used it to test the resistance of each component after removing the wires from it. All of them should read zero Ohms except for the heater coil which the schematic rates at 7.8-11.8 Ohms. The high limit thermostat is loose and measures an infinite resistance. This, coupled with the charred wire on one side is the culprit. As with that ice maker repair from yesterday, [Lou] searches for the numbers on the part to find the replacement he needs.


text: What follows is a message that I received from Christopher's mother today. If you are reading this and have not sent a letter or taken some action, now would be a good time to do so. Also, if you have pledged to be a mentor and could do something else, such as circulate a petition or write a letter, please do that.Here is the message:Christopher and I were able to reach the National BSA office on Friday. He has already sent some of you an update but I thought I might try to let everyone know whats going on.The proposal is now in the hands of the Innovations Engine department for new merit badges.Due to the fact that the honey bee is in serious trouble these days the BSA is treating this proposal as a new possible merit badge.The outlook is very positive although they can not confirm at this time for sure yet. The proposal will be placed in the hands of a team who will inspect and go over all the supporting evidence that Christopher was able to gather with help of everyone. They did tell us that never before have they been presented with such supporting evidence.Here are a few things that our contact( Ms. Janice Downey) did say that could help get the merit badge through at this point. A continued flow of letters from beekeepers that are willing to become merit badge mentors and teach the boys about honey bees. Also letters from boys who are interested in earning the beekeeping merit badge if reinstated.Christopher not only made his deadline to get the proposal to the scout headquarters but in August also mailed a large package of additional letters of support as a follow up. He plans to continue doing this at least once a month until the merit badge is reinstated. Of course this will require letters of support to send.Christopher now has a plan to visit as many troops as he can and give a short talk about Honey Bees and the merit badge. He plans to get letters from each troop he visits and the boys asking for the reinstatement of the merit badge.If anyone has any ideas on this, has a scout or a troop that would be interested in having Christopher come visit them or wishes to send a letter stating they would be willing to become a mentor please send it to the address below.Christopher Stowell17596 N. Peoria Ave.Skiatook, OK. 74070Thanks for your time,Kimberley Stowell


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The op-ed pages of major newspapers are littered with the bylines of formerly great journalists. Too often the sinecure of punditry causes writers to become enervated in their thinking, lazy in their prose. Tom Friedman—now a frequent subject of parody for his repeated quoting of foreign taxi drivers, his muddled metaphors, his bizarre neologisms—is a prime example of a once fine foreign correspondent gone to seed.
For that reason, I've had mixed feelings observing the rise of Pankaj Mishra in recent years. The Indian-born Mishra is among the best literary critics writing in English today, as well as a distinguished cultural historian and novelist. I'd read him on anything. But lately he's strayed near the pundit zone, writing political op-eds for outlets like The Guardian and Bloomberg View. To be sure, he acquits himself as well as anyone in the field. He's a consistently sharp and independent thinker, unafraid, for example, to criticize the Indian government's authoritarian tendencies and highlight the ways in which its economic boom has bypassed whole sectors of its population. But the road to membership in the technocratic elite is paved with this sort of well-remunerated pontificating, and one hopes that success doesn't diminish, as The New York Times recently described it, Mishra's "sometimes ferocious instinct for the jugular."
At first glance, Mishra's latest book, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, is a sign of his commitment to the concerns that he's addressed throughout his career. The book is a survey of Asian intellectuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and their role in pan-Asian, pan-Islamic, and anti-colonial movements. And it begins with a shot: the spectacular Japanese naval victory over Russia at the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905, which electrified Asians and Africans living under the yoke of colonialism and, in Mishra's view, inaugurated "the recessional of the West" that continues to this day.
That the West is in some form of decline isn't much in dispute. But Mishra advances the discussion by arguing that the West's moral decline traces back a century, through two world wars, a horrific legacy of colonialism, and a failure to treat non-Western nations as equal partners. This moral decline matters, he claims, because it reflects how Western liberal democracy may not be suited to these societies. Instead, these nations have looked to other models—in earlier generations, Meiji Japan and post-Ottoman Turkey, and, more recently, quasi-Islamist Turkey and China's one-party, hypercapitalist state. Given the West's recent history of economic instability and military intervention in the Muslim world, this search for other models of development—ones that, for example, acknowledge the centrality of Islam in some cultures—takes on particular significance.
The book focuses on three Asian intellectuals—Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1838–97), Liang Qichao (1873–1929), and Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)—with appearances by Ho Chi Minh, Mao, Lenin, Gandhi, and a host of less well-known Asian intellectuals and statesmen. Each of the three principles anchors one of the book's sections, but Mishra doesn't treat this as a group biography. That is at times a necessity (many details of al-Afghani's life are lost or obscured), but From the Ruins also becomes strangely fragmentary, its protagonists disappearing for a while as Mishra describes Western powers' carving up of China or the epochal disappointment of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
This is all too bad, as the book would benefit from a more cohesive narrative. Mishra is at his best when he's able to tie his intellectual eminences to the battles being waged around them. But while we learn, for instance, that Liang Qichao traveled to the Paris Peace Conference, we read little about what he was doing there or his personal reflections on its outcome. The section on Tagore does offer some particularly fine moments, such as this bit from when Tagore was welcomed to Tokyo by a delegation led by Japan's prime minister. Unimpressed, Tagore announced, "The New Japan is only an imitation of the West."
Mishra's critiques of Western attitudes toward Asia are persuasive and he does a fine job showing how al-Afghani and Liang struggled to be taken seriously by the reformers and statesmen they courted. Some readers will likely take issue with the prime role that Mishra is willing to delegate to Islam, but he forcefully argues for its importance in binding peoples together, especially beyond the mantle of nationalism. What's more is that there are many Islams, political or otherwise, and one need only look at the relatively unchallenged influence of Christianity in contemporary American politics, as well as the attendant hysteria over sharia in states like Tennessee, to find pots calling kettles.
Where I take issue with Mishra's treatment is how in indicting the West for its colonial barbarism, he sometimes elides the crimes of post-colonial regimes. He does criticize Iran's authoritarianism and says that the Beijing Consensus "sounds suspiciously like merely a cynical economic argument for the lack of political freedom." But in his rather admiring examination of the Turkish and Japanese models, he comes close to justifying their worst behaviors.
For example, Mishra writes that during WWI, "harassed by Armenian nationalists in the east of Anatolia, the Turks ruthlessly deported hundreds of thousands of Armenians in 1915, an act that later invited accusations of genocide." After decades of oppression and state-sanctioned violence, some Armenians did revolt against the Ottoman state during the war. But as Mishra should know, the Armenians were subjected not only to deportations but also to wide-scale massacres, dispossession, and starvation, leading to as many as 1.5 million deaths. Corroborated by extensive scholarship and documentation, numerous historical organizations and governments have acknowledged this as a genocide, yet Turkey's vociferous, ongoing denials have left unfortunate wiggle room for otherwise respectable writers.
Mishra also cites Turkey's failed accession to the EU as racially motivated and perhaps a reflection of how Turkey's "model of indigenous modernity" leaves the West feeling threatened. Turkey has a legitimate grievance, but Mishra fails to acknowledge Turkey's curtailing of free speech, its violent conflict with Kurdish separatists, and its genocide denial.
The book's discussion of Japan's imperial era is also problematic. Mishra mentions some Japanese atrocities and makes clear that Japan's promises of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere during WWII "were often meant to give cover to old-style imperial exploitation of local resources with the assistance of native collaborators." But he goes on to say that "many Japanese officials brought sincerity and determination to the liberation of Asia," training local leaders and administrators and paving the way for self-rule. "In most countries they occupied," Mishra adds, "the Japanese deeply undermined the European power that kept the natives in a permanent state of submission." And yet, by Mishra's own summation, it's easy to conclude that subjugated Asian peoples simply traded a colonial master from the West for one from the East. Many defenders of British colonialism—such as Mishra's bête noire, Niall Ferguson—argue that colonial administrators had good intentions. And the legacy of Japanese occupation endures: visits by Japanese officials to the Yasukuni Shrine—which includes a number of war criminals among the dead it commemorates—still draw angry protests from China and South Korea.
These are not damning offenses, but they reflect the tenuous line that Mishra has drawn. A critic of Samuel Huntington's "Class of Civilizations" thesis, Mishra sometimes finds himself, however unintentionally, falling into its trap. The historical relationship between East and West has often been based on conflict, expropriation, manipulation, and ruthless competition. Mishra is interested in finding some new syncretic paradigm for the global order—universalist in character, but respectful of local cultures and needs. His learned and passionate, but ultimately uneven, book signals that we have some way to go.


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Working for 30 years in the Canadian foreign service, McAdam's career ended suddenly in 1993 after he exposed corruption at the Canadian Consulate in Hong Kong and the infiltration of Chinese organized crime members and spies into Canada. His work saved the Canadian government an estimated $50 million, prevented the entry of over 1,000 organized crime figures such as Triad, Yakuza, and Mafia members into Canada, and revealed China's extensive espionage activities in Canada, which have now been confirmed by Canada's intelligence service, Chinese defectors and others.


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