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Michael Richards
Michael Richards | |
Born | July 24, 1949, pre-Civil Rights Era Fork, Alabama |
Nationality | White |
Occupation | Your typical Hollywood actor, who's "not really racist" |
Known for | Not quite talented enough to pull off racial satire like Lenny Bruce and Howard Stern, and is more like circus acts such as Bill O'Reilly and Adam Carolla |
Religion | Hindu |
"So what's the deal with Kramer?"
Michael "That Nigger Guy" Richards (born July 24, 1949) is a well-respected American actor, comedian, performance art satirist of Hollywood nightclubs filled with Hollywood industry people, and amateur anthropologist who is standing behind you right now with a pitchfork and noose. He is also known for being a racist, and is thus not so different than you, me, and every comedian that's ever lived on this planet. We'd all get along pretty well, actually. Except, I'm not really racist, nor a comedian. But as a particularly American comedian, Richards believes himself to be hilarious, yet he sometimes falls shorter than a quadriplegic without arms can throw a baseball like his friend, George Costanza. He is most well known for his role as Kosmo K. Kramer on the sitcom Seinfeld and has since continued his success, if not becoming more famous for his roles in "Kentucky Fried Niggers" and his directoral debut in House Of 1,000 Niggers, the latter which earned over $10 at the box office (the three people who saw the film were a Neo-Nazi skinhead, a Klansman, and Jerry Seinfeld, who continued to make stupid excuses for Richards' behavior the whole time he watched the film).
Richards formerly worked as a airplane-mechanic in Tulsa, Oklahoma with someone resembling the real Indiana Jones, and later battled Jones in a debate concerning the "Gunning-Down of Innocent (Hollywood) African-Americans."
Early life[edit]
Michael Richards spent the first 14 years of his life literally digging himself out of his first home, which was among a race of subhuman mole-people in Culver City, California. His brief life with the moles gave him an extraordinary sense of smell, as well as an ability to see through peoples' souls. He found his way to the surface by following the scent of a captured mole-brother of his, whom was being held captive by the US government in a secret bunker inside the confines of Area 51.
Once at the surface, he was adopted by a family of raccoons, who knew that a boy of his age needed some education, so they sent him to the Devon School in New Hampshire. There, he gained a roommate named Phineas, who was by far the best athlete in the school.
Despite the obvious differences between the two, they became the best of friends, and one day, since they had nothing better to do than risk their lives, decided to jump off a tree into a river.
Unfortunately, Phineas lost his balance on the branch, and fell onto the riverbank, shattering one of his legs. The river flooded, and began to carry Finny downstream. Young Michael knew he needed to save his friend, as the river flowed directly to Boo Radley's house, who had been known to capture and devour teenage boys alive, after luring them into his lair by means of hypnotism. It was about this time that a butterfly fluttered past Richards' head, and so he became distracted, convinced that he must catch the precious insect, and thus forgot all about saving his doomed friend. Finny was never seen again, but that night it was reported that extremely inhumane-sounding shrieks and clucking noises were heard around the vicinity of Boo Radley's mansion.
A few weeks later, he was in a police holding cell being interrogated about Finny's disappearance when one of the law enforcers (who happened to be black) tripped and smashed his face on the corner of the desk, successfully breaking his nose and jaw, and messily severing his left eye. In the far corner of the room, a police official snickered to himself as the injured man screamed and writhed on the floor, staining the carpet a sickly shade of red. Richards saw the man smirking and decided that he wanted to grow up and make everyone feel as happy as that man was. He would become a comedian. (The injured man later died from infection after a shard of one of his teeth impaled his good eye)
Once out of school, Richards' enormous height and potent usage of racial slurs gave him a huge advantage over his enemies. Of course, except for blacks. This made him mad. In fact, one night during a very competitive basketball league game against their rivals, Richards' team was down by two points with seven seconds left. Rchards got ball control and made a last-second three-point shot that would have made it in, if it weren't blocked by the biggest, blackest man on the other team. Richards was so infuriated that after the game when the man offered his hand in friendship and told him "Good game," Richards bit off three of his fingers and pushed him down a flight of stairs.
Despite this being rude and in quite poor taste, people found it hilarious and soon a TV producer had requested him to be a character on the show "Seinfeld." The sitcom became extremely popular and ran for nine seasons and sparked the Communist revolution in Venezuela.
Anthropology scandal[edit]
In November 2006, Richards posited that African-Americans were the missing link between Homo sapiens sapiens and their simian ancestors. This theory was met with much debate, mostly because Richards voiced it onstage at The Laugh Factory comedy club.
Several anthropologists in the audience countered Richards' theory by discounting his academic credentials and calling him a "cracker-ass motherfucker."
Ignoring these ad-hominem attacks, Richards called his transitional fossil species Homo sapiens niggers, and explained that their chief cause of death according to the fossil record was a fork up the ass.
To popularize his discovery, Richards went on to perform stand-up in Compton, California, home of legendary gangsta rap group NWA, and began shouting "Nigger," lit fire to a cross, and lynched several blacks before going on a drive-by shooting spree spanning all the way to New Orleans, where he taunted black Hurricane Katrina victims living in The Superdome, while beating their infants to death with Neo-Nazi Doc Martin boots.
Richards apologized for this incident on The David Letterman Show a few days and a few stand up acts later when the guilt finally caught up with him. He and Jerry Seinfeld both stressed that the apology had nothing to do with him getting caught and the video spreading on YouTube, nor did it have anything at all to do with the Season 7 of Seinfeld DVD release date right around the corner.
When Letterman asked "were the Niggers heckling you, or where they just displaying TNB (Typical Negro Behavior) and being loud on their cell phones?" Richards responded "Um....I'm not racist, that's what's so crazy about all this...I'm actually Hindu, so I can't be racist. Neither of my parents are Hindu and they didn't convert, but...I'm just not that funny and couldn't think of anything better to say...please don't let my career die, I was just about to host a grand opening of an Olive Garden in Kaysville, Utah! I was goin' places! I WAS GOIN' PLACES, JERRY! DAMN YOU!"
In the 2008 United States Presidential Election, Richards endorsed "black" Democratic candidate Barack Obama. Richards stated his decision was made because Obama was the first "clean, intelligent, non-nigger like nigger" he had ever seen. Some believe this decision stems from the murder of Richards' wife by a Klu Klux Klan leader of Oklahoma in an initiation gone wrong.
In 2009 Richards appeared in Curb Your Enthusiasm and made fun of his situation by flipping out on another negro African-American black person of color in an episode, thanks to fellow "non-racist," Larry David.
In 2010, Richards revealed that he and Mel Gibson would be in Lethal Weapon 5. Richards replaced Danny Glover after making racist comments in Glover's face, while claiming that Glover was a member of the all-black chapter of Bohemian Grove. The unknown director of this movie laughed so hard at these comments that he kicked Glover out of the movie and replaced him with Richards. Gibson and Richards will play cops who kill people from different races, blacks and Jews included, by spouting racist remarks at a high-decibel range. Glover is rumored to be returning as one-half of the antagonists along with Richards' former co-star, Jerry Seinfeld.
Preceded by: Mel Gibson |
World's Biggest Racist 2007 |
Succeeded by: Adam Carolla |


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BRUSSELS — The European Union is dropping antitrust charges against Microsoft after the company agreed to give Windows users a choice of up to 12 other Web browsers.
Under the terms of the deal with regulators, Microsoft will avoid further EU fines if it provides a pop-up screen that lets European users — from March — replace Microsoft's Internet Explorer or add another browser such as Mozilla's Firefox or Google's Chrome.
This will also allow computer manufacturers to ship PCs without Internet Explorer in Europe.
Neelie Kroes, the EU's competition commissioner, said it was an "early Christmas present for more than hundreds of millions of Europeans" who stood to benefit from having "effective and unbiased choice" between Microsoft's Internet Explorer and competing browsers.
"The (European) Commission has resolved a serious competition concern for a key market for the development of the Internet," she told reporters.
"It is as if you went to the supermarket and they only offered you one brand of shampoo on the shelf, and all the other choices are hidden out the back, and not everyone knows about them," she said. "What we are saying today is that all the brands should be on the shelf."
Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said the company was pleased with "final resolution of several long-standing competition law issues in Europe" and looked forward to building "on the dialogue and trust that has been established between Microsoft and the Commission."
Microsoft is not out of the woods yet though, as it was warned it can still be fined up to 10 percent of yearly global turnover without regulators having to prove their case if it doesn't stick to this commitment for the next five years.
The deal comes after more than a decade of EU antitrust action against the world's biggest software company that has already seen it pay euro1.7 billion in fines.
Kroes also warned that she was still looking at complaints from software rivals that the company wasn't sharing key information that help others make products compatible with Microsoft software.
In January, the EU charged Microsoft with monopoly abuse for tying its browser, Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system software used on most desktop computers — this, they said, was an "artificial distribution advantage" that rivals didn't have.
Kroes said since Internet Explorer was present "on virtually every PC in Europe," a lot of Internet content was specially adapted to Internet Explorer. Other software makers complain that this caused technical problems that made it hard to use other browsers.
The EU said Monday that a pop-up choice screen would eliminate those concerns when it is downloaded as an automatic update to all users of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 in Europe who have Internet Explorer set as their default browser. Other users will be asked if they want it.
The choice screen will list the 12 most-widely used Web browsers running on Windows — listing five prominently. Users can pick and download one or several of them, choosing from Apple's Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, AOL, Maxthon, K-Meleon, Flock, Avant Browser, Sleipnir and Slim Browser.
Some 100 million computers will likely display the screen by mid-March and around 30 million new computers will show it over the next five years, the EU said.
People can keep Internet Explorer if they want — but they will for the first time be exposed to other browsers, providing a massive new audience to many smaller browser makers. The choice of browsers will be updated every six months on the basis of several independent sources of market share information.
Microsoft will report back regularly to the European Commission, starting in six month's time, on how the rollout of the screen is going — and could make changes if the EU asks. The EU is also able to review the entire deal at the end of 2011.
Microsoft will also provide more information to help software developers make products compatible with Windows, Windows Server, Office, Exchange and SharePoint and will publish what the EU says is an "improved version" of an offer that Microsoft first made in July.
The EU says it is still investigating whether Microsoft is holding back some of the key data that developers need to make products that work with its software.
Regulators said they welcomed Microsoft's move but that the offer was still "informal" and wouldn't end their probe. But they offered some hope saying they would "carefully monitor the impact" of the deal on the market.
Thomas Vinje, a lawyer for browser company Opera and the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, said it was "not yet clear" that Microsoft's offer would create "a more level competitive playing field where open source software is not subject to Microsoft patent fear uncertainty and doubt."
Vinje helped file the complaints to EU regulators that triggered the investigations into Microsoft's browsers and interoperability sharing.

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Donair History
Donairs - in the past - are traditionally either Greek or Turkish in origin, also known as "doners", "gyros", "doner kebabs", "kebabs" and "donners".
The history of the donair goes back far past Halifax, to either Greece or Turkey. For matters of simplicity and convenience, our donair history starts in Halifax.
Wikipedia claims that the modern fast food doner was invented by Mahmut Aygun, a Turkish immigrant in Berlin, in 1971.
Velos Pizza, then located in Bedford, invented the "Halifax" donair in the 1971-1973 area. This "Halifax" donair was characterized by having a very sweet sauce, made from condensed milk, sugar, garlic, and vinegar.
Velos merged / was purchased / etc with King of Donair, thus giving King of Donair claim to being the first to introduce donairs to Canada, which they claim proudly to this day.
Regardless of who brought donairs to Canada, the "Halifax" donair is slowly spreading westward, with many parts of Quebec, Ontario and Alberta serving Halifax donairs due to the high concentration of maritimers who have gone west looking for work.


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- Vegan BBQSummer is almost here and as we fire up our grills for those outdoor dinner parties, there are plenty of delicious BBQ options for a vegetarian or vegan diet. From flavorful grilled tofu to succulent teriyaki eggplant, these healthy, animal-free delights are sure to make everyone's palates happy. Try out our six vegan BBQ recipes and you may never go back to meat again!1
- BBQ Eggplant
Teriyaki Grilled Eggplant
 Grilling eggplant brings out a rich, smokey flavor, making each slice the perfect main dish to eat alone or pile on a bun. Try an Asian twist by adding some home-made Teriyaki Marinade. The porous eggplant will soak it up for a flavorful bite! Mix ¼ c soy sauce and sake with 2 tsp sesame oil, 3 tbsp raw sugar, 2 tbsp rice vinegar and plenty of crushed garlic and grated ginger. Generously apply to the eggplant slices while grilling and enjoy!2
- BBQ Tofu kebab
Tofu Kebabs
 Everybody loves a kebab, and the key to a successful tofu kebab is removing the water from extra firm tofu. Before cutting your tofu into cubes, first slice it into sheets, then firmly press the sheets between two clean, dry cloths. Once the excess water has been removed from the tofu, cut it into cubes and toss with other veggies in your favorite marinade, and let soak for 30 minutes. Skewer and grill for about 10 minutes and enjoy!3
- BBQ Artichokes
Tender Grilled Artichokes
 Steamed artichokes are a fantastic lowfat treat, and grilling adds even more flavor. The tough veggie still needs to be trimmed and boiled for 10-15 minutes to soften, but once that's done, it can be sliced and grilled. Try adding a spritz of lemon and olive oil to amp up the natural flavors!4
- BBQ Portobello
Portabella Burgers
 Portabella mushrooms make a mean burger, and even make better barbeque! You can treat each portabella cap just as a piece of meat, marinating it in your favorite barbeque sauce, and grilling it up. The savory shrooms make a great and tasty barbecue sandwich that will please even the biggest meat eaters.5
- BBQ corn
Mexican Grilled Corn
 Nothing says summer like fresh corn on the cob! Mexican grilled elote is a delicious (albeit messy) twist, that can easily be made vegan! Strip off the corn husks, but leave them attached at the stem to hold onto. Grill the corn until it is charred, then slather on the elote sauce. Mix ½ cup mayonnaise, ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro, 1 cup Parmesan, juice from 1 lime, and a dash of red chili powder, then dip each ear in. Sub in Vegenaise and vegan cheese for your nondairy friends!6
- BBQ Grilled Tofu
Chili Lime Grilled Tofu Steaks
 Staying with the fresh and light flavors of summer, try grilling up some tofu as a main dish. Press a whole (unsliced) block of extra firm tofu between two plates (with something heavy on top) for 30 minutes, then cut into slices. Cover the "cutlets" with ¼ cup lime juice, a dash of olive oil, a handful of fresh cilantro, 2 garlic cloves, and a generous helping of cayenne pepper and salt. Grill until charred, and serve alongside from rice pilaf or coconut rice. These crowd pleasers fuse Asian, Mexican and Thai flavors to spruce up your summer menu!7
- Memorial day veg BBQ ideas.Summer is almost here and as we fire up our grills for those outdoor dinner parties, there are plenty of delicious BBQ options for a vegetarian or vegan diet.8


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Phone: 253-631-0565
Permit-exempt wells are private wells allowed by the State of Washington for specific, restricted uses that are exempt from the requirement of obtaining a permit for groundwater withdrawals.
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The Hirst Decision impacted the use of permit exempt wells for development and that resulted in the Washington State Legislature to pass ESSB 6091 in 2018. The new law does not directly impact existing permit exempt well users. Wells constructed in these basins in compliance with chapter 18.104 RCW are not subject to the new restrictions, limitations, and fees. This is regardless of whether the well was put to beneficial use prior to January 19, 2018.
The new law provides specific regulation for new permit-exempt domestic uses. Per our interpretation of the term "domestic use" (below), we interpret the new law to limit water use under the exemptions in RCW 90.44.050 for domestic water use and watering of a non-commercial lawn or garden. The other uses exempt from permitting (industrial use including irrigation and stockwatering) are not restricted beyond existing legal limitations under RCW 90.44.050, and, in some cases, restrictions identified in instream flow rules adopted under chapters 90.22 or 90.54 RCW.
[1] If a committee fails to adopt a plan by their prescribed timeline, they are to send the draft plan to the Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB) for its review. The SFRB makes recommendations and sends them to us. We then we amend the draft plan and adopt it into rule.
More information can be obtained from the State Department of Ecology through https://ecology.wa.gov/Water-Shorelines/Water-supply/Water-rights/Groundwater-permit-exemption
The District only controls the conditions under which it may extend its water service in accordance with RCW Title 57.08. CWD neither permits nor restricts permit-exempt wells.
The District has established criteria under which its service is available. If a customer chooses to connect to the District's municipal water system, all exempt wells on the property must be decommissioned. The District (per District Administrative Code 4.08.125.C) will credit half the value of connection charges applicable to the cost of the connection to District system. If an existing customer chooses to drill an exempt well, the customer must disconnect from the District's municipal system.
The decision to require a property owner to select the property's source of water supply resulted from an analysis of water quality, water quantity, equity, enforcement options and environmental factors. There are generally two types of exempt wells within Covington's service area, domestic or potable water system wells and irrigation wells. The criteria for establishing the policy of water service is based on the following:
Exempt wells are not "bad", and in fact the option was created by the state at a time (1945) when municipal water was not available in many areas of the state.
Feel free to contact Tom Keown, General Manager at 253-867-0900 or Steve Lee, Engineering Manager at 253-867-0940.


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Editor's Note: Aisha Sultan is a parenting columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and recent Knight Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. Follow her on Twitter: @AishaS. Jon Miller is director of the Longitudinal Study of American Youth in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
Story highlights
Today's young parents are first generation to raise kids in age of social media
Authors say well-intentioned parents are frequently sharing photos, reports on their children
They say kids' privacy is being surrendered before they're old enough to make their own choices
New study: Nearly two-thirds of young parents reported posting their kids' photos online
Today's 30-somethings are the first generation whose children are coming of age alongside the social Web.
Technology is making an indelible imprint on modern parenting, and there is a sense that our data, our personal information, are no longer within our control. But new research findings indicate that openness and information sharing are a way of life for many adults, and personal privacy is readily compromised, along with personal information about one's children.
In an attempt to understand how much privacy matters in this digital age, we questioned 4,000 young adults as part of the Longitudinal Study of American Youth, the largest and longest-running nationwide survey of its kind.
The same participants have been surveyed every year since 1987, when they were public middle or high school students across the country. The sample is now 37 to 40 years old.
Nearly a quarter of these Generation X young adults expressed a high level of concern about online privacy, while 40% reported a low level of concern. But the behaviors were more telling: Nearly 70% said they have shared their own photos online and post about nine personal pictures each year.
Girl grew from online punishment, mom says
More than half (55%) said they have shared information or posted pictures from a vacation. Also, nearly two-thirds of parents (66%) reported posting pictures of their children online, and slightly more than half (56%) shared news of a child's accomplishment.
Well-intentioned parents with great instincts have a desire to share and connect about their children, which often helps foster and maintain social ties to relatives and friends. Our extended families live in different states, and we enjoy being able to keep up with siblings, nieces and nephews. But there is a cost to connection, and many are unclear about what is lost and what is at stake.
Opinion: Is the Internet hurting children?
By and large, the short-term implications of less-guarded personal privacy may be limited in scope, such as being vulnerable to burglary if vacation plans are publicly announced or victim to possible identity theft. There are also amplified consequences to using poor judgment when posting online, such as getting fired or sustaining damage to one's reputation.
But, there are also the decisions made about us that happen in the shadows, the calculations of who merits credit or constitutes an insurance risk, which are harder to track and weigh.
Opinion: Despite Facebook, privacy is far from dead
On the most basic level, we want to be able to tell our story about our lives. But, in the case of our children, a permanent and public story has already been recorded about them before they have a chance to decide whether they want to participate or even whether the narrative is true to their own vision of self.
In our survey, the greatest reported levels of concern about online privacy relate to online credit card use (67% said they were very or somewhat concerned) and online banking services (61%), followed by concerns about social networks (57%). Concerns about social networks were greater than those about online medical records, search engines, instant messaging and texting. How this concern translates into behavior is less clear.
The message from parents, as witnessed from behavior, is clear. Children grow up learning that posting pictures of one's self and sharing personal information is typical. We've created a sense of normality about a world where what's private is public. The sense of being entitled to privacy has been devalued.
And our children will never have known a world without this sort of exposure. What does a worldview lacking an expectation of privacy mean for the rest of society?
The founders of our Constitution could not have imagined a democracy in which our physical movements are tracked by cell phones, our personal correspondence is scanned for key words by corporations and we willingly surrender our reading lists and fleeting private thoughts.
It's an arrangement we've made not just for ourselves but for our children, as well.
When many parents are confronted about what it means to raise children in an era of greatly diminished privacy, the most common responses are: I really have nothing to hide, and who would be interested in my life, anyway?
How to connect with your kids online (without shaming them)
But these rationalizations miss the point, because privacy is one of those nebulous rights that don't matter until it matters. Who worries about Miranda rights until an arrest?
We are living in an era in which every keystroke online, from the information you search for to videos you watch to things you consider buying, is collected, stored, archived, aggregated and potentially shared or sold. And regardless of the false sense of security offered by the key on the upper right corner of your keyboard, there is no delete key for the Internet. Once it's out there, it's probably out there forever.
There is a spectrum, of course, of parental behavior toward their children's private lives, from those who sequester and smother their children in a misguided attempt to protect them to those who exploit and commercialize on the largest stages available.
But never before have parents had the ability to publish the details of their children's lives in such a widespread manner.
A potentially embarrassing anecdote won't faze a toddler, but how does the unilateral flow of information affect a tween or teenager?
Recently, a new set of proposed changes to Facebook's privacy policy was revealed. They include giving users more access to the data collected about them and attempts to explain how the company tracks them. But the changes would also allow Facebook to keep certain information longer along with possibly targeting users with ads across the web, not just on the Facebook site. So, the valuable marketing information gleaned from pictures, posts and "likes" is not contained just to Facebook but used throughout the Web.
More than 900 million of us (and counting) willingly participate in this exchange of information for convenience and connection. But we implicate more than ourselves in the transaction.
We have a right for our data to not rise up and destroy us. We have a right to create our own narrative about our lives. We have a right to control how much we want the world to know about us.
These are fundamental to our personal autonomy.
Our children deserve the same protections.
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Kelley Soule Sights
Buffalo Arms Co. is proud to introduce the Kelley Soule. Its advanced construction makes this sight stand out in its design and function. Elevation adjustment does not use the lead screw threads as a bearing but a silicon bronze bearing thus eliminating wear induced back lash in your elevation. The only sight using bearings for windage and elevation movements. Available for 1874 Sharps, Sharps Borchardt, Remington, Ballard, Winchester Hiwall and Stevens 44 1/2. Main frame and base color case hardened. Staff polished and blued. Silicon bronze elevation bearings. Silicon bronze windage bearings and knobs. Machine cut windage threads for close tolerance fit with staff threads. All parts are machined from solid stock to precise tolerances. 27 1/2 minutes of windage on each side of zero. Elevation calibrations are in one M.O.A. Staff is well marked and very easy to read. Extra interchangable bases available. Comes with adjustable eye cup. The Schuetzen sight has 113 minutes of elevation, the Silhouette has 175 and the long range has 300.
Be sure you are ordering the correct sight for your rifle. There are absolutely no returns on sights that have been mounted.
Be sure you are ordering the correct sight for your rifle. There are absolutely no returns on sights that have been mounted.


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About this Death Cafe
This is a drop in session - come when you can and leave when you like. You're welcome to buy a coffee or soft drink on your way in (if you would like to) as we're based in the back room of a pub. In my line of work I am constantly supporting familiess who are trying to come to terms with the lose of a loved one - and this has raised my awareness of the fear that so many people feel about talking about death - I do everything I possibly can to enable and encourage people to talk freely and openly, so that they can remove the fear and be free to live their lives fully!
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Jacksonville, FL – With payback on its mind, Indianapolis continued one of the NFL's most surprising stories.
Andrew Luck threw for 227 yards and ran for two scores as the Colts avenged a Week 3 loss to Jacksonville with a 27-10 thumping on Thursday night.
The Colts (6-3) used their 22-17 home loss to the Jaguars in Week 3 as fuel to start fast and cruise throughout most of the second half. Indianapolis is 5-1 since head coach Chuck Pagano left the team to go through treatment for leukemia.
"We've got a lot of good kids in this locker room," said Indianapolis interim head coach Bruce Arians. "Everyone played their tails off tonight. It wasn't one of our better efforts, but they played the entire time and made some great plays."
With Luck under center, the Colts have already doubled their win total from during Peyton Manning's rookie season. Luck's streak of four straight 300-yard passing games did come to an end, but he used his legs effectively in the red zone and shook off two turnovers to guide the Colts to their first 4-game winning streak since the end of the 2010 season.
Vick Ballard and Donald Brown combined for 90 yards rushing and the Colts managed a collective 138 yards on the ground. Luck completed 18-of-26 passes, including eight for 96 yards to favorite target Reggie Wayne. Darius Butler finished with two interceptions, including one for a touchdown, in the victory.
Blaine Gabbert completed 18-of-31 passes for 209 yards and an interception before leaving early in the fourth quarter with a shoulder injury. Chad Henne lit a fire under the Jaguars (1-8), completing 10-of-16 passes for 121 yards with one touchdown and one interception. Cecil Shorts caught that score along with five other passes for 105 total yards.
"We were hoping to come out and not have the things happen that have been happening to us," said Jacksonville head coach Mike Mularkey. "But they happened immediately and it changed the momentum. Sucked the air right out of us and it just proceeded from there."
Indianapolis took its second possession 44 yards into scoring territory, but Luck was sacked on third down, and the visitors settled for Adam Vinatieri's 31-yard boot.
The Jaguars enginerred their own march, but it also stalled. Josh Scobee was not as accurate as his counterpart, missing wide right from 44 yards out.
Those two drives were a microcosm for the night.
Indianapolis took advantage of the good field position, marching 62 yards in eight plays to take a 10-0 lead. Luck was intercepted on the first play, but the miscue was nullified by a roughing the passer penalty. Luck's 21-yard toss to Wayne set the Colts up inside the 10-yard line, and the mobile signal- caller cemented the scoring drive with a 5-yard jaunt into the end zone.
Jacksonville again ventured into Colts territory, but Laurent Robinson fumbled, resulting in just Indianapolis' fourth takeaway of the campaign. The Colts wasted little time, needing just seven plays to reach the end zone again. The big play was a 44-yard pitch-and-catch down the seam to Donnie Avery, and Luck finished off the 61-yard drive by barely reaching over the pylon from 1-yard out on fourth down.
The Jaguars finally got on the scoreboard late in the half with Scobee's 40- yard boot. Jacksonville didn't covert any of their five third-down chances and mustered just 146 total yards.
The Colts, a turnover-starved outfit this season, got another takeaway in the beginning moments of the third quarter. Butler jumped a hitch route, picked it off in stride and strolled 11 yards into the end zone for a 3-touchdown lead.
Henne was in the saddle during Jacksonville's only touchdown drive of the game in the fourth quarter, marching the home team to the end zone with a 4-yard, back-shoulder toss to Shorts. He couldn't get the Jags any closer, and Vinatieri's 41-yard field goal with just over 3 1/2 minutes left capped the scoring.
Game Notes
Avery caught four passes for 65 yards ... Wayne was targeted 11 times, but that wasn't a game high. Shorts was targeted 13 times and Robinson was thrown to 15 times, catching nine for 77 yards ... Rashad Jennings led Jacksonville with just 27 yards rushing on 11 carries ... The Colts entered the game with just three takeaways through eight games, tying the fewest in league history. They collected three more on Thursday.


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What is a convertible laptop?
A convertible laptop is one that has both laptop and tablet functionality. Manufacturers build convertible laptops for users who want the most desirable capabilities of each system:
- For laptop users: A touch screen and other tablet-style conveniences
- For tablet users: A PC operating system, keyboard, and other features of a laptop
Convertibles -- also called 2-in-1s or, somewhat mistakenly, hybrid laptops (see below) -- are more powerful than tablets yet have more portable functionality than traditional laptops. As a tablet, they offer the same innovative touch screen capabilities users of those devices have come to love. As a laptop, they provide the processing power, keyboard and other features of a more advanced PC.
Is a convertible laptop the same as a 2-in-1?
Yes, a convertible laptop is also a 2-in-1 laptop, which is the broader term most manufacturers now use to describe the combination laptop-tablet category. Refer to "What is a 2-in-1 laptop?"
The terms "convertible laptop" and "2-in-1" are often used interchangeably. However, as new types of 2-in-1s have emerged, "convertible" has come to refer mostly to so-called 2-in-1 Attached systems, the original type of laptop-tablet combo in which the keyboard and display remain connected at all times, even as the touch screen flips around or otherwise converts for tablet use. [The other type is the 2-in-1 Detachable, which allows the touch screen portion to be unplugged and used independently as a standalone tablet.]
Advantages of a convertible laptop
As a 2-in-1, a convertible laptop offers several advantages compared to laptops or tablets alone:
- Standard PC operating systems and faster, laptop-grade processors make 2-in-1 convertible laptops better for multi-tasking than typical tablets, making them ideal for home/office use in addition to their tablet capabilities.
- The touch screen-tablet functionality adds a new dimension for traditional laptop users, who can now draw up ideas in brainstorming sessions, do data entry on the shop floor, and so on.
- 2-in-1 convertible laptops give you less to pack when traveling, especially for users who already carry smartphones and end up debating whether to take both a laptop and a tablet on trips.
Are today's 2-in-1s different than yesterday's convertibles?
Some early laptops with tablet-style touch screens debuted in the mid-2000s, well before today's modern, standalone tablets became wildly popular portable devices. Those early models pioneered the super-wide angle hinges that allowed a laptop's screen to be flipped all the way around to sit flat for tablet-style use. But the systems were thicker than standard laptops and many considered them too heavy to continuous use in tablet form.
The popular acceptance of standalone tablet-only PCs -- they became everyday consumer devices around 2011 -- ignited new interest in the tablet concept. By then, new shell materials and touch screen technology enabled designs that were much thinner and lighter than before, and a new breed of combination laptop-tablet PCs -- now called 2-in-1s -- found their way to desktops and dorm rooms everywhere.


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The English language doesn't contain enough words to effectively describe what it's like to witness Andrew Luck play quarterback.
In Saturday's 43-22 loss to the New England Patriots, Luck dropped some of the best dimes of the postseason. The pocket-climbing wonder made ridiculous passes with defenders draped on him all night.
Luck was fantastic. But on this night, against this team, he needed to be perfect.
He wasn't.
Luck threw four interceptions. Two led directly to Patriot touchdowns. The pick-a-palooza came a week after he threw three interceptions prior to leading a furious comeback in the wild-card round.
Luck leads a gaggle of young superstar quarterbacks. His combination of intelligence, pinpoint passing, pocket presence and tenacity make him a lethal signal-caller.
However, he is still learning to win in the playoffs. In three playoff games, Luck has eight interceptions. The postseason is a different beast. The stakes are higher, competition better and mistakes magnified.
Saturday night illustrated the ebbs and flows of a young quarterback forced to carry a team that would be drafting in the top 10 of the 2014 NFL Draft without him.
For large portions of the game, he outdueled the immortal Tom Brady. He gained chunk yardage, passing for 331 yards, despite completing just 20 of 41 passes.
Brady, however, had a running game and made no mistakes.
Whether fair or not, right now the Colts go as Luck goes. Saturday he missed more plays than he hit.
Entering his third season, Luck should be mentioned with the top quarterbacks in the league. But this game reminded us that postseason success is not a given.
Luck is not the first brilliant quarterback to wear a horseshoe helmet who took a few tries to figure out the playoffs.
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It's gone. Francis Schaeffer, a Christian philosopher, told us back in the 1970s that some day we would wake up and find out that the America we once knew was gone. That day is here.
Schaeffer went on to say that the unthinkable in one generation becomes thinkable in the next, as a nation drifts away from God. When the U.S. Supreme Court issued two rulings in June that assumed the constitutionality and legality of same-sex marriage, once again the unthinkable became thinkable. Or, more ominous, the unthinkable became reality.
Soon other dominoes will fall, including monogamy (if you should be allowed to marry the person you love, why can you not marry the persons you love?), and as the unthinkable becomes thinkable, we are not surprised that we are already hearing calls to lower the age of sexual consent.
The negative impact on our families cannot be exaggerated. To say, as the Supreme Court did, that as a matter of public policy, marriage can be between two people of the same sex, thus depriving a child of a mother or a father, strikes at the very heart of the stability of the family. In such an environment, children grow up with sexual confusion at best and sexual disorders at worst. Also, as a consequence of the gains of the homosexual lobby, in some school districts parents can no longer insist that their children opt out of courses where homosexuality is taught, even in first grade or kindergarten.
When freedom of religion conflicts with those who believe that same-sex marriage is a matter of civil rights, freedom of religion will be expected to surrender to the homosexual agenda. One charity has discontinued its adoption agencies because the organization refuses, on religious grounds, to assign adoptive children to same-sex couples. An independently owned photography studio has been fined for refusing to photograph a same-sex wedding. Legislation is being crafted that would insist that churches that rent out their facilities must rent them for same-sex marriages, and Christian organizations will soon be required to accept same-sex couples in the workplace.
Like a boat caught in the mighty torrent of the Niagara River, we are being swept along by powerful cultural currents that just might put us over the brink. Daily, we are losing the war for America's heart and mind.
Rather than lick our wounds, withdraw from the public debate and stand aside bemoaning the fate of this great nation, as Christians we must regroup, get our bearings and remember why we are here and what we are called to do. Never before in American history has it been more important for the church to be all that it can be in a society that has chosen to defy God's Word and show hostility to biblical values.
Let it be emphasized that our rejection of same-sex marriage is not a matter of hate, but debate. If we see a driver unknowingly about to back his truck over a cliff, we have an obligation to warn him. So today, we must stand as God's loving but also courageous ambassadors giving notice to all who will listen that God has spoken on the subject of homosexuality, and its consequences. Of course we gladly welcome those who struggle with same-sex attraction into our churches, and we invite them to come to Christ and receive His healing and His grace of forgiveness, even as we ourselves have done. Our motivation is not only truth, but love. We urge the self-righteous who condemn homosexuality without humbly acknowledging their own sin, to deeply repent.
So, where do we go from here?
Let us keep our perspective. Study church history and you will agree that the church has always been an island of righteousness in a sea of paganism. Consider the persecutions of Rome and Greece and the massacre of Christian groups throughout the Middle Ages. Or, consider that today hundreds of Christians are being martyred throughout the Middle East and North Korea—and elsewhere. In other words, God is inviting us to join the persecuted minorities who even today face conflicts of conscience, false accusations and unjust laws.
Do we think that the church can survive only in those countries that are tolerant of the Christian message? Have we forgotten Russia, Romania and China? The church survived in these countries without any political power. The consistent lesson of 2,000 years of church history is that the church does not need freedom to be faithful.
Whether at Corinth, Philippi, Ephesus, or the scattered groups to whom 1 Peter was written—all of these believers addressed in the New Testament were trying to be authentically Christian in a pagan culture. The author of the Book of Hebrews chided his readers by comparing their suffering with that of Christ and the martyrs. He wrote, "You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin" (Hebrews 12:4). He reminded them that, though they thought times were tough, they had not yet paid the ultimate price for faithfulness.
God is humbling the American church. Gone are the days when we thought we held the balance of political power or were winning in the national debate. And yet, pessimism is out of place in the presence of the promises of God. "We cannot," as the saying goes, "talk about standing on the Rock of Ages and then act as if we are clinging to our last piece of driftwood." Could our anxiety about the future reflect fear—the fear that we shall have to confess our own weaknesses and trust God in ways that are unfamiliar? Someone has well said that the task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us: Our God reigns!
Be uplifted by the glorious truth in 1 John 4:4: "You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world."
Let us also keep in mind that the church is still precious to God. To those who lived in an oppressive culture, Peter, who himself eventually died for his faith, wrote: "You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession" (1 Peter 2:9). The church is to be a transformational community even when it has no political power, is oppressed, falsely opposed and persecuted.
And Peter goes on to remind us in the rest of that verse that we're to "proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called [us] out of darkness into His marvelous light."
Remember, this was written to those who were targeted by the pagans for special harassment. Just as flowers sometimes do not emit their fragrance unless they are crushed, so believers often do not exude the beauty of Christ unless they feel the pressure of the world. No matter the political regime or the hostility of the culture, believers are to make Christ attractive to the world. On every level the church must show itself as a redeemed community, filled with imperfect people who themselves struggle with all the failings of the world.
Evangelism must be our priority, but our message must be authenticated by changed lives. We must learn to serve as Christ did. We must be models of love and humility in this day of egoism and crass selfishness.
We must be proactive and penetrate the world of television, law, journalism and government. We can expect that the distinction between the world and the church will become more clearly defined as spiritual darkness settles on the land. The days of nominal Christianity are fast coming to a close. Now is the time for firm convictions, a deepened faith and a praying heart.
Yes, we must choose to fight, but let us do it with love, integrity and a witness for the saving grace of Christ. We must never fight fire with fire, acting like the world, when in point of fact we are citizens of another country. Let us make sure that our fighting is done on our knees and with wet eyes. God will give us the wisdom to know how to respond to the challenges we face.
Whether or not we win in our cultural struggles is really up to God; whether we are faithful is, to a large extent, up to us. We should be satisfied to know that we do not have to be victorious in this world to triumph in the next. We believe in another world.
Throughout history during times of oppression, the sole cry of believers has almost always been to God. Without spite, revenge and hostility, they, like their Master, believed that they were called to pay the ultimate price. Often they remained calm and forgiving.
After a young African was martyred for his faith, this writing was found in his room:
"I'm part of the fellowship of the unashamed, the die has been cast, I have stepped over the line, the decision has been made—I'm a disciple of Jesus Christ—I won't look back, let up, slow down, back away or be still.
"My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, my future is secure—I'm finished and done with low living, sight walking, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed visions, worldly talking, cheap giving and dwarfed goals.
"My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is Heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions are few, my guide is reliable, my mission is clear. I won't give up, shut up, let up until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up for the cause of Jesus Christ.
"I must go till He comes, give till I drop, preach till everyone knows, work till He stops me and when He comes for His own, He will have no trouble recognizing me because my banner will have been clear."
With this kind of resolve we will, with God's help, have the strength to survive against our cultural stream, or perhaps even reverse it. Of course we are a minority, but armed with the promises of God we can have a spiritual impact that is greater than our numbers might suggest.
It may come down to a simple question: Are we willing to pay the price?
Erwin W. Lutzer is senior pastor at Moody Church in Chicago. Parts of this article were adapted from Lutzer's message "God, the Supreme Court and the Unthinkable," found at MoodyMedia.org.
Bible verses are taken by permission from the New American Standard Bible, ©1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977 The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.


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The urgent need to recognize and value academic labor
Recently the House of Representatives essentially voted to destroy graduate education in the United States. By taxing tuition waivers as income — and therefore treating their taxable income as two to three times the amount graduate students are actually paid — the Republican tax bill would effectively put graduate study outside of the reach of all but the independently wealthy. While the Senate version of the tax bill does not include this provision, it is far from certain what the final bill after the reconciliation process will look like. Read more


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Lakaz Chamarel Exclusive Lodge is a small, boutique hotel, managed, like a guesthouse but with the full service of a five star hotel, located in Mauritius, an island off the southeast coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. Past the gate, guests are delighted by this 10-hectare tropical garden and by the charm of the typical Creole-type buildings which totally blend into the surroundings, in a successful mix of comfort and authenticity. Surrounded by the mountains of Chamarel, Lakaz Chamarel is a pearl among the top hotels of the destination which guarantees exclusivity and serenity to nature and green tourism lovers in a warm and harmonious decor, and with a refined local cuisine.
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PSU is writing a strategic plan for information technology. In particular, we're exploring how information technology will shape the classroom in the years ahead. We hear a lot about social networking and this generation's use of tools in extraordinarily new ways. Very few, however, have truly explained what social networking technologies, a world rich with information and collaboration, mean to transforming the classroom.
This is something every college and university instructor should listen to. Grab your coffee or a glass or wine and sit back for a spell. I guarantee you will be left thinking. Also, stick around for the questions. They'll be asking some of what you might be thinking, too.
Sarah B. Robbins-Bell, issued a warning to professors that unless they adapt to new teaching methods with technology, they could become irrelevant because students can find places other than traditional universities to learn. Ms. Robbins-Bell is a doctoral student in rhetoric and composition at Ball State University. From the Chronicle. Nov. 3, 2008 at the Educause Conference in Orlando.


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On the cusp of Occupy Wall Street's one year anniversary, the media (both mainstream and professional leftist outlets) are asking the question: "Is the Occupy movement on the decline?" and deservedly so. The movement, while certainly not finished, has lost numbers and steam for the time being. Some journalists have even mentioned "activist burnout."
What is missing from this coverage is a deeper portrait of just what burnout actually entails, and why it may play a role – though maybe not the defining role – in a political and social movement's progress. People outside of activism read or watch reports of protests, but many don't realize that there are complex people marching on those streets and organizing behind the scenes, that carry their own scars.
Activists are a rare breed of people. They spend countless hours in organizing meetings. They risk arrest during marches, are brutalized by police, and a number of first-time activists struggle with psychological trauma as a result. They take time off of work to volunteer. Many live with economic hardship. And just as importantly, a question lingers with many: Are the sacrifices I'm making in terms of friendships outside the activist community, as well as family relationships, worth the effort?
After the Occupy National Gathering – in which I acted as a media organizer in the interest of full disclosure – I was exhausted and had nearly depleted my savings account. Most of us had been going full steam since September 17th. I decided I had to stop. Others with whom I closely worked, and who put in far more energy than myself, were emotionally and physically depleted. Hours upon hours of meetings, often stressful, plus self-doubt and more than a touch of paranoia thanks to "pre-arrests" and police harassment of organizers well documented across the country, took their toll: Marriages were on the verge of disintegrating, movement friendships were greatly strained, and some were approaching nervous breakdowns.
I decided to reach out to other activists and listen to some of their experiences. Several spoke of the uncertainty they felt about carrying on the struggle.
I exchanged emails with a longtime activist who I'll call "Sam." Sam is a military veteran and Occupy Boston participant. They relate their struggle being queer in a socially and religiously conservative family, and how their activism strained that relationship:
When I came out to my Mormon parents as bisexual, the results were disastrous. They could have lived with it, I think, had I not been an activist. But the fact that I lived to see equality drove them to disown me.
Sam continued their fight for equality, facing instances of harassment by Christian fanatics for working to get a civil unions bill passed in their former state's legislature, and later by law enforcement while participating in Occupy Boston. To make matters worse, Sam was sexually assaulted multiple times while on active duty. Then came the last straw:
In January, I left OB altogether during the now infamous "sex offender" proposal. As a rape survivor, sitting through the discussions at GA and hearing every rape apology in the book trotted out pushed me over the edge. I was in a deep depression, and began hearing voices and hallucinating from the stress of reliving every sexual assault. I finally sought psychiatric help, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and started comprehensive treatment. I'm doing much better now. I've backed away from OB completely. My activism is now limited to the occasional research crawl when others of our friends need some extra eyes. I'm taking care of myself, and trying to put my world back together into some semblance of functionality.
Sam concluded with:
Activism is not a "safe space." It's a world that will eat you alive, particularly if you have suffered some kind of trauma. And let's face it, most of us in the activist community have. Otherwise, we wouldn't be activists. If we're not being targeted by law enforcement, we're being hurt by one another.
Social and political activism has destroyed my relationship with my family of origin (and good riddance, I say). It's destroyed two intimate relationships. It's also brought me a new family, and new relationships. My life has been threatened. My career was destroyed by it. I nearly killed myself due to mental illness greatly exacerbated by it.
And I can't give it up. It's too important to keep raising my voice, building community, helping others. I'm taking a break from the hard core stuff in order to get better and put myself back together, but I'll be back.
My exchange with Sam led me to find another remarkable soul, which came in the form of a letter lifelong environmental activist Tooker Gomberg wrote to his therapist on Earth Day in 2002. His career as an activist included multiple acts of civil disobedience, including breaking into a NATO airbase in the Netherlands to prove the existence of nuclear weapons in that country, a stint in Edmonton's city council, and a failed 2000 mayoral run in Toronto, Ontario. In March of 2004, Gomberg took his own life by jumping off of the Angus L. MacDonald Bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His widow discovered a suicide note. Authorities found his bike on the bridge, but his body was never recovered. His death was partially attributed to an adverse reaction to the anti-depressant Remerol. He was 49 years old.
Tooker's 2002 letter is tragic yet remarkable. It provides a portrait of what committing one's life to a cause can do absent any balance. The missive is also a potent warning to current and future activists. In full:
Dear Activist:
It's another strange day for me. Things have been strange for 8 months or more. I used to be an activist. Now I don't know what I am. Did you ever read the Kafka story about the guy who wakes up and he has turned into a cockroach?
My mind is in a fog – I can't think very clearly. Making a sandwich takes a long time – I have to concentrate on every step along the way, and I am moving very slowly and deliberately. I feel like I am stunned, and spaced out most of the time. Today is Earth Day, but I feel I am on another planet.
I have been spending lots of time in bed, mostly sleeping, dozing, and dreaming.
It feels like my mind has melted down, though I am told that it comes back once the depression lifts. Whenever that is. For some people it seems to be months, for others years, and others never get out of it.
But I am writing to you about activism, not the frightening impacts of depression.
Amory Lovins, the great energy efficiency guru, once called me a Hyper-Activist. I guess that's what I was. I lived, breathed, and focussed on activism. It kept me thinking, inspired, interested, and alive.
But it also allowed me to ignore other things in life that now, suddenly, I realize I never developed. This makes me sad and despondent.
I used to enjoy cooking, but stopped. I always liked kids, but never really thought about having kids of our own. Changing the world was more important, and having a kid would interfere with our life's work of changing the world.
I didn't develop my mind in a broad way, learning about music and art and theatre and poetry, for example. It was focussed on changing the world. I never really thought about a career – I was living my life, not worrying about the trappings and credentials of the boring, status quo world.
Maybe I was living in a bubble of naiveté, doing my own thing, unconcerned that my perspectives and actions were so different from "normal". I never wanted to be normal, anyway. Normal got us into the mess we're in.
So now I find myself, with my sliver of being smashed to smithereens after being assaulted by police in Quebec City, a security guard in City Hall, and various other security guards during the mayoralty race. And numerous arrests.
Or maybe it was the tear gas, and last summer's smog. Maybe I pushed my brain too hard, and overstressed it with the run for Mayor of Toronto, or the passport burning, or 20 years of pushing against the juggernaut. And maybe Sept. 11 firmed up my worries into a real fear that working for change was really dangerous.
Or it could be a physiological response to too much coffee, stress, and smog. Maybe I've burned out my adrenal glands. Maybe my brain is poisoned from so much thinking about tragic ecological issues, pondering bad air, and getting frustrated at the slow rate of improvement and the rapid destruction of the living world. Could my brain have been damaged when I was close to dying with heat stroke in Vietnam in 1998?
I should have developed a deeper kinship with my family and with people. Don't get me wrong – I had lots of friends and acquaintances in the activist world. But they were not deep friends of the heart. I neglected my heart, and how I was feeling about things, about people, about situations. Now that I'm in crisis, I don't really have the language to connect with people. The silence is easier than trying to explain what I'm going through, or to relate to other people's issues or problems.
So what advice can I offer? Stay rounded. Do the activism, but don't overdo it. If you burn out, or tumble into depression, you'll become no good to anyone, especially yourself. When you're in this state, nothing seems worthwhile, and there's nothing to look forward to.
It's honourable to work to change the world, but do it in balance with other things. Explore and embrace the things you love to do, and you'll be energetic and enthusiastic about the activism. Don't drop hobbies or enjoyments. Be sure to hike and dance and sing. Keeping your spirit alive and healthy is fundamental if you are to keep going.
I never really understood what burnout was. I knew that it affected active people, but somehow I thought I was immune to it. After all, I took breaks every now and then and went travelling. And all my work was done in partnership with Ange, the great love of my life.
But in the end, when burnout finally caught up to me, it was mega, and must have been the accumulation of decades of stress and avoidance. And now I find myself in a dark and confusing labyrinth trying to feel my way back to sanity and calm.
So beware. Take this warning seriously. If you start slipping into the hole of depression and you notice yourself losing enthusiasm and becoming deeply disenchanted, take a break and talk with a friend about it. Don't ignore it. The world needs all the concerned people it can get. If you can stay in the struggle for the long haul you can make a real positive contribution, and live to witness the next victory!
This article was originally published by the David and Goliath Project.


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The Football Fignuts Podcast #142 [What Day is it?]
Release Date: 05/01/2020
The Football Fignuts Podcast
In the words of Cam Newton, "I'M BACCCKKKKK!" Well, Britt is back! and Sean is here! Craig is STILL on the IR and recovering. This week we go over some Super Bowl thoughts. Yes. Holding. Some Free Agent talk already, and what team got A's from their players? Join us for some new beers and a lovely round of sports triva. Thank you Owner's Box Triva! You can hear Sean's brain start to melt!
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Its all happening again.... The 49ers/Chiefs Super Bowl is upon us and its all so clear to Britt now... its all about the number 13 and Taylor Swift..... Britt will scare the crap out of Sean with the wild coincidences that tie the number 13 to this game. Once Britt gets back on his medication, the guys will discuss the best and make their predictions. Real prop bets, stupid prop bets. We will discuss it all.
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Its conference championsip weekend and the Divisional round really delivered. Are the 49ers vulnerable? Are the Chiefs 'scripted' into the Super Bowl? Can the Lions make the big step and play in their first ever Super Bowl? Will the Ravens offense continue to roll? All this and more as we get ready for the Championship weekend!
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The guys are back to discuss the week that was and look forward to the divisional round of the playoffs. They will break down what they saw in the games last week as well as look ahead to the divisional round. Join them to get caught up and look ahead at the second round of the playoffs! EDITORS NOTE: Britt clearly states he expects a coaching change in Dallas. Less than an hour after recording, the news broke a story that McCarthy would return in 2024.
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I think the guys are done with this season. Britt is the only one with a team in the playoffs, Aaron Rodgers is desperately seeking relevance, sport reporters who are more worried about ads than content, and officiating is getting really questionable. But the guys are not shying away from this hot topics and are still puishing ahead to discuss the topics that matter to football fans. We can still have a good time, join us!
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The guys are back to discuss how ahrd this season has been. Britt poses the question Mediocrity or Parity and uses a bizarre example to try and answer it. Join the guys before the holiday madness consumes your soul! Also, Happy Holidays everyone. We appreciate you!
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Britt took Sean to Fox Farm this weekend. Everyone is injured. Craig hates everything. So its a pretty standard week. The playoffs are upon us, lets get ready to win your league and dominate DFS.
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The guys are back to break down another wild week in the NFL. Will we see Aaron Rodgers play again this year? Did Frank Reich deserve to be fired? Why are the over unders so bad when 6 games topped 50 points last week? Is Britt going to do a bad Zak Bagans impresison every episode? The answers toall this and more await as we dive into the week thatw as and get ready for the week that will be.
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The guys are back and enjoying a little holiday spirit! Steelers fired a coach? Jim Irsay is gonna sue ESPN? The Metric is on hiatus? The guys are gonna look at it all. The entire team at Football Fignuts wishes everyone a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving.
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Sinch steps in and joins Craig to try a Treehouse pumpkin beer and reminisce about Halloween. Why? Cause the NFL is a wierd and scary place lately. Josh Dobbs has more points than Mahomes? Thats terrifying! Join the guys for week 10 prep.
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As we've been getting this post ready, David's Apalach crew (Hanna, Stephanie, and Shawn) has begun deploying the experiment featured in the video above in Apalachicola Bay. After years of perfecting it, the tile experiment has become a key tool in Randall and David's oyster research. As you can see, there were some headaches along the way.
If you'd like to know more about spat (young oysters), we covered that a few weeks ago in this video.
Dr. Randall Hughes FSU Coastal & Marine Lab
One of the primary goals of several projects in our labs involves figuring out where oysters grow and survive the best, and if they don't survive, why not? Sounds pretty basic, and it is, but by doing this across lots of sites/environments, we can start to detect general patterns and identify important factors for oyster growth and survival that maybe we didn't appreciate before. Our method of choice for this task is to glue the oysters to standardized tiles, place some in cages to protect them from predators, leave the rest to fend for themselves, and then put them in the field and see what happens over time.
In doing this lots and lots of times, we've learned who in the lab has a special knack for placing small drops of marine glue – Zspar (which you can see in the video) – on tiles, and who is better at adding the oysters so that the 2 valves of their shells don't get glued shut. These are the sorts of crazy job skills that don't go on a standard resume!
Any of you who have been following the blog for a while may remember the craziness of the our first NSF tile experiment (Tile 1.0) in the fall of 2010, which involved collecting lots of juvenile oysters ("spat") that had recently settled in the field, bringing them back to the lab, and using a dremel to carefully separate that from the shell they settled on. (If you don't remember and want to check it out, go here.)
Since the Tile 1.0 experience, we've developed more elegant (and much simpler!) methods: we contract with an amazing aquaculturist at a FL hatchery to collect adult oysters from the field, provide just the right ambiance to make them spawn (release eggs and sperm), and then raise the oyster larvae to a perfect size for attaching to our tiles. This year, we added another twist on this theme (Tile 2.0) by collecting adult oysters from different areas in FL, GA, SC, and NC, and then spawning and raising them separately in the same hatchery under identical conditions. We refer to these different groups of oysters as "families", because all of the spat from a given location are related to one another, but not very closely related to the oysters from a different location (who had different parents).
By putting out tiles from each family at sites across this same geographic range (FL to NC), we can tell if some sites or regions are inherently better than others for oysters (for instance, as I'm currently learning first-hand, there's a reason that everyone wants to spend the winter in FL!), or if some families are naturally better than others (think Family Feud with oysters), or if the oysters that came from a particular site do best at that site, but not in other places (like the 'home field advantage' that recently helped Maryland beat Duke in basketball). Whew – that was pretty mixed bag of metaphors! But you get the idea.
We're still processing and analyzing the data from Tile 2.0, but it looks like which site is the best depends on what you're measuring – the best place for survival is not always the best place for growth. And the different oyster families do look and "behave" differently – some grow quickly and some grow slowly, and some survive predators better than others.
Surprisingly, there doesn't appear to be much of a home field advantage, at least from our initial analyses. And as Meagan pointed out, we've learned from other similar experiments for the National Park Service that it's not just other oysters or predators that these guys have to worry about – it's barnacles too! But there are still some 'sweet spots' out there for oysters, and once we've analyzed all of our data, we'll have a much better sense for where those are.
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PHOENIX (April 10, 2020) – A man who received help from the Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) more than a decade ago after coming to the United States as a refugee is among those giving back to his community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yarsiah Momolu Sirleaf recently donated 6,000 ear loop face masks to the county's Donations Warehouse. He says he is simply returning the support once given to him.
Sirleaf went through the Refugee Health program at MCDPH in 2004 and still is impacted by his visit to a local hospital for a tuberculosis test during his arrival to the area he still calls home. "I had a very good welcoming," he said of his reception to the United States.
MCDPH established the Donations Warehouse to coordinate and manage donations of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), which are desperately needed right now to support health care workers and first responders.
So far, MCDPH has received 760 N95 Masks and more than 25,000 latex gloves of various types. Berenise Bauer, who is managing the program as part of Public Health's Office of Preparedness and Response, said she is grateful for how the community has responded.
"I am so amazed at the generosity individuals have shown during the COVID-19 crisis. It gives me hope to see the good in people," said Bauer.
Sirleaf is doing more than donating PPE. Seven years ago, he established the organization Koukatonon Community Organization, which translates to "We Are One." The organization supports refugee transition, integration and global education.
"We are ready to give back to the community in which we live. The virus is spreading and that is impacting the whole community, and we are part of that community," he said.
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In YHC modules are loaded at runtime by yhi from .hbc bytecode files. For a precise specification of the bytecode format see Yhc/RTS/hbc.
This file details how the loading process works, to see what structures are loaded into memory by the module system see Yhc/RTS/Heap.
Loading by demand
The program starts by loading the module with the 'main' function in it. Statically main will have a list of functions that it might call at runtime, these functions are loaded and their dependencies chased similarly. This is all handled by the code in "module.c" in src/runtime/BCKernel.
Yhi is careful to only load functions from the bytecode that could potentially be used, so as to minimize runtime memory use. Resolution then proceeds as follows:
- Suppose the runtime needs to load "Prelude.foldr" first it would open the right Prelude.hbc file and minimally load it, if it isn't loaded already.
- To minimally load a module:
- first the module string table is read from the .hbc file. The string table associates each unique string index with a StringRef. A StringRef holds either the contents of the loaded string or an offset to where it can be found in the file. When the module is first loaded only the offsets are loaded into the string table.
- Then when the actual string data for a string is needed later on in the process the string table will either return the stored string data or it will go to the right place in the file and load the string data.
- Having read the string table the object table is read. Again a similar trick is used the object table associates object indexes with ObjectRefs, and again ObjectRefs hold either the object data or its file offset.
- However this time a lookup table is used to map object names to object indexes. Note that this will cause the strings representing object names to be loaded as a side effect.
- Having minimally loaded the Prelude module the resolution process would use the module lookup table to resolve 'foldr' to a object index. Using this index the corresponding ObjectRef would be looked up in the object table. The ObjectRef either has the object data associated with it or not. If not then the data is loaded from the offset of the file specified by the ObjectRef.
- Since Prelude.foldr is a function it has a function constant table. Thus table is loaded with the bytecode instructions for foldr and all the names referenced in the constant table are resolved. In this manor the process continues recursively.
- Cyclic dependencies are handled by updating the object data associated with an ObjectRef before recursing to load it's dependencies; even though the object data might not be fully loaded yet.


text: So open up your morning light, And say a little prayer for I. you know that if we are to stay alive. Then see the peace in every eye. She had two babies. One was six months, one was three In the war of '44. Every telephone ring, every heartbeat stinging When she thought it was God calling her. Oh would her son grow to know his father? (chorus) I don't want to wait for our lives to be over, I want to know right now what will it be. I don't want to wait for our lives to be over, Will it be yes or will it be sorry? He showed up all wet on the rainy front step. Wearing shrapnel in his skin. And the war he saw lives inside him still, It's so hard to be gentle and warm. The years pass by and now he has granddaughters (chorus) You look at me from across the room You're wearing your anguish again Believe me I know the feeling It sucks you into the jaws of anger. So breathe a little more deeply my love All we have is this very moment And I don't want to do what his father, and his father, and his father did, I want to be here now. So open up your morning light, And say a little prayer for I You know that if we are to stay alive, Then see the love in every eye.


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From 11–28 September, agency shows its register of confusing uses of intellectual property at Casco. The register presented is limited to trademarks and will be expanded to include copyrights, publicity rights and patents in the future.
The register consists of various elements: an agency, an online database, an archive and a series of events. The agency collects stories on confusing uses of trademarks based on court cases. These stories are then entered into the database. The actual signs (words, images, forms, colors, sounds, and smells) that were at stake in these court cases can be found in the archive. Moreover, the archive contains a tangible product or reference to the respective service of each of the trademarks. A series of events augments the collected data with testimonies, guided tours, debates and meetings.
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agency registers confusing uses of trademarks thereby assembling a collection of the officially absent meanings of protected trademarks. The register undermines the fabricated unequivocal meaning of a trademark and opens the legal justification of distinction to debate.
agency is an international and interdisciplinary network of user alliances and cooperations. Since 1999, agency has been compiling a database on uses of property, an archive on the conflicts between the public and private realms. agency develops this archive step by step through collaborations. Recently, agency's archive has focused its research on uses of intangible intellectual properties. http://www.agency-computer.com


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