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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney could be the presidential candidate with it all — money, organization, experience — except the thing he wants most.
The love and enthusiasm of his fellow Republicans.
Romney, the button-down establishment man, has never inspired the passion that drives many political campaigns, and those on the party's right wing question the sincerity of his conservative views.
While his rivals in the Republican race yo-yo up and down in the polls, Romney glides along near the top of the pack. As candidates with more political sex appeal fade, Romney is in a strong position to be the last man standing.
Whether that will be good enough for Republicans will become clear early next year, when the party starts to vote for its nominee to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012.
"Romney's biggest challenge has always been to get Republicans to vote with their head and not their heart," said Republican Dan Schnur, an aide on Senator John McCain's 2000 presidential bid.
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Romney, the early front-runner in the Republican nominating race after a failed 2008 bid, saw Texas Governor Rick Perry shoot past him in polls after he joined the race last month.
Romney regained the lead in a Fox News poll this week, and his strong appeal to moderates and independents helps him consistently score better than Perry and other Republicans in hypothetical matchups against President Barack Obama.
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Rhodes said he did not buy the argument that Romney would give Republicans the best chance of defeating Obama in 2012.
"Obama is beatable by somebody with a consistent conservative message, not someone who will get in the general election and capitulate," he said. "Romney is just a manager. He'll manage an out-of-control system better than Barack Obama will, but he does not share our belief in limited government."
It is also still unclear whether Romney's Mormon religion would be a negative in a general election race. Romney would be the first Mormon president.
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Romney, the millionaire former head of a private equity firm, also has an established fund-raising network that so far has helped him crush his Republican rivals in the money chase.
As of June 30, the last deadline for filing figures, Romney had raised $18 million. The deadline for third-quarter fund- raising was Friday, and Perry's ability to keep pace with Romney will be closely watched.
Romney's smooth debate style and seasoned campaign-trail experience make him a safer bet to avoid the setbacks that have hit newcomers like Perry and U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann.
But Romney's steady performance in the race — he has ranged between 16 percent and 24 percent in every poll since the beginning of September — could be either a sign of stable support or an indicator he is not capable of expanding his base.
"His supporters aren't necessarily enthusiastic but he may not need that," said Karlyn Bowman, a poll analyst at the American Enterprise Institute. "He has not lost ground like the other candidates, and that suggests Republicans still find him acceptable."
Without enthusiasm from supporters during a long campaign, however, money and organization might not be enough.
"He has a superior advantage in organization and fund-raising, but a lot of people just don't trust him," said Republican strategist Ford O'Connell. "A lot of people feel like they just don't know him."
Editing by Alistair Bell and Peter Cooney


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Where They At??? Part 2!
So if you have been following me since my old blog then you know from time to time I like to do an update of where a lot of the characters in my blog are, because I know so often the stories don't always have a conclusive ending. Here are a few of the faves!
Feel free to search the blog for the relevant stories for those listed below.
Xavier - so after the date that I had with Xavier, we had a conversation a few weeks later about where things were headed. He mentioned that he was looking for a serious relationship and would definitely like to consider where things went with he and I. The thing about Xavier is that he is a globe trotter and you sort of have to get in where you fit in with him. After having him commit more time to getting to know one another, I discovered a few things about him that just didn't mesh. I broke it off with him over a text message (I know!) and we haven't spoken since. I wish him the best! Absolutely fantastic guy with a bright future!
Alonzo - I haven't spoken to Alonzo in months. I'm not sure why, but I of course hope that he is doing well. I miss him and will always love him, but we lead individual lives and distance or time will never affect our bond.
Jimmy - Last time I spoke to Jimmy was technically in 2012. Wow - I just realized how long it's been. However, I did see him a few months ago - in a professional setting. We didn't have time to talk much but I've always prayed for growth and prosperity for him. I hope that he is happy in his life.
Jacob - I consider Jacob to be a game changer - just not the game changer for me. It was hard for me to let the idea of this relationship go. I'd grown very close and very fond of Jacob, so it was tough to end things with him. Jacob was simply not wanting to put the effort into transitioning our dating into a relationship, and that of course was his choice - but I couldn't stick around; and I'm happier for it!
Mekhi - I have nooooo idea where this guy is, how he felt about meeting me or anything. Honestly - I would forget I even existed. I mean, I did choose the guys brother over him.

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nosey on Silver Slipperposted on June 9, 2007
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lookn 4 marie the one who wore wigs
Big Girls on Silver Slipperposted on October 21, 2006
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Went the other night and when I walked in there were 3 girls at the bar with a combined weight of around 750 pounds, and I wish I were kidding.
Jef on Silver Slipperposted on August 31, 2006
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Went there this week. There were two ladys there, a non-dancer and the bartender. Nothing going on here. Try somewhere else.
bob on Silver Slipperposted on February 15, 2006
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went to silver slipper the other and was immediately ripped off by the bartender. she asked if i wanted to buy a lady a drink. i asked which lady and how much. she said $22. damn. i pointed at a cute blonde and paid. she poured a drink, started drinking it and said thanks. damn. i asked if she would come and sit with me and she said she couldnt leave the bar. how fucked up is that?
O-man on Silver Slipperposted on February 8, 2006
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Went to this place again. Found out some things. This place is like it was, years ago, just much more expensive. It's gonna cost either a $66 or $88 drink plus a tip (donno how big a tip) for what I was lookng for. My theory is that the city closing all the massage parlors has run the prices up at these joints.
O-man on Silver Slipperposted on January 25, 2006
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10 years ago, when this place had a different name, this was THE place to go for cheap thrills. A $12 drink plus a $20 tip was all it would take for, uh, well, for what most of us are looking for when we go in these type places. Now, it might be like that again, but most of the time the girls either don't trust me, or maybe each time I find the one girl who is too good for it, and then the others won't give me the time of day. (One visit, it was great...) The last time I went in there, there was even a girl who DANCED! She was asking for tips, even though she said "We can't go topless in here." I can't figure this place out.
stinger on Silver Slipperposted on December 30, 2004
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Has anyone been here lately? Coming to town in Feb and wondering if it is worth a try to go. If so, any girls that give real good dances?
Jack on Silver Slipperposted on August 3, 2004
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I went there a few years back, I think they named it "Silver" Slipper because most of the women were so old they had silver hair, it sits in an odd spot in the districting here and the women did't get completely nude, checked it out one other time and got a pretty hot table dance from this plump little blonde.


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An in-vitro flow study was conducted in a mildly atherosclerotic main coronary artery casting of man using sugar-water solutions simulating blood viscosity. Steady flow results indicated substantial increases in pressure drop, and thus flow resistance at the same Reynolds number, above those for Poiseuille flow by 30 to 100 percent in the physiological Reynolds number range from about 100 to 400. Time-averaged pulsatile flow data showed additional 5 percent increases in flow resistance above the steady flow results. Both pulsatile and steady flow data from the casting were found to be nearly equal to those from a straight, axisymmetric model of the casting up to a Reynolds number of about 200, above which the flow resistance of the casting became gradually larger than the corresponding values from the axisymmetric model.
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The healing power of hip-hop from a warfighter's perspective
If you could give veterans a voice and impact their lives directly through music, how would you do it?
For former Navy combat medic George "Mik" Todd, 32, his technique not only involves using hip-hop as "combat medicine" for personal healing and restoration, but to also inform others about the ups and downs that veterans face upon transitioning into civilian life.
"What makes it so different is that I talk about high level violence and trauma, despair, heartaches, addiction, redemption and all of these topics that you may find in hip-hop, but it's coming from a warfighter's perspective," said Todd, who is also known by his alter ego, Doc Todd. "Here's a hip-hop artist who's drawing the correlations between war and some of those things. I think that's what so unique about my music – the type of subject matters that I can touch on because of my war experience and the way that it translates into the nucleus of our hip-hop culture."
Having worked different jobs in the restaurant and financial management industry, the Tennessee native wanted more out of life. So Todd took a leap of faith and pursued music full-time with one simple mission – to show veterans that they're not alone in an effort to save lives.
"The focus of my music is to save and impact the lives of our nation's heroes and other individuals who are dealing with mental health issues across the board, whether they are in the military or not," he said.
As a follow-up to an album he released in 2009 about his emotions leading up to deployment, Todd created Combat Medicine album by taking a no-holds-barred look into the issues that veterans face upon transitioning from the military.
"The album is having a dramatic impact on people's lives," Todd said about Combat Medicine which was released in June. "I've got people reaching out to me all the time with heartfelt letters, notes, emails and messages saying that the album is giving them a voice and it's helping them stand back up."
Before pursuing his music project, Todd spent a majority of his military career serving as a hospital corpsman with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment. In May 2009, his unit deployed to Afghanistan's Helmand province as part of Operation Khanjar, the largest U.S. led offensive under former President Barack Obama's regional strategy to defeat the Taliban and its allies in an effort to stabilize Afghanistan.
Todd endured a lot of hardships during the operation, the biggest being the loss of 14 Marines killed in action including his close friend and roommate, 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Charles Seth Sharp. Several more members from his unit have since died from suicide or substance abuse upon returning home from war.
"I've had my share of challenges with addiction. Getting all of these emotions out and taking the skeletons out of the closet can be a painful experience," Todd said. "The fact that you're doing something so great (by serving your country) but your bank account doesn't reflect that, the stress it creates was unbelievable and had me fighting for my life. I had to be cognizant of my drinking and where I was looking for comfort when I wasn't at my best."
Dealing with anxiety, drugs, alcohol abuse, depression and survivor's guilt was a real struggle for Todd. No longer wanting to suffer in silence, he needed an outlet to release the pain of losing friends and fellow servicemembers to suicide.
The silver lining came when Todd realized that he could use music to accomplish two goals: speak directly to veterans while focusing on self-improvement and meaningful growth.
"Making music and what it is doing for the guys around me, and for myself, has just become so clear. It's like I can't be doing anything else. I've got to be doing this. Somebody needs to be doing this," he said. "Now, the mission has grown so much that I've got all of these other veteran artists contacting and reaching out to me, wanting to do music. I think it's unbelievably cool."
Todd said hip-hop is about more than just catchy rhymes and lyrics. Rather, it's about transforming real-life experiences into melodic expressions that help heal and empower veterans to get back on their feet.
"On a personal note, the song that touches me the most is 'I Disappear.' It's about just feeling like you're literally a dead man walking. All these feelings of pain, shame, inadequacy, regret and the other hard things that someone may go through as part of their story," Todd said. "It's by far the most personal song on my record outside of 'Driving,' which is about me meeting my wife and my great relationship with her. It's not as heavy so it gives others a sense that there's hope and light at the end of tunnel.
"My favorite performance on the record is 'PTSD.' I felt great about it because in order to be able to touch everybody who's experienced it on varying levels, I had to go to some places artistically that I've never been before. I love that about it."
For Todd, saving veterans' lives begins with a listening ear especially from those who have been there and done that. No matter what your story is or what you went through, he said Combat Medicine offers something for everyone.
"In three words, I would say Combat Medicine is purposeful and spiritual (with a focus on) warfare. It's passionate, it's transparent, it's unfiltered, it's real and it's authentic," Todd said. "Having a relationship with God is unbelievably important. You can start talking to God right now where you are. Whatever it is that you believe in, try to take a small step in that direction every day and take charge of your life spiritually and mentally. Once you do that, you'll see your life begin to change like mine did."
Listen to the Combat Medicine album on Doc Todd's website at www.therealdoctodd.com/music.


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Seniors find community life has perks, blessings
After a person retires, the support and encouragement of family and friends become a crucial part of daily living.
As professional relationships fade and office happenings lose their importance, seniors begin to rely on a network of their closest loved ones to add meaning and joy to their lives. Listening to grandchildren's accomplishments and laughing with old friends, seniors feel that they still have a purpose after they stop earning a paycheck.
Although interaction with others can help seniors remain engaged and excited about life, studies show that aging baby boomers will have fewer friends and family to take care of them as they move into their 80s.
According to a 2013 AARP study, the ratio of potential caregivers to members of this new group of seniors is projected to decline from more than 7-to-1 in 2010 to less than 3-to-1 by 2050.
With fewer caregivers to turn to, many seniors are postponing retirement.
Richard Leider, a vocational psychiatrist and life coach in Minneapolis, explained that many seniors are choosing to work well past their 65th birthday to maintain social connectivity.
"A lot of it has to do with social connection," he said, noting that seniors don't want to be "disconnected to the world, and work is one of the best places to overcome feelings of isolation."
"A job gives a person a reason to get up in the morning. It connects them with other people, provides them with a schedule to follow and allows them to feel like they're making a difference in the world in some way," he added.
But working long past retirement age isn't an option for everyone. Those who don't have family members to care for them are finding that living in retirement communities not only gives them a sense of security, but also fills a social void by providing an immediate circle of friends and activities.
Carmella Swann and her husband moved into Our Lady of Life Apartments, a Cardinal Ritter independent living residence, because they felt they were getting too old to handle all of the responsibilities associated with owning a home.
"Houses require a lot of personal attention that seniors may or may not be able to keep up," Swann said. "Two weeks before moving here, our kitchen sink developed a leak, and it was very difficult for me to get a plumber to come to the house to tend to it. Living here one year later, I had a problem with one of the bathrooms, and the maintenance men came immediately and handled the situation very efficiently."
A Catholic Charities federated agency, Cardinal Ritter Senior Services has served the aging population of St. Louis since 1960 and offers personalized care for seniors at all stages of life.
Swann, who loves going to daily Mass and enjoys being an integral part of the Cardinal Ritter community, described herself and the other residents of Our Lady of Life as "blessed."
"This sense of community definitely contributes purpose and meaning to our lives," Swann said.
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I know this means that I will be looked down upon by all the "smart" people who have attended or teach at a major university. I know this means that I will may lose some IQ points or will be labeled as "ignorant." But I just think Palin seems like a classy lady who knows how to get things done. I like that she never had "handlers" before she ran with McCain. Palin seems to know who she is and doesn't apologize for it. I like women with some spunk.
For the record, I was never homeschooled. I went to both private and public schools. I am not a member of the NRA although I do own a gun. I drive a Prius. I work with the forest products industry. I once worked for a Democrat in the Missouri legislature, and I can't stand country music or NASCAR. My record seems like one big contradiction.
I actually like NPR and think Michael Moore seems like a decent guy even though he spins the truth in his "documentaries." I fully recognize climate change although I am not sure that global warming is the crisis that Al Gore would have you believe.
I agree with Barack Obama that the rich should pay more taxes, and they do. I support comprehensive immigration reform, similar to what President Bush suggested and was roasted by conservatives for supporting.
Palin seems like the real deal to me. I hope that I can vote for her again. Her recent interview with Matt Lauer showed that she could answer tough questions even while cooking. Wow! What a woman.
I just don't get why so many people criticize her as stupid or non-qualified for high office. Sure, she doesn't have the experience to be president. Honestly, I don't know that anybody does until they have had the job. Former President Clinton said as much in an interview this past summer. See Clinton's comments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdvaxQIC1s4
Kudos to Matt Lauer for showing Palin respect and not acting condescending in his attitude toward her. I'll watch the second half tomorrow.


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From curiosity to community to creation, the Makerologist Anthology demonstrates how integrating industry experience with classroom education not only enriches students of all ages, but also our community at large, leading to more meaningful impact.Project Website
Clarissa San Diego is Founder and CEO of Makerologist, a maker technology agency that bridges the gap between companies and communities through creative technology experiences. She leads a collective of makers, educators, designers, engineers, artists, and writers who have come together under a shared vision of creating a maker ecosystem. They specialize in project based learning experiences through hardware kits, workshops, events, and public installations. At Makerologist, San Diego demonstrates her abilities in business development, industrial design, STEM education, and community building at a local and global scale. In her previous career, she served as a developer relations consultant for various tech companies. Her award winning work is published in academic journal, Technical Communication, and MAKE Magazine. Clarissa was also co-producer for numerous tech events including the Women Who Code CONNECT 2016 and the DevRel Summit conferences. Majority of her work focuses on matchmaking the needs between local communities and businesses through hardware education.
A sociologist by training and writer by habit, Tony Loiseleur currently finds himself oddly (but pleasantly) amongst Seattle's growing maker community. At Makerologist, Tony not only helps with company communications, but also tries to find every opportunity he can to incorporate pop culture into the group's many projects. "They say a man's reach should always exceed his grasp...especially when it means fully 3D printed Iron Man cosplay.
Gabriel-Bello Diaz is an engineer, designer and public school educator focused on empowering his community through entrepreneurial endeavors. With his expertise in digital fabrication and designing curriculum from K-12 and college, he works as a consultant to help transform schools and embedded a new approach to engineering within educational spaces. His research in robotic engineering has been published in several books and he has developed a variety of workshops at universities including Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Michigan University, The Institute for Advance Architecture of Catalonia and University of Sydney. Bello-Diaz aims to continue his own education and exploration while bringing that back to his work in Seattle. He hopes to inspire is students to follow their dreams in STEM fields while making a difference in their own community.


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Need a good way to get data out of a group of Outlook forms.
Install the form and create views based on the form fields. Use copy and paste to move data to a spreed sheet.
After collecting data from users the help desk needs a way to see what each request is about.
First I need to install the form somewhere so that you can get to the fields. In previous post I have published to the Organiztions Forms folder. This time I am going to publish the form in the Personal Forms (which does not require Exchange server).
Open the form and select Tools => Forms => "Publish Form As..."
Select the "Personal Forms Library". Give the form a name and publish it.
I am going to create a seperate folder for all the help desk forms to go into.
Here I have 3 forms that are in the folder. Now I want to change the columns I see in the view.
Copy the Current view and give it a new name.
When I click OK I get a View Summery window. I am going to remove the fields I don't want first.
Now I am going to add fields from the form I created and installed in the personal forms folders. From the drop box pick Forms...
Select "Personal Forms" and pick the HelpDesk form. Click on Add.
I click OK and apply the view and now I see new columns in my view of the HelpDesk folder and I can sort by Severity if I want.
Note that you the radial values have to be setup correctly to see relevant data. If you have problems with this see my previous post http://qvlweb.blogspot.com/2008/08/outlook-forms-5-frames-radials-check.html regarding how to do this.


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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, with Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Ethan Hawke, Rihanna. Directed by Luc Besson.
AS eye-poppingly good as The Fifth Element was 20 years ago, Luc Besson's latest film, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, is a sci-fi adventure on an epic scale.
Set in the 28th century, the opening montage shows the origins of Alpha, which started out as an international space station orbiting Earth, developed and built upon by succeeding generations of human astronauts until first contact with alien races, who bring their own technology and culture and add to the station.
Eventually, when its mass proves a threat to Earth, the enormous space station is propelled into deep space, joined by yet more alien civilisations and truly becoming the "city of thousand planets".
Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are human special agents enjoying some rest and relaxation aboard their spacecraft when Valerian has a dream about a planet that looks like a tropical paradise, where the humanoid inhabitants dwell in tranquillity, their lives sustained by the wondrous pearls they harvest from the ocean.
But their peaceful lives are shattered by the wreckage of spaceships falling from the sky. When a massive vessel pierces their atmosphere they take refuge in one of the fallen craft, but one of their people is left outside, and facing her doom, releases an energy wave that seems to physically affect Valerian, who wakes from his dream.
He and Laureline are sent on a mission to retrieve a prized "converter", the last of its kind in the universe. In one of the most visually spectacular parts of the movie, they visit a tourist planet where beings of all kinds go shopping in another dimension. Yes, it is that weird and wonderful.
Special goggles and gloves are required to see and interact with beings and objects in the parallel dimension and the special agents' fellow operatives keep watch while Valerian goes to get the converter. This requires interfering in a black market deal and angering an alien mob boss.
Chased by a seemingly indestructible beast, Valerian and Laureline barely escape before they head to Alpha to deliver the converter.
They report to Commander Filitt (Clive Owen), but soon learn of intrigue and strange occurrences at Alpha, a section of which has become a toxic no-go area from which troops have never returned. It somehow ties in with Valerian's dream.
When they are attacked and the commander is kidnapped, Valerian and Laureline go on an incredible adventure through the diverse worlds within Alpha.
The visuals are stunning, and there is plenty of quirky humour to accompany them. Another delightful part is when Valerian is introduced to a performing shapeshifter (the singer Rihanna) and her creepy pimp (Ethan Hawke).
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About Mrs. Haeffner
I was born in raised in a small town in northern Illinois called Sycamore; about an hour outside of Chicago. I graduated from Augustana College in Rock Island with my Bachelors degree in Elementary Education in 2015. I have taught two years at Pleasant View in 6th grade and this is my second year teaching 5th grade! I am excited for this new year:)
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Tacoma Rainiers
September callups make for weird lineups in Salt Lake's win over Tacoma
Triple-A baseball games played after the major league rosters expand on Sept. 1 can feature some strange lineups, and that was the case in the Salt Lake Bees' 10-1 win over the Tacoma Rainiers on Tuesday night.
Salt Lake had three of its starting four infielders playing a position for the first time in their career. That included second baseman Gary Brown, an outfielder who had never set foot in the infield in the first six years of his professional career.
Salt Lake's infield made all of the plays, and the Rainiers had just four hits in the game.
"We had a couple of guys playing different positions, and they made some good plays for us," said Bees outfielder Roger Kieschnick, who had three hits.
Kieschnick and catcher Stephen McGee hit back-to-back home runs in the second inning against Tacoma starter Tyler Olson (2-5).
Other than the homers, Olson was solid. He lasted five innings and gave up two runs on four hits.
Olson left trailing 2-1, as Tacoma could not muster much offense against Bees starter Nate Smith (2-3). Mike Zunino doubled in the fourth inning, and Jabari Blash doubled him home with two outs for Tacoma's only run.
Smith allowed one run in six innings to earn the win. He was making his sixth Triple-A start after spending the majority of the season at Double-A Arkansas, where he was named the Texas League pitcher of the year.
Salt Lake opened up the game in the bottom of the sixth, collecting five singles and scoring two runs against rehabilitating Mariners reliever Joe Beimel.
The Bees tacked on three more runs in both the seventh and eighth innings, turning the final score into a blowout.
Blash left the game in the bottom of the eighth inning when he fell awkwardly while charging a sinking line drive in right field.
"He's OK, he mildly hyperextended his knee," said Tacoma manager Pat Listach. "I expect him to play Wednesday."
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With Sean O'Malley, Stefen Romero, Jose Ramirez, and Tony Zych called up to Seattle, the Rainiers added reinforcements. Outfielder Julio Morban, and pitchers Andrew Kittredge and were promoted to Tacoma from Double-A Jackson. Morban and Kittredge played for the Rainiers earlier this season.
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James Paxton (0-1, 9.82 ERA) makes his final rehabilitation start for Tacoma in a 6:05 (PDT) game at Salt Lake City. The Bees will start Tyler DeLoach (1-4, 5.74).
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Join us for Kids Bible Club on Sunday evenings now at 4 pm. This is an opportunity for children to:
- Learn about Gods love for them and introduce them to a relationship with Jesus
- Grow and be discipled by studying Gods Word, memorizing it, and applying it to their lives
- Enjoy the fellowship of kids like them who love the Bible and love Jesus
Kids Bible Club is geared for children between age five and 12. Once they are 12 years old, they are still welcome as helpers.
Kids participate in the Sunday School Christmas Program, decorating gingerbread houses and go caroling!
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
10 Ways to Identify a Writer
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Number 5 is alive.ReplyDelete
Hi AubrieAnne! What a fascinating blog! I love it! I've always had this secret desire to write! I love, love, love to read books and watch movies! Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving such wonderful comments!ReplyDelete
Wishing you a beautiful day! xoxox
1 and 4 are most accurate for me.ReplyDelete
Very amusing, i enjoyed reading it; as long as we share the understanding that there is only one real writer and everybody else is just masturbating.ReplyDelete
Atypical Scott...Yes, that is one of my favorite ones. It was inspired by a particular writing quote. I'm pretty sure it's in my next post.ReplyDelete
ArtsyCanvasGirl...Thank you. Well, if you ahve a blog then you are writing! Hopefully, it has allowed you to fulfill a part of that secret desire. I often post book reviews and some posts on movies (because I LOVE movies) so hopefully they will be of interest. Plus, I followed your blog so i will stay caught up. :)
Matt...I think I have a little piece of all of these in me. Of course, in a very sardonic kind of way.
Kari...I was not aware of that. lol
Most of the time my main characters aren't really developed beforehand. They congeal as the story flows along.ReplyDelete
I develope mine beofrehand, but they do morph as the story moves along. I think that makes them human. I feel that people decide who they want to be, but that doesn't mean they don't change as they go along. You know?ReplyDelete
I feel ya. The way I write a story, I only have vague ideas in mind, and then I put fingers to keyboard and start from the beginning and the story develops as I go along. There is very little thought of beforehand.ReplyDelete
I think I do my best writing when it's spontaneous.ReplyDelete
I'm so not saying anything. That's an amendment so I can do that right? >.>ReplyDelete
Yes, the FIFTH one. :)ReplyDelete
Haha love the list!! I laughed when I read....ReplyDelete
8. When they hear voices in their head, they listen and say things back. But they're not like crazy people or anything.
That's me... sadly.. I confess :)
Yeah, I know how you feel. It's sometimes hard to admit how looney we all are. :)ReplyDelete
Oh! I love the cartoon and I am now thinking if I fit in one of the 10. I'm writing from my heart and enjoying it. I love your blog and will be coming back to learn more. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Suertemom...Thanks for joining in. I'm happy you enjoyed my list. Come by anytime!ReplyDelete
I like that! That's me tonight... all night.ReplyDelete
Following you now! You can find me at:
I love your list! I also had a lot of fun reading your comments on my blog :) I'll admit I'm horrible at following blogs, but I do try to visit any time someone comments on mine :)ReplyDelete
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Janet...It's awesome to have you following. I'll see you around her and on your own blog.ReplyDelete
Rose...Thanx! I REALLY LOVED your blog so it wasn't hard to enjoy myself and leave some nice comments. I'll certainly be around there often and hopefully I will see you here as well. :)
Apart from number one (I'm way to lazy to be a control freak) I thoroughly recognised myself. Is that bad? Another great blog post - ;)ReplyDelete
Haha! That's what I thought! I'm like "I am seriously this person!!!" So, no, it's not bad...maybe. lol.ReplyDelete
Love it! You had me laughing with this one! Glad I scrolled down and found this! :)ReplyDelete
I'm glad you scrolled down too and found this. I always try and leave 10 days worth of posts on the home page in case people decide to explore. Plus, this has been one of my favorite posts so far.ReplyDelete
Love the list! It describes me to a 't'. I had to go to the grocery store and wasn't sure the clerk understood a word I was saying. Why do I even leave my home? lolReplyDelete
Thank you for linking up to my blog hop. It has been really great getting to know you.
Lynda...I'm very pleased you loved the list ans was able to relate. That's why I thought it would be a fabulous addition to your wonderful blog hop! People just seem to have enjoyed this post. :) It's been lovely getting to know you as well!ReplyDelete
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Diafrix – Easy Come, Easy Go
Back in February I presented you with the easily lovable "Running It", by the up and coming Australian group Diafrix. This time, it's another fun & catchy track with "Easy Come, Easy Go" representing the third single on the upcoming debut album Pocket Full of Dreams, due out September 28th. To say this record could be a sleeper of 2012 is a giant understatement. Really enjoying everything I've heard from the group, as the combo of hip/hop & pop continues to click. Check out "Easy Come, Easy Go," below and be sure to support Pocket Full of Dreams once released.
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Diafrix – Running It (Single)
Boy, this is some good stuff. Not sure what it is about the Aussie's and their music… I've got a theory that the warm relaxed vibes of Australia directly translates to the music they put out, which always seems to have that carefree-relaxed feeling attached. After all, who doesn't enjoy catchy feel good music?
I can't quite figure out what to categorize this track as. It's got some serious indie rock influences, yet comes across as hip/hop for some reason. Anyways, "Running It" is the first single on the duo's upcoming sophomore album titled Pocket Full of Dreams, scheduled to be released on June 29th, 2012. I know, I know, that seems like eons from now. However, "Running It" will be available in the United States via iTunes on March 9th, so that's a bit more feasible for most. In fact, you can stream it below free of charge until it's released. Cheers!
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Lynn Vanwelsenauers - CP has lived in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for 34 years. She received a Bachelor's of Science degree from Michigan Technological University in 1990. She went on to NorthEast Metro Technical College in St. Paul, MN where she first graduated as a Prosthetic Technician in 1991. While working as a technician, Lynn continued the Prosthetic Practitioner Program and finished in 1993 and has been a Certified Prosthetist since 1995. In that same year, Lynn and her husband moved to Marquette, where she worked for the same company for 19 years serving the amputees of the Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin as a Clinical Prosthetist and Clinical Manager. In 2014 that office closed and shortly thereafter, she joined the Teter family as a Clinical Prosthetist in the Marquette Area.
Lynn spent 8 years serving our country as a Health Services Technician in the United States Coast Guard Reserve and is very passionate about providing our veterans quality care and quality of life. She was the co-founder and director of Camp 'Yes I Can', a camp for children with limb loss or differences, where they learn that with positive attitude and hard work they can achieve anything they can dream. Lynn focuses on helping create what is needed for each person to return to life's activities and follow their dreams. On her time off, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends in the outdoors by sweep-rowing, snow-shoeing, cross-country skiing, hiking, and biking to name a few.
Michele Carlson - BOC Orthotist is a native of Marquette, MI where she graduated from Marquette Senior High School. She moved to Arizona and graduated from Bryman School where she became a certified medical assistant. Michele moved back to Michigan in 1994 and started working in Orthotics and Prosthetics in the Upper Peninsula in 1995. Michele first began as an Orthotic Fitter and then became a Mastectomy Fitter. In 2008, she went back to school to become a Pedorthist. She enjoyed that so much that she decided to become an Orthotist, and through a program of on-the-job training and classes, achieved her certification as a BOC Orthotist, in 2011. Michele joined the Teter family in 2014 at the newly-opened Marquette location.
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"Nice and easy does it," whispered Pandora, her soft hands overlapping her daughter's as they both emptied the contents of a pot into a boiling cauldron. "Very well done, sweetheart," she praised, gently peeling her daughter's fingers off the metal handles.
"Was it really? Or is that something you have to say because you're my mother and you love me so very much?" asked eight-year-old Luna.
"The science and art behind spellmaking are both held in a delicate balance between one another," said Pandora. "This means that even the smallest changes can have enormous consequences. If you hadn't done it correctly, I would have let you know so you'd never make the same mistake again." She'd turned away from the work table to begin scrubbing the pot in the sink. "That being said, I do enjoy pouring praise on those I love very very much."
"Like me," stated Luna, eyes wide and mischievous.
"Like you," smiled Pandora. "Why don't you keep an eye on that while I finish up here and once it's done, we can call your father in from the garden and have some tea."
The legs of a stool screeched across the floor as Luna pulled it around the table. She clambered onto the seat and was content to keep watch over the potion in near silence. Every once in a while, she'd hum disconnected tunes, both from existing songs and imagined ones. When Pandora recognized the song, she'd hum along with her daughter until the girl tired of the same melody and reverted back to her solemn vigil.
"Mm, yes, dear?" hummed Pandora.
"What did you say was supposed to happen after we added the Draught of Wilderness?"
"It's supposed to turn yellow, then solidify until it become gelatinous and produces small pockets of purple and mustard bubbles. Shouldn't be much longer now."
"Oh," said Luna.
Then, "Mum, I think something's wrong."
Pandora didn't question her daughter's statement. She whirled around, dropping the sopping pot in the sink full of water with a splash and rushed to Luna's side.
"What's the matter, swee—"
A great plume of smoke erupted out of the cauldron like the contents of a shaken, fizzy drink. The smoke was the darkest of purple, almost black, and shot up high until it hit the ceiling and began crawling across it, darkening the room until it seemed like night-time.
"Mum, what's going on?" Luna's inscrutable, airy voice trembled as she craned her neck to observe the festering clouds in the room.
"I'm not entirely sure, sweetheart," conversed Pandora, purposefully keeping her own voice unaffected. "It's getting awfully dark in here, though. Why don't you head on out, get some sunshine and fresh air, while I clean up in here?"
Pandora didn't wait for her daughter to respond before she was hauling her out of her chair and pushing her to the door. The smoke was solidifying - beginning to take its form and shape from a hybrid of magical and non-magical animals. The entire ceiling was covered in those dark clouds and as the substance reached the edges dropping into walls, they started to change, grow a likeness to legs, arms, heads, some with horns, others wings and all of them with razor sharp teeth and amber, glowing eyes.
"M-mum, what are those?" whispered Luna. "I don't think they like me."
"It's nothing to worry about, sweetheart, you just head out through the door and—"
Whatever she was about to say was cut short as one of the smoke creatures detached itself from the mesh of clouds on the ceiling and dragged itself down the wall. One of its three-fingered paws touched the top of the door and left behind scratches on the wood.
Pandora's breath caught in her throat. She grasped Luna's shoulders and twirled her around, hugging her close enough to stop her from getting a good look at the creatures twisting and jerking into existence above them. Pandora took out her wand from the pocket on her apron and held up over her head.
"Protego Dome!"
The familiar light blue film of the protective charm dropped out of the tip of her wand to form a protective dome around mother and daughter. The smoke creatures had almost completely solidified now, only the thinnest wisps of smoke trailing behind their forms. They were crawling down the walls and over the windows, blocking out the last remnants of light.
One of the creatures - a beast with the body of a snake, the clawed wings of a bat and the head of a boar - dropped down from the ceiling and landed directly in front of them. Pandora held back her terrified scream as half its body rose up off the ground to survey the room and she couldn't control the trembling in her body or the tightening of her arms around her daughter as the creatures locked its gaze on them.
"It's really dark now, mum."
"Y-yes," - Pandora cleared her throat - "yes, I know, darling. Mummy's trying to see how she can go about letting some light back in."
"It's not even night-time yet," Luna mumbled into her mother's stomach. "Where did the sun go?"
The smoke creature which had landed at their feet opened its mouth and hissed, exposing its sharp teeth and two thin tongues which it proceeded to run over its lips.
Pandora shuddered.
"It's still there, it's just… playing hide and seek. Like you do with your daddy sometimes, or with that Weasley girl from across the village. Remember her?"
Luna's head burrowed further into her mother's apron as she bobbed it up and down. "She's nice. I like her," she said.
"I know you do, sweetheart," Pandora replied lightly, her mind working a mile a minute trying to figure out a way out of the mess they were in. She dared to glance back at the door and noted that it was now completely obscured from view. The smoke creatures had taken over the entire room, they were clinging to the walls and dangling from the ceiling, taking their time inching closer and closer to the huddled pair in the centre of the room.
Pandora's arm was growing tired from being held aloft for so long and she was developing a piercing headache from holding the magical shield for so long. She was pouring all her strength into it, praying it would be enough to sustain them, to protect them from the creatures mercilessly taking over their home.
Huddled up as close to her as she was, Pandora felt Luna's humming vibrate through her chest before the sweet melody made its way up to her ears and at that moment, Pandora's heart broke a tiny bit. She didn't know what she'd done to deserve such an exceptional daughter, would probably never find out in fact, but she would go to the ends of the Earth and beyond for the little girl in her arms, to see her smile, to make her laugh, to brighten up her day…
"Sweetheart, you know what?"
The humming stopped. "What?"
"I think I just had a stupendous idea," Pandora declared. "Since we can't go out and enjoy the sunshine right this moment, what say you we bring in some of that light in here, hmm?"
Small fingers dug into Pandora's sides as Luna thought the proposal through.
"How? Can I help?" she asked, oblivious to the creatures now circling their protective dome, using their claws, horns, tongues and tails to poke at the magical defences.
"You certainly can," announced Pandora. "I need you to close your eyes - keep them shut as tight as you can - and think about the happiest memory you have."
The dome shook as one of the creatures with a long snout and scales running down its back opened its mouth and breathed toxic green fire.
"My happiest memory?" asked Luna. "Like when you, me and daddy went to that beach for Christmas and spent all that time searching for the sand dollars that Sea Nymphs use?"
Pandora's eyes filled with tears, the same ones that felt like they were choking her with a vice around her throat. Her hand trembled as she brought it up to cradle the back of her daughter's head, fingers running over the silky strands of hair she'd fashioned into a braid that very morning.
"Yes, darling, just like that. Can you do that for me?" Luna nodded her head. "Are you doing it right now?" Another nod. "Perfect."
Pandora had a thought just then, the thought that these were quite possibly her last moments on Earth, on this plane of existence. What she was about to attempt was full of risk and sacrifice. It required more strength than she had and would leech off her magic until she had none left so it would then target her life, the very essence which kept her walking, breathing, eating, talking, thinking, hoping, loving.
If her spell went well, she'd be walking out of her own life so her daughter would have a change at living hers.
Pandora gathered her daughter close and breathed her in, recognizing traces of jasmine from their homemade soap, hints of burned wood and coal from the fire warming their living room and freshly turned soil from a morning spent rolling around in the garden.
"You know what's so amazing about good things like happy memories, sweetheart? We can call on them whenever we need them and they'll come back to us, just like that. Are you at the beach with daddy now?"
"And you," said Luna.
"That's my girl."
The protective dome quaked and shattered. Pandora kept her wand raised over her head as the smoke creatures prowled towards them. She didn't flinch away from their glares as they focused their yellow eyes on her. In fact, she met them head on with an unspoken warning and a promise brimming in her eyes and coursing down her cheeks.
Pandora gripped her daughter tight, closed her eyes and spoke the incantation to the spell she'd been working on for the past decade.
A light flickered to life on the tip of her wand. Though it appeared nothing more than a solitary bubble hovering in the air, radiating a steady glow in the dark of the room, there was something in the depths of the bubble, right at the centre, which danced and gleamed with the essence of life.
Pandora had no way of knowing what she'd summoned to her home to protect her daughter. She couldn't possibly know that it was only through the slightest miscalculation, the smallest amount of give in the tightly wound strands holding the spell together which allowed her to be woken up several minutes later by her panicking husband.
"What happened? Are you all right? Is Luna okay? Is she hurt? Are you hurt? Should I call for a Healer? I should call for a Healer," Xenophilius rambled, dark hair sticking to his pallid face.
Pandora shifted and groaned. She'd fallen on her back with the weight of her daughter pushing her down and causing twice as much damage when she'd hit the floor. She was sure to have bruises all over her back and arms, and even her head going by the warm, pulsing bump sticking out behind her left temple.
"I-I think I'm fine," she mumbled, taking Xenophilius' hand gratefully and pulling herself up. "Check on Luna, please, Xeno. I think she's just unconscious but if there's anything wrong with her, I don't—"
Xenophilius nodded and took their daughter in his arms, carefully resting her on top of the long work table when he took out his wand and ran the few diagnostic spells he knew.
"She's fine," he breathed out, then, louder, "she's going to be just fine, my love. Nothing a hearty bowl of soup and some pumpkin juice won't fix."
"Thank the Gods," sighed Pandora. She stumbled upright on unsteady legs and fell into her husband's arms, whispering what had happened in one steady stream of shaken breaths.
That night, when Luna's bedtime came about, Pandora was quick to snatch her favourite book out of their shelves, one about adventure and daring and love and sacrifice, and read it to her daughter from front to cover. She continued reading aloud long after Luna had nodded off and didn't realize her husband had been listening in until she found him sprawled out outside their daughter's door, head hanging to his chest, legs sprawled out in front of him.
Over the weeks after the incident in the laboratory Pandora found herself spending more and more time with her nose buried in her books, her hair sticking up at all ends from the fumes of boiling cauldrons and the bottom of her pencil worn to the lead from continuous anxious chewing. She didn't know what she was searching for as she explored and took apart the spell which had saved her and her daughter's lives months ago.
She knew she'd never take her family for granted though and that was why she limited daytime experiments in her lab and continued them late at night, when Xenophilius and Luna were asleep. Her project would come along faster if she knew what she was looking for, but she couldn't explain what fuelled her to keep investigating and experimenting any more than she could make sense of her husband's passion for The Quibbler. It was like a singular substance added into the mixture which made her whole and without it, she wouldn't be the person she was, the people they all were.
Luna was happy. She'd suffered nightmares for a few weeks but those seemed to have been left in the past and she now ran around the garden, played with the Weasley girl, continued her search for the creatures she and her father were convinced were hiding in far-off corners of the world and had resumed helping her mother in her lab - though they read their instructions out of a book rather than Pandora's personal notebook.
A year passed in this fashion. By this time Luna had completely forgotten of that one scary incident with the smoke monsters jumping out of the darkness.. She was oblivious to her mother's vigilant eyes as she helped stir a potion, or the twitch to her father's shoulders when she wrapped herself in her child-sized, potion-making apron and trotted out of the room.
Therefore, she thought nothing of it when one night, when she had woken up in the late hours for a cup of water, strange noises started filtering into the kitchen through the cracked door to the laboratory. Luna did find it curious that her mum would be working so late but it wouldn't be the first time Pandora lost track of time fiddling with one thing or another and tuning her experiments to perfection.
Luna was prepared to go straight back upstairs - in the frigid cold of the kitchen at night, her warm bed was calling to her like an irresistible siren - but then the kitchen became. She'd been relying on the moonlight to guide her through the house but now that it was gone, covered up by a black cloud, she was left feeling out of sorts, her childhood fears of monsters under the bed having not quite left her yet.
As suddenly as the darkness descended, a light joined it side by side, its long, spindly fingers reaching for Luna from under the lab's door. Luna walked towards it - to her mum - but came to a brisk stop once she spotted what was going on inside the room.
The smoke creatures were back, circling her mother who stood in the centre of the room, three large circles drawn on the ground in chalk with a different candle placed at each cardinal point. There were symbols etched into the floor in dizzying patterns, ones which Luna had never seen before, and her mother, Pandora, was positioned in the middle of it all, wand in hand.
"I needed to know," Pandora was saying, "I couldn't not know. It was eating away at me, I just… I had to do something. I didn't know this would—I didn't know, please."
"Don't think you can fool us, Mrs Lovegood," purred one of the smoke creatures, its strange features shifting from one form to another in a matter of seconds. "We may not be as powerful in this plane as we are in ours but we are strong enough to spot a lie."
"I am not lying," begged Pandora, "I was just… curious and foolish and I never should have continued that spell—"
"Alas, but you did."
Luna couldn't see the creature from the doorway, but she could tell from the lilt to its voice that it was smiling. She wanted to run to her mother, pull on her hand and rush her as far away from the room as they could get. They'd all run away together - Luna, her dad and her mum - and they'd hide like the Crumple-Horned Snorkack and they'd never have to worry about these creatures finding them ever again.
"Please," sobbed Pandora, head dropping forward in supplication. "My family… They have no idea, they—"
"No harm will come to them if you submit willingly."
Luna was young, almost too young to understand what was happening on the other side of the door, but she wasn't young enough to ignore the way her heart got caught in her throat, how her legs weakened to jelly, as her mother's wand clattered to the ground and she dropped to her knees. She must have made some noise for her mother's spine suddenly became ramrod straight and her eyes snapped to Luna's still form by the door.
A message passed between mother and daughter then. Pandora didn't have to say anything for Luna to understand what her mother was asking of her, the impossibility of it. Her lips parted, ready to argue and beg if she had to, but her mother shook her head almost imperceptibly and mouthed 'Stay. I love you'.
Luna's response to that was to break down in silent tears and noiseless sobs.
"I won't put up a fight," said Pandora, gaze now focused on the creatures in front of her. "Do me a favour and make it quick, please."
The creatures hissed, growled, snickered and chirped all at once.
"As you wish."
In a flash of darkness and power, the creatures lost their form and turned back to shapeless smoke, then began joining together and converging into a thick cloud directly on top of Pandora. They began moving together in spirals, creating a tornado which quickly picked up speed until papers, books, chairs and tools were flying around the room. As the storm finally took its shape, Pandora calmly tipped her head back and stared at the moving masses above her.
The creatures struck. The tip of the vortex caressed Pandora's lips then pushed into her, flooding her body with the creatures' essence until her skin turned blue and dark, raised veins erupted across her face, protruded from her neck and lined her arms. Luna watched in mounting horror and fear the way one would view an accident unfolding from far away, unable to help and frozen with the knowledge that even if she were there with her mother, she wouldn't be able to save her.
Smoke was starting to leak out of Pandora's nose, eyes and ears. The cloud above her was becoming smaller and smaller as the creatures took over her body and once the last of them had filtered through, Pandora slumped to the ground, convulsing. There were cracks and slaps as bones broke and flesh hit the ground and then Pandora's mouth opened once more and white, ephemeral mist drifted out, curling and twisting to the ceiling where it sank through the cement and ambled into the night.
The creatures were gone; only Pandora's lifeless body was left behind along with her daughter, who tripped into the room and stumbled to her mother, dropping down by her side.
That is how Xenophilius Lovegood found his family the very next morning, hours after his wife's death. He let out a senseless cry and cradled the bodies of his wife and daughter in his arms, one cold as ice and the other seemingly on her way there.
Though Luna was woken up by her father's presence, she left herself be hugged, kissed and murmured to, only barely registering what was going on around her. She sensed it when her father picked her up and detached her fingers, one by one, from her mother's shift. She saw through flashes that she was being moved upstairs and felt the soft cotton sheets of her bed against her legs as her father tucked her in. She also heard the mutterings of a sleeping spell, and after that, there was no force strong enough to pull her away from the clutches of sleep to hear what happened next…


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Anti-Trump rally leaves 26 hurt
A rally against US President Donald Trump in Manila on Monday ended in a clash, leaving 20 protesters and six policemen injured.
A shoving match turned into a scuffle when members of militant groups tried to push past the police barricade at the corner of Padre Faura Street and Taft Avenue around 11 a.m. Firemen deployed at the area trained their water hoses on the demonstrators who backed off.
Protesters called the activity their "biggest rally" yet against Trump, who is in the country to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Summit.
Carrying placards that read "Trump Go Home" and "Ban Trump #1 Terrorist," the demonstrators also burned an effigy of Trump and President Duterte, who was accused of being subservient to American interests.
Director Oscar Albayalde of the National Capital Region Police Office called the rally a show put on by "violent" protesters.
Just for show
"It's all for show. It's a show," he said, claiming that time and again, the demonstrators would always provoke policemen.
The militant groups had gathered on Taft Avenue as part of their attempt to march to Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City where the Asean Summit was being held.
After being pushed back, they settled down in front of the Supreme Court where they continued their protest.
Albayalde said they would continue to exercise maximum tolerance toward demonstrators over the duration of the Asean Summit but stressed they would not allow militant groups to reach the PICC.
The police claimed that the rallyists started the scuffle by throwing stones at their ranks when they failed to get past the barricade.
"We advised our personnel to observe maximum tolerance but we really need to do something when protesters resort to very offensive acts," said Senior Supt. Ronald Hipolito, the head secretariat of the Asean joint task group on peace and order.
He added that they arrested one of the demonstrators who was caught in the act of throwing stones.
Karapatan, however, said the arrest of Neil Legaspi, a paralegal staffer who was driving a van behind the demonstrators, was illegal.
"He was forced out of the vehicle, his hands tightly handcuffed and his head forced down by two policemen of the Regional Public Safety Battalion," said Karapatan secretary general Tinay Palabay, adding that they would demand his release. —With a report from Dexter Cabalza
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Old TV shows
I have been home for the past two weeks, just relaxing after a long month on the road. Lately, while scanning the cable channels, I ran across the TVLand channel. What was on, Gunsmoke. I hadn't seen that show in years and it bought back many memories of sitting down in front of the TV waiting for this show to come on. I don't know about the rest of you, but I had the biggest crush on Marshal Matt Dillon. I know he had a thing for Miss Kitty, but what she didn't know, wouldn't hurt her. lol After Gunsmoke went off, Bonanza came on and that Little Joe, that Little Joe! Now, I find myself getting up every morning and setting a reminder for these shows. I record the Bold and the Beautiful just so I can watch Gunsmoke.
One thing I can say about the Marshal is that he is not afraid of anything or anyone. He's bold and not afraid to draw on anyone. I like that in a man! Anyway, I don't understand why so many people want to draw on him, he gets them every time; well some get him, too! This is a great show and I enjoy watching it, Gunsmoke and Marshal Dillon episodes. You all need to check it out! If for nothing else, nostalgic reasons.


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Congress plans 'Money ki Baat' drive
Congress plans 'Money ki Baat' drive against demonetisation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's monthly radio program "Mann ki Baat", in the amid of the heated political speech on the demonetization of the Center's high-value currency notes, the congress will now organize the "Money ki Baat" with citizens from 20 November.
The urban unit of the party, led by Sanjay Nirupam, will undertake a mass awareness campaign on the "difficulties" of the common man following the withdrawal of Rs 1,000 and old Rs 500 currency from circulation last week.
Speaking at a press conference, Nirupam said the demonization movement had "failed to curb black money and counterfeit money".
"We will organize 'Money ki Baat' outside the banks, stations and marketplaces without disturbing the citizens … protests will also be planned. "We will tell people that this demonetization is a fraud (it is) a badly designed decision without preparation to implement it," he said.
Nirupam said that as part of the campaign, open debates will be held in the "People's Court".
This demonetization has affected the bullion markets as well as retail markets, with the exception of restaurants, vegetable vendors, theaters, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, textiles and leather in Mumbai.
"Production has virtually stopped and employment has been hit. The labor market has virtually collapsed and economic activities have come to a halt," he said.
The leader of the Congress accused Modi of "dictating" monetary policy, which he said was "contrary to the rules of the RBI".
"How can the government decide that the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 banknotes are illegal bids without pumping enough inferior banknotes," he said.
Nirupam said out of the currency Rs 17 lakh crore value in the market, Rs 400 crore was counterfeit.
"If ending black money is the center of demonetization, then what is the logic behind the impression of Rs 2000 currency notes," he said. .


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Fight For Freedom
BY: Armando Gonzales
There will come a day when you get out of bed and your normal life won't be as normal as it once was cultural Marxist want to turn our democracy into socialism despite the horrible results around the globe due to this ideology. We've seen it all so often as our rights are attacked by the leftists who wish to see this country burn. They riot in the streets, burn down communities, and destroy local business, all while screaming peace and equality. This cancer of liberalism and political correctness has crippled our society and indoctrinated our youth turning them into mindless zombies who follow because the thought of leading is hard work we now have an epidemic of dependency and a generation that is to weak to stand up and do what's right. We have 8 years to make a difference we have to use this time to our advantage. Our forefathers fought and died to give us this great land we cannot let it slip through our fingers to weak to defend it. The senseless violence of the left have gave birth to such organizations as the PROUD BOYS and ALT-KNIGHTS and many many others because as red blooded patriotic Americans we are sick and tired of watching as our country is spat on by people not even covered under our constitution. It is our duty to stand up to the left and to the commies who wish to take it from us. Together we fight for liberty we fight for justice WE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. And to those who wish to destroy what our ancestors built well my message is simple COME AND TAKE IT!