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Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Salt to the Sea is a historical fictional novel based on real life events at the end of the second world war. The Wilhelm Gustloff was a real ship involved in the biggest maritime tragedy in history but unlike the sinking of the Titanic, most have never heard of this tragedy, close to ten thousand people lost their lives during that time.
Joana, Emilia, and Florian are among the thousands of refugees trying to flee at the end of World War II. Their paths cross as they are heading toward freedom and trying to board the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that promises salvation. Forced to unite on their journey through tough circumstances freedom is so close but tragedy strikes.
First, I should admit right away that I'm one of the ones that really did not know anything of the events that this book is based on. This time period isn't one that I've read a lot about so I went into this really not able to say oh that's a real fact or that isn't but with the hope that maybe I could learn a thing or two.
My one complaint with this book though was I found the beginning to be a tad bit confusing for me to get into. The chapters are fairly short and each change the prospective of the characters involved so I found it a bit tough to get into and learn who each of them were with it going by so quickly. After you get into the story though it became easier to switch between them.
Overall, very well written and engaging historical fiction based on a true life tragedy during World War II.
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White House Rejects GOP Fiscal Cliff Counter-Offer
It does not meet the "test of balance"
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is rejecting a Republican counteroffer aimed at averting the "fiscal cliff," saying it does not meet what the White House calls "the test of balance."
White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer says the GOP proposal would lower tax rates for the wealthy and stick the middle class with the bill. He says the plan includes nothing new and provides no details on how it would achieve higher revenues.


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- Nickelodeon Animation Studios, Wang Films
- Animated Characters: Kai-lan, YeYe, Tolee, Howard, Hoho, Mei Mei, Rintoo, Fox, Bear.
- First Aired in 2008.
- Episode Number: 106
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Color
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Alternate Series Title: "Downward Doghouse (Working Title)."
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This series introduces pre-schoolers to the many aspects of Chinese culture and language through a five-year-old Chinese-American girl named Kai-lan. Following in the tradition of Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go!, this new play-along series features an intergenerational Chinese-American family and teaches the Mandarin language to pre-schoolers at home- a first for pre-school television. Each show centers on Kai-lan and her relationships with her grandfather, her animal friends and the natural world. Kai-lan is an emotionally gifted child who is driven to understand the world and how things are linked together both physically and emotionally. Every episode follows the adventures of Kai-lan and her friends as they learn to identify their emotions and stop to consider the feelings of others. The series explores the colorful aspects of Kai-lan's upbringing and background, including family, food and language, while encouraging pre-schoolers to care for others and their environment.
Animation took place in both Shanghai and Taiwan. In addition to animation work, key episode designs were created and produced at the Wang studio in China.
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That shouldn't surprise anybody. How do you think he got his first role? It made him a star! James Franco is naturally talented at so many things (examples: inducing the dry heaves with just a few words, inducing the dry heaves with his art, inducing the faps by taking off his shirt [I'm disgustingly easy]), but his biggest natural talent of all his natural talents is that he can deep throat like his last name's Travolta. So if James Franco's careers as a movie star, writer, artist, director, soap star, producer, gay messiah and pop culture savior don't work out, he can be a professional deep throater.
Details says that in Spring Breakers, James Franco gives a beej to a pistol and goes all the way down it. They bring this up during their interview with him and also bring up James Franco's beej scene in his movie The Broken Tower. If you want to make a "not impressed," face then click on this NSFW link to see James Franco put his deep throat skills to work on a dildo.
In the first of several three-ways, Franco performs some very impressive deep throat on two of his character's pistols after the girls turn the tables on him and shove them in his mouth.
"Most people can't get past that gag reflex at the back of the throat," I say.
"Guess I'm a natural," he says with a laugh. "It was my first time."
"So that wasn't you in Broken Tower?"
"Oh shit, you're right!" Franco's eyes light up. "It wasn't my first time."
"You're known for going the extra mile, but that was, what, a good eight inches?"
He gives me a get-real look. "That was a dildo." Then he turns that look back on himself, and I see the real James Franco: "If I'd had the guts, it woulda been real."
"If I'd have the guts..." Now, you know that's a lie and you know James' breath smelled like sweaty dick when he said it. James Franco is method all the way, so I'm sure he's gone down on the real thing for research (for research!). I'm also sure that he can't deep throat worth a shit. James look like one of those types who starts heaving like a cat hacking up a hairball when he barely puts the tip in his mouth. He's got "lightweight peen sucker" written all over his face.


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After growing up in Massapequa, Long Island, and getting a Bachelor's in Health Education and Physical Education from the University of South Carolina in 1979, Carey moved back up north and found work in the high school.
Although Carey said he didn't plan on being a school principal for his career, he knew he wanted to work in a building with kids. However, he is happy with how things turned out.
"What I like about it is you have ideas that you want to improve the school," Carey said, "and you actually have a say in that.
"You really have an affect on what's going to be happening in the school, how the kids get education, I really enjoy that," he said.
Carey went back to school while working at Monsignor McClancy to get a Master's at Adelphi University in Physiology and then an Administration Degree from St. John's University in 1995.
Now he is bringing McClancy to the next level of education: it is going co-ed.
Carey said that when he's visited grammar schools in the area, he noticed a disproportionate ratio of many more girls than boys in the classes.
"If we buried our heads in the sand and did not see the demographics changing, we'd be in trouble," he said of the decision to change.
The school, which now has about 450 students, will raise its population to 600 next year when it brings in about 150 freshman girls, Carey said.
He said McClancy is well prepared for the change, including $2 million in capital improvements from funds raised by staff and alumni.
As for the students, Carey said the girls will improve the school environment.
"The girls at that age are very serious about their grades, not all of them but most of them," he said, "and I think that will flow over very nicely to the boys too."
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It appears The Hangover 3 is inevitable. Shortly after the release of the disappointing The Hangover Part II, director Todd Phillips promised a second sequel that would complete the trilogy. Now, after a long negotiation period, the film's stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis are close to landing a major pay raise to reprise their roles. The trio are apparently asking for $15 million each (against backend), which is a steep increase from the $5 million each (plus backend) for The Hangover Part II, and under $1 million they received for the first film in the comedy franchise. Hit the jump for more, including how soon The Hangover 3 may hit theaters.
THR reports that the trio has presented a united front in salary negotiations for the third film, and are now likely to be paid their demanded amount. Warner Bros. is hoping that the pic will go into production this summer in time for a Memorial Day 2013 release. The studio is understandably keen on moving things along quickly for the all-but-guaranteed hit. Their Batman franchise comes to an end this summer with The Dark Knight Rises, they recently halted production on Akira and Arthur & Lancelot over budget concerns, and 2012 marks their first year sans the Harry Potter franchise.
I found The Hangover Part II to be a major disappointment, mainly because it was the exact same movie as the first pic with only a change of setting. Phillips has pledged that the third film will take the finale in a different direction, and THR's report reiterates that The Hangover 3 will deviate from the "forgotten-debauchery formula." Cooper recently said that the story takes place in Los Angeles, and the plot has been rumored to involve Alan escaping from a mental hospital. The Hangover Part II co-writer Craig Mazin is hard at work on the script for Part III, so hopefully he delivers something fresh and entertaining to close out the series.


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J.P. Morgan Securities and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) on Friday agreed to pay more than $400 million combined to settle charges that they mislead investors in offerings of residential mortgage-backed securities.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, in coordination with the federal-state Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group had announced the charges on Friday. The SEC said it plans to distribute the money to harmed investors. Both firms agreed to settle without admitting or denying the charges.
The SEC alleges that J.P. Morgan misstated information about the delinquency status of mortgage loans that provided collateral for an RMBS offering in which it was the underwriter. J.P. Morgan received fees of more than $2.7 million, and investors sustained losses of at least $37 million on undisclosed delinquent loans. The SEC says that "J.P. Morgan also is charged for Bear Stearns' failure to disclose its practice of obtaining and keeping cash settlements from mortgage loan originators on problem loans that Bear Stearns had sold into RMBS trusts. The proceeds from this bulk settlement practice were at least $137.8 million."
J.P. Morgan has agreed to pay $296.9 million to settle the SEC's charges.
According to the SEC's order against Credit Suisse, the firm similarly failed to accurately disclose its practice of retaining cash for itself from the settlement of claims against mortgage loan originators for problems with loans that Credit Suisse had sold into RMBS trusts and no longer owned. Credit Suisse "also made misstatements in SEC filings about when it would repurchase mortgage loans from trusts if borrowers missed the first payment due. The firm made $55.7 million in profits and losses avoided from its bulk settlement practice, and its investors lost more than $10 million due to Credit Suisse's practices concerning first payment defaults."
Credit Suisse has agreed to pay $120 million to settle the SEC's charges.
"In many ways, mortgage products such as RMBS were ground zero in the financial crisis," said Robert Khuzami, director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, and co-chair of the RMBS Working Group, said in a statement. "Misrepresentations in connection with the creation and sale of mortgage securities contributed greatly to the tremendous losses suffered by investors once the U.S. housing market collapsed. Today's actions involving RMBS securities are a continuation of the SEC's strong efforts to pursue wrongdoing committed in connection with the financial crisis."


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How to set up CrashPlan Cloud Backup headless on a Synology NAS - Backup Strategies
NOTE: This article has been upgraded for Synology systems that are running DSM 5.0!
At home I use a Synology 1511+ NAS (Network Attached Storage) server for all my family's digital things. The Synology gives me virtually all the features I had when I was in love with the Windows Home Server. I can add a drive of any size and get more storage, I can install add-in packages for more functionality, and most importantly, everything has multiple copies. I've even lost a whole drive and just repaired it by pulling it out and replacing it.
I have four 2TB drives in my Synology giving me approximately 5TB of redundant space.
However, the lack of a good integrated cloud storage setup has been a frustration. The Synology does support Amazon S3 as a remote backup location, but I find the opacity of my digital blobs in Amazon's S3 buckets systems frustrating. S3 is great, but it's not an awesome cloud backup experience like some of the more consumer focused backup systems like CrashPlan* or BackBlaze. Sure, these guys might use S3 underneath, but as a consumer (or pro-sumer) I don't need to know or see that.
Here's my current Backup Strategy. There are also non-cloud-based backup strategies if you don't have persistent fast internet. You can see how my strategy has changed since my 2007 Backup Strategy, but not much.
Any good backup strategy follows the Backup Rule of Three.
- 3 copies of anything you care about - Two isn't enough if it's important.
- 2 different formats - Example: Dropbox+DVDs or Hard Drive+Memory Stick or CD+Crash Plan, or more
- 1 off-site backup - If the house burns down, how will you get your memories back?
More importantly a good backup strategy "Just Works" and Doesn't Require Much Thought. If you have to think about it, it is likely to be forgotten. Everything should be automated. I like that DropBox is automatic, the Synology can backup to another external automatically, so I only have to think about rotating drives off-site every month, or at least a few times a year.
The missing piece since I got the Synology has been a completely silent cloud archive. Running CrashPlan headless (headless - there is no monitor) has been the final piece I needed for a simple process that requires no effort on my part.
Step by Step: How to run CrashPlan on your Synology NAS
This gentleman at PCLoadLetter has prepared excellent packages that make it MUCH easier than before to get CrashPlan running on your Synology. However, his instructions assume a some technical ability and also require reading a LOT and visiting several pages within his site. It took me about an hour to really understand what was being said. Here's my simplified version of How To get CrashPlan* on your Synology.
1. Turn on the "User Homes Service" on your Synology
Log in to your Synology from a web browser. Mine is http://server. Go to the Control Panel, then User, then User Home and click "Enable User Home Service." This will give the future "crashplan" user a "place to live."
2. Ensure you have a share called "public" with full for users access
Later when we run the CrashPlan package, it will expect the Java package to live in \\yourserver\public. Make sure you have a public share. I choose also to hide mine since I'll never use it and don't want to confuse my other users.
3. Download the right version of Java for your CPU from the Oracle Website
CrashPlan is written using the Java environment, and we want to install the CrashPlan service on our Synology. We'll need Java for that.
A Synology is effectively a headless custom Linux computer. Some have an Intel chip and some have an ARM chip. You should find out which CPU/chip your Synology has from this table, and remember it. We need to get the right version of Java for our CPU.
If you have an Intel CPU, you'll get Java 6. If you have an ARM CPU you can get Java 7. You download Oracle Java Embedded from the Oracle Website yourself. Note that you'll have to Register for an Account and Sign in. You'll also need to click "Accept License Agreement" to download it. There's a LOT of choices and it's confusing.
If you get it wrong, don't worry. Later, when you try to install the CrashPlan package you'll get a warning if Java isn't there and that warning will give you the right file name. For Intel, I needed "x86 Linux Small Footprint – Headless."
Download this file and copy it to \\yourserver\public.
4. Add http://packages.pcloadletter.co.uk as a new repository in the Synology Package Manager
Back on your Synology, from the web browser, go to the Package Center, then Settings, then Package Sources. Add http://packages.pcloadletter.co.uk as a new repository. I named it "PC Load Letter" but it doesn't matter.
5. Install the CrashPlan package on your Synology. Stop it and restart it.
Staying in the Package Manager, go to Other Sources.
You'll need the Java Package and the CrashPlan package.
You need to install the Java Package first and it will pull from binaries from the \\yourserver\public folder. It doesn't need to be "started" as it's really a software package disguised as a service. It's OK that its Status is Stopped.
Next, install the CrashPlan service if you have a basic CrashPlan+ account like I do. There are other packages for Pro and Business.
After the service installs and runs you can click More then Log and see if it started correctly. You'll need to stop and restart manually it at least once when you've FIRST installed it.
Now, you've got a headless service waiting and running on your Synology. But you'll notice there is no UI, no settings and no way to configure it. That's where the CrashPlan client comes in that you'll run on any regular computer you have.
6. Install the CrashPlan client on one of your main computers.
Go download and install the right CrashPlan client for you. After you've installed it, you'll need to POINT the client to your Synology.
You need to edit the "C:\Program Files\CrashPlan\conf\ui.properties" text file and put in the IP address of your Synology. My Synology is called "SERVER" so I opened a command prompt and typed "ping server" and was told its address is 192.168.1.18.
- NOTE: This is a Linefeeds only Linux text file so you'll want to use Notepad2 or something OTHER than Notepad so you don't corrupt this file. Make a copy.
Remove the # in front of serviceHost to 'uncomment' that line and add your Synology IP address at the end.
- OPTIONAL NOTE: You can turn off the CrashPlan Service on the computer that has the CrashPlan client running if you won't be backing up that machine. Run "services.msc" and change the CrashPlan service to "Manual."
7. How do you know it is working?
Run CrashPlan on your main computer to ensure it's successfully talking to your Synology.
- You should see your Synology's name on the Settings Dialog
- You should see CrashPlan Central in your Destinations if you have a CrashPlan subscription
- You can select your files that exist on the Synology from the CrashPlan application on your main computer. Remember this CrashPlan client talks to the headless service running on your Synology.
The initial backup will likely take a LONG time so be patient - like for days or weeks. I am choosing not to backup super-large files like DVD backups, 60 gig VMs and other things. My #1 concern is family photos and personal files, so my initial backup set is only 200gigs.
You can get CrashPlan+ and do one computer, or get CrashPlan+ Family and do up to 10 computers.
* These are affiliate links to CrashPlan. The link is NOT mine and I'm not personally affiliated with CrashPlan. Instead, clicking them and signing up for CrashPlan will support the nice gentleman at PCLoadLetter.co.uk who put in the hard work of making and maintaining CrashPlan packages and hosting them. By signing up for CrashPlan using his link you help him out a little, as we should, given his fine efforts. Big thanks for PCLoadLetter and the Synology community for all their efforts! I hope my tutorial makes it even easier for folks to get their CrashPlan back-ups setup so cleanly!
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- Forcing the non-indexed UNC path into the Windows library seems to criple certain useful features like the Arrange By dropdown so I don't do that cos I love to arrange by tag on my photos. Have you noticed that?
- Any update on Synology or any NAS vendor support for Indexing Service?
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Tomb Kings might be a faction of small groups of really strong units. So like Necrons from 40K I suppose.
I agree that they might fail as an AI opponent to a player with some fast skirmish units that can divide and surround their forces.
I really like archers and artillery, so I am looking forward to an undead faction with them heh.
While I like the Vampire Counts, I don't think Arkhan will benefit from generic skeletons and zombies but we shall see.
I don't know anything about Tretch Craventail so I cannot comment, but getting Stormvermin at a lower cost would be nice
I don't think getting a bonus to returning after being defeated would be a fun ability I try to avoid getting my generals wiped out completely but it does happen I suppose.


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Best known for his collaborations with rock iconoclast Frank Zappa in the 1970s (Dub Room Special, Baby Snakes, The Amazing Mr. Bickford), underground animator Bruce Bickford has influenced generations of artists with his startlingly original vision. Prometheus Garden (28 minutes, 1988) is the only film over which Bickford maintained complete creative control. Inspired by the Greek myth of Prometheus, a Titan who created the first mortals from clay and stole fire from the gods, Prometheus Garden immerses viewers in a cinematic universe unlike any other. The dark and magical images of this haunting film unfold in a dreamlike stream of consciousness revealing an unlikely cast of clay characters engaged in a violent struggle for survival. Like all Bickford films, Prometheus Garden defies description and simply must be experienced. In Clay Animation, film scholar Michael Frierson writes: Bickford offers us a visionary landscape, a hallucinogenic retreat into magical settings where figure and ground may transform into the other at any moment, enchanted settings in which modern technocrats are easy villains and nature is under siege. Bickford is an underground artist who has mystified animation critics and inspired generations of animators, while somehow eluding fame. He has been described as the worlds only outsider artist working in the medium of animation. He has been recognized as a genius by Frank Zappa and countless other iconoclasts. One thing is certain: Bickford is a true original. In his collaborations with Frank Zappa in the 1970s, Bickford relinquished creative control of his work (which was edited and scored by Zappa). Consequently, Prometheus Garden is Bickfords most comprehensive and least compromised vision.


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Ga. — The road to the title game at the PG/WWBA 18u National
Championship just got much more difficult.
Cobb Braves 17u, who entered play Tuesday with a 3-0-2 record,
rallied with back-to-back convincing wins — 12-8 over Team Colorado
and 12-0 vs. Fungo Red Sox — to win Pool E and advance to the
championship bracket.
put ourselves behind the eight ball by tying a couple games," Head
Coach Kevin Baldwin said. "We had to win the last two games and we
did what we had to do to get in. So we'll see what happens from
the Braves' early hiccups, there's no doubt they're one of the
most talented teams in Marietta, Ga. this week. Their tournament
roster includes 12 players who attended the National Showcase last
month in Minneapolis, more than any other team.
those include: Outfielder Josh Hart (2013, Parkview HS, Ga.), who is
10-for-23 (.435) with eight runs, a double and a stolen base; first
baseman Nathaniel Maggio (2013, Blessed Trinity Catholic HS, Ga.),
9-for-19 (.474) with 10 runs, 10 RBI, a double, two home runs and a
stolen base; outfielder Skye Overton (2013, Johns Creek HS, Ga.), who
is 10-for-19 (.526) with eight runs, seven RBI, a double and four
stolen bases.
player CJ Brazil (2013, Blessed Trinity Catholic HS, Ga.) has only
played in three games but has two homers and two stolen bases.
handed pitcher Duane Underwood (2012, Pope HS, Ga.) — who's been
clocked in the upper-90s on the mound at PG events— hit a home run
in the Braves' second game of the tournament, a 12-0 win. He was at
Wrigley Field in Chicago the next morning, however, presumably to
sign a contact with the Cubs, who selected him in the second round of
last month's draft.
then there's Travis Demeritte (2013, Winder Barrow HS, Ga.), a
third baseman and right handed pitcher who bats third in the Braves'
lineup. Demeritte — who's already committed to South Carolina —
ran a 6.87 and threw 89 mph from the outfield at the National
Showcase. On Monday, he struck out two on the mound in a scoreless
inning, touching 91 mph.
has been to 20 Perfect Game events, and he's enjoyed the
experiences and opportunities they've provided him.
(event) I've been to, I've had a great time," he said. "It's
good to meet new people and the competition is always great. I love
playing competitive baseball, that's why I play."
though the Braves have a star-studded lineup — they lead all 192
tournament teams with 75 runs scored in pool play — they're approaching this
tournament with a team-first mentality. When asked about his
impressive hitting display in the tournament thus far, Maggio — who
mentioned Kentucky and Georgia Tech as possible schools for him to
attend next fall — turned the attention to his teammates.
whole team is in a groove at the right time, one through nine," he
said. "This is a big tournament so we're just trying to play
well. We're here to win this, even though we're a 17u team. This
is one of the biggest tournaments and it's at our park, so we want
to represent East Cobb well."
Braves will begin their quest for the national championship Wednesday
night, 7:00 at the East Cobb Complex with Demeritte on the mound.
haven't accomplished anything yet," Coach Baldwin said. "We're
swinging the bats pretty well. If we throw strikes and give ourselves
a chance without making any errors, we have a chance."
Braves won't be satisfied without a National Championship this
week, and they're having a ball in their pursuit of it.
WWBA (tournament) we participate in is great," Coach Baldwin said.
"There are plenty of scouts and college coaches out to see the kids
play, so it's great experience and great exposure for the kids.
We're going into the playoffs tonight and we'll see what
asked what they might do if they win the tournament, Maggio smiled
wide and replied, "Dog pile. Dog pile, for sure."
dog pile," Demeritte added. "But we have to get there first. If we
keep the bats rolling, hopefully we'll end up there."


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There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to round them all up.
- The Hellenic Council YSEE of America has sent out a press release criticizing an exhibition at the Onassis Cultural Center of New York entitled "Transition to Christianity." According to YSEE the exhibition's use of the term "pagan" to describe Hellenic religion is demeaning, and blasts the "ridiculous propaganda" that "attempts to hide the crimes that the Christians committed when they got into a position of power." Quote: "…the exhibition at the Onassis Center and its message is neither new, nor strange. It is something that we experience on a daily basis through the continuing efforts of the theocratic institutions of the Christian church to propagate the lies about the so-called transition as a natural social evolution." I've posted the entire press release, here.
- Vampire Community News (VCN) reports that retired law enforcement officer and "occult crimes expert" Don Rimer passed away on Saturday after suffering a massive stroke. Rimer had become famous, or perhaps more accurately, infamous, for his information on the occult, cults, and various other subcultures, given to law enforcement professionals, journalists, and local communities. Mr. Rimer and I had very vocal disagreements about the "expert" advice he gave, as did many others. That said, I don't believe in speaking ill of the recently deceased, and wish his family peace in the coming days.
- In the wake of the alleged "open marriage" discussion between presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich and his second wife Marianne Gingrich, several news outlets have been opining on, and highlighting voices from, non-monogamous and polyamorous relationships. One of these pieces, from Salon.com, is written by Sierra Black, who's in a successful multiple-partner polyamorous relationship, and also happens to be a Pagan. Quote: "It takes a lot of emotional energy, and an ongoing commitment to complexity, to make those relationships work. But I wouldn't do it any other way." You can follow Sierra Black's writings at her blog, ChildWild.
- Speaking of Newt, does his South Carolina win mean that his anointing is working?
- Yesterday marked the 15th anniversary of The Witches' Voice (on Facebook), arguably the most influential web site within modern Paganism since the Internet launched. My thanks to Wren Walker, Fritz Jung, Peg Aloi, and Diotima Mantineia for their hard work and perseverance. If it wasn't for Witchvox and Wren's Nest I sincerely doubt The Wild Hunt would be around today. Pagans of all stripes should thank them for their massive contributions in building today's Pagan media.
- A happy anniversary to the blog Boing Boing as well, the directory of wonderful things turns 12 today. If you haven't already, check out their recent week-long tribute to Robert Anton Wilson.
- Chas Clifton shares some links to new publications of note, including the first issue of Goddess Thealogy: An International Journal for the Study of the Divine Feminine, and a collection of videos and PDFs from the "Demons at the Academy" session at the American Academy of Religion's recent Annual Meeting.
- Ski resorts have been seeking help from Native American tribal Nations to bring snow, and it seems to be working wonders. Quote: "While Seattle residents are clearly not loving the snow storm, the mountains where members of the Southern and Northern Ute Indian Tribes, Pauite, Shoshone and Washoe tribes visited couldn't be happier."
- At her blog, T. Thorn Coyle's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day post explores nonviolence, satyagraha, and "diversity of tactics" within the Occupy movement. Quote: "Occupy has also provided inspiration. As long as Occupy Activists continue to choose smart tactics that bring communities together to demand a more just society, it will continue to be a success and we can continue to work in various ways to build a society based on mutual respect, creativity, love, and justice. As long as some Occupy Activists continue to choose to smash windows, light fires, and hurl bottles in small skirmishes with police on the streets after dark, the movement runs the risk of alienating the rest of the community that brought out 10,000 people to shut down the Port of Oakland in November."
- Here at Patheos, Gus diZerega talks about monism, and why it's superior to monotheism, while P. Sufenas Virius Lupus critiques monism, and notes that he does "not think that the undeniable differences in thought, theology, and practice of a great many religions all ultimately find reconciliation in an "Ultimate" or a "Oneness" that is at the heart of the universe and that is the source of all things."
- In a final note, I'm going to be travelling to some events in the very near future! I'll be at FaerieCon West in Seattle the weekend of February 10th, PantheaCon the following weekend, and I'll be DJing and MC-ing at the brand-new Pagan music and dance festival Hexenfest on March 9th in the Bay Area. If you're going to be at any of these, be sure to say "hi"!
That's it for now! Feel free to discuss any of these links in the comments, some of these I may expand into longer posts as needed.


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Sure, you'd expect President Obama's limo to be bulletproof and carry a few weapons on hand for defense, but did you know it can also be locked down in seconds like a mobile panic room? And that it has a supply of his blood type on board in case of emergencies?
The General Motors-built limousine, which looks like a Cadillac and is appropriately named "The Beast," is as heavy duty as it gets, with a super-strong structure made of titanium, ceramic, steel and aluminum. Not to mention the doors are eight-inches thick and there's even a back-up oxygen supply in the rear of the vehicle in case of a bio-chemical attack.
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Nokia is planning to bundle software from Devicescape on devices in its E and N series, that will log in automatically to Wi-Fi hotspots.
"We wanted to make Wi-Fi feel as seamless as the cellular networks," said Dave Fraser, chief executive of Devicescape. The software, which is already available for download on the Devicescape's site can get devices online instantly on Wi-Fi networks, using user-names and passwords stored previously loaded on Devicescape's site.
This is particularly important for handheld devices such as phones -- and future consumer electronic goods such as Wi-Fi MP3 players -- which may have limited keyboards or browsers, or none at all. These devices are difficult to connect to Wi-Fi networks which were designed for use by laptops.
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This use of the DNS service is different to DNS tunnelling which some hackers user for DOS attacks - while it is a loophole, it is a good one, which operators welcome, said Fraser: "We have the operator's blessing." It's also secure, as a user can shut a device off all Wi-Fi networks by reporting it stolen on the Devicescape site.
"When you walk into a T-Mobile hotspot, the device itself doesn't know anything about how to get on T-Mobile network -- it contacts our service, which sends the user name and password, and the information the device needs to contact the network." To the hotspot, the device looks like a laptop: "We make it happen without any new technology deployed by the Wi-Fi operator," said Fraser.
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The H-Body Show in Salem, OH is being planned by Bill Lockhart and myself for the weekend of June 9-11. What is really cool is that this is the same weekend as Salem's Super Cruise! It is four days of car stuff to see and do!
The tentative plan is as follows:
Friday, June 9th at Summit Racing in Akron, OH
Saturday, June 10th race/show at Quaker City Motorsports Park
Saturday, June 10th evening car cruise!
Sunday, June 11th there is a car show 11am-3pm at #1 Power GM Chevrolet, Buick and GMC in Calcutta.
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Elementary School English Digital Material Tutorial
There are six elementary English textbooks currently in use as of 2019. They are Let's Try 1, Let's Try 2, We Can 1, and We Can 2; Hi Friends 1 and Hi Friends 2 were the textbooks for the previous curriculum, and are still occasionally used in 5th and 6th grade classes.
Here is a link to a comprehensive guide to the using the digital materials for ES Classrooms made by Kumamoto City ALTs Poppy Campbell and Sara Ramirez. The guide covers where to find and how to use the elementary English digital textbooks as well as the MEXT supplementary digital resources.
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Hi, Friends! lesson plans
We Can! lesson plans
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Let's Try 1, Unit 6 "Alphabet"
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Let's practice stationery! (Lesson 2)
Let's Try 2, Unit 6 "Alphabet"
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Let's Try 2, Unit 9 "This is my day"
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So, previously on Glee, one shot of the Rocky Horror show, followed by a whole bunch of half baked storylines we haven't seen in weeks. It's like they plot the show with huge holes in between for the musical episodes without plot that guest stars need to be in, you know?
Okay, so Sam and Finn are discussing how they're dating "the only two girls at school who won't put out". Charming. Finn explains his method for cooling down sexually, which is to imagine that car crash of his, which reminds me of a better time on this show. Sam decides to focus on the female coach, which, Ryan Murphy loves this kind of character. I'm up.
Tina wishful-thinks that she and Kurt will trade sweaters. Dream on, sweetheart. He gets thrown into a locker, and why are we surprised? Down, for now.
Puck is back! Up!
Something about sectionals...look, I used to be in competitive choirs, nothing is better than thinking about competition, and still I'm bored by this! Two funny competitors. Boys Choir, and an Old People's Choir. Maybe it's because I had no grandparents, but what is so funny about old people automatically? Anyone? I think this has to be a down.
Mr Schue brings back the boys vs girls tournament, and apparently a year has passed since last year. These guys aren't in perpetual grade 10! I'm up! He warns Kurt to be in the boy team...
Puck is nice to Artie because there were no girls or kosher meals at juvie. Hee!!! An up.
Kurt gets bullied again, and super-surprise, the bully is an idiot. I mean, at a certain point, can we not tweak this stereotype? Then, to my immense delight, Kurt rips a strip off Mr. Schue for begin boring and complacent toward homophobia. I'm going to assume that the more visible eyeliner on Kurt is just a coincidence.
Okay, now boys sing girl songs and vice versa. Isn't this mostly still sexist, or at least traditional gender roles-esque? Puck tells him to get lost, and I want this to get going. Down.
Hahahah up! Quinn and Sam make out in front of a fire, like where are they getting it from exactly? Then he fantasizes about the lady coach so he can continue to not pre-ejaculate. I do appreciate how much attention this show gives to this very pressing issue for boys, so, yeah, it's an up.
Um, I'm back down. In addition to really predictable "coach is gross" stuff from Sue, she gives Quinn a plan. But Quinn's scorn for anyone who scorned her when she was pregnant is well documented, so I don't buy this. Down...
Artie and Puck sing "One Love" outside and it looks like Glee has a new set! Outdoor bleachers! Up, because Puck thinks they'll buy clove cigarettes, and because Puck accurately points out "you only have to be a fraction as nice to a girl as you are mean to her to get her back", which could not possibly be more tragic and true.
Kurt goes to the all boys private school to spy on the other team, learns they are rockstars there, runs through the halls with his brand new crush, and I think about how often Kurt watches Cruel Intentions by himself and cries. Now I'm crying. Up, I guess.
The prep school boys sing "teenage dream", and this is where your humble recapper abandons all cool, because these kinds of dulcet tones and vocal rhythm sections just took me back to being 14 and listening to the sr. Jazz choir singing "The Look of Love" and having such a HUGE giddy crush on Matt (redacted) and this is why I'm a nerd, so...I'm going to guess this is an up. Needless to say, Kurt's new love has the lead. Also? Download this song.
Okay, but now I'm down, because all I can think of is how much I want Bert Hummel to be able to afford private school tuition and I don't think he can and you guys....!? Seriously, tears.
Okay, now Mike and Tina are using the 'picture Beast to keep from coming' routine. But now it's Tina using it. What? Meanwhile, Quinn accuses Sam of sleeping with Beast, to said woman's face. So does Mike. This is really dumb. Down down down, but I'm still in the glow of Kurt's new school's song, so I'm ok.
Now Mr. Schue is lecturing the kids for what they fantasize about. Do I even have to tell you that this is a down? And that he's making it about something it isn't?
Three of the prep school boys have busted Kurt, and are being adorable to him. They laugh when he thinks they're all gay. Only the cute ones are! Kurt spins off into a private school fantasy again, or maybe that's me. I hurt for him so much. As if he didn't resent his middle classness already...
Kurt's new boy, who I don't think has a name, left his old school because of bullying. I wish I could snark more, guys, but except for clunky lines like "prejudice is just ignorance", this is pretty accurate and, in this stage of "It gets better", seems not all that farfetched. So I'm up, especially when boyfriend tells Kurt to stay and fight.
Ohhhh, here we go with a down, girls bitch about what they should do for competition, whine that Rachel isn't helping, then Artie and Puck insult Santana and Britney while asking them out. Neat. UGH.
Will avoids telling Beast what's going on with the kids for one nanosecond before telling her what they're doing, which, what kind of normal adult does such a thing?? Then to go into specifics about what they're doing? Are you seven years old, Will? Down, because this is absolutely ridiculous.
The date of misogyny starts off humorous as Puck tells juvie stories. I thought they were going for a paraplegia joke, but instead it becomes about Artie not being a dick? Down, but also boring.
Okay, the girls are singing a 'Start Me Up/Living on a Prayer' mashup and I have heard all y'all and your Lea Michele resentment, but there's nothing her voice cannot do! This kind of rocks, and is funny. It's a straight up Up.
Schue is beckoned to the aud, Sue is being weird about something and Beast quit and there are confetti cannons and could they please, please pick a direction for Sue, even if she does make great Annie Sullivan jokes? She's such an unreliable villain, it's exhausting. Down.
Kurt gets slammed into a locker and chases the dude into the locker room. And yells and screams and say it with me, gets kissed by the self hating jock who is deep in the closet. You know if this was an adult show I might roll my eyes, but since it becomes increasingly clear that it is social education for tweens but with actual jokes, I don't have a problem with this. There are kids who really don't know yet that sometimes someone who protests that loudly and angrily is really hating something in themselves, so fine. Call it a draw.
Schue lectures the kids for Beast quitting when it was basically his fault. This is dumb. Down, and going further. Because now Puck is in trouble for something else, and this is suddenly a real story, now? With five minutes left, Puck has anger issues? Show.....this is a down.
So Kurt and boyfriend go outside (!) to confront big angry jock and he's closet-y, and Kurt's new boyfriend is self-possessed, and if you are a 15 year old gay teen, or you know one, are they really this cool? This easy in themselves? Please advise. This is a draw. Not enough good to be an up.
Will is an emotional counsellor to Beast who has never been kissed so he kisses her, which, gahhh. It's really condescending that he does this, he can't wait for someone who cares about her to kiss her? This is gross, and this is a down.
Puck is skipping town because that's better than going back to juvie. They are far too hard for him in there, which is pretty cute. And much more accurate, teenage wise. Artie wants to help him, and somehow this is feasible and involves talk of waffles. Whatever, it's a down because the story got fixed in five minutes.
Kurt gets pushed into the lockers again, but he has the courage of prep school boyfriend behind him. Up, because he still seems disconcerted and angry about it, and that's much more realistic than if he were just suddenly fine.
But then the boys make everything all better with the coach by apologizing and telling the coach that she is 'pretty', like why is that the fix for everything? That you call someone pretty? Come on, Ryan Murphy, you did this better the first time around in Popular. At least in that 'teachers have feelings' story Bobbi Glass was trying to make money to buy her sister a hairless pussy. I'm down on this, and the mashup of "Stop! In the Name of Love" and "Free Your Mind" is only okay.
You guys, this show just doesn't know what it is, and I'm no longer sure if the show itself is trying to figure it out or if coasting in the middle is a new brand of show. The Kurt story was real and painful at times and pretty true. The b story – I know it was supposed to be lighter and thanks for showing me teenagers kissing, but why does it have to be so fake? These people can write real teenagers, so why do they insist on sometimes making them so very not real?
Attached – Matthew Morrison in New York last night at the Emery Awards
Photos from Wenn.com
Glee: Boys sing girls sing boys
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The loss at Philips 66 Whitegate Refinery Ltd follows the firm's $17.7m pre-tax profit in 2010.
The negative swing of $52m came in spite of revenues soaring by 33% from $2.19bn to $2.92bn last year.
The facility at Whitegate, in Cork, last year refined 2.91 million tonnes of crude oil imported from the North Sea and North and East Africa. The company swung into the red due to its cost of sales increasing by 37% from $2.1bn to $2.9bn in the 12 months to the end of December.
The directors' report states: "The impact of turnover and cost of sales figures is that a gross loss of $4.6m was generated in 2011 compared to a gross profit of $51.1m in 2010.
"We continued to face an environment of weak energy demand, commodity price volatility and a global economic recession as a result of the financial turbulence. As such, the group was subjected to a challenging refining environment.
"Despite the volatile market environment, the group continued to perform strongly from an operational standpoint."
The company was renamed Phillips 66 earlier this year after its US parent, ConocoPhillips, announced that it was going to hive off its refining assets, including its Cork operations, into a separate company.
ConocoPhillips acquired the refinery in 2001 following its acquisition of another US oil company, Tosco.
The Irish unit is now wholly owned by Phillips 66 Inc and the numbers employed at the refinery remained static last year at 156, with staff costs increasing from $27.7m to $28.8m.
Aggregate remuneration to the four directors, including pension contributions, rose from $1.199m to $1.448m.
The figures also show that the firm recorded an operating loss last year of $24m, compared to an operating profit of $29.8m in 2010.
Net interest payments of $10.4m resulted in the pre-tax loss of $34.4m. A tax credit of $797,000 resulted in a post-tax loss of $33.6m.
The firm stated that it continues to invest in site infrastructure to enhance profitability and operating reliability. This includes a $36m investment to construct an amine and sulphuric acid plant that reduces the site's environmental footprint as well as enabling the site to run higher-sulphur, more profitable crudes.
Accounts filed by a separate Phillips 66 subsidiary, Phillips 66 Bantry Bay Terminal Ltd show that it recorded a pre-tax profit of $14.9m after revenues marginally increased from $35.4m to $36.3m.
The main activity of the firm is the operation of the Whiddy oil terminal in Bantry, Co Cork.


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Earlier this month East Van Bike Polo held the 5th Ladies Army.
From what we've heard, it was the best LA to date, despite all the rain and a near washed out final. Again, showing that bike polo as a whole has stepped up for another year.
We just got sent a link by Brandon Carter to the below new GIF video he's made of LA5.
This is a new style of video which shows the passion and love for the game and lifestyle we call Bike Polo.
Thanks Brandon.


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A week after a Goldman Sachs executive's resignation over allegations the Wall Street firm places its interests over those of its clients, the unsealing of a 2009 arbitration agreement paints an unflattering picture of Goldman's crosstown rival JPMorgan. The Kansas City Business Journal broke the news that arbitrators found the New York bank had breached a 2003 revenue-sharing agreement with the asset management firm American Century in order to suppress the firm's value and make it a cheap acquisition target.
The panel awarded American Century $373 million last summer, and JPMorgan paid $384 million (with interest added) after a Missouri judge upheld the decision in December. The findings and decisions were made public this week following a request by the Business Journal to unseal the case. American Century sought redress against JPMorgan in 2009, alleging JPMorgan had breached an agreement to market its funds in their Retirement Plans Service joint venture.
Instead, the arbitrators found, JPMorgan gave incentives to its salespeople to promote its own funds and went so far as to misrepresent the risk profile of American Century funds.
A damning e-mail the Business Journal quotes in the ruling against the bank references Jes Staley, currently the head of Morgan's investment banking division, saying Staley's objective was to consolidate the two firms and "control their distribution" for the purpose of "gaining control at a minimum price."
JPMorgan issued a statement saying that "since the arbitrators found in favor of American Century, JPMorgan's point of view and arguments are not represented in the decision," and declined to comment further.
The arbitrators and court addressed the legal issues, but at a time when the moral standing of financial institutions has fallen in public opinion, the ethical issues at stake should not go uncommented on.
JPMorgan's behavior, according to the panel's findings, was both overbearing and undercutting. The firm owned a 41% stake in American Century (down from 45% ownership when the firms first wed in 1998). While it is not uncommon for smaller firms to seek partnership with a larger, more resourceful firm, this case makes clear that a larger firm, if it does not act with integrity, can push its weight around in a manner that is contrary to the junior partner's interests.
If JPMorgan was seeking to weaken its junior partner to acquire it later more cheaply, it did so by breaching the responsibilities owed to American Century via their joint venture agreement and the additional fiduciary duty Morgan had as a member of American Century's board of directors (as reported by the Business Journal).
Unfair trade practices usually involve the creation of market structures, such as a monopoly, aimed at driving competitors out of business. But as this case shows, the dominant party can achieve a similar result through a bear-hug embrace.
Another clear-cut issue is deceit. To the extent that Morgan misrepresented the qualities of American Century's funds, the firm engaged in unethical competitive behavior. (This is in contrast to selling one's own funds on the basis of their superior qualities, without trashing competing funds.)
And to the extent that Morgan gives incentives to its sales force to sell proprietary funds rather than best-in-class funds, its customers have reason to question whose interests come first: the bank's or their own.


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August 19, 2010
Greetings from the Windermere Foundation
Posted in Windermere Foundation by Tara Sharp
Thanks to you and the wonderful support the Windermere Foundation has received so far this year, we disbursed nearly $629,000 to qualifying social service organizations dedicated to serving low-income and homeless families throughout the West.
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August 18, 2010
A Humbling Experience
Posted in Community by Geoff Wood
It's a humbling experience to sit down with a man like Ralph Jenkins. He's seen more than most people. He's done more, and given more. And he knows more. So when I have a chance to talk with Ralph, I ask a lot of questions and listen carefully.
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August 13, 2010
5 Deal Breakers that can blindside home buyers
Posted in Uncategorized by Justin Waskow
Don't let these 5 "Deal Breakers" come between you and your new home.
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August 04, 2010
Yard Sale Success
Posted in Selling, Community, and Living by Windermere Guest Author
Yard sale season has arrived! Many people shy away from the idea of having a yard sale, but do you truly need that broken down accordion or the 80's styled prom dress?
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text: mosslack 5 Posted January 29, 2010 Asus 1201N Installation and Support The purpose of this thread will be to assist those attempting to install and maintain Snow Leopard on the Asus 1201N netbook. All those who wish to participate are most welcome and encouraged to do so. If you are interested in installing Lion on your 1201N, please check here for a guide to do so. Please remember this is a developmental thread as well so sometimes ideas will be presented by those who are more experienced at this sort of thing, so don't try any new procedure presented unless you know what you are doing. This top post will be regularly updated to reflect the status of this system! (Last updated 10-28-11) If you wish to read the old thread, it can be found here, but it has been closed so please post any new stuff on this thread. Thanks! A combination overview and change log for both threads can be found here. Updated 05-01-10. Many thanks go out to meklort, amf5, Kosterin Anton, DiDDyDy, Vince22, WmMays and anyone else I have left out from the original thread. All their efforts have been instrumental in getting this system operational. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Guides available A guide (recently updated for 10.6.6 courtesy of VMonHeros) has been posted on Google sites here. The guide is constantly being updated with the best information on how to do the installation. To that end, it has come to my attention that installation of the system should only be performed using the system memory which comes with the unit. Upgrading to more memory can be performed after the system has been installed and details are provided in the guide. And if you plan to dual boot with Windows 7, I have also posted a guide for that here as well. This guide does allow for the use of the restore DVD which came with the 1201N. If you plan on replacing the wlan card and/or hard drive, a fully illustrated and annotated guide for that can be found here. DSDT files for system memory upgrades are included with the install files. The download link is included in the guide. Here is a list of what works and doesn't work at the present time: Works sleep restart/shutdown (with evoreboot.kext) bluetooth two-finger scrolling three finger swipe in Safari SD reader full GPU accleration (QE/CI) sound (In and Out) VGA out (monitor hotkey switches as it should) HDMI out (video, but no audio) 1080p playback webcam hyperthreading AHCI x86_64 kernel onboard ethernet Netflix streaming (use latest version of Silverlight) hotkeys for volume, brightness, etc. (Fixed using Meklort's Asus HotKeys.kext) Doesn't work native WLAN card - (WLAN can be fixed with Dell 1510 card listed below) Dell 1510 WLAN card The replacement Dell 1510 mini pci-e wlan card can be found on Ebay and directly from Dell. USB/Wifi adapters If you prefer not to change the wlan card you can use a USB wifi stick such as the Newer Tech MAXPower 802.11g/b available here for $19, or this one, the Hama WLAN USB-Stick 150 Mbps, Mini Also the Asus USB-N13 is reported to work fine and is available at several places (NewEgg, Amazon, etc.) BTW, the Asus USB-N13 is capable of wireless 'N' speed. USB/E-net adapters Until such time as a fix for the built-in ethernet can be found, this USB adapter from Apple is confirmed to work with the 1201N, and is only $29. Also a gigabit USB/ethernet adapter from Belkin can be found here, and drivers if needed can be found on the Belkin website. BIOS Latest BIOS is 0326 and is available here. If link is broken it means that Asus has pulled the bios. You can get 0321 here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Humans are a plague, shredding across the galaxy and destroying other peace-loving creatures. At least, that seems to be the theme of a number of movies that are coming out in the next few years. I've been wondering what would replace the post-apocalyptic-Earth as the stock plot for "dark" science fiction movies, and the evil-humans-in-space plot seems increasingly likely to rule. Among others, James Cameron's Avatar and the new animated film Terra seem to be exploring this theme, which is a standard plot in written science fiction, but is fairly new to the movies. Click through for details.
As I said above, the story of evil humans coming and despoiling an alien planet is nothing new in written science fiction. Off the top of my head, there's Ursula LeGuin's The Word For World Is Forest, among others. I'm almost done reading Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods (review coming soon) which deals with this theme. But I can't think of too many movies which have handled this type of storyline. (Enemy Mine, I guess.)
We still don't know all of the plot details for James Cameron's Avatar, coming in 2009, but an early "scriptment" that's reputed to be real includes a lot of information. In a nutshell, Earth is ruined due to centuries of exploitation, and we've used up all our resources. So we decide to go and plunder the mineral wealth of the planet Pandora, whose atmosphere is poisonous to us. Humans can only walk around on Pandora by growing special alien bodies, akin to the native Na'vi aliens. The humans can control their own vat-grown Na'vi bodies, which are called avatars. (We don't know how much of this stuff survives in the final script, but Sigourney Weaver's comments about her character having "her own avatar" make it sound as though it's still there in some form.)
In addition to these surrogate aliens, the humans have also landed some bloodthirsty troops who hate the natives and want to wipe them out. So there's a conflict between the Avatar-using humans, who want to understand the natives (who are basically Native Americans) and the power-armor-using troops, who want to bulldoze all the natives' sacred lands and kill them all. This leads to a speech by our hero, Josh:
Pandora is not Hell, it's Eden. And Eden is being bulldozed and stripmined and raped. We have no right. We are the aliens here. We are the space monsters.
If that sounds too subtle for you, then there's Terra, which we covered the other day. The new full-length animated film is about humans coming to terraform a planet of peaceloving aliens, after Earth has become basically uninhabitable. We already terraformed Venus and Mars, but then the planets had a huge civil war. So now we have to come and use our transforming device to turn Terra's helium atmosphere into oxygen.
Are you seeing a trend here? The stories about humans as scourge of the cosmos are what come after the post-apocalyptic Earth stories. We ruin our own planet, so we have to go and fuck up someone else's planet. (That's also the storyline in the Winterson book, where Orbus is about to become unable to support human life.) There could also be some guilt about the Iraq war and our various other foreign adventures, which we could be excising.
There's also the remake of the original humans-are-assholes movie The Day The Earth Stood Still, coming this December, in which peaceful aliens warn us not to take our asshole ways out into space. And there's a new direct-to-DVD sequel to Starship Troopers coming out in a couple of months. In the original Troopers, director Paul Verhoeven's aim was to show that humans were the aggressors and the bugs were simply reacting to human colonies encroaching on their territory. This message flew over a lot of people's heads, so maybe Troopers scriptwriter Ed Neumeier (who's directing the new movie) will make it more blatant this time around.
And then there's also the animated Planet 51, starring the Rock, in which the peaceful aliens think the humans are there to invade and despoil their planet. But they're wrong... or are they?
I guess there's not enough examples there to argue that this is a sweeping new trend. And of course the post-apocalyptic Earth movie has one major advantage over the alien world epic: it's cheap to film, since you can make a post-apocalyptic landscape almost anywhere you can find some rubble.