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Writer Liz Smith revealed the union midway through a column in the Chicago Tribune. Smith was recapping her New Year's Eve celebrations and gave a shout out to her "longtime friends."
"Lily Tomlin and her love, the writer Jane Wagner, got married on the eve of 2014," wrote Smith, adding, "My wish is that their happiness will be as great as their combined talents."
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Tomlin, 74, and Wagner, 78, met in 1971 while working on Tomlin's comedy album, "This Is a Recording." The album, Tomlin's first, went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1972 and features the comic in character as Ernestine, the sharp-tongued telephone operator she made famous on the TV series "Laugh In."
The "9 to 5" star discussed the possibility of a winter wedding back in October.
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According to a company employee, Dutch Bros., the largest privately held drive-through coffee company with over 200 locations throughout 7 western states, is limiting the hours of their corporate staff in order to comply with Obamacare mandates.
In tallying up the casualties in the Obamacare war on jobs, FreedomWorks set up a tip line of sorts, at firstname.lastname@example.com. The Broken Promises line yielded a response from a Dutch Bros. employee stating that the company had announced a reduction in work hours for all corporate employees to 29 hours per week - management excluded.
I was able to confirm the individual is indeed an employee at Dutch Bros.
Here was his initial statement:
The fastest growing drive-thru coffee company in the country, Dutch Bros. http://dutchbros.com/, reduced the hours of all of their corporate employees to 29 hours per week – excluding management – in order to comply with the Obamacare mandates. Since the mandates were pushed back, the company is still holding to the 29 hour work-week.
Some Dutch Bros. locations are franchised owned, but the employee states that "all corporate owned locations are now under this policy."
"It was handled during location based employee meetings by managers with their employees," he added.
Despite several attempts to reach out to the company, a "PR Specialist" I was put in contact with refused to return messages.
A separate representative in the customer relations department finally provided a statement late last week. The company delivered what essentially amounts to a 'no comment.'
We appreciate your interest in Dutch Bros. Coffee. I have been in contact with our Human Resources Team and have received the conclusion that the information that you are requesting is information that we are not disclosing to anyone.
Rather than deny that employee hours were cut, or refute that the Obamacare mandates had anything to do with personnel decisions, Dutch Bros. has decided not to disclose the information?
If the company never made a move to slash the hours of their staff, it would have been a relatively simple denial. Additionally, not disclosing the information to anyone seems to indicate that Dutch Bros. doesn't want to create waves by saying the move was designed to circumvent Obamacare mandates.
A 2009 company profile in Oregon Business indicates that Dutch Bros. employed over 1,500 employees. Since then, the company's franchises have expanded from 135 to over 200, with the number of employees presumably expanding as well. It's not clear how many corporate employees this move would effect, however.
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DSOGaming writes: "German magazine "PC Games" teased a reveal about the sequel to one of the best and most thrilling games of 2011."
Maybe it's The witcher 3.
Stock Broker Simulator hell yes!
portal 3.
I am guessing witcher 3, batman, portal, or deus ex.
would LOVE the witcher 3 and baldurs gate 3!! or icewindale 3 neverwinter nights 3 kotor 3 any of those would be welcomed
Witcher 3 would be freaking awesome, its pretty much what Fable and Dragon Age 2 SHOULD have been..sad not that many people played it
How is it what Fable should have been? They're entirely different!
The Witcher 3. Pretty obvious.
German developer. German magazine. Makes sense.
CD Projekt RED are Polish, not German.
@RuperttheBear That disagree must have been a mistake. @InMyOpinion They're polish. @disagree You sure?
I would love to see The witcher 3 but I'm sure it is not it . CD Projekt working now on Cyberpunk 2077 I don't think they can work on 2 titles at the same time .
They're working on both right now, and it's far more likely Witcher 3 will release before Cyberpunk 2077.
All they need is for a publisher to help them along with funds and its set. CD Project RED have already confirmed they have two projects in the works. One was revealed as Cyberpunk 2077 awhile ago and their trailer for that revealed their next game will debut on February 5th with a trailer. Likely that will be Witcher 3.
Google the hidden message in the Cyberpunk trailer. There you will find the answers you seek.
I've searched a list of possible titles; the list is biased to mainly western games. (these games released in 2011) Bulletstorm Killzone 3 Dragon Age II Homefront Brink.... Fable III.... Witcher 2 inFamous 2 Bastion? Dead Island Dark Souls Rage Batman Arkham City Battlefield 3 Uncharted 3 Of the list these are the most likely in my opinion to be the announcement.
Well since it's a PC magazine, it probably won't be a console exclusive like uncharted. Personally I wish it's a sequel to Batman: Arkham City.
My bad, I completely skipped on the PC part (damn I'm blind), I was just trying to name every big game released in 2011...
Out of this list. I can only see Witcher, Battlefield, Batman, and Dragon Age as remote possibilities. Sure others might qualify if you stretch it a little, but the fact that its teasing a sequel. Could mean its yet to be announced and Cyberpunk 2077 trailer clearly pointed out Febuary 5th as date for Project 2 to be announced + Trailer? Oddly this is coming up among the same week. So connect the dots. Its likely Witcher 3.
The next Battlefield and Dragon Age game have already been announced.
Exactly right my friend.
The picture says "strictly secret" in English. I wonder what the game could be?
CD Project has said there unannounced title is further into production than cyberpunk, I believe it is the Witcher 3.
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U.S. companies boosted their orders in November for manufactured goods that reflect investment plans even though total orders were unchanged for the month.
The Commerce Department says factory orders were flat in November, compared with October when orders had risen 0.8 percent. Durable goods, everything from autos to steel, rose 0.8 percent while nondurable goods fell 0.6 percent, reflecting falling petroleum prices.
Orders for core capital goods, a category considered a proxy for business investment plans increased a solid 2.6 percent after a 3 percent rise in October which had been the strongest gain in 10 months.
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In our exclusive sneak-peek clip from Monday's Carrie Diaries, Carrie (AnnaSophia Robb) bumps into a new, very cute boy at work. But once she introduces herself, George (Richard Kohnke) realizes that they already knew each other. It turns out the two once hung out when they were little kids. As he explains where he's been all this time, Carrie is quick to point out that he's quite pretentious — a bold response that catches this older guy's attention.
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Lost in all the sound, fury and just insanity of the Seattle Seahawks' last-second victory over the Green Bay Packers on Monday night were the football aspects of the closing minute.
Earlier in the fourth quarter, Seahawks wide receiver Golden Tate appeared to run the wrong route and deflect a potential touchdown pass that was intended for Sidney Rice. It turns out the actual controversial game-winning touchdown also came on a mixup.
Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson called the wrong play in the huddle, according to Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports.
"Instead of sending three receivers to the left corner of the end zone where Tate and Jennings ultimately fought for the ball, Wilson mistakenly called a 'Waggle' play which called for him to roll right while several receivers ran underneath routes," Silver wrote.
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NEW YORK - June 24, 2011 - Turning up the heat this summer, Syfy will launch six series during the channel's Summer Premiere Week (July 11-15). The excitement kicks off with television's "Most Powerful Night of the Week" featuring Syfy's brand new powerhouse Monday night line-up of scripted originals - Eureka, Warehouse 13 and Alphas.
Syfy's Summer Premiere Week kicks off on Monday, July 11 with the Season 4.5 return of Eureka at 8PM (ET/PT), followed by Season 3 of Warehouse 13 - Syfy's most successful series ever - at 9PM, and the new drama Alphas bowing at 10PM.
The third season of Ghost Hunters International premieres Wednesday, July 13 at 9PM, leading into the debut of Legend Quest at 10PM.
Haven begins its second season Friday, July 15 at 10PM.
Summer Premiere Week concludes with the Syfy Saturday Original Movie Super Eruption on Saturday, July 16 at 9PM.
Here is the link to a promo for Syfy's "The Most Powerful Night of the Week": http://syfy.mediasilo.com/weblink/B2A50E2EBEC08CC9B2389552A1A5E4B3/
Syfy's SUMMER PREMIERE WEEK
Eureka - Monday, July 11 at 8PM - In the season 4.5 return of Eureka, as the timeline changes from their trip to 1947 continue to surprise Sheriff Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson), Allison Blake (Salli Richardson-Whitfield), Henry Deacon (Joe Morton), Jo Lupo (Erica Cerra) and Douglas Fargo (Neil Grayston), an accident of astronomical proportions is the impetus for Global Dynamic's most ambitious project yet. With the entire town rallying to go where no man has gone before and pitting scientist against scientist, our heroes' new relationships are tested when secrets begin to surface, the competition grows fierce and darker forces threaten to bring everyone down should they fail. Niall Matter also stars as Zane Donovan.
During its fourth season, Eureka averaged 3.16 million total viewers, 1.40 million Adults 18-49, 1.58 million Adults 25-54 and a 2.25 household rating. Co-creator Jaime Paglia and Bruce Miller are executive producers. The series is produced by Universal Cable Productions.
Warehouse 13 - Monday, July 11 at 9PM - Warehouse 13 returns for a third season with a key question looming from the gripping season two finale: has Myka (Joanne Kelly) left the Warehouse team for good? Joining the Warehouse is Steve Jinks (Aaron Ashmore, Smallville), an ATF agent with an innate ability to detect when someone's lying. Warehouse 13 follows a team of government agents who work at a massive, top-secret storage facility in South Dakota which houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and preternatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government. The Warehouse's caretaker Artie Nielsen (Saul Rubinek) charges Pete Lattimer (Eddie McClintock), Myka Bering (Kelly) and young apprentice Claudia Donovan (Allison Scagliotti) with chasing down reports of supernatural and paranormal activity in search of new objects to cache.
During its second season, Warehouse 13 averaged 3.43 million total viewers, 1.51 million Adults 18-49, 1.80 million Adults 25-54 and a 2.4 household rating. The series is produced by Universal Cable Productions. Jack Kenny (The Book of Daniel) is executive producer and showrunner.
Alphas - Series Premiere Monday, July 11 at 10PM - Alphas follows a clandestine group of average everyday citizens with amazing abilities operating within the U.S. Department of Defense. Led by preeminent neurologist and psychiatrist Dr. Lee Rosen (Emmy Award-winner and Academy Award-nominee David Strathairn), the team investigates cases that point to others with abilities like theirs, and as they work against the clock to solve this new brand of crime, they must prevent their own personality differences and disparate backgrounds from interfering with their missions.
Alphas also stars Malik Yoba, Warren Christie, Laura Mennell, Ryan Cartwright and Azita Ghanizada. The new series consists of 12 episodes including the 90-minute pilot directed by Jack Bender (Emmy nominated director and executive producer of Lost) and is a production of Universal Cable Productions and BermanBraun Television. Executive Producers are Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand), Ira Steven Behr (The 4400) and Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun and Gene Stein for BermanBraun.
Ghost Hunters International - Wednesday, July 13 at 9PM - The GHI team kicks off the third season traveling deep into the rainforest of Trinidad, where it's reported that the spirit of Count Lopinot, a cruel slave master, rises from the grave of his cocoa plantation. Ghost Hunters International features a squad of paranormal investigators who use their principles of scientific techniques to explore some of the most legendary haunted spots around the world. Each week the team travels to the far corners of the globe, searching for answers to bizarre supernatural mysteries.
The team of investigators is led by Barry FitzGerald and recently-promoted Kris Williams and also stars Joe Chin, Susan Slaughter, Paul Bradford and Scott Tepperman. Ghost Hunters International is produced in association with Craig Piligian's Pilgrim Films and Television (Dirty Jobs, The Ultimate Fighter, My Fair Wedding). Piligian and Thomas Thayer, along with Rob Katz and Alan David, serve as executive producers.
Legend Quest - Series Premiere Wednesday, July 13 at 10PM - The fast-paced action-adventure series follows Ashley Cowie, an archaeological explorer and expert in ancient symbols, as he travels the world in search of some of history's greatest and most mysterious artifacts. From King Arthur's famous sword Excalibur to the coveted Holy Grail, all of the elusive items are believed to hold hidden powers and mystical significance for ancient and modern cultures. With Indiana Jones-type adventure and Da Vinci Code-style puzzle solving Cowie and his team leave no stone unturned as they hack through dense jungles, squeeze through tiny caves and trek through forbidding deserts to find their next clue.
In the premiere episode, "Ark of the Covenant/Mayan Talking Cross," Ashley and the team travel to Ethiopia, Italy and France in search of the famous Ark of the Covenant, believed to have the power to defeat any army and strike enemies with bolts of lightening. They then travel to Mexico in search of the legendary Talking Cross, which the Mayans believed gave them the power to speak directly to the gods, protect them from their enemies and grant wishes.
Legend Quest is executive produced by John Brenkus and Mickey Stern for BASE Productions, and is a co-production with Universal Networks International.
Haven - Friday, July 15 at 10PM - Last season, when FBI agent Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) arrived in the town of Haven, Maine on a routine case, her knack for unraveling mysteries proved an asset when she discovered that the seemingly sleepy town was, in fact, a longtime refuge for people with supernatural afflictions. As the second season unfolds, Audrey must not only stay on top of Haven's many afflictions, but she must also solve her most challenging case yet: the secret of her own lost past and its ties to Haven. With the help of Nathan Wuornos (Lucas Bryant), a handsome local cop with his own trouble, and Duke Crocker (Eric Balfour) a local smuggler and reluctant aide in solving Haven's troubles, Audrey digs deeper into uncovering her identity. Guest stars Jason Priestley (who will also direct an episode) and Vinessa Antoine join the cast for the new season, currently in production on 13 episodes in Nova Scotia.
Haven, from leading independent producer Entertainment One (eOne) is co-commissioned by Shaw Media in Canada and globally via Universal Networks International (UNI). The creative team includes Executive Producers John Morayniss (Hung, Goodnight for Justice) and Noreen Halpern (Call me Fitz, Rookie Blue) from eOne and David MacLeod (Legends of the Fall, The Ray Bradbury Theater) of Big Motion Pictures, who are joined by Lloyd Segan, Shawn Piller, Scott Shepherd (Stephen King's The Dead Zone) and Matt McGuiness (Journeyman) as well as and Sam Ernst & Jim Dunn (Stephen King's The Dead Zone) who also developed the series.
Super Eruption - Saturday, July 16 at 9PM - In the Syfy Saturday Original Movie Super Eruption, a section of the super volcano under Yellowstone erupts after thousands of years, putting millions at risk. Yellowstone's top geologist played by Juliet Aubrey (Primeval, The Constant Gardner) and a park ranger played by Richard Burgi (Desperate Housewives, Friday the 13th) try stopping the poisonous volcano clouds from spreading before the entire world becomes a permanent apocalyptic winter. The movie, a Mar Vista Production, also stars Myanna Buring (The Twilight Saga, The Descent)
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In the first instance of gene transfer between a human host and bacteria, Gonorrhoea was recently discovered to have a human DNA fragment. What the.. how the.. huh?
Supposedly, it's a relatively recent evolutionary event and scientists have no idea what it means. And though it's a pseudo love story between star crossed lovers, I'm actually scaring myself as I read more into it.
Scientists say:
The finding suggests gonorrhea's ability to acquire DNA from its human host may enable it to develop new and different strains of itself. "But whether this particular event has provided an advantage for the gonorrhea bacterium, we don't know yet, " Seifert said, "The next step is to figure out what this piece of DNA is doing,"
It's like an organic terminator, learning from our sexual habits and then striking when we have the babies. Gonorrhoea just got a lot uncooler (not that it was ever cool). [Science Daily]


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"A good name is better than fine
perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth." (Ecclesiastes 7:1, New International Version)
Indeed, if you have lived long enough to make a "good name" for yourself,
"the day of death [is] better than the day of birth."
good name permeates the trail you made for yourself in life like "fine perfume."
the other hand, no infant, after suffering the tragedy of death, has had time to make such a 'fine smelling' good name
for itself.
In varying degrees, and on different levels, many
see Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Tupac Shakur, and Biggie Smalls as having made good names for themselves.
Foibles, idiosyncrasies, and eccentricities aside, what if after a lifetime
of having made a good name for yourself, detractors campaign to befoul it after your passing?
"The dead themselves do not praise Jah," says Scripture, "nor do any going down into
silence."--Psalms 115:17, New World Translation.
Since, 'dead
men don't tell tales,' is there any recourse? There is, according to a group calling themselves CadeLaw
Defending the Dead: Advocates
of the California Anti-Defamation Legacy Law (CadeLaw) have been campaigning for laws that would prohibit
anyone from defaming the character of the deceased.
In other words, these advocates
believe that laws against libel, slander, defamation, and other aspects of character assassination
should be equally applicable to you when you're dead.
At first glance, the
ladies behind CadeLaw appear to be a loose-knit group of women that one may be tempted to dismiss as
amateurish; emotional fans who are out of touch with reality, and who are still mourning the death
of their idol, Michael Jackson.
A closer look, however, reveals the richness
of their substance.
CadeLaw Advocates: How did this group
come about? "A year ago several of us came together through an Amazon Michael Jackson community.
"It seemed that each of us had embarked on the same
journey on June 25, 2009. In trying to understand what we were experiencing, we all found ourselves at the same thread
on the Michael Jackson Community.
"We shared our sorrow, anger, confusion,
frustration, tears, discoveries, and joys.
"As time
went on we truly became a family and we were very comfortable with one another. We all consider one another to be sisters,
and we are a very close group.
"The emotional pain and sorrow
began to evolve into something deeper. We wanted to find a way to make a difference.
of us became involved in writing letters and posting comments where we saw a need.
"We placed an ad in the newspapers in Gary, (Indiana,) and the surrounding
area on Michael's birthday to honor him and to let it be known that there are people who care about seeing his legacy go
forward without the tinge [sic] suspicion.
efforts prompted some of us to want to become even more involved. After a Skype call where all who wanted
to work on this project came together, MJ shared her idea to take some form of legal action to stop
the spread of untrue and hateful information about Michael.
over that idea lead to another conference call with Karen, Barb, MJ, and Vanessa.
the idea was formed to try to have a law passed in California that would make it illegal to defame a
person who had passed on. Michael Jackson was unfairly portrayed by a biased media throughout most of
his life.
"Every aspect of his life was a source of amusement to the media,
and they happily distorted facts and spread rumor and gossip in order to make a profit.
"It was a terrible way to treat Michael. No one in the history of our country has ever
been so vilified in the media.
"Journalists, entertainers,
public figures; it seems everyone felt very comfortable with treating Michael's life like it was a comic strip.
"That is heartbreaking to us because we see what a wonderful man he was.
"Not just for his legendary accomplishments in entertainment and the arts,
but for the contributions he made to the world through his message of love.
lived a most remarkable life and managed to remain humble, loving, kind, generous, and respectful.
"That is why we have come to this point where we say enough
is enough. To have defamed him while he was living was an egregious misuse of the freedom of speech
and the power of words.
"However, to continue to do so after he is no longer
here is reprehensible."
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I know I didn`t mention it before, but we are staying at the Luna Studio Hotel near Sanjo-Keihan Station in Kyoto.
I don`t know what it is, but like in Hiroshima, there was a girl obviously enjoying a tryst in the neighbouring room.
We were supposed to get up to have breakfast at 730am, but I think it was closer to 8am before we were down in the lobby to have our free feed. We put a few extra rolls in our bag to eat during the day.
Luckily, I thought to bring an umbrella here as it was raining a little today.
First we went to Tofukuji Temple, in the east side of Kyoto, and checked out some amazingly beautiful autumn maple leaves. Pictures don`t do the colours justice. The leaves distracts you from bothering to look at the temples themselves.
DJ "Scratching" on the spinning thingies at Tofuku-ji. Hit my head on the corner there. Oops.
It was probably about a 20 minutes walk from Tofuku-ji to Fushimi Inari. Along the way I heard a small truck playing some music. You can see me here bopping my head to the music while eating.
The main attraction here at Fushimi Inari are endless lines of orange torii going around the mountain. We didn`t do the full circuit as this would have taken more time than it is worth. Is there such a thing as too MANY torii? Yes, I think there is.
This is my "running through the Torii" video moment. Note the touches on the last few ones, and a final Rocky victory pose. HAHA.
We also went through Gion, an entertainment area where it`s possible to spot geisha.
Apart from a single geisha, the only ones I think we saw were girls who got made up in costume, as they didn`t quite fit the image of japanese beauty, unless of course "sumo geisha are the "in" thing these days.
It's quite disappointing that they allow this. The last thing I want to do is take a picture of a "tourist" in make-up.
Our final stop for the day was Kiyomizu-dera Temple. This is a very picturesque elevated area. Here, we waited until dark to see the area lit up for a different perspective.
Thursday, 22 November 2007
I know I didn`t mention it before, but we are staying at the Luna Studio Hotel near Sanjo-Keihan Station in Kyoto.


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Adam Levine Proposed on One Knee to Behati Prinsloo!
Adam Levine stops by a local Starbucks for an iced beverage before heading to his gym on Thursday morning (July 18) in New York City.
Earlier this week, the 34-year-old Maroon 5 singer revealed his engagement to model Behati Prinsloo!
"I am so happy and excited and still can't believe it's true!" Behati told ET Canada (via People) about how Adam popped the question. "It was a one-knee thing! It was serious, it was very old school!"
The couple has not started planning the special day, they are currently "just celebrating with our friends and family at the moment."
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Dec 20, 2012– Toulouse, France (Techreleased) – Tampa Cargo, AviancaTaca Holding's cargo airline based in Colombia, has taken delivery of the first of four new A330 Freighter (A330-200F) aircraft at Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France. The aircraft is powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 772B engines. The new aircraft is part of the airline's fleet renewal strategy and will allow Tampa to expand its presence in new and existing international markets, including Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, the United States and Uruguay.
"We are confident in the A330-200F's proven advanced technology, eco-efficiency and range," said Fabio Villegas, CEO of AviancaTaca. "Tampa Cargo looks forward to growing its cargo business and serving our customers in the Americas by partnering with Airbus and integrating the first A330-200F into its fleet."
"With the capacity and range to profitably serve the growing cargo markets of Latin America, the A330-200F flies more payload significantly further while offering lower cost-per-tonne than its nearest competitor," said John Leahy, Airbus' Chief Operating Officer – Customers. "Airbus is pleased that Tampa Cargo will be the first in the region to benefit from the exceptional economics that the A330-200F offers."
Notable economic benefits for Tampa Cargo include operational commonality with the A330-200 passenger aircraft of which the airline has ordered 10 aircraft. Benefiting from the technical superiority, its outstanding operational reliability and the success of the passenger version, the A330-200F is the world's most modern mid-size freighter which can carry 70 tonnes of payload, with a range capability of up to 4,000nm. This will allow the airline to serve both regional and intercontinental destinations.
In the current market situation with fluctuating demand and dominated by old and less fuel efficient large aircraft, the mid-size freighter A330-200F is the clear way to secure sustained profitability. To date, 15 of these A330 freighters are flying with six operators worldwide.
AviancaTaca has purchased a total of 190 Airbus aircraft and has a backlog of almost 80 aircraft. Overall Airbus has sold more than 750 aircraft throughout Latin America and the Caribbean and currently holds a backlog that exceeds 370. In the last 10 years, Airbus tripled its in-service fleet in the region, while delivering more than 60 percent of all aircraft operating there.
The Airbus Foundation, AviancaTaca and Tampa Cargo seized this delivery to ship teddy bears as part of a charitable Christmas initiative. Destined to bring smiles to underprivileged children in Colombia, the more than 1000 stuffed toys were donated by Airbus employees from France, Germany and the UK with help from Aviation Sans Frontières, an Airbus Foundation partner for the past four years.


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New UH Research Focuses on the Teenage Mind
How teens think and whether their thoughts might indicate a personality disorder is the focus of a new research study led by Carla Sharp, associate professor in clinical psychology and director of the Developmental Psychopathology Lab at the University of Houston (UH).
The study covers a two-year period and investigates the relationship between borderline personality disorder traits and "hypermentalizing" in 111 adolescent between the ages of 12 to 17. Mentalizing refers to the ability to infer and attribute thoughts and feelings to understand and predict another person's behavior. Hypermentalizing is excessive, inaccurate mentalizing.
"Why does someone with borderline personality disorder key a car, if doing so will not lead to good consequences? What compels her make that decision?" Sharp said. "I am trying to understand the development of the disorder and what happens in the brain, and what happens in the minds of these children as they develop to put them on a different trajectory compared to their peers."
The study's results can be used to improve early intervention, treatment and identification of borderline personality disorders in adolescents. Sharp says that can refine strategies for treatment, such as putting the breaks on hypermentalizing and encouraging the patient to stick to the facts.
The Child and Family Program at the Menninger Clinic awards Sharp as the research director of the Adolescent Treatment Program about $250,000 annually per year to conduct the program's research as its principal investigator.
The project, "Theory of Mind and Emotion Regulation Difficulties in Adolescents with Borderline Traits," was featured on the cover of the June edition of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
"Borderline personality disorder is a condition in which people have long-term patterns of unstable or turbulent emotions about themselves and others," Sharp said. "These inner experiences often cause them to take impulsive actions and have chaotic relationships."
Indications of borderline personality disorder include: excessive anger, affective instability, a clear pattern of self-harm over two years, such as burning, cutting, suicide attempts, abandonment fears, relationship problems, significant impulsivity, drinking alcohol, drug abuse, eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia and overeating, and participating in illegal activities.
"Clinicians have been reluctant to diagnose borderline personality disorder in adolescence because there is the notion that personality is not fully developed in childhood and adolescence," said Sharp. "We know that the brain is only fully developed by age 25, so how can we diagnose a personality disorder in someone if they don't have a fully developed brain yet?"
Her research, however, found that children and teens have stable patterns of interaction with others and that parents or guardians can describe their kids in terms that remain stable over time.
"Teens do not wake up at 19 and have a personality disorder on the first day of their 19th year, so there must be some precursors to the disorders," Sharp said. "There's been a group of people, including myself, advocating that we not necessarily diagnose borderline personality disorder in adolescence, but that we assess for it to make sure that we don't miss these children."
To arrive at these conclusions, the research team used the "Movie for the Assessment of Cognition (MASC) tool to assess children's social cognition process. The youth watched 15-minute film clips, and, then, were asked to choose from our options a description of what the characters in the movie were feeling and thinking. Those options related to the categories of no mentalizing, less mentalizing, hypermentalizing or accurate mentalizing.
Through clinical interviews, the research team diagnosed 23 percent of the sample group as having borderline personality disorder. Those young people exhibited a higher frequency of hypermentalizing responses. The study also showed that individuals with borderline personality disorder misread people's thoughts, which would upset the adolescents, making emotion regulation more challenging and leading to an increase in borderline personality disorder symptoms.
"The danger of not recognizing the precursors of borderline personality disorder in adolescents is that it can lead to years of confusion and paid for family members and the individual with misdiagnosis and lack of appropriate treatment," Sharp said. "These families often go through years of assessment, and people might it's bipolar disorder, depression, conduct disorder or comorbidity."
Typically, it is not until a person is in his mid-'20s that he gets to the right treatment facility that diagnoses the cluster of symptoms experienced since youth, Sharp said.
"The next step is to try to do this work while neuroimaging the teen's brain, so that we can look at the biological correlates of this. Such research could potentially lead to pharmacological intervention in addition to the talk therapy," she said.
Sharp's research team included Department of Psychology teaching fellow Health Pane and research assistants Carolyn Ha and Amanda Venta. Collaborators included Amee Patel, Baylor College of Medicine; Jennifer Sturek, University of Virginia; and Peter Fonagy, University College London.
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See Beyoncé and Solange Back Together After the Infamous Elevator Video Leak
In the first time they've been seen together since the video leak, the sisters are all smiles on Instagram
Call it sisterly solidarity.
In the first time since the video leak of the now-infamous elevator fight with Jay-Z, Solange and Beyoncé were back together – and all smiles in a cozy photo Beyoncé posted on Instagram Saturday night.
Perhaps to avoid any confusion as to when the photo was taken, the star captioned her photo, "New Orleans May17th 2014."
But it's not Beyoncé's first public display of affection for her sister since the world saw Solange apparentely attack Bey's husband, Jay Z, in an elevator at a Met Gala after party. On Wednesday, the superstar posted several happy photos with her sister.
The family issued a public statement about the elevator footage on Thursday.
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Home-style pesto chicken pizza
IN a bid to get pizza lovers to try something new, Crust Gourmet Pizza Bars have just introduced nine daring new items to their already delicious menu.
Back by popular demand is the satay chicken pizza, joined by eight delicious items all available in store now, including the deliciously naughty rocky road calzone, hokey pokey calzone, cookies and cream dessert, chicken pesto club pizza, all-time favourite flavour peri-peri chicken in a calzone form, vegetarian calzone, prosciutto wraps and herb and garlic ciabatta.
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Pesto Chicken Pizza
Pizza Dough
- Makes 3-4 balls of dough, about 30cm pizza.
- 350ml lukewarm water
- 2g fresh yeast
- 750g unbleached flour
- 20g sea salt
- 100g chicken breast fillet (sliced)
- 3 tbsp cajun seasoning (for chicken)
- ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
- ½ cup pizza sauce
- 1 cup mozzarella
- 80g prosciutto sliced
- ½ small spanish onion
- 1 roma tomato
- ½ sliced avocado
- ½ clove of crushed garlic
- 2 tbsp basil pesto
- 2 tbsp whole egg mayonnaise
PREHEAT fan-forced oven to 275°C.
Put water in mix bowl, add yeast and mix until cloudy, add flour, for best results, sift but not necessary. It's a good idea to keep extra 250g of flour to add, in case runny.
Hand mix until combined.
Place warm, damp tea towel over dough and place in bowl to allow proper rising. After 30 minutes, cut and portion by rolling into balls and cover. Leave overnight to sit. Or for immediate use, place warm damp tea towel over rolled dough balls for 1-3 hours in room temperature.
Roll out dough ball using pin, making sure flour is dusted to prevent sticking, place rolled base on the underside of a bake pan then slide onto oiled pan.
Spike pizza base with fork. Line pizza base with pizza sauce leaving a 10mm rim from the edge.
Sprinkle the rest of the mozzarella evenly over everything. Place cooked marinated chicken breast fillets evenly across pizza. Lay the prosciutto in between. Top with thin sliced tomato and onion. Then lightly sprinkle garlic and the rest of the mozzarella cheese.
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Andesăn´dēz [key], mountain system, more than 5,000 mi (8,000 km) long, W South America. The ranges run generally parallel to the Pacific coast and extend from Tierra del Fuego northward, across the equator, as the backbone of the entire continent. The Falkland Islands are a continuation of the Andes, and evidence shows that the system is continued in Antarctica. The Andes go through seven South American countries— Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.
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Joe Finley
Edina Minnesota
Eligible for draft:
Free agent signing, 2011
250 lbs.
Prospect Talent Score
Probability of Success
2003-04: Joe Finley scored 3 goals with 11 assists in 14 games for Edina HS in Minnesota as a junior.
2004-05: Finley joined the Sioux Falls Stampede in the USHL, foregoing his final season of high school hockey. He scored 3 goals with 10 assists and was -18 with a team-leading 181 PIM in 55 games. Two of his three goals came on the power play. He was a member of Team World in the 2005 USHL Prospects/All-Star game in February.
2005-06: As a freshman with the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux he quickly established himself as one of the team's most reliable defenders. Finley made his NCAA debut on October 8 and appeared in 43 games. He had 3 assists and tied for fifth on the team with a +18 plus/minus with 96 PIM. Finley fractured his arm during a mid-season game and missed two games. The Fighting Sioux, after finishing fourth in the regular season, rolled through the WCHA tournament and beat St. Cloud State, 5-3, in the championship game and then advanced to the Frozen Four before falling to Boston College, 6-5.
2006-07: Finley topped the Fighting Sioux with a +19 plus/minus and played in 41 of 43 games in his sophomore season as North Dakota finished third in the WCHA. Finley's only goal of the season came on January 6 on the power play and was the game-winner in a 2-1 win at Colorado College. He had 3 assists in the Fighting Sioux's 7-2 win over St. Cloud State on March 3 in the final game of the regular season and finished with 1 goal and 6 assists with 72 PIM. North Dakota reached the championship game of the WCHA tournament, falling 3-2 in overtime to Minnesota. A week later, they defeated the Gophers in the NCAA West regional final by that same score, also in overtime. Boston College defeated North Dakota in a Frozen Four semifinal.
2007-08: Finley played in all 43 games as North Dakota finished second in the WCHA during the regular season and reached the NCAA Frozen Four for the third consecutive year. Finley was second to partner Chay Genoway among Sioux defensemen with four goals. He also had 11 assists and was +25 with 79 PIM. Finley was named to the WCHA All-Academic team.
2008-09: Finley missed over two months at the start of the year due to a concussion and finished with 2 goals and 8 assists and was +4 with 56 PIM in 27 games as the Fighting Sioux captured the WCHA regular season title. Finley scored a power play goal and had 3 assists in North Dakota's 8-3 win over eventual runner-up Denver on January 23. After losing just two games down the stretch following the Great Lakes Invitational holiday tournament, the Fighting Sioux lost three-straight in the post-season, falling to UM-D and Wisconsin in the WCHA semifinal and consolation games, respectively, and then dropping a 6-5 overtime contest to New Hampshire in the NCAA Northeast regional semifinals. Finley joined Washington's AHL affiliate Hersey following the NCAA tournament and made his pro debut on April 12. He was +1 for the game and got in his first pro fight with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton tough guy Paul Bissonnette. He was with the Bears but did not see any game action in their Calder Cup championship run.
2009-10: The Capitals experimented with converting Finley to a winger during camp before he was demoted to ECHL South Carolina, where he returned to his natural defense position. Finley appeared in just 15 games for the Stingrays before suffering a deep tissue hand injury that required season-ending surgery. Finley had an assist and also fought Wheeling's Thomas Harrison in his first ECHL game on October 16. Finley's first pro goal came in the third period against Gwinnett on October 24 to tie the game at three in a game the Stingrays would win, 4-3. Finley finished the season with 1 goal and 3 assists and was +1 with 43 PIM which included 3 fighting majors.
2010-11: Finley opened the season with AHL Hershey after attending camp with the Capitals. He was demoted to ECHL South Carolina after seven games; finishing plus-five with 1 assist and 15 penalty minutes during his time with the Bears. Finley missed the majority of the ECHL season with a lower body injury. In 26 games for South Carolina he scored 1 goal with 7 assists and was minus-three with 73 penalty minutes. Finley played in all four games in the Stingrays' first round playoff series with Wheeling and was plus-two with 10 penalty minutes.
2011-12: Invited to Buffalo's training camp after not being tendered an offer by the Capitals, Finley was assigned to the Sabres' AHL Rochester affiliate and in November signed a three-year contract with Buffalo. Finley made his NHL debut on December 2nd and skated in three games with the Sabres before returning to Rochester. He later appeared in two January games with Buffalo. In five NHL games he was minus-three with no points and 12 penalty minutes; averaging just under eight minutes of ice time per game. In 57 AHL games he led the Amerks with 143 penalty minutes and was plus-seven with 1 goal and 5 assists. Rochester finished second in the North Division. Finley was minus-three with no points or penalty minutes in the three-game playoff series with the Toronto Marlies.
Talent Analysis
At 6'8" and 250 pounds, Finley stands as one of the largest players in all of professional hockey. Although his skating was somewhat of an issue at the time he was drafted, he has improved in that area to the extent that he would be a capable skater in the NHL. Injuries have stunted Finley's development in recent seasons, with the Washington Capitals electing to pass on re-signing the big defenseman. Assuming his future is at defense, Finley is most likely to be effective as a defensive defenseman with some toughness.
Finley was claimed off of waivers by the New York Islanders following the end of the NHL lockout.


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Advisors are always looking for alpha on behalf of their clients, but they're also–especially since the 2008-2009 crisis–focused more on risk management since at a minimum they don't want their clients to lose money.
If they're going to pick managers to run their clients' money, they also want to know those managers well, and want to make sure that their clients' investments are liquid. Moreover, if an asset class is not correlated with the overall markets, that's a significant advantage, too, in building an asset allocation for clients.
At a press conference in New York on Tuesday, the benefits of '40 Act managed futures mutual funds were on display. Speakers Jon Sundt, Greg Anderson and Dave Kavanagh argued that advisors who allocate some portion of their clients' portfolios to such funds will generate alpha–especially "crisis alpha," said Sundt, the CEO of Altegris–while managing risk, all wrapped up in a non-correlating asset class. Since the vehicle for delivering those value-adds is in a mutual fund, advisors can also see what the fund is holding, even if in aggregate.
Sundt (left) defined "crisis alpha" as the ability to generate returns at a time of crisis, and cited 20 years worth of data from his firm's Altegris 40 index of top commodity trading advisors (CTAs) to prove the point. During the tech wreck of the early 2000s, he said the index was up 40%. It outperformed well during the credit crisis of 2008, and while 2011 was not a good year for managed futures over all, they did perform well during last year's "summer shock."
"Investors are hungry for managers who can make money in rising and falling markets," he said. The Altegris 40 index, he reported, has "better risk-adjusted returns by a long shot over the past 10 years," though it is important to remember that the "biggest risk" with managed futures is that you can lose money," so end clients must be carefully educated on their expectations.
The gathering was sponsored by Gemini Fund Services, which, according to Eddie Lund, VP of business development, currently administers some 225 mutual funds, half of them in the alternatives space.
Introducing the three men, Tim Selby, a partner at Alston & Bird in New York, called managed futures "the quintessential hedge funds" for their ability to manage risk, while Anderson (below), CIO of Princeton Fund Advisors, said that managed futures belong in every portfolio, but since you can lose money on them, for those clients who can't accept the downside of managed futures, he said "we allocate managed futures to risk capital." Being able to go long and short in 150 different markets, Anderson said, make it one of the best tools to manage risk.
Sundt pointed out that while most long managers "predict the future," most managed futures managers "react to price movement," and won't try to predict where interest rates are headed or what the price of oil will be. "Managed futures is a waiting game," Sundt said, "for trends to develop." Anderson agreed that most CTAs are trend followers in the intermediate time frame," though there are some CTAs who are more fundamentals-based and are thus "more predictive." But he suggested that one of the benefits of trend following is that "it takes the emotions out of investing."
Sundt said that while "It's not hard to understand how managed futures work," it's more difficult to "understand when you're in a trend." That's where having access to the best CTAs is so important, he says. Yes, gaining access to those managers, such as the managed futures-fixed income mutual fund Altegris launched with Jeffrey Gundlach and London's Winton Capital Partners, is expensive, but he argued that "it's talent worth paying for."
In a separate conversation, Sundt said that advisors understand that those managers "come with a price," but also that many clients of advisors would not be able to meet the minimums of a private placement with the likes of Gundlach or Wilton. There's another benefit of having those managers in a mutual fund, Sundt said: since the holdings of the managers are aggregated for mutual fund reporting purposes, the individual managers "are protected from public scrutiny " on their specific holdings, while the advisor can see those aggregate holdings. "We net their holding with all the other managers" in the fund, he said.
Moreover, he said, "advisors like the liquidity of a '40 Act fund," and that expenses on a fund can sometime be lower, all while gaining access to those top managers.
Kavanagh (left), founder and CEO of Chicago-based Grant Park Funds, said that "cost becomes an issue in the absence of value," and pointed out that while those managers might be expensive, to get those fees in subsequent years, the manager has to get above his high-water mark in returns. He suggested that managed futures should be a "core part" of your portfolio, partly because they are "the quintessential diversifier." An allocation of 5% to 15% of a client's portfolio would be prudent he said, especially if that portfolio already includes a "long-term interest in fixed income or equities."
Summing up, Kavanagh said that from a risk-reward vantage point, "there's never been a better time than now to get into managed futures."
Long-time AdvisorOne blogger and Investment Advisor contributor Ben Warwick's own managed futures mutual fund was profiled by editor John Sullivan in the January 2012 issue of Investment Advisor.


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Latest Human Development Index shows overall slowdown in growthJul 24, 2014
In 16 countries human development levels for women are equal or higher than those for men according to the new Gender Development Index
Tokyo, 24 July 2014 — Levels in human development continue to rise – yet the pace has slowed for all regions and progress has been highly uneven, according to the latest Human Development Index (HDI) included in the 2014 Human Development Report "Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience", published today by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The lower human development groups appear to be improving at a higher rate – grounds for optimism that the gap between higher and lower human development groups is narrowing.
Zimbabwe, for example, experienced the biggest improvement in HDI due to a significant increase in life expectancy – 1.8 years from 2012 to 2013, almost quadruple the average global increase.
Meanwhile, the rankings remain unchanged at both ends of the HDI. Norway, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands and United States remain in the lead for another year, while Sierra Leone, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Niger continue to rank bottom of the list.
Despite overall gains in human development, progress in all regions decelerated over 2008–2013 compared to 2000–2008. In the Arab States, Asia and the Pacific region, and Latin America and the Caribbean, average annual growth rate in HDI dropped by about half when comparing these periods.
The steepest declines in HDI values this year occurred in Central African Republic, Libya and Syria, where ongoing conflict contributed to a drop in incomes.
This year's Report presents HDI values for 187 countries, and is the first index to use the latest International Comparison Program's conversion rates of national currencies to purchasing power parity, released by the World Bank in May 2014.
Income inequality continues to grow and education remains persistently unequal
The 2014 Report reveals that overall inequality has declined slightly in most regions, as measured by the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI). This has been driven mainly by improvements in health in recent years.
However, inequality in income has risen in several regions, including among very high human development countries. Despite registering the biggest drop in overall inequality this year, the Latin America and Caribbean region maintains the global high-water mark in income inequality.
And high disparities in education persist. The Report shows that older generations continue to struggle with illiteracy, while younger ones are having difficulty making the leap from primary to secondary schooling. The highest levels of education inequality are found in South Asia, the Arab States and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The IHDI, calculated for 145 countries, shows that the lowest levels of inequality are to be found in Norway, Finland, and Czech Republic.
When ranked by the IHDI, some countries rank lower than when ranked by the HDI.
In United States, Gross National Income (GNI) per capita is higher than in Canada. But when the GNI is adjusted for inequality, the reverse becomes true. Similarly, Botswana, Brazil and Chile have large adjustments to GNI per capita due to high inequality.
In 16 countries female HDI values are equal or higher than those for males
The new Gender Development Index (GDI), which for the first time measures the gender gap in human development achievements for 148 countries, reveals that in 16 of them (Argentina, Barbados, Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine and Uruguay), female HDI values are equal or higher than those for males. For some of these countries, this may be attributed to higher female educational achievement; for others, to a significantly longer female life expectancy - over five years longer than that of males.
Afghanistan, where the human development index for females is only 60 percent of that for males, is the most unequal country.
Worldwide, female HDI values are eight percent lower than those for males, with large variations between countries. However, the GDI shows that the disparity between genders in the estimated gross national income per capita is very high: per capita income for men at the global level is more than double that for women.
Updates on other human development indices
The Gender Inequality Index (GII) shows an overall decline. However, despite improvements in health, and incremental progress on education and parliamentary representation, women's empowerment is still lagging. Slovenia ranks most favourably on this index, while Yemen shows the highest gender inequality.
UNDP's Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) shows deprivations are declining overall, but large numbers of people – some 1.5 billion in the 91 developing countries surveyed – are still multidimensionally poor, and close to 800 million are at risk of falling into poverty if setbacks occur, whether financial, environmental or otherwise.
South Asia has the largest multidimensionally poor population, with more than 800 million poor and over 270 million near-poor – that is, more than 71 percent of its population. This makes the region home to 56 percent of the world's poor and more than 35 percent of the world's near-poor.
UNDP is committed to full transparency. The computer programmes needed for the MPI estimation for each country are now publicly available on its web site.
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CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former member of Iran's nuclear negotiating team, about Iranian President-Elect Hassan Rouhani, with whom Mousavian has worked closely.
He is gay that bring hope to the iranian society after 8 years of dark hopeless ahmadinejad period . He has good relationship with government while he wants to have good relationship with world . Believe me that calling iran as the axis of evil is useless and push iran to be really on axis of evil . We hope that politicians of western countries cooperate with him and bring back iran to the family . Isolated iran is much more dangerous than north korea . Iran is may be not a good son inthe world family but you shouldnt leave him with bad friends and push him to become criminal .
"Isolated iran is much more dangerous than north korea"
Dangrous to whom?
Neither of the countries have attacked any other coutries in this century. The USA and their friends and allies have started wars of aggression against Iraq and Afgahnistan, and keep attacking other countries with "drones". And they foment instability and internal conflicts in other countries under the slogans of promotion of freedom and democracy. They are not merely "dangerous", they are actively causing deaths and destuction around the world.
So, why Iran and NK are such a big threat? Or are they mere victims of the US bullying?
Is it not the US aggressive bahavior that needs to be stopped?
Iran's influence is becoming pervasive amongst its neighbors and that influence is being directed not by Rouhani. It's about Khamenei. As the Supreme Leader, his word is final over all national security and foreign policy matters. The President's portfolio mostly covers internal security and economic issues (neither of which the previous President Ahmadinejad was very good at). The opportunity to open up a line of dialogue with Rouhani is worthwhile, but of little value unless he exhibits the ability to beak from Khamenei without getting sent to house arrest like Khatami. This of course assumes he's even interested in that considering his 30 plus year career in the Islamist state includes stints as head of security, military policy and nuclear issues. The track record moving forward doesn't look great either considering since his election, Iran has stepped up the pace of public executions with over 10 hangings in public squares. We certainly HOPE there is a chance here, but it's always one of those things that you can't just build a foreign policy on hope, but tough negotiating and concrete results. Let's hope there is more to Rouhani than a genial smile so that issues like Syria can get resolved without all of the foreign powers actually taking up arms and making this little regional conflict spread into a global conflict.
That's not the point, US should accept Iran's influence and try to make a deal with Iran (not with Rouhani but by Iran)
It is debilitating if you project the trijectory of Iran


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Last December, in my post, "Obama purges U.S. Command, Part 1," I wrote:
Within two months after the Benghazi attack, four senior U.S. military officers were purged:
- Gen. Carter Ham, on October 18.
- Adm. Charles Gaouette, on October 27.
- Gen. David Petraeus, on November 9.
- Gen. John Allen, on November 13.
Ostensibly, Petraeus' "retirement" and Allen's suspended promotion are due to both men's moral conduct. But surely we are not so naive as to think that Petraeus and Allen are the only U.S. military officers who've ever committed adultery or written flirtatious email. As for Ham's "retirement" and Gaouette's "temporary re-assignment" (reassignment to what?), there is not even a whisper that either man's morals or personal conduct is at issue.
So what should we make of all this? Is it all just coincidence or something more sinister?
Ann Barnhardt, in her blog of Nov. 13, 2012, didn't hesitate to call the purges, Obama's "night of the long knives" — a reference to the last step in Hitler's quest for total, dictatorial power. On June 30, 1934, the Fuhrer purged the German military of any factions that were in any way autonomous and not 100% loyal to him.
Now add to the above list of four, Marine Corps General James Mattis (above), who has served in the U.S. military for 40 years and is widely revered by rank-and-file Marines for his blunt talk and leadership.
Three weeks after the purge of Gen. Allen came news that four-star Gen. Mattis was told to vacate his office several months earlier than planned, in March 2013, that is, this month. On Dec. 6, 2012, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that Mattis would be replaced by Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, the vice chief of staff for the Army, subject of course to Senate confirmation.
Gen. James Mattis, 62, is only the head of the most important command of the entire U.S. military — that of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM).
Before replacing David Petraeus on August 11, 2010, as Commander of CENTCOM, Mattis previously had commanded United States Joint Forces Command from November 9, 2007 to August 2010; served concurrently as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Transformation from November 9, 2007 to September 8, 2009; and commanded I Marine Expeditionary Force, United States Marine Forces Central Command, and 1st Marine Division during the Iraq War.
The United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) is a theater-level Unified Combatant Command of the U.S. Department of Defense, established in 1983. Its area of responsibility includes countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, most notably Afghanistan and Iraq. CENTCOM has been the main American presence in many military operations, including the Persian Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan (2001–present), and the Iraq War. Forces from CENTCOM currently are deployed primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan in combat roles and have bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Pakistan, and central Asia in support roles.
Writing for Foreign Policy on Jan. 18, 2013, self-described "fan of President Obama" Thomas E. Ricks claims that the "word on the national security street is that General James Mattis is being given the bum's rush out of his job as commander of Central Command" because he rubbed civilian officials the wrong way" on the Obama regime's policy toward Iran.
Reportedly, "tough-minded realist "Mattis "pushed the civilians … hard on considering the second- and third-order consequences of military action against Iran" with questions such as: What do you do with Iran once the nuclear issue is resolved and it remains a foe? What do you do if Iran then develops conventional capabilities that could make it hazardous for U.S. Navy ships to operate in the Persian Gulf?
But Mattis' questions and plea for prudence were "not welcomed" by the White House.
Obama-fan Thomas Ricks points out that, in dismissing Gen. Mattis, "The message the Obama Administration is sending, intentionally or not, is that it doesn't like tough, smart, skeptical generals who speak candidly to their civilian superiors. In fact, that is exactly what it (and every administration) should want. Had we had more back in 2003, we might not have made the colossal mistake of invading Iraq. […] But I am at the point where I don't trust his national security team. They strike me as politicized, defensive and narrow. These are people who will not recognize it when they screw up, and will treat as enemies anyone who tells them they are doing that. And that is how things like Vietnam get repeated."
Ricks also warns that the Obama regime "now have dissed the two Marine generals who are culture heroes in today's Corps: Mattis and Anthony Zinni. The Marines have long memories."
Today's Drudge Report is replete with ominous headlines about Iran:
'Challenging moment with great risks'...
Obama 'not bluffing' over military threat...
Netanyahu: 'Red line'...
TOP GENERAL: Nuclear Iran will trigger arms race in Middle East...
Kissinger: Nuke crisis close...
Clock Runs...
Changing the leadership of CENTCOM just as the confrontation with Iran heats up is not just bad timing, but rash and imprudent.
See also "Obama purges US military command (Part 2)," Dec. 4, 2012.


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Capitol Hill (CNN) – The nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense has hit a snag. Not just by questions about the former senator, the attack in Benghazi, and partisan politics. It's also caught on what may be a massive shift in the balance of power between Congress and the President.
[:23] Don Ritchie, historian of the U.S. Senate says, "Since WWII, at least, the executive branch has taken over a great deal of power…And Congress has sort of felt that they've lost in this process."
To wrest power back to the legislative branch, Ritchie says Congress has employed a number of means, with the blocking of presidential nominations in the Senate at the top of the list.
Nominees could not be blocked by filibuster, or cloture, votes until 1949, but even after that the move was rare. It happened only 11 times in the next 43 years, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Then, it suddenly took off, with Republicans forcing cloture votes on 19 nominees during the Clinton administration. Democrats returned, and expanded on, the favor with 38 cloture votes on President George W. Bush's nominees.
The vast majority of those were blocks or threatened blocks on judges or lower-level nominees. But Thursday's vote was a first. Never before had a cabinet nominee failed a cloture vote.
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I reason there is controversy is that President Obama is a Democrat and won't bow down to what the Republicians want I just seems rediculous to me. The President nominates a Republican, one who actually served in the Military and the reason they give not to nominate him is his views on Israel. we should no endorse the invasion of Palistine.
You reap what you sow. There will be a Republican president again, and since Congress is made up of little kids, the Democrats will repay the favor and then Republicans will cry foul. The questions being asked of Chuck Hagel have absolutely nothing to with the position of Secretary of Defense. Not once was he questioned about the defense cuts, the draw down in Afghanistan, the plight of returning soldiers, etc. This is all posturing on the part of Republicans and it is shameful.
Jesus said to his own disciple,all who take the sword perish with the
sword,and Jesus sent out his disciples without swords to spread his Gospel,and
Jesus said he fulfills all the prophets,and that would include the prophet
Isaiah,and so Isaiah 2:4,he will Judge nations and rebuke people,and they'll
beat their swords into plowshares,and practice war no more.Jesus was consistent
on this throughout,and he meant this for all people,believers and non believers
alike.Believers have even more of a responsibility to obey him,as they as
Christians must set a good example for the world to follow,they are to listen to
their conscience it is God speaking to them.The sword Jesus rules with is the
word of God,not the guns and bombs of wars that destroy life.
The Republicans have poked Obama in the eye. So now all of their concerns have been answered and Hagel's confirmation will happen when the Senate returns in a few days. Baloney, nothing new has come out other than Hagel grovelling in order to get confirmed. Hagel's past statements are on the record. What good is his word if he doesn't stick to it?


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I couldn't find the words to respond to the appearance of that most unacceptable of racial slurs in a random game of Letterpress on my iPhone this weekend. Luckily I found the right letters.
Letterpress is an iOS word game in which friends or total strangers can take turns using a set amount of letters to spell out words. Once checked against the game's dictionary, the player's word is registered, taking possession of any unclaimed letters in the grid. The game ends when all letters are claimed, with the player owning the most winning.
This random game really should have ended after the racial slur showed up on my screen, but I saw an opportunity and went for it. I ended up losing the game anyway.
I'm not saying that friends shouldn't be able to write any words they wish to each other, no matter how insensitive. I'm just saying that perhaps the word restrictions should be a little bit more stringent when playing against random players, so I don't have to deal with this bullshit.


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DENVER — Ryan Miller stopped 26 shots, and David Backes broke up a scoreless game in the second period, helping the St. Louis Blues beat the surging Colorado Avalanche 2-1 Saturday in a Central Division showdown.
Patrik Berglund added a pivotal insurance goal early in the third period as the Blues won their fourth straight.
Colorado finally solved Miller midway through the final period when P.A. Parenteau lifted a shot over him while he was trying for his first shutout in nearly two years. Miller is 4-0 since being acquired from Buffalo.
Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon had his point streak snapped at 13 games. It is the NHL's longest streak by an 18-year-old player.
Miller withstood a furious rally by the Avalanche in the final two minutes after they pulled goalie Semyon Varlamov.
The division-leading Blues are five points ahead of Colorado.
St. Louis also improved to a league-best 17-0-1 in division games. The Blues have outscored the Avs 13-5 in taking all three games in the season series. The teams will meet again on April 5 in St. Louis.
This was a frustrating afternoon for the Avalanche as their four-game winning streak was halted. Early on, they couldn't sneak anything past Miller, even hitting the post twice. They also lost one of their top offensive players when Paul Stastny went out with a back injury after his opening shift.
Berglund gave St. Louis a 2-0 cushion at 3:53 of the final period when he gobbled up the puck down low, spun and lined it over the glove of Varlamov.
Moments later, Parenteau beat Miller after receiving a pass from Matt Duchene.
With 6:05 remaining, Gabriel Landeskog had a chance to tie it after getting loose in front, but Miller rose up to stop it.
St. Louis made it 1-0 at 7:03 of the second period on a play set up by a long pass from defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk, who has thrived against his former team since he was traded three years ago.
Deep in his own end, Shattenkirk sent a pass to T.J. Oshie, who, as he was falling down, slid the puck to Backes. From there, Backes guided the puck past Varlamov's left skate.
Shattenkirk has four goals and five assists in 12 games against Colorado.
Both teams had a failed power play in the first period and eight shots. Miller had the save of the period when he stopped a point-blank shot from Parenteau with his left shoulder.
At one point, Colorado's Patrick Bordeleau made his way back to the bench following a big hit, and was pushed by Barret Jackman, then by Ryan Reaves and finally by Maxim Lapierre in a comical scene.
NOTES: Blues coach Ken Hitchcock tied Ron Wilson for seventh place on the NHL career wins list with 648. … Miller has stopped 84 of 90 shots since his arrival in St. Louis. … Colorado had 13 of its 27 shots in the final period.


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