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Versioning an existing database using SQL Source Control
Bob Walker describes how his team brings an existing database under version control using SQL Source Control.
A while ago, maintaining a reliable database change history was an ongoing problem within our development team. It seemed we were forever asking questions such as "Who made this change?", "When was the stored procedure last edited?", "When was this view created?", and so on. Our initial approach was simply to store a list of all database changes in a Word document! I cannot count the number of times we forgot to update that document and missed an important component. As a result, pushing changes to production was often a time-consuming and error-prone task.
None of this was a problem with our C# or JavaScript code because it was all under version control, so the answer seemed simple: get the database in version control too! Finding the right solution was harder. It had to support Git, it had to integrate with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), the tool almost every developer in the company uses to query SQL Server, and it had to be easy to set up.
After some evaluation, we chose Redgate's SQL Source Control. It met all our criteria and the first time I used it, I had my database under version control in under five minutes, without resorting to the manual for help. Nevertheless, getting database version control set up and running on your own laptop is one thing. Reaching the point where every development team is ready to use it is another. I had to learn some hard lessons in order to move from evaluation to company-wide adoption at Farm Credit Services of America. Something new would come up each time a team started using the tool.
This article describes a few of the important planning considerations, and then provides a simple walkthrough of how our team brings an existing database under version control using SQL Source Control.
Planning for database version control
Before embarking on database version control, aka database versioning, the team of course needs to consider the practicalities: which version control system would suit them best, which databases need to come under version control and what that entails, whether each developer works on their own local, dedicated copy of the database, or all developers use one shared database, and so on.
In my experience, these are two of the most important initial steps to get right:
- Reconciling schema differences in existing versions of a database, prior to version control
- Making the right choice between the shared and dedicated database development models
I'll only cover these two considerations in this article but the team also need to think about how they can coordinate their development efforts once the database is under version control, how they will build and deploy new databases from version control, how to automate these processes, which branching strategy will best support their database deployments, upgrades, bug fixes and so on. You can find a good discussion of broader database versioning strategies and challenges in the eBook, SQL Server Source Control Basics.
Reconciling schema differences
Before you even think of putting a database under version control, you need to reconcile all the schema differences between each environment.
Once a database is in version control, the build scripts that define the state of each database object, for a given database version, become the 'truth center' for that database. If you've not reconciled the environments properly, and a mission-critical table exists in one environment but its DDL script is not in version control, the next time you deploy to the environment, you risk that object being wiped out. Deleted. So, let me say this again, because this is the most important step:
Reconcile all schema differences between each environment before putting a database under version control.
When I first put a legacy application's database under version control, I could not believe the differences I found between environments. Test tables existed in development. Column properties existed in development and test but not production. Views existed in production but not in development.
The hard part in this situation is determining which environment should be the environment of record. The production environment seems like the obvious choice, but we often had many database changes sitting in our final testing environment, fully tested but waiting to be deployed. Generally, therefore, I chose Test as the environment of record, and made sure all other environments matched it, in terms of schema and static data, using SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare. Having done this, you're then ready to get that instance of the database put under version control.
Choosing between the shared and dedicated models
You have two choices, dedicated or shared. Shared means everyone uses the same database on the same server, while dedicated means each developer has their own copy of the database running locally. Shared is a great place to start because it lowers the barrier to entry due to the lower setup time, and the fact that a DBA can be responsible for all the configuration changes of which most developers are not even aware, such as security and file groups. That said, I recommend the dedicated model (as does Redgate) because it offers many benefits:
- Schema changes and code changes (C#, JavaScript) go hand-in-hand. This allows developers to get all the schema changes needed (table changes, stored procedures, views, functions, and so on) working locally before pushing them out.
- Branching strategies are supported. A shared model only supports one branch, the master. With shared, you better hope all new changes made to your database are non-breaking changes or you will have issues. In one case, one pair of developers were making a change to the UI code, while another pair were renaming a database column. The rename took five seconds, the code changes took a few hours. Without the new UI code in place, the column rename operation brought down anyone who was pointing their local code to that database. It should have all been done in a branch.
- Local data can be messed up. If I mess up my database, no one but me cares. I can easily recover by recopying data using SQL Data Compare or restoring from a backup. I don't hurt anybody but myself or waste anyone else's time.
Demo: version controlling AdventureWorks using SQL Source Control
Having taken care of the preliminaries, the actual process of version controlling an existing database, for a given team, involves the following steps
- Add the database to the master branch in version control
- Install SQL Server on each developer machine
- Set up the database on each developer machine (using database creation scripts)
- Bring changes down from version control and apply them to each development database
For this demo, I'll assume you have SQL Source Control installed (I'm using version 5.2), and we'll put the
AdventureWorks2014 under version control. The version control system in this case is Git. I've put the project up on GitHub if you would like to see what everything looks like before getting started.
Step 1: Add database to version control
Let's say you've established the
AdventureWorks2014 database that you want to put into version control (such as the one in the test environment), and you've reconciled any schema differences in other environments.
Make one developer responsible for this initial step of getting the chosen database into the version control master branch. I saw one project where three developers had attempted to do this independently. The results were … interesting.
In step 4, later, I'll show how all other developers can subsequently pull down the changes from master.
Link to version control system or to working folder?
If you right-click on the database you want to put under version control,
AdventureWorks2014 in this case, and select Link database to source control…, SQL Source Control will open up and you'll immediately need to choose between linking directly to the version control system, or linking instead to a working folder.
If you are using TFS or SVN then direct version control integration with SQL Source Control will work just fine. However, Git is rather unique because of the way it handles branches, and SQL Source Control doesn't yet fully support some of the Git functionality like complex merge conflicts. Critically, for us, there is no way to see easily all pending changes (C# and database) not checked into Git. We store our application source code (C#, JavaScript) in the same repository, right alongside the database. This is key for us because it means we can bundle all related changes into one commit.
As such, I recommend developers on my team use the "working folder" option (see Figure 1). By checking into the working folder, the developers can then follow their typical workflow, using their Git tool of choice to commit, update, push and pull those changes. It is treating the database just like C# or JavaScript code.
The next step is to specify the working folder location. The team should have agreed upfront on a folder structure for the version control repository (which of course the working folder will mirror). Our standard is as follows:
- GIT or Mercurial:
- All Others:
Enter the working folder location, and below that select the Shared database option, since we are establishing the database in the master branch of version control, to which all developers will have access. Subsequently, in step 5, all developers will link to this shared location, pull changes down to their local machines, and sync their local, dedicated databases.
Commit changes to the working folder
Click on the Commit button on the top menu, in order to commit all the changes to the working folder. SQL Source Control will present a list of all database objects that exist in the
AdventureWorks2014 database but not in the working folder, or that exist in both but are different. In this case, since the working folder is currently empty, you'll simply be reviewing the
CREATE scripts that will be created for each object in the working folder.
Select all the objects by checking the very top checkbox and hit Save changes.
The Commit screen should now register no changes to be committed to version control, and your working folder should look like that shown in Figure 4. SQL Source Control has generated the object creation script for all the tables and code objects in the database, automatically categorized according to object type.
You can now use your version control tool of choice to commit the changes to the local repository, and then push them to the remote master branch, where the rest of the team can access them. In this example, I am using Git as my version control system and GitKraken as my GUI.
Finally, if each developer will pull from here, in order to synchronize their own dedicated database, then you will want to unlink this database from source control.
From a developer's perspective, putting the tables and all database code objects into version control, along with any necessary static data (not covered in this article) is the major requirement. However, just bear in mind that SQL Server has a lot more components, such as ETL scripts, SQL Jobs, and so on, which you should also consider versioning. The ultimate objective is to be able to recreate a fully operational database system, at any version, just from what's in version control.
Step 2: Script local SQL Server setup
If you use the dedicated database model, each developer will need to install SQL Server on his or her local machine. For uniformity, I highly recommend creating a
.bat file that will perform the install. Microsoft provides some excellent documentation on how to do this. I recommend putting this in a shared location or in version control. The creation folder (
/[RootSourceControlFolder]/Database/[DatabaseName]/creation) works fine for this.
Step 3: Script database creation
To establish a local working copy of the
AdeventureWorks2014 database, synchronized with the master version control repository, each developer first needs to create an empty local copy of the database. SQL Source Control will not create the database creation scripts for you. It's a good idea to generate a basic database creation script in SSMS and then place it somewhere where all developers can access it, such as:
Each developer should open this script and run it.
Step 4: Synchronize local database with version control master
The final step is for each developer to synchronize their local database to the version control master branch. Having pulled from master (remote) to their local repo, and then updated their local working folder, each developer can then link their local database to this working folder.
The steps are very similar to those outlined earlier. Each developer will choose to link to a working folder, specify its location, but will choose the dedicated development model.
You will be prompted to get the latest changes and clicking on Get latest will reveal a list of changes that will synchronize the local database with the working folder.
Unfortunately, you'll be presented with a warning, shown in Figure 10. SQL Source Control (which uses the SQL Compare engine under the covers) wraps the synchronization script within a transaction, so that it can roll back all changes should something go wrong.
AdventureWorks uses a Full-Text Catalog and one of the quirks is that a full-index cannot be created in a transaction.
In this case, the
JobCandidate table has a full-text index to support full-text queries against the Resume column. As the warning indicates, SQL Compare will deploy the full text index changes after the transaction completes, but if changes to objects that reference that index are included in the transaction, then the synchronization script may fail.
If you click Acknowledge, the synchronization will fail, because the
uspSearchCandidateResumes stored procedure uses the full text index on this table to search within the candidate resumes.
There are a couple of ways around this sort of problem. If you have a lot of objects that reference a full-text index, you might just consider running the whole synchronization script outside a transaction. To do this, click Cancel instead of Acknowledge.
Go to the Setup menu, click Comparison options, check the Don't use transactions in Deployment scripts option, and then hit Save.
When you rerun Get latest, you'll receive a high-level warning about the lack of transactions, and advice to back up the database before you start (it's good advice!). Once the synchronization is complete, remember to re-enable transactions for deployment scripts.
An alternative, if there are only a few dependencies, is to exclude from the initial synchronization any objects that reference that full text index, in this case
On applying the changes, you'll receive the same warning, as shown in Figure 10, but this time the synchronization will succeed. When complete, the Get latest screen will report that
uspSearchCandidateResumes is the only object that exists in the working folder but not in the database. Simply run Apply changes a second time to complete the synchronization.
Smoothing the path to team adoption
Schedule a meeting and have the developers bring their laptops. When it was time for my team to start using the tool, I took two different approaches. My first was to send an email with step-by-step instructions. That had a 40% success rate. I ended up at a lot of developer's desks helping them set up. For the next database, I scheduled a meeting. The success rate shot up to 90%. When you schedule a meeting for the developers on the team, an ideal set of goals should be:
- Install SQL Server
- Install Redgate SQL Source Control
- Create their local databases, using database creation scripts
- Bring changes down from version control and apply them to the database
- Do test commits.
It takes about an hour to do all of this and by the time the developers walk out the room they should be able to make changes and check them in.
Getting our databases in version control has solved a lot of problems for us. We no longer wonder when a change was made or who made it. We know exactly what changes need to be deployed to production. And finally, it has allowed us to start making our database changes locally, which in turn has allowed us to adopt a modified version of the Gitflow branching strategy.
Redgate's SQL Source Control makes this all very easy. The hardest part is getting all the prep-work done. I have put multiple databases under version control, all with varying complexity, some with a few tables, and others with 100s of tables. It now takes me about a couple of hours to a day, from start to finish, with most of that work being prep-work.
If you'd like to know more about database deployments or .NET development, Bob Walker's blog is regularly updated with informative articles.
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Relevant for Secondary School teachers and students.
English is used in remarkably different ways around the world. Exploring that variation is an extremely effective tool towards understanding our own use of English. This lesson looks at some features of colloquial Singapore English.
In this activity we will examine some short extracts from novels. The idea is to look at the tense and aspect forms used, and think about how they are used to unfold the action of the story.
It was after supper, and I was reading and smoking at the table. Algie was playing patience and drumming a tattoo with his fingers, and Gus was outside checking on the dogs. Suddenly he burst in. 'Chaps! Outside, quick!'
In this resource we will practise using tense consistently and think about the effect of using past tense versus present tense in a story.
Look at the following short passages. For each one, identify where
the tense changes incorrectly, and then write a correct version which
continues with the tense used at the start of the passage.
In this lesson, students explore the features of texting language, from a linguistic perspective.
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In this lesson we ask students to think about variation in language - including reflections on their own language and the language around them.
In this activity we will look at suffixes which change adjectives and nouns into verbs. This process is a part of derivational morphology.
In this activity, students work through the criteria for identifying verbs.
In this lesson, students move beyond what is called the notional or semantic way of identifying verbs as 'doing words' to explore grammatical ways of identifying verbs. (You can listen to Bas Aarts discuss this.)
Which words do you think are verbs?
He played cricket with Charlie.
Is played a verb?
Is cricket a verb?
This lesson asks students to think about tense and aspect, what they mean, and how else we can communicate those meanings.
The teacher explains that today, we will be describing some pictures using language, and then drawing some pictures to describe language.
The girls are rehearsing a song.
Several boys were playing football.
Sally has studied French for three years.
John has been studying French for one hour.
In this lesson, students identify verbs in fictional extracts and discuss the value of choosing verbs carefully in their own writing.
Why do writers use some words and not others? This lesson looks at word choice options, both grammatical and semantic.
What word would you place in the blank slot?
Read this extract from a novel and think about the ways in which the writer has chosen specific words to convey his description.
My earliest memories are a confusion of hilly fields and dark, damp stables, and rats that scampered along the beams above my head. But I remember well enough the day of the horse sale. The terror of it stayed with me all my life.
From Michael Morpurgo, Warhorse
Wordle is a simple corpus tool which allows you to paste in text and create a 'word cloud' that displays the frequency of words by their relative size in a cloud.
What are the most frequently used words in English? And could we do without them?
Englicious contains many resources for English language in schools, but the vast majority of them require you to register and log in first. For more information, see What is Englicious?


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According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), each year in August the Swift-Tuttle comet puts on a brilliant show. When the Earth plows into its wake, tiny bits of debris left behind from the comet slam into our atmosphere at 132,000 miles per hour, reaching temperatures of 3,000 to 10,000 degrees, and streak across the sky in what has become the Perseid meteor shower.
In a normal year, those watching can see 60 to 100 meteors per hour. But this year is not a normal year. Under perfect conditions, there might be as many as 200 meteors per hour to be seen, said Bill Cooke, NASA's head of meteoroid environments, in a press statement. — VNS


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I was craving some lemon chicken, but could not find a recipe in any of my books so I went to my trusty Internet friends and found the perfect recipe. yum yum yum.
Thank you Simply Recipes for providing such a delicious recipe. Now, this isn't the quickest recipe, but the deliciousness in the end makes up for it.
Lemon Chicken
Serves 4
Prep Time: 5 minutes PLUS 2 hours marinating
Cooking Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
3-4 pounds chicken parts (thighs and legs recommended), skin-on, bone-in, trimmed of excess fat
2 Tbsp lemon zest
1/3 cup lemon juice
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 Tbsp fresh chopped thyme (or 2 teaspoons dried)
1 Tbsp fresh chopped rosemary (or 1 teaspoon dried)
1 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
2-3 Tbsp melted butter
Lemon slices for garnish
1 Place lemon juice, lemon peel, garlic, thyme, rosemary, salt, and pepper in a small bowl, whisk to combine. With the tip of a sharp knife, cut into each chicken piece one or two times by about 1/2 an inch. (This will help the marinade penetrate.) Place the chicken pieces and the marinade in a gallon-sized freezer bag. Rotate the bag so that all chicken pieces are coated with the marinade. Seal the bag and place in a bowl in the refrigerator (in case of leakage). Let marinate for 2 hours.
2 Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Remove chicken from marinade and place in a single layer in a large baking dish, skin side up. Reserve the marinade. Use a pastry brush to brush a little melted butter on to each piece of chicken.
3 Bake for a total of 50 to 55 minutes, until the skins are crispy brown, and the chicken is cooked through, juices running clear. Half-way through the baking, at about the 25 minute mark, baste the chicken pieces generously with reserved marinade.
Depending on the size of the breasts, they may be ready before the thighs, so if you are cooking a mix of chicken parts, keep that in mind, you may have to take them out of the oven before the thighs.
Let rest, covered in foil, for 10 minutes before serving.
4 Pour the juices from the pan into a serving bowl. Use a tablespoon to skim the fat off the top (save the fat for cooking with later, or discard, but do not discard down the drain or it will solidify and clog your drain). Serve the chicken with the juices on the side or a little poured over the top of the chicken.
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ALBANY—Governor Andrew Cuomo is utilizing John Mack, a senior adviser to Morgan Stanley who the governor recently brought on to be an adviser on global trade, to help him navigate the titans of Wall Street, according to schedule documents released by Cuomo's office.
Cuomo began regular meetings with Mack, a former C.E.O. of the investment bank, in the fall of last year.
The schedules show Mack accompanied Cuomo to a meeting with current Morgan Stanley C.E.O. James Gorman on December 12, and to a meeting with Goldman Sachs C.E.O. Lloyd Blankfein on the following day.
Mack also attended an afternoon meeting on Veteran's Day that included senior officials from Empire State Development as well as Leslie Whatley, the director of the governor's new program to create tax-free zones rooted at public university systems. She was formerly the global head of corporate real estate at both Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan.
Cuomo administration spokespeople did not immediately say what the governor discussed with Gorman and Blankfein.
The schedules for November and December were posted as semi-regular updates to a transparency site maintained by the administration. Other highlights from those months include:
-- Cuomo called Kathleen Sibelius, the federal secretary of Health and Human Services, on November 20. The governor was lobbying for a Medicaid waiver that would afford New York billions to reinvest in its healthcare infrastructure, and reportedly suggested to Sibelius that non-approval would jeopardize New York's health exchange. An $8 billion waiver was approved earlier this month.
-- The governor met with top Catholic leaders in the state, including Achbishop Timothy Dolan as well as bishops representing Brooklyn and Long Island, at Dolan's residence on December 2.
-- On December 5, Cuomo attended a luncheon of HELP USA, a housing promotion group that he founded over 20 years ago.
-- On the afternoon of December 13, after his meeting with Blankfein, Cuomo and several aides met with top legislators of color.
-- Several cabinet secretaries and other staff worked on New Year's Eve on Cuomo's State of the State presentation.
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Have you ever noticed how extreme music with vocals in another language sound way more menacing than they do in boring old English? The English version of Rammstein's single "Du Hast" pales compared to the original German one. In English, it's just another whiney nu-metal love song, but in its own native tongue it's spooky and plays into the whole "Oh no Germans!" schtick. Even Nena's "99 Luftballoons" sounds like Hitler Youth pop after a few spins.
Tijuana natives Brujeria fall into that same category, but they are one of the most humorous and brutal bands to come out of Mexico. Many people might not know that the Dead Kennedy's Jello Biafra was an early member of the band. (That makes two DK references in one day on Rocks Off, by the way.)
The band slips into town tomorrow night at Amnesia Disco (5865 Gessner), headlining a Latin punk and metal show. We might just have to hit this up. We probably shouldn't have slept all the way through Mr. McManus' Spanish 2 class in high school either, because it might be handy. Just saying...
Coupled with their lyrics about Satanism, all manner of illicit drugs and brutal murder, Brujeria has long been one of the most influential grindcore bands the genre has seen, right up there with folks like Napalm Death and Carcass. Lead singer Juan Brujo has one of grindcore's most distinct voices as well. He sings through a bandanna with a hole cut in it, so his face is rarely shown. We could post a few of the band's album covers, but you would all probably cry and complain about all the severed heads and blood - Brujeria uses real-life crime scene photos for most of their artwork to graphic effect. It's jarring as hell, but also conveys the insanity and strife of the band's lyrics.
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Hall of shame! Italy PM on US human trafficking report
There is more embarrassment for Silvio Berlusconi, with a United States report on human trafficking naming the Italian prime minister as a result of his alleged sexual relationship with a Moroccan-born underage prostitute.
The 75-year-old Italian premier is currently facing trial in Milan for allegedly having sex with belly dancer Karima El Mahroug, also known as 'Ruby the Heart Stealer', at one of the evening parties he had hosted at his lavish villa, and at the time she was just 17 years old. Both deny any wrong-doing.
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Image: Italy PM Silvio Berlusconi
Hall of shame! Italy PM on US human trafficking report
But, it has now emerged that Berlusconi was named in this year's US State Department's Trafficking in Persons 2011 report which details the parties and describes how one of the guests was a minor, The Daily Telegraph online reported.
"In February 2011, judges set a trial date for PM Silvio Berlusconi for the alleged commercial sexual exploitation of a Moroccan child, media reports include indicate evidence of third party involvement in the case, indicating the girl was a victim of trafficking," the US report said.
Image: Teenage nightclub dancer Karima El Mahroug of Morocco poses during a photocall at the Karma disco in Milan
Photographs: Reuters
Hall of shame! Italy PM on US human trafficking report
The State Department report adds, "During the reporting period, the country's (Italy) prime minister was investigated for facilitating child prostitution."
Prosecutors in Milan have charged three of Berlusconi's closest friends with procuring prostitutes for his parties and this relates to presence of El Mahroug at the parties, which were held at his lavish villa at Arcore near Milan.
Image: El Mahroug of Morocco poses for photographers in a hotel
Photographs: Reuters
Hall of shame! Italy PM on US human trafficking report
The US State Department report is put together every year and draws from reports from 180 countries across the world as well as non-governmental organisations who help compile case histories and investigations detailed in the document.
Image: A man unwraps a painting called "Silvio & Ruby" made with plastic bags and scotch tape by Israeli artist Dodi Reifenberg at the Edward Cutler gallery in Milan
Photographs: Reuters


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Sunset Heights' 14 Pews microcinema, 800 Aurora, is set to become film central this weekend, hosting the H-Town Multicultural Film Festival June 14-16.
Curators Bears Fonté of the Austin Film Festival and Cressandra Thibodeaux, executive director of the microcinema built in an old church, has put together an ambitious program of 19 features and short films to be shown over three days. Lisa Franek, the Artistic Director of the San Diego Latino Film Festival, also provided programming assistance.
The first set of documentary shorts will be screened Friday, June 14, from 7-9 p.m. following an opening reception that runs from 6-7 p.m. The three shorts — "Inocente", "Unravel" and "Illegal" — focus on the way through despite dire circumstances. All three are multiple award winners. A patio party from 9-10:30 p.m. will follow the program.
"Inocente," by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix, was an Academy Award winner this past spring in the documentary short subject category. It focuses on the story of an undocumented immigrant 15-year-old girl who dreams of becoming an artist. The film also won awards at the Arizona International, Heartland and San Antonio film festivals.
"Unravel," by Meghna Gupta, won awards at four film festivals and focuses on workers in an Indian textile recycling factory and their dreams.
"Illegal," by John X. Carey, focuses on the children of undocumented immigrants and their struggles in a world in which they are often caught in the middle of policy debates and educational choices.
The program really gets going on Saturday, as events are scheduled from 2 p.m. to midnight.
A second program of shorts, scheduled from 2-4 p.m., is organized around the theme of "The world Comes of Age." Seven films from around the globe — from Mexico, Somalia, the UK, Australia, Afghanistan and the USA — are organized along the themes of young people born into a series of unique experiences.
The program then makes a switch from shorts to a double-bill of feature films. At 4 p.m., the festival will feature the Houston premiere of the Brazilian film "Elena," by Petra Costa. "Elena," which won awards for Best Documentary, Direction, Edition and Art Direction at the Brazilia Festival of Brazilian Cinema, focuses on the life of a young Brazilian woman who travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship, as well as Petra, her seven-year-old sister.
Following a happy hour break from 6-7 p.m., the focus stays in South America with the Texas premier of the Ecuadorian film "With My Heart in Yambo," by Fernanda Restrepo Arismendi at 7 p.m. The documentary focuses on the abduction of Arismendi's twin brothers in 1988. From the official synopsis comes this heartbreaking line from Restrepo's father: "You know when the struggles begin, but not when they end."
Immediately afterward will be a patio party on site, followed by an official after party at the Boom Boom Room, 2518 Yale, from 10:30 p.m. to midnight.
Sunday, the festival finishes strong, with a third shorts program, curated by Fonté, focusing on sex and sexuality for mature adults only. The program goes from 2-4 p.m.
Following that will be the Texas premier of the documentary feature "When Hari Got Married," directed by Ritu Sarin and Tanzing Sonam. In a new take on the classic clash of customs, the film focuses on Hari, a small-town taxi driver, who has an arranged marriage to a girl he has never met, but with whom he has nevertheless fallen in love on a mobile phone. It's a humorous and poignant look at life in modern India.
Then, at 5:30 p.m., the festival brings it all back home with the feature film "Houston," which was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and shot in part here in town. The drama, from German filmmaker Bastian Günther, focuses on the travails of main character Clemens Trunschka, a corporate headhunter who comes to Houston to try to recruit a CEO for his firm. Trunschka, however, is in the middle of losing his battle with alcoholism. In Houston, he seizes a chance to get recover his life.
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Following the film will be a talkback event with a chance to speak with members of the local film crew. This will lead into a closing party on site from 7:30-9 p.m. with beer donated by Saint Arnold's and appetizers courtesy of Jenni's Noodle House.
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What Can Security Cameras Do For You And Your Family?
As the world continues to get more dangerous, the last thing you want is to bring that danger directly into your home. Newspaper stories tell the tale babysitters abusing children when their parents are off at work. There have been workers who have been hired in good faith to repair or maintain your property, stealing both from inside and outside the house. Very unfortunate, but the reality is that unless you are vigilant and careful, your family, home and possessions could be hurt by people. In this article you will learn how security cameras are indeed your help in preventing the inevitable. The answer is to be diligent and use caution when hiring anyone. Check references, though many previous people don't or won't give you all the information due to a fear of being sued by the person. Still, if you ask for references and check them, you have a much greater chance of getting good people. Let's be clear that the majority of people are very responsible and trustworthy and all they want is the opportunity to work. That said, there is the very small minority that are the problem and make it more difficult for both the worker and the owner. Using surveillance cameras is one way to keep better control on your home or business. These little devices are great for placing discretely around your home and office. The reason for using cameras however is twofold. First, there is the keeping honest people honest idea. This is nothing more than building on the fact that people act differently when they think they're being watched. Put security cameras in the office and let people know about them and they tend to behave differently. There's less of an argument when a customer makes claims against your employee and you need to sort through the information to get to the truth. So this first potential use for surveillance or security cameras is to allow you the potential to see what actually happened. In at home setting, it's possible to view how the kids are behaving when the adults are gone. Who comes into and leaves your home when can also be captured. This doesn't mean that you don't trust your family or employees, only that by having security cameras around, people will be better behaved. The Second reason why it's important to consider a security camera system is to catch bad behavior or illegal activities. By having your home secured with this technology, you are able to easily identify people that shouldn't be around your home, like would be burglars. There also is the latest in surveillance camera technology, the nanny cam. This is nothing more than a hidden camera within your home to monitor the behavior of people you leave in charge of your children. Some entertain guests while you're away and drink heavily while watching television instead of watching the kids. Although most babysitter- nanny types are great, you need to recognize that if the person you leave in charge isn't responsible, your children could be at risk of being hurt or worse. Surveillance camera systems have come a long way in the just the last few years. The cameras themselves are getting much smaller and easier to set up. No longer is it necessary to have a specialized security company set up and place a surveillance system in your home or business. Surveillance cameras now come with a wide variety of options. From capturing color images, motion activated, auto pan and close up functionality from your computer, and even wireless cameras are all available at very attractive pricing. Everyone should consider the importance of having a security surveillance camera or Camera warning signs for peace of mind of the family and themselves. Prevention is the greatest thing you can do for your loved ones.


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Woman's Prison
Although Woman's Prison is not a documentary, writer/director Katie Madonna Lee presents a realistic story of poverty and the struggles women, children, and to some degree, men face who experience it. From birth, Julie Ann Mabry is a quiet, shy person, who just wants to be safe with her mother (played by Lee). Sadly, her father takes away that option by murdering her mother, and she is left quietly battling predators, including her uncle.
When Julie encounters heart-wrenching situations, she does not lose hope. After she runs away from her uncle, she meets Butch, a guy who, at first, takes care of her. Because he does not force himself on her, she feels safe—but the honeymoon wears off when he begins to see her as just another financial burden in the two-bit town they live in. In one of the scenes, Julie is so hungry that she sneaks money out of his wallet to buy groceries at a nearby store.
Without community support or education, Julie drowns in postpartum depression, which leads to a prison term after she shoots Butch. She is given the choice of shutting up, putting up with the situation and getting out on good behaviour, or taking a stand to end the escalating sexual abuse that she suffers at the hands of one of the prison guards. Julie must decide whether prison is safer than the outside world, where her voice is silenced at every turn.
Lee has done a great job of assembling a cast of unknowns to play these characters. The movie has its finger on the pulse of poverty and how it gnaws away at both young and old. Woman's Prison may be too painful for some audiences, but I hope they see it. Julie Ann Mabry is not just a character; she is thousands of women in America who have and will continue to experience such struggles.


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By Rae Luskin
April is Child Abuse Awareness Month.1-4 girls and 1-6 boys will be abused by the time they are 18. Many abuse victims suffer the violation in silence, either blaming themselves or being afraid no one will believe them. The survivors of childhood sexual abuse experience a high rate of physical problems, mental health issues and social problems. They suffer from guilt, shame and low self esteem. The emotional and physical consequences can last for a lifetime.
The majority of childhood sexual abuse cases go unreported. It is estimated that there are 39 million survivors in the United States. It is estimated that 30% of survivors never tell anyone. We have to ask ourselves why children don't tell.
1. Children are not sure who to tell. What if one of the parents is the abuser, what if mom is sick or one of the parents is dead.
2. No chance to be alone to tell
3. Caregivers do not listen
4. Parents discourage conversations about sex
5. Oftentimes children do not know what to say: they are too young or they have no words to describe it.
6. Abuser tells them; no one will believe you, you will be taken away from your family; you will never see your parents, friends or siblings again. No one will love you or marry you.
7. Abusers threaten to kill their family, their pet or themselves.
8. Children worry that if they really knew me their friends and family will reject them. They will think "I am disgusting, broken or dirty".
9. Children worry that their parents will feel guilty if they could not protect them; other people will blame their parents.
10. Fear the abuser will be put in prison; will get hurt or killed.
11. Children may think what is the point, nothing will change or it will only make it worse. For instance, Laurie was about 12 when she told her mother that her brother was molesting her and her mother said "it is your problem handle it." So Laurie lived with a chair under her door until she could leave home.
12. At first a child may be confused. They may ask themselves: Is it really happening? Is it wrong? They may think this is normal. They may believe they are only one experiencing this. They believe they deserved it, it was their fault they did something that caused this or they are being punished for something they did. Finally, they are ashamed to admit they enjoyed the sexual stimulation or they loved the affection, warmth and attention.
So now the question becomes what we can do as an individual, a friend or family member to encourage children and adult survivors to come forward and share their secret.
Educate your children about appropriate sexual behavior and what constitutes unwanted or uncomfortable physical contact. Tell them that it is always safe for them to come to you. You will believe them. Help children practice responses to potentially dangerous situations. Tell them they have a right to decide how and when anyone can touch them.
You can help the adult in your life. Do not say it is in the past get over it. Do not scold or shame them. Do not suggest it was their fault. Instead listen with compassion, validate their pain and remember they need to work at their own pace. It could take a year or it could take 40 years. You need to create a climate that is safe for them to take the journey.
Finally, Challenge the media or advertising when they sexualize children! Support legislation that mandates we teach safe touch in schools! Ask what policies and protocols are in place at school, work or your religious institution! If you suspect abuse you must report it! Tell the doctor, the police, call your local protection agency or 1 800 25 ABUSE, the National Child Abuse Hotline.
If you want to share your story/secret I encourage you to join my challenge. Transform Abuse One Story at a Time. In the next year I want 100,000 courageous men and women to share their truth through creative expression; it can be a poem, a story, a piece of art, music or dance. By sharing your story you can take back your power. Break free of guilt and shame. Release the negative voices in your head. Connect with others in an authentic way.
If you are looking for a loving and supportive mentor who has walked this dark and scary path herself as a guide; apply for a free discovery session. You do not need to be an artist. No creative experience is necessary, only a willingness to play, explore and experiment. Apply at www.thehealedheart.com.
The Essence of Who I Am
You hurt my soul, you broke my heart
I curled up into myself and became small and insignificant
I was sure I was unlovable, defective and unworthy
Afraid of my secret shame,
My cry for help a mere whisper
Till I found my voice
Transformation, a healed heart
I am enough, I am loveable, I am whole and complete
I am strong and courageous
I take a stand and boldly declare
I am a magnificent living work of art
A creation song of love, joy and possibility
Rae Luskin is an artist, teacher, author and community activist and a sexual abuse survivor. She is available for speaking and workshops. Find out more at www.raeluskin.net. Special price for ART FOR MY HEART now $16 plus shipping.


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News In Brief
A superior-court judge in Maine has ruled that the state's school-funding formula is constitutional, despite the claims of a coalition of school districts challenging its fairness.
About 80 districts had argued that statewide reductions in education aid since 1990 had resulted in excessive cuts in poorer school systems, which receive the most state assistance. This situation, they contended, violates equal-protection clauses in the state constitution.
The judge, however, ruled late last month that the school-finance law did not violate the constitution.
State officials had defended the formula, claiming that adjustments to it had reduced state education funding only slightly. The state distributes about $500 million a year in school aid to local areas.
Homeless Education: The Illinois legislature is putting the final touches on a plan that would make the state the first in the country to pass a law guaranteeing an education to homeless youths.
The provision won easy passage in the House and cleared the Senate last month after being added to an unrelated measure as an amendment. That bill has gone back to the House for final approval.
Under the plan, school districts would be required to continue to educate children whose residency was changed when their families moved into a shelter.
Homeless children who live in temporary shelters have sometimes been denied admission to schools as a result of residency questions, or been forced to switch schools in the middle of a school year.
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Alphabet: N, Nun in Hebrew
Numerical Value: 50
Astrological Nature: Scorpio
XIII – Death: Death is the transition period in between the law of the universe, and the wall of the mind.
The Death card symbolizes the time your life is finished on Earth. The gong of Death sounds when the ballad of the symphony you sang while you were alive on this plane of Earth is completed. Allowing the gong to sound is the call you put out when your mission is finished, and you are the balloon of hope, now gone. You either inflated your balloon to the highest level, or you did not fulfill your mission. Your mission is to be the best version of yourself, and to live a life that does a service to others.
Death is an illusion to cause fear, but fear is irrelevant – it is also an illusion that will trick you into thinking you are helpless. You are not helpless…you are always guided, but how you choose is your choice and how you fare is your choice as well. You are the creator of your life and you are your own architect, but you are also assisted by beings that wish for you to be led to the path that is your highest calling, and these beings are your angels. They are not of the body, but are of the being of pure light. They are not of the darkness, so they do not know judgment, and will never judge you for your decisions. They only see the good, and always are available for assistance.
Stopping the thought process of not being able to be helped will make this life a whole lot easier. If you signal for help from your heart, you will receive an answer in the form of a sign, or a symbolic encounter to validate their presence in assisting you. If you signal for help for egotistical gain, you will summon up a demon. The demons are not evil, but they thrive on your fears – they love to cause chaos, and are always trying to push you towards making bad decisions that satiate the egotistical side of your soul. The angels and the demons work hand in hand, and do not interfere with each other, but the important idea is to choose wisely while you are here, and not get caught up in the temporary satisfaction that is brought on by the ego. The ballad of the gong of Death sounds for everyone. Nobody is exempt, but the idea here is that Death is also impermanent, just like life, and will be able to return and leave, and return and leave…like the rising and setting of the sun.
This is why the Egyptian mystery schools did not have a proper word for death, because they do not know it as the western world knows it. To the Egyptians, death is viewed as only a transition into the next realm and is the ballad of God in the form of new life, coming from a prior life's end. The only thing worth fearing is if you did not live a good life, and did not love enough people. This is the real fear, because if you did not love enough, you did not live enough, and if you did not live, then what is the point of that life? Stopping fear of Death allows you to live, and stopping judgment of others allows you to love. If you loved, then you have really lived, if you have really lived, then Death is only the door to a better next life on the next plane of existence.


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Musical Catullus Assignment
Created by: Briana Aldana
Mrs. Robins
Latin 3, Period 5
14 February 2014
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Briana Aldana
Mrs. Robins
Latin 3, Period 5
14 February 2014
Musical Catullus Assignment Analysis
The poem is of the classical poet, Catullus, have been demonstrated to affect lyricist of today. In our Cambridge Latin Course Unit 4 books in Stage 45, some of the poems he has dedicated for his lover, Clodia, share common themes with songs we listen to everyday. In the poems, Catullus refers to Clodia as Lesbia, many believe that this was a humble homage to Sappho, who came from the isle of Lesbos. Others believe that the name change was because if the name was Lesbia, his poems are easier to scan.
The first poem is placed on page 200, and the theme of the poem is love at first sight. The first song that happen to come to my mind, was "Sugar, We're Going Down" by Fall Out Boy.
The band hardly ever explains the meanings to their lyrics, and so any interpretations goes. The part of the song, "Am I more then you bargained for yet?", could be interpreted as, is he what you did not expect him to be? Accordingly to the poem I see this as a attack towards Metellus, Clodia's husband. The next part of the song that caught my attention towards the poem was, "lies in the grass, next to the mausoleum" the word, "lies" is not misspelled, the actual lyrics spell it out that way, referring to her lies. His foreshadows the lies Catullus is told by Lesbia. "I'm just a notch at your bedpost, but your just a line in a song" this can be interpreted that Clodia, does not care much for Catullus but in later poems he...


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Bots, Fraud, and Non-Human Traffic Continue to Plague Top Publishers
Programmatic buying of digital ads has seen a sharp, seemingly inexorable rise over the past three years. Marketers have seen it as a great way to simplify the buying process, squeeze out excess costs, reduce waste, and target their customers more effectively. Publishers have been a bit more ambivalent since programmatic buying tends to commodify their digital ad inventory and discount the more ephemeral benefits of editorial adjacencies and the beneficial aura that flows from an ad being embedded in a quality media context. Many leading publishers have created private exchange networks that try to capitalize on the marketer's interest in scale and targeting, while preserving the benefits of brand safety and appropriate context. These publishers also hope to convince marketers that such benefits deserve a somewhat higher CPM than might otherwise occur in the programmatic marketplace.
Alas, a recent report from the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), in cooperation with White Ops, indicates that premium publishers actually have a bigger problem with bots and non-human traffic (NHT) than the average site. This is because criminal botnets look for higher-value sites -- a digital variation on the "Willie Sutton effect" of robbing banks because that's where the money is. In the ANA/White Ops analysis, premium display ad buys at CPMs higher than $10 had a 39% higher rate of NHT. The news was even worse for video: video ads at $15+ CPMs had bot rates 173% higher than average.
You Get What You Pay For
Obviously if one's site becomes the object of a botnet, the publisher needs to rely on defensive technology to fight back. However the report also indicates that the common practice of publishers buying traffic is also a culprit since this bought traffic often contains a lot of junk. The ANA study found that outsourced traffic had three times the number of bots as organic traffic. Though such "audience extension" techniques help publishers manage their day-to-day business, meet their contractual obligations, and keep everybody happy, the practice can result in significant pollution of the digital media supply chain. It is a Faustian bargain that ultimately will erode the market position of premium publishers.
Though it is much harder and slower to build organic traffic, the long-term benefits are obvious. If a publisher simply must occasionally buy traffic, it is critical that the sources be thoroughly vetted and that the quality of their own inventory management be well understood. The law of garbage-in/garbage out has not been repealed.
A Strong Defense
The ANA report also demonstrates that all players in the digital advertising marketplace will need to continue to invest in technology to defeat bots, fraud, and non-human traffic. This can be an expensive addition to an already burdensome "ad tech tax" that publishers pay. What's more, the ANA report demonstrates how wily and clever the bad actors in this drama can be. They constantly move around searching for new opportunities, just as they expect to yield formerly profitable locations once their presence is discovered.
When the 2015 ANA results were compared to the 2014 baseline, the researchers found that overall aggregate levels of fraud and non-human traffic had not changed -- but that the best and worst performing advertisers (and publishers) had often switched positions. So just because you had good defenses in 2014 did not mean that you were well protected in 2015. In effect, the participants in this market are engaged in an arms race against shadowy and nefarious adversaries -- a contest that requires constant vigilance and ongoing investment in the hygiene of your digital inventory.
As expected, programmatic buys fared worse than direct buys: 14% higher rate of NHT in programmatic display, 73% higher in programmatic video. While it is tempting to think that this supply chain corruption ultimately will discredit the entire programmatic marketplace and drive advertiser back to the good old days of buying media audiences via direct sales, I would not hold my breath. The efficiency of automation nearly always wins out over more expensive manual processes, and programmatic is likely to grow apace. However the serious problems in the supply chain may drive advertisers away from ad tech itself -- and further into the realm of first-party data, marketing tech, and customer contact points that don't rely on media. As we move further into the era of the "internet of things," marketing options will multiply. As they do, publishers will find that they are facing an even wider set of competitors for marketer dollars.
Stay Vigilant
So what is a publisher to do to fend off against bots, fraud and non-human traffic? A few key takeaways from the ANA/White Ops study:
- Build your traffic organically and reduce dependence on traffic bought from third parties
- If you do buy traffic from third parties, do your due diligence on their sourcing practices. (For a good guide to how to do this, follow guidelines issued last year by the Media Ratings Council)
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One oil industry veteran engineer describes to me
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more they try to restrict the oil gush, the more pressure could be
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What Ross Douthat Is Waiting For
From Sarah Palin: something like this?
From Sarah Palin: something like this?
palin go home.
— matoko_chan · Sep 26, 01:56 PM · #
eating your own?
— matoko_chan · Sep 26, 03:28 PM · #
Beneath you, Noah. You too, Matoko. You're obsession with Ross's "obsession" with Palin is worse than his obsession.
I guess it's not just a left-wing staple to laugh at those less polished, intelligent, etc. and then pretend to care about them.
"But then they shouldn't govern us."
Fine. But the inexperienced-but-polished guy on the other ticket is the headliner.
And if I've misinterpreted anything about your tone in the past weeks, it's because I'm at work, earning tax dollars to bail out idiot bankers.
— Gordon Lightfoot · Sep 26, 06:47 PM · #
My position is unchanged since the first announcement of Palin as VP candidate.
I have always suspected Palin is what the Founders called a demagogue, and represents supreme cynicism as McCain's pick for VP.
IQ-bait for the culture wars.
Sorry, but it is only human to enjoy saying I told you so.
GL, aren't you and Douthat a bit sad about how McCain used Palin for a bounce and tossed her away?
She will never be president now.
The debate posturing was only a fresh horse for Septugenarian Guy.
There will be more.
— matoko_chan · Sep 26, 08:01 PM · #
This is basically why the youth vote is totally going to Obama.
Palin could have been a very serious contender in 4 years.
This is a greedy old guy acting in selfinterest, and sacrificing one of the brilliant young rising stars of the republican party to his egomanical desire to be president.
— matoko_chan · Sep 27, 01:50 PM · #
This is what i loathe about the conservative party anymore.
You eat your young.
— matoko_chan · Sep 27, 02:43 PM · #
Yearning for Zion
the conservo webblogs all thought it was fine for the FLDS to raise their kids to be childbrides and uneducated breederbots because they were clean and loved Jesus.
— matoko_chan · Sep 27, 02:47 PM · #
You've got the wrong movie here: Palin's from <i>Drop Dead Gorgeous.</i>
— Jared · Sep 27, 10:50 PM · #
— matoko_chan · Sep 28, 03:04 AM · #
Palin is Drop Dead Awful.
— matoko_chan · Sep 28, 03:13 AM · #
This is the lesson of the Palin paradigm.
Spunk and grit and cute just aren't enough.
In America, we would like to believe they are.
But real life just isn't Legally Blonde.
Last night SNL brutally mocked Palin with cuts from her own interviews.
That is how profoundly awful she is.
Her answers are pageant answers.
In Blonde, the spunky heroine brilliantly crossexamines a witness for an "ironsides" moment, where the guilty spontaneous break out in confession.
In real life, Palin is so cravenly desperate for approval the guilty would have walked for sure.
Yah, McCain is not "Miss Congeniality".
But Palin was Miss Congeniality in the 1984 Miss Alasaka pageant.
And sadly, she still is.
— matoko_chan · Sep 28, 12:52 PM · #
utube until universal pulls it
the thing to notice….is that Palin's own exact quotes are sillie and funnie enough to be used verbatim.
— matoko_chan · Sep 28, 01:01 PM · #
Ross Douthat….this isn't really funnie anymore, you know.
This is a test of the Constitution and the American People.
The test question is….Can we elect a demogogue in the Age of American Idol?
Hotair is showing old pageant footage of Palin like that is a reason to vote for mccain. Dr. Reynolds says it can't hurt. 60,000 ppl showed up for that Fla rally, and NOT for mccain, dooontcha kno.
So far, a big chunk of the electorate is in epic fail mode.
Palin as Elle Woods seems to be bad casting.
And no one, absolutely no one can say that Palin is "ready" to be president after those humiliating interviews.
Ross Douthat cant even say it.
— matoko_chan · Sep 28, 02:34 PM · #
maybe ross is waiting for this—
ANCHORAGE — Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago — about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct — the teacher said.
After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.
Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.
i dont think religion should be a descriminator….but just maybe….intelligence and education should be.
— matoko_chan · Sep 28, 05:55 PM · #
Palin will be a serious contender in four years?
Jeepers, the denial about Palin is pathological. All of this "there's a smart person" hidden inside the insufferable public dope we've been forced to endure is just so much wishful thinking. America's love affair with this nitwit is a disgrace.
Did you see SNL's opening last night?
Is there ANY national figure who can be mocked so easily and effectively as pure stupidity? You have to see the sketch to really appreciate how devastating it is.
Heck, some of the dialogue is almost verbatim from the Couric interview.
Palin is a dunce AND a demagogue. And a fundamentalist crackpot with an obvious mean streak.
Can we please, please get real on this?
If she is ever a serious contender, America will have become a joke.
— William · Sep 28, 05:56 PM · #
after reading Chris Orr on "Breaking Sarah" in TNR, I have to agee with William.
Palin is simply "without".
And I will point to Palin's ability to believe in Young Earth Creationism.
She simply isn't bright enough to be able to benefit from A Crash Course in Absolutely Everything.
And Douthat, if you had any stones at all you'd admit it.
— matoko_chan · Sep 28, 08:45 PM · #
Quite simply, Palin cannot have an unscripted interview with the press.
The press might ask her about Young Earth Creationism or Pentecostal witchcraft prevention.
Jindal will have the same problem if and when he runs, due to the publication of his paper describing his partiticipation in a demonic exorcism through faith healing.
It isn't like a youthful indiscretion with marijuana.
These are genuinely crazy beliefs.
Since it is impossible to prevent the press from asking these questions, hiding from the press is the only possible counter-strategy.
This is what happens when you invite the vamphyre into the house.
Pretty soon, the vamphyres think they own the house.
And right after that, you all become vamphyres.
— matoko_chan · Sep 29, 02:39 PM · #
check this.
Sarah Palin Supports Hamas
"The issue here is not that Palin didn't know the answer. There are many possible answers to this question, some of which are right and some of which are wrong. The issue here is that she didn't know the question. Because she was apparently ignorant of the subject, she endorsed Hamas' victory, and, in essence, called for the U.S. to "protect" Islamists who seek to use democratic elections to lever themselves into power. And, of course, Ahmadinejad came to power in a more-or-less democratic election. Palin's answer was truly remarkable. A person who could be President of the United States has shown herself to be completely ignorant of one of the most vexing and important foreign policy questions of the day. Freshman congressmen know how to answer this question.
"Yes, Katie, it's true that if you push for democracy, sometimes you get an outcome that you don't want. This happened in Gaza with Hamas, and I think the Bush Administration was as surprised as everyone else. So the lesson here is that you have be careful when you try to export democracy. But I still believe that, over the long-term, democracy is the best antidote to terrorism that we have. What we have to do, though, is know when to push, and know when not to push. And every day, we have to do the hard work of advocating for press freedom, and the rule of law, and for all those things that build a civil society."
See? Not that hard. Unless you don't:
a) Know what happened in Gaza;
b) Know where Gaza is;
c) Know who rules Gaza today;
d) Care.
— matoko_chan · Sep 29, 08:46 PM · #
K-lo says the last Couric clip looks like poor Palin going to the principals office with her dad.
look at the syntax…..
Well, as Sen. McCain is suggesting here, also, never would our administration get out there and show our cards to terrorists, in this case, to enemies and let them know what the game plan was, not when that could ultimately adversely affect a plan to keep America secure.
"never would"? that is pageant speak…where you fill in words while madly scrambling for an answer.
Poor Palin's quotes are chock full of that.
Can she do better?
guess we will see thursday.
— matoko_chan · Sep 30, 01:27 PM · #
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