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French Snails (Bulots Mayonnaise) Recipe
French Snails (Bulots Mayonnaise) Recipe – Served cold with garlic mayonnaise.
1/2 kg bulots
1 1/2 liters water
1 glass of dry white wine or a little wine vinegar
1/2 tsp black pepper (grain, not ground pepper)
1 leaf of laurel
Some thyme leaves
Some fresh parsley
Salt to taste
For the Mayonnaise:
1 uncooked egg yolk
1 small teaspoon French mustard from Dijon
Peanut oil
Olive oil
Freshly squeezed lime juice
1 garlic clove
Salt to taste
Skim when necessary, and let it lightly boil for 40 min.
When cooked, let the snails cool off in their cooking juices. When cold you'll eat them with thouthpicks. Everything but the opercula is edible.
In a bowl mix the egg yolk and the mustard with a little spoon. Slowly add (little by little) the peanut oil. Add a little olive oil (5 teaspoons) for flavour, and then salt and one teaspoon of fresh lemon juice to taste. Mix everything well and set aside.
Press the garlic clove or cut it into very fine slices. Add the garlic to the mayonnaise to fit your taste. Adjust mayonnaise to your flavour by adding more lemon juice, salt, or garlic to taste.
In French cuisine, snail is a much celebrated delicacy. So, when I was in France, I did it the French way–chowing down a bowl of these sea snails/whelks, or Bulots in French. (Thanks Pip for your information.)
I absolutely loved them and couldn't get enough. Served cold with garlic mayonnaise, all I could say was "C'est si bon!" (It is so good!)
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Grief For My Father
Darla Cobus 3/31/2005 1:12:06 PMAwesome lighting, very interesting shpt. #231161
Shane Nestle 3/31/2005 1:32:38 PMExcellent idea and composition. To maximize the impact, the shadow line on the face should fall on the line of symetry you have created. That would require the light moving forward a little until the line was on the center of the face and hands. Still, this photo has a great impact. #1219975
Amanda Olson 3/31/2005 9:16:42 PMWow, this is fantastically wonderful!!! I love it! This is very creative, and the contrast in b/w is amazing! Just terrific work Tiberius! :) #1220598
Darla Cobus 4/21/2005 3:59:51 AMI loved this and I am so glad to see it as a finialist, congrats! #1273592
Shane Nestle 4/21/2005 8:23:23 AMCongratulations on becoming a finalist! #1275561
Tiberius Dinu 4/21/2005 9:43:47 AMThank you very much! I am very happy that it made it to the final. #1276142
Amanda Olson 4/21/2005 1:55:51 PMAwesome! Congrats, I knew you'd get finalist! :) #1277220
Robert Mann 4/21/2005 8:39:08 PMVery happy to see your wonderful self portrait here, Tiberius. Many congrats on your finalist selectiona and good luck! RoB #1278796
Howie Nordström 4/22/2005 2:50:52 AMI really like the polar opposite effect throughout the picture, especially in combination with the title. Very powerful. #1279400
Robert Mann 4/22/2005 4:07:01 AMMany congrats on your win, Tiberius! RoB #1279648
Donna Dunbar 4/22/2005 4:34:45 AMWow this is awesome, congrats on your win. Outstanding job!!! #1279773
Angela Tull 4/22/2005 6:53:27 AMCongratulations Tiberius. This is a very creative photo & title. #1280446
Lori Carlson 4/22/2005 7:10:06 AMThis is truly a wonderful photograph, Tiberius. What a capture. Congratulations on your win.
Patricia A. Kuniega 4/22/2005 7:35:32 AMExceptional work, Tiberius! Congratulations on a fine win. #1280610
Fax Sinclair 4/22/2005 8:40:37 AMAloha Tiberius,
My usual words of praise have turned to dust in the presence of this image. It needs no changing. Simply great. #1280817
Kristen McKain 4/23/2005 7:31:42 AMOne of my favorite winners, I must say. This is amazing... and it's got such a meaning.
Congrats to you. #1283649
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Message to Campus Community: Budget Update
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
We received a memo from CSU Chancellor Charles Reed last Friday on the state budget situation and its impact on the California State University system. I am e-mailing you today to let you know how we at San José State will deal with the ongoing budget uncertainties.
Our primary goal will be to continue to deliver quality education to our students, and to offer the classes they need to graduate in a timely fashion. For the spring semester, students will receive their Cal grants and SJSU classes will continue as planned.
For the fall, we have already taken a very important step to ensure the quality of education for all of our students; that is, by limiting the number of new students we admit. This was not a decision made easily, but we believe it would be irresponsible, given the state's steep budget shortfalls, to admit more students than we can appropriately educate. In this economic climate, setting limits to our enrollment is key to maintaining the overall quality and viability of our university.
In addition, in keeping with the CSU guidelines for cost savings, we will be giving careful scrutiny to travel expenses, non-critical equipment purchases and the hiring of new personnel. We will implement a salary freeze for San José State managers, starting with the vice presidents and me. While there is a suspension of major state-funded construction system-wide, San José State currently has no major construction projects underway.
A question you may be asking is, "What about my job?" I want to assure you that despite budget uncertainties, we are committed to doing all we can to avoid layoffs at San José State. You, our faculty and staff, are our most important asset and the heart of our enterprise.
This is a university that has come through difficult times before, and we will again. We are fortunate to have sound financial management, and if the situation at the state level does not worsen dramatically, I believe that with our good planning and careful management of our resources, we will weather this storm.
I will continue to keep you informed on budget issues this semester as they arise. Also, we will hold an open forum on the budget situation in early February. The vice presidents and I will bring you an update then, and will welcome your questions, thoughts and concerns.
Meantime, I ask you to join me in making wise use of our state resources for the advancement of San José State.
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It's that time of year again when the new planners are coming out, again I opted to purchase one instead of making a new one. It's not that the homemade planners weren't working for me, but more of a time issue. They do take a great deal of time to make, & so I opted to purchase from Plum Paper again.
They've made a few cosmetic changes to the interior of their planners for the coming year, & added a few new sections one can choose to order if they want. They even had a sale earlier this year when they came out with larger sizes of some of their planners & I snagged all our school planners at that time. I debated the idea of saving money & using the school planner for a personal planner as well, but as the months ticked by & I was adding more & more to my personal planner that using one for school & personal just wasn't going to cut it.
While they did have another sale after Thanksgiving, I ordered earlier in order to get my planner prior to the end of year. I'm so glad I did too. Oddly, I have nearly identical covers on both planners! The one on the left is larger & I actually removed the cover it came with & pulled out a spare one I had with a more educational/family theme to it. I do so love that grey cover, but it seemed a little silly to have my name on the school planner.
I've been slowly adding information to both planners to have them ready come Sunday. It's hard to imagine an entire year has flown by, isn't it?


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KAR said WHAT - Tea Time at the Windsor Arms Hotel
Last Monday, my friend M celebrated her 24th birthday at the Windsor Arms Hotel for High-Tea. We attended the Traditional Afternoon Tea and it was a great way to celebrate her birthday, as well as to catch-up and have long, flowing conversations. I find that at this day & age, it's very rare to get a group of friends together & actually have a conversation. It's become the norm to hang out with human beings but stay attached on your phone (I'm guilty of this too!).


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Design submitted by Peter from UK.
The idea for this watch design was inspired by the executive pin art toy where metal pins make a 3D representation of any object pushed into them.
When the sides of the rubber bracelet are squeezed (no visible buttons), pins on the front face are actuated/animated. The pins stick out to create a 3D representation of either a digital or analog time display. The pins could also be illuminated for extra clarity.


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Antony commends commitment of troops on India-China border
Kolkata, Jan 9 (IANS) Defence Minister A.K. Antony Thursday commended the commitment of the troops deployed at the China-Indian border in enhancing mutual trust and deepening the understanding between the two countries.
Antony, who arrived on a two-day visit to the city during the day, appreciated the efforts put in by the Eastern Command in maintaining constant vigil, peace and tranquility along the border, according to a defence ministry release.
Eastern Army Commander, Lt. Gen M.M.S. Rai briefed the minister on the operational preparedness, security situation in the northeast and improvement in the living condition of troops deployed in the forward locations in high altitude areas.
Lt. Gen Rai also briefed him on maintenance of peace and tranquility with China as per the Border Peace and Tranquility Agreement (BPTA) and the recently concluded Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA).
"Expressing satisfaction at the high level of motivation and morale of troops deployed in difficult and physically demanding conditions, Antony commended the commitment of the forward deployed troops in enhancing mutual trust and deepening the understanding between India and China as per the cited agreements," the release said.


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If everything falls into place, farmers could be looking at a disaster assistance package of $2.2 billion to $2.4 billion for the 2000 crop year.
Those figures - about $1.4 billion for crop losses and $800 million for pasture losses - would be in addition to the $5.5 billion in supplemental Agricultural Marketing Transition Act payments Congress provided in early September.
They're also substantially above the $900 million in disaster aid included in the Senate-passed version of the fiscal 2001 agricultural appropriations bill. The House version contained no additional assistance.
The new spending came after Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman finally provided the political cover needed for the increased aid in testimony before the House Agriculture Committee on Sept. 27. USDA put the losses from this year's drought at $1.4 billion for row crops and $800 million for livestock.
"These numbers could rise as we watch and see what happens," Glickman told the committee.
USDA said the weather losses appear to primarily impact four states - Nebraska, Kansas, Texas and Georgia. But farmers in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee would argue that the weather has dealt them a severe blow as well.
While some have criticized providing additional drought aid, Congress has become more agreeable in recent days because of the desire by members of both parties to return to the campaign trail by the scheduled adjournment date of Oct. 6.
Glickman announced he would recommend the president veto any legislation that did not include substantially more disaster assistance than the $900 million included in the Senate ag appropriations bill. That raised the specter of another government shutdown just before the elections.
All of this agreeableness might have come to naught, however, if the House Republican leadership and a bi-partisan group of farm-state congressmen and senators had not compromised on Cuban trade sanctions.
Although the House leadership tried to put it to rest in July, the issue came back to life after proponents of restoring normal trade said the earlier agreement was so restrictive Cuba would be unable to obtain financing to buy from the United States.
In the agreement hammered out on Sept. 28, U.S. banks are not allowed to directly finance Cuban sales, but foreign banks could and notify U.S. banks when the arrangements are complete. U.S. exporters also would be authorized to travel to Cuba to promote sales, but Cuban products could not be sold in the United States.
One of the defining moments of the sanctions debate may have come on Sept. 25 when Sen. Thad Cochran, chairman of the Senate Agricultural Appropriations Subcommittee, said Senate Republicans would not back down on the more liberal sanctions reform language in the Senate version of the agricultural appropriations bill.
"There are two different and strongly held opinions, and my obligation is to defend the Senate position," he said. "We will argue for consideration of the Senate language by the House."
The House is expected to take up the conference report containing the increased disaster assistance and new Cuban sanctions reform provisions shortly. If it passes the House, it goes to the Senate and then to the president.


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Squash Soup with Chorizo
Source: Recipe from Chef Caprial Pence
A great soother or subtle beginning to an elegant dinner. The cinnamon croutons, which are a delightful enhancement to this dish, are a sweet variation on the classic salad crouton.
1 med. butternut squash, peeled, seeded, and diced
2 tbsp. plus 1 tsp. olive oil
1 tbsp. unsalted butter
2 large onions, diced
6 garlic cloves, peeled
1 cup marsala or dry sherry
8 cups chicken stock
1 lb. chorizo sausage
1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp. hot pepper sauce
2 tsp. chopped fresh thyme
2 tsp. chopped fresh oregano
Salt and fresh ground pepper
Spicy Cinnamon Croutons
Spicy Cinnamon Croutons:
1⁄4 cup butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp. chile powder
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 baguette, cut in small cubes
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Place squash in roasting pan and toss to coat with 2 tbsp. olive oil. Bake 25-30 min., until tender and lightly caramelized.
2. Melt butter in large stockpot. Add onions and sauté until tender and brown. Add garlic, squash, and marsala; cook over high heat until reduced by half. Add stock; bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer 10-15 min.
3. Meanwhile, heat remaining 1 tsp. oil in sauté pan. Add chorizo; cook until browned. Drain off fat.
4. Strain squash and stock mixture through a fine sieve. Puree solids and return puree to stockpot. Stir in chorizo, Worcestershire, pepper sauce, thyme, and oregano; season to taste with salt and pepper.
5. For service, ladle soup into bowls and garnish with cinnamon croutons.
Spicy Cinnamon Croutons:
1. Melt butter in sauté pan over medium heat. Stir in sugar, chile powder, and cinnamon; cook 2-3 min.
2. Toss bread with butter mixture to coat evenly. Spread bread cubes on a sheet pan and bake in 375°F oven 25-30 min., until crispy and caramelized.
3. Cool croutons on wire rack. Pull apart for service.


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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2009
Does monitor size affect playing media?
the problem: my pc plays HD slowly. both 720p and 1080p. No problem with 1024×576.
Cpu: P4 2800MHz
Ram: 1GB+256MB
OS: WinXP SP3
VGA: tried both: nVidia MX 4000 and nVidia 8600 GT with the latest drivers (I saw no real difference)
Monitor: 14-inch LG studioworks 560N
Codecs: tryed K-lite 495f. then tried CoreAVC 18.104.22.168 (tried the latter with deblocking disabled)
players tested: MPC - mplayer2.exe - VLC (MPC: slow. mplayer2: less slow. VLC: dont ask )
edit: slot is AGP 4X
Tested file's info: (MediaInfo)
Spoiler for click to show:
and it looks like the cpu is trying to kill himself in decoding ... trying to jump beyond the limits of 100% specially at the op.
and i thought upgrading my VGA card (to nvidia 8600 gt) can solve the problem a bit, but seems there is no difference at all.
so is the cpu time the cause after all (2800 mhz)? or it is just because my monitor cannot display media at resolutions higher than it can display (since the higher res my monitor can get is 1024*768)? coz my other computer has a monitor with res 1280 * 1024 and very close hardware implementation and it plays 720p smoothly.
i am desperate
any help or advice plz?
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Senior Member
If the CPU in your other computer is more powerful then the one your having problems playing HD videos with then that's the cause of your problems (although I doubt a P4 would be able to handle decoding HD video)
|2009-10-12, 12:26
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: somewhere over the rainbow
you could try with hardware (graphics-card) instead of software (CPU) decode of H.264 videos.
uninstall k-lite(or any other codecs-pack you have) and Haali Splitter that came with CoreAVC195.
install CCCP. then follow the instructions on how to use CoreAVC with CCCP: How to use CoreAVC instead of FFDShow.
then go to the CoreAVC settings page and enable "Prefer CUDA Acceleration". this wont work on H.264 files with 16Reframes (the CPU will still do the decoding). "[Himatsubushi]_Needless_-_01_[720p][H264]" has 9Reframes so it will work flawless.
still, your P4 2800MHz should play 720p in software-mode without problems nevertheless.
|2009-10-12, 13:42
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IT Support
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Pennsylvania , United States
Age: 29
Since you have a compatible graphics card (nVidia Geforce 8600), you can try the DXVA support which will allow acceleration of H264 video. This tutorial should help you...
The resolution shouldn't really impact the video performance... however... since the CPU does most of the encoding and the CPU shouldn't really be a problem really.
|2009-10-14, 14:59
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blinded by blood
Your processor is your bottleneck.
Since you have an nVidia graphics card, try using CoreAVC (you can get a trial version for free from corecodec.com to see if it works) and enable CUDA hardware decoding for h.264 video. That should fix you up just fine. CoreAVC isn't free though, but it is only $15.
|2009-10-14, 18:44
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2009
Thanks friends for giving me these solutions.
I tried all of the above and I didnt get any satisfying results. Best result was with CoreAVC after all. but even ... the CPU looked like burning when decoding.
and it seems that the DVXA is not working properly. Whatever i tried with MPC-HC. and not to mention that the latest CCCP didnt include CoreAVC in its bundle, they simply put FFdshow instead.
i did some research too. looks like the main problem is my motherbourd since the slot is AGP 4X which makes the bottleneck for the VGA card and prevents it from functioning at its real preformance.
also about CUDA, it doesnt seem it supports VGA cards.
and now i believe i did a mistake when i bought this card lol.
but if i'm wrong plz point the wrong points in what i said.
|2009-10-14, 20:22
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blinded by blood
Just by itself CoreAVC will make a difference, because it's faster than libavcodec.
But since you have a GeForce graphics card, make sure you select "Prefer CUDA acceleration" in CoreAVC's control panel. It should then decode h.264 with the graphics card instead of your processor.
At that point, the only thing the processor should be doing is rendering your subtitles. Your CPU usage should be in the 20-25% range.
CoreAVC does not come with CCCP, because it's not free. You can purchase it from corecodec.com for $15.
Edit: The 8x series of GeForce cards should work with CUDA, according to nVidia. Try updating to the newest reference drivers from nvidia.com.
If CUDA or DXVA isn't working, then your graphics card is not being used to decode the video. Your graphics card and the AGP4x bus isn't even entering into the equation unless you enable hardware acceleration through one of the two aforementioned methods.
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Australian shares closed almost half a per cent lower on the final trading day of 2012, as investors locked in profits following a negative lead from Wall Street.
The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed a shortened session down 22.4 points, or 0.48 per cent, at 4,648.9 points on Monday, while the broader All Ordinaries index fell 20.7 points, or 0.44 per cent, to 4,664.6 points.
On the ASX 24, the March 2013 share price index futures contract was 30 points lower at 4,616 points, on volume of 14,233 contracts traded.
The Australian stock market closed early on New Year's Eve and will resume trade on Wednesday, January 2, 2013.
The prospect of no deal being reached between US president Barack Obama and legislators in the US Congress over a looming budget deadline caused investors to offload stocks during Friday night's (AEDT) US session.
CommSec economist Craig James said local investors now appeared to be more optimistic about the US situation, and took heart from stronger-than-expected Chinese manufacturing figures released at 1230 AEDT.
"It was short-lived strength, but there was a degree of strength when the Chinese data came through," Mr James said.
"What we're seeing now is some of the late book squaring and profit-taking by a number of the professional investors and some retail-type investors."
Australia had again outperformed European and US markets, with most people optimistic that an agreement would be reached in the US.
Wall Street closed lower - the Dow slipped 1.21 per cent, the S&P500 eased 1.1 per cent and the NASDAQ tumbled 0.86 per cent.
In local news, Fairfax Media was up 7.4 per cent at 51 cents after it emerged advertising man John Singleton and investment banker Mark Carnegie had bought into the struggling publisher.
Sundance Resources shares were 15.6 per cent higher at 37 cents following reports that Hanlong Mining is finalising the $1.3 billion acquisition of the Australian miner.
Two of the best-performing stocks over the year, DrillSearch and Breville, suffered losses on Monday.
Breville was the worst-performing stock on the S&P/ASX200, tumbling five per cent, or 35 cents, to $6.65, while DrillSearch slipped 2.25 per cent, or 3.5 cents, to $1.52.
The spot price of gold in Sydney finished at $US1,663.34 per fine ounce, up $US1.19 from Friday's local close of $US1,662.15 per ounce.
National turnover was 609.5 million securities worth $1.2 billion, with 338 stocks trading up, 405 down and 354 unchanged.


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-----To All-----...in fact, I thought I first proved that there were many errors in the bible's English translated text (how the greek word for "census" did not mean taxes but enrollment) and that the bible text was not reliable as it currently stood, which is why it was my "first word" on the historical subject of Yahshua's birth...
...being followed by (what I thought) were more third-party references and links than just Wikipedia (citing Mommsen, Josephus, Orosius, Augustus, Tertullian, Justin Martin, Cambridge Ancient History...even a site that gives the accurate Greek definitions of the word in question), all placed directly under the quoted text (or was italicized) to be validated on one's own, with Augustus as the "last word".
First, before you say the book is full of baseless assumptions, read the section i have presented on Quirinius, and you will find excellent arguementation and evidence for the proposed view. Second, I have read the aforementioned section on Quirinius, and gave it as evidence for the traditional view. Third, if you do not wish to read the entire section, at least see pages 284-295 specifically. Ramsay's reasoning is academic and sound, and his evidences (textual, historical, and archeological) are excellent.
The Date of the Nativity in Luke (6th ed., 2011)http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/quirinius.html
II. Was Quirinius Twice Governor?http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/quirinius.html#II
The gospel writers had to invent a way to have Jesus born in Bethlehem but still be from Galilee.
Quote from: globalvalue on July 23, 2011, 11:25:23 AMThe gospel writers had to invent a way to have Jesus born in Bethlehem but still be from Galilee.Yeah, I think that's basically it. The nativity accounts appear to be stories created for theological purposes, to have Jesus in the right place at the right time, with the right mom and Dad (and stepdad), etc. So it gets kind of silly to debate the "historical" details...The other sources, Mark and John (and Paul) didn't see fit to tell us anything about Jesus' human birth, it just wasn't significant to them. Since Mark and Paul are earlier sources than Lk and Mt, that's consistent with these birth narratives being later inventions...
Jesus was born in 1984.. I asked him last week when he was next door during one of those hoopty Spanish cookouts they have every month.. He has a really cool low rider with a really loud speaker with that heavy bass that makes my bed shake sometimes.. I know..it pisses off the Xtians that Jesus is just a house painter with an attitude, huh?
Velkyn, see point (2) on pages 293-294:http://books.google.com/books?id=NC9VAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA275&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
now, if this is such a special book, the bible, why can't it even get dates right or who is in what position right? Why do we have no idea when JC supposedly existed except for attempts to stuff it into times where bible apologists think that some thing similar may have happened? Why is this so hard to figure out if there were supposed prophecies and everyone was so impressed with this man/god? We get reports of thousands of people meeting in an occupied land and but no one notices him officially? There is no record of this character anywhere.
First, yes, I read Jed and responded to each of his major criticisms.Second, you comment "Again, we have assumptions built on even more assertions with no evidence to back them up." is lazy and is not giving any justice to the passage I presented from the book (as you requested, I am giving you specific passages now instead of throwing whole chapters at you). A reasonable hypothesis was presented with reasonable evidence cited. I'm not sure what you're driving at with this...
Third, there is a wealth of works on the subjects you have addressed in your quote, that is, if you care to look. Summerizing the content would take more time then I have, but if the subjects truely interest you, I highly highly recommend any book by Sir William Mitchell Ramsay. He presents a lucid and well reasoned approach for from an archeological and anthropological standpoint. As far as Jesus himself, the best book I have ever read on the topic was The Jesus Legend by Greg Boyd.
Lastly, I never claimed that this was a forgery, simply a transcription error.
First I would ask, couldn't men of that level ever receive such a title? Justin Martyr seemed to think so in his Apology, specifically I.34. He called Quirinius the "procurator in Judaea".
"Now there is a village in the land of the Jews, thirty-five stadia from Jerusalem, in which Christ was born, as you can ascertain also from the registries of the taxing under Quirinius your first procurator in Judea." (First Apology, 34)
Quirinius, a Roman senator who had proceeded through all the magistracies to the consulship and a man who was extremely distinguished in other respects, arrived in Syria, dispatched by Caesar to be governor of the nation and to make an assessment of their property. Coponius, a man of equestrian rank, was sent along with him to rule over the Jews with full authority. Quirinius also visited Judaea, which had been annexed to Syria, in order to make an assessment of the property of the Jews and to liquidate the estate of Archelaus. (Josephus, Antiquities 18.1-4)
Secondly, you are basing Herod's death of a transcription error in Josephus; every Josephus transcript before 1544 says that Herod died in 1 B.C., see: Beyer article
All Finegan (and Beyer) does is "count manuscripts" and argue that older manuscripts are the most reliable. But neither is true, as any palaeographer knows. We have no way of knowing which of the manuscripts Beyer counted were copies of other extant manuscripts (and thus completely irrelevant to the question), and we have no idea whether the manuscripts he looked at are known to be reliable or unreliable or to what degree or in what ways. Older manuscripts can sometimes be poorer than new manuscripts, since newer ones can be based on even older but more reliable archetypes..., and older ones may stem from especially faulty textual traditions....Beyer examined only manuscripts in the British Museum and the Library of Congress--yet the best manuscripts are in France and Italy--one of which is the oldest, Codex Ambrosianae F 128, inscribed in the 11th century (the oldest manuscript Beyer examined was 12th century); and another is the most reliable: Codex Vaticanus Graecus 984, transcribed in 1354; both confirming a reading of "twentieth," and thus invalidating all his conclusions from the start.http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/quirinius.html#date
Thirdly, concerning the oath, see Josephus' Antiquities, specifically XVII.41–45:...When therefore the whole Jewish nation took an OATH to be faithful to Caesar, and [to] the interests of the king, these men, to the number of above six thousand, refused to swear.... ...
For Herod's enrollment, then, there is open only the late summer of 7 or 6 BC...the enrollment can hardly be brought down so late as 5 BC. ...Luke, however, gives additional information about the Savior's life, which affords reasonable confidence that 6 BC. was the year of Christ's birth.http://christianbookshelf.org/ramsay/was_christ_born_in_bethlehem/chapter_9_king_herods_enrollment.htm
Pseudohistory in Jerry Vardaman's magic coins: the nonsense of micro graphic letters.http://business.highbeam.com/5799/article-1G1-83585959/pseudohistory-jerry-vardaman-magic-coins-nonsense-micro
He states that the eclipse in 4 BC was a comparatively weak eclipse of very weak magnitude, and without modern optics, not to be considered a memorable event.
Though Josephus may have used this eclipse as his reference, it would seem that the higher likelihood would be the 1 BC eclipse, which was a total eclipse, apparently lasting over 200 minutes (this is rare and something to take note of).
The longest total solar eclipse during the 8,000 year period from 3000 BC to 5000 AD will occur on July 16, 2186, when totality will last 7 min 29 s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse


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Skip to comments.Obama campaign cracks down on misleading TV ads (Triple Barf Censorship Alert)
Posted on 09/26/2008 7:07:05 AM PDT by samtheman
The Barack Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading TV ad during the presidential campaign.
This however, this Truth Squad driven by candidates, involving partisan prosecutors and sheriffs, THIS is what will trigger the sort of breakdown that would unravel any demeanor of civility in this country.
That which is intolerable to one may be a mosquito bite to another. In one locale, infringements of guaranteed rights may be mostly pro forma, in others they may be rigidly enforced and thereby far more apparant.
But civility has pretty much gone by the wayside, not quite the first casualty of such a conflict, but among the first.
I really dont think Im exaggerating here.
It was kind of odd how Chicago investigator Sherman Skolnick *just happened* to pass away just before Barack Obama announced his run for President. Skolnick was founder and chairman of the Citizens Committee to Clean Up the Courts, which nailed two Illinois Supreme Court justices, Roy J. Solfisburg Jr. and Ray Klingbiel, who had accepted bribes of stock from a defendant in a case on which they ruled. The scandal catapulted John Paul Stevens, special counsel to the resulting investigating commission to a seat as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Skolnick had indeed uncovered so many links between plots and participants in conspiracies that he may have come to see some where none existed...but he also uncovered others that noone else had noticed, and Obama was right in his back yard.
CLOAK'S EXCLUSIVE AUGUST 2005 STORY EXPOSING OBAMA's KENYAN BIRTHPLACE FORCES OBAMA TO SANITIZE HIS PASSPORT FILE
Insiders Report It Was Accomplished With The Assistance of the Clinton Mob
Filed 8/28/05
CLOAK Co-host Sherman Skolnick prior to the 2004 Election fingered Barack Obama running in Illinois for the U.S. Senate as a British Intel agent born in Kenya. Skolnick, as a co-spy watcher unmasked Obama on his regular CLOAK program, Shop Talk From Plot H.Q.
Today Russian President V. Putin ordered U.S. Senator Barack Obama, who is also tight with MOSSAD, to be held in custody under suspicion of being a British operative illegally spying in Russia at off-limits secret facilities.
Spying with Obama, who was locked up, was U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, pro-Bush, was detained by Putin but unlike Obama, quickly released. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar and Committee member Barack Obama at a base near Perm, Russia. This is where mobile launch missiles are being destroyed by the Nunn-Lugar program.
Lugar delegation detained for three hours in Perm after inspecting nuke weapons facility US Senator Richard Lugar, who was briefly detained with a US delegation in Perm, Siberia, after inspecting the site, which is being dismantled with US funding.
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A US delegation headed by Republican Senator Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was detained Sunday for three hours at an airport in the Siberian city of Perm, Russia before being allowed to leave the country for Ukraine in a diplomatically chaotic incident Sunday. Charles Digges, 29/08-2005
US officials were nonetheless anxious to downplay the incident in an apparent effort to avoid diplomatic fallout with the increasingly hard-line regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has publicly expressed dismay over a number of US-Russian disarmament programmes.
[Full Article at:]
A U.S. delegation headed by Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was detained Sunday for three hours at an airport in Russia before being allowed to leave the country for Ukraine.
Russian border guards at the airport in the Siberian city of Perm demanded to search the U.S. government aircraft carrying the delegation, which also included Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., who was making his first foreign trip since becoming a senator. Obama is also a member of the Foreign Relations Committee.
American officials, citing a U.S.-Russian agreement that does not allow such inspections, refused to allow the search, leading to a three-hour standoff at the airport, ... http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-14177951.html
To: Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce
Subject: Proper use of Criminal Justice Resources
Why are you threatening to use government resources to prosecute political enemies?
I saw a video tape on WMOV featuring you as a member of the so-called "Obama Truth Squad" saying you would officially "remind voters that Barack Obama is a Christian who wants to cut taxes for anyone making under $250,000 per year."
Are you doing this on government time, using government money? How is this a part of the function of government for the city of St. Louis?
Your mission statement says: "To pursue justice for all citizens within the highest standards of ethical behavior and professionalism."
Your quote:
"We want to keep this campaign focused on issues. We don't want people to get distracted - Missourians don't want to be distracted - by these divisive character attacks. So we're here to respond to any character attacks, to set the record straight..." Your comments were cut off at that point.
"Missourians don't want to be distracted" - so you've decided that you speak for all of Missouri? No one is allowed to counter the claims of Mr. Obama? I think you said it right the first time, "*WE* DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO GET DISTRACTED..." You, as a government official with police power behind you, will use your authority to track down dissent and put an end to it, with official authority, I assume.
If I were your supervisor I'd have your resignation on my desk first thing in the morning for making a statement like this to the press while in your official capacity. This and the actions of like-minded sheriffs and other members of law enforcement are completely outside the bounds of your duties and authority. It isn't the job of attorneys or sheriffs to be concerned about what individuals say about a political candidate they favor, unless the First Amendment was overturned last night. And have you extinguished violent crime in St. Louis and now can use police powers to harass law-abiding citizens for exercising God-given rights our forefathers died to protect?
How do you justify participating in a so-called "Obama Truth Squad" in your capacity as an attorney for the City of St. Louis? Is it your opinion that your official duties include hunting down political opponents who dare to criticize Mr. Obama, using the power and resources of the City of St. Louis? May we please see that your job description so we can determine if this is part of what you are paid to do? Do your supervisors and constituents approve of your using government resources and time to go after political opponents? Is it now the policy of the City of St. Louis to intervene in civil matters (unless libel is now a criminal offense in Missouri, if so, all the more reason never to move there!) when your office represents CRIMINAL matters?
The video has put a deep fear of government into my heart. I thought we'd never have a police state, but I guess we are on the way to having one now. To think that a senator campaigning for president has the power to wield police power against his enemies. This isn't the United States I was raised in.
I work for a company based in St. Louis. Thank heavens I do not live there. Hugo Chavez, you have some warm friends waiting your advice in the office of the City of St. Louis.
Are you going to prosecute me for writing to you? I am almost afraid to send this to you, for fear of government retribution. You have most of the guns and money, after all.
Welcome to New Canada, please surrender your banned thoughts at the border.
All part of the Rainbow "Freedom for Me and None for Thee" strategy.
Greetings fellow FReeper thought criminals.
I've thought for 2 days now that we will have civil war in one way or another....it will split families more than anything in our history......you can't live with people that think so little of our country.....
And yet the DUmmies complain when anarkids are arrests for breaking windows and assembling pee and poop bombs in St. Paul, along with molotov cocktails. Either way the election goes in November, there will likely be civil war afterwards. Yes, even if Obama loses, the lefties are going to throw a temper tantrum like you have never seen.
Will they be issued brown shirts?
"Oh, geez, this is a sure sign of things to come if Obama is elected President."
Did you notice that there was dead silence among democrat congressmen? It is the same silence that you hear from the "peaceful" Muslims when their co-religionists perpetrate these horrible terrorist acts.
Thank God I'm not in Missouri, where it's illegal to campaign against Democrats.
They should be impeached or recalled, if possible.
Certainly defeated in their next elections.
"The Barack Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading TV ad during the presidential campaign."
After much reflection I have now come to the uncomfortable conclusion that Obama WANTS to cause dissension and strife in our country... maybe even riots if he loses the election.
This is VERY SERIOUS and needs to be nipped in the bud NOW by ANY and ALL LEGAL means at our disposal!
The nasty little fascist and his brawn shirts must be stopped!
Perhaps the United States Department of Justice can be encouraged to look into this.
U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
Why not email Ms. Joyce?
I can't seem to get the video. Did they pull it?
"Obama Truth Squads?" that are being supported by State Law enforcement?
The Antichrist has taken over America.
If Obama were any kind of a leader at all he would publicly tell these people to stop. He would forbid them to interfere with the 1st amendment of the constitution. That would certainly earn him more respect than this stunt could ever.
From Barack Obama's official website:
I wanted to make an art piece of Barack Obama because I thought an iconic portrait of him could symbolize and amplify the importance of his mission. I believe Obama will guide this country to a future where everyone can thrive and I should support him vigorously for the sake of my two young daughters. I have made art opposing the Iraq war for several years, and making art of Obama, who opposed the war from the start, is like making art for peace. I know I have an audience of young art fans and Im delighted if I can encourage them to see the merits of Barack Obama.
-Shepard Fairey
See? It's all about "peace, love, togetherness" and "change".
Here are some of Fairey's other masterpieces. No joke. Most of his works are along these same lines (anti-American, pro-communist propaganda). Check the link.
Source: The Jonathan Levine Gallery:
From a 'thank you' letter Barack Obama sent to Shepard Fairey:
"Dear Shepard, I would like to thank you for using your talent in support of my campaign. The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can help change the status quo. Your images have a profound effect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign.'"
Portrait of Angela Davis by Obama artist Shepard Fairey:
Angela Davis
Source: The Jonathan Levine Gallery (link given above)
From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
* Communist professor at the University of Californias Santa Cruz campus
* Recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize from the police state of East Germany in 1979
* Provided an arsenal of weapons to Black Panthers who used them to kill a Marin Country judge in a failed attempt to free Davis' imprisoned lover, Black Panther murderer George Jackson
* Icon of the campus Left and frequent guest speaker at anti-war rallies
* Leader of a movement to free all criminals who are minorities claiming that they are political prisoners of the racist United States
* The only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class.
Angela Yvonne Davis is a tenured professor in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California - Santa Cruz. A former member of the Black Panther Party, she is currently a University Professor, one of only seven in the entire California University system, which entitles her to a six-figure salary and a research assistant. This income is supplemented by speaking fees ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 per appearance on college campuses, where she is an icon of radical faculty, administrators, and students. Davis has also taught at UCLA and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
You'd think that a bunch of government officials using their position in an attempt to threaten and bully the opposition would go against the glorious Missouri ethics law.
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Judge denies bid to stall 9/11 case at Guantanamo
MIAMI (AP) — Legal proceedings against five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attack should go forward, a military judge ruled Tuesday, rejecting a bid to put the case on hold until the Pentagon resolves computer network security concerns.
Army Col. James Pohl said the steps announced by Pentagon officials to address concerns raised by the defense are adequate to keep pretrial hearings moving for the five prisoners charged with orchestrating the terrorist attack.
The defendants are facing trial by military commission at the U.S. base in Cuba on charges that include nearly 3,000 counts of murder, terrorism and hijacking for their alleged roles planning and aiding the worst terror attack on U.S. soil. They face the death penalty if convicted.
Pohl heard three days of testimony in August at Guantanamo about security fears that prompted defense lawyers to stop using government email and servers for confidential legal work. Lawyers said data disappeared, emails went astray or were improperly sent to the prosecution, and private legal research was subject to monitoring.
Prosecutors said the concerns were overblown, but Defense Department officials agreed to address the complaints in the coming weeks.
James Connell, a lawyer for defendant Ammar al-Baluchi, said the main issues have not been resolved and the defense teams are still using external hard drives and personal email for sensitive case work.
"From our perspective, nothing has changed as of today," Connell said.
Nevertheless, Pohl determined enough progress had been made to move forward with a case that has repeatedly stalled over legal and political issues since the five men were transferred to Guantanamo from secret CIA prisons overseas in September 2006. The next round of pretrial hearings is scheduled to begin Oct. 22. A trial date has not been set.


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In August, Antibalas —the kings of New York's burgeoning Afrobeat scene—released their first new album in five years. After reuniting with producer/engineer and former guitarist Gabriel Roth (who was at the helm for their first three albums), the group piled into two rooms at Daptone's now-legendary House of Soul Studios in Bushwick, Brooklyn and recorded their strongest offering yet.
Credited with introducing afrobeat to a wider global audience and influencing countless musicians in their path, Antibalas remains indebted to the foundations and forms laid out by their Afrobeat predecessor Fela Kuti. In recent years, the group has been featured in the Broadway music in Fela!, for which they arranged and performed the show's score of music originally performed by Kuti. The horn-driven outfit has performed in over 35 countries and throughout their native New York City, from Carnegie Hall to Central Park Summerstage to the Rikers Island prison facility.
But perhaps Antibalas' greatest feat has been establishing Afrobeat as a viable and growing art form that exists beyond the confines of 1970s Nigeria. And, as the de facto torchbearers of the Afrobeat genre, Antibalas has spawned a growing offspring that includes both traditional interpreters like Zongo Junction as well as more progressive examples like Rubblebucket and Superhuman Happiness. In the following conversation, we chat with Antibalas founder Martín Perna about group's new album, the politically charged messages it contains and the preservation of the Afrobeat art form.
Why was it finally time to make the self-titled Antibalas album?
We just wanted the focus to be on the band and not on a title. This record epitomized the band playing under the best possible circumstances and with a label that liked us. That's why. It's hard to agree on anything, but we agreed on this. It's like, we already agreed on the name of the band, so why not use it again as a title? [Laughs].
What were some of the key elements that allowed the band to operate on such a high level?
Well, that everyone was available. We could have made this record probably three or four years ago. But people were really busy, so we didn't. We hadn't had time to sit down with Daptone [Records] and work things out as far as having a label that would be committed to putting the record out, and figuring out where we wanted to record it. Some of the guys were tied up with another show or one of their solo projects, so it's kind of like an eclipse—these massive bodies of things being in alignment and not having that happen every day. Planetary bodies in alignment, that's what it was.
We have all these crazy schedules and as much as we love the music, it's not like it pays us so much that we can afford to drop all this other stuff. It's really a labor of love, and that's why it takes so many people to make it happen. That's why it was so great this time, because it wasn't missing any people.
We did it with Daptone which was fun, but we also helped build that place. We watched it go from nothing to this factory of music that's changed big parts of the American musical landscape. We recorded the first record that was ever done there and helped build it, wire it and paint it and, now, going back and making a record there was wonderful.
Do you feel the diverse array of projects that the members are involved in wind up influencing the sound of Antibalas?
I think Antibalas informs the other bands more than the other bands inform Antibalas. There's a form that we follow in Antibalas that's more like a script with rules, which has particular steps or particular grammar to it. So, I think you can hear the imprint of Antibalas in all of the other stuff that we do, rather than vise versa, in that way.
A lot of these groups have a lot of members of Antibalas in them, so we're constantly working on these different musical relationships and I think that's what you hear when we all come back to Antibalas. The fact that our drummer, bass player, tenor sax player, guitar player, and some other satellite members of the group like Eric Biondo, rehearse and play in [Superhuman Happiness]…the intimacy and those relationships definitely translate back to Antibalas as far as us being connected. In this musicality, that's what we're bringing back from all these other projects. It's the spirit of exploration that's brought back in and applied to our aesthetic.
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244 Serenoa repensCommon Names: saw palmetto Family: Arecacea (palm Family)
Saw palmetto is a small hardy fan palm whose stem usually remains below ground or runs just along the surface. In some cases, it develops an erect or arching trunk that may lift the whorl of leaves 2-8 ft (0.6-2.4 m) above ground. The palmate leaves are 2-3 ft (0.6-0.9 m) across and green or bluish green. The cluster of leaves gets about 4-6 ft (1.2-1.8 m) high with a similar spread. In the wild, saw palmetto often grows in clumps 20 ft (6 m) or more in diameter. The petioles (leaf stems) are about 2 ft (0.6 m) long and sharply saw-toothed. The fruits are round, black when ripe and about an inch in diameter. An especially attractive form with silvery-blue leaves occurs along the Atlantic coast in Florida and is the form most often grown in gardens and landscapes.
Saw palmetto, Serenoa repens, occurs naturally on the coastal plain from South Carolina to southeastern Louisiana. It grows in a wide range of habitats from seaside sand dunes and dry scrub to moist forests, pine flatwoods and even wetlands. Saw palmetto can be the dominant ground cover in certain southeastern pine forests, sometimes covering hundreds of acres.
CultureOnce established, saw palmetto is virtually maintenance-free. Light: refers full sun, but can tolerate partial sun. Moisture: Tolerates drought but can also tolerate moist soils. Hardiness: USDA Zones 8 - 10. Propagation: By seed.
Saw palmetto is a beautiful little palm and deserves a place in the ornamental landscape with the silver form being especially attractive. Plant saw palmettos in front of clumps of larger palms, or even underneath large palms. They look good massed in clumps in mixed borders, or as framing hedges. Use as accents to trees or in foundation plantings. Do not plant this palm near walkways or where children play as the sharp sawtooth leaf stems can seriously cut exposed skin.
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Saw palmetto berries have always been a valuable food source for wildlife. As their effectiveness as a treatment for various human disorders is confirmed their value has steadily increased. Wild creatures must now compete with human collectors for the saw palmetto fruits. Florida landowners are reporting cases of "saw palmetto rustling" where gangs of pickers move in and strip and area of fruit within a few hours.
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The "fiscal cliff" drama that ended at the midnight hour on the first day of the year was essentially a knock-down drag-out fight over how to close the budget deficit, but the result may significantly impact your personal finances over the coming years.
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Itself a product of an eleventh-hour compromise on authorizing more government debt in 2011, the cliff would have automatically imposed deep cuts in government spending, which, along with the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 President George W. Bush tax cuts, would have punched a half-trillion-dollar hole in the economy.
Instead, Congress passed a lengthy compromise bill, formally known as H.R. 8, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama. It staves off many of those spending cuts and tax increases, but does little to actually address what the debate was ostensibly about, says Marc Goldwein, senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
"There are a lot of odds and ends in this bill," Goldwein says. "This is a long, substantial bill even though it does very little to reduce the deficit or bring our debt under control in a meaningful way."
Here's a breakdown of who won, and who lost out, in the fiscal cliff fix.
Families with children. The Bush tax cuts of 2001 doubled the child tax credit and made it refundable, meaning you can actually get cash back from the government if the credit exceeds your tax liability. The fiscal cliff extends those changes for another five years, until the end of 2017.
For families with kids who drink a lot of milk, there was one other big benefit: The expiration of a farm bill that would have substantially increased the price of milk was extended until the end of 2013, Goldwein says.
Students and their parents. Students and their parents got a couple of key bennies in the fiscal cliff fix, primarily related to education. The law makes permanent Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, which allow parents to save up to $2,000 per year tax-free for education expenses, including private school tuition.
It also extends through 2013 a tax deduction for tuition, fees and other qualifying expenses that can be claimed whether or not you itemize, known as an "above-the-line" deduction.
Finally, the American opportunity tax credit, created by the 2009 stimulus, which provides a $2,500 refundable credit to cover college expenses, was extended until 2018.
Retired philanthropists. The fiscal cliff fix extends through 2013 a provision in the tax code that allows holders of individual retirement accounts and other retirement accounts to make direct distributions to charities without having to include them as income on their tax return, says Michael Eisenberg, a certified public accountant and personal financial specialist at Eisenberg Financial Advisors in Los Angeles.
"Somebody can make a distribution from their IRA directly to a charity, and they don't pick that up as income," he says.
The mass affluent. Those making between $200,000 and $400,000 a year can breathe a sigh of relief; their taxes will fall into the existing 33% and 35% tax brackets. The Obama administration had initially sought to raise tax rates for those making more than $200,000 as single filers and $250,000 as jointly filing couples, but a compromise with House Republicans raised the bar to $400,000 for singles and $450,000 for couples.
Medicare recipients. The new law includes the latest edition of the annual "doc fix," which prevented a 27% drop in reimbursements to doctors for providing Medicare services. While the biggest beneficiaries of the doc fix were obviously doctors, Medicare patients also would have been affected had the fix not taken place, Goldwein says.
"I would think that if physicians immediately saw their payments cut by a quarter, they would stop seeing Medicare patients," he says.
The unemployed. In response to the sky-high unemployment of recent years, Congress gradually extended unemployment benefits from the traditional 13 weeks to as long as 99 weeks to help displaced workers and put a floor under the sagging economy, Goldwein says. While they've since cut that back somewhat as unemployment has eased, the extension of unemployment benefits in the fiscal cliff fix through 2013 will help keep millions who have been out of work for more than 13 weeks from losing benefits, he says.
Underwater homeowners. Homeowners who have mortgage debt canceled also got a break under the fix, says Eisenberg. Forgiveness of mortgage debt through a short sale or some other means won't be treated as taxable income in 2013.
Low-income workers. A 2009 change in the earned income tax credit, which expanded cash tax refunds to low-income workers, was extended for another five years in the fiscal cliff fix.
Workers. While the fiscal cliff fix extended many tax breaks for individuals and businesses, the 2010 payroll tax cut that dropped employees' payroll tax contribution 2 percentage points, from 6.2% to 4.2% on income up to $106,800, was allowed to expire. The ceiling on wages subject to the FICA tax has since increased to $113,700 for the 2013 tax year.
For a worker making $50,000 per year, the tax increase amounts to an extra $1,000 in payroll taxes paid annually, says Eisenberg.
The mass affluent. Just because they avoided a higher income tax rate doesn't mean the mass affluent will get away entirely unscathed from the fiscal cliff fix, says Eisenberg.
"There is a phaseout of itemized deductions for single people making over $250,000 and couples with income over $300,000," Eisenberg says. While their marginal tax rates may not be going up, such deductions, which cover everything from mortgage interest to miscellaneous business expenses, will shrink for higher earners in 2013, increasing their overall tax burden, Eisenberg says. Their Schedule A claims will be gradually reduced, possibly as much as 20%, in 3% increments, based on how much income they make in excess of their income threshold.
Personal exemptions -- those exemptions claimed for taxpayers and their dependents -- similarly will be phased down in 2% increments for mass-affluent taxpayers.
Top earners. Americans in the very highest income brackets will take some tax lumps from the new law, says William McBride, chief economist for the Tax Foundation. Single taxpayers earning more than $400,000 and couples earning more than $450,000 will see their rates go up from 35% currently to 39.6%. Add that to the limits on deductions for high earners, and you've got a potent tax hit, he says.
"Together those two items basically raise the effective tax rate on high-income earners about 3 or 4 points," McBride says.
Wealthy investors. For taxpayers in the higher tax brackets, long-term capital gains tax rates will rise from 15% to 20%. That means high-earning investors who make money from selling stocks, real estate and other investments they've owned for more than a year will pay more than they did in 2012.
That higher 20% rate will also apply to qualified dividends, Eisenberg says.
Large estates. Under the fiscal cliff fix, few people will pay federal estate taxes, since estates up to $5 million, which will be indexed annually for inflation, are exempt. But estates will now pay a 40% tax on amounts over $5 million, up from 35% last year.
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Friday, March 22, 2013 - Wank Party 2013 #02, Part 1
For Wank Party 2013 #2 we assembled a great line-up, Viktor Baco, Adam Rupert, Roman Koroza, Ivo Kerk and Vasek Konik. Things start with Viktor instructing Adam and Roman as they lift weights. Firstly it is Adam, sitting on the bench and lifting the weights, supported by Roman. Then they swap places so Roman can get some exercise. As they change again Ivo and Vasek arrive too. As Roman and Adam continue with the lift ups Ivo and Vasek get changed and ready to train as well. Viktor and Ivo are going to have a little competions and Viktor sits on the bench and starts his lift ups. When he has done as many as he can Ivo takes his place. He does just as well as Viktor and gets a round of applause as he finishes. Viktor suggests that the two of them should do push-ups as well, and he starts it off. Ivo follows suit and still it seems to be a draw. So they then start posing. They get naked and Adam takes hold of their cocks and wanks them as they pose. As Ivo and Viktor's cocks begin to respond Vasek and Roman are rubbing themselves and when Roman drops his cock he is rock hard. Vasek reaches into his shorts and wanks himself as Ivo and Viktor release Adam's throbbing dick from his shorts too. Vasek too is hard now, so all five are up and ready for more. Adam is eager to suck some cock and moves over to Vasek and Roman, dropping to his knees to begin sucking. Ivo follow his lead and begins to suck Viktor. Adam sucks Roman and Vasek in turn, his wet mouth working over each of the cocks. Viktor changes places with Ivo and sucks on his big cock. Adam stands up and places his rigid dick against those of Roman and Vasek, to compare. Then Roman drops to his knees and begins to suck on his friends. As he sucks on them Vasek and Adam lean over and kiss each other. Next Ivo lays on the floor and lifts his legs up in the air, so that his ass is available. Adam goes down on his knees and begins to rim Ivo's hot hole. His own hole is available too and Roman begins to lick at it as well. What a hot start to this wank party, with 5 awesome guys.
... more about Wank Party 2013 #02, Part 1 further in this newsletter
Our Coming Soon Set Preview
We paired two really great guys, Lukas Pribyl and Filip Cervenka for a scene. We find them playing a game, with some cards which have a series of sexual postions on them. Lukas suggests that they should try the positions. With Filip eagerly agreeing they start to kiss. As they kiss the guys start rubbing each other's groins. Soon their cocks are hard and poking out of the underwear. Filip moves and removes his underwear showing that rock hard cock. Lukas takes hold of the cock and starts wanking it as Filip reaches over and does the same. Then with Lukas naked as well they have a great time wanking the hard dicks. Filip then starts to suck on Lukas' big cock. His mouth moves nicely over the cock until Lukas begins to fuck it into Filips mouth. Filip then straddles Lukas and presents his cock for some sucking. Lukas does a good job of taking that dick in his mouth as Filip reaches back to wank his friend. Filip then scoots up further so that his ass is hovering over Lukas mouth. Lukas takes the opportunity to rim that hot, hairy hole. When the hole is nice and wet Lukas uses a finger to open it up some more. His finger goes in nice and easy and starts fucking that tight hole. Then Filip is ready and he moves down so that he can sit his ass on Lukas' rock hard cock. Filip rides on that cock, his ass moving up and down as he takes it all. Lukas then starts to fuck that ass hard and fast. Remembering that they agreed to try the postions on the cards Filip moves and bends over with Lukas behind him, for the fucking to continue. Lukas pounds that hot ass as Filip wanks himself. Then the guys decide to change roles, with Lukas on his back and Filip fucking him missionary style. His cock works Lukas tight ass, opening it real good. With Lukas wanking himself nice and fast he takes Filip's dick all the way in his ass. Soon Lukas cant hold back and squirts his cum right up his chest. Filip sees it and is so turned on that he needs to cum too. He moves up and dumps his hot load over Lukas face and chest. Lukas eagerly cleans that sticky cock and the guys then share a final kiss.
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We had one beautiful day of spring weather this week. Guys were walking around on the street wearing short pants and short sleeved shirts. I was so optimistic I went home and mended a pocket of my favorite pair of cargo shorts, which a good friend told me to throw out, as a pocket can never be successfully mended. Nonsense. Next day it was colder, then snow flurries, and a truly dreadful forecast for the next few days. Gosh, I was ready for winter to be over.
Meanwhile, I've published my last First Look at our current Wank Party based on Mr. Franky's footage. Fantastic cast. I was under the weather because of food poisoning contracted at a new restaurant, recommended by Mr. Franky, Miro, and Boris. I won't engage in any conspiracy theories. But both Franky's backstage footage and the Wank Party are very nice.
We have a wonderful cast for Wank Party 2013 #2 part one, which leads off today. Then we have Ben Stoller's erotic video, a beautiful stills shoot with Adam Rupert and a backstage video of Dalibor Hlava and Filip Cervenka.
Three castings today, with Jirka Hostinsky, Michal Sokol and Slavek Jasnej. All three look good to me, but my pick for today will go to Michal Sokol.
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Manchester man faces witness tampering, threatening counts
February 25. 2014 8:27PM
MANCHESTER — A city man accused of violating a domestic violence protective order Feb. 6 was arraigned Tuesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on that charge as well a half dozen newer charges.
Alex Ortiz, 31, of 31 Garland Ave., pleaded innocent to the DVP violation that alleges he parked within 50 yards of a woman's residence.
The new charges brought by the New Hampshire State Police are: felony witness tampering, alleging he threatened to kill a woman and her two children if she called police; three misdemeanor assault charges, alleging he scratched, punched and pulled the hair of the potential witness and her two children; misdemeanor threatening, alleging he threatened to kill all three people; and a misdemeanor of unauthorized use of a propelled vehicle, alleging he used the woman's car without permission.
Police prosecutor Carrissa Pelletier sought $5,000 cash/surety bail on the Manchester DVP violation charge; she noted Ortiz was indicted on a criminal threatening charge with a firearm that involved the same victim.
A state police prosecutor sought $10,000 cash-only on the charges, but Judge William Lyons set bail at $15,000 cash/surety.
A probable cause hearing on the felony was set for March 10. Trial on the misdemeanors was set for March 26.
Accused of threats
Bail was continued at $1,000 personal recognizance Tuesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division for Melissa LaRoche, 35, of 38 Derry Ave., Hooksett.
LaRoche pleaded innocent to three misdemeanor charges of criminal threatening that allege she threatened to punch and to kill her ex-husband and another person at an Amherst Street address Monday. Bail conditions bar contact with the alleged victims and bar LaRoche from the Amherst Street address. Trial was set for April 9.
Contempt charge filed
Luke Green, 33, of 73 Manchester St., could enter no plea Tuesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division to felony charges of sale of a controlled drug.
Green, who said on his bail information form that he has been a naval reserve recruiter for 13 years, is accused of selling crack cocaine to a Manchester police officer on two occasions: Nov. 28 and Dec. 16, 2013.
Because Green was out on bail on a charge of operating with a suspended registration at the time of the alleged drug sales, police prosecutors filed a contempt of court charge.
Bail is $5,000 cash/surety. A probable cause hearing was set for March 12.