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Debt Management Seminar:
Thursday, November 1st, 2001
Where: In Room C25
Why: To educate yourself on the realities of debt and to obtain helpful tips on how to manage it.
Note: The Office of Financial Aid will be closed from 12:00 Noon to 1:00 P.M. so the staff can attend the seminar.
Did you know that there are U.S. tax breaks if you plan to go to college? Go to the following website to learn about tax breaks for those either planning to go to college, already in school, or for people who have graduated and are paying back loans on their education: www.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/
Exit Interviews
For those lucky December Grads, Exit Interviews will be held on the following days and times:
November 27, 2001 - 12:00 Noon to 1:00p.m. - Rm. 370
At the session, Borrower
Profiles will be available to those who will be graduating. If you
are not able to attend these sessions,
The National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) is the U.S. Department of Education's central database for student aid. NSLDS provides a centralized, integrated view of Title IV loans that are tracked through their entire cycle: www.nslds.ed.gov
The PIN serves as your identifier to let you access your personal information in various U.S. Department of Education systems. You may use this web site as your central online resource for making use of the PIN: www.eac.ed.gov
Visiting Another Law School
If you are planning to visit another law school for any term, and you would like to apply for financial aid, please submit all of the required paperwork to ensure receiving your disbursements in a timely manner. If you have any questions regarding this process, please call the Office of Financial Aid.
The following forms are available to download:
1. Chicago-Kent Study Abroad
Financial Aid Request Form
These forms can be downloaded from forms page
If you are a student who is planning on taking both Law and MBA Courses for the 2001-02 academic year, please be advised that this may affect your financial aid. Please call the Financial Aid Office at (312) 906-5180 and schedule an appointment with a financial aid counselor so we may give you a detailed breakdown of how your loans will be disbursed.
Signature Loan Update: Signature Loan from Bank One was originally one of our preferred lenders listed on the 2001-02 Alternative Express Loan Application. Please be advised that we have substituted Law Loans for Signature Bank. The same terms still apply. In addition, Saliie Mae is still the servicer for that particular loan program.
Promissory notes for Law Loans are available in the Office of Financial Aid.
IlT Loan from IDAPP: If you chose Illinois Institute of Technology as your private loan lender for the 2001-02 academic year, you must also select Illinois Institute of Technology as your preferred Federal Stafford Loan lender, -OR- you must select a lender not on our preferred lender list but who is an Illinois lender for your Federal Stafford Loans.
can apply for this loan online at www.IDAPP.com
Apply for federal financial aid online using the Department of Education's
FAFSA on the Web. It's free, fast, easy and accurate!! www.fafsa.ed.gov
If you need help completing the Free Application for Federal Student
Aid (FAFSA), the Department of Education provides this helpful site with
complete instructions, and phone numbers if you need more help:
The Office of Financial Aid is open Monday through Thursday, 8:30 AM
to 6:00 PM and Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. We are located on the
second floor in Suite 230. Please feel free to stop in our office
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PITTSBURGH (AP) Terrell Suggs isn't ready to declare the race for the AFC North title over.
Besides, even if it were after the Baltimore Ravens' 13-10 victory over the Steelers on Sunday night, the veteran linebacker knows Pittsburgh still has the upper hand in the rivals' ultimate litmus test.
``They got it where it counts,'' Suggs said. ``That's all that really matters is championships. These little independent battles is good for morale but until we catch them in the ring race ... we'll take the win but we've still got to catch them in that component of the rivalry.''
The Ravens (8-2) took a significant step in that direction by shutting down the Steelers (6-4) and backup quarterback Byron Leftwich. The veteran completed 18 of 39 passes for 201 yards in place of injured starter Ben Roethlisberger. Leftwich ran for a score but also threw a drive-killing interception and was sacked three times.
``We went out there and we tried to make plays,'' Leftwich said. ``Some went our way, some didn't. And it just wasn't enough.''
The rematch comes in Baltimore in two weeks.
``It's like halftime,'' Baltimore coach John Harbaugh said. ``It's like we won the first half and the second half is coming up.''
The Steelers certainly hope it goes a little better than the first.
Pittsburgh was a clock chewing, drive extending machine under Roethlisberger. There were considerably more fits and starts with Leftwich under center. The Steelers converted just 5 of 17 (29 percent) of third downs, well below their season average or 49 percent.
``We never found a rhythm,'' Leftwich said.
The Ravens weren't much better. Joe Flacco completed 20 of 32 passes for 164 yards. Running back Ray Rice managed just 40 yards on 20 carries, forcing the Ravens to rely on an old standby make the difference.
Typically, that's not a problem. But this is not a typical year in Baltimore.
The defense came in ranked 27th in the league in yards allowed and is missing spiritual leader Ray Lewis, who is on the injured reserve-return list with a triceps injury.
The emotional linebacker made the trip anyway, giving his teammates a lift in the locker room.
``We haven't been playing the best the past couple weeks, or the whole season, some people say,'' said Baltimore cornerback Corey Graham, who intercepted Leftwich in the third quarter. ``We've just got to find a way to get wins and that's what we were able to do today.''
The Steelers hosted a number of franchise greats, including Hall-of-Famers Lynn Swann, John Stallworth and Joe Greene.
Their presence was appreciated, though it did little to make up for the absence of safety Troy Polamalu - out again with a right calf injury - or Roethlisberger, the franchise's current standard bearer.
Roethlisberger offered to do everything he could to help Leftwich win his first game as a starter in more than six years and insisted all week the offense wouldn't change.
For a fleeting moment, Roethlisberger appeared to be right.
Leftwich went deep on the game's first snap trying to hit Mike Wallace, drawing a pass interference penalty on Baltimore's Cary Williams. Two plays later Leftwich - who joked all week about his lack of speed - bought time in the pocket, rolled to his right and made for the sideline.
Rather than slide or duck out of bounds, the 250-pound Leftwich got a block and raced - in a manner of speaking - 31 yards for a touchdown to give the Steelers a 7-0 lead. Roethlisberger lifted his good arm in the air in celebration after the longest run of Leftwich's career, and the play seemed to give Pittsburgh a sense of confidence.
It didn't last. At least, not on offense.
The Steelers' second possession ended with a Wallace fumble that Ed Reed returned to the Pittsburgh 14. Baltimore managed only a field goal, but it seemed to bring the Steelers back to earth.
If that didn't, Jones did.
The explosive return man drifted under a Drew Butler punt late in the first half, sprinted up the field, cut to the right and zipped untouched to the end zone for his third return touchdown of the season to give Baltimore a 10-7 lead.
``They were trying to set up the outside wall, but I saw nothing but open field to the right so I thought, `Why not go this way?''' Jones said.
Baltimore moved in front 13-7 in the third quarter on Justin Tucker's second field goal, more than enough to help the Ravens take a major step toward their second straight division title.
``They talked about how it was going to be a physical game, how it was going to come down to the end and it lived up to it,'' Graham said. ``It was definitely a great experience. I look forward to it in a couple weeks.''
NOTES: Baltimore TE Dennis Pitta left the game with a concussion in the first quarter and did not return ... Pittsburgh RB Isaac Redman also left with a concussion and did not return ... Pittsburgh RB Rashard Mendenhall had 33 yards in his first game in a month ... The Steelers travel to Cleveland next week while the Ravens play in San Diego.
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A nonprofit spiritual retreat center quietly operating in Milford Township is firming up its paperwork to continue leasing the former Promethean Institute.
A nonprofit spiritual retreat center quietly operating in Milford Township is firming up its paperwork to continue leasing the former Promethean Institute.
Circle of Trees Retreat Center on Schocopee Road is operated by Marjorie Spadoni, daughter of former Pike County Commissioner Harry Forbes, who is now the governor's northeast regional office director.
Circle of Trees sub-leased the compound from Pike County for weekend retreats a few times a year, starting in 2010.
Now Spadoni is in the process of executing a one-year lease with the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for one dollar.
She lives at the center full time, offers retreats year-round, and will be required to make repairs to the roof and indoor compost toilet system, said Delaware Forest District Forester Brad Elison.
The property, owned by the DCNR, includes 324 acres, four cabins, a well house and the Solar Center — a large building built in 1979 with many, at the time, environmentally advanced features such as indoor compost toilets and a window system designed to use sunlight for heat.
The land was leased for one dollar by Pike County for 25 years, starting in 1997, with the vision of using it as a developed park.
In 2000, the county designed a master park plan and received grant money from the Local Share Account, which is funded by gambling proceeds.
The park plans never came fully to fruition, but Lily Pond at the park became the traditional place for the annual county fishing derby on the first weekend of trout season.
The county learned that the roof on the main building, which leaks, would cost around $170,000 to repair. That was a lot of money for the limited amount of use the building had.
In October, commissioners ended the lease with the DCNR.
The fishing derby will continue at Lily Pond, and Pike will use money from that old grant to build a $180,000 pavilion, part of that old master plan, Pike County Chief Clerk Gary Orben said.
The center caught the notice of Milford Township supervisors who, at a recent meeting, noted they had not been informed that the property had a full-time tenant.
Ordinarily, when a property in the township has a change of use, the tenant must go before supervisors for approval.
"We just got our paperwork with the DCNR. Then we are going to the township," Spadoni said.
She believes that because she is on state land, state agreements are done before township matters are handled.
Circle of Trees Retreat filed for its nonprofit articles of incorporation with the Pennsylvania Department of State in January.
In those papers, Spadoni explained the nonprofit this way: "We offer women and children educational retreats on nature, wellness and spirituality."
The center charges for retreats and then uses proceeds from those events to offer free retreats to terminally ill patients and abuse survivors, Spadoni said.
The retreats focus on nondenominational spiritual programs, include healing circles, journaling, meditation, walking on fire, nature walks, holistic health, crafts, yoga, crystals and a sweat lodge designed to bring peace to the mind, body and soul, Spadoni said.


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The Wake Forest University Special Collections and Archives department is pleased to announce that the Biblical Recorder microfilm is now online and searchable! Thanks to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) as administered by theState Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, our microfilmed issues of the Biblical Recorder from 1834-1970 weredigitized, made searchable, and put online. This resource is one of our most highly used collections, and we are proud that it is now more accessible.
The Biblical Recorder is the official journal of the North Carolina Baptist Convention. Thomas Meredith, and early pastor who was instrumental in the formation of the state convention, founded the newspaper under the name of the Baptist Interpreter. The name was soon changed to the Biblical Recorder and Journal of Passing Events, and ultimately shortened to theBiblical Recorder. Readers can trace trends in social, cultural and religious views from 1833 until now, and gain a better understanding of how Baptist practices and attitudes have changed over the years.
The Biblical Recorder staff and Board of Directors in Raleigh were supportive of this effort from the beginning, and featured an article in their recent issue that will inform all current readers of the new resource as well.
We have already had a lot of positive comments and feedback from researchers who have used the online resource, as well as inquiries as to how the project took shape and what the process was from beginning to end. We are excited to have this available online, and eventually hope to have the funding to complete the remaining film from 1971-present. Please explore the site.


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"They played Beethoven's 'Kreutzer Sonata'. Do you know its first movement, the presto? You know it?" he burst out. "Ah! It's a fearful thing, that sonata. Especially that movement. And music in general's a fearful thing. What is it? I don't know. What is music? What does it do to us? And why does it do to us what it does? People say that music has an uplifting effect on the soul: what rot! It isn't true. It's true that it has an effect, it has a terrible effect on me, at any rate, but it has nothing to do with any uplifting of the soul. Its effect on the soul is neither uplifting nor degrading – it merely irritates me. How can I put it? Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do. I explain this by the circumstance that the effect produced by music is similar to that produced by yawning or laughter. I may not be sleepy, but I yawn if I see someone else yawning; I may have no reason for laughing, but I laugh if I see someone else laughing.
Music carries me instantly and directly into the state of consciousness that was experienced by its composer. My soul merges with his, and together with him I'm transported from one state of consciousness into another; yet why this should be, I've no idea. I mean, take the man who wrote the 'Kreutzer Sonata', Beethoven: he knew why he was in that state of mind. It was that state of mind which led him to perform certain actions, and so it acquired a special significance for him, but none whatever for me. And that's why that kind of music's just an irritant – because it doesn't lead anywhere. A military band plays a march, say: the soldiers march in step, and the music's done its work. An orchestra plays a dance tune, I dance, and the music's done its work. A Mass is sung, I take communion, and once again the music's done its work. But that other kind of music's just an irritation, an excitement, and the action of the excitement's supposed to lead to simply isn't there! That's why it's such a fearful thing, why it sometimes has such a horrible effect. In China, music's an affair of state. And that's the way it ought to be. Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is just the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?
Yet this fearful medium is available to anyone who cares to make use of it. Take that 'Kreutzer Sonata', for example, take its first movement, the presto: can one really allow it to be played in a drawing-room full of women in low-cut dresses? To be played, and then followed a little light applause, and the eating of ice-cream, and talk about the latest society gossip? Such pieces should only be played on certain special, solemn, significant occasions when certain solemn actions have to be performed, actions that correspond to the nature of the music. It should be played, and as it's played those actions which it's inspired with its significance should be performed. Otherwise the generation of all that feeling and energy, which are quite inappropriate to either the place or the occasion, and which aren't allowed any outlet, can't have anything but a harmful effect. On me, at any rate, that piece had the most shattering effect; I had the illusion that I was discovering entirely new emotions, new possibilities I'd known nothing of before then. 'Yes that's it, it's got absolutely nothing to do with the way I've been used to living and seeing the world, that's how it ought to be,' I seemed to hear a voice saying inside me. What this new reality I'd discovered was, I really didn't know, but my awareness of this new state of consciousness filled me with joy."
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Found Here: http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Kreutzer-Sonata-and-Other-Stories1.html
(Beethoven dedicated his Violin Sonata No. 9 to the violinist Rudolphe Kreutzer but Kreutzer never performed it deeming it "outrageously unintelligible".)
Front page of an original edition of the Kreutzer Sonata


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Two Heston Blumenthal chefs die in crash
TOP chef Heston Blumenthal is devastated after two of his restaurant's cooks were killed in a car crash.
They will be sadly and deeply missed. They were both great and dear friends
Ivan Aranto Herrera Jorge and Carl Magnus Lindgren's taxi was crushed between two double-decker buses.
It is thought one of the bus drivers collapsed at the wheel in Hong Kong island's Chai Wan district.
Brit Ivan, 34, and Carl 30, who was Swedish, died in the smash alongside cabbie Wong Kim-Chung, 53.
The chefs worked at the three Michelin-starred restaurant The Fat Duck in Bray, Berks.
TV expert Heston, 46, famed for his experimental style, was said to be "reeling".
A pal said: "He can't believe it. They were huge influences. He's upset. His thoughts go out to their families."
Sources said the two chefs were in Hong Kong to open a new restaurant. They were taken to hospital unconscious, and were later certified dead.
Both bus drivers and 54 passengers were also injured in the accident, with Lau Chit, 57, arrested and later bailed for dangerous driving causing death.
One unnamed bus passenger said: "I looked at the driver. He had already collapsed, his body tilting to one side."
A spokesman for The Fat Duck said: "They will be sadly and deeply missed. They were both great and dear friends."


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Harvey Weinstein's 'Hang 'Em First' Approach To Piracy Hits All The Wrong Suspects
from the research-not-his-strong-suit? dept
So, somehow it doesn't surprise me that Harvey Weinstein recently complained publicly about piracy -- but seemed confused and ignorant about who to blame. His main target: the tech industry providing him all the tools to get into the 21st century. But, he seems determined to stay in the past -- and live in a world of ignorance. It's as if he's heard a few of the MPAA talking points, as well as some of the more hysterically misguided anti-piracy rants online... and synthesized them into the ultimate in clueless rants:
Hollywood power player Harvey Weinstein has urged Big Content to take a "hang 'em first and talk about it later" stance when it comes to piracy.Right, because when you're ignorant and pointing the finger at innocent players, it's always better to kill first and realize you're wrong later.
Keynoting at the BFI London Film Festival, he railed against the online industries' approach to piracy, and slammed Apple and Google for "getting paid, not the actors."On what is he basing this? Both Apple and Google offer the ability to pay for movies, via deals negotiated with Hollywood. If the actors aren't getting paid -- then perhaps it's the studios' fault, with their fun tricks and Hollywood accounting, whereby they set up neat shell companies, who the studios charge huge fees to, so that their movies are never technically "profitable" and residuals never have to be paid. It couldn't be that, could it? Perhaps the reason actors aren't getting paid is because the studios are taking the money that Google and Apple are giving them... and playing accounting tricks.
"I think we are being done a massive disservice by these companies," he said.Let's see, these are two companies who have built the key pieces of the modern distribution system that allows them to better deliver movies to consumers, including with unique and new monetization options? That's a disservice? Well, I'll grant you, perhaps Harvey's right that they've done a disservice to studio bosses in that they've disrupted them. The business of the studio used to be to act as the gatekeeper on promotion, distribution and monetization of movies. But Apple, Google and others are changing things so that the studio heads have less control over the market -- and the filmmakers can actually go direct. No wonder he hates them.
"I think after the [US Presidential] election we need to rally filmmakers, content providers and musicians around the world as long as these companies [continue to make content available] under the guise of free Internet."Good luck with that. Besides, he seems very confused in thinking that it's Apple and Google that are somehow broadcasting his content for free. That's not the case, and you'd think someone with more than two seconds of experience with the internet would recognize that.
"I love it when these Internet dudes say to me, hey man; we just want to be 'content neutral.' Next time, I'll say sure, I'll get my tie dye shirt and come and sit in your billion dollar mansion in San Francisco or Silicon Valley for a while, soak it up," he quipped.Really no need to comment on that one. He then praised France's HADOPI three strikes law and pretended to prove a point.
"If an Internet company steals content, they shut it down. And let me tell you, Apple France, Yahoo France or Google France, none of them have gone out of business."Of course, that's not true at all. He's displaying his near total ignorance (yet again). All Hadopi does is send individuals (not companies) accused (not convicted) of uploading unauthorized content, letters warning them that their connections could be cut off (and after three of these, they can lose service). So, no, they don't "shut down" an internet company. It has nothing to do with that at all. Also, it's been a colossal failure. Even after Hadopi fudged the numbers to make their results look better there has been no increase in sales and the current government has declared Hadopi to be a failure and wants to cut its funding.
The fact that it has done nothing to increase sales is the key point. Since Harvey was talking about "getting actors paid" (a red herring, of course, but...), you'd think that he'd be a lot more concerned about whether or not the 3 strikes policy actually worked to get more people paid. It hasn't. So, if his concern is getting actors paid, Hadopi hasn't actually helped.
There are plenty of discussions to be had about how to deal with whatever challenges and opportunities the film business currently faces. But this wasn't one of them. Pointing the finger and blaming tech companies, even though they're not doing what he claims they're doing -- and then praising a failed law that hasn't done what he thought it had done -- is not productive at all. It just makes him look out of touch.


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SSSNA elects new officers
November 15, 2005
The introduction of a new president and a prospective development project headlined last week's South Sides Slopes Neighborhood Association meeting.
President Bev Boggio began by reporting on last month's annual elections, which resulted in new SSSNA board members Father Don Ware, Paul Lorincy, and Kate Fink. The terms are for 2 years except for Lorincy, whose term is 1 year.
The new president is Brad Palmisiano, while Joe Balaban remains vice-president and Claudia Hart is the new treasurer. A secretary will be chosen at the next board meeting.
Boggio then sat in the audience as Palmisiano, as president, took charge of the meeting.
He began by thanking Boggio for her four years as president, and her role as a founding member of the organization. She remains a board member.
As for himself, Palmisiano, 26, said he moved to Pius St. two years ago, which also marks his involvement in the SSSNA.
A priority of his will be to try to recruit more members. "We need to go out and sell to our neighbors," he said, as that will lead to a stronger organization.
An "outreach" example he cited was Betty Kripp's "Welcome Bag Program," in which new residents receive bags of information and news about the neighborhood.
Community gardens and clean-ups help the neighborhood while also providing social interaction. As they live in a dense area, communication among neighbors is critical for quality of life.
Palmisiano said he wants the group to continue being "the voice of the South Side Slopes", with attendance at zoning meetings, etc., and building a relationship with Mayor-elect Bob O'Connor.
As a strong voice, Palmisiano said, the SSSNA can push the city for clean-ups, salt boxes, etc., for which they have been successful in the past.
Members then voted to pass his first motion, which was changing the fiscal year in the by-laws to aline with the Internal Revenue Service. The new fiscal year will be Jan. 1 to Dec. 31.
Next, Palmisiano announced that $9,000 awarded to the SSSNA from the city's "Neighborhood Needs" funds must be used by the end of the year to light the 10th St. footbridge.
The SSSNA will pay the cost, and be reimbursed by the city.
That "good" footbridge news was followed by the "bad" news that the lighting for the 15th St. footbridge was vandalized. The SSSNA is paying to repair it.
Balaban said they want to replace the lights, and find ways to ensure it does not happen again.
A possible solution is to act like a block watch, and alert 911 when activity is spotted at the footbridges.
Next, Boggio said she met with Kevin Hanley, manager of real estate and housing programs at the South Side Local Development Co., about the Elm Street program.
The idea behind the program is that healthy neighborhoods can be created when there is a small commercial corridor and a residential area that are well connected.
A single application was submitted to the state last month to cover five neighborhoods: South Side Slopes, Friendship, East Allegheny, East Liberty, and Lawrenceville.
Attaining designation as an Elm Street district would make the Slopes eligible for grant monies for public realm improvements.
In anticipation of being approved, Hanley suggested that the SSSNA identify areas for the street trees and trash receptacles listed in the application. Call or email Boggio with suggestions on sites: 412-488-0486, or email@example.com.
The evening's guest presenter was Sola M. Talabi, who hopes to build eight, four-story townhouses on property he owns at the triangle corner of S. 18th and Josephine streets.
The development, called "Alta Vista @ the South Side," would be built in two phases: the first, construction of six townhouses facing Josephine St .; the second, construction of two townhouses facing 18th St.
The primary focus of his company, Alta Vista Development Co., is converting vacant and distressed lots into residential homes.
The project's zoning variances have been approved. Once he secures financing, Talabi plans to start construction, perhaps as early as next month.
He attended the SSSNA meeting to meet local residents, and to hear concerns.
Each home will contain three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, and a two-car garage. Driveways will be sloped.
The tentative price per unit will be less than $250,000. Talabi plans to reside in one of the homes.
The billboards on the site will remain initially, but he's working on having them removed. The trees will be cut down and replaced with new ones in front of each house.
Audience members expressed concerns about the sharp corner, and its danger for motorists backing out of the new driveways. It was also suggested that the brick and siding vary in color and style among the units for variety.
Talabi said he will address both issues.
This is the first development project for Talabi, who was born and raised in Nigeria. He came to Pittsburgh in 1997, eventually graduating from the University of Pittsburgh with a BSc. in mechanical engineering.
In 2004 he graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with an MSc. in mechanical engineering. He is currently a full-time student at CMU working toward an MBA.
The next SSSNA meeting will be a holiday party and dinner on December 13 at 7 p.m. in the St. Paul of the Cross Retreat Center. Everyone and their families are welcome. If you want to bring a food item, contact Janice Serra at: janice. firstname.lastname@example.com.
Volunteer awards will be presented at the meeting.


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"Barrington Project, Part 7 of 10"
On a rainy day in Barrington, builder Andy Tiplady shows host Kevin O'Connor how he's replaced the old cracked asphalt with new concrete pavers in the driveway. Master carpenter Norm Abram visits a custom cabinet shop in Smithfield, Rhode Island to see how they are using high-end cherry veneers for the project to make a kitchen with true character. Back in Barrington, installer Rick Jutras hangs the last of the wall cabinets and scribes the refrigerator panel to fit the space. D
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Many Catholics will remember Steve McEveety for his work as producer on The Passion of the Christ. Married, the father of four and serious about his Catholic faith, McEveety has a 30 year film career that began as a child actor and matured to include Payback, Immortal Beloved and Braveheart as executive producer, and We Were Soldiers and other major Hollywood titles as producer.
He also co-founded Mpower Pictures, which in 2007 released the extraordinary portrait of a young man's conversion, Bella. This year, McEveety and his Mpower colleagues bring The Stoning of Soraya M. (www.thestoning.com) to limited screens across the country on June 26. Don't let the summer go by without somehow seeing this film. Superbly written, directed and photographed, with compelling lead performances by two astonishing actresses, The Stoning is the most moving screen story I've seen in years. Once you've watched it, you'll never forget it.
Based on real events, the movie is adapted from the book of the same name by the French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam. In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, a husband grows tired of his young wife, who has borne him two sons and two daughters. Under Islamic law, a man may have up to four wives – but he's also obligated to care and provide for each of them properly. Interested in a potential child bride and unable to afford the added expense of a second wife, the husband maneuvers his wife into tending house for a recent widower. Then he falsely accuses her of infidelity, after blackmailing other male village elders, including the mullah – the town's religious leader -- into colluding in his lie.
The rest of The Stoning needs to be experienced to be fully understood. But it leaves an impact that will stay with viewers for days. An aunt of the wronged young wife recounts her niece's story to a passing journalist – Sahebjam (played by Jim Caveziel) – who smuggles it out of Iran and eventually publishes it. To this day, the Teheran regime denies that events like those reported by Sahebjam have ever happened. But multiple sources have confirmed that violence against women continues not only in Iran but in many countries around the world.
While The Stoning implicitly shows the deep differences between Christianity and Islam regarding the role of women, the film is not a critique of Islam. Quite the opposite: What happens to Soraya is an abuse of Islamic law fueled by revolutionary extremism, personal corruption and rural tradition. The film is clearly not for children; nor is the brutally graphic sequence of public "justice" near the story's end for the faint of heart. But as a work of truth and drama, The Stoning is simply an extraordinary piece of story-telling and motion picture craft.
During the years I served on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, I came to see in a new and vivid way how unusual our nation really is. For all its flaws, the United States has a respect for religious freedom, equality under the law and the dignity of the individual that very few other societies can rival. We need to take pride in those qualities. We need to remember the moral and religious roots from which they come. We also need to protect those qualities and advance them without apology in our dialogue with other cultures.
The Stoning of Soraya M. succeeds above all because it is a moving drama of abused innocence and eventual vindication. But it also reminds us of the soul-destroying power of a lie; how tempting and easy it can be to victimize the weak; how precious the truth is; and how vigilant over our own hearts each of us needs to remain if we want to be human -- even when we claim to believe in God.
Printed with permission from the Archdiocese of Denver. This column, posted on the Archdiocese of Denver web pages June 10, will appear June 17 in the newsweekly Denver Catholic Register.
* Catholic News Agency columns are opinion and do not necessarily express the perspective of the agency.


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MIAMI (AP) — Prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are asking a federal court to halt the force-feeding that is intended to prevent prisoners from starving to death during a hunger strike that has dragged on for more than four months.
A motion filed on behalf of four prisoners argues that the military's practice of using a nasogastric tube to involuntarily feed striking prisoners with a liquid nutrient mix is inhumane and violates medical ethics. They also say it will prevent them from observing the traditional fast during the upcoming Muslim holy period of Ramadan, depriving them of the right to practice their religion as guaranteed by the Geneva Conventions.
"Being strapped to a chair and having a tube forcibly inserted through one's nostrils and into one's stomach is dishonorable and degrading," according to the motion for a preliminary injunction. "It falls within the ambit of torture."
The prisoners say in affidavits accompanying the motion that they are aware of the risk they face if the military stops force-feeding them and they continue to protest.
"I have not decided to do this lightly," Algerian prisoner Ahmed Belbacha said. "Each day of the strike is an ordeal."
The motion was filed late Sunday with the U.S. district court in Washington by attorneys Jon B. Eisenberg, based in Oakland, California, and Cori Crider, who is with the British human rights group Reprieve. The Department of Justice has not responded but has signaled it will oppose the motion.
Military officials describe the procedure, which includes restraining the prisoners in a chair that resembles a piece of exercise equipment, as a humane response to the hunger strike since it is aimed at preventing prisoners from starving to death. "Until we are told to do differently the practice will not change," said Army Col. Greg Julian, a spokesman for Miami-based Southern Command, which oversees the detention center on the U.S. base in Cuba.
In February 2006, Yemeni prisoner Muhammed Bawazir filed a challenge to force-feeding, also describing the practice as a form of torture. At the time, the Justice Department argued the procedures were humane and that the prisoner had exaggerated the level of his discomfort. A judge eventually ruled against the prisoner.
Crider said their arguments this time place less emphasis on the specifics of the procedure and more on whether it should be done at all over the men's objections. "These guys just want what any of us want. The choice to decide," she said.
The prisoners are also challenging the use of a drug known as Reglan, which is used to treat nausea and prevent vomiting. Their motion for a preliminary injunction alleges that prolonged use of the medication has the potential to cause a neurological disorder. A prison spokesman, Navy Capt. Robert Durand, said two detainees received a single dose each in the past three months and that there were no adverse side effects.
Lawyers for the prisoners say the hunger strike began in February as a protest over conditions and their indefinite confinement. The military says it started in March and that, as of Monday, there were 106 prisoners listed as hunger strikers, with as many as 44 being force-fed twice a day to prevent dangerous weight loss. There are 166 prisoners at Guantanamo.
The military has been under increasing pressure to change its response to the hunger strike. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in June that the "the current approach raises very important ethical questions." Earlier, the president of the American Medical Association also wrote Hagel to say that force-feeding hunger strikers violates core ethical values of the medical profession.


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A picturesque day here at Citizens Bank Park, where the Phillies are about to begin a seven-inning simulated game with Roy Oswalt and Joe Blanton on the mound.
The fact that Blanton is pitching the sim game, along with Charlie Manuel's comments earlier today, gives a pretty good indication that the Phillies are going to go with four starters against the Giants instead of pitching Roy Halladay, Roy Oswalt and Cole Hamels on short rest.
"I think more than likely, my thinking right now is there is definitely a possibility we might use Joe," Manuel said. "I feel comfortable with Joe Blanton. But that's something we'll wait and see what happens."
Some other notes:
1) Manuel did not announce his Game 1 starter, though it will obviously be Halladay facing two-time defending NL Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum on Saturday. Beyond that, though, there is some question. You could make an argument that Cole Hamels should start Game 2 at Citizens Bank Park. Not because of Roy Oswalt's four-run, five-inning performance in the NLDS, but because of A) Hamels dominance in a five-hit shutout of the Reds in Game 3, B) Hamels track record at AT & T Park (At least 4 runs in all 4 career starts), even though that is a small sample size, and C) Oswalt's performance in his last three starts at AT & T Park (at least 7 IP and fewer than 4 runs), even though that is a small sample size as well. It would also allow the Phils to go righty-lefty-righty.
"We don't know yet," Manuel said. "We haven't had discussions yet. I'm sure that we will sit down. We've got a little time. We'll talk about what we want to do. We'll decide about our rotation, we'll decide about our roster, we'll decide about whatever we need to."
2) The Phillies will be off tomorrow. Thursday they will practice at 1 p.m. Friday they will workout as well, time TBA.
3) The Phillies carried only 10 pitchers in the NLDS, but there is a strong possibility they add another one for the seven-game NLCS.
"There's a possibility that we could definitely add a pitcher. That's something we'll definitely discuss. Have we made our minds up? Not at this point, no. We haven't had our meetings about what we are going to do with the Giants yet."
4) Safe to assume Halladay will be starting Game 1?
"You can assume whatever you want to assume," Manuel said. "I'm not trying to be cute or nothing. Big Roy is Big Roy."


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UMapper, a great Google Maps creation site, has unveiled a new feature that allows users to create maps from any text or just from the url of a website. Instead of adding points manually to UMapper's map editor you can now simply paste text and UMapper will generate points from the entry for you. UMapper, in partnership with MetaCarta, translates the text to geo-locations and adds them to your map. Once a map is created you can customize it further.
The process also works for URLs. Once you enter a URL to a web page, UMapper will extract all of the points from that page and add them to a map. This option is best for mapping news stories, existing blog posts or any other content involving large amounts of data.
The embedded map below was created by just adding the web address for Google Maps Mania. It took about four seconds to create and shows all the locations mentioned on this page. At the moment there is no information added to any of the markers but I could easily use the UMapper map editor to add information to the markers if I desired.


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HIGHLAND>> A traffic signal is being installed at Greenspot Road and Weaver Street after years of complaints from residents that the road is dangerous.
The intersection was the site of a fatal traffic collision in 2006, which resulted in the death of 20-year-old Ashlee Marron.
Marron was turning left onto Greenspot Road from Weaver Street when she was struck by a vehicle traveling west on Greenspot Road.
Her family sued the city seeking damages. They claimed officials knew the intersection was dangerous and was not properly designed.
A jury in San Bernardino County Superior Court ruled in favor of the city in 2011.
The signal is being installed as part of the Greenspot Road Traffic Safety & Bikeway Improvements project. The signal installation is being funded by a state grant and city development impact fees.


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MikesBarto2002 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 42 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Schools for Theatre is looking for a new logo to help establish our presence on the web. We would like the logo to integrate both themes of colleges/universities and theatre arts.
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Schools for Theatre is a new informational website that provides information to upcoming college students on the university's/college's theatre arts programs. We also provide the user monthly updates on college eligibility requirements, program curriculum and the audition process. Schools for Theatre also connects upcoming students through message board posts.
We are looking for a brand new logo to represent our brand.
- We are looking for the logo to integrate both feels of college/university and theatre arts. Some ideas would be the stereotypical college block-lettering used in college sports, the comedy/tragedy masks used in theatre, school books, the stage light used at the end of the night that is placed on the stage once the performance is through, etc. Any or all of these ideas are welcome, plus anything else that may be added that fits the theme. Please use these symbols in a creative way.
- Right now, we are playing a lot with reds, but we are open to any colors used in the logo. The thought behind red is the curtain of the stage. We are open to any colors being used, though, and encourage creativity beyond trying to make the designer stick to a set of colors.
- This logo would be used for the web and print design, so a logo that we can use on stationary, t-shirts, etc as well as the web.
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This is a great week to raise a cold apple cider toast to this mid-November column, preceding Saturday's opening of the NY Southern Tier gunning season for whitetail deer. We are being blessed with good weather for the first few days of the deer season opening.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – With the cooler temperatures seemingly here to stay in Tennessee, the month of October will bring with it not only the fall season in general, but also essentially a "new" season for Tennessee Tech women's soccer.
Nine matches into the 2010 season, the Golden Eagles have already faced opponents from five different conferences – two each from the SEC, SoCon and Big South, and one from the WAC and Sun Belt conferences.
The Golden Eagles have amassed a record of 2-7 in non-conference play – a record that includes three extra-minute games against MTSU, Louisiana Tech and Radford – and have netted nine goals, with sophomore Andrea Meloff leading the way with three to her credit.
With the kickoff of conference play, Tech will look to build on those numbers, beginning with a weekend trip to Kentucky for two, quick turnaround games against Morehead State and Eastern Kentucky.
Both of those teams are undefeated (2-0) in conference play thus far, and currently lead the OVC overall. EKU sits at the top spot with an overall record of 5-4-2, while Morehead follows in the no. 2 spot with a 5-6 record.
Tech leads the all-time series against Morehead State, having notched eight wins to the Eagles' four since 1998, including a double-overtime win in the second round of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament when Morehead was ranked No. 1 last year. Having played at home during their last five contests, the MSU Eagles are currently on a two-game win streak, having knocked off UT-Martin and Murray State last weekend to start conference play.
The Golden Eagles also have a narrow lead on EKU for the series, leading by three games to two. The Colonels, however, are carrying a four-game win streak this season, including one on the road over the University of Detroit-Mercy. EKU kicked off conference play against Martin and Murray as well, combining with Morehead State to leave the Racers and Skyhawks 0-2 in the OVC.
"For all intents and purposes, our season starts now," emphasized first-year coach Daniel Brizard. "The OVC is where it really counts for us. The team made a run at the title last year, and I expect nothing less from us as we get going with conference play this year.
"We're diving into the OVC headfirst, taking on the two powerhouses in our first weekend road series," he continued. "The atmosphere will be tense, but our first nine games against teams from larger conferences have prepared us for the coming weeks of OVC play. This won't be anything that our team isn't prepared to handle."
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Monday, December 2, 2013
Dodgers must trade one of their high-priced outfielders this offseason
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- AnonymousDecember 2, 2013 at 5:18 PM
Kemp will be back and he will make you eat your words. The guy is tough as nails and the surgery was a success.ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm no fan of trading Kemp. Doesn't make sense.Delete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2013 at 5:57 PM
Id keep Ethier and Crawford to start the season and Id send Puig to Triple-A to start the season to learn humility, learn the game, learn respect for the game, and learn to be a smarter player. He needs this education.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2013 at 7:08 PM
i agree but tat aint happening...unfortunently.Delete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2013 at 4:40 PM
Puig doesn't need to learn anything. Ethier needs to LEARN how to hit lefties.Delete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2013 at 8:33 PM
Donny can smartly use all 4 to give rest to the weary and wounded and to teach Puig the lessons he may still need. It's the best outfield in baseball. Don't break it up.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2013 at 6:44 AM
Your thoughts on the OF situation are spot on. Alot of comments coming out of nowhere... Kemp to stay. I'm hoping for a big comeback season... I like SVS off the bench...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2013 at 2:02 PM
If the Dodgers trade Kemp, I will lose my mind! When healthy, he's the best player the Dodgers and for that matter, the league has and that's including Hanley and Gonzales! I would take Matt over most in the league. You don't trade him at all. You should only listen to offer for Either.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2013 at 10:30 PM
Trade Pederson to the Red Sox for free!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2013 at 8:45 AM
kemp is fragile but ethier needs to step up at the plate. I don't know - hate to see any of 'em go really. just happy as **** that kershaw is ours. DODGER BLUE!ReplyDelete


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Roark's effort wasted as Soriano blows save vs. A's
OAKLAND -- It's already being called the anti-Derek Jeter play.
During the 2001 playoffs against the A's in Oakland, the Yankees' shortstop made a memorable relay from halfway down the first-base line to nab Jeremy Giambi at the plate in a key situation and help the Bronx Bombers win.View Full Game Coverage
OAKLAND -- It's already being called the anti-Derek Jeter play.
During the 2001 playoffs against the A's in Oakland, the Yankees' shortstop made a memorable relay from halfway down the first-base line to nab Jeremy Giambi at the plate in a key situation and help the Bronx Bombers win.View Full Game Coverage
On Saturday, Nationals closer Rafael Soriano did quite the opposite. He inexplicably cut off a throw down the third-base line and allowed the A's to complete a two-run, ninth-inning comeback before Oakland claimed a 4-3, walk-off win in 10 innings on John Jaso's RBI double.
With the score at 3-2 in the ninth and Jed Lowrie on second base, A's third baseman Josh Donaldson laced one into left field. Zach Walters, making his first career start in left, threw a strike toward home plate as Lowrie rounded third, but Soriano cut it off.
Washington manager Matt Williams said he thought the ball might have had a chance to nab Lowrie before he scored the game-tying run.
"I don't know why he cut that ball off," Williams said. "One, he should be backing up the plate in case the ball goes by. I don't know what he's doing there. I don't know why he cut it."
Soriano was also very blunt when describing his fielding snafu.
"I think that was a big mistake, too," Soriano said. "I think that we had a play on that throw, and then I asked [catcher Wilson] Ramos and he said, 'Yeah, there would be a play.' I [messed] it up twice."
So much for Soriano's perfect start to the season.
Soriano had entered with a 25-inning scoreless streak, and had converted 19 straight saves dating back to last season, but Oakland strung together a game-tying salvo in the ninth. Jaso led off the ninth with a single before Lowrie doubled to right-center to make it 3-2 in favor of the Nationals, setting the stage for Donaldson's game-tying at-bat.
"Bad day. That's all I can say," Soriano said. "Very bad day, and I can't be perfect every time, and it happened tonight."
Jaso capped off his stellar evening by drilling a double off the right-field wall in the 10th against Drew Storen to score Nick Punto from first. The A's catcher, who also hit a homer off Washington starter Tanner Roark in the third, lifted one high to right field, and it bounced off the wall above a leaping Nate McLouth to cap off the bullpen implosion by the Nationals.
"Just left it up, right over the heart of the plate, and he's a good hitter and not going to miss it," Storen said. "Just need to locate it better. He hopped on that first pitch, need to make a better pitch."
It was quite the night for Jaso, who went 3-for-5 with a couple of extra-base hits and two RBIs.
"He owns the town tonight," A's starter Sonny Gray said of Jaso. "We needed him to come up big, and he delivered."
The late comeback by Oakland erased a strong bounce-back start from Roark, who held the A's hitless until Jaso's solo shot cut his team's deficit to 3-1. Otherwise, Roark was able to keep Oakland off-balance with solid control and a devastating curveball that he was able to locate all night.
The second-year righty rebounded from his previous start, when the Phillies knocked him around for seven runs in four innings after he had thrown his first career shutout the outing before that start. Roark (2-1, 3.65 ERA) retired 13 straight after Jaso's homer, allowing two hits and walking none while striking out five in 7 2/3 innings of work.
"Me and [Ramos] were on the same page," Roark said. "So when you get that rhythm and that tempo going and you don't have to shake anything off, that's perfect."
The Nationals have to be encouraged by Roark's development as the team's fifth starter in the rotation behind Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmermann, Gio Gonzalez and Doug Fister, who made his team debut on Friday night in Oakland.
Gray, the reigning American League Pitcher of the Month, ran into some trouble in the third after facing the minimum seven batters to start the game. The Nationals used four straight hits against the talented young righty to put together a three-run lead.
Danny Espinosa started off the scoring by depositing one into the right-field bleachers for a solo shot. Then Walters -- making his first career start in the outfield -- and Denard Span recorded back-to-back singles. Kevin Frandsen would drive them both home with a double to the left-field gap that rolled to the wall, making the score 3-0 in favor of the Nationals.
Gray finished seven innings, giving up three earned runs on six hits, while walking two and striking out three.
"We need to do that every day," Williams said of the rally against Gray. "We need to put together stuff like that. Had our chance going into the last inning. We'll take that every day."
The Nationals received some insult to injury on Saturday night as they also learned that first baseman Adam LaRoche (strained right quad) will need to be placed on the 15-day disabled list.
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COLUMBUS, OH (FOX19) - The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) has unveiled a map identifying interstate highway locations where motorists will be legally permitted to drive 70 miles per hour beginning this summer.
The new designations follow recently passed legislation permitting speeds to increase from 65 to 70 mph on certain sections of interstate highways. H.B. 51 – the state's transportation budget bill, which goes into effect on July 1, 2013 – increased speeds to 70 miles per hour on interstates that are "outside urbanized areas."
The 70 mph speed limit is not new to Ohio. Motorists are already legally permitted to drive 70 miles per hour on all 241 miles of the Ohio Turnpike. And according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 34 other states in the nation have some posted speed limits of 70 miles per hour or higher including Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky and West Virginia.
ODOT is making 317 new signs to comply with the legislation and to alert motorists to the increased speed at a total cost of $8,287.19. The signs are expected to be in place and revealed on July 1.
- 8 are "Reduced Speed Ahead" signs
- 48 are brand new speed limit signs
- 261 are sign pieces that will simply overlay the current 65 number with the new speed limit
The new law increases the speed on 570 miles out of 1,332 miles of interstate highways in Ohio. The exact location of the speed increases are:
Interstate 70
- From the Indiana border in the west to just outside of Wheeling, WV in the east, excluding Dayton, Columbus and Zanesville
Interstate 71
- From the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge in southwest Ohio to just south of the border of the Cuyahoga/Medina County line in the north, excluding Columbus
Interstate 75
- From just outside of Toledo going south until just north of Dayton, excluding Findlay and Lima
Interstate 76
- From just outside Akron going east to just west of Youngstown
Interstate 77
- From just outside of Canton south to the West Virginia border
Interstate 90
- From just outside of Cleveland to the Pennsylvania border
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Today marks the four-year anniversary of when Bernard Madoff's multi-billion dollar heist was exposed. Fortunes were shattered and lives were lost. Yet, mis-reporting about the facts of Charles Ponzi versus Bernard Madoff is still widespread. Take Madoff's extravagant investment scam, which is consistently mislabeled by the media. Calling the Immaculate Deception a "Ponzi Scheme" isn't just bad reporting - it's blasphemous. Ponzi's victims lost around $225 million dollars in today's money vs. around $18 billion or 80 times more in Madoff's Scheme. See a difference?
While it's true that Charles Ponzi was the originator of multi-level financial perversity, Madoff was the master. Therefore, classifying multi-billion dollar swindles as "Madoff schemes", and not something less, is good for humanity as well as journalism.
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Here are other overlooked but major dissimilarities between Charles Ponzi and Bernard Madoff:
• Madoff was an insider, Ponzi was not. As ex-Chairman of the NASDAQ and the CEO of top market making businesses at the time, Madoff was the ultimate Wall Street insider. This is a major contrast from Ponzi, who failed in his many attempts to become an insider. • Madoff was private about his scam, Ponzi was not. Whenever asked about his investment strategy, Madoff rebuffed inquiries saying his methods were "proprietary." In contrast, Ponzi was very public about his scam and even bought newspaper ads promoting it. There were even times when Ponzi arrived at his Boston office with crowds greeting him like a rock star! • Madoff targeted wealthy individuals, Ponzi did not. Madoff was private about his scam, preferring to target high net worth people/institutions and to use word of mouth via a tight network of financial intermediaries to gather money. In contrast, Ponzi took money from average people and just about anyone willing to give him a chance.• Madoff promised steady returns, Ponzi promised the sky. Charles Ponzi promised clients a 50% profit within 45 days, or 100% profit within 90 days. On the other hand, Madoff promised modest but steady returns through up and down markets.
Here's another nugget: Madoff's Scheme was worse than Ponzi's, not just because it was larger, but it occurred right under the Securities and Exchange Commission's nose. On multiple occasions they missed their chance to nab Madoff, even blatantly ignoring informants like Harry Markopolos. In contrast, Ponzi operated in a highly unregulated era, more than a decade before the SEC's formation in 1934.
In the tone of a cold blooded killer, Madoff himself even proclaimed, "In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules" along with "it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time."
Another interesting fact is how analysts were badly wrong.
Ponzi's business got a stamp of approval from the venerable credit rating firm Bradstreet Corp. (NYSE:DNB), now known as Dun & Bradstreet. "Mr. Ponzi bears a favorable personal reputation," is what Bradstreet said, according to the book Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend. Madoff quietly achieved his endorsements from feeder funds like Fairfield Sentry, Maxam Capital Management, and Rye Investment Management.
You will also find the media politely referring to Madoff's throng of duped souls as "investors". I'm not so sure they were ever "investors" any more than buyers of lottery tickets are "investors". And if we continue calling them "investors", that means we have to begin calling slot machine degenerates and craps players "investors" too. Do you see how one bad teaspoon of inaccurate reporting causes a tidal wave of confusion?
SummaryThe aftermath of the Madoff Scheme leaves a few questions.
Why hasn't the SEC taken the bold initiative to declare Dec. 11 as "National Madoff Scheme Day?" Do they not think it would be in the public's interest? Or is it because they embarrassingly never caught Madoff? (Remember: The Burn-ster was ratted out by his sons.)
How could the "smart money" be so dumb and have they learned their lesson? In the end, Madoff was found guilty in 2009 and sentenced to 150 years behind bars, which is a pretty good deal. In the Republic of Congo - for similar offenses - they rope you to a tree and come back for you in three months. And if you're dead when they return, that means you escaped.
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Skip to comments.Transgender Fights For Right to Serve in Military
Posted on 06/06/2012 5:13:50 PM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
John Ackley was a member of the Minnesota National Guard, serving in the Armys 34th Infantry Division. He saw duty in Iraq back in 2009, before returning to the Gopher State and being placed on inactive duty.
Now Ackley wants to be returned to active duty. But not as the man he was three years ago, but as a transgender woman.
Ackley got a sex-change operation after going inactive. Its really where I should have been in the first place, said the former Guardsman.
Known now as Ashley, Ackley is in the process of trying to re-enlist. Its the structure, the discipline, the training, the people, the transgender explained.
Well, it was Ackleys prerogative to repudiate the body he was born with. But the transgender has absolutely no right to expect the Army to blithely accept her?/him? back into its ranks.
Indeed, Army Regulation 40-501, titled Standards of Medical Fitness, states that a history or current manifestation of gender identity disorder to include major abnormalities or defects of the genitalia such as change of sex or a current attempt to change sex render an individual, like Ackley, unfit to serve.
It is not a commentary on Ackleys human worth. It is a medical diagnosis of the transgenders mental state.
For while the Obama government, the activist federal and state courts, the liberal media and the decadent entertainment industry try to persuade us that its perfectly normal when persons, like Ackley, change the sex God gave them from male to female (or vice versa), most of us know its perfectly abnormal.
The Scripture tells us that God created but two genders and that male and female He created them. Theres no mention of a third gender, other, that fits transgenders like Ackley.
Of course, the LGBT community will insist that refusal to allow Ackley and other transgenders to serve in the military is discrimination. And theyll characterize those of us who disagree as unenlightened bigots who want to return to the days where LGBTs were afraid to be themselves. When they hid in the closet.
Well, I agree with the Armys assessment that persons that undergo sex change operations suffer a gender identity disorder. I also agree with the Army that such persons are unfit for military servicE.
I say that not because I bear any malice toward Ackley, who honorably served in the Red Bull Infantry. But because all that is necessary for godless public policy to prevail, like transgenders in the military, is for people of faith to be silent.
yeah, get your free sex change operation, JOIN the military.
Who didn't see this **it coming. Thanks Barry. You Fluken pig!
This is my rifle, this is my gun. This one's for shooting, this one's for fun.
The Pandora's box was opened and no matter who is elected from now on our Military is to be infected with Homosexuals,cross dressers,and people who do not recognize their own genitalia.
There is no way to go back.
Whatever happened to the idea of the military as a fighting force? The left has turned it into a freak show social engineering experiment.
I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad I retired over 20 years ago before all this crap came about. I would have been courts-martialed and jailed by now with my mouth!
I guess some guys will do anything to get into the women's shower.
Don't trannys need ongoing hormone therapy? What happens to them in a combat situation if the drugs they need aren't available?
Don't trannys need ongoing hormone therapy? What happens to them in a combat situation if the drugs they need aren't available?
The Big Reset Button.
(Asteroid Impact in HD, set to Pink Floyds Great Gig in the Sky.)
Having your penis surgically removed does not make you a woman.
Right. It makes you a moderate Republican.
I retired last June and the ban was lifted in August....I am soooooo glad to be retired. Funny, I now work at the Naval Academy as a GS employer and you never see any kind of weirdness. Just in the military.....very weird.
Correction, that would have been balls removed and then you would be a moderate republican.
I believe Rush refers to this procedure as a "Loppit-offame."
The doc gives 'em motrin (prescribed for everything from headaches, to gunshot wounds, to herpes) and feeds them to the mohamedians.
Apparently the military doesn't have enough d#cks#ck#rs.....first fags and now they're pushing women in the infantry. Trannies are the icing on the cake.
Put em on the front lines and watch them change!
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WASHINGTON — President Obama continued the White House tradition of pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey, but for the first time, the public decided which bird would get the honor by voting on the White House Facebook page. The winner? Cobbler, of the blue state of Virginia.
On an unusually warm Thanksgiving eve in Washington, more than 150 reporters and photographers gathered to witness the annual event, along with about 50 White House staffers.
Cobbler and Gobbler (the runner-up) were born on the same day on a farm in Rockingham County, Va., but according to the White House, that's where the similarities end. Cobbler craves cranberries and enjoys Carly Simon music. Gobbler likes corn and listening to fiddle music.
When all the votes were counted, Cobbler came out on top. But as is tradition, both turkeys are now free to enjoy a happy if short life at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate.


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OAKWOOD - Marian R. White, 76, passed away Thursday, July 4, 2013 at Unihealth PAC - Lanier, following an extended illness.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Mark and Betty White, Oakwood; daughter and son-in-law, Vicki and Harry Warneke, Jr., Lawrenceville; son, Thomas White, Flowery Branch; daughter, Patricia Zeisler, Decatur, daughter and son-in-law, Sandra and Ron Carter, Port St. Lucie, Fla.; 12 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; sister, Helen Hilton, Leawood, Kan.; sister and brother-in-law, Sandy and Richard Jost, Kansas City; and several nieces and nephews.
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i have been following this channel since it came out a year ago
a 45 years old man runs this channel with videos that question everything .. He defines himself as "anti God and his messenger"
i like his logic and his boldness and thought of sharing the link with u guys.
Views: 250
I'm not sure if he is a doctor or not ... i guess u'll need subtitles for that or some sort of an instant translator .. wish i can help u with that.
i might post a summary of the main points he said in the video asap.
here is a short summary:
-the video title is "why i'm an atheist" .. i'm not the one who should explain his atheism but the believers are the ones who should explain why do they believe in an imaginary god
-i don't like to define myself as an atheist but better as an anti-religion as religions have made catastrophic damages to the humanity , that's why i'd like to define myslef as an anti-religion although i'm an atheist
- evolution should have put an end to the creationism and proven that all three ibrahemic religions are fraud
-all ibrahemic religions have no historical not scientific proof for their legitimacy
- i was a muslim celebrating its festivals and feasts .. not a strict muslim
- the incident of Shokry Moustafa the head of an Islamic terrorist group who kidnapped a minister in Egypt and killed him , i started to read more and knew the ugly truth about islam and islamic groups.
-i thought the capture and execution of Shokry Mostafa will put an end to the violence but i was naive as i was just looking at a small part of the big picture representing the violence in the name of god
Sorry for the delay in reply
Thanks for sharing marvel i had been watching his vids for a long time too.. i do agree with him on a lot of things but i do have a different opinion with him when it gets to the revolution
every one have a different opinion when it gets to the revolution and politics ... i have'nt seen two people who agree about everything that happened over the past year and a half here in Egypt :))
Hahaha, nice video.
The guy is funny, but sadly the comments aren't really good :(
I am thinking of getting this guy in our next meeting. What do you guys say?
From what i understood from some of his recent videos he live in the US
Hmm, ok.
Oh, this guy is "foloul" :(


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Sylpheed_portable 3.1.3
March 06, 2012 — BarryKI posted yesterday about compiling Cryptofs:
And the day before that about the need for a "portable" email client:
Well, I was up to 3am working on it, but the sylpheed_portable PET has arrived (1MB):
To make it completely self-sufficient, requiring no dependencies, it has Cryptofs and Bogofilter inside it. The only deps are 'fuse' and 'sqlite3', that all puppies have. I haven't tested Bogofilter.
When you install this PET, it installs to /usr/local/sylpheed_portable, but doesn't actually run from there. When you run it, it asks to be copied to a partition, from whence it can be run into the future. Any partition, USB Flash drives also.
The reason that it installs first into /usr/local/sylpheed_portable is so that Woof-built-puppies can have it in their package list. It will be there, looking like any normal Sylpheed, runnable via the menu or the 'email' desktop icon, but the first time you run it, it gets relocated wherever you want it.
When it is finally installed in a mounted partition, it is just a RoxApp that you click to run. All configuration files and downloaded email are encrypted, and when you run Sylpheed you are asked for a password. Everything gets decrypted for the duration that you are using Sylpheed, then locked up again when you quit Sylpheed.
I'm using it with all the emails that I downloaded from Gmail, all 6,500 of them. Strangely, it seems faster accessing them via cryptofs than before.
Can we give the same "portable" treatment to Thunderbird/SeaMonkey-Mail? I don't know, will have to experiment -- sometime, don't know when.
Today will take some time off for family stuff -- someone's birthday, plus the old folks like to be visited.
CommentsSylpheed English only
Username: BarryK
Note that I have not internationalized the /usr/local/sylpheed_portable/run installation/wrapper script. I wanted to make sure that testers like how it works first, and of course be sure that it has no bugs.
GnuPG plugin
Username: BarryK
"Regarding the GnuPG plugin for Sylpheed, my understanding is that this is different from what I have done. GnuPG is used to encrypt emails when they are posted, for security enroute. My implementation is a generic technique that makes all files secure when Sylpheed is not in use. That is, if your Flash pen drive is stolen, no problem. You can also make backup copies of the 'sylpheed_portable' directory and they will also be secure (and each of them independently runnable, as long as you know the password).
Username: BarryK
"[i]You can also make backup copies of the 'sylpheed_portable' directory and they will also be secure (and each of them independently runnable, as long as you know the password)[/i] ...er, I might have hard-coded the folder name to be 'sylpheed_portable'. Might have to modify the 'run' script to handle other names, like a backup folder named 'sylpheed_portable-20120309'.
my experience
Username: esmourguit
"I tested sylpheed_portable on Racy 188.8.131.52. I followed the installation process and everything went well. I downloaded my emails (160) very quickly. I closed and opened several times the sylpheed_portable directory cliking on it and every time I entered the password (twice) and Sylpheed opened without problem. It took less than an hour. But unfortunately after the sixth or seventh time he has not accepted the password (bad password,) although I typed the correct twice each time.
Re bad password
Username: BarryK
"esmourguit, You can test it on the commandline. Open a terminal inside folder 'sylpheed_portable' on your mounted partition. You will see two folders Mail.encrypted and sylpheed-config.encrypted -- these have the encrypted files. You will also see two folders Mail and sylpheed-config -- these will have normal unencrypted files when cryptofs is mounted. To mount: [i]# export PATH=`pwd`/bin:$PATH # cryptofs --root=sylpheed-config.encrypted sylpheed-config[/i] ...it will ask for password. If you have entered correct password, then you will see unencrypted files inside folder sylpheed-config. The 'run' script checks that the correct password was used by looking for a file named sylpheed-config/sanity -- if it exists, then the correct password was used. When finished, unmount: [i]# fusermount -u sylpheed-config[/i]
my experience
Username: esmourguit
"Thank you Barry I followed your instructions, I entered the password and actually, I was able to access the emails. But in this case, when I type the same password, why I can not enter directly in Sylpheed?
Re cryptofs
Username: BarryK
"esmourguit, I presume that you are asking me about running Sylpheed directly from the terminal. There are two folders that have to be decrypted: [i]# export PATH=`pwd`/bin:$PATH # cryptofs --root=sylpheed-config.encrypted sylpheed-config # cryptofs --root=Mail.encrypted Mail # sylpheed[/i] Then afterward: [i]# fusermount -u sylpheed-config # fusermount -u Mail[/i] That should work. I am puzzled that the 'run' script has gone wrong for you. I will need to do some more testing of it.
Sylpheed correction
Username: BarryK
"esmourguit, Oops, the line to run Sylpheed should have been: [i]sylpheed --configdir `pwd`/sylpheed-config[/i]
run in terminal
Username: esmourguit
"Thanks Barry, but here are the results : # export PATH=`pwd`/bin:$PATH # cryptofs --root=sylpheed-config.encrypted sylpheed-config Enter password: # cryptofs --root=Mail.encrypted Mail Enter password: # sylpheed --configdir `pwd`/sylpheed-config bash: sylpheed: command not found However sylpheed-config and Mail are populated.
Got Sylpheed working on Racy
Username: tkc47
"Having read esmourguit's problem, when I installed sylpheed, I made sure I had a backup of my files. Sure enough I had the same problem. Got the same code, etc. I deleted the sylpheed, both the download and the file I created on harddrive. Then re-installed with a different password and all is working well now. That is on Racy18.104.22.168, won't run on Lucid 528.004. Will try again today on Lucid 528.004 Thanks Barry!
Username: Jan
"@esmourguit, I think Barry forgot the ./ for executing from the current Directory. Try #./sylpheed --configdir `pwd`/sylpheed-config @BarryK Took a first look at it in wary verry nice thanks. Tryed in pup420 too and got it running, one extra dependary for Sylpheed is a more resent glibc i think v 2.7. And cryptofs needs to compiled on that system and update fuse. How do you get the lib files linked in the bin file ? The update of glibc is verry tricky , i took the files out akita(same kerneland pupderivate) and made a pet.
Re sylpheed
Username: BarryK
"No, what I did is correct. The PATH variable is modified, the Sylpheed executable is in bin/sylpheed in the package.
my emails back
Username: esmourguit
"I got my emails back. It seems I had a session of Sylpheed_portable that ran in the background. I noticed that, when i want to kill a process. After killing the session in ran background, I could enter my password which was accepted without problem so I could access Sylpheed. Thanks.
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Dancing With The Stars is set to lose one of it's best dancers as Julianne Hough is revealing her plan to leave the show next season. "I wasn't planning to come back this season because I wanted to focus on my music, but I went back and it's been so much fun to dance with my good friend who happens to be my boyfriend." Julianne is currently partnered up with her real life boyfriend Chuck Wicks.
Julianne was also recently named top new artist at this years Country Music Awards. The 20 year old goes on to say, "I will be taking next season off," she confirmed, adding that she'll be busy touring and bringing out the "real" Julianne Hough.


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Police say drunken driver, 20, plowed into cruiser on D.W. Highway
December 22. 2013 1:37AM
Erick M. Wayman-Baxter was also charged with (improper) conduct after an accident.
No one was hurt in the 5 a.m. crash.
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MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. – A major hospital merger is in the works as Northern Westchester Hospital has signed a letter of intent to explore joining the North Shore-LIJ Health System.
The letter allows the hospitals to begin the process with the goal of finalizing a merger later this year.
Northern Westchester Hospital's Board Chairman Judge Robert Spolzino said North Shore-LIJ can provide it with the resources to adapt to the "monumental changes currently under way in the healthcare industry."
Finding more efficiencies and reducing costs are at the heart of any merger. Joel Seligman, president and CEO of Northern Westchester Hospital, said it is also looking for a partner to "provide us with the ability to further develop the medical expertise and leading edge technology that our community has come to expect from NWH.
"Our board and leadership team believe that North Shore-LIJ is the right partner to help us accomplish this and we are looking forward to working with them in developing a regional health care strategy."
North Shore-LIJ President and CEO Michael J. Dowling trumpeted NWH's "high-quality, technologically advanced and cost-effective" care.
"We are excited to be taking this first step toward becoming partners and we look forward to working closely with the hospital's leadership team to build upon these strengths and further define our strategy for serving communities throughout the Hudson Valley," he said.
Mergers in the hospital landscape have been on the rise of late.
White Plains Hospital recently partnered with Montefiore Health System and will become the "tertiary hub of Montefiore's Westchester network."
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In the spring of 1984, a young Army officer wrote a seminar paper about the use of force in the post-Vietnam era. Three years later he returned to the subject in a Princeton University doctoral dissertation titled "The American Military and the Lessons of Vietnam." What "today's junior officers think about Vietnam—which is fast becoming ancient history—is likely to undergo significant change before they assume positions of power and influence," he claimed. In his dissertation, he sought to investigate the legacy of the war and its "chastening effect on military thinking about the use of force," which made military leaders, he contended, "more cautious than before." "Caution has its virtues, of course," he wrote. However, "the lessons from which that caution springs are not without flaws." Among the flawed lessons he identified were a professional aversion to counterinsurgency operations, "a new skepticism about the efficacy of American forces in the Third World countries where social, political, and economic factors are the causes of unrest" and "a widespread fear among officers that assignment to counterinsurgency, special forces type missions will be the end of their career."
The author of those words is David Petraeus, now a four-star general and commander of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Petraeus graduated from West Point in 1974, one year before the fall of Saigon, and he has lately consolidated his military career around trying to reverse the lessons of Vietnam. He tasted combat for the first time during the invasion and occupation of Iraq, where he commanded the 101st Airborne Division and the Multinational Security Transition Command (tasked with training Iraqi military forces). In 2005-06, after his second tour in Iraq, Petraeus oversaw the revision of FM 3-24, the military's counterinsurgency (COIN) field manual. (The previous Army COIN manual was published in 1986; the Marines were still using a guide from 1980.) It was a chance for Petraeus to put his dissertation into practice by literally rewriting the book on the type of warfare American officers had shunned since Vietnam. Early in 2007, following the futile efforts of generals Ricardo Sanchez and George Casey, Petraeus took command of US forces in Iraq and aided a reeling President George W. Bush by implementing the "surge" strategy, designed to tamp down violence to a so-called acceptable level. Taking a page from FM 3-24, Petraeus offered money and weapons to Sunni insurgents in exchange for a cessation of attacks on US troops, a strategy that helped to lessen bloodshed and get bad news about Iraq off the front page. In exchange, Bush made "King David" his most influential adviser on the war (Petraeus was granted much clout at National Security Council meetings) and even took him mountain biking.
To a segment of the military establishment that Andrew Bacevich has dubbed the "Crusaders," officers who "see the Army's problems in Iraq as self-inflicted," the consequence of excessive post-Vietnam caution, Petraeus is seen as a successor to another top Army general, Creighton Abrams. A West Point grad and World War II tank commander under Gen. George Patton, Abrams assumed command of US forces in Vietnam in 1968 when his predecessor, William Westmoreland, was kicked up and out, to Army chief of staff, after a four-year run of failure in Southeast Asia. Abrams's star has been on the rise in recent years too, thanks in large part to the efforts of his chief booster, the prominent historian, retired Army lieutenant colonel and CIA veteran Lewis Sorley.
Last fall, as the debate over the way forward in Afghanistan geared up, Sorley's ten-year-old book A Better War was the pick of the Pentagon and, according to Peter Spiegel and Jonathan Weisman of the Wall Street Journal, "recommended in multiple lists put out by military officers, including a former U.S. commander in Afghanistan, who passed it out to his subordinates." (A Better War is also listed in FM 3-24's annotated bibliography of recommended texts, and Abrams is mentioned and quoted several times in the manual.) Sorley's book was also read and reread, according to Newsweek, by Petraeus's top commander in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal—a counterterrorism specialist who worked closely with Petraeus when he led the Joint Special Operations Command, a unit that The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh called "an executive assassination wing." Under this program, according to Hersh, elite units were reportedly given the authority to track and kill suspected terrorists and militants with minimal oversight, in noncombat situations and across national boundaries.


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Bologna coach Stefano Pioli has stated that his side will look to play their own game and cause an upset when they face Milan on Sunday.
Pioli's side have already shocked superior teams this season, defeating third-placed Napoli in both Serie A and the Coppa Italia, and the Rossoblu coach is looking for a repeat performance against Massimiliano Allegri's Milan.
"You prepare for Milan with sharpness, concentration and focus, especially as they have been on a positive run," the 47- year-old said in a press conference.
"A difficult match awaits us, but with the right attitude and more precision, we [can] play our game."
Although Bologna will enter the fixture on the back of a 3-2 Coppa Italia extra-time defeat by Inter, Pioli insisted that the result will help them when they take on the Rossoneri.
"The disappointment at the Coppa result had vanished by Wednesday morning.
"However, we bring with us the performance against Inter and the knowledge we played one of our best games of the season."
Bologna currently lie four points clear of the relegation places in Serie A and will be looking to extend that gap when they face Milan on 20 January.