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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 10:59 am
Post subject: Human Rights Violations in Iran: an Update
Blatant violations of human rights marked the end of September 2003. With the parliament elections five months away, it appears that the hardliners, holding most positions of power (the judiciary, for example), are bent on stepping up their policy of repression against intellectuals, writers, students and political activists, especially those associated with the reformist bloc.
Persecution of political activists continues
On September 29, 2003, dozens of political activists held a one-day-long hunger strike in protest of the continuous policy of repression exercised by the judiciary and the Revolutionary Courts that hold dozens of political prisoners in incommunicado detention for months and even years. Many well-known political prisoners held in Tehrans Evin prison started a hunger strike as well, calling upon the Iranian people to speak out against the hardliners policy of repression. Failure to do so, they said, would only encourage the hardliners to take more aggressive measures against the peoples fundamental rights (ISNA, September 29, 2003).
Khatamis government expressed its pessimism over the possibility that the judiciary would back out of its harsh positions against the political activists. The spokesman assessed that several Majlis members, such as Mohsen Armin, would soon be detained and prosecuted (ISNA, September 29, 2003).
Several examples of the judiciarys ongoing harsh policy toward political prisoners follow:
Mohammad Mohsen Sazgara, a political activist held in solitary confinement in Evin prison since the last outbreak of riots in Iran, was sentenced to one year of imprisonment. The Revolutionary Court declared that the verdict addressed just one out of a series of charges against the defendant; additional verdicts against him were to be issued. His lawyer announced that Sazgara held no hopes for change in the judiciarys approach, and therefore renounced his right of appeal. The lawyer added he was denied access to the prosecution documents, was not informed of the hearing, and was prohibited from meeting with his client before the trial by the Revolutionary Court (ISNA, September 29, 2003).
Sazgaras son, Vahid Sazgara, released after two months imprisonment, was brought to the Revolutionary Court in Tehran on charges of plotting to overthrow the regime (ISNA, September 29, 2003).
The Revolutionary Court in Tehran initiated legal proceedings against Ali Reza Alavi-Tabar, a well-known journalist and political activist. His trial is scheduled to begin shortly (ISNA, September 23, 2003).
Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, a political prisoner held in Evin prison, writes, in a letter smuggled out by his family, that dozens of political prisoners are held in solitary confinement cells and endure lengthy interrogations accompanied by ruthless torture. He stresses that contrary to President Khatamis claims that all illegal detention centers have been closed down, they still exist. Every once in a while, he says, he and other political prisoners are transferred to these detention centers where they endure infernal torture. He reveals that Manouchehr Mohammadi, one of the leaders of 1999s student revolt, has been subjected to infernal torture during the last three months.
In an interview granted to Radio Farda after the letter was published, Tabarzadis son, Ali, said agents of the Tehran Revolutionary Court had broken into the familys house, searched it brutally, and even interrogated family members asking them, among else, whether or not they adhered to the five daily prayers (Radio Farda, September 25, 2003).
Abbas Abdi, a well-known journalist and politician held in prison for eleven months, continues his hunger strike. His daughter said that her father had begun the hunger strike about three weeks ago. His family has been forbidden from meeting him in prison ever since (www.emrooz.org, September 30, 2003).
Reza Alijanis wife says that after 100 days of imprisonment, the Revolutionary Court still denies her husband, a well-known journalist and political activist, telephone contact with his family. During the entire period of imprisonment, the prisoner has been held in solitary confinement and endured gruesome torture (Iran Labor News Agency, ILNA, September 30, 2003).
The judiciary continues to threaten political activists in universities
As the new school year in Iranian universities begins (September 27, 2003), those in charge of the universities and political activists endure twofold pressure from two fronts. The judiciary, on one hand, is trying to scare the students off political activity at the universities; on the other hand, the universities monitoring committees, backed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Khatamis reformist government, continues issuing severe verdicts against students, expelling dozens of them out of universities across the country. Other, less severe incidents involved suspending students studies for a year (Tehran newspapers, September 27-29, 2003).
At the same time, courts continue to summon students on grounds of political activity. New incidents of kidnapping leaders of students associations are reported by Tehran newspapers. The judiciary threatens lecturers and university seniors as well and has resumed issuing summons against top officials who have expressed support of the students protests. For example, the Vice-Dean of the University of Tehran, Said Nad-Ali, was brought to the Revolutionary Court in Tehran on September 30, 2003, where proceedings against him were initiated on charges of activities against state security. The defendants attorney has announced that seven other students will be brought to court in the context of this case, and so far they have been prohibited from continuing their studies this year (ISNA, September 30, 2003).
Hardliners threaten to shut down more newspapers, bring to court more journalists
The struggle between the two opposing regime factions is escalating as parliament elections approach. Recently, the judiciary has stepped up its threats on the newspapers, and the various courts have initiated legal proceedings against an increasing number of journalists. Several examples follow:
Yas-e No, considered to be the unofficial publication of Irans Islamic Participation Front, the party holding most Majlis seats in the current tenure, was shut down for ten days because the revolutionary prosecutor did not appreciate that parts of a letter he had sent to the editor in response to articles on persecution of the press were misrepresented (IRNA, ISNA, September 29, 2003).
One day later, the judiciary was forced to withdraw its draconian decision on account of the vehement protests by legalists and journalists. Although the decision was withdrawn, the judiciary threatened that the newspaper might be shut down in the future, this time for good. That is the first time in the last five years that the judiciary has withdrawn a decision against a newspaper and allowed its continued publication. As known, about 150 newspapers and other publications were shut down during the last five years, and dozens of journalists were brought to trial some of them are still in custody (ISNA, September 30, 2003).
Eight more journalists and political activists were summoned to appear in front of the Revolutionary Court. Among these Ahmad Zeid-Abadi, a journalist who was held in imprisonment for two years and was about to be released. He will remain in custody as the revolutionary prosecution initiated new legal proceedings against him (www.rouydad.ws, September 23, 2003).
The lawyer of Iraj Djamshidi, executive editor of the Asia newspaper, says that although it has been more than 80 days since Djamshidis arrest, the Revolutionary Court still wont allow him to meet with his client. The aforementioned newspaper was shut down after publishing a picture of opposition leader Maryam Rajavi where she could be seen smiling (ISNA, September 21, 2003).
In addition to journalists, verdicts against writers were recently issued all across the country. A writer who had published a book with the Ministry of Cultures approval was sentenced to 18 months in prison (ISNA, September 26, 2003).
Hardliners set their sights on reformist Majlis members
Reformist Majlis members may soon find themselves behind bars. The hardliners, backed by the judiciary, are taking steps to scare off reformists from submitting candidacy for the forthcoming parliament elections. During the last three years, legal proceedings were initiated against more than 60 reformists serving in the current tenure. Most of them were sentenced to jail, but the hardliners have so far not carried out the sentences, waiting for the appropriate time, which, it seems, has come. For example, chairman of the Majlis Foreign and Security Committee, the parliaments most important committee, Mohsen Mir-Damadi, was charged with activities against state security and sentenced to 26 months in prison. His deputy, Mohsen Armin, was sentenced to a similar term - for similar charges.
This week, Mohsen Armin has been summoned to appear in front of the Revolutionary Court on grounds of continuing activities against the state. He refused to comply, though, and announced that he did not recognize the judiciary as a just authority and therefore would not appear in court unless brought by force. During the last few weeks, Mohsen Armin delivered two speeches in which he directly accused the revolutionary prosecutor of the death of the Iranian-Canadian reporter-photographer, thus triggering the initiation of new legal proceedings against him. In an announcement made by Mohsen Armin, he stresses that the purpose of the summons against Majlis members is to intimidate the deputies from doing their jobs properly. He added that in protest of the persecution, he boycotted his official visit to Switzerland where he was supposed to participate in a convention of parliament representatives and carry a speech as a representative of the Iranian parliament. He writes, when a parliament member is being shamelessly persecuted only for expressing his opinion on the tragic death of a reporter with a dual citizenship (bringing further disgrace upon the international status of the Islamic Republic), I cannot serve as a representative of the Islamic Republic in international conventions and claim that freedom of speech exists in Iran (ISNA, September 28, 2003).
Ministry of Intelligence: Death of Canadian Photographer Misrepresented by the Judiciary
On September 29, 2003, the judiciary announced that the open trial of an intelligence agent, allegedly responsible for the death of the Canadian reporter-photographer, would take place during the next few weeks. However, the Ministry of Intelligence has repeatedly emphasized that the judiciary distracts public opinion from the truth and misleads the people. No investigators or other intelligence employees, stressed the Ministry, were involved in the photographers death. According to the Ministry, the reporter was not murdered at the time she was being held at the Intelligence detention center, and the murder took place while she was in the custody of other parties. The Ministry of Intelligence has threatened to reveal the truth and, at this point, called upon the judiciary to withdraw its decision to prosecute one of the Ministrys agents (ISNA, September 28, 2003).
It should be noted that the unyielding resistance by the Ministry of Intelligence to the way the judiciary handled the case of the murdered photographer escalated when Khatamis government promised the Canadian government that the matter would be dealt with justly and fairly and those responsible would be brought to justice. In a meeting held several days ago by the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs with his Canadian counterpart, Bill Graham, in New-York, he promised that justice shall be done and the sinners shall be punished. While giving this promise, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs preferred not to mention the fact that Khatamis government and the reformists had no influence on the hardliners in control of the judiciary.
Executions Continue
Londons Amnesty International called upon Iran to revoke the death sentence against a young woman named Afsaneh Nowrouzi, held in prison in the city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. She is accused of murdering the chief of security forces in Kish Island, although the court accepted her claim that she acted in self-defense, protecting herself from being raped. Afsaneh, with her husband and children, residents of Tehran, visited the security chiefs house in Kish Island several years ago. When the security chief attempted to rape his visitor, she defended herself. Afsaneh and her lawyers stress that if she had submitted to his advances, she would have been sentenced to stoning. Since she defended herself, though, the court had to release her or prosecute her on charges of manslaughter.
Amnesty writes that 83 death sentences were registered in Iran in 2003, but fears that the true figure is much higher.
Afsaneh Nowrouzi has been held in prison for six years; recently, the Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence against her and it can be carried out any day (press release by Amnesty International, September 25, 2003).
In the north-western city of Maraja, a citizen was executed in public on charge of murder. The execution took place at one of the town squares (Keyhan, September 30, 2003)
Brides might be arrested on their wedding nights
The involvement of the security forces in the peoples daily lives continues. This week, commanders announced that dozens of girls and women have been arrested for violating Islamic dress code, in at least three provinces: Tehran, West Azerbaijan and Khorasan.
A 26-year-old resident of Tehran was killed by security forces gunfire because he and some friends had taken part in a dance party and played loud music in their car after leaving the party. Three of the security agents admitted to the murder (Iran, September 30, 2003).
In the framework of the so-called Moral Upkeep Emergency Project, about fifty girls and women were arrested in the city of Mashhad; 43 of them stood trial. (Etemad, September 25, 2003).
During recent weeks, the modesty patrols in the city of Orumieh have arrested about 1200 young men and women who have been attending at wedding parties. The arrests were made on the grounds that the men and women danced together in the ceremony halls, violating the rules of separation between men and women. The security forces cooperation with the Ministry of Justice of West Azerbaijan district resulted in the establishment of mobile courts. Mobile judges accompany the modesty patrols while they arrest sinners in their homes, giving them their verdicts on the spot (Aftab-e Yazd, September 24, 2003).
In the city of Orumieh, 13,000 young men and women got warning letters from the security forces for violating Islamic dress code (www.peikiran.com, September 23, 2003).
Deputy General Commander of the security forces in Tehran warns that brides who fail to comply with the Islamic dress code will from now on be arrested on their wedding nights. Commander Azim Hosseini has said that lately, the number of incidents of brides not veiling their hair or exposing a part of their arm has increased (as seen when the brides car, as customary in Iran, circulates through the town streets just prior to the brides reaching the wedding hall). Henceforth, he says, the security forces will not hesitate to arrest the brides and transfer them to prison (Hambastegi, September 30, 2003).
A concert celebrating the anniversary of Muhammads prophecy held in the city of Karaj, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, turned sour when security forces, accompanied by a Revolutionary Court judge, arrested dozens of viewers on charges of dancing to music. Some of them were temporarily released pending trial; others remained in custody (Jomhuri-ye Eslami, September 25, 2003).
In the city of Zanjan, dozens of citizens who came to watch a concert by a group of guest musicians from the republic of Azerbaijan were arrested. Chaos erupted when several girls, aged 5 and 6, presented the performers with bouquets of flowers; the performers expressed their gratitude by kissing the girls cheeks. This forbidden kiss resulted in the security forces breaking into the concert hall. Viewers who tried to stand up for the guests and showed their support of the forbidden kiss were arrested (Jomhuri-ye Eslami, September 28, 2003).
Security forces in Tehran broke into the houses of citizens who possessed satellite dishes that could pick up foreign stations, confiscating more than 2,000. The families were heavily fined (Jomhuri-ye Eslami, September 20, 2003).
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Submitted by Martha Kang on Tuesday, June 15th, 08:37pm
A biodiesel tank exploded inside a private garage on Tuesday, sparking a fire that traveled down the adjacent alley.
A Tacoma fire spokesperson said the tank was inside a detached garage of a private home in the 3500 block of S. 13th St.
"All of a sudden, I heard an explosion and it shook my windows and all I could see was black smoke," said Peter Variety.
The explosion caused the fuel to spill over into a nearby alley, paving the way for flames to reach nearby projects. A nearby garage and a parked recreational vehicle were charred, and several nearby homes were also damaged by the heat.
The blaze has been extinguished, and the cause of the explosion has not been determined.
There are no reports of injuries.
It obviously happened at the processing stage - its the methanol at 50-60C which makes it burn so easily. Cold biodiesel wouldnt go up like that, even if its not demethed. I was once draining hot byproduct and the methanol vapour wafted over to an open flame - boom. Luckily I had a hose handy - at least water extinguishes these fires.
there seem to have been so many of these reports, I don't think they are " newsworthy " here anymore.
They are hardly something new or exceptional now.
WOW!!! thanks for the heads-up. 16 pages of biodiesel fires. It never occurrd to me how dangerous this could be.
If your new to the forum you won't be aware how frequent these fires are. We can be ignorant and not think how these could be prevented,similiar to how BP operates.
If people already making Bio haven't already thought about how to prevent fires then I doubt seeing a report of it here is going to change anything.
I which I was so confident especially when my life is at risk.
I don't think those pretty orange flames are Methanol.
While Biodiesel and Vegetable Oil may act as a heat sink inside of a container, once outside of the container that effect is lost.
Last weekend I was at a BBQ. They had the BBQ started in the pit, but we needed it spread a bit. I can attest that BD makes an excellent firestarter.
It is good to see this occurred in an outbuilding, but my biggest fear is that my "hobby" will spread to neighbor's property as happened here.
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Wow, finding a Tilly lurking behind every corner.
Everything I see indicates that the cause of the fire hasn't been determined. I haven't found any notes (or photos) that indicate the type of processor.
The only note I can see is that there was possibly an explosion associated with the event (timing not specific, but the "explosion" was near the time people became aware of the fire). There were presumably a few hundred gallons of oil and flammable liquids on the premises (not too uncommon). And, that during the course of the fire, some of the oil leaked onto the ground which contributed to the burning, and spreading of the fire.
If the processor was being run dry, then a float switch might have helped.
However, I'm leaning towards methods of improving containment.
- Limited use of Plastic
- Fusible Valves & "Normally Closed" Electronic Valves.
- Sealed and Vented System
- Appropriate Pumps (which Murphy does sell).
- Isolate Processing from Storage to the extent possible, especially if using plastic storage containers.
I am convinced that home biodiesel reactors can be made safe. But the safety measures need to be built in from the top. And some things are expensive (but far cheaper than the $100K or so of damages).
I have not been impressed with the photos of most of the kits available.
Ah, Now we are getting somewhere!!
Obviously, if the simple addition of this device could have prevented most biodiesel fires then I am guessing there must be one or two major causes for all of these fires and explosions.
What does the addition of this float switch do or prevent from happening that would have prevented these 16 pages full of fires and explosions that have become so commonplace to biodiesel production that people feel they are no longer a newsworthy occurrence?
It negates the possibility of the heater being left on when the tank is drained.
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It wasn't the biodiesel-related that burned my shop...it was the wood stove.
Though, when my wife mentioned there was biodiesel in the shop, that got the fire department there a lot faster!!
WHAT??? Tell me you didn't burn your new shop down?
Jesus, I sure hope I am miss understanding you Ryan...
If not... so sorry for your loss. and What Happened?
Simple schematic for a pump and heater control with a high limit
Sensor for the biodiesel/glycerin layer
Nope, not down: isolating the wood stove in its own small metal building and just ducting in the heat did its job of isolating the fire, to a point.
At the beginning of winter I had been having trouble with it not staying lit, so as a consequence I had basically run 3-4 small "cold" fires through it while trying to figure out why it wasn't getting enough air. I finally figured out that the screen on the chimney cap was partially plugged, so I cleared the plug and then it was finally burning well again. I worked in the shop with the good fire for about another 2 hrs and then went inside for lunch.
As I was cleaning up my lunch mess I noticed the smoke coming up from the backside of the shed (where the wood burner building is) was the wrong color: way too black. I ran out to discover that the 5ft x 8ft shed was completely burning on the interior: it looked like a gateway to hell. The black smoke was that the metal siding got hot enough to light a pile of tires next to the shed.
So many 5 gal buckets of water and a pair of frostbitten lungs, and about 20 minutes later the fire dept. shows up with a pair of trucks. I had the fire knocked down to just the pile of tires still burning and smoldering under the floor by then.
But the small shed was only 3ft from the big shed, so it got hot enough to scorch the rear door, burn out the vinyl window the duct work ran through, blacken the metal siding, the eaves, and the gutter on that side.
Then the fire dept. added to the damage by breaking out the other window, tearing off the siding, tearing off the OSB, tearing out insulation, breaking down my shelving, and punching a hole in my ceiling so they could see up there, even though they were only 3ft away from the attic hatch I had pointed out to them only 15 minutes earlier.
All said and done, about $5000 in damages plus a $500 charge from the fire dept. $3500 back to me to make repairs after my deductible. The best I can figure: creosote chimney fire. Those 3-4 cold fires, plus the previous 3 months of weekend use from last winter, had made a build-up that eventually got hot enough to light in the 45 minutes I was in at lunch.
I put a propane furnace back in the shop instead of wood.
Good lesson for all.
Glad to hear no one was hurt and the damage wasn't catastrophic!
I am very weary of chimney fires, back in the 80's when I lived out west, one of my neighbors had a chimney fire in a massive brick chimney, the brick chimney kept the fire from lighting the walls on fire but the house had a cedar shake roof that was destroyed... it happened in the night, and they were lucky to have not perished, it was a massive snow storm that contained the fire while they slept....
I always stoke the fire with with small split wood and then open the flue right up once a day to burn out the creosote before it can build up as well as a monthly inspection and a clean out once a year whether it needs it or not.
Never burn wet or green wood either as thats a sure fire way to creosote up the chimney, it can happen in hours with green wood. Chimney fires are the leading cause of fire in wood heated homes.
Best regards,
Simple schematic for a pump and heater control with a high limit
Sensor for the biodiesel/glycerin layer
At least once a week I burn a very hot fire with cardboard or a VOsludge/glycerol/sawdust log to keep the chimney and rain cap clean.
It has this type of cap with no screen, which helps to reduce creosote accumulation.
My brother now puts up scaffolding rings around his house chimney and leaves it up all winter. He leaves the clean-out brush right on the roof and every month runs the brush up and down. He knows the wood for his little supplementary wood burner is somewhat wet: its just whatever crap he can get cut up all summer. Next winter will be the first where he is ahead enough with the cutting to have had wood sitting to dry all summer.
It takes extreme measures to make cooking oil or bio-diesel to exploded. This is something that just doesn't happen by itself.
Imply put someone did something really stupid or it wasnt bio-diesel
that set off the explosion. probably fumes of some other sort or other chemicals used in the process.
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You can visit Rozsa's website at www.parisadieu.com.
Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
I always wanted to be someone else when I was a child. I was raised by my grandparents as an only child, and I always wanted to have brothers and sisters and a father and mother around. I think a lot of readers may relate to those unfulfilled longings.
Where did you grow up?
West Hartford, Connecticut.
What is your fondest childhood memory?
Sitting out on the back patio in the summertime with my grandmother, looking at the sun go down over Avon Mountain while sipping black cows. I wrote a short story about it -- "Black Cows at Sunset."
When did you begin writing?
Eight years ago in July, our daughter received a diagnosis of a permanent condition. I couldn't process it. That August I holed up in our study for the entire month and wrote my first book, Mystique. I was hooked on writing after that.
Do you write during the day, at night or whenever you can sneak a few moments?
I'm like Balzac in my writing habits. He used to write everyday from seven to eleven am then break to go out to a cafe for lunch, then spend the rest of the day doing other things.
I write from eight am to one pm, Mondays through Fridays. I'd love to go out to a cafe afterward, where I could sip a cappucino while editing my work. I just can't find any cafes in my neighborhood to go out to. It's probably just as well, since I have an eleven-year-old, a two-year-old, a husband and a dog to keep me busy when I'm not writing.
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Paris Adieu is a coming of age tale of self-discovery and self-acceptance.
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Don't be afraid to offer the same message again and again. If it's a good one, people will want to hear it again and again. Messages on forgiveness, sacrificial love, revenge, ambition, passion, loss, desire don't get old. Readers will always be interested if they're delivered in readable, well-crafted prose.
What is up next for you?
I'm hard at work on Paris Adieu's sequel, Black is Not a Color ... Unless Worn by a Blonde. It's the story of Ava's relationship with her father, who has a heart attack soon after she returns to New York from Paris. Caring for him consumes her, putting the brakes on her budding romance with Pierre, the Frenchman she has met at the end of Paris Adieu. There's another more important man in her life whom she needs to figure out first.
Zsolt Fodor is a Hungarian poet fond of saying crazy, cryptic things such as "black is not a color unless worn by a blonde." No one understands him, foremost of all, his daughter. Ava learns how to accept, love, and care for the man who fathered, but didn't raise her. It's a struggle, but with the help of friends she's made at her new job at the United Nations - a few Serbs and a Romanian - she begins to understand something of her father's own fractured background and the difficulties he has endured as an immigrant in New York City. By learning to love and forgive her father, Ava learns how to look at men in a new light. But is it too late to find Pierre again? I can't wait to finish the story and find out myself, so I can share it with my readers.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Interview with Rozsa Gaston, Author of Paris Adieu
2 comments:
- Morgan Mandel said...
I know what you mean. I always wanted a sister, but instead have three brothers!
I remember going to Kresge's to have black cows, but now there's no such store chain.
Morgan Mandel
- March 20, 2012 at 11:56 AM
- Cheryl said...
Thanks for the interview, Rozsa.
- March 20, 2012 at 2:02 PM
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The Great Lakes region is no stranger to the debate on wolf hunting. For decades, legislators have gone back and forth on what to do, if anything, about the potential threats posed by an unchecked wolf population. The latest move on this issue...Continue Reading
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Topless Tom in an old issue of Details Magazine. Not bad, huh! You know, regardless of everything they say about my Tommy, I still love him both as an actor and a celebrity. He rocks!
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Topless Tom in an old issue of Details Magazine. Not bad, huh! You know, regardless of everything they say about my Tommy, I still love him both as an actor and a celebrity. He rocks!
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I have been planning on getting a tattoo for a while now, but I am yet to find a design that screams WOW. I have browsed the web endlessly looking for the 'it' one, you know how it is, I wouldn't want just anything permanently stamped on my skin. So, while in my search, I came across these pictures of Brazilian model Rafael Verga that have semi convinced me that I need either his tattoo or himself imprinted on my body. What do you think? Isn't he Fine?!!!
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Labels: Genetic Freaks, Male Models, Rafael Verga
Orlando Bloom is back in theater in Haven, a crime drama with a brilliant cultural view, in which Orlando is said to play his best performance yet.
Written and directed by native Caymanian Frank E. Flowers, and filmed entirely in the 100-square mile West Indies paradise, Haven is an edgy, suspenseful, viscerally gripping ensemble film in which unconnected lives intersect and ignite a violent chain of events that turns tranquility into chaos.
In an instant, greed collides with innocence and passion goes up against those who forbid it, and all at once an idyllic tropical refuge becomes anything but safe.
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Matt Dallas, known for his role as Kyle XY on ABC, has the most enchanting eyes I've seen. Also so huggable!
Nip/Tuck's heartthrob Julian McMahon is my new McSteamy!!! Simply delicious.
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If you love cinematography, you will sure appreciate the great ideas behind this film.
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Once dubbed "the Jay-Z of the South" by Pharrell Williams, T.I., born Clifford Harris in Atlanta, GA, is currently one of the most successful rappers in the United States. Not only is he talented, but stunningly beautiful. T.I. manages to carry himself with an incredible balance of smoothness and toughness. Love him!
Chilean photographer Simon Pais is amazing. I feel just as one of his critics: "An inspiration to us all. I've never felt such a mixture of envy and love for one person and his work." (Masha P.)
This video, part of a reality series soon to be launched by one of our favorite underwear brands, 'AussieBum', is hot. In the video the model is working it: adjusting, grabbing, pulling, taking it off, putting it on, and much more. You'll love it!!!
Still crying like a baby, but he's hot, so it is ok.
You have probably seen these ads by Dolce and Gabbana already, but it does not hurt to see them again. Love the modle in glasses!
I am not the one to use this word too much, but Dolce and Gabbana is Fabulous. I am in love with their whole collection, but this one coat and white sweater are calling my name.
Do you actually think Justin is bringing sexy back? I don't know, but I am not a big fan of his new look. And his makeup is definitely not working for him. On the other hand, loving his songs and still addicted to his MTV performance. I guess music is what really matters.
English photographer Anthony Gayton works with a world of emotions in each and everyone of his pictures. It is inevitable to fall in love with his work.
At its Showtime this week, Apple announced amazing updates to most of its products. Totally cool.
The iPod now supports movies, including files with a resolution of up to 640x480, although the actual screen resolution of the new model is unclear. The new iPod also adds enhancements to the click-wheel based navigation system and even supports more games than ever before. It is available in a 30 GB model for $249 and an 80 GB model for $349.
The iPod nano is now available in five colors, each using a metallic case similar to the one that had been used on the iPod mini. The new models are available in 2GB, 4 GB, and 8 GB versions, with list prices of $149, $199, and $249, respectively. Apple says the new models also have brighter screens and are even smaller in size than the original iPod nano, as well as an even longer battery life.
Apple's revamped iPod shuffle is smaller than ever, at a mere 1.62 inches long. The new shuffle is designed as a convenient clip-on for just about anywhere you may go. It features 1 GB of storage and has a list price of $79.
iTunes 7 now includes the ability to purchase movies from the iTunes store. Movies are expected to be released on iTunes simultaneously with the DVD release, with new releases costing $14.99 and library titles at $9.99.
Apple also announced a forthcoming product tentatively called the iTV, which will enable you to take video from your iPod and easily display it on HDTV screens as well as older televisions.
The grad school application process is kicking my ass. I want my mommy!!!!!
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Abercrombie and Fitch New Face: Jeff Tomsik.
The 20 years old model from Wadsworth, Oh, is single and looking, can't live without junk food, considers himself a Siberian tiger, and can do hand stand push-ups. Couldn't ask for more!
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The Pearl is aptly named. It is soon to be a precious commodity. Pearl is RIM's minuscule new BlackBerry messaging, camera, media player, Bluetooth, quad-band world phone with a truly novel pointing device.
Pearl is the smallest BlackBerry to date. It is barely 4.2 by 2 by 0.6 inches and weighs only 3.16 ounces. If you're into comparisons: Pearl is thinner than a RAZR — shorter than a SLVR and lighter than either one!
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Our friend WickedScorp has send us these pictures along with this comment: "Next time you're in Las Vegas, check out the show [Le Reve] at WYNN : if for no other reason, the men in it are amazing specimens. Show is awesome tho."
I haven't seen it, but sure will...
Le Rêve is a 90 minute performing arts show directed by Franco Dragone. The show opened in March 2005 and is performed in a new, 1 million gallon water-oriented theatre at the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The theatre of 2,087 seats is a first for Las Vegas; the stage is audience centric and no seat is more than 42 feet (12 m) from the stage for this production. The music of Le Rêve was composed by Benoît Jutras, a musical veteran charted with creating the flagship anthems of the current playing Mystère and O shows.
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When I was a young lad, perhaps between 12-15, I don't, maybe my brother Jason – as he's older – will have a better recollection. But we would watch wrestling whenever we were hanging out at home and had the opportunity. Some of the plot lines were awesome – to me at the time at least – like the one where Sting would always emerge from the darkness and deliver a whooping to nine people, including Hulk Hogan.
Remember Sting, The Lights Would Go Out And He'd Descend From the Rafters? That Was Cool.
It looked like Sting was invincible, and so he got his heavy weight bout with Hulk Hogan. Just the two of them – but wait, Sting had, on several recent occasions, beaten the crap out of … everyone who was a heel, and many of the times that resulted in Hulk Hogan literally running away. But when it came down to the one on one match, it did not end with the first ten seconds with Hulk pleading for mercy. On the contrary, Hulk Hogan got in a good many blows. I think Sting won, or Hogan cheaply got the belt with some lame cowardly tactic at the time.. I can't recall. Maybe Jason does.
Some Good Times
When paper views were on sometimes there'd be small parties. Everyone was real excited watching the matches, and it appeared brutal, and the plot lines were somewhat engaging, at least enough to stir up an emotional investment in the fights. But none of us were stupid. We knew it was scripted, at least as far as the winner of the match would be. Some moves, and some key parts of the matches would be scripted too – maybe all of it – but sometimes just parts, and the wrestlers were trained enough to improvise with those they trained so closely together for months, or years.
Chilling Out And Not Worrying About Ensuring You're Perceived As Intellectual
We knew it was a drama, we knew the wrestlers were well trained in how to land and take a punch, and that their colleague was equally trained in how to deliver the most visually vicious impacts with as minimum damage as possible. These guys are big and strong, they train a lot, and they got the good stuff when it comes to supplements. They're tough enough to take real pain and injury – sometimes substantial – and that's why they either survive in the game or not.
When you're watching a soap opera, you know it's not true, but you don't need to remind yourself and all those around you every five seconds, just to ensure people know you're of a certain intellectual capacity. You immerse yourself in the experience and enjoy it; the same with the wrestling fan. Wrestling has come out some time ago, labeling itself quite clearly as entertainment. The WWF – World Wrestling Federation – became the WWE – World Wrestling Entertainment.
What Exactly Is Fake?
When you watch a movie, is it a fake movie? When you watch a play, is it a fake play? Yes, you can in contrast to your current worldview of reality, depending on the play, but you need to go a step further and say the play itself was fake. It was a play and it happened, thus it was real. Wrestling is a play, one filled with violence that's enjoyable to watch in the context of the plots and sub plots. at least for millions of people. I haven't watched wrestling in a long time but if it was on TV and I was fortunate enough to be hanging out with my brother, I'd check it out. It comes down to examining how exactly you perceive what constitutes fake.
In a movie there's stunt doubles, or sometimes the main actor does it themselves. Sometimes there are injuries. Viggo Mortensen, who played Aragorn in Lord of the Rings, broke his foot during the filming of The Two Towers and cried out in genuine anguish. But in the context of the scene, it played out like deep frustration and grief for having perceived to have failed the halflings. It was the right cut, and Viggo had the poise to pull it off and make it work. He really did break his foot, it wasn't fake.
Wrestling is faked to the extent that it's not like boxing or UFC. We know this, it's self evident, or it should be. There's a script, not only in all kinds of dramas, but how the characters will develop, and who will get the next belt title for the paperview special. But the wrestlers know that, and they still consider what they're doing real. Sure, they know how to fall just so.. and all the rest of it, but if you've watched enough wrestling, you know it's not magic, they're not avoiding the fact their bodies are being punished.
The Tragic Story Of Chris Bonoit, And A Really Stupid Signature Finishing Move
Chris Benoit used to do the dumbest move I've ever seen, and I knew it at the time. An opponent would be laying on their back, seemingly unaware of their environment, or too exhausted to escape. Chris would lay a steel chair across their midsection – sometimes their head, but sometimes just the torso – and he'd leap off the top rope, head first in a dive into the chair. It was always spectacularly obvious how much more it hurt him than the other guy.
In the end Chris Benoit sadly committed a double homicide and then took his own life. I'm merely speculating, but I don't think unfairly, that he may have had some brain damage. Or perhaps wrestling was the only outlet keeping him sane, and he had a predisposed condition towards violence. I will judge no further, but I do believe it speaks to the fact over so long careers, spanning decades, a toll is taken on the wrestler, one we cheapen when we call it fake outright. It's a nuanced kind of fake, but the wrestler probably doesn't want to talk about it – some might, some don't, as you'll see below.
Let's have a repetitive viewing of John Stossel interviewing a professional wrestler and bringing up the fact he thought wrestling was fake.
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That guy sure thought it real. To these guys it's real. It's fake, and it's real. I think we can let go of the antiquated notion that entertainment wrestling is completely real. Only people with mesh hats sitting atop their heads just might have a chance of believing that. The movie The Wrestler with Micky Rourke was a powerful movie in showing the cold realities for some retired, or ' has been' wrestlers.
Louie Theroux explores the world of entertainment wrestling. I recommend you look more into his work if you haven't already. He's fun to watch.
I'll leave you with this last video of Louie Theroux and how he had made a similar mistake. While interviewing one of the trainers at the site of a match, he questioned whether or not wrestling was real or fake. The trainer invited him to come see for himself. They basically bullied him, and at times it was just a bit disturbing to watch. But you get a sense, these guys take it seriously, these guys take it for real.
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Why the high court's work goes beyond 'balls and strikes'
I have a modest request: that the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings be an occasion for public education about what that court actually does and an inquiry into whether Elena Kagan possesses the attributes to do it well. At least, please spare us the spectacle of senatorial bloviating to extract a pledge to decide cases without actually making choices, by the mechanical application of the law to the facts, like a calculator doing math.
Recent history is not promising. Since 2005, when then-Judge John Roberts analogized the justices' role to an umpire calling balls and strikes, each hearing has dug us in deeper. While the chief justice's analogy is fair enough as a statement that justices must be impartial, it has been taken to mean much more. The coup de grace came last year, when, under intense senatorial grilling, Sonia Sotomayor of all people pledged to just apply the law to the facts, promised never to let an empathetic thought into her judicial reasoning and denied any relevance to her life experience. Liberal commentators expressed disappointment; Justice Samuel Alito offered a public "atta girl."
The trouble is, mechanical, objective decision making is not what the Supreme Court does. Ever. It is comforting to think that elected legislators legislate, the elected president executes and unelected judges make no choices. While lower courts, to the extent that they handle straightforward, routine cases, may at times approximate this ideal, the Supreme Court, by design, does something entirely different.
The Supreme Court has near total discretion over the cases it hears and selects ones that have no easy answers. The one in 100 cases it hears mostly raise legal issues that have seriously baffled lower courts and produced substantial disagreement among them. Where, as is typical, substantial numbers of thoughtful judges have differed after giving it their best shot, real uncertainty exists as to what the law is.
Here's the rub: In nearly all the high court's cases, doubt exists not because the half or so of judges who decided the issue are stupid, don't get it or otherwise made some identifiable mistake. Rather, doubts exist because there are substantial persuasive arguments on both sides that cannot be dismissed as invalid or wrong. These cases must be resolved by deciding which collection of arguments is the more compelling; the justices make decisions by choosing to give priority to one set of contentions or another.
This is true of many constitutional cases, both because the Constitution is often unspecific and, as retired Justice David Souter recently observed, because its splendid generalities, such as equality and liberty, are sometimes in tension with one another. It is also true in the much greater number of more routine cases, such as where the words of a statute leave doubt about its coverage or effect.
In those cases, the statute's ambiguity is resolved by other considerations, found in surrounding or related provisions, statutory objectives stated in the law or otherwise apparent, history surrounding the statute or its subsequent evolution, and the consequences that will predictably flow from alternative interpretations. Nearly always, these and other factors point in different directions and a resolution is possible only by making choices based on the weight given to competing considerations.
So far from the stereotypical judge whose values and experience play no part in her decisions, the justices' real job is, as a group, to make hard choices between plausible alternatives, in case after case. This demands uncommon qualities of intellect, experience and character that should be the focus of any nominee's hearings.
The attributes of a good justice deserve much more discussion, based on an accurate assessment of what the court does. The Kagan hearings could usefully address that subject, if the media and public demand it and willful senators can be deterred from hijacking the microphone for myopic political purposes.
Certainly, any such discussion will conclude that intellectual integrity and rigor are critical, as the public is entitled to a clear statement of the choices at hand and of the court's reasons for its resolution. Further, the intelligence relevant to the task is not simply cleverness and an ability to score debaters' points. Of greater relevance is a demonstrated history of good judgment and prudence, in life as in legal work.
With a keen mind must come the capacity to influence others but also humility and a willingness to seriously consider the perhaps divergent views of one's colleagues. The court's infallibility comes primarily from its ability to speak coherently as a collective body and only rarely from the unassailable correctness of any particular resolution. With that in mind, ideologues who come to the bench with a set agenda and others who think they have all the answers should be rejected at the outset.
The writer is president of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. He has argued 18 Supreme Court cases as a lawyer at Jones Day and as deputy solicitor general in the Reagan administration.


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Mark Twain
Time does pass quickly. On this day in 2003, six years ago today, we lost an absolute legend-- the one and only Bob Hope. Bob was declared by Congress in 1996 to be "the one and only" honorary veteran. And he truly was. He gave up every Christmas for decades to go and entertain our troops in battles and skirmishes all over the weary world. So today, let us pause and think of him in some way. How many times did he make us laugh? I remember and I actually had a copy of the classic old show that he appeared on once. It was a Jack Benny hour long special episode that featured a very special guest star-- none other than Walt Disney. himself. Now as funny as it was to see Jack trying to hustle from Walt, himself one hundred and five free tickets to Disneyland, it was also hysterical seeing Bob Hope appear with Anita Eckberg in a spoof of Mary Poppins called "Maria Poppanini" --too funny for words. Today is also the birthday of that rascally rabbit, himself "Bugs Bunny". Yes, dear old Bugs very first cartoon was released. Bugs was "born" in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, created by Tex Avery According to Mel Blanc, the character's original voice actor, Bugs Bunny has a Flatbush accent, an equal blend of the Bronx and Brooklyn dialects. His catchphrase is a casual "What's up, Doc?", usually said while chewing a carrot. His other popular phrases include "Of course you realize...this means war" and "Ain't I a stinker?"-- And speaking of "stinkers" dear old "Tricky Dick" was nominated to be president today in 1968. Boy was that a mistake. Oh well, dear Nixon was an excellent foreign ambassador so I will give credit where credit is due. The news for me is a bit bad-- my new job has been delayed until they get more phones in. I sure hope that happens within a couple of days. I am however going to a Career Fair on Wednesday, July 29th in Anaheim. I'm going to go visit dear old Disneyland for a possible job. I've already submitted my application to them on line. And I read where Rupert Holmes who handled the book on Kander & Ebbs "Curtains" is writing the book for the new musical "Robin & The Seven Hoods" featuring the songs of the late great Sammy Cahn and Sammy Fain. He's also supplying the lyrics to Marvin Hamilish's new musical to be directed by Jerry Lewis based on the movie "The Nutty Professor"-- boy has this movie had legs or what? He's quite a busy man. And Barbra Streisand has got anew album coming. Johnny Mandel is doing all the arrangements. Well, that's it for now!


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My son and his friend made us a mud kitchen for the playground! It is so cool and I can't wait for the kids to play with it! Thank You David!!


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I first heard this in the car radio from the local classical music station. It was one of those recordings I had to hear the end of. Mrs. T was giving me the "are you coming in" look yet still I sat. The recording became so popular that to stop the phone calls, those remembering pre FM rock and roll may recall their stations doing this, the station would announce when they would replaying the broadcast.
My station changed owners and formats so I have missed my fix, and have been unable to source the original. The recording of course is The 12 Days of Christmas, Correspondence". I have a copy of what may be the original essays by JJ Norwich, but frankly I have found so many variations, I am unsure of the original author, so for now I'll go with Norwich.
The story is thus:
My dearest darling Edward, Dec 25
What a wonderful surprise has just greeted me! That sweet
partridge, in that lovely little pear-tree; what an enchanting, romantic, poetic present! Bless you, and thank
Your deeply loving Emily.
Beloved Edward, Dec 26
The two turtle-doves arrived this morning, and are cooing
away in the pear-tree as I write. I'm so touched and
With undying love, as always, Emily.
My darling Edward, Dec 27
You do think of the most original presents! Who ever thought
of sending anybody three French hens? Do they really come all
the way from France? It's a pity we have no chicken coops,
but I expect we'll find some. Anyway, thank you so much;
they're lovely.
Your devoted Emily.
Dearest Edward, Dec 28
What a surprise! Four calling birds arrived this morning.
They are very sweet, even if they do call rather loudly --
they make telephoning almost impossible -- but I expect
they'll calm down when they get used to their new home.
Anyway, I'm very grateful, of course I am.
Love from Emily.
Dearest Edward, Dec 29
The mailman has just delivered five most beautiful gold
rings, one for each finger, and all fitting perfectly! A
really lovely present! Lovelier, in a way, than birds, which
do take rather a lot of looking after. The four that arrived
yesterday are still making a terrible row, and I'm afraid
none of us got much sleep last night. Mother says she wants
to use the rings to "wring" their necks. Mother has such a
sense of humor. This time she's only joking, I think, but I
do know what she means. Still, I love the rings.
Bless you, Emily.
Dear Edward, Dec 30
Whatever I expected to find when I opened the front door
this morning, it certainly wasn't six socking great geese
laying eggs all over the porch. Frankly, I rather hoped that
you had stopped sending me birds. We have no room for them,
and they've already ruined the croquet lawn. I know you meant
well, but let's call a halt, shall we?
Love, Emily.
Edward, Dec 31
I thought I said NO MORE BIRDS. This morning I woke up to
find no more than seven swans, all trying to get into our
tiny goldfish pond. I'd rather not think what's happened to
the goldfish. The whole house seems to be full of birds, to
say nothing of what they leave behind them, so please,
please, stop!
Your Emily.
Jan 1
Frankly, I prefer the birds. What am I to do with eight
milkmaids? And their cows! Is this some kind of a joke? If
so, I'm afraid I don't find it very amusing.
Jan 2
Look here, Edward,
This has gone far enough. You say you're sending me nine
ladies dancing. All I can say is, judging from the way they
dance, they're certainly not ladies. The village just isn't
accustomed to seeing a regiment of shameless viragos, with
nothing on but their lipstick, cavorting round the green, and
it's Mother and I who get the blame. If you value our
friendship, which I do (less and less), kindly stop this
ridiculous behavior at once!
Jan 3
As I write this letter, 10 disgusting old men are prancing
up and down all over what used to be the garden, before the
geese and the swans and the cows got at it. And several of
them, I have just noticed, are taking inexcusable liberties
with the milkmaids. Meanwhile, the neighbors are trying to
have us evicted. I shall never speak to you again.
Jan 4
This is the last straw! You know I detest bagpipes! The
place has now become something between a menagerie and a madhouse, and a man from the council has just declared it
unfit for habitation. At least Mother has been spared this
last outrage; they took her away yesterday afternoon in an
ambulance. I hope you're satisfied.
Jan 5
Our client, Miss Emily Wilbraham, instructs me to inform you
that with the arrival on her premises at 7:30 this morning of
the entire percussion section of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, and several of their friends, she has no course
left open to her but to seek an injunction to prevent you
importuning her further. I am making arrangements for the
return of much assorted livestock.
I am, Sir, yours faithfully,
G. Creep Attorney at law.
Another variation was penned by Irish essayist Hugh Leonard and is read by celebrated Irish actor Frank Kelly. This is for #1 Son. I think he will prefer the Irish version. I'm coming to believe that I do.


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While Warhol defined the twentieth century Pop Art movement in New York City, Weiwei builds on this legacy in the twenty-first century as he brings together the traditional with the modern. Both artists have similar themes running through their careers, including self-portraiture, the chronicling of daily life, their own artistic studios, flowers, and a love of cats. Weiwei's work is more political though, and as a social activist in China he continues to battle for human rights and freedom of expression.
Below are some of my favorite pieces from the exhibition, and how each artist has dealt with similar topics and themes in their work.
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei tackling similar topics
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Bloggers Challenge time again and this week the theme is Dog Days of summer. I went with the dog idea and used this adorable Stampsmith stamp of a boy and his dog. The image was colored using distress markers and some colored pencils. My sentiment is part of a Cornish Heritage Farms Stamp. My background is from my Gelli plate. I used various shades of distress paint. Then I used a stencil and stencil paste to add the dots. I kind of thought they looked a little like dog prints. Over the entire background I added distress stain. As a finishing embellishment I wrapped twine around the panel to keep it boyish.
I am also entering this card into these challenges: Fashionable Stamping -- child's play; and Cornish Heritage Farms -- use three different mediums (paint, stain, embossing paste, markers, colored pencils).


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Well, hey everyone! That's cool that it's Halloween this week. Didn't remember. But that's good news because it means that Día de los Muertos is also this week, and pan de muerto is so delicious. Have fun!
We had a good week. We've mostly got our area down now and I really like it. This is the most beautiful city in the world and I am absolutely in love with it. It is going to be really, really hard to say goodbye. Luckily I won't have to for a little while.
The V family is doing great! They made it to church this week and we're going to go visit them soon. They've been saying their family prayers and reading the Book of Mormon and they seem...different. More light in their countenances. It's been great to see. And it's helped us gain confidence with the Bishop since he told us to go visit them. We also met another less active member, actually, a lot, but another one that went to church. His name is R, the assistents had been working with him, and they told us to go visit him and teach the Plan of Salvation. We went and he asked a basketload of questions, but we were able to answer them and share a powerful message about the Atonement. It all just worked out way to well. Obviously it was the Spirit because we transitioned it right in to the Sacrament and invited him to church and he said yes. It was awesome.
I had splits with the Zone Leaders this week. I stayed in our area with Elder C. He's a lot of fun. We spent a long time looking through all the drawers and closets to find all the weird things the sisters had left in the house through the years. I could not write a hundredth of the things which were seen, but sufficeth me to say that they were strange and of curious workmanship. Also, we found an awesome investigator that day. We met a member from our area and she told us that the missionaries had been teaching a friend of hers that lived about 2 blocks away. She called her right then and invited her over to listen to us, and she came! We taught her the Restoration and put a baptismal date that she accepted! Her name is Y, she has two kids, an 18 year old boy and a 12 year old girl. They didn't make it to church, but we're hoping that this week she goes! That lesson was one of the happiest moments I've had in a long time. Yeah!
I also did splits with Elder T this week because I had to do the baptismal interview for their investigator, C, who got baptized this Saturday. So I got to go back to E, which was fun. We started the splits Thursday night, and when I got there, Elder T said that they still hadn't done any contacts that day. So I said, "That's okay, we're going to contact a bus." I had never done it before, but I felt like it needed to be done to help Elder T to get contacting. So we asked the bus driver if we could make an announcement, and then called the attention of everyone on the bus and called them to repentance. We gave them pass along cards and asked them if they would like a visit. Nobody did, but it felt good and it was an awesome way to start the splits!
After contacting the bus, we had an interesting lesson with one of their investigators named B. I connected really well with him because he studied Sound Recording Technology and also played in a band. He basically told us he didn't want to keep listening, that he knew he would need to repent some day but he wants to live it up right now. It was quite the lesson. We bore our testimonies and warned him of the consequences of his sins, and left. It was sad, but we left him a clear view of what he was choosing, so hopefully he makes a good choice.
We also found a new investigator named E, who is 17 and has really messed up his life and wants to change. We put a baptismal date with him also. Afterwards, we went to lunch, and the members told us "Well, Elders, we didn't prepare anything, but we were just going to go to Sirloin Stockade for lunch. I hope that's okay..." Obviously that's ok!!! Delicious. After that we had the interview with C. He's way ready. He's 17 and orphaned and literally lives in a one room house and sleeps on a piece of cardboard on the floor, but is so happy to have found the gospel. He about made me cry. Basically, they were the most epic splits of my entire mission. It was fun to go back and see everyone in E again.
I'm feeling good in my ward. President Wagner told me this week that sometimes a new beginning is better than trying to battle with the same situation for such a long time, so I'm confident that things will work out this way.
Answers: The two companionships in E divided up our area between themselves, so the sisters have been teaching M and his family, and they're actually progressing really well. They've been to church twice now and have a baptismal date for November 23rd. I took Elder T to his half of our old area and showed him the people we had been teaching. He was able to bring a less active member named J to church this week that we had found our last week there. Who knows what's going to happen to T.
There's a part in Preach My Gospel that I came to understand better this week. It basically says "As we repent, we recognize that we are children of God and need not make the same mistakes over and over again." I feel like if we could all realize where we come from, it would help us to become better people. We are not from this world. We come from a better place, from Heaven, from the presence of our Heavenly Father. As we recognize our divine origins, it is easier to understand that we don't need to think, talk, or act like someone from this world. It is in our nature to be something better. In spite of the veil and other worldly influences, our Father in Heaven has provided us with the way to recover, and even improve, our spiritual nature here in this life through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Just as I feel like I have learned way more about the United States here than I ever could have if I had never left the country, we can learn more about our heavenly home by being away from it here, and we will appreciate and enjoy it more when we are allowed to return. We need to recognize that we are spirits having mortal experiences, not mortals having spiritual experiences, and as we recognize this connection, it helps us to repent, live the commandments, and put off the natural man through the Atonement of Christ. I am so grateful for this knowledge that we have of the Plan of Salvation, of our divine heritage and destiny. It's something everyone needs to know.
Have a great week everyone! I love you!
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Anyhow I wasn't expecting a mega workout from this video but I should have known better. Again I know I'm using videos cause I've been too lazy to write up my own/go outside but a sweat on is a sweat on!
Sweat'o'Metre: it's dripping off the ends of my hair. that's a good one people!
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Censor.NET reports citing UNIAN quoting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin.
According to him, any talks with Russia should be conducted from a position of strength. In this connection, he mentioned the well-known motto "peace through strength" included in the Republican Party platform every four years since 1980.
"We can't tell the future, but today's Russia can not be trusted fundamentally. Any affairs with Russia, whether situational or not, are only possible on the basis of these two viewpoints," the foreign minister said.
In his opinion, this position is supported by many U.S. officials.
"I had the opportunity to talk with the secretary of state, the new national security adviser, with a number of people from the new U.S. administration, and I believe that it was a very consistent signal. And I believe they understand which Russia they are dealing with," Klimkin said.


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CFO Survey
Drop in Tech, Capital Spending Forecasts
CFOs Worried About PBGC Solvency
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. and NEW YORK, June 9, 2005 — CFO optimism about the U.S. economy and their own companies' financial prospects is the lowest it has been during the past 12 months.
According to the second quarter "CFO Outlook Survey," conducted by Financial Executives International and Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, the CFO Optimism Index of the U.S. economy is now 68.66, down 7% from 73.55 a year ago. The Optimism Index of CFOs' own companies' prospects registers 74.09, a smaller drop of 3% from 76.40 a year ago. CFOs from 186 companies participated in this quarter's survey.
CFOs are predicting only a 5% increase in capital spending over the next 12 months, less than half their prediction of 13% three months ago. Technology spending is expected to increase 4%, the lowest forecast since June 2003.
Burton Rothberg, Assistant Professor of Accounting at Baruch College noted, "The CFO community paints a mixed, but still generally positive picture of the US economy. The level of optimism of the US economy is down, as would probably be expected as the recovery matures. Recent rises in short term interest rates, oil prices and the US dollar have likely taken some of the shine off the outlook. Nonetheless, the CFOs continue to rate the prospects for their own companies at high levels. This is an important point since it's information from their own order books."
PBGC A Concern for Most CFOs
Reacting to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's assumption of large portions of United Airlines' $9.8 billion in pension obligations, about two-thirds (65%) of the CFOs are quite or very concerned about the PBGC's future solvency. The PBGC is not funded by general tax revenues and most CFOs think it should stay that way, despite their concerns. One CFO notes that most taxpayers would be outraged if their tax dollars were being used to fund someone else's pension benefit.
Seventeen percent of CFOs, however, would approve of using taxpayer dollars to support the financial well-being of the PBGC. "Realistically, general tax funding is inevitable," forecasts one survey respondent.
If PBGC premiums rose high enough, about a third of the CFOs whose companies offer defined benefit plans would consider a reduction in benefits or would consider no longer offering such a plan.
Rating Agencies Earn a Solid "C"
CFOs whose companies are rated by credit rating agencies were asked about their satisfaction with the accuracy, timeliness and transparency of their ratings. Their satisfaction level was average at best in all categories.
Forty percent of the surveyed CFOs would like to see more entrants in the credit rating business, compared to a third who would not, and 44% believe that oversight of the rating agencies is inadequate, compared to 32% who are satisfied with the oversight.
"Many of our members are expressing frustration regarding the credit rating industry," said Colleen Cunningham, President and CEO of FEI. "They are not sure of the factors used to make the credit determination. Some see upgrades as slow to happen despite significant positive change at their company. Others are frustrated by the agencies' lack of accountability for their ratings. I think all would agree, however, that more disclosure, standardized reporting and consistency would create fairer and more accurate credit ratings."
Health Care Discomfort
CFOs expect health care costs to rise about 8% over the next 12 months, a lower expectation when compared to prior quarters. Since larger companies offer insurers a larger pool over which to spread risk, and usually have more leverage with insurers, they generally report smaller increases in health care.
Revaluation of the Yuan
When asked how a revaluation of the Yuan would affect their company, 39.1% said that it would have no impact at all. Interestingly though, the same amount of companies who say a revaluation would have a small to moderate negative impact (25.1%), equals the number of companies who say that this would have a small to moderate positive impact.
About the Survey
Full survey results will be available June 13 at www.cfosurveys.com. For information prior to that, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
This quarter, the CFO Outlook Survey, conducted by Financial Executives International and Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, interviewed 186 corporate CFOs electronically in June. CFOs from both public and private companies and from a broad range of industries, revenues and geographic areas, including some off-shore companies, are represented. Survey respondents are members of Financial Executives International.
Revenue-weighted averages are provided for projected changes in capital and technology spending. Employee-weighted averages are used for projected changes in health care costs.
FEI has been conducting surveys gauging the country's economic outlook from the perspective of corporate CFOs for the past eight years.
Financial Executives International (FEI) is the leading advocate for the views of corporate financial management. Its 15,000 members hold policy-making positions as chief financial officers, treasurers, and controllers. FEI enhances member professional development through peer networking, career planning services, conferences, publications, and special reports and research. Members participate in the activities of 86 chapters, 75 of which are in the United States and 11 in Canada. For more information about FEI, visit www.fei.org.
Baruch College, founded in 1847, is a senior college of the City University of New York. The Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College is the largest collegiate school of business in the nation, producing graduates who assume leadership positions in all areas of American business as well as conduct important academic research. Baruch has one of the largest accounting programs in the country whose graduates become practicing CPAs.
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How on earth did I just spend 2 hours just looking at about a gazillion websites? Oh yeah, I'm avoiding my laundry! Well, wait a minute, I've done that a few times this week already.
BUT … lucky you, I want to share the cool things I found in my procrastination.
Feeling a little whacked? Crabby? Tired? LOTS of energies flying around this week between huge solar flares, the middle of Mercury Retrograde, and a Solar Eclipse and New Moon this weekend. But Depali Desai always has wisdom to share about the astrology happening. A snippet: "Overview: The Solar Eclipse occurs on a New Moon when there the symbolic soil within the subconscious is open and fertile to plant symbolic seeds for manifestation. The New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Scorpio occurs at 11° 16′ degrees on November 3rd, 2013. This vibration suggests fresh clear slate." I for one am feeling the clean slate aspect!
And in biz tips, I found this post about how to spiff up your Facebook Page for the holidays inspiring, and it has me planning already ….. 🙂
OhMYGosh I SO love Marie Forleo. Her video this week is about how to be present while still planning for the future. Freakin' brilliant, she is, and is SO important for spiritual peeps to consider.
Enjoy surfing! And by all means, tell me in comments below if you found any cool links this week! You know I can keep avoiding my laundry for a little bit longer …