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This is my story; My name is Sherri K,I am an alcoholic/addict. My sobriety date is September 20,2010 the day I entered the Fellowship House. My journey began when I was 22 yrs. old, I started using marijuana recreationally . I continued smoking pot on a daily basis for the next 8 yrs. without any obvious consequences. When I became pregnant with my daughters my kidney shutdown and I was put on pain meds. After the pregnancy my kidney regained function, however I was hooked on opiates. My opiate addiction caused me to doctor shop and buy off the street. My career as a nurse was placed in jeopardy and I sought treatment in 2002. After released from treatment I stayed clean 3 ½ yrs. only out of fear of losing my nursing license. I went to AA meetings only to get my forms signed for the nursing board. I did not work any steps, I thought I had control over my addiction by just abstaining . In the Fall of 2007 I fell and broke my leg, and was so excited because I knew I would be able to take opiates again without fear of losing my nursing license. I was put on opiates for pain and stayed on them for over 6 mos. My addiction grew to the point that I began shooting drugs into my veins because the pills no longer worked. I then was requested to either go to treatment for 3 months or surrender my license. I surrendered my license because I didn't have the money for treatment. I stayed out another 3 yrs. using any drug that would get me high. When I lost everything including my children, it was then that I became hopeless and ready to die. I was ordered into the Fellowship House September 2010 if I ever wanted to regain custody of my children. I went in reluctantly but still not surrendering to this disease, I just wanted my children back. After being there 2 wks. I found a sponsor, surrendered my life to God and started working my steps. The Fellowship House taught me that I have a disease can be arrested on a daily basis if I follow a few suggestions, and live by spiritual principles. The steps have taught me how to live life on life's terms without the use of drugs or alcohol. It also has shown me why I used to begin with…..lots of character defects. Today I attend AA meetings, work with my sponsor, and do service work. Today I have a better way to live, and I live life one day at a time . I give God all the glory in restoring me to sanity.
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'Young Victoria' closing Toronto Film Fest
World premiere of Atom Egoyan's 'Chloe' also on tapTORONTO -- The British-made Queen Victoria biopic "The Young Victoria," directed by French Canadian Jean-Marc Vallee, will close the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 19 with a North American bow, organizers said Tuesday.
The period drama from GK Films, which stars Emily Blunt and Paul Bettany and portrays a politically-arranged marriage between Victoria and Prince Albert morphing into a genuine love match, is the first film from Vallee after the success at the Toronto festival of his 2005 coming-of-age drama C.R.A.Z.Y.," which won the festival's best Canadian feature film prize.
Vallee was thrilled with the news. "It's home, it's a prestigious festival that is very director-oriented. I'm excited to finally show it to my Canadian friends," he said.
"Young Victoria," based on a Julian Fellowes script and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, Graham King, Tim Headington and British duchess Sarah Ferguson, will see Toronto bookended by 19th century Brit dramas as the festival has already ordered "Creation," the Charles Darwin biopic from director Jon Amiel, the Recorded Picture Co. and BBC Films, to open its 34th installment on Sept. 10.
As Toronto rolled out its Canadian program, the festival also gave high-profile gala slots to the world premiere of Atom Egoyan's "Chloe," from Studiocanal and the Montecito Picture Co.
The Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson-starrer is executive produced by Jason Reitman, whose latest film, "Up In The Air" from Paramount, will also bow in Toronto next month.
Also receiving a world premiere at Roy Thomson Hall is Dilip Mehta's "Cooking With Stella," while Terry Gilliam's Canada/U.K. co-production "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" will receive a North American bow.
Festival co-director Cameron Bailey said this year's Canadian lineup, featuring a host of co-productions with U.S., Asian and European co-financing, reflected veteran Canadian directors increasingly shooting abroad as part of multiterritory projects.
"Our (Canadian) filmmakers are global, although they may be rooted in Canada," Bailey said.
And the Contemporary World Cinema program will feature world bows for Blaine Thurier's "A Gun To the Head," Carl Bessai's "Cole," Bruce Sweeney's "Excited," and Robert Stefaniuk's "Suck," a rock-driven comedy that features cameos by Alice Cooper, Moby, Iggy Pop, Carole Pope and Henry Rollins.
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I do not balance my checkbook.
There. I said it.
As long as I'm coming clean, I should admit that I have never balanced my checkbook. Ever. OK, there was that one time when I first opened a checking account and my mom showed me how to track my deposits and withdrawals on the register. That was during the Carter administration.
To be completely honest, here's yet another embarrassing detail. When interviewing for this job more than six years ago, I was asked to demonstrate my writing ability by composing an essay titled "How to Balance Your Checkbook." Thankfully, I had a goody-two-shoes-checkbook-balancer roommate whom I interrogated about her pristine record-keeping tricks.
That little detail didn't come up during the job interview. Nor did my sloppy personal accounting ways come to light at the job I held before this one. At another financial publication. Ahem.
So there you have it. I -- a longtime financial writer -- do not balance my checkbook. I've already fessed up publicly to some major shopping blunders, lazy budgeting habits, late tax filing (really, really late) and that I use "funny math" to justify my spending. But this checkbook thing has been weighing on me.
I had a hunch that I wasn't the only one working at this company who had financial skeletons in her closet. So I decided to ask my peers to step into the Fool Confessional and cop to their money blunders.
Of course, there are the run-of-the-mill shortcomings: Fools who have families or substantial net worth but no wills. Ones who, like me, don't bother balancing their checkbooks or flossing regularly. Others with large credit card debts, no savings, and even one who cashed out her 401(k) to buy furniture.
Forgive us our transgressions...
Lessons learned
If you're lazy about funding your retirement, I know someone who can relate. A Fool writer -- known for dispensing sound financial advice -- admits to never having contributed to his (or her... I'm not telling) 401(k). At any job. "I have no rational reason for never contributing -- I was just lazy and apathetic." How many thousands of dollars this Fool has passed up in company matching and tax savings? I shudder to think.
Speaking of throwing away free money, are you overpaying for your mortgage? Us Fools, too! One confessed to me that she was paying 9.75% on her mortgage and didn't realize it was a big deal. She has since refinanced -- twice -- and is down to a more reasonable (and Foolish) 5.25%.
One co-worker learned of a major money blunder when his employer told him that he had a tax lien from the state and his wages had to be garnished. What happened? A missing tax return from 1996. Living in a group home with a bunch of sloppy roommates, the notice was probably used as a coaster or thrown out with an empty pizza box. His credit score plummeted, and the red mark is on his credit record until next April.
Against all of our tutelage, sometimes Fools fall victim to the lure of instant riches. A colleague confided to me that he bought 3dfx when David Gardner bought it for the Fool portfolio years ago. "Trouble was, I didn't really understand the company's business or that Dave's investing style was so much more aggressive than mine. " He bought more when the price went down. And held on. Today, the penny stock sits in his portfolio as a reminder. Ouch.
Sometimes even our good intentions backfire. When one Fool lent money to a family member, the relationship headed south. "He was not able to pay me back, and stopped coming to family events."
Another tried to do the right thing -- eke out every last mile from his used car -- only to end up with a very costly clunker. "My wife and I spent over $3,000 to repair our 10-year-old car," he says. Trouble is, the car was only worth $3,500. He's learned from that expensive lesson and vows to keep up with all those small, annoying, but cheap oil change and mileage check repairs so that they never have to face a four-digit car bill again.
And then, there are just some really, really bad decisions. "In college, I used student loan money to pay rent, buy groceries, do a little online gambling, for bar money, whatever." Today, the buzz is gone, but this Fool still owes Uncle Sam for his partying. He's adamant that this is no big whoop since the interest is tax deductible.
Lessons taught
Take heart. Even those of us who preach fiscal responsibility between the hours of 9 to 5 can be lazy, shortsighted, and even plain dumb. Some of my co-Fools gamble, carry debt, invest blindly, don't budget, overspend on shoes. (Guilty as charged on that last one.) It's human nature.
I have a great excuse to pry for this private information. It's my job. But isn't it yours, too? If you've got kids, share your blunders and the daily workings of the household finances. Be open with your pals -- you may learn something, and even better, be able to teach them not to make the same mistakes that you once did.
Got something you'd like to get off your chest? Never contributed to your 401(k)? Carrying credit card debt? Regularly "borrow" from your kid's piggybank? Head over to the Fool Confessional, otherwise known as the Fools and Their Money discussion board.
We're all ears. And, boy, can we relate.
Dayana Yochim has not yet told her mom about the whole checkbook register thing. So if you could keep it to yourself for now, she'd appreciate it. Talk about full disclosure, check out the Fool's policy.


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Monday, December 03, 2007
How to go from rags to riches the Ayaan Hirsi Magan way
The Economist writes:
The facts as Ms Hirsi Ali tells them here do not fit well either with some of the stories she has told in the past or with her tendency in her political writing to ascribe most of the troubles of the Muslim world to Islam…As a young woman, Ms Hirsi Ali's mother, Asha, does not seem to have inhabited "the virgin's cage" that the author claims imprisons Muslim women around the world. At the age of 15, she travelled by herself to Aden where she got a job cleaning house for a British woman…Ms Hirsi Ali sounds less frank when she tells the convoluted story of how and why she came to seek asylum at the age of 22 in the Netherlands. She has admitted in the past to changing her name and her age, and to concocting a story for the Dutch authorities about running away from Somalia's civil war. (In fact she left from Kenya, where she had had refugee status for ten years.)…
However, last May a Dutch television documentary suggested that while Ms Hirsi Ali did run away from a marriage, her life was in no danger…the facts as she tells them about the many chances she passed up to get out of the marriage—how her father and his clan disapproved of violence against women; how relatives already in the Netherlands helped her to gain asylum; and how her ex-husband peaceably agreed to a divorce—hardly seem to bear her out.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is not the first person to use false pretences to try to find a better life in the West, nor will she be the last. But the muddy account given in this book of her so-called forced marriage becomes more troubling when one considers that Ms Hirsi Ali has built a career out of portraying herself as the lifelong victim of fanatical Muslims.
describes herself as a woman who "fights for the rights of Muslim women, the enlightenment of Islam and the security of the West," Hirsi Ali, according to Lorraine Ali of Newsweek, "is more a hero among Islamophobes than Islamic women".
From Abu Hurairah (radiyallaahu 'anhu) who said that Allah's Messenger (pbuh) said:
There will come upon the people years of deceit in which the liar will be believed, the truthful disbelieved, the treacherous will be trusted and the trustworthy held to be treacherous, and the despicable (ar-Ruwaybidah) will speak out. It was said: Who are the despicable ones (ar-Ruwaybidah)? He said: The lowly, ignoble man who speaks out about the public affairs.
4 comments:
- Kashmiri Nomad said...
Oh Dr. M just leave her alone she is just such a cuddly little thing :)
- MTAkbar said...
dammnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn...exposed lying scum...and her poor family dragged through the mud by her. She probably thought she would never be exposed...started believing her lies...
- Liberal White Boy said...
Just checking to see if you were still out here.
- Saggal said...
Although wikipedia simply states her father studied abroad, i actually think (unless am very mistaken)that he is a graduate of Cornell University -now does that sound like the downtrodden repressive background she claims for her family? How many nomadic families in Somalia send their sons to Ivy League institutions?!. And do they go straight from herding camels into higher education?


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Monde Sitole is one of the most inspirational people we know. But the Khayelitsha based explorer needs to raise a whopping R40 000 expedition fee to summit Mount Denali in Alaska. Once up there, his sponsors have assured him that they will provide the funds he needs to get him to the top of Everest, no bones about it.
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I've pieced most of the quilt I'm working on; still four more rows of 14 blocks to attach, which will make it 80 inches square without borders. Still haven't figured out what to do for borders. It is all 30's fabric, scrappy, in the Cumberland pattern. It reminds me of my great grandmother's aprons. I have a wool batt in the basement to stuff it with. Perhaps by Christmas I'll get it all finished, especially if all we get is snow. I still have a few small things to pick up at the store, and packages to wrap, but essentially, Christmas is done. Keeping it small helps to make it much easier in the shopping department. That way we can focus on the Holy Day instead of the holiday.
I keep thinking it would be a good day to do some baking of Christmas cookies, but then, I'd only eat them, and last time I did some baking, the power went off and to finish the baking, we had to run the generator. Besides tonight starts Chanukkah, and I'm thinking it would be nice to make latkas in honor of my Dvora Breina Ashman's mother, whose recipe it is. We shall see…it's a bit of work, but they are so good.
Putting the big feeder in with the pigs has helped a lot! They can feed whenever they want to which is good. I still bring them treats each day of stuff from the house or from my supply of acorns, but their basic feed is taken care of. Unlike the sheep, they don't seem particularly fond of snow to drink, so water has to be brought to them at least twice a day. Since it's so cold, and there is no water heater, I can't use the big water bucket with nipple. It will freeze.
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The Human Electromagnetic Field: Proven Energetic Communication!
Everybody has an electromagnetic field. Electromagnetic fields are created when electrical current flows. The stronger the current the stronger the resultant field. A nerve impulse is a wave of electrical activity that passes from one end of a nerve to another. We are full of nerves sending electrical messages all over our bodies all the time. So we are a hotbed of electrical activity! As you can see from the diagram, the human body radiates out a magnetic field.
Recent research as cited within the video below, has found that the human body can act as an aerial with the capability to send and receive energy to and from it's environment. This also includes energy exchange to and from other people. This energy exchange has also been found to influence our thoughts and emotions.
So, this shows that when our electromagnetic fields intersect, we are likely to be subconsciously communicating with each other. You know, when you just get a 'feeling' about someone? Perhaps this has a lot to do with it.
Data shows that when people touch or are in proximity, there is an energy exchange. This is detected by an electroencephalograph. This highlights the importance of touch or at least being in close proximity of each other.
It has also been found that the heart communicates with the brain and the rest of the body through magnetic field interaction. It was proposed by scientists that this electromagnetic field provides a synchronising signal for the entire human body. Therefore, the body is communicating with itself all the time; for example, to move your limbs, for digestion, and body temperature regulation.
Heart field interactions between individuals may well be operating just below our level of awareness. Magnetic attraction or repulsion between people may actually be physically real! In addition, we are likely to be subconsciously synchronising with each other if we spend long periods of time together.
Use your intuition to feel that feeling of physically and emotionally synchronising with another person. You could be reading their emotions and details about their personality. This could also be the scientific explanation for psychic abilities
We are also part of the earths magnetic field and this is likely why psychic communication can be performed over long distances. But up close it can seem a bit easier.
A feeling of love can magnify if we are in very close proximity. Touch produces biochemical responses within the brain, however if our electromagnetic fields are intersecting there could be a lot of psychic communication going on. On a soul's level you might be sensing if another person's soul is aligned energetically with yours.
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Finger painting for toddlers is a great sensory activity, along with a great beginning art activity for them.
As George is getting older, it's getting more interesting to keep him entertained during activities with Henry. Especially art activities. Because he's usually stuck in his high chair with nothing to do.
To solve this, I included George in the activity this time. I made my own finger paint (its an edible recipe found At the Butterfly Ball) so just in case when George ate it, I knew it wasn't harmful. I could have also used our Crayola Finger Paints (affiliate link), they're non-toxic and I'd feel okay if George put some in his mouth.
The recipe made nine baby food containers of finger paint. I made the paint myself and left them uncolored. We're getting a kick out of making our own craft recipes, they're usually super easy and only include stuff you'd normally have around in your cupboards.
This is a great toddler-friendly recipe, it's included in a collection of 50 activities for your toddler.
When Henry got home from preschool, I let him stir colors into the finger paint.
I taped down the letter H and G onto pieces of scrapbook paper beforehand.
Henry started into his paint right away. Spooning and dumping the paint out in globs and globs.
Not using his fingers in any way. I just let him do as he pleased and tended to George. George didn't know what to think.
And he did have a mouthful of paint. Only once though. It must not have tasted so good.
Meanwhile, Henry kept globbing on the paint with his spoon.
He eventually did put down the spoon and got his fingers (hands and arms) in the paint.
Henry thought he was being hilarious when he smacked his painting over and over, sending splatters of paint everywhere.
It left a pretty neat mark on his paper though. I wanted him to leave it, but kept my mouth shut. He went onto smearing it.
And maybe onto George's painting a little.
I really did enjoy both the boys painting side by side.
Henry really enjoyed doing it with George. George probably would've rather been eating though.
When Henry was finished and George had enough, I hung their paintings to dry.
They were soaked.
They took the entire day to dry.
I framed Henry's H in the 12×12 Scrapbook Frame (affiliate link) that I have. I hope to get more of these frames so I can hang this in Henry's room (and George's in his too!).
I found the recipe for Homemade Finger Paint from At the Butterfly Ball.
You can also substitute the food coloring for poster paints, but it won't be edible then.
Henry was 3 years old. George was 11 months old.


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Shortly after firing coach Jim Schwartz, Lions President Tom Lewand said he believes his team will have its pick of multiple good coaches who want to come to Detroit.
"I think this will be one of the most if not the single most attractive coaching opportunities in the National Football League," Lewand said. "That starts with our ownership. I think it also continues with the talented people we have in this organization."
Every team thinks it's a great destination for a great coach, but in the Lions' case, they may be right. After all, the Lions' recent first-round draft picks include superstar wide receiver Calvin Johnson, a talented quarterback in Matthew Stafford, a starting left tackle in Riley Reiff and three good defensive linemen in Ndamukong Suh, Nick Fairley and Ziggy Ansah. Those are pieces that a good coach can build a winning team around.
Lewand also hinted that coaches or their representatives are already contacting the Lions to express their interest, citing a "number of calls we have already gotten" in the hours after Schwartz was fired.
Still, all the talent in the world doesn't make Detroit a great destination for a coach if that talent can't be assembled into a team that plays disciplined football on the field and does the right things off the field. Lewand acknowledged that results are what matter, and results are why Schwartz was fired.
"We did not win the division title. We did not win enough games," Lewand said.
Now the Lions have to find a coach who will win enough games. They haven't had a coach who could win consistently in a long time.


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If you're reading this, the Mayans were wrong. The world did not end on 12-21-12, and another year is going into the history books. We're back to following the advice given to us by the Son of the only One who has it all figured out: "Watch and pray for you know not when the time is." I guess we could have saved ourselves a lot of stress and worry. Sort of an "I could have had a V-8" moment, isn't it?
In the working world, a common thing to do at the end of a project is to review the results; talk about lessons learned. One former boss used a military term and called this a "hot wash" session. We don't assign any importance or order to these observations, just note them. Detailed analysis can come later.
So, here's my hot wash for the twelfth year of the new millennium.
1: Never assume you can figure out your retirement plans on your own. The sooner you get an expert on board, the better. If your children are young enough, try to interest one of them in financial planning as a career. Raising your own Alex Keaton could be very beneficial to your whole family. On second thought- having a family member in charge of your money at such an early age could be a conflict of interest, and might prompt arsenic in your oatmeal. Better just consult the yellow pages.
2. If you find yourself in the situation of not having to report to work every day, enjoy every minute. Others will try to fill your time, but you are in ultimate control. If you're trying to find a new job, try not to stress about it. Things will work out. Meanwhile, live it up, and wear pajamas and slippers all day if you get the chance!
3. Granny Camp with all of your grandkids in attendance can be a real joy. However, the idea of not having another adult around to assist can be abandoned if you have four campers ages 10 and under. Also, shortening the session from a week to three days is a remarkably wonderful idea!
4. You're never too old for a job interview, and a well crafted resume can be extremely handy. This is your chance to blow your own horn. Don't be dishonest, but don't sell yourself short, either. Many employers are recognizing the value of hiring experienced, seasoned employees. On a related note: if you are asked to speak about one of your best features, and one of your worst ones, the weakness should be a cleverly disguised strength. Example: "I have a hard time letting go of a project when it's finished, because I want everything to be perfect."
5. Eighteen people can fit comfortably in a garage for a large family dinner. Crafty kids and grandkids can help with decorations the night before. Another stress reducing tip: take advantage of helpful mothers, sisters-in-law, daughters, daughters-in-law and grand-daughters, and send males of all ages outside until everything is on the table.
6. Two serious thoughts about tragic events that occurred just before Christmas. Even if God is no longer officially invited to our schools, He's still there. And, guns don't kill people, people who should not have access to guns kill people. I'm trying to keep this list positive, but sometimes things just must be said.
7. We live in a beautiful state, with boundless opportunities for happy jaunts with little or no planning. The State Park system is a secret that we should not keep to ourselves any longer. Though it would be impossible to name a favorite, Mounts Magazine, Nebo and Petit Jean are all in the running.
8. Social media is a fantastic tool for keeping in touch, and even for making new friends. Warnings about revealing too much of your private information are valid, but with due caution, online contacts can become real-life pals.
9. A healthy mix of good food and moderate exercise can make day to day life much more pleasant. Kudos to those who are making great strides along these lines, and for those of you who are just maintaining, never give up!
10. Changes of all kinds happen. During adjustment periods, don't schedule too many activities. You need time for physical and emotional recuperation.
New years are full of possibilities. Twenty-twelve is gone, and we're gearing up for Lucky Thirteen. The Mayans didn't have everything figured out, any more than we do. Like the psalm and the song that inspired this column puts it: "To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven." Use those lessons learned, and keep your smiling face aimed forward!


text: Steph Curry becomes the youngest player to win the Sportsmanship Award. Players vote for whoever they feel best exhibits ethical behavior, fair play and integrity on and off the court. From the NBA: "Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors is the recipient of the Joe Dumars Trophy presented to the 2010-11 NBA Sportsmanship Award winner, the NBA announced today. Curry received 88 first-place votes (2,445 total points) of a possible 347. The NBA will make a $10,000 donation on behalf of Curry to Habitat For Humanity East Bay, which uses volunteers to build affordable homes in Alameda and Contra Costa counties."


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For a change (actually running short in money for bigger deals) I started quilting again with the stock of fabric that is within my reach and not stashed away. (Sewing machine back and working.) And for this time I did a rather traditional pillow case designed with EQ6 and added a lot of hand embroidery having a very good time with it. Noticed no black and white checkerboard this time :-)
Looks like a little piece of art.
Maybe this will take me over the odd feeling of having taken the wrong descision. Who knows anyway what future really will bring?
Temperatures are rising (kind of) and this morning birds were singing and I had the feeling of spring when I went for a walk with my dog.
I'm just waiting for the next thing to happen. No time to rush.


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I no I am not consuming enough calories per day. I should be eating between 1200- 1500 a day and I eat about 800. I am recovering from an Eating Disorder, and I try to make myself eat enough, but the only real meal I have is dinner. I can't bring myself to eat more then 800 cals a day, yet I am not losing weight. I excercise for between 30 mins - 45 mins a day doing cardio and below is my general diet:
Breakfast: Mango and Apple Juice
Lunch: 150 gm of Udon Noodles
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DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hyperion Power Generation Inc. CEO Robert Prince announced today the company will change its name to Gen4 Energy, Inc.
According to Prince, "As a natural follow through to the evolution of the company over the last year, the name Gen4 Energy more accurately describes the focus of the company, the first product being developed, and the needs of the market we intend to address."
Gen4 Energy's product is a small next generation nuclear power reactor. Sealed at the factory, including fuel for its 10-year operational lifetime, the Gen4 Module (previously the Hyperion Power Module) will require no refueling and no on-site access to nuclear fuel (vastly reducing safety and proliferation concerns).
The market for Gen4 Energy's product is anywhere that electricity is currently produced by diesel generators. This market includes:
- Remote and Island Communities that are off-grid and reliant on expensive and regular supply of diesel fuel.
- Mining and Oil & Gas Production projects that are off-grid, energy-intensive, and increasingly sensitive to the environmental concerns of burning fossil fuels.
- Government Facilities that need reliable, off-grid power for sensitive or strategic missions.
According to the International Energy Agency, 5% of global electricity generation is produced from petroleum liquids, at a typical cost of over 30 cents per kilowatt/hour. At approximately half that cost, Gen4 Energy's technology has a significant economic advantage in this market.
Gen4 Energy intends to license and demonstrate its first Gen4 Module (G4M) in the U.S. or Canada, and then address the global market. G4M technology has the potential to provide power to underserved regions, to demonstrate unmatched nuclear safety, and to emit no greenhouse gasses.
Gen4 Energy, Inc. based in Denver, Colorado, is working with Los Alamos National Laboratory and nuclear industry partners to develop a next-generation nuclear power source. The G4M will produce 25 MW of safe and reliable electric power that is available 24/7, and will operate for 10 years without refueling. It will be manufactured in a factory, transported to the installation site completely sealed, and after its useful life replaced with an entirely new power module.


text: Kimberly James always been a sex 'em and leave 'em kind of girl. And though she's willing to play cupid with her BFF Sharon, relationships just aren't for her. Until a wild night of making out in a jacuzzi with the best man, Terrell King, changes all that. Now she's feeling all sorts of feelings which she doesn't have time for because she's trying to start her own nightclub. And is left wondering how her almost one night of crazy didn't stay in Vegas. Terrell King has met the woman of his dreams. Too bad she wants nothing to do with him but remain friends. But their almost one night stand in Vegas only confirmed what he knew for some time. That he's found the future Mrs. Terrell King. And he's going to use everything in his arsenal to make it true. From beating back other brothers away from his woman. Have his mama put in a good word for him. And making her dream come true. He'll even settle for now to be friends with benefits. Because everything will be worth it to turn the one night that almost was into death do you part.


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Coming over from an iPhone or any other device? Not familiar with Samsung device but now owned a Samsung Galaxy Note 4? Don't know How to a Take Screenshot on Samsung Galaxy Note 4? Here it is probably the easiest way.
The easiest way to take screenshot on a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is using the Home and Power Buttons. Here is the steps how to do that.
1. Go to the screen you want to capture.
2. Hold down the home and power buttons simultaneously to save an image of whatever's on-screen.
3. The outside of the screen will flash briefly with a shutter sound that means the screenshot has been taking.
4. You will be notify about the screenshot you capture on the notification section of your device. You can check there.
* If its not taking the screenshot properly ensure you're pressing the home key and power key at the same time.
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Saltwater or Freshwater? Which Tank is Best?
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Making the decision to have a saltwater or freshwater aquarium tank can be confusing. What factors should you consider? What are your goals for the tank? Are you looking for simple or elaborate? This article will help you sort out the answers.Read more...


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GDC 2009: Star Defense, Touch Pets Dogs, LiveFire
We've reported on all three of these upcoming ngmoco titles before, but last week, we actually had a chance to see them up at a producer-guided GDC demo. Impressions to follow!
Star Defense is ngmoco's entry into the already-crowded tower defense genre, and it's coming to us courtesy of Netherlands-based developer Rough Cookie. Mechanically, the game is pretty standard TD–you're trying to protect interstellar ore depots from resource-hungry aliens, which adds up to placing towers to waste creeps. The turrets you have to work with aren't really new either, from what we could see.
Here's the twist (literally): the creeps come marching along the 3D surfaces of the game's seven planets. Some are standard globes, but others come in more exotic configurations, like a hollow cube. Spinning the world around to get the full picture on your defenses is simple with multitouch. And the graphics are highly refined.
Star Defense has three difficulty levels, three upgrades per tower type, and ngmoco's usual suite of achievements. It will be coming to the App Store "soon," since it's basically done, and is likely to cost somewhere in the $5-$7 range.
Touch Pets Dogs is still in an Alpha state, so we probably won't see it in the App Store for another few months. It's understandable, because this is a far more ambitious game than Star Defense.
As we've previously discussed, the digital pooches are under the sway of behavioral AI expert Andrew Stern, so they act and learn realistically. In order for your doggie to gain new skills, you have to train it by repeating tricks and activities. If you roll a ball around, the dog will chase after it; repeat, and he'll eventually learn to balance on top of it.
This ties into the game's mission structure, where your dog complete tasks to progress along one of five career tracks. For example, crime-fighting canines might be called to investigate vandalism at the pet store. This requires the dog to have built up its stats to a certain level, as well as special equipment like a flashlight. Completing missions unlocks access to new items and clothes, which feed right back into gameplay by unlocking new missions and boosting stats.
Finally, we learned a little more about Touch Pets Dogs multiplayer and social features. Friendly pooches are accessible via an in-game social network–complete with a Friends feed–that allows you to pluck a doggie off the Internet for an asynchronous play date, to satisfy your dog's need for social time. In addition, certain career tracks like "superstar" or "politician" are heavily based on social missions, which are premised on relationships rather than stats.
Touch Pets Dogs features five breeds (Jack Russell Terriers, Westies, Labs, Dachshunds, and German Shepards), time of day awareness, support for multiple dogs, and over 100 in-game items. It'll fall on the upper end of the price scale.
LiveFire is probably the game that everyone on this site wants to know the most about… but it's also the least finished by far. It's basically a tech demo at this stage, although the producer assured us that it would be out later this summer.
We weren't able to go hands-on with LiveFire, but we did watch two players go head-to-head for a quick multiplayer matchup over WiFi; it appeared to work flawlessly. The game uses dual-stick controls like Dropship to move, strafe, and look; a quick jostle of the iPhone jumps, and double-tap fires.
The game's frame rate was capped at 30 FPS for the purposes of the demo, but we were told that it can run much faster than that. We were also told that ngmoco's run four-to-six player multiplayer matches over 3G with no issues.


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Story bags and Song bags for Childminders at The Childminding Shop.
Jack & the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs and Old Macdonald
Only available from The Childminding Shop:
Story bag: drawstring bag with story masks and props;
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There was a time when the promise of air travel was exciting to me. Those days are long gone; any remnant of enthusiasm came to an end 10 years ago this September. Still, despite the hassles of modern day flight, business trips to the right places do occasionally offer an excuse to do some fishing.
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"Excuse me," the woman said, coming up out of nowhere and addressing my 18-year-old son, Mark, as I knelt beside him on the edge of the river removing a large fish hook from the ankle-cuff of his waders. "Did you know that there was a fly stuck to you while you were fishing?"
On Tuesday night the Atlanta Braves beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in 19 innings. On Wednesday morning I saw a replay of the game-winning run, scored by Julio Lugo.
It was a run that shouldn't have counted, as video replays and photographs show Pirates catcher Michael McKenry tagging Lugo well before he reached home plate. But the ump blew the call, and the Braves won. And that of course once again brought up cries from fans as well as players and managers for an increased use of instant replay in baseball.
Life sometimes requires making adjustments.
So does fishing. Some of the adjustments are small. Some less small. But large or small, a failure to adjust can result, well, in failure.
Yesterday morning, the second to last day of family vacation in Maine, I headed out to spend a couple hours fishing a nearby stream. It is a stream I know well, and have fished dozens of times over the past 35 years.
I took my son Mark to play in a baseball game in Burlington last week. Turns out the game was canceled because of rain, but we never got word until we were already at the Burlington High School field. So I found myself with a little extra time to spend in the big city. And, not wanting two hours of driving to be completely wasted, I stopped by a fly shop to buy some fly-tying supplies.
Tim wanted to experience rural life. That meant, among other things, that he wanted to go fishing.
I don't usually get excited about catching a nine-inch trout. At least not when the trout was almost certainly a stocked fish, and I'm fishing a favorite stretch of my home river where I've already caught 1,000 trout in my lifetime.
But this was different for two reasons.
I was driving one of my sons to one of his many activities on Monday evening. The thunder I'd heard in the afternoon was no long rumbling, and the rain had subsided from pounding to merely steady. As we crossed the one-lane bridge on Route 116, I glanced down at the New Haven River. It was swollen and murky — too high to invite fishing — but not quite at flood stage. I was surprised. Despite the tapering off of the rain, I'd been expecting the water to be even higher.
We all know of "wild" animals particularly adapted to human-made environments. Consider black bears in Adirondack state parks, deer in New Jersey suburbs, pigeons in the city and the ubiquitous raccoons. This winter an opossum was living in our woodpile until the pile got too low, and then it moved into our garage.
This past week I had an opportunity to witness another example, though one somewhat more surprising (at least to me).
Cold, high water. Slow fishing. That's my prediction for the opening day of the 2011 trout fishing season.
OK, I admit it. It's my prediction every year for opening day. I'm not going out on a limb. Still, the last couple years may have left anglers somewhat spoiled. On opening day of 2010, there was much less runoff from snow melt than is typical for early April, and thus much better opening day conditions than usual.
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I made passing reference in an earlier post to the fact that Google Lively (the virtual world from Google) wasn't usable, and elsewhere I've gone so far as to predict that it would straight-up bomb. Apparently I was right.
The problems with Google Lively are instructive: it drew a lot of attention, and even excitement in certain circles, but it simply wasn't usable. It was trying to sell itself as a "browser based" virtual world, meaning you could embed it in webpages. That sounds nice, I'm sure, but 1) it required a 10 MB download to work, 2) after the 10 MB download it took about 20 minutes to load a room (in my experience), and 3) it was a fully 3D world without any solid navigation controls. So if you require a huge download AND long load times for your app, it's not very effective as an embeddable widget, and if the user has to dedicate a huge amount of effort to moving their avatar across the room (much less around a corner, that was a nightmare), then it's not providing the kind of casual experience that users attracted to browser-based world were looking for in the first place.
In other words, this was an example of a world that tried to use features to compensate for lack of a driving vision or solid design of any kind. Did they even have designers on this project? I mean the menus are all enormous, the camera and navigation controls feel like they're from the early 90s when 3rd person 3D was a peculiarity at best, and chat all occured in bubbles that flew as far as possible from your avatar, with a thin line connecting them to the speaker. The point is that core usability cannot be an afterthought, but just about everything else they did include can be.
I feel a particularly inappropriate amount of schadenfreude when I see this graphic:
That's right: Google Lively was 70% hype and 30% loading screens.
-Silent Ellipsis
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Not So Lively Afterall
Posted by Ellipsis at 8:42 PM
Labels: game design, google, lively, virtual worlds
2 comments:
- Sam said...
- November 20, 2008 at 5:27 AM
- Ryan said...
I never even heard about it. I think it would have been more successful had it been made to be an erotic virtual world. And even then, it would have been populated by about 200 people... 199 of whom are men.
- November 30, 2008 at 4:27 PM
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Joseph Lewis's thriller Stolen Lives explores the subject of human trafficking, particularly sexual exploitation of young boys.
Fourteen-year-old Brett McGovern, ripped from his home two years ago, has been held captive in a hideaway together with eleven other victims his age or younger. Now Stephen Bailey and his friend Michael Erickson are snatched from the street on their way home and brought to the same dreadful lair to share the fate of its inhabitants. Every boy that ends up in this unlawful prison has been carefully "selected" by his predators on the basis of his good looks and athleticism and then watched until the right moment to be abducted. Every boy vanishes without a trace. Every boy is robbed of his virtue, innocence, dignity, and health at the hands of the ruthless perverts subjecting him to unspeakable sexual, physical, and psychological abuse. Every boy is disposable, as soon as he gets ill or when he grows past his "desirable" age; then he receives two bullets in his head, execution style, and is dumped in some faraway location never to be found. None of the boys has any hope of survival.
When George Tokay, a Navajo teen living in Arizona, accidentally witnesses one of the executions and reports it to the authorities, the FBI finally has hope of cracking the case. Agents Pete Kelliher and Summer Storm, who have been trying to track down the predators for the past two years, can finally break into the criminal ring, operating in several states, and rescue the boys.
But now they have to protect George too, who has also become a prey. As the manhunt for the criminals escalates, the FBI agents realize that the perpetrators are two steps ahead of them, which points to a possible mole within their ranks. Who can you trust when everyone is under suspicion? Pete Kelliher has to keep the information privy to only a very close circle. With every passing hour the chances of finding the boys slip away, and the stakes go higher.
Stolen Lives is a fast-paced, adrenaline-laced story that accelerates your heartbeat and keeps your eyes glued to the page from start to finish. One of the most important tasks that every author has to accomplish is to create characters that the reader will care enough about to keep reading. Joseph Lewis has accomplished this task. We care deeply about the abducted boys during their ordeal in captivity and the potential victims. We admire and respect the FBI agents risking their lives in their hunt of the criminals. We want nothing else but for them to find and rescue the boys and then punish their tormentors.
Rape, especially the rape of minors, is a tough subject to write about. Joseph Lewis does it masterfully. He avoids explicit description, yet we get a vivid picture of the horror that the victims go through. That takes talent.
Stolen Lives is fiction, but it reads like true-crime nonfiction, thanks to the author's extensive research of the subject and his experience as a professional counselor of abused children. The staggering statistics on the number of vanished and murdered children that Lewis skillfully inserts into the narration give the novel a feeling of case study.
Stolen Lives reads as a stand-alone novel, but it is the first book in the trilogy. There is a prequel to it too, also published this year, titled Taking Lives, which introduces the main characters and depicts events transpiring two years earlier.
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Before I post an article this morning, I just had to share this video for a good laugh 😉
Before I post an article this morning, I just had to share this video for a good laugh 😉
Ken Jorgustin, author of Modern Survival Blog, writing a unique mixture of lifestyle prepping & preparedness topics since early 2010.
Saw the video earlier in the week. But I still laugh every time I watch it.
Adapt and Overcome.
Ohhhhhh- that scared the "________" outta me!
I just linked this site and video on my website, just 120 members, but I'm sure they'll all enjoy it.
I would have liked it better if they had shot each OTHER.
I hope this does not happen but, if it does I hope she's the one pulling the trigger.
Maybe it should have been an old fashioned duel and they both lost.
Actually I'd be content if they fought a duel on the terms Abe Lincoln proposed when he was challenged over his stand on the Mexican War. As the challenged party the code duello gave Abe the choice of weapons. He chose 'cow dung at five paces'. The challenge was withdrawn. But with these two and their ample supply of BS it could be a prolonged affair with no clear favorite since they've both been flinging it for months now.
Afterward Bernie would say "It was Bush's fault"
The Clintons have left plenty of dead bodies behind in their wake so I could see her ending ol Bernie and not bat an eye.Glad to see ol Bernie got the drop on her instead.
Now that would be one Happy Ending…
Where did Bernie get the Silver Bullet? Is it legal to melt down a Silver Eagle?
I didn't find this at all funny. Obviously, lots of people do. It was definitely a shock.
This would be a way to get both of these candidates out of the race, though it would give a "reason" our current president would need to stay in office longer to make sure that the democrats would have another candidate and the election would be fair.
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Stone Brewing Company Cali-Belgique Ale
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No longer halted - approval for military-style bootcamp at Heydour
The owners of a Heydour fitness bootcamp have expressed their 'immense relief' after the planning application for their business was approved by South Kesteven District Council.
Co-owner Paula Williams said she felt like crying with relief when the application for Team Bootcamp was approved by the development control committee yesterday, while her husband Craig Williams is delighted that they can now focus on running the business.
After opening the military-style bootcamp at Heydour House in 2013, complaints were made by residents in the village and neighbouring Oasby and Aisby at the level of noise from music and military commands shouted by the fitness trainers.
In response, the bootcamp stopped playing music out loud last April, and have introduced wireless headsets as an alternative way for client's to receive instructions from coaches during training sessions.
There was also a backlash against the close proximity of the bootcamp's 'trim trail' to Heydour cemetery and grade II* listed Heydour Priory. The trail has now been relocated to another part of the grounds further away.
The previous complaints resulted in the change of use application put before SKDC's development control committee in December, being deferred until this week. This time no objections were received from the parish council or residents, and the application was unanimously approved by the committee.
Following the approval, ex-Royal Marine Mr Williams said: "We just feel immense relief. We have worked with residents and they have all accepted the changes. We are delighted that we can now get on with running our business, which we feel is a massive asset to South Kesteven."
Among those who have been put through their paces at the fitness retreat, are stars of reality TV shows TOWIE and Made in Chelsea.
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About Automark Solutions
Automark Solutions was forged out of a shared vision by its founders to develop applications which could effectively address two glaring and undeniable conditions facing the automobile dealer in the USA.
1. While marketing investments designed to drive traffic to their websites continue to grow at double digit rates annually, the overwhelming majority of that traffic (97%-98%) never submit an online inquiry and 80%-85% never engage with the dealers' sales resources.
2. In a highly competitive industry, where points of differentiation are often a question of perception and; always the difference between mediocrity and excellence, the very first interaction a franchised dealer has with a potential buyer or service customer involves a closely monitored and controlled, manufacturer-mandated website. While we admit that these templates have done much to ensure consistency with the manufacturer's brand image and marketing message, as well as the user experience, they've also made it increasingly difficult for one dealership to differentiate it's self from other in-brand competitors.
Over a period of one year extensive research was conducted to determine why the overwhelming majority of online shoppers, clearly in the market for the dealer's products and services, visit dealership websites but don't submit online inquiries. This research led to the development of a solution-set which systematically removes the barriers to engagement using innovative technology, engineered around the online shoppers' needs and wants, which can be easily added to any dealership website. Within days of implementation they have been proven to cost-effectively deliver a competitive advantage and a quantifiable improvement in online sales performance. In 2012 Automark Solutions' Conversion Driver Suite of products was subjected to an arduous evaluation process by a panel of industry peers and awarded the AWA's highly-coveted "Top Website Merchandising Tools" award.
About Automark Solutions Leadership Team
Rudy G. Martin, Co-Founder, Managing Partner- For over 30 years Rudy has been applying his background as a marketing specialist exclusively to the automotive industry. Ten of those years were spent as the Marketing Director for a 12 store automotive group in the Greater NYC area and ten years in a variety of leadership roles at the Reynolds & Reynolds Company. His in-depth knowledge of online consumer behavior, problem-solving skills and technology know-how combined, provided the unique perspective and thought leadership necessary to design the solutions which comprise Automark Solutions' products today.
Kazim Teser, Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer- Programmer extraordinaire. Kazim has been developing software applications for the automotive industry for over 15 years. Over that time he's developed applications which many dealers interact with on a daily basis to manage and/or publish their inventory online. His knowledge of the automobile dealer's user environment and considerable code-writing skills empowered the development of all of Automark's highly scalable, low maintenance applications.


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Friday, November 16, 2007
One Amazing Quote
8 comments:
- Nick and Laura Nielsen said...
I love that quote! Thanks.
- November 16, 2007 at 2:31 PM
- Family of 7 said...
I so needed to read that comment! I have been stressed out trying to get ready for company. My kids have either been sick or the others little devils. I'm so glad I read that quote to remind me of what's really important!
- November 17, 2007 at 8:19 AM
- Stephy said...
~ sorry to post this announcement on your blog but I don't have your email! There is a Chi-O dinner this coming tuesday at the Cheesecake Factory at 6:15. Should be a lot of fun and lots of Chi-os. Please tell whoever you can and hope to see you there!
~Steph p.s. I love this quote and am glad you used it too!
- November 17, 2007 at 12:11 PM
- The Mauss Family said...
I LOVE this quote! I got it in Relief Society a while ago! What a great quote - do you mind if I steal it for my blog?
- November 17, 2007 at 3:54 PM
- melissa & corbin said...
what a fabulous quote. i think that we all could use that posted our fridge. i also loved your post on friends. we missed you yesterday, but i'll email you for the next one. have a great thanksgiving.
- November 17, 2007 at 4:52 PM
- call family said...
Hey Kim,you're tagged. Go to my blog and see what to do.
- November 17, 2007 at 8:58 PM
- Katie Webb said...
I love, love, love the quote. Isn't she the greatest? We totally missed you yesterday. I got your message later that night, and I have been running around with my head cut off trying to get packed for this trip, so I have been really bad about calling back. I'm finally done getting ready though. I have to pay you something for doing cards for me. They look so cute. My email is email@example.com. I would love to have you do one for me. Sorry I've been such a flake about calling back. Let's get together when I get home from my trip. You are the cutest ever. Thanks for everything.
- November 17, 2007 at 9:51 PM
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About halfway through John Roberts's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, I found myself grappling with a strange and surprising emotional reaction: I was pining for Robert Bork. For anyone with a sense of history watching Roberts artfully bob and weave through his face-off with the Senate, it was hard to ignore the hovering specter of the goateed strict constructionist, whose ordeal in the upper chamber took place exactly eighteen years ago this month. In no small part, the ease of Roberts's passage was due to his positioning as Bork's inverse doppelgänger: humble where Bork was arrogant, silken where Bork was spiky, cherubic where Bork was Mephistopheleanand evasive where Bork was candid.
For the Bush White House, offering up a plausible anti-Bork to be the new chief justice has proved to be not merely clever but fortunately timed. In the wake of Katrina and its submersive effect on Bush's approval numbers, the last thing the administration needed was some Borkian bloodbath. What it needed was a solid win smoothly achievedand, barring a last-minute revelation of a Roberts indiscretion of the dead-girllive-animal variety, that's precisely what it's going to get.
The received wisdom in Washington is that the nomination now waiting in the wings will be another story; that Bush's selection to replace Sandra Day O'Connor is guaranteed to ignite a conflagration. These ominous predictions are invariably offered in tones of resigned regret, along with earnest entreaties to the president to choose a path of conciliation.
But just below the surface, in the activist cadres of both parties that drive confirmation politics, there is in fact a palpable yearning for a knockdown, drag-out brawl. Fueling this desire are a host of motivations, many of them mindlessly divisiveand yet I see the point. Even after Roberts's senatorial interrogation, we still have precious little grasp on what sort of justice he will be. Which isn't exactly the outcome you'd hope for with the future of the court in the balance. So long as Bush is in charge, liberals have no reason to expect anything other than that his judicial appointments will be Federalist Society types. (Certainly the folks who run that shop consider Roberts one of them.) Instead, perhaps the best we can hope for is clarity in the matterfor a nominee whose ideological bent is clear, and for a fight that makes plain what the right is after in its crusade to capture the courts. For Democrats, the brutal truth is that, when it comes to judicial politics, in the short run all is lost; the long game is everything. And to win that game, engaging in another Bork-style imbroglio may be not only unavoidable but essential.
No one, of course, would take greater umbrage at that assertion than Bork himself, who recently graced a National Press Club luncheon down in Washington. Despite his lingering bitterness over the fate that befell him, he was engaging, frank, and funny. Unlike Roberts, Bork defended the Federalist Society: The ultraliberals' description of [it] as some form of right-wing conspiracy, he cracked, is on the veracity level of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. And he offered a few pieces of hard-won wisdom to future nominees: Don't write or say anything about the Constitution . . . Don't commit your vote at the hearings on any issue . . . Don't make it obvious that you think some of the senators' questions reveal that they don't have a clue about the Constitution.
With those three admonitions, Bork codified the approach that Roberts took in his testimony. For every apparently straightforward declaration, there was a loophole large enough to accommodate a Hummer limousine. Repeatedly he suggested that he agreed with past rulings, but often did so employing weasel words made notorious by Clarence Thomas: I have no quarrel with that. Then there was his bald assertion, I am not an ideologuea claim that, like Bill Clinton's legendary The president is relevant, suggests by its very use reason to be doubtful.
By the end of the hearings, Democrats were befuddled. It was frustrating, says People for the American Way president Ralph Neas. He did a great job of creating the illusion of candor. Further muddying the waters was Roberts's cultivation of friendships across the partisan aisle: I don't know how he found the hours to have so many lunches with so many members of the Democratic Establishment.
And so, inevitably, in the days before the Judiciary Committee vote last Thursday, Democrats fell into a fit of hand-wringing that was epic even by their standards. (Most flagrant was Chuck Schumer, for whom thoughts of potentially supporting Roberts were apparently dashed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg's declaration of opposition. As one liberal strategist said to me, There was no way Chuck was going to end up to the right of a Republican.) Predictably, when the vote arrived, the committee's Democrats split, with five against and three in favorsuggesting that, in the final Senate tally, as many as twenty Democrats may wind up backing Roberts. The theory is that, by giving Bush this victory, we're in a better position to fight him on the next one, this same strategist explained.


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Jerry Seib: HHS Nominee Sees Little GOP Backlash
Sylvia Mathews Burwell faces her second Senate approval hearing Wednesday amidst little republican backlash. The nominee's personality and the current lapse in focus on the Affordable Care Act in Congress and the media have paved the way for her relatively smooth confirmation process.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
I ... this is a Washington dog that is for a story it's about Sylvia Matthews for well used the Obama administration's nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services ... and when she was nominated to take the place of Kathleen Sibilia sin that job ... there were a lot of expectations around this town that her confirmation hearings ... would be the cause of a giant upper or a lot of Republican fighting ... with Democrats over Obamacare The Affordable Care Act that has to really happen it looks is if she's going to be confirmed ... fairly easily without a lot of fireworks ... their multiple reasons for that one is that I think Republicans ... have turned their sights temporarily away from Obamacare on to other issues such as the guys each ... of the controversy over the IRS is targeting conservative groups ... and the law seems to be working better not only are signups up to over eight million people around the country ... but also the cost of the federal Treasury of subsidies under Obamacare is turning out to be less than some people ... thought it might be an addition Soviet Orwell's own personality ... she's she's quiet she's not see is an ideological person she's seen as a competent official who has experience over a number of years a number of areas ... that's helped as well ... but nobody should get the idea that this means that the controversy over Obamacare's over by any means I think Republicans acknowledge that there are a quiet period now they've fallen back but they're going to be back with many criticisms of this law as the year ... unfolds in the thing to watch I think ... is the focus on premiums the question of whether premiums for people who have health insurance are going up and with the Republicans can successfully blame that on the arrival of the Affordable Care Act what they call Obamacare ...


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do u girls believe there's no freaking maternity clothes here?
i went to sears one day "sorry, we dont have maternity clothes in the store anymore" u have to order from the catalogue
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Published: January 3, 2011 | By admin
Also posted in Webcomic Hell
Tagged as: Politics,Words
Yeah, yeah, I know, if only it were this easy...
As many of my political cartoons may indicate, I am (still) a man without a party here in the United States. I am fiscally a Republican (yes, the Government needs money to run) and socially a Democrat (no, I don't care what people do as long as it doesn't directly involve me). That's why I feel I can be less bias about my political viewpoints - at this point, I sorta hate everyone equally.
Published: December 31, 2010 | By admin
Also posted in Super Bestest Friends
Tagged as: Batman,Superman
Alright, I figure enough ragging on Supes for being a gulliable moron. For today, anyway, this may change later.
Published: December 20, 2010 | By admin
Tagged as: Arthur,Doyle,Holiday Special,Holidays,Leaf,Star Wars
[2]Ever since splitting Apple Valley off from The Apple of Discord, I've missed doing "the couch scene" with Art and Leaf. They're just so good at it. So, in honor of the holidays, and in keeping with last year's similar comic, once again we revisit my tradition of forcing myself to watch the Star Wars Holiday Special.
[1] http://aod.krl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010-12-20.png
[2] http://aod.krl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010-12-20.png
Published: December 10, 2010 | By admin
Also posted in How NOT To...
Tagged as: el Artisto,The Artist-for-Hire,The Trainee
You can almost hear Artist-for-Hire say "He didn't come back right!" The truth is, though... how much did our amiable How NOT To guy even learn over the years? Did he really learn anything? And will this new How NOT To guy, recreated from the same bad webcomic artist source code as the original, really be that different?
And does this mean the How NOT To guy is actually a Cylon? It would certainly explain how The Archer keeps filling him full of arrows, only for him to return again the next week with another daft plan.
Published: December 5, 2010 | By admin
Tagged as: Gay,Music,Robot,Time Travel,Zombies
I wanted to make a comic that pushed all the boundaries so far that eventually it came back and ran ashore on boundaries from the other direction.
I'd like to think I have achieved that.
This is based on a true story, BTW. Zombie Lincoln is real.
Published: December 3, 2010 | By admin
Tagged as: Ninjas,Pirates
You're more than welcome to thank... or blame... long-time friend of the comic J-Mus for today's inspiration. I put the call out on Twitter for comic ideas, no matter how vague or weird. He hit me with a challenge [1], and I rose to respond. If you follow me [2] on twitter, you too can help influence the direction of AoD.
[1] http://aod.krl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2010-12-03.png
[2] http://twitter.com/kallisti_x
Published: November 29, 2010 | By admin
Tagged as: Host Guy,The Robot,Wil Wheaton
The Robot from Lost in Space actually appeared in one of the first AoD comics ever - Lost in Being Helpful [1]. Originally, I was planning on doing an entire run of "Lost In..." comics featuring The Robot doing various, often disturbing things, usually while shouting and flailing his arms.
I never... quite... got around to it.
Still, with this being his second official appearance in just under 3 years, I think that may technically make him a "recurring character [2]". Also, I am amazed at how Wil Wheatony my Wil Wheaton turned out. Really digging this new art style.
[1] http://www.theappleofdiscord.com/comics/aod/lost-in-being-helpful/
[2] http://webcomicbeacon.com/episode-144/
Published: November 26, 2010 | By admin
Tagged as: Cell Phones,Evil,Holidays,Marketing
I've been seeing a lot of commercials for getting people cellphones for Christmas.
To me, the cell phone is sort of a "personal" decision. I know some people need help picking one out, but I would be unhappy if someone just arbitrarily decided something like that for me. Maybe I'm crazy, but it worries me.
Published: November 22, 2010 | By admin
Tagged as: Cameo,Crossover,Gayzilla,Guest Comics,The Kitten of Chaos
A special thanks go out to Mike/OnyxSparrow for today's guest comic – not only is it a guest comic, it's a How NOT To… AND a callback to a comic from A YEAR AND A HALF AGO [1] (also by Mike). So there, 'continuity snobs', stick that in your pipes and puff. Pbbbbbt.
[1] http://www.theappleofdiscord.com/comics/aod/the-end/
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The two match ban handed to Wayne Rooney for swearing into the camera in celebration after scoring a hat-trick was upheld yesterday.
Cue talk show host, news channels, comedians and general busy bodies to incessantly talk about an excited football player uttering a barely audible smattering of obscenities, which prove that the world is going to hell in a hand basket.
Yet the issue is not that Wayne Rooney has mastered the art of obscenity; it is the shock and mock indignation from the national and football media that goes against what I know about the game that rankles me.
The whole incident is being portrayed as an exception, something that is abhorrent and abnormal, this may be the image that the game wants to project but this is not based in reality.
Pretty much every adult I know, ( strangely nuns and upstanding citizens keep their distance) swears regularly this is hardly something that the general public needs to be sheltered from, particularly in football.
Players have not started swearing overnight, those adept at lip reading will see weekly on national and international television players using language that is most certainly not part of the Queen's English.
It can be argued that this is not acceptable, that footballers should be role models and this is a nice idea, but not a view that is based in any kind of reality. Footballers may be more famous and earn more than almost any other profession, but they are paid to play football not to be role models.
It is not the fault of Rooney and his cohort that society rewards top level athletes more than nurses, fireman or other more socially beneficial professions. To ban a player for, swearing or for that matter other social crimes punish him cheating on his wife is not in the best interest of the game.
Off the pitch the language is no cleaner, every week millions worldwide hear fans from all clubs singing expletive ridden songs on the pitch side microphones.
These microphones are designed to capture the spirit of the game, and except on a few extreme occasions this is lauded as part of the atmosphere and charm of the game.
I remember vividly childhood weekends at the football with my Dad, fascinated by the atmosphere of the match, a place where I learned new words that I was under no circumstances to repeat in front of my mother.
I hope that those who know me will testify that despite exposure to this part of everyday life I did not turn out too bad, I mean I haven't robbed a bank or robbed an old lady yet.
The indignation and punitive action from the sport's governing, seems devoid of logic and detached from reality.
This attempt of sanitation that is both unnecessary and unachievable, there are many things that need to be fixed in sport, this should probably not be top of the list.
However I cannot see this mini crusade going away now that a precedent has been set so let's hope that in future players remember not show any emotion whilst playing or at the very least look away from the camera.