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I wonder if the dealer brazed over the holes would this mean he would also paint the entire deck lid and rear stripes?Valleyhugger
So, again, maybe my vehicle had a similar issue. That issue is that the rear stripe mask for a vehicle with a spoiler wasused on a car that was ordered with no spoiler, and in order to complete the stripe down the lip of the trunk lid, theymoved in down as needed. And thus what you have is the extra space between the top of the stripe and the bottom ofthe rear glass.

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Shake Shack is going beyond the beef.
The restaurant chain plans to launch its first ever chicken sandwich, the Chick'n Shack, nationwide on Thursday at participating locations.
Investors and customers have closely watched the sandwich since reports surfaced last spring that Shake Shack filed a trademark application for "Chicken Shack." Shake Shack began testing its first chicken sandwich at its Brooklyn locations during the summer.
Read MoreShake Shack celebrates chicken sandwich by ringing NYSE bell
In Brooklyn, the item has grown to a top-five seller, Shake Shack CEO Randy Garutti said at the ICR Conference on Tuesday.


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Noodles & Company signs lease for new Ann Arbor location
Fast-casual restaurant chain Noodles & Company is planning to open its third location in Ann Arbor.
The company signed a lease for the former Kentucky Fried Chicken building at 2245 W. Stadium Blvd., according to Southfield-based real estate company Ludwig & Seeley.
Lizzy Alfs | AnnArbor.com
Matthew Seeley and Max Goldman represented Noodles & Company and the building's landlord in the transaction, according to a news release.
Owned by Arbor Farms Market co-owner Leo Fox, the former KFC building has been vacant since the restaurant closed in June 2012. The property was listed for lease last year for an annual $30 per square-foot. Fox could not be reached for comment.
In March, Todd Quatro of Ypsilanti-based T.S. Quatro Co. submitted building and reoccupation permits to the city of Ann Arbor to renovate the former KFC building for Noodles & Company. Plans call to construct a 12-by-30-foot patio in front of the building and remove two parking spaces at the rear of the .57-acre site, city documents show.
The restaurant is aiming for a July 2013 opening, according to Ludwig & Seeley.
The news comes several months after a deal to open a Noodles & Co. at 2161 W. Stadium Blvd. fell through. The former Sze Chuan West building was demolished, and Noodles intended to build a 3,294-square-foot restaurant on the site.
"We ran into two or three different problems, and finally decided not to go through with it," property owner Chuck Gallup told AnnArbor.com in December.
Based in Colorado, Noodles & Co. has almost 300 restaurants in the U.S., according to its website. There is a location on South State Street near the University of Michigan campus, and one on Washtenaw Avenue in Arborland.
The restaurant serves pasta dishes, sandwiches, salads and soups. It has a "500 calories or less" section on its menu.
Lizzy Alfs is a business reporter for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at 734-623-2584 or email her at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lizzyalfs.
Dirty Mouth
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 11:59 p.m.
Please allow me to be the first to extend a hearty welcome to Noodles and Co.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 11:20 p.m.
My kids will be happy. They LOVE the mac&cheese and broccoli there. Decent choices for vegetarians, too.
Jay Thomas
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 10:24 p.m.
I never would have thought three locations. It's popular like McDonalds!
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 9:29 p.m.
Another blah fast food restaurant - i do not get why folks like this. Not everyone here is a student - I would love a nice sit down place with good food without being overpriced.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 8:38 p.m.
Yuck indeed. It's nothing more than McDonald's, "Asian" style. Know what would be awesome on the west side? Drive-through coffee. Currently you can get Zingerman's coffee inside Plum Market, or Starbuck's inside (the abominable) Kroger, and that's it. Too bad Bearclaw didn't want the KFC space.
free form
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 9:26 p.m.
You can get Zingerman's coffee AT Zingerman's! Try the Roadshow drive thru! There are also many other coffee options, but none of them drive thru... a Bigby on Stadium and two independent coffee shops on Jackson among others... I don't even drink coffee and I know this.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 7:31 p.m.
Hopefully they won't run out of noodles as often as KFC ran out of chicken.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 7:09 p.m.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 4:06 p.m.
Have there been any new rumors about what might rise from the rubble in the former Sze Chuan West location?
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 3:26 p.m.
I'm shocked that someone trying to do business in A2 ran into problems..."We ran into two or three different problems, and finally decided not to go through with it," I'm happy with the new biz coming to west side and hope it does well.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 2:40 p.m.
Would be nice if someone could open a nice rib joint in town that is not located downtown or the campus area. Will have to keep going out of town for a good slab I guess.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 11:32 p.m.
Ribs are really subjective - depends how you like 'em.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 7:13 p.m.
go check out cuppy's best in east ypsi, right off michigan ave. best soul food in the area!
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 7:10 p.m.
Red Rock in Ypsilanti.
free form
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 4:46 p.m.
They have good ribs on the Plum Market hot bar nearly every day. Just a suggestion. My co-workers love 'em!
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 3:18 p.m.
Or you could just go downtown or to the campus area.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 1:51 p.m.
I'm just glad the building is going to be used. Hate seeing vacant stuff. Options are a good thing.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 1:35 p.m.
Overpriced bland food. My first and last trip there resulted in an overcooked, bland pile of cheap noodles with a high price tag. Not for my family.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 1:25 p.m.
I think it is funny that Mr. Fox is allowing this unhealthy food business to move here. He owns a health food supermarket! lol! A better fit would have been a west coast company called Veggie Grill. Alot of healthy food in their menu.
Jack Gladney
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 2:19 p.m.
I think it's funny that some people think a business enterprise exists for any reason other than making a profit. You find a niche in the marketplace, you fill the need, and if your lucky you turn a profit. Everything else that follows is gravy (which includes helping the community, etc.) Mr. Fox has a great business and serves a great need in the local marketplace. How does this preclude him from using his profits to invest in real estate that in turn addresses a different market segment? It is amazing how many people here comment on how private businesses, operating within the law (as opposed to those that circumvent it), should invest their money. Put some skin in the game, hand Leo some cash and see if he needs or wants a new partner.
Usual Suspect
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 2:10 p.m.
And Fazoli's, too. Pardon my rambling.
Usual Suspect
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 2:09 p.m.
And Arby's, if you're old enough to remember.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 1:37 p.m.
He's owned the building since 1998, and there's been a KFC there for much of that time (and also a Long John Silver's, for a while). So in terms of healthy food, this is an upgrade.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 1:31 p.m.
roadside Did you contact Veggie Grill to see if they were interested? Normally the owner does not get to choose from every entity out there and then decide who will move in.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 12:37 p.m.
Ewww...bland food, small portions, over priced. Not even sure how this place stays in business....oh wait....
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 4:44 p.m.
You have your choice of 2 sizes for each entree. Perhaps you ordered the small?
free form
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 4:44 p.m.
To call an average bowl from Noodles a "small" portion is completely laughable. It's a completely appropriate amount of food. You seem to be suffering from the "super sizing" of America, Billy.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 4:25 p.m.
Weee two portions of 95% carb food.....sounds AWESOME!! Also...all 9 of you must be tiny folks....it's not just a small portion to me who's 240, it's a small portion to my father who is all of 140lbs... Unless they increase their portion size since they opened....they have INCREDIBLY small portions of food...around 10-12ozs for an entire plate I think...which is a joke.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 1:19 p.m.
"Small portions" makes me laugh. An order from noodles is easily two meals for me.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 11:46 a.m.
Another "fast-casual" chain restaurant. Oh joy...
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 12:32 p.m.
Don't like the idea? Invest some of the capital YOU have earned from being a genius. Almost anything is better than an empty building!
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 11:17 a.m.
Awesome! Love me some Japanese pan fried noodles! Yum!
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 12:39 p.m.
I do too...which is why I'd never get them at Noodles and Co...
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 10:55 a.m.
So things changed over a month ago, but only came to light when a real estate company issued a press release? Doesn't annarbor.com monitor permit applications?
Nicholas Urfe
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 5:06 p.m.
@a2comments: if you go down to the a2 news, you'll see 50 to 60 desks arranged in rows, with a reporter at each one, wearing pork pie hats, hard at work, finding news scoops. And at 5pm, the shift changes and the night staff comes in. The seats don't even have a chance to cool! With those vast news gathering resources and budget, you'd think they'd be more on top of these details.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : noon
Go Lizzy!
Lizzy Alfs
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 11:05 a.m.
Of course I do, which is often how I learn about so many of the real estate transactions that I write about on a daily basis. But I also can't write about every permit application the day it happens..I'd need five of me.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 10:47 a.m.
I like noodles and co but I will still keep Holidays at the top of my list. Best food and value on West side.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 3:58 p.m.
Most of the places I mentioned are decidedly downscale, so I don't see where "snob" comes into it. Holiday's is good at what they do, but what they do isn't particularly interesting. Their menu isn't drastically different from Big Boy or Denny's, though the quality is higher. It's just not the kind of food I eat. That doesn't make me a snob, it just means I like something else. If I were a restaurant snob, I'd be talking about places downtown that I can't afford and have never been to.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 3:49 p.m.
@Usual. Nah, it's just like the interwebs. We're all experts.
Usual Suspect
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 2:08 p.m.
Is there some organized process by which an AnnArborite becomes certified a restaurant snob, or is it more of a self-proclaimed thing?
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 1:49 p.m.
fjord eats where I eat. :) Chela's especially.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 1:45 p.m.
Holiday's isn't even in the top ten in terms of food and value on the west side. Chela's, Taco King, Pilar's, Old Siam, Bell's, Knight's, Juicy Kitchen, Ahmo's, Little Porky's, Star's Café ... I'd go to any of those, repeatedly, before I went back to Holiday's.
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 12:38 p.m.
I get absolutely amazing service from Holidays....not sure why you'd get bad service...
Lake Trout
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 12:32 p.m.
Ewww, that place was dirty every time I've ever been there and the wait staff incompetent. Just stopped going after multiple tries and repeatedly poor quality business. Many other much better places to eat.
Usual Suspect
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 : 12:24 p.m.
Aye, and great service.


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There is a certain opulence and charm with a thread of danger running through each of Kedra's perfumes, and there is something wildly unique about each one. When I sat down to test the batch of samples I was sent, there were several that had me swooning immediately, others took time for me to understand, and still others that resisted my beckoning to them. At the end, I had a big handful of vials that I knew I had to write about, so I'm going to be reviewing them all in stages. This edition will cover as-yet-unreleased scents from the upcoming Les Bohemes collection, meant to evoke the 1920s. I hope for everyone's sake that these are released soon. You can, however, pick up a sample pack- there are 10 vials in all for just $20. A steal.
First up is Dapper. Notes include: violet absolute, orris root, blond tobacco, sandalwood, aged dark patchouli. This is a thoroughly gender-neutral perfume, sweetly purple and velvety with a slightly verdant top- it reminds me of how I'd like a beet to taste when I'm looking at it. There is a tartness to the blend not really explained in the notes list, but I sense it as a dark berry of some sort, perhaps blackberry. The earthiness of the patchouli and orris root anchor the scent to the skin, and only after about 20 minutes or so can I really start to smell the sandalwood. I would personally sell my soul for some good sandalwood, but luckily I don't have to, because that which is contained in Dapper is so delicious and so smooth as it plays off of the candied violet, that I think I'll go ahead and keep my soul and just buy a bottle of Dapper instead. As the drydown emerges, a silky, suede-like musk steps forward, an animalic embrace that stays with you for hours. This perfume is a no-brainer for every season, men or women-- it is a true delight.
Next up is Heavy Sugar, an amber Oriental. I cannot resist Orientals, even in sweltering heat, so I was happy to have a new one to try. Notes on Heavy Sugar include: dark amber, aged labdanum, fossilized amber, vintage patchouli, sandalwood, beach-found ambergris. Right away, this has a very classic feel to it. It's rich, sweet (but not too much), it has a really lovely hint of black tea and maybe even jasmine, but if you're looking for a progression in stages of wear where distinct top, heart and base notes exist, look elsewhere. Heavy Sugar is linear, full of syrupy, powdered kisses, and will leave a scent trail behind you that will make people weak in the knees. Yes, even in the heat. In fact, I tend to feel that rich amber Orientals really bloom on my skin in the summer; the scent particles boiling up and doing a frenzied, fiery flesh dance. Heavy Sugar is memorable for its straightforwardness, its very vintage feel and its cozy, sensual nature. As you might expect, the longevity is excellent. This is a must-have for me as well.


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Over the weekend I caught The Soup and was surprised and happy to see Keith Olbermann making a cameo. He actually made fun of the whole thing on Countdown last night too. Anyway, here's the clip from The Soup:
Keith Olbermann on the Soup
July 29, 2008 at 9:38 pm (Entertainment)
Tags: E!, Olbermann, Soup, TV
The annoying end of Will & Grace
July 25, 2008 at 3:01 pm (Entertainment)
Tags: TV, Will & Grace
Ok, I promised myself no more TV blogging this week, but what the hell. When I go into work late I end up watching sitcoms on Lifetime most of the morning while I'm doing stuff around the apartment. So…right now they are showing what I think is the last season of Will & Grace. Now, I really do love so much about Will & Grace and I still contend that the Karen/Jack storylines are so much more entertaining than the Will and Grace storylines. But of course since I love the show so much I do care about Will and Grace. I started getting bothered by the show when they brought in Harry Connick, Jr. as Leo. I couldn't stand Leo's character and didn't like his relationship with Grace at all.
So, around then I really watched the show primarily for the Karen and Jack's stories. I really had no feelings one way or another about Vince, the cop Will ended up marrying, but I was happy they finally let Will have a long term boyfriend after all these seasons. That was one of my issues the series too.
Anyway, right now they're showing an episode of W&G where Grace is pregnant and having Will help her with her Lamaze class.
Of all the series finales, in my mind, I think Will & Grace had one of the worst. The Jack & Karen stories ended good and funny, as expected. Then I hated that Grace took Leo back after he did all that cheating on her. But I found it extremely unrealistic that Will & Grace went 20 years without talking at all. As for their kids meeting at college and falling in love…that was a little too unrealistic for me too.
It really made me upset that such a generally good show went out in such a bad way. Boo!!
A good Jack, Rosario & Karen moment:
Estelle Getty, RIP
July 22, 2008 at 11:32 pm (Entertainment)
Tags: 80s, Golden Girls, memorial, TV
I was sorry today to hear about the passing of Estelle Getty, best known for playing Sophia on the Golden Girls. She played such a great part on the show and, luckily, the show has become part of TV history and we will probably be able to enjoy reruns of Golden Girls for many years to come. So, here's to you, Estelle, and may you rest in peace knowing that you had such an important impact on the world.
Here are some great Sophia moments:
Guilty Pleasures
July 1, 2008 at 11:24 pm (Entertainment, food, Personal)
Tags: donuts, food, guilty pleasures, Job Hunting, New York, shopping, TV
Well, I'm going to be starting on my wacky schedule soon. I'm hoping things will be resolved soon.
On another note, I've been watching Saved By the Bell at night instead of Jeopardy! I never watched Saved By the Bell when it was on, but it is weirdly interesting to watch. Right now there's a very young Tori Spelling on playing the girlfriend of Screech.
And tonight I'm planning to watch The Secret Life of the American Teenager. I know it looks like such a horribly bad, sappy, cheesy, (insert more synonyms here) show but I am strangely intrigued. Maybe it's because it's written by Brenda Hampton of 7th Heaven fame. I used to watch that show simply to watch how bad it was…very train wreck-like. And I'm suspecting this show will have that same train wreck affect. I'm curious too that Molly Ringwald is playing a major part.
Apart from that, the job at Project HOME was filled, but I have 2 interviews coming up. So here's hoping. This past weekend I went to see my friend Kim in New York on Saturday. We didn't do much, just walked around in Chelsea. And I got me some Krispy Kremes and goodies from Zaro's. I also got some beauty products from Lush, namely their Cupcake mask and their Brazened Honey mask and a bottle of their Curly Wurly shampoo. My Bolt ride went well…they were running 15 minutes late in the morning, but it went very smoothly on my way back. I talked to my friend Izabella over the weekend too. She sounds like she's doing ok in Galway…she was working at a US company that just laid her off, though. But she was pretty much talking me into moving to Europe. I've always been tempted to just pick up and move somewhere where I don't know anyone, but I don't think I'd ever have the nerve to actually do it. Anyway, she said there are lots of other Polish people in Galway and that everyone's just *really* nice. She liked Dublin better, mostly because they had more salsa clubs and it was bigger, but she still likes Galway.
Sunday I was supposed to see Sex & the City with Laura, but she canceled so I just stayed home and did job hunting. I ended up making some steak tacos, using soft tortillas, but they turned out too spicy, even for me. No other wildly fun cooking things this week. Today I made bratwurst simmered in Yuengling and topped with caramelized onions. That's not that wildly exciting, but it does taste good.
Will blog again later. Can't wait to see what happens with this pregnancy scare on The Secret Life of the American Teenager!
This week
June 20, 2008 at 1:39 am (Entertainment, Personal)
Tags: Job Hunting, memorial, TV
I probably should have posted last week when I heard the sad news about Tim Russert. Besides the news about Tim Russert, I had 2 interviews this week. So we'll see.
Right now I'm watching Home Improvement. I haven't watched this in forever. I think I used to get upset about all this macho stuff Tim Allen put on, but I do like watching it for the scenes where Tim talks to Wilson and garbles up what he's been told. I remember my crazy cousin Terri used to have a crush on Jonathan Taylor Thomas. He's pretty much popped off the face of the earth these days. I don't think Hollywood misses him too much. And Tim Allen has been in such embarrassing movies since this show went off. He should have disappeared from Hollywood too.
Well, I'm looking forward to a fun weekend. I will report about it later.
Melrose Place
May 21, 2008 at 12:35 am (Entertainment)
Tags: 90210, Desperate Housewives, guilty pleasures, Melrose Place, TV
Last week I went to the library and got 5 discs from season 1 of Melrose Place. I was/am a fan of 90210 and look forward to watching the reruns on SoapNet every day. That still may be considered a guilty pleasure, but I really don't care. Aaron Spelling did a great job with the stories, casting and everything else. Growing up I wasn't allowed to watch 90210 or such shows so it's nice watching it now.
So, along that line, I never watched Melrose Place, but I know that many actors and actresses I know from other shows now got their start on Melrose Place. So…I took it out hoping to get an idea what the show was about and leave it at that. But, of course, now I'm addicted and can't wait to watch the whole series and see what happens with all these characters. I really love Andrew Shue's character and am sorta sad that he's just doing cheesy Lifetime movies these days. On Desperate Housewives I can't stand Doug Savant as Tom Scavo, but I love him on here and am now warmed up more to him on DH. So…now I'm waiting for Marcia Cross to appear. I have enjoyed everything else I have seen her in so I'm curious to see what her character on here is like. And of course I can't wait to see Kristin Davis.
People that know me are probably surprised I get hooked on such fluff shows, but with all the thinking I do during the rest of the day I'm happy to rest my head with nonsense that doesn't offend me like most reality shows do.
Reality shows
May 13, 2008 at 1:17 am (Entertainment)
Tags: Entertainment, TV
I don't like that reality shows have infiltrated channels like VH-1 and TV Land. I got cable for the first time in March and am seeing just how much these shows have taken over these channels. VH-1 used to be about actual music all the time and now….blech. I do like the retrospective shows about the 80s or 90s, but besides them, reality shows just don't seem to fit with VH-1.
And reality TV definitely doesn't fit in with TV Land. Instead of showing reality shows they should include more old TV shows. That's why people turn to TV Land. Not for a bunch of 40 year olds trying to be 20.
Vintage Toons
May 11, 2008 at 6:07 pm (Entertainment)
Tags: Entertainment, politics, TV
I have gotten back into downloading and listening to podcasts again. The video ones are great and I stumbled upon a particularly interesting one, Vintage Tooncast. There are some that that have been censored or hidden from public view because they seem extreme or offensive by today's standards. They have elements of racism, violence or anti-Communist messages or other ideas that, I think, are certainly not appropriate for children.
Enough time has passed, though, that many of these cartoons are available in the public domain and on the Web, but have been censored until recently. Since I am a library school grad and a strong supporter of free speech, I do not think media that shows these offensive messages should be completely hidden from the public.
So, this website shows some of these vintage cartoons and here are a few:
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Changing bulbs
It seemed like a radical idea. Last week we decided to transition all of the incandescent light bulbs in our home to the new earth-friendly CFL bulbs. I am not under the delusion that this will somehow "save the planet", but they last ten years and use 1/4 the power. I can live with that!
I was able to get a great deal on a whole bunch of them on Ebay. We changed every bulb in the house for under $35. I should recover those costs in a little over a year. After that, it's all gravy! I am more than willing to have others consider me environmentally responsible, but I must confess that my real motivation was capitalistic!
The question my kids and wife had was "will they be as bright as the old bulbs?" As I installed the first few new bulbs, I got a little nervous. They were definitely not as bright as the old ones. In fact, they were downright dim! Instead of being praised for such a responsible carbon-neutral decision, I would now be mocked for my foolhardy scheme. Oh the shame.
But alas, I soon noticed that the bulbs were brightening. In fact, they were clearly brighter than the old incandescents, and my fear turned to brimming pride. My daughter came out of the bathroom and said, "I can see myself in the mirror better than before!" Case closed.
You see, the new bulbs start out slow, but after less than a minute they warm up and outperform the old bulbs easily. We are now bathing in cheaper, stronger light, and we won't have to change bulbs for another decade!
Now for the metaphor.
We are in the midst of a huge shift in our culture, and in how the church functions and fulfills its mission in the world, especially here in America. There are many of our colleagues who fail to see how to make the necessary changes to transition their flocks. They are used to the yellow incandescent glow, and cannot imagine trying something new.
I must admit that initially the results of the changes we are making (Penn Del C3, attractional to missional, corporate to apostolic) look a little dim. My belief is that we are in the warming period. The full glow will not be seen for some years, but I am certain it will come if we stay on course. We must continue to change to stay on course. It's fluid.
I sense God's hand in it, and His pleasure as I let go of my tried and true formulae and grab a hold of His mighty coattails for a free ride into the light. I sense it when I share what God is doing and saying with a group of pastors. They either lean forward and their eyes light up, or they look away, fearing what the changes might mean for them and their church.
We were promised boldness when the spirit came upon us. Lord, deliver us from fear, and propel us with missionary zeal to embrace your change. These are radical days and they call for radical measures. I don't care to bask in the afterglow of dying embers when the Lord is starting a new fire. (sorry, I guess I switched metaphors there :))


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One fascinating aspect of Kerry's Kurtz chronicles is the position of historian Douglas Brinkley. On the one hand, Brinkley is the author of the authorized hagiography regarding Kerry's Vietnam service and antiwar career. He had access to Kerry and all of Kerry's documentary material. On the other hand, Brinkley's book (Tour of Duty) doesn't recount any version of Kerry's secret mission to Cambodia.
Last week, however, Brinkley emerged in an interview with the Daily Telegraph to lend support to a version of Kerry's story. Hugh Hewitt goes in for a closer look in his Standard Online column this morning: "A historian's tour of duty."
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HIGHLIGHTS: Steinberger v Hon. McVey/OneWest
¶95 However, Count Eleven also alleges that part of the loan has already been paid by the FDIC under a "Shared-Loss Agreement," and Steinberger attached a copy of a Shared-Loss Agreement to the complaint. While it is not clear whether this agreement in fact applies to Steinberger's loan, the agreement does appear to provide that, in exchange for OneWest's assumption of IndyMac Federal's loans, the FDIC would reimburse OneWest at 80% for any default in payments on those loans. Steinberger alleges that this agreement, combined with insurance coverage and/or other sources of reimbursement "has on information and belief resulted in OneWest's either being paid in full for the Note, or having received at least 80% of the payments due on the Note."
¶96 While the alleged insurance payments are indeed speculative and unsupported, the assertion that the FDIC has already reimbursed OneWest for Steinberger's default is not unsupported, based on the fact the Shared-Loss Agreement does appear to authorize such reimbursement. Under A.R.S. § 47-3602, "an instrument is paid to the extent payment is made by or on behalf of a party obliged to pay the instrument and to a person entitled to enforce the instrument." Thus, if it is true that the FDIC has already reimbursed OneWest for all or part of Steinberger's default, OneWest may not be entitled to recover that amount from Steinberger.
Discharge of Debt —
money that OneWest received from FDIC to pay off loss on loan discharges
the debt. If it is true that the FDIC has already reimbursed OneWest
for all or part of [the borrower's] default, OneWest may not be entitled
to recover that amount from [the borrower}. This corroborates what
we have been writing in this blog regarding third-party payments and the
existence of co-obligors. To the extent that third party payments have
been received by the creditor this court is saying that nobody can
collect those same payments from the borrower.
Unconscionability: Procedural and Substantive:
Unfair surprise and fairness, respectively, are the main elements. This
opinion raises the possibility of bringing claims that might have been
barred by the TILA Statute of Limitations. Pleading requirements are
strict. But if you read the decision you can tell that there is room for
borrowers to oppose enforcement of contracts that produced sticker
shock and other unfair surprises.
Quiet title: This
Court concluded that you can't quiet title based upon the weakness of
someone else's claim. You must allege your right to title and that the
parties served have no claim.
Negligence Per Se:
Opening a whole new area for litigation this Court concluded that
negligence and negligence per se, were valid causes of action for
damages and other relief in connection with the handling of modification
and other requests. . . . .
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The moment I passed it over my shoulders and down the length of my torso, I knew this was a definitive piece you wear like a bad attitude.
The leopard print scarf I wore while gypsying around Venice.
My travel companion said it was made for me.
I am a hunter. Beauty is leopard skin deep.
I am a woman who nurtures and needs nurturing, who excites and craves excitement, who believes in the possibility of great romance and great strength. We survive our disappointments like we do our ideas. They go hand in hand.
Wouldn't it be nice if in life we had the convenience of price tags to guide us through our selection process? You can have this fabulous, handsome man who gives you everything for the price of catering to his ego and insecurities. Or this "dream" job can be yours for the small sum of all your time, integrity and energy. Sometimes we take what we can get because we feel it is what we are worth. Other times, we fight for the "more" we think we deserve.
Some silences are a quiet relief.
Some silences are polite.
Some silences, a disguise.
This silence, this cause for attention, is an abrupt void. It alludes to sorrow, with its cutting edges and desperate measure.
The cashmere coat I found in Paris. I took myself for my birthday.
Alone in the city of light with my dark, dark heart.
The sweater I took
the day I left
because it smelled like him.
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to discover what you might.
It's an unstable science.
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of trial and error.
We have war wounds to testify for the fight against time, but we must celebrate somehow these fine line experiences and acknowledge their truth. We survive what we know is inevitable; life leaves its traces. I have my scars.
Hand me my wrinkle cream, won't you?
I see the great crease in my forehead getting deeper. Perhaps I thought too much. And the lines around my eyes grow longer.
I might have laughed too hard. And the scars of my heart;
I may have loved too deeply.
In a fight for equality,
women have tipped the scales out of their favor.
A woman is a being of grace and beauty that is
worthy of the pedestal she has kicked from beneath her feet.
The delicate beaded dress I found in the Bahamas. I wore it to a friend's wedding. My "soul mate" was there with his girlfriend but couldn't keep his eyes off of me. Delicate and rooted deep, our history of distance.


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Egypt Snubs Obama's Personal Request For Election Monitors
More hope and change…
The Egyptian government has rebuffed President Obama's personal request for election monitors in its parliamentary elections.
The Washington Times reported:
The Egyptian government has publicly rejected U.S. demands — and President Obama's personal request — for monitors to observe Sunday's parliamentary elections and for adherence to international standards of transparency and fairness.
President Hosni Mubarak's government instead has overseen a crackdown against his political opposition, arresting at least 1,000 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, or Ikhwan, and disqualifying their leaders in many cases from even standing for election.
Cairo's snubbing of Mr. Obama follows the U.S. president's run of hard luck in general on Middle East diplomacy. This month, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani rejected Mr. Obama's personal request to relinquish the presidency. In 2009, the Iranian government rejected multiple offers from Mr. Obama to resume direct negotiations.
The mood from official Cairo was captured in a front-page editorial this week in the state-run and -funded newspaper, Al-Ahram, which often serves as a weather vane for the thinking inside the Mubarak regime.
"America and its experts should know and realize the Egyptian leadership role," al-Ahram's editor, Osama Saraya, said in the editorial. "Egypt has played and plays an important role in matters of regional peace and security … and is capable of bringing regional stability to all the areas that are regressing due to wrong U.S. policies in Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine.
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Africa's stats - new factors?
Shanta, appreciate the truth-telling here... Thank-you. Africa's 'informal-economy' distorts comparison to western stats... Will the rapid adoption of mobile-money bring previously uncaptured economic activity into 'measured' stats? As noted, a large increase in reported GDP often reflects change in "reporting" rather than change in underlying economic reality. Aside from Aid organizations, African politicians will soon discover attacting business & investment requires reliable indicators -- FACTS reduce risk of unknown. Countries without facts will pay risk penalty with investors. @ebookAfrica (Twitter)


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Hello my little SEO experts, and welcome back to SEO Saturday in which I talk to you about things that you may not know, or may not understand or read and think 'god, I could have told you that'. I'm starting to get a bit of writer's block when I'm thinking of posts for this series so your suggestions are greatly received. Catch up on my previous posts by searching SEO or you can read my latest post on social media. I have been seeing a lot of people lately ask about no follow and do follow links, what they are and why we use them. So, I'm going to take it back to basics and explain exactly why we need to be using the correct links.
In previous posts, I have explained how Google has little spiders that crawl your website. These spiders pick up on links that you have been placing within your blog posts and use them in order the rank the page. Good referral links equal good page ranking in search engines. The 'link juice' that is being made apparent to the Google spiders could therefore be manipulated by people using 'black hat' techniques to place themselves high up in search engines outcomes. No Follow and Do Follow links are thereby used to show Google bots whether a website link is organic or not which in turn reduces search engine spamming. A business will want to be ranking at the top of Google as it will be quite important for their revenue, but for them to reach the top, they will need lots of links pointing back to them.
A No Follow link is a HTML code that tells Google bots to not follow the link, however the link you have created in your blog is still accessible to any person reading it.
A Do Follow link is the natural link which tells Google that the link juice is organic and the backlink is credible. Any Do Follow links that I leave are usually within an anchor text with the specific keyword ie: Selfridges, SEO Saturday.
As bloggers, we are asked by companies of all rankings to review products, place sponsored posts on our blogs and take money for placing a natural advertorial within our blog posts. In return, the company will usually want x amount of links back to their website, which is fair enough. Any link that has been paid for either with money or by goods/vouchers should be marked as a no follow to help the Google algorithms see that this large business has 'paid' for a link, therefore ranking the webpage according. It's the same principle on how you can improve your DA by getting credible backlinks.
There is no law to say that you can't accept sponsored posts, money or gifts without putting a no follow link but it is best practice to do so. You may not get fined and sent to prison, but what is worse is if Google picks up on these follow links using its very clever algorithms, you could find that your beautifully created and nurtured baby of blog could be penalised by dropping in ranking, therefore a loss of traffic. Even worse than that, you could find that your entire site is removed from Google. I know I would be absolutely devastated. All is not lost though, you can apply for a re-inclusion by changing those links that Google doesn't like. Again, I recommend Webmaster Tools so you can keep up to date with any issues.
WordPress has several plugins which make it easy to change your link to a no follow by using a simple check box and I believe that Blogger has updated to reflect this as well. The actual HTML link is simply rel=nofollow after your webpage link. It's not for me to say that you shouldn't accept money if the company has asked you to place a do follow link within the text, but it's really quite unethical to do so as theoretically you are manipulating how Google sees the website.
Before I finish, I also must point out that no follow and do follow links are not the same as disclosure and that leads me onto next weeks post nicely!This post may contain PR samples that have been sent to me for consideration for review however all my opinions will be my own. The links in the post my be affiliate links which will earn a small amount of commission should you shop my recommendations.


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Not had chance to do much sketching at the moment due to work but here's a couple I did on the morning commute. I'm also currently sifting through all the pre-production work I did on Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas so will be posting lots of that soon. Watch this space!
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Zigarren Herzog has continued to maintain and develop its market leadership with its three stores; "Herzog am Hafen", "Herzog am Ludwigkirchplatz" and "La Casa del Habano Berlin". The quality of Herzog cigars has certainly not remained undiscovered and has awarded Zigarren Herzog's owner, Maximilian Herzog, the highest prize awarded by the cigar industry in Havana: the "Hombre Habanos", which is still currently the only cigar house in Germany managed by a real hombre Habanos.
From the very beginning on it was very important that Herzog cigars never become an ordinary or commercial product, but rather a cultural product. Since 1492 it has effected the well-being of people, along with having an aesthetic influence on cigar packaging, cutters and ashtrays making it one of the most culturally valued treats in our world. The customer will find all of these in the Zigarren Herzog shop, where it is not only about sales, but also about the presentation of this cultural significance.
Cuba or Habanos S. A.'s quality of Herzogs cigars has not remained hidden. They have awarded its owner, Maximilian Herzog, the highest prize awarded by the cigar industry in Havana: the "Hombre Habanos". To this day, Zigarren Herzog is the only cigar house in Germany to be run by a Hombre Habanos.
The secret of the success of Zigarren Herzog is the competence of its employees, who are continuously trained in theory and practice, especially in cigar knowledge. This qualification enables us to provide advice tailored to the individual wishes of our customers.
The internet shop of Zigarren Herzog also reflects the competence of the experience gained in the cigar trade over two decades. This is also based on a personal passion for smoking cigars that all employees of Zigarren Herzog share. No customer at Zigarren Herzog is served by an employee who does not enjoy and know the product he is selling himself.
If you would like to buy a cigar or other product, but still have questions, please contact Zigarren Herzog.
Cigars Herzog does not claim to carry every single cigar that is available on the market, rather, a fine selection of cigars, cigar accessories and a variety of spirits. Criterion is not quantity, but instead the high quality of the treasures offered.
Customers show a particular interest in the own cigar brands from Zigarren Herzog, which are difficult to find in any other cigar shops. Some rarities from three product groups include: the exclusive Patoro cigars, the wonderful and rare humidors by Elie Bleu and Dargaud, along with cigar cutters, likely from the world's best manufacturer of these products: Eloi from France
Discover Dominican cigar brands such as Ashton, Balmoral or Davidoff in the online shop. The world-famous Cuban cigars from Cohiba, Montecristo or Romeo y Julieta are also available from Zigarren Herzog. Cigars from Nicaragua and Honduras are another treat. Choose between different formats such as Corona, Robusto, Toro and many more. or find out with a cigar sampler the right aromas for your taste. In addition, the online shop offers cigarillos from well-known manufacturers and a wide range of cigar accessories such as lighters, hygrometers along with the matching humidor.
Zigarren Herzog offers cigars from different regions. Dominican Republic, Cuba, Honduras, Brazil or other countries - the great variety of flavours and aromas will delight every cigar lover. Cuba offers the most comprehensive selection of different formats with the Romeo y Julieta collection. The Romeo y Julieta Luxe line with its light, creamy tones is perfect for beginners, but the very strong Cazadores also makes experienced smokers' hearts beat faster. Accessories such as the Special Romeo y Julieta Humidor and a large selection of other humidors ensure good storage at the same time.
Offers such as the Santa Damina & Don Diego Robusto sampler allow not only beginners, but also experienced smokers to get and test different cigars in a Humidor casket.
Storing cigars has to be learned. With Herzog cigars, the online customer not only receives ideally stored and tested goods, but can also buy well-chosen humidors for adequate storage after ordering. Zigarren Herzog therefore also publishes its own annual guide to cigars, the "Little Herzog", which gives explains untiring testing of cigars at Herzog and provides tips on the use of accessories such as a humidor.
Countries such as the Dominican Republic, Honduras and many other provinces supply our cigar shop with the best and high quality cigars such as the Montecristo Corona. To make smoking a pleasure, we also offer spirits that can accompany our selection of cigars.
There is also a wide range of accessories. Humidors, lighters, humidifiers, humidifiers and even cigar cutters and tubos provide everything a cigar lover could wish for. In addition, a large number of literature and journals are made available.
A unique feature of the Herzog cigar shop is the possibility to buy Havanas not only by brand, but also by colour of the cigars in the box and by production batches.
The internet shop of Zigarren Herzog makes shopping a personal and pleasant experience, both online and offline Every online customer has the possibility to research the offered cigars or humidors on site. Of course, they are also invited to take part in our various events; ranging from from tastings of the monthly cigars to cigar film evenings. Regular information about the cigar evenings can be found here.


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For parents who suspect their kid may perhaps have ADHD or for those whose family have previously been diagnosed, the key to the small fry acquiring finer is tuition. The more than you cognise the more you can help your child. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, other far-famed as ADHD is the label utilised by experts for a crowd of behaviors saved commonly in children, as resourcefully as in adults. The state of affairs is that for ADHD in children, that minor has vexation paying limelight in school, complemental preparation assignments, making friends, sitting still, ensuing through with near tasks at home, and so on. As you can imagine, existence for the minor is overdone. After all, beingness for a youngster lacking ADHD is congested of obstacles but now when you think about ADHD in children, those obstacles are increased.
Typically, when there is ADHD in children, you see behaviors associated beside acquisition. Unfortunately, if the child is not diagnosed or is misdiagnosed, the pedagogue may judgment that teenager as being a "problem child" when in fact, he or she is incompetent to make conform the urges. The lower formation is that ADHD in children is a serious problem, a increasing epidemic that requirements all the notice it can get. Today, experts are growing their more rapidly theory that up to 5% of all seminary age children have ADHD, speech communication a much pragmatic amount is 12%. However, experts inactive hold that ADHD affects boys more traditionally than it does girls but regardless, the breakdown is robust for the child, the teacher, and the family unit.
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Biker Planet Review
Biker Planet is one of the top biker, motorcycle enthusiast dating websites. The site has an easy to use layout and has the kind of cool interface that would appeal to the niche of bike riders.
Biker Planet has many biker centric features, is well rounded in its functions and has a good member base. But a simple enough dating site that is filled with people who like to ride motorcycles. Hey as long as its the kind of people you would like to meet we think that is the most important criteria.
BikerPlanet.com is an exclusive community for biker singles, where they can not only meet like – minded people but also sow the seeds of a long term relationship. Regardless of whether you own a Suzuki, Yamaha, Harley or a BMW, you will certainly find your ideal match, someone who has similar preferences and would love to be your pillion on long rides.
Registration on this website is absolutely free and users can create a full profile, complete with photos. In addition to this, you will also be able to search for other members and view their profiles. Moreover, you can view instant messages received by premium users. However, the only drawback of free membership is that it prohibits members to initiate a conversation with other users.
The website offers free as well as premium membership. Members can search for an ideal match based on a host of parameters. The search algorithms are highly efficient and capable of reducing the results to a bare minimum. The 'little black book' is one of the most distinctive features of the website, which sets it apart from other sites in this segment. This feature permits users to save photos as well as conversations that they've had with fellow members, in a separate section that can be accessed at their convenience.
Users can add as well as remove users from the 'little black book'. On the other hand, users can add members to their favorites list and view who has added them to theirs. Flirts and winks are some of the other options that can be taken advantage of, in order to break the ice and are also available to standard members.
The makers of the site have prioritized privacy of its users. The site follows a stringent profile approval process, so as to filter out the non – genuine ones. This is done to ensure that members find their ideal match with relatively greater ease. All the aforementioned features make this site one of the leading platforms in the biker dating segment. All in all, this website is a decent platform for bike enthusiasts to find a like – minded companion.


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Okeechobee County, FL — John Haygood has autism. As a result of his autism, he often acts out at school — a school that is apparently too unqualified to deal with him. Because they are like most schools in America today, officials turned to police force to solve their problems for them, instead of helping the 10-year-old boy.
This week, two Okeechobee County sheriff's deputies ambushed the little boy on his first day back at school since the incident last November. Instead of going to his home and talking to his parents, police waited until the child came to school to handcuff him in front of all of his peers.
"To go and have him arrested on school grounds in front of other students, in front of personnel, during school hours, they could've come to my house at any time to tell me what was going on," the boy's mother, Louanne Haygood said.
In November of last year, John was suspended and homebound after an incident in which he became overly upset and kicked a paraprofessional. Instead of working out a plan to make sure this never happens again, the school called the cops and a warrant for felony battery on a school official was issued for the 10-year-old boy.
As WPTV reports, Haygood says her son kicked the teacher because he didn't feel safe with that particular employee.
"It was because of his autism that spurred this incident. And he was arrested for that," said Haygood.
Haygood admits her son has had several behavioral issues in the past but says it should have never resulted in an arrest, according to the report.
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CURLY FIGURED MAPLE DULCIMERPrice: $Was $850 Now $450 SERIOUS OFFERS CONSIDERED
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Types of wood: Curly Figured Maple
Instrument Size: 35"X9"X2.5"
Category: Dulcimers
Maple wood had an incredible variety of beautiful and fascinating grain patterns. On this particular instrument are to be found a mixture of curly (rippled) and figured grain pattern. It is mostly curly on the neck and sides, but with curl and more figure on the top, back and fretboard. This beautiful grain pattern is further enhanced by the book matching of the top and back -(this is a process in which a piece of wood is split and then opened up like a book so that each side of the top and the back is a "mirror image" of the other). This produces a unique instrument unlike any other. When you are not playing the dulcimer you can display it on the wall display hanger that is included. This will show off your dulcimer as the art piece that it truly is.
It also comes with a set of mechanical tuners which make tuning the dulcimer much easier if you are going to be playing it often and later, if you want to use it primarily as an art piece, you can put the wooden pegs back in. If you wish, I can install the mechanical tuners for you and send the wooden pegs with the dulcimer. PLEASE READ MY POST OF MAY 21, 2015 – a note regarding Wooden Tuning Pins.
Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions.


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Defend Education Birmingham: Statement on the Occupation
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- Category: Students
- Published on Wednesday, 26 November 2014
- Written by Defend Education Birmingham
We are occupying a large part of the Aston Webb Building, which includes the Vice-Chancellor's and Senior Management's offices, Telecommunications and the Senate Chamber in order to demand the right to free education, to protest and to housing. We are here in defiance of management's tactics to try to suppress student protest through the use of disciplinaries, suspensions and injunctions. The areas we are occupying also play a key role in the corporatisation of our university which sees power concentrated in the hands of the few, education treated as a commodity and our institution become more like a business.
We condemn the university management for the actions they have taken against the right to protest and the suspension of Kelly Rogers and Simon Furse. All people should be able to freely express their discontent and students are no exception. The university is supposed to be a stronghold for free-speech and dissent. However, is it clear that the University of Birmingham does not recognise this human right and actively seeks to curtail it.
Yesterday, Kelly and Simon were supposed to have their appeal. Despite its postponement, we wanted to make it clear that we have not forgotten this injustice. Their case is an example of the extreme victimisation that this university will deploy in order to crush its student body. They were both singled out against a backdrop of nationwide occupations and are the only students in the country to have been suspended for 9 months since before 2010. Only Kelly and Simon were suspended despite a hundred or so other students also being involved. A third student, Hattie Craig, is not allowed to break any university regulation under threat of suspension for 6 months. The university is trying to make an example of them to intimidate other students by punishing them. This behaviour is a draconian response to an otherwise peaceful protest. This affront to democracy puts the University of Birmingham to shame and we will not let them succeed in preventing students from protesting for a better, fairer education for all.
We advocate for an education system which is free, democratic and accessible. As it stands, even basic rights like that to education, housing and protest are not being met. As such, we demand:
1. That David Eastwood and the University of Birmingham should publicly take back their position that fees should be increased and that bursaries should be cut. Instead, they should lobby the government for education to be free, and for the implementation of living grants
2. That a body should be set up made up of elected students, academic staff, and support staff. This should have ultimate oversight over the restructuring of departments, the University's investment decisions, and its lobbying positions
3. That every student is offered accommodation which does not exceed the amount they receive in loans and grants
4. That the university does not make a profit (or "surplus") from the fees it charges for accommodation
5. The reinstatement of Simon Furse and Kelly Rogers
6. The lifting of the onerous and inhibitive restrictions on Hattie Craig
7. That the University recognises occupations as a legitimate form of protest, with a long and illustrious history
8. That the University reforms its disciplinary procedures to include sentencing guidelines, a right for students to receive legal representation and a requirement that allegations be proved beyond reasonable doubt, instead of on the balance of probabilities
Ferguson: justice for Michael Brown - Darren Wilson is guilty
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- Category: Fighting Oppression
- Published on Tuesday, 25 November 2014
- Written by ISN
Protest: Weds 26th November, 7pm, outside the US Embassy London, 24 Grosvenor Square W1A 1LQ
We are not here to condemn the rioters. We are not here to ask for police forces to be beefed up. We are here to expose the biggest gang that is roaming on the streets of London and that is the Metropolitan Police. The Police…who have given a message loud and clear. And that message is the following; we can blow brains out and we can lie and there is nothing you can do about it. - Turkish Community in Dalston statement on the London Riots of 2011
Last night a grand jury decided that Darren Wilson, white police officer, would not be charged for the coldblooded killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black man. This has inflamed the civil unrest, demonstrations and political turmoil that have gripped Ferguson St Louis since the summer.
Aside from Obama's federal soft touch, the town has been under on-and-off periods of Martial Law designed to quell the growing and anger and confidence of the African American community and its allies there. This anger has taken many forms, from random to well-organised looting, the formation of citizens militias and police patrol units, huge acts of peaceful civil disobedience, as well as antifascist confrontations with members of the Ku Klux Klan threatening to intervene on the side of law and order; however much their intervention might be unnecessary to American imperialism as it lumbers up to crush its own people.
This lumbering has so far taken the form of armoured vehicles, police and guardsmen equipped with, amongst other things, automatic machine guns and tear gas. Again we see, in situations of acute social crisis, the most dystopian predictions and utopian demands of the historic communist movement crystallise into brutal reality.
It would be easy for us, as International Socialists in Britain to valorise and romanticise these events, especially in the light of the ability of the British Police to shoot dead black and brown men without any hint of culpability or, indeed, shame. The fact of the matter is that the American revolutionary left, like ours, is in no position to be coherently supporting let alone leading these events. Like its white counterpart, the African Nationalist and Socialist movement in America has, in the main, degenerated into sectarianism and campism, beginning with their response to Mugabe's repression, and hardening up over the question of Syria.
Recent events should, whilst showing us the historical and political limits of American imperialism, bring into sharp focus the same limits of our politics and motivate our efforts for regrouping, rethinking and rebuilding our shared revolutionary traditions.
London Black Revolutionaries have called a solidarity vigil outside the US Embassy against the violent repression and oppression black protests and black people. International Socialist Network asks its members and supporters to participate in this and stand with the family of Michael Brown and the self-defence of the African American people of Ferguson in their fight against racist oppression, police repression and state murder.
*Support the Self Defence and Self Organisation of the African American community of Ferguson
*Disband the Police
*For International Solidarity and International Socialism
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Despite overwhelming evidence that Mike Brown, an unarmed teenager, was murdered by Officer Darren Wilson, Officer Wilson has yet to be indicted. Despite the fact that six witnesses have said that Mike Brown had his hands up when he was fatally shot six times and then left dead in the middle of the street for four hours while Ferguson and St Louis Police got their lies together, Officer Darren Wilson has yet to be indicted. There are protestors in Ferguson who will stay there protesting until an indictment is handed down. And indictment is hardly justice, but it is the fairest procedure. These are young men and women who have put their lives on hold to stand up for all of our freedoms. The overly militarized police force in Ferguson has attempted to criminalize them by harassing and throwing them in jail for exercising their right to peaceful protest. They need our help. They need money for legal funds and they need money to live. The Ferguson Legal Defense Fund will help. We have partnered with Tef Poe and Tory Russell from Ferguson October to make sure the funds received go exactly where they are needed.
A solidarity protest has also been called in Liverpool this Friday 28th November, 6pm, meeting at The Rialto at the top of Upper Parliament St, Toxteth, L8. Info here
On love
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- Category: Ideas and Arguments
- Published on Wednesday, 19 November 2014
- Written by Martin Pravda
In a moment of turmoil the poet WH Auden begged, "O tell me the truth about love," but it is impossible to know where to start. We are told that it is a variety of often contradictory things. On the one hand we are sold the idea of a glossy romance package: Sam Faiers takes Joey Essex 'glamping' (glamorous camping) on an early date and immediately the two fall in love in a sleeping bag under the stars. The same old romantic tale repeats itself over generations: Sam and Joey are the reincarnated Dante and Beatrice with glamping as a modern substitute for courtly love. On the other hand we are told by the Conservative and church establishments that these flashy romances are damaging to our health, counter to "real" long-lasting love, and incentives are put in place to encourage marriages and the traditional family. Love is something that a couple must work towards over time, and it is the responsibility of the two lovers to maintain this bond throughout a lifetime together. Society dictates that we should love and make love in either one of these ways. It is also normal to love our family and close friends, but in a slightly lesser way.
The Christian teaching of "love thy neighbour" is taken merely as a vague metaphor by religious conservatives and the church state. It shouldn't be read quite as literally as the obscure passages indirectly condemning same-sex marriages or abortion. Neoliberalism teaches us to look out for number one, and a close circle of people around us who it is socially acceptable to love. Extending the concept of love to anything beyond these circles makes us potentially dangerous hippies, stuck in 1968.
As it happens, there are many who associate with the left who are in some way inspired by a conception of "love". Not all of us are drawn to egalitarian struggles through experiences of extracting coal down a mine or shaping steel in a factory. Sometimes our conversion can simply be formed out of a deep feeling that things must be better, and it can be hard to place what it is that makes us feel this way. For others it can emerge from deep spiritual thought; across Latin America thousands associate with liberation theology, a belief that God's universal love for all of humankind should inspire Christians to fight for socialism.
These hippie love-infested views are not too far removed from our own radical roots either. Inspired by Greek philosophers it was Robert Owen, the early 19th century utopian, who introduced one of the earliest visions of a world where humans could live together communally, caring for one another as a collective. Owen's humanistic ideas have been the subject of regular left critique over time (significantly in Marx and Engels' writings on historical materialism, and more recently in anti-humanist theories), but these visions nonetheless set into motion a living tradition of radical ideas about human nature and our potential to live together in harmony. This accompanied Hegel's concept of the "phenomenology of spirit", which saw love as the overwhelming power at the heart of the earth's core, connecting us all together. The belief that humans are not born as greedy capitalists is a stark contrast to Margaret Thatcher's notorious assertion that "there is no such thing as society". It is a fundamental for anyone who dares to dream of a world beyond capitalism, as well as those who believe that love can exist as something greater than a short-lived romance or a royal wedding.
Love and hate
If we are to assess the validity of "love", firstly we need to consider exactly what it might mean. It is not something Marxists can easily write off as simply "a product of alienation" that can be explained within a dialectical framework. Love is a subjective phenomenon that has engaged human thought for thousands of years, and it can mean so many different things. Notably in Plato's Symposium we see such a discussion and in Socrates' ideas there is a significant distinction between romantic and what became known as 'Platonic love' (a concept of love as a non-sexual spiritual force which can bring individuals closer together, as well developing a greater awareness of our own existence). Plato saw the two forms of love evolving from each other, but the distinction between love as merely a sexual pleasure and something potentially far deeper was significant.
During the Enlightenment, "love" became associated with revolutionary ideas and some of the most powerful discourses can be found in the poetry of this time. A famous example is Keats's 'Bright Star', which shows love to be an eternal entity between two people, but also something that is entirely universal. Love, we are told, is as an existence like the "moving waters", fundamental and ever-lasting on our earth, to be accessed by one and all. The perfect moment of romance between the sickly poet and his overseas fiancée offers the reader a faith in humanity, a buoyancy that tells us that all anyone really needs is the experience of true love to become immortalised in love itself. It dares us to believe that we are all capable of good.
Love has irregularly come and gone in the years since the Romantics, occasionally rising in an optimistic spring before being quickly crushed again. There are, after all, many barriers that stand in the way of believing in an all-encompassing love. One only needs to turn on the news any day this week and watch the appalling crimes reported in Syria and Iraq to quickly give up hope. Love becomes blurred in a mesh of human suffering, and its strength is insufficient in overcoming atrocities. Of course the sectarian murderer who tortures and dehumanises his captors probably loves somebody dearly at home, and is himself dearly loved. Somewhere a tyrant this very minute is probably exchanging intimate love with a partner, and both may think the world of each other. In a brief few minutes of ecstasy the world is a different place, and all feelings of hatred vanish. In popular dramas about Ancient Rome we see King Herod passionately make love with Mariamme, hours after brutally suppressing a Jewish uprising. We are left to wonder how two people could really experience love, knowing that their actions that day had brought about so much suffering. I am reminded of Chinua Achebe's 'The Vultures', and the image of a guard at Belsen death camp, stopping at the sweet shop on his way home to pick up chocolate for his children. We are made to believe that humans are capable of expressing both genuine affection one minute and immense cruelty the next.
It is difficult to understand how someone can switch so drastically between love and hate. It would be far more comfortable to imagine the Belsen guard as both an abusive husband and father, a monster at all times incapable of any human attachment. When you watch footage of convicted Nazis in Claude Lanzmann's documentary Shoah, there is an eeriness in how human the appalling criminals appear. Their elderly smiles are friendly and they apologise profusely. They act ashamed yet have learnt to live relatively normal lives. As with the apartheid South African officials who burst into tears as they are reminded of their relatively recent crimes, we are faced with the question of what is genuine and what is a necessary performance. It is often the case at the trials of "monsters", that there will be a faithful partner, parent or friend holding the perpetrator's hand before and after any conviction. Outside the court the two will exchange an affectionate look, as if to say, "I'll be waiting on the other side." Of course power will often be used to manipulate; a psychopath is adept at pulling the wool over people's eyes, hiding their true feelings. It is hard, though, to believe that even the most callous murderer becomes entirely incapable of attachment (unless we are to believe in Calvinistic monsters born into divine evil). Does this understanding of love give us something to grasp onto? It certainly does not lesser the crimes. The Manic Street Preachers and Nina Persson were perhaps right when they sang "Your love alone is not enough", but the very ability for all of us to feel close to another surely would signify that we are capable of so much more than our current society permits.
The couple
In our society where humans are encouraged to exist as atomised beings, the most intense bonds of love are likely to occur between the romantic couple. With the pressures that mount in everyday life, we are encouraged to find refuge in a spouse. Many end up searching for "the perfect partner": the everlasting love story like Carrie and Mr Big, who overcome every imaginable obstacle over six seasons of Sex and the City to eventually find true happiness within their lavish Manhattan lifestyles. So often though in the real world we see these relationships tear themselves apart, sometimes in the most hurtful ways. The Elizabethan romantic tragedies seem as real as ever (the recent RSC contemporary production of John Webster's The White Devil highlights this well). What is it that makes people want to inflict pain on the very person they are closest to? In his poetic assessment of the romantic break-up, the Marxist-humanist David Widgery suggests that it is the commodification of this loving relationship into an ointment for the alienated lover that wears love down into something sinister:
A once equal love capsizes and itself becomes the subject of the division of labour. The man is the human being who has to be kept fuelled and sustained, fit to do his stuff in the outside world. As time passes, it is mysteriously the man who comes to determine the terms of the emotional bargain. It's the woman who fits it, placates, anticipates, mollifies, sacrifices and then becomes bitter and made lonely by what love has become. The labour of love becomes just another labour.
For Widgery love is a natural condition, but under the clashes of social power this can easily be turned "bitter". Once-loving relationships are ground down over time by the dull compulsion of everyday capitalism and the towering shadow of patriarchy (and it is not only the working class who are abusive; we see plenty of examples from the wealthy sociopath Mr Big). Love is no longer a refuge for all the horrible things that can drive someone down, and over time a relationship can transcend into something entirely hurtful:
Love becomes involuntary, a system of emotional Green Stamps, promised, stored and exchanged. The platitude that love is close to pain becomes cruelly true, the intensity of violence replaces the gentleness of love. Not just broken alcoholic men but the smarty young executives find violence sexy when the fun has gone out of love.
It is such a situation that can make one question whether love ever existed at all. As in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Recollections of Love', we are never quite sure if romance was a fantasy or a reality. Could love be nothing more than a social construct created to ease the horrors of a class-based society? One could easily reach these conclusions after reading Engels' work on the 'Dialectics of Nature'. We are said to be entirely shaped by material conditions, and there is no such thing as human nature. More powerfully still in Sylvia Plath's 'Mad Girl's Love Song', when the speaker relives her first feelings of love and her resulting heartbreak ("I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again") she ends all but one verse with the conceding line "I think I made you up inside my head". The speaker (the "Mad Girl") in this poem perfectly epitomises the traumatised soul who has lost all hope in ever attaining love again. The emotional damage that can come with a broken heart can be utterly devastating, and for some the conclusion will be that love is merely a form of cruelty.
Instinctive love
Our world continues to throw up the unexpected. While so much cruelty is happening in one corner of the world, in another there is a moment of solidarity which can ignite the greatest faith in humanity again. History has shown time and again that humans are capable of breaking through the restrains of their own alienation to take extraordinary lengths to protect another. In the last century we have seen huge leaps of material progress, the American civil rights movement, the end of apartheid in South Africa, universal suffrage in many countries, the removal of dictatorships and the creation of liberal reforms. Collectively millions have suffered, been persecuted and lost their lives to bring about these fundamental improvements. When brutal regimes are toppled it is in everyone's interest, but when the Tunisian protesters took to the streets after Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight, very few predicted that Ben Ali's regime would fall. The likely repercussion was a wave of heavy state repression, but in the face of this fear the Tunisian protests stuck together. It is these brilliant instincts that fundamentally change lives forever, be it the overthrow of a brutal regime, the introduction of a living wage, or merely the protection of somebody's job.
As Keats showed us with 'Bright Star', these warm raptures can ignite in all of us. It is the exchanging of these moments of rhapsody – that dialectics can never fully explain – either as a collective or a couple, that some people call love. While for many it is unsustainable and can rupture into heartbreak or simply burn out, for a few love is able to seem lasting and timeless. Like the couple drinking coffee in Louis MacNeice's 'Meeting Point', time becomes "somewhere else". For the young item who realise at that very moment that they are in love, their rapture becomes immortalised as they become "two people with one pulse". While time remains a spectre in the background, reminding us of the couple's mortality, we are given the chance to imagine that their love could be everlasting.
Against all the heartbreak, I would like to cling on to MacNeice's idea of love, a hopeful beacon shining in the tradition of the romantics. While hardened materialists may not choose to use the "L" term, I expect many believe in what it might stand for: the idea that we all have the ability to attach to another and to reject selfishness and greed (things we are told are part of "human nature" by right wing popular scientists) is revolutionary in our context. The pain many associate with love is born out of social forces which grind people down and which encourage tyranny and abuse. Auden tells us that time cuts love down like "fields of harvest wheat", in a poem written during fascism's rapid rise across Europe. Love can burn away and leave its mark as it does in 'Mad Girl's Love Song', but perhaps we could extend love to mean something broader than just an intimate relationship with tragic heartbreaks. What if like Hegel, we see it as something as natural for humans as our instincts to eat, sleep and breathe? Are the impulses to attach ourselves to an individual really so different to what also draws us to join thousands of strangers protesting against a great injustice? Despite all the pain it can bring love is a power which holds great potential. As Widgery puts it, "love offers a glimpse of the most intimate communication that we have experienced. Everything that's said about love is true, except the happy ending." Perhaps one day we might change the ending too.


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Yesterday I released my final ever WSO, There are a number of reasons for this and I'll go into depth about them in a week or two. It was quite a hard decision but sometime the bitterest pill is the best in the long run. In the past my WSO's have earned me between $6000 and $15000 which is a good reward for a week or two's work.
I thought long and hard about what product to release, I was actually halfway through a series of Videos about Authority Blogging, what it is and how to do it when I changed my mind and decided to do something "epic", but what, I wasn't sure.
So I loaded up with a few bottles of water and went for a long walk to clear my mind , (when you are half way up a steep mountain you tend to find that you don't think about trivia) after about 12 KM which is about 7.5 miles It came to me.
I'd write 20 or 30 of the best tips I knew from my 7 years in marketing (check out mondays post for one of them) In the end I actually got to around 90 tips . Wouldn't 101 tips be a nice number I thought… truly epic!
So I emailed some of the most ethical marketers I know, and asked them for their best tips before I knew it I had 101 great tips to share with the world but would they like it? The list finally got to 103 but I left the title at 101, The full title is actually "Internet Marketing Braindump – 101 Must Have Tips for Online Marketers" not the catchiest title I've come up with!
To actually write the e-book was easier than I thought which is why I went from 30 to 90 tips easily. The first thing I did was to set myself a word count target of 5000 words a day, in the end the book is over 14,000 words and took me 3 days to write. I used Pages to write it, it's the first time I used it and I really liked it, it made the task of writing much easier as it handled the table of contents and the font types automatically.
I first laid out the sections I wanted to cover by adding a chapter and a header, I chose 6 of them SEO & Traffic, List Building, Affiliate Marketing, Keywords & Site Building , General & Finally Product Creation.
The initial idea was to write the same amount of tips for each section but it didn't turn out like that General had 30 while affiliate market has about 13 I think. Once I had the sections I just started writing tips, I found that one tip would naturally lead to another . At this point I made sure I had a notepad with me at all times as I'd think of tips at the strangest of times.
I wanted each tip to be a mini WSO something that would make people think so I avoided 1 line tips and focused on getting at least a paragraph from each tip, as you'll see if you have the book some are several paragraphs and a few take up multiple pages
I didn't actually write them in any particular order just jumping between sections as a tip came into my head, I got a lot of ideas for the tips by reading back through the blog to find things i'd written about in the past.
Once I was finished I tested changing the font sizes initially it was 14 point baskerville so I tried 16 and 18 point which increased the book to 980 and 100 pages and both looked fine in pages but when they were in .pdf format they looked way too big so I went back to 14point.
So I had a product how was I to launch it.
The first thing I did was to let the members of WPGoldmine know it was live, (Tip 104.. always support the people who support you by ensuring that they get the best offers). After that I created an email and sent it out to my list telling them it was live.
You'll notice that no where in the list of things (well 2 things) I did did I mention contacting affiliates or JV partners. One of the better features of WSO Pro is the fact that it generally emails people who have promoted your stuff in the past when you release a new WSO (unless the opt out) I have some really great affiliates so I knew they would get notified.
I avoided all the JV hoopla that people feel obliged to do by offering bonus's, gifts & prizes.(been there, got the T-shirt and the bad taste in my mouth) I really have tired with all that stuff. I believe that people should promote a product based on it's merits not on what they'll make. I know I create good honest ethical products and so do my affiliates if they choose to promote some rehashed crap over my products because the have the change to win an iPad well thats thier issue not mine. (did i sound a bit bitter there? I didn't mean to)
So thats it the eBook is live it's making sales,(268 so far) the buyers are loving it which is really all it comes down to in the end.
If you don't have it you can check out the thread at: http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/536680-my-final-warrior-special-offer-lets-go-out-bang.html
If you would like to promote it you can sign up at: http://www.warriorplus.com/affiliate/offer/9635
Below you'll find some of the great comments i've been getting, thank you to everyone who took time to comment in the thread and to buy this and my previous wso's


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