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The GOP’s Crackpot Agenda

The top Republican candidates share a single, radical vision: to trash the environment, shred the safety net and aid the rich.

By Tim Dickinson

Nowhere is the GOP’s lock-step approach to governance more in evidence than on the question of employment. At a moment when 25 million Americans lack full-time jobs, this is obviously going to be the central issue of the 2012 election. Yet the Republican candidates all have the same jobs plan: to put the unemployed to work on behalf of big polluters.

To clear the way for the orgy of drilling, mining and fracking the GOP candidates have proposed, it’s first necessary to gut the Environmental Protection Agency, which has been authorized by the Supreme Court to curb climate pollution. Many of the top Republican contenders, in fact, once sounded the alarm on climate change; today, they scoff at its very existence.

The GOP candidates are not just seeking to roll back regulations on Big Carbon – they also want to gut a wide range of safeguards designed to protect consumers and workers. Perry has called for a “moratorium” on all pending regulations. Bachmann wants an end to “this red-tape rampage.” Romney, in a fit of technocratic nonsense, is calling for a cap on regulatory costs, whereby the economic impact of any new regulation must be offset by repealing an established rule. Under his bizarre plan, a Romney administration might pay for new rules against contaminated meat by eliminating the current ban on lead paint in children’s toys.

The Republican candidates are uniformly committed to repealing the president’s health care reform – what Perry, with characteristic subtlety, calls a “man-made disaster of epic proportions.” Under the GOP plans, nearly 1 million young adults would once again be denied coverage, seniors would be forced to shell out billions more for prescription medicines, and insurers could return to hiking premiums while denying coverage to Americans with pre-existing conditions. For these and other reasons, Romney insists, “Obamacare is bad for America’s families.”

While threatening to slash the safety net for millions of Americans, the GOP candidates are also committed to a brutal austerity program that would tip the nation back into recession – if not a full-scale depression. The proposal in question is a constitutional amendment that would require the federal government to pass a balanced budget each year. According to Macroeconomic Advisers, a top economic forecaster, balancing the budget in 2012 alone would throw 15 million Americans out of work, double unemployment to 18 percent and contract the U.S. economy by 17 percent. Going forward, the government would be barred from borrowing money during hard times to provide unemployment benefits, food stamps and other essential aid to those in need. As a result, the analysts report, “recessions would be deeper and longer.” Even in times of plenty, a balanced-budget amendment would “retard economic growth” by increasing economic uncertainty – which Republicans have repeatedly blamed as the root of the current lackluster recovery.

One portion of the budget that the GOP’s austerity agenda doesn’t touch is the Pentagon, where the Republican candidates call for the kind of costly investments they refuse to back for America’s poor and middle class. While demanding that federal spending be capped at 20 percent of GDP, Romney would mandate that at least one in five federal dollars be spent on defense. “I will not look to the military as a place to balance the budget,” he says. Neither will Gingrich, who calls on taxpayers to “recapitalize our military infrastructure,” or Perry, who wants to sink billions into missile defense and “modernized fleets of ships and aircraft.”

The leading Republican candidates all back a host of sweetheart tax cuts for major corporations, whose income is currently taxed at 35 percent. Romney would reduce the corporate rate to 25 percent, while Perry would drop it to 20 percent and Gingrich would slash it to 12.5 percent. Worse, the GOP candidates also favor a “territorial” tax system that would prohibit Uncle Sam from collecting any revenues on profits stashed overseas. The move, according to tax experts, would spur U.S. corporations to shift millions of jobs and billions in profits offshore.

It’s no surprise that the GOP candidates oppose a woman’s right to choose. Every candidate but Romney has signed a pledge vowing to permanently defund Planned Parenthood and to appoint only pro-lifers to key federal health positions. But now, rather than simply pushing to repeal Roe v. Wade, they also want to change the Constitution to award full citizenship to a woman’s egg the moment it is fertilized. “Personhood begins at conception,” insists Gingrich, who wants Congress to pass a law defining embryos as “persons” under the 14th Amendment – a move designed to make abortion unconstitutional. Even Romney, who was elected in Massachusetts as a staunchly pro-choice politician, said on Fox News recently that he “absolutely” would have signed a “personhood” amendment giving constitutional rights to the unborn. An identical measure on the ballot last November – which would have outlawed abortion for victims of rape and incest – was so radical that even Mississippi voters rejected it.

The candidates’ positions on immigration are so extreme that they seem to have been dreamed up by the Minutemen militia. Perry vows to militarize the border with “boots on the ground” and Predator drones hunting down illegal border crossers from the skies. Offering few details, Romney says “we gotta have a fence” along the Mexican border, while Bachmann envisions a barrier that’s 2,000 miles long and “double-walled.” Cain has vowed to erect a “Great Wall… 20 feet high. It’s going to have barbed wire on the top. It’s going to be electrified. And there’s going to be a sign on the other side saying, ‘It will kill you – WARNING!'” Gingrich, who touts his “humane” approach to deportation, has nonetheless trashed even legal immigrants, once denouncing Spanish itself as “the language of living in a ghetto.”

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Smithsonian Acquires P-Funk’s Mothership

The legendary concert spacecraft finds a home at new museum.

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Once again, Chocolate City will be paid a visit by P-Funk’s Mothership. Only this time the stay is permanent.

Parliament Funkadelic’s legendary spaceship has been acquired by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The funky UFO will become part of a permanent music exhibition when the museum opens its doors in 2015.

“I’m about to cry!” George Clinton, P-Funk’s frontman, said to the Washington Post. “They’re taking the Mothership! They’re shipping it out! . . . But I’m glad it’s going to have a nice home there.”

Though it isn’t the original Mothership, the 1,200-pound aluminum stage prop—built in the mid-'90s—is an exact replica of the smoke-spewing, disco-ball-sporting spacecraft George Clinton and his pioneering funk army introduced to fans in 1976. When the band first lowered the Mothership from the rafters, not only was the response rapturous, but the spaceship instantly became a cosmic metaphor for the sense of possibility following the civil rights movement.

The original Mothership was scrapped in 1982. Parliament Funkadelic’s mounting debt forced the group’s management to get rid of it, trashing the beloved spaceship in a Prince George’s County junkyard. Since then, its whereabouts have been unknown. But a 2010 piece on the Mothership’s disappearance in the Washington Post motivated the Smithsonian’s project historian, Kevin Strait, to search for it. “[When] all signs pointed to the fact that we weren’t going to find the original,” Strait said. “That’s when we essentially put our attentions toward the new one."

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Notre-Dame de Benva Chapel

This lovely little chapel sits in the woods beside the D50 road a couple of km west of Lorgues. The simple two-story building has a large covered porch with 16th-century frescos.

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Favas Chapel

The Favas Chapel sits beside the D19 road just 3 km west of Bargemon in the Var department.

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Fontfroid Abbey

The Fontfroid Abbey (Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide) is a 12th-century Cistercian monastery located about 15 km southwest of Narbonne, in the eastern Pyrénées region of France. Inside the abbey is a magnificent church, a beautiful cloister and other rooms to visit, as well as a large bookshop and a restaurant.

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Ganagobie Monastery

The prieuré (monastery) was founded in the 10th century, owned first by the Bishops of Sisteron, and donated it to the Abbey of Cluny in 956. In the 12th century, the Benedictines built the church and the Romanesque cloistures. Up to the 14th century, a small group of about a dozen monks still worked the land and the nearby forest.

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Lagrasse Abbey

The Lagrasse Abbey, or Abbey of Saint Mary of Lagrasse, was founded in the 7th-century at the village of Lagrasse, betweenCarcassonne and Narbonne. Known as Abbaye Sainte-Marie-d'Orbieu or Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Lagrasse, it was elevated to the rank of abbey in the 8th century.

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Lérins Abbey

5th-century abbey, 11th-century Cistercian abbey (St Honorat Monastery) in the Alpes-Maritimes, off the coast of Cannes. The fort was located on a small spit of land on the southern coast to protect the monks from Saracen pirates.

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Mayran Chapel

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Notre-Dame Brue-Auriac

This 11th-century chapel and priory, on a small hill beside Brue-Auriac, is very picturesque. The chapel part is intact and restored, while the adjacent priory displays the original stone walls, shapes and window openings. The site is shaded by a grove of ancient trees, and sits on a hillside of vineyards with a great view.

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Notre-Dame du Revest Chapel

This a small stone chapel was built in the 12th century, from the remains of an 11th-century abbey, on the site of a Gallo-Roman villa. The building is completely restored, with stone buttresses, a grassy area beside the D561 road just west of Esparron-de-Pallières in the Var.

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Notre-Dame d'Inspiration Chapel

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Saint Ferreol Hermitage

The Saint Ferreol Hermitage site is a hilltop at the northeastern edge of Lorgues, with a 13th-century chapel, ruins of a Ligurian oppidum and Roman castrum, and a lovely forest walk.

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Saint Gilles Abbey

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Saint Guilhem-le-Désert Abbey

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Saint Jean-d'Orgerolles Chapel

A very picturesque 11th-century Romanesque chapel, partially in ruins, sits out in the woods 700 m from the eastern end of the village. It's a 10-15 minute hike out on a pretty trail through the woods to the chapel. The ruins include a tall, intact bell tower in the original stone and a partially restored nave and rounded apse.

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Saint Martin Chapel

An 11th-12th century Romanesque chapel ruins beside the village of St Victor-la-Coste. The remaining section of ruins of the stone chapel include the apse and most of the tall bell tower, still impressive after about a thousand years.

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Royal Convent, Saint-Maximin

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Saint Paul-de-Mausole

This beautiful old monastery complex, located just beside the Roman site of Glanum, is popular today because of Van Gogh's stay here in 1889-90. The site is part of Saint Remy's "Circuit Van Gogh", and the first thing you'll see as you enter is the the field of olive trees painted by Vincent.

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Saint Roman Abbey

A rare Troglodyte Abbey beside Beaucaire, carved out of the solid rock, from the 5th century and fortified in the 12th century.

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Sainte Roseline Chapel

Abbaye de la Celle-Roubaud and Chapelle Sainte Roseline were founded in the 11th century by the monk Roubaud, a hermit of St Victor of Marseille.

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Saint Sixte Chapel

Avery picturesque 12th-century chapel sitting on a low, exposed hill just east of the village of Eygalières. Framed by the tall cypress and a with a knarled dead tree in front, this is one of the best-known images there is of Provencal Romanesque art.

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Salagon Priory

The Benedictine prieuré includes a 12th-century Romanesque church and other good, solid buildings added for agricultural use during the 16th to 19th centuries. Located on a 2000-year-old Gallo-Roman site.

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Senanque Abbey

12th-century Cistercian abbey in the Vaucluse, near Gordes. One of the "three sisters of Provence" ("les trois soeurs provençales") Cistercian abbeys.

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Silvacane Abbey

Former 12th-century Cistercian monastery in the Bouches-du-Rhône, northwest of Aix-en-Provence. One of the "three sisters of Provence" ("les trois soeurs provençales") Cistercian abbeys.

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St Etienne Chapel (Gard)

A 10th-16th century chapel near St-Hilaire-d'Ozilhan (Gard) started life as as a small Carolingian monastery, and was reinforced in the 15th with stones from the Pont du Gard.

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Thoronet Abbey

12th-century Cistercian abbey in the Var, between Brignoles and Draguignan. One of the "three sisters of Provence" ("les trois soeurs provençales") Cistercian abbeys.

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Le Trinité Chapel

Trinité chapel is a tiny stone rectangle of a building sitting in a small copse alongside the Draguignan-Grasse road, south of Callas.

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Val-de-Bénédiction Chartreuse

This is a fabulous 14th-century Carthusian Monastery located in the center of the village of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, with an entrance via an innocuous doorway on the main village street.

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Verne Chartreuse

A large, ancient monastery hidden in the thick forests of the Maures mountains west of Saint Tropez.


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Consumer growth and globalization

I was catching up on my Barron's this week and a quote from Ajay Kapur of Citigroup caught my attention.  When discussing his macro investment themes Ajay said, "The world is driven by Asian exporters and U.S. consumers.  In the future, it will be Asian consumers and U.S. exporters."  Given that perspective, it is no surprise that VCs have been pouring dollars into consumer technology plays over the last 18 months in addition to investing in China and India to tap into their consumer bases in the future.  Many VCs seem to be down on the enterprise space.  Corporations are hoarding cash and are risk averse in terms of spending on new technology.  That being said, there are some major trends occurring like the move to a service-oriented architecture and automation and virtualization of the data center.  Given the amount of time VCs are spending on global and consumer investments, I believe it is the right time to continue investing in enterprise start-ups developing product 12-24 months ahead.  As for the consumer globalization trend, I have been quite happy with my investment in the the Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index fund (VEIEX) which has been up 19.75% YTD.

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  1. Charlie O'Donnell Dec 15, 2004 at 10:34 am #

    I buy the Asian consumer part, but remind me again what we’ll be exporting here in the US besides jobs? :)

    Perhaps its entertainment content? We used to make cars, but now we make celebrities… like Paris Hilton. We definately have a cost advantage there. No other country can make celebrities cheaper than we can.

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October 3, 2011

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Sam Hill's influence on the Demo 8's geometry was quite noticeable – the slack and low setup required an all-or-nothing attack from the pilot. As a result, pro level test riders loved it while amateurs often felt one step behind the bike and struggled to feel comfortable. In fact, all Specialized team riders competed on a smaller frame size than normal this year to better fit the new geometry. The FSR suspension wass super supple, didn't pedal as crisply as others in the group.

$2,600 (frameset), $6,400 (complete); 37.5 lb. (L)

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The intricacies of cables and housing confuse my students. Inside the housing there's a thin plastic sheath that helps the cable move smoothly--but the sheath eventually collects dirt particles, which cause friction and interfere with the cable movement. Got that? Here's the thing: You can't replace your housing without replacing your cables, because it's basically impossible to thread a used cable through new housing. So rather than trying to explain all that, bike shops usually just tell you that you need new cables. Which is true, sort of, because you need new housing. (Sigh.)

THE FIX: Replace your cables and housing once a year, at the same time, especially if you ride off-road. And any time a cable is frayed, switch it out as soon as possible.

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Dutch rider takes her sixth stage win and third overall victory
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Photo by Dutch rider Kirsten Wild won her third Ladies' Tour of Qatar on February 1, 2013. (B. Bade/ASO)

Doha, Qatar, February 1, 2013 (ASO) - Kirsten Wild of the Netherlands earned a third Ladies Tour of Qatar crown after triumphing on the final stage of the 5th edition. The 2009 and 2010 winner of the event powered to a third consecutive stage win on the Doha Corniche.

At the start this morning Wild’s overall lead over Chloe Hosking (Hitec Products) was only three seconds. The 80 riders remaining in the race took off on an 86.5-kilometer ride from the Sealine Beach Resort to the Doha promenade, where they would cover five laps of the traditional final circuit.

Facing the wind, the pack remained bunched until the first intermediate sprint in Al Wakra (kilometer 38.5) won by Wild (Argos-Shimano) ahead of Hosking and Specialized-lululemon’s Ellen Van Dijk. That gave the Dutch leader an extra bonus second on her main rival. Just after the sprint, nine riders managed to break away: Jessie MacLean (Orica-AIS), Specialized-lululemon’s Loren Rowney and Carmen Small, Tatiana Guderzo (MCipollini Giordana), Lucinda Brand (Rabobank), Elisa Longo Borghini (Hitec Products), Silvia Valsecchi (BePink), Audrey Cordon (France), and TIBCO’s Shelley Olds and Jasmin Glaesser. Their lead grew to 1’10 at km 55 before dropping down once the riders reached the final circuit.

The second bonus sprint at the second crossing of the line (kilometer 62.5) was claimed by Glaesser ahead of Cordon and Olds, while the pack remained 48” adrift. The front riders were eventually all caught with just over two laps to go. The pack remained bunched all the way to the finish where a splendid sprint was to take place between the strongest riders.

As on the two previous stages, Kirsten Wild powered to victory, outsprinting Brand (Rabobank) and Marta Tagliaferro (MCipollini Giordana). It was Wild’s sixth stage win on Qatar soil; in addition to capturing the overall golden jersey, she also took home the silver points jersey. Chloe Hosking won the Best Young Rider jersey for the second year in a row.

Stage 4 Results:
1. Kirsten Wild (Argos-Shimano) 2:09:38
2. Lucinda Brand (Rabobank Liv/Giant)
3. Marta Tagliaferro (MCipollini Giordana)
4. Giorgia Bronzini (Wiggle Honda)
5. Simona Frapporti (BePink)
6. Maria Giulia Confalonieri (Italy)
7. Trixi Worrack (Specialized-lululemon)
8. Chloe Hosking (Hitec Products UCK)
9. Barbara Guarischi (Italy)
10. Pascale Jeuland (France)

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1. Kirsten Wild (Argos-Shimano) 9:40:08
2. Chloe Hosking (Hitec Products UCK) 0:00:14
3. Ellen Van Dijk (Specialized-lululemon) 0:00:29
4. Gracie Elvin (Orica-AIS) s.t.
5. Trixi Worrack (Specialized-lululemon) 0:00:39
6. Emma Johansson (Orica-AIS) 0:00:42
7. Tiffany Cromwell (Orica-AIS) 0:00:44
8. Lisa Brennauer (Specialized-lululemon) 0:02:05
9. Marta Tagliaferro (MCipollini Giordana) 0:02:07
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July 09, 2013

Four student-athletes from three Big 12 member institutions have been named to summer watch lists for the John Mackey Award and the Rimington Trophy.

Jordan Najvar (Baylor) is the lone Big 12 representative on the 2013 John Mackey Award Preseason Watch List. The Mackey Award, now in its 14th year, is presented annually to the most outstanding tight end in collegiate football.

First given in 2000, the Mackey Award is named after NFL Hall of Fame tight end, John Mackey. Semifinalists will be announced on Nov. 18 and the 2013 Mackey Finalists will be revealed on Nov. 25.

Candidates on this year’s Rimington Trophy Preseason Watch List are B.J. Finney (Kansas State), Gabe Ikard (Oklahoma) and Dominic Espinosa (Texas). The Rimington Trophy recognizes the most outstanding center at the collegiate level. The trophy’s namesake, Dave Rimington, is considered to be one of college football’s greatest linemen of all times.

The Mackey Award will be presented at The Home Depot College Football Awards Red Carpet Show on Dec. 12. The show will be broadcast live on ESPNU beginning at 6:00 p.m. CT. The Rimington Trophy Presentation will take place on Jan. 11 at 6:30 p.m. CT in Lincoln, Neb.

Past Big 12 Mackey Award Recipients
2008 Chase Coffman, Missouri
2001 Daniel Graham, Colorado

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1. The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

2. who testifies to everything he saw--that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

3. Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.

4. John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits [1] before his throne,

5. and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood,

6. and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father--to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.

7. Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen.

8. "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."

9. I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

10. On the Lord's Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

11. which said: "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea."

12. I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands,

13. and among the lampstands was someone "like a son of man," [2] dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.

14. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.

15. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters.

16. In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.

17. When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.

18. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

19. "Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later.

20. The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels [3] of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

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Thieves are targeting post offices in rural areas right here in the Big Country. Seven post offices were broken into in less than two days.

Post offices in Merkel, Trent, Lawn, Sweetwater, Colorado City, Coleman and Novice have been hit. In most cases, the thieves broke into the collection and drop boxes. In Lawn, they were able to break into the actual mail room.

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The Fourth Doctor Versus The Daleks!

12 September 2012

The Daleks return to take on Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, in a new Doctor Who full-cast audiobook in 2013

The adventures of the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker, who played the role on TV from 1975-81) and his companions Romana (Mary Tamm, 1978-79) and robot dog K-9 (John Leeson, 1977 to present day) reach a thrilling climax next year in a new battle with the Daleks.

The Dalek Contract is the first of two releases that finds the travellers caught between the Daleks, galactic businessman Cuthbert (played by David Warner, whose many film credits include Titanic) and a group of rebel fighters on a snowbound alien world.

"I can't say too much about this one," says producer David Richardson, "as it's a culmination of threads that are set up earlier in the series. But, as it's written and directed by Nicholas Briggs, you are guaranteed some stand-out Dalek action sequences and an emotional roller-coaster ride.

"Plus it's the first and only time that the first Romana and K9 have met the Daleks. K9 against the Daleks - how irresistible is that!"

Season Two of The Fourth Doctor Adventures is released from January 2013 and is available for pre-order.

Series One, which stars Tom Baker alongside Louise Jameson as Leela, is available to buy now.

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Baking For Others: Bringing Dessert

EVENT: Dinner at Alex’s Family Friends’
DISH: Pear-Almond Tart

Now that the word is out that I’m a blogger and a baker, I feel completely obligated to offer to bring sweets wherever I go. When you’re mainly a savory cook, the obligation is slightly different: though you may be asked to cater or come over early with appetizers, no one expects you to carry around a pot of stew to, say, an afternoon meeting. But with sweets everyone does. Or maybe I’m just far too sensitive to the cues of this hungry world.

Still, it is very much a pleasure for me. I love to bake, but as I found out when I went through a bout of insomnia-induced midnight baking last spring, it’s easier to bake than to eat all of the baked goods that result. It may be straightforward enough to make eggs for one, but it takes more skill and much too much energy to measure out ingredients for a single cookie or cupcake. That’s why sharing is built into baking and why our blog’s baking category is called Baking For Others. After all, it’s the only way to do it.

One of the things I like so much about baking (and all cooking, as long as we’re at it) is the process of deducing the right dish for a given occasion. Especially with desserts, one pie or cake may in fact be the compilation of many component factors, from syrups to fillings to crusts. So each element must be conceived of and tweaked on its own, and composing one dessert becomes a bit like menu-planning for an entire meal. Keep in mind that this is fun to me.

That’s how this tart was developed–piecemeal. I was invited to dinner and then invited to bring dessert. Among a dietary restriction, pears being in season, almonds being delicious, and me having several people to see and subways to take after leaving my house but before heading to dinner, I knew I needed something dairy-free, fruity, nutty, and sturdy, and this is what I came up with. I was pretty happy, though I must admit I do think my butterless crust could use some work. If anyone has any suggestions…

From my kitchen, where I often carry a pie in my purse, to yours,

Pear-Almond Tart
Makes 1 tart, serves 8

I made the tart crust dairy-free, but you can use your favorite sweet crust for the filling. If you’re not worried about dairy, I’d also omit the oil from the filling and add a tablespoon or two of butter to the food processor after you grind the almonds.

For the crust:

1 ¼ cups flour
¼ cup slivered almonds
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
2 tablespoons vodka
½ cup minus 1 tablespoon oil
½ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon apricot jam

For the filling and the fruit:

½ cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
¾ cup slivered almonds
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoons oil
1 egg
2 pears, seeds removed, cut lengthwise into thin slices
2 tablespoons orange juice
2 teaspoons cornstarch

To make the crust:

Pulse the almonds with ¼ cup of flour until ground. Add the rest of the flour, the sugar, and the salt, and pulse to combine.

Whisk together the vodka and the oil. Pour into the processor and process until the dough forms a ball. Press it together and into a 6” disk. Wrap well in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Roll out the dough into a large circle. Carefully transfer to a pie pan with removable bottom, patching up any tears that may have been caused by moving. You can also just press this dough into the pie pan—it is quite soft.

Blind bake the tart covered by foil and weighted by beans or pie weights for 10-12 minutes, until it is just starting to firm up. Thinly brush the apricot jam across the bottom, then fill as below.

To make the filling and assemble the tart:

Pulse the almonds with ½ cup of sugar in the food processor until finely ground. Add the salt, vanilla, and oil, and pulse to mix. Crack in the egg and mix until the filling is liquid, thick, and smooth.

Combine the remaining 2 tablespoons sugar with the orange juice and cornstarch and whisk to blend. Toss the pear slices with this mixture.

When the tart shell is out of the oven, spread the almond filling evenly across it. Starting at the outside, arrange the pears in concentric circles, overlapping the slices. Use any extra to fill in the gaps—the pears will shrink during baking.

Bake the tart for about 45 minutes, until the pears are slightly brown and the filling is set. If it looks like the fruit and the crust are browning too quickly, cover the tart with a piece of foil for part of the baking time.

Cool to room temperature and serve, with ice cream if desired.

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  • Kate

    Almonds in the crust sounds absolutely amazing! And, I must say that the fruit is arranged beautifully, maybe not as perfect as mom's, but I think she will be proud!

  • Jill

    I wanted to know why you used vodka in the crust?

  • Keighter

    My roommate for a while was vegan and I found that the Post-Punk-Kitchen has really awesome suggestions for dairyfree stuff and what to use as substitutes if you want to adapt your own recipes to vegan or dairy free.

    Also that looks really tasty!

  • Baking for a Neighbor

    The crust did need some work. I had to make a new crust because the first one stunk like vegetable oil and was way too salty. The second time I used a third cup of canola oil with the vodka and the rest, water, until it measured a half cup and I cut the salt in half. Then it was good. The recipe also doesn’t say how the goop and the pears should go in, so I just mixed the whole thing together. The final result was quite tasty. :)

  • Hannah banana

    First time I see an egg free pie crust! But What’s with the vodka? What can u replace it with? What does it add to the crust?

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      It helps keep it flaky! Hope you enjoy!

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4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil; divided
1 cup raw white rice
1 quart chicken stock; plus 2 cups, divided
1 1/2 pounds ground meatloaf mix; (a combination of beef, pork and veal)
1/2 teaspoon allspice; eyeball it in your palm
1 1/2 teaspoons coriander; half a palm full
2 teaspoons smoked paprika; eyeball it in your palm
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1 Onion; chopped
2 cloves garlic; minced
1 carrot; thinly sliced with a vegetable peeler
1/2 head Savoy cabbage; (up to 3/4 head) thinly sliced
1 28-oz can diced tomatoes
1 cup Tomato sauce
Handful flat-leaf parsley
3 tablespoons dill; finely chopped

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Heat a sauce pot over medium-high heat with 2 turns of the pan of extra-virgin olive oil, about 2 tablespoons. Add the rice and toss to coat in oil. Add 2 cups of chicken stock, bring up to a simmer, cover and cook for 16 to 18 minutes or until the rice is tender.

Heat a deep pot over medium high heat. Add the remaining extra-virgin olive oil, once hot add meat and begin to brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Season the meat with allspice, coriander, smoked paprika, salt and pepper. Add bay leaf, onions, garlic and carrots. Cook veggies 2 to 3 minutes to begin to soften them, then add cabbage and wilt it down a bit. Add tomatoes, tomato sauce, and remaining stock and cover the pot. Raise the heat to high and bring the soup to a simmer. Simmer for about 10 minutes. Once the rice is cooked, add to the soup and continue to simmer for 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in parsley and dill, adjust salt and pepper to your taste, and serve.

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Sinister Variations on the Trolley Problem

The trolley problem is this: Imagine you’ve got a train and it’s hurtling down a track.  In its path, five people are trapped on the line and cannot escape.  Fortunately, you can flick a switch, which diverts the train down a fork in that track, away from those five people, but at a price.

There is another person trapped down that fork and the train will kill them instead.  Question: Should you flick the switch?

Now let me give you a variation on that dilemma.  Imagine just as before that you’ve got a train speeding out of control down a track and it’s going to plow into five people on the line.  But this time you are standing behind a very large stranger on a footbridge above that track.  The only way to save the people is to heave the stranger over.  He will fall to a certain death, but his considerable bulk will block the train, saving five lives.  Question: Should you flick the switch?

Actually research has been done on the kinds of people who are willing to shove the fat guy over the rails.  And what that research has uncovered is that these people tend to be utilitarians in our society.  They tend to be people who are able to get the job done, who are less morally squeamish.

Now I’ve actually presented a variation of this dilemma to various psychopaths.  I’ll give an example of what the variation of the dilemma is.  Imagine that you are a transplant surgeon.  And you have five patients all in need of a transplant: heart, lungs, whatever.  And they’re all going to die if they don’t get that transplant, but there are no matching donors available.

Just by chance, a young traveler happens to walk past your surgery one day for just a regular check-up.  And it turns out, hypothetically, that he is a direct match for all five.

Now imagine that you are the transplant surgeon.  Would it be right to kill that young traveler in order to take his five organs to transplant them into your five patients?

Now, this is exactly like the trolley problem.  But most people would say absolutely not.  "No, that’s just not right.  It’s ethically not right to kill that person."  But I’ve given this to psychopathic killers and they’ve said, "Well actually, you know what?  Imagine if you were the families of those five guys.  One life lost, is it really that bad when you’re saving five others?  What if that guy was an evil terrorist?  And the five guys who needed to transplants were peace workers or aid workers, for instance.  Would that make it any different?"

These are the kinds of decisions that world leaders and politicians have to grapple with.  Here’s another little one to conjure with.  Imagine that you were, hypothetically, left in a room with a newborn baby.

And you were left in that room for ten minutes with that newborn baby.  And I told you – and you have to believe this is true – that that newborn baby will grow one day into Adolph Hitler.  And I told you that there would be no moral comeback, no legal comebacks on you were you to kill that baby with a pillow and walk out of that room.

Now, what would you do?  Would you kill that baby and save millions of lives further on down the line in history?  Or would you not be able to do it?  These are moral conundrums, which are kind of played out in everyday life.  I’m obviously reducing these to absurdities.  But these are the kinds of decisions on a lesser level that you have to make if you’re a politician or if you’re a world leader.

Sending anyone out into battle knowing that there’s a chance that they might not come back, committing thousands of troops to a war is something that not many people can carry lightly on their conscience.

But psychopathic traits are pretty well represented in politicians and world leaders.  Politicians and leaders have to deal with all sorts of nasty kinds of crisis during their administrations, anything from the threats from rouge states to natural disasters like hurricanes or floods.

Also, they have to be pretty confident to run for office at all.  They have to be very good at presenting themselves in a certain light.  And they have to be very persuasive and manipulative.  I mean, one senior UK politician, who should for obvious reasons remain nameless, had a great quote.  And he said to me, “You know, in politics the only way to know who’s stabbing you in the back is to see their reflection in the eyes of the person stabbing you from the front.”

That’s a great quote, which, for me, sums up that kind of snakes and ladders game.  This every man for himself, cutthroat kind of existence characterizes politics I would say probably across the board in most nations of the world.

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You can’t make this crap up:

New York State Supreme Court Justice Paul Wooten says Juliet Breitmen, a NYC girl who was four years old at the time of the accident, was old enough to be sued after hitting an elderly woman.

Breitman and Jacob Kohn, also four at the time of the incident, are accused of hitting 87-year-old Claire Menagh while racing their bicycles (with training wheels) on the sidewalk in April 2009. According to the lawsuit, Menagh was ‘seriously and severely injured’ and suffered a hip fracture that required surgery (she has since passed away from unrelated causes).

The suit, filed by Menagh’s estate, accuses the two children and their mothers (who were supervising the children at the time) of negligence. Justice Wooten said there’s no evidence the children were too young to understand “the danger of riding a bicycle into an elderly woman.”

Those kids’ allowances are going to be garnished but good. What’s sad is that this “news” is getting more publicity (here, here, here and here) than the almost daily killing of a cyclist by a motor vehicle, sometimes with partial intent, and me thinks it’s likely (however unfortunate) these kids and/or their mothers will receive a harsher penalty than the vast majority of homicidal drivers out there.

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What if Islamist were cyclist? They would just blow people up for doing dumb things with a car. “you cut me off, I blow you up!”

JohnH - 11/04/10 - 12:47am

Agree. In this case, justice can and should proceed in this case of negligent death.

As far as legal protection for cyclists goes, my modest proposal is that liability laws be changed to reflect those in The Netherlands. Over here, a motorist is presumed guilty in the event of a collision with a cyclist or pedestrian. The result is that motorists are very careful to look for cyclists, give them wide berth, and in general drive with far more civility than most American drivers. Of course, this is partially do to the mellow Dutch personality, but it seems they are on to something.

Bird flipping, road raging, anti-cyclist Americans need to take a chill pill. Changing the accident liability equation to favor non-motorists would be a good step in that effort. Motorists need to be reminded that it is they who are operating the lethal weapon. With great power comes great responsibility.

It would be interesting to hear from other cyclists who are also motorists. As a motorist, would they be willing to live under such a change in law?

Tyler (Editor) - 11/04/10 - 8:57am

Absolutely, but it would fly in the face of the whole ‘innocent until proven guilty’ basis upon which our justice system is founded…and once one exception is made, the floodgates open. I’m not saying it’s a bad idea to flip flop this one, but it would open a Pandora’s Box.

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I had the pleasure of driving a 2006 325i for the Memorial Day weekend some 500 miles over a bunch of different type of roads. It was a loaner since my car was in for service. (Sorry for covering this again but I felt it my civic duty to do it!)

The first thing I noticed was that it was very quiet. I could only hear a little engine noise and tire noise. That was it. Very nice ride too. It was a regular model, it didn't have the sport suspension, so I can't really comment on the handling too much. I'm not sure if it was my imagination or if the steering was over boosted, but I don't knoww if it had the active steering or not. The ride was quite isolated and very nice. The car did turn in nicely and the handling was adequate. I didn't really push it very hard since I don't like to do that very much in an unfamiliar car on public roads. The automatic was also very smooth-too smooth. Upshifts/downshifts didn't have any of that 'kick'. The transition between gears took a little too long and even at wide open throttle, there was too much 'padding' of the clutch. I also thougt it odd (I've never driven a auto BMW) that when you're in manual mode in 5th gear, if you stomp on the accelerator it will automatically downshift for you, that it will decide for you which gear you want to be in vs. just going wide open in that particular gear. I didn't really care for the seats (I had back surgery 5 months ago). Even though it has more adjustments (lumbar), I prefer the seats in my ZHP. So, I wound up with a sore back during my drive. It did not have Navi, so no iDrive. So, the radio display portion was just the regular type. It was quite irritating because my sunglasses washed out the display for the radio. I had to keep moving my sunglasses out of the way to see what station I was on. However, I was able to see the AC controls etc. And regarding the AC controls...FINALLY BMW figured out that simple rotary dials are much more intuitive to use. However, I'd rather see the dials that have a definite Start & End to them (Like 9 & 3). Is it just me or are my arms too short? (Keep the comments to yourself!). When I went to adjust the mirrors, it seems like I had to reach too far forward to get to them. I know I'll get hate mail for this, but, the window controls are where they seem to make the most sense. (I did get used to them being on the center console though...)

The trunk is very nice and roomy.

O.K. WHAT IS UP WITH THE KEY AND THE START BUTTON!!! Tough to get used to and I always had to think if I'm doing it right. The START button is kind of a neat idea, but, the whole "push it in until it clicks and then you can take it out but there will be a light on the dash until you put it back and then you'll have to push it all the way in until it clicks again to make sure you turn off the whole car" is a little annoying. Keep things simple.

AND, WHAT IS UP WITH THE SIGNAL STALK!!! Gently push to signal for 3 flashies, push until it clicks to make it stay, then, if it doesn't automatically turn off, push it the other way. Very tiresome. It takes too much attention away from driving to make sure you're not eternally signally. Logically, it makes sense, but in real practice, it's just plain over-engineering.

O.K. I think I'm thru. All in all, I missed my ZHP (Bottom line).

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I have a 2013 X3 Msport with 19 inch Goodyear LS 2's and was absolutely amazed how well the truck went thru our recent 15 inches of heavy wet snow 3 weeks ago especially considering I was expecting a skateboard after reading so much hype over needing winter snows. The X3 even tracked well on heavily rutted icey side roads and the lower Msport front bumper provided sufficient clearance as I was having a blast trying to get the thing stuck in an unplowed parking lot and couldn't the night of the storm. In this same parking lot I helped push 2 cars out that couldn't move. The electronics work so well reading tire traction it's the first thing you notice.

To illustrate and make a comparison the X3 felt just one tick less locked in as our much beefier 2003 Durango while in full 4 wheel drive mode and that's saying a lot as I've had the Durango out on unplowed back logging roads pulling 2 snowmobiles.

With this said you still have to know how to drive in winter conditions and slow down because no tire does much on sheer ice or can prevent other idiots from barreling into you.

Cheers to BMW on dialing in excellant X3 winter driving performance!
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I'm bummed. I finally tossed on the Michelin Ice 3's that I bought last month in anticipation of tonight's "death storm. " We got about 1/2" on the lawn and nothing but wet streets. Big deal.
It's the first snow since we picked up the X3 last January.
Guess I'll have to settle for reading about Jen4BMW's fun...at least for now.
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Thanks everyone for your answers. Just yesterday we had a dump of wet snow which will pack very quickly forming ice. About 2 months ago, I bought new 17 inch alloy rims and Hankook snow tires. I was pretty sure my X3 would handle well but was sceptacle because Iusually drive my 2000 4Runner that has 4 wheel drive. Well, after yesterdays drive, i have full confidence driving the X3 in the snow. No spinning of the wheels when starting on a level or incline road. It was a lot of fun. The only advantage of driving the 4Runner would be when the snow is really piled high. Thanks again.
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When I woke up this morning, I found a dead spider in my right headlight. Anyone have any clue how to get it out? It is on the front lens of where the low beam is. I can't find any way to get in there. I tried looking in the manual for how to do it and all it tells me is how to replace the bulb, which doesn't help. Any advice? I can't be havin a dead spider blocking my headlight beam!

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This happened with my E36's instrument cluster. I pulled the cluster out until it bound with the steering wheel. Then I drilled a small hole on the underside into the instrument panel's cavity. Then I took the crevice tool on my vacuum cleaner up to the hole, (with my finger partly covering the crevice tool to get maximum suction) and sucked the little guy out of there. Now I don't know anything about headlights, but strong suction through a hole is certainly something to think about.
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If you have one of the later models, it's rather easy. Take a philleps screw driver and loosen the turn signal screw (you don't have to take it all the way out). Remove the turn signal. Next remove the rubber gasket on top of the headlight lens. It snaps in place. Be very careful with the snap closest to the grill. It can break easily. Next, remove the plastic "under brow". It snaps in place as well.
Then unsnap the headlight cover. You are home free.

Follow the reverse to put them back together. Be careful not to touch the headlight bulb while you are in there. Use a flat head screw driver to help unsnap the plastic.
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