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Kim Kardashian: Your Kanye West Romance Is Showing Your Deeper Side

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pregnant-kim-kardashian-kanye-west-rio-sightseeing-couple-05Kim, a lot of people may have thought you were superficial before your romance with Kanye West and your pregnancy. But now we see your inner depth and determination.

Kim Kardashian — you’ve become a better role model in multiple ways since you and Kanye West became a couple and soon-to-be parents!

Kim Kardashian, You’ve Been So Great While Pregnant

As tough as your pregnancy has been — you’ve admitted that it’s been “painful” at times and naturally, sometimes you’re tired — what pregnant woman isn’t? – but you have absolutely not been a Wendy whiner! Hey, I remember when I was pregnant with my first child, Noah, getting home from work and literally falling asleep face down on the couch every day.

Kim, you’ve done remarkably little complaining.

Instead, you have professionally soldiered on. You’ve been completely active and busy following through on all your work commitments – filming the multiple Kardashian shows you star in, making personal appearances on behalf of all the Kardashian clothing and accessories collections, and turning up regularly on TV shows, at award shows, and other promotional engagements.

Kim, no one could accuse you of skipping out on ANY of your professional responsibilities since you’ve been pregnant.

Lots of pregnant women feel completely comfortable giving themselves somewhat of a break when they’re pregnant — ie. not only trying not to load on extra work but often figuring out ways to offload some of their normal duties.

But no — you’ve been jet-setting across the country, taking on all your career commitments . You’re a terrific role model for other young and pregnant career women.

After all, you certainly have the financial means and star clout to have put your feet up on the couch and just spent nine months pampering yourself — but you didn’t.

You demonstrated that a pregnant woman — even one who’s a star — can be just as productive and responsible career-wise as a non-pregnant woman or man.

Kim, You Accept & Support Kanye’s Career

Then there’s been your very mature acceptance of Kanye’s career responsibilities and aspirations.

It was important for Kanye to record his upcoming album, Yeezus, in Paris. Because of that, he had to leave you for long stretches at a time, although he made sure to fly all the way to LA to be at your important doctor’s appointments.

A lot of pregnant women would be understandably upset by having their partner so far away during much of their pregnancy.

They might feel unloved and unsupported. And they might be extremely vocal about their feelings with their mates.

But Kim, you haven’t done that at all. You’ve been very understanding and supportive of Kanye and his need to be creative and produce his best musical work.

You have not complained at all about his physical distance, but instead have been thrilled when he surprised you by showing up in Atlanta on the red carpet of the film Temptation, in which you starred.

Then he made sure to fly into NYC to be your date at the prestigious Met Ball and couldn’t have been more attentive and loving — even singing in his performance at the event that you are “awesome.”

Kim, You’ve Proven You’re Extremely Mature

Kim — it takes a lot of maturity to support your partners’ career needs even if it means that they are not as physically close to you as you’d like. It’s not an ideal situation for you I’m sure, but it’s not the end of the world, either.

You are able to put what’s best for you as a couple and family – successful careers for BOTH you and Kanye, ahead of your immediate need to have some extra daily nurturing and support.

You know, as has exclusively reported, that Kanye wanted to get his new album done before your baby girl is born so he could have a clear schedule for months, once she was born.

You have known that Kanye wanted to do that for the three of you as a family, and so you’ve maturely focused on how he’ll be there for you and the baby when you really need him — in the delivery room and at home afterward.

Kim, I’m really impressed that even though Kanye hasn’t been able to be a constant presence during your pregnancy, that hasn’t created any tension between you two — quite the opposite.

Instead, your love has grown, as evident in your loving birthday message and collage.

Pregnancy Hasn’t Been Easy, But You’ve Made It Work

Plus, you’ve been subject to some pretty unkind criticism about your weight gain AND you’ve had some fashion challenges, trying to dress your best to enhance your pregnant figure.

Again — you haven’t reacted to most of it and have just carried on.

Ignoring the disses shows again the maturity and depth that you have.

So Kim, I hope that some of your doubters who thought you were simply a woman who cared only for materialistic things and showy romances have been silenced by the depth of character you’ve demonstrated during your pregnancy.Follow @Infocelebrity on Twitter!

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A recent study scientifically demonstrates something that most people intuitively realize: sunlight is good for your health. According to Dr. Asher Derman, a building and design environmental consultant, a small but important group of recent medical and health care related studies are beginning to link exposure to daylight and window views with decreases in recuperation times for hospitalized patients.

In another similar study, it was shown that cancer patients who lived in geographic areas with higher amounts of seasonal sunlight tended to die less frequently of their cancers then those in geographic areas with lesser amounts of daylight exposure.

These new studies extend the healing impact that daylight/sunshine and window views have on specific physical conditions. Some explanations stress the role of serotonin, the body’s circadian rhythm response to light. Others speculate that health benefits from sunlight may have something to do with Vitamin D., which is formed naturally in the body as a result of the UV rays in sunlight.

Whatever the cause, there is a clear link between sunlight and physical health. Architects, designers and developers take note!

I hope the day will come when it will be considered a health violation to erect buildings whose “windows” face brick walls, and therefore get no natural light whatsoever. (I won’t mention names, but someone here at Inhabitat has the misfortune of living in such a building) I can’t wait until I can move out. Until then I hope that Parans and Sunlight Direct and will come to my aid.


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Goin’ On

Dear Random Dude at the gas station,

You said, “I just gotta tell ya’, before I saw the ring. I was gonna flirt. But you outta know, you got it goin’ on. Your husband is a lucky guy.”

Thanks for that. Remarkably flattering today when I was rushing home to be closer to my own bathroom rather than defile the one in the office.

Nice as the compliment was, you might think about how your actions look.  I mean, staring at a much smaller woman as she walks inside to pay.  Still being there when she comes out even though it is clear you are finished with your transaction.  If she’s observant, you’ve put her on alert.  There’s a reason I had secured my purse with my non-dominant hand.  Funny, that’s probably why you noticed my wedding ring.  Wasn’t really expecting a confrontation, but I have to say you tripped an orange there.

For all I know, you spotted the tension.  Maybe that’s why you felt compelled to explain yourself.

Honestly, I appreciate the explanation, but I still watched as you pulled out of the parking lot and got far enough away that you couldn’t see which direction I went.  I certainly appreciated the compliment. And that was delivered like a real gentleman.  Good call keeping the open door of your car between you and me there at the pumps.  I knew it was impossible for you to lunge in my direction.  Kudos to you for just delivering your line, getting in your car, and driving away.

I wish you the best of luck.  And thanks for making me smile even though I wasn’t feeling so hot.

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  1. Heh, seems I don’t have that problem! If I do in the future and it escalates I’m waiting on the inevitable. “Is that a pistol or are you just glad to see me?”

    Tell Michael I have not forgotten about my holster, just wanted to make sure the CT light could stand up to some live fire before I remove it!

  2. Sadly I am long past the age when some little cutie will look at me and say:

    “Hey bud, you wife’s a lucky woman, you really got it goin’ on!!” LOL

    Then again, not sure anyone’s ever said that to me other than my lovely wife either!! 🙂

    Congrats – grab all the goodies you can!! 🙂

  3. I don’t flirt with women I don’t know because anyone who is alert may question why I am trying to come on to her. This puts her in a bad situation and I prefer not to do it. No use scaring someone just to get a cheap thrill.

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Fall Semester Diversity Conversations

Posted September 17th, 2015 at 12:36 pm.

The following email was sent to faculty, students, and staff by Assistant Dean and Director of Leadership and Community Development Vanessa Christman on Tuesday, September 15.

Dear Bryn Mawr Community,

The Pensby Center invites you to participate in this semester’s Diversity Conversations. We hope you’ll mark the dates on your calendar and plan to attend. Topics to be announced shortly!

Wednesday, September 30
Friday, October 23
Friday, November 20

Diversity Conversations take place from 12-1:30PM in Aelwyd 101 (Cambrian Row) and include lunch. Bryn Mawr College students, staff and faculty are encouraged to participate.

?? pensby@brynmawr.edu

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Awards and Honors

Tobias Hoffmann
, assistant professor, philosophy, was named a recipient of a one-year Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation. In July 2008 he will travel to Germany for a year where he will work on the book Reality, Reason and Affection: An Outline of Aquinas’s Ethics.

Emir Isakovic, building services manager for the John K. Mullen of Denver Memorial Library, was awarded the 2007 Edward J. Bellanger Jr. Staff Award for Excellence in Service on Jan. 9. He has been a CUA libraries employee for eight years. The library staff award was created by the family of Edward Belanger Jr., a long-time employee of the library who is now retired.

“Introduction to the Study of Religion,” a course taught by Charles Jones, associate professor, theology and religious studies, has been released by the Teaching Company as part of its “Great Courses” series. This course, which includes 24 lectures available on DVDs or CDs, explores the discipline of religious studies and shows how a succession of other fields — sociology, psychology, anthropology and phenomenology — has each tried to explain the complex relationship among individuals, cultures and faiths.

Pope Benedict XVI awarded to Rev. Robert Schlageter, O.F.M. Conv., chaplain and director of the Office of Campus Ministry, the prestigious Benemerenti Medal. The papal honors, given to individuals who have exhibited long and exceptional service to the Catholic Church, were presented by Very Rev. David M. O'Connell, C.M., CUA president, at a special Advent/Christmas Mass held in Caldwell Hall Chapel on Dec. 20.

The Virginia Historical Society presented the C. Coleman McGehee Award to Owen Stanwood, assistant professor, history. This award recognizes the best article in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography wirtten by a graduate student. Stanwood's article "Captives and Slaves: Indian Labor, Cultural Conversion and the Plantation Revolution in Virginia" was written while he was a Ph.D. student at Northwestern University.

Rev. Michael G. Witczak, assistant professor, theology and religious studies, received the 2007 Sal Terrae Award Sept. 30 from the Salesianum Alumni Association of Saint Francis de Sales Seminary in Milwaukee. The award noted that Father Witczak had served for 24 years as a member of the seminary faculty and for almost six years as rector.

Mike Crenshaw
, research assistant professor, Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences, was awarded a one-year $54,860 grant from the Space Telescope Science Institution on May 2 to research a project titled “Determining the Inclinations of AGN Using Narrow-Line Region Kinematics.”

Vadim D. Knyazev, associate professor, chemistry, was awarded a one-year $55,264 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Collaborative Research: Engineering Virtual Organizations: Combustion Kinetics.”

Michael Sheridan, visiting scholar and director of research of the National Catholic School of Social Services' Center for Spirituality and Social Work, has received a two-year, $200,000 grant from Duke University's Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health. The grant will support her project, "Investigation of the Effects and Mechanisms of Religious Involvement on Physical and Mental Health among African-American Caregivers."

David Shumaker, clinical associate professor, library and information science, was a co-recipient of the $25,000 Special Libraries Association Research Grant. Shumaker and his colleague, Mary Talley, an independent consultant, will use their grant to research their project "Models of Embedded Librarianship."

On the Road

Very Rev. David M. O'Connell, C.M.
, university president, addressed the administration of St. John's University in New York on the topics of "Catholic Identity Formation" and "The History of Catholic Higher Education in the United States" at a two-day workshop on January 9-10 at the New York campus. He also spoke on Catholic identity of Catholic colleges and universities in the United States at DePaul University in Chicago on Jan. 25.

Maria Aguirre, associate professor, economics, presented the lecture titled "The Family and Economic Development: Socioeconomic Relevance and Policy Design" on Dec. 13 at the University of Asia and the Pacific, Pasig City, Philippines, and again the same day at Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines.

James F. Brennan, provost, was the main speaker in Panama on Dec. 18 at the first commencement awarding baccalaureate degrees through a consortium of American universities (Florida International University, the University of Louisville, the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and Towson University). The consortium is led by the Quality Leadership University, based in Panama and known for innovative programming, primarily in the area of business, throughout Central and South America.

Joseph Capizzi, associate professor, theology and religious studies, participated in a discussion titled “Just War and End Game Objectives in Iraq” on Dec. 13 at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Jean DeGroot, associate professor, philosophy, gave a plenary address titled "Distinguishing Natural Philosophy and Science: the Case of Ancient Mechanics" at a meeting of the American Maritain Association at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., Oct. 25-28.

DeGroot presented a paper titled "Dunamis and Mechanical Advantage in Aristotle" at a session of the History of Science Society in Arlington, Va., Nov. 1-4.

William Dinges, professor, theology and religious studies, gave a presentation Nov. 21 at the Meridian International Center in Washington, D.C., on the role of religion in American culture as part of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitors program.

Sister Rosemary Donley, S.C., professor, nursing, presented “Negotiating the Policy Web in Providing Care to the Immigrant Population” at the American Public Health Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Nov. 3-7.

Tobias Hoffmann, assistant professor, philosophy, presented a paper titled “Loosening the Connection of the Virtues: Aquinas and Henry of Ghent” at the 12th International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, hosted by the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale in Palermo, Italy, Sept. 16-22.

Hoffmann gave a lecture titled “Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus on Angelic Sin” at the Franciscan University of Steubenville (Ohio) in November.

Monsignor Kevin Irwin, dean, theology and religious studies, delivered a speech titled “Always a New Event: Preaching in Liturgical Celebration” at the third annual Tschoepe Homiletics Seminar held Jan. 7-10 at the Holy Trinity Seminary on the University of Dallas’ campus in Irving, Texas.

Vadim D. Knyazev, associate professor, chemistry, and Konstantin Popov, a graduate student in physics, presented a paper titled “Molecular Dynamics Study of C-C Bond Dissociation in Linear Alkanes and Polyethylene: Effects of Condensed Phase” at the Fall Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Oct. 21-25.

Knyazev gave a presentation titled "Virtual Organization of Combustion Kineticists" at a National Science Foundation workshop titled "Building Effective Virtual Organizations," held Jan. 14-16 in Washington, D.C. Hai Wang of the University of Southern California and Gregory P. Smith of SRI International were co-authors of the presentation.

Stefania Lucamante, associate professor, modern languages and literatures, presented a paper titled “In alto i cuori: Tiziano Scarpa e la scrittura come atto di responsabilità” (“Tiziano Scarpa and Writing as an Act of Responsibility”) at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Italian in Washington, D.C., Oct. 12.

Lucamante gave a lecture at Yale University on Dec. 6 titled “Intentions and Effects, Symptoms and Remedies in the Writing of the Cannibali Authors 10 Years Later."

Rev. Mark Morozowich, assistant professor, theology and religious studies, presented a paper titled “East Meets West in Liturgy: Mutual Influence Through the Centuries” at the symposium “Liturgies in East and West: Ecumenical Relevance of Early Liturgical Development” held Nov. 17-20 in Vienna, Austria.

Leon Ofman, associate professor, physics, gave a talk titled "Propagating Alfvén waves in coronal loops observed by Hinode" Dec. 14 at the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting in San Francisco. The talk focused on his research involving observations of Alfven waves of magnetic energy on the sun by the Hinode mission’s solar optical telescope. Ofman’s work was done in collaboration with Tongjinag Wang, CUA postdoctoral researcher, physics.

Rev. Kurt Pritzl, O.P., dean, philosophy, gave an address titled “The Priesthood at the Service of the Church in Washington” at the Archdiocese of Washington Convocation of Priests in Cambridge, Md., on Nov. 8. His talk was mentioned in a Catholic Standard story about the meeting.

Several philosophy professors gave lectures at the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Nov. 9-11, in Milwaukee. They include:

  • Tobias Hoffmann, assistant professor, presented the lecture, “Aquinas and his Contemporaries on Whether the Will Is Freer than the Intellect.”

  • Timothy Noone, professor, and outgoing president of the ACPA, delivered his presidential address, “Nature, Freedom and Will: Sources of Philosophical Reflection,” one of the four plenary lectures. He also presided at the meeting.

  • Rev. Kurt Pritzl, dean, spoke on “Aristotle on Mixture and the Relationship of the Soul to the Body in Sense Perception.”

  • Kevin White, associate professor, delivered the lecture “Aquinas on Purpose.”

Eight CUA professors participated in discussions and presented papers at the 122nd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., Jan 3-6. They include:

  • Thomas Cohen, associate professor, history, served as a commentator in the session “Managing Religious Diversity in Three Early Modern Empires: Ottoman, Habsburg and British Perspectives.”

  • Chrysi Kotsifou, visiting scholar, Semitics, presented a paper titled “Christianizing Texts: Theory and Practice in Egyptian Asceticism” at the session “Early Christianity and Material Textuality.”

  • Tim Meagher, associate professor, history, served as chair and commentator of a session titled “Ireland in Imperial and Transatlantic Contexts.”

  • Nelson Minnich, professor, theology and religious studies, presented the paper “The Pontificate of Leo X: Success or Failure” at a session titled “Success and Failure in Three Renaissance Pontificates: Pius II (1458-64), Julius II (1503-13), Leo X (1513-21).”

  • James Riley, associate professor, history, served as chair and commentator at a session titled “Church and Society in a Transnational Context.”

  • Alexander Russo, assistant professor, media studies, served as chair of the session “New Approaches to Cold War Broadcasting: Institutions, Imagery and Insurrections, 1948-89.”

  • Leslie Tentler, professor, history, served as commentator at a session titled “U.S. Catholic Church Leadership, Anti-Semitism and the Nazis, 1933-50.” At this session, Maria Mazzenga, education archivist, presented a paper titled “To Condemn or Not to Condemn: Father Maurice Sheehy, the National Catholic Welfare Conference and the Nazis."

Sharon Christman, associate professor and vocal division chair, music, performed as a guest soloist Dec. 6 at the Music Center at Strathmore, Bethesda, Md., with the boys choir of The Heights School of Potomac, Md.

Jon Klein, assistant professor, drama, had a production of his play Bunnicula performed at Stage One Theatre in Louisville, Ky., Oct. 1-31.

Jeffrey Sichel, associate professor, drama, will direct William Shakespeare’s Cymberline for the Milwaukee Shakespeare Company March 22 through April 20.

An article by Jody Gatwood, associate professor, music, titled “A Few Insights on Teaching Memorization,” was published in Stringendo, Autumn 2007, Vol. XXIV, No. 1. Stringendo is a quarterly publication of the Maryland/Washington, D.C., chapter of the American String Teachers Association.

Assistant professors of nursing Cynthia Grandjean and Barbara Moran published an article titled “The Impact of Diabetes Mellitus on Female Sexual Well-Being” in the December 2007 issue of Nursing Clinics of North America.

Chris Grech, associate professor, architecture and planning, co-edited Future Office: Design, Practice and Applied Research, a book published in the United States and the United Kingdom in December.

Joan Grimbert, professor, modern languages and literatures, wrote an essay titled “The ‘fin humour’ of Guillaume au faucon,” which appears in a collection of essays titled The Old French Fabliaux: Essays on Comedy and Context, edited by Kristin L. Burr, John F. Moran and Norris J. Lacy, and published by McFarland & Company.

Tobias Hoffmann, assistant professor, philosophy, contributed an article titled “Aquinas and Intellectual Determinism: The Case of Angelic Sin” for the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. He also contributed “Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas on Magnanimity” to Virtue Ethics in the Middle Ages: Commentaries on Aristotle’s Ethics (1200-1500).

Vadim D. Knyazev, associate professor, chemistry, wrote an article titled “Effects of Chain Length on the Rates of C-C Bond Dissociation in Linear Alkanes and Polyethylene” for the Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Volume 111.

Knyazev co-wrote an article titled “Blister-colorimetric determination of phosphate ions in water, agricultural samples and biological samples” for the Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Volume 62. The co-authors were V.M. Ivanon of Moscow State University and A.V. Zhevnerov from Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in Moscow.

Stefania Lucamante, associate professor, modern languages and literatures, published an article titled “’Che pasta di donne’: Per una rivisitazione del Risorgimento in terra campana” (“’What a Dough of Women’: For a Revisitation of Risorgimento in Campania”) in the volume La forma del passato: Questioni di Identita` in opere letterarie e cinematografiche italiane a partire dagli ultimi anni ottanta (The Shape of the Past: Identity Issues in Italian literary and cinematic works from the late eighties).

Rev. Frank Matera, Andrews-Kelly-Ryan Professor of Biblical Studies, published the book New Testament Theology: Exploring Diversity and Unity (Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville) in August.

Andrew H. Weaver, assistant professor, music, published a scholarly edition of Giovanni Felice Sances, Motetti a 2, 3, 4, e cinque voci (1642), Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, vol. 148 (Middleton, Wis.: A-R Editions, 2008), a collection of 25 motets transcribed from the original 17th-century source together with an introduction explaining their historical and musical significance.

Rev. Michael G. Witczak, assistant professor, theology and religious studies, published an article with Rev. Daniel J. Merz in Ecclesia Orans 24 (2007), the journal of the Pontifical Liturgical Institute in Rome. The article is titled “St. Gall Mass Orders (III): Ms. Sangallensis 340 —  Searching for the Origins of the ‘Rhenish Mass Order.’”

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Voice Of Reason 10.16.01: Raw Thoughts

I don’t generally do this kind of column (or any kind of column lately), but a lot of things occurred to me as I watched Raw, and I thought I’d share them with you in bullet point format.

What’s amazing to me about Raw, is that it was such a mix of promising changes and same-old booking gaffs. The WWF has so much potential to be amazing, and yet they are making so many gigantic mistakes. What’s worse is that these same mistakes were made by WCW, proving that Vince McMahon is not learning from history.

  • Mick Foley adds a star power to Raw that has been missing for a long time. I don’t exactly know why it has been missing, as the Rock has been back for some time, but Foley made the show seem more special.
  • The backstage vignette with the APA and the Hurricane is exactly the type of buildup that the mid card needs. Years ago, every match on a PPV card had a nice little backstory. The same should be true of every match on Raw and Smackdown. This was a great start. But then the match, which was basically a squash, was exactly what the WWF doesn’t need. Why the WWF continues to invest so much time into the Hurricane to make him a jobber is beyond me.
  • The Hurricane had some new, distinctive music today, with a quote from Molly and a Superman-like melody. It’s about time the WWF gave these new guys some new music, now RVD needs a great entrance in the worst way. Hopefully we’ll see a great new entrance and music debut at the PPV for the Whole Dam Show.
  • The Rock vs. Chris Jericho stuff has been the most compelling WWF booking in months. With both guys still on the babyface side of the fence, the fans are definitely split down the center. Did you hear the boos and Rocky Sucks chants after the Rock Bottom on Jericho? Rock promises that Jericho has “no idea” what he’s in store for at No Mercy. Could we see a Rock heel turn? Or is that designed to get people talking?
  • It still baffles me that the WWF is giving away so many RVD matches for free on Raw and Smackdown. One of WCW’s major errors was burning out all their unique, original matchups for free, and leaving the fans nothing to pay for on PPV. I can only hope that we wont see RVD vs. Austin again for many months, so when it finally happens (WM18?) it will seem special and be worth the fans’ PPV dollars.
  • Although most of you probably won’t remember it, but Chris Jericho was a fresh faced babyface for a good while in WCW before becoming the current, smarmy wiseass he is now. He slowly turned heel when, after each loss in a losing streak, he would “snap” and beat up the ring announcer David Pinzer. The WWF seems to be rehashing this with their attempt to turn Jericho by having him “snap” after losing a lot. Amazing how unoriginal the WWF booking is these days.
  • DDP’s promos last week were getting cheers and laughs. So what does the WWF do? They make him say bash Canada and NYC in cheesy cheap heat-inducing promo. Why does the WWF put DDP on TV if they seem to love burying him?
  • If the WWF really wants to separate the Alliance into it’s own show, it has to stop putting every WWF heel into the Alliance. Christian was just fine in the WWF, and its just another piece of evidence that the WWF will never have two separate promotions.
  • Was anyone else shocked that Kidman pinned Tazz cleanly? Not that Kidman would get the win, but because it was a clean ending. It seems as if every match ends with a screwjob, and it’s getting tiresome. Doesn’t anyone want to job, or would that disrupt the lockerroom too much?
  • I probably could have made one of these points into a full column, but there were too many and I wanted to touch on all of them. WWF booking is so haphazard and boring that sometimes needs to happen in a big way at No Mercy, although the odds are against it.

    I appreciate all the feedback to the new layout. I did make some changes as suggested by the readers, including a visited link color, and I’m working on make the text size bigger. In addition, I am working hard at fixing the WebTV problem. If any of you have WebTV and can be available to me in real time to test changes I make, please email me at Widro@aol.com.


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Three WWE DVD & Blu-ray Collector Packs Exclusive To has three pre-order listings for WWE DVD and Blu-ray collection packs. Though a date is not given for their releases, it is presumed that the collections will be available for the holiday rush. The three packs are detailed below. Click on any of the images to order.

WWE DX Collector’s Edition ($62.99)

â— Triple H: The King of Kings (2 Discs)
â— Shawn Michaels: My Journey (3 Discs)
â— The New and Improved! DX (3 Discs)
â— DX: One Last Stand (3 Discs)

WWE Pay-Per-View Blu-Ray Collector Pack ($118.99)

â— SummerSlam 2010
â— Bragging Rights 2010
â— Hell in a Cell 2010
â— Survivor Series 2010
â— Royal Rumble 2011
â— Elimination Chamber 2011
â— WrestleMania XXVII
â— Extreme Rules 2011
â— Over the Limit 2011

WWE Best of Raw & SmackDown Collection ($104.99)

â— Raw: The Best of 2010 (3 Discs)
â— The Best of SmackDown! 2009-2010 (3 Discs)
â— Raw: The Best of 2009 (3 Discs)
â— Raw: The Beginning (4 Discs)
â— The Best of SmackDown! 10th Anniversary 1999-2009 (3 Discs)
â— The Best of Raw 15th Anniversary 1993-2008 (3 Discs)

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2015 athlete Campbell getting attention

TAMPA, Fla. -- Heading in to his sophomore year, 2015 athlete George Campbell (Tarpon Springs, Fla./East Lake) has a long way to go before he signs his national letter of intent. But the talented playmaker is already receiving attention from some big-time programs.

The 6-foot-3, 181-pound athlete has offers from UCF, USF and Vanderbilt and says he is receiving interest from the likes of Florida, Alabama and Miami.

"I've been hearing from Florida a lot," Campbell said at the Sling-n-Shoot 7-on-7 tournament in Tampa on Sunday. "I'm actually going to go down there for Friday Night Lights and do their camp. I think Florida is a great program. They have great coaches and they are bringing in good recruiting classes right now. I'm also hearing some from Miami and Alabama, but that is mainly just letters and stuff."

Campbell plays safety and wide receiver for East Lake and says he is willing to play either position on the next level.

"I'm a team player," Campbell said. "So whatever helps makes my team win I'm down to play. It's whatever to me. I mean, I like to hit somebody. I think hitting would be the best for me."

Still early in his high school career, Campbell will have plenty of time to make up his mind which side of the ball he will play, but no matter where he ends up playing, there will be certain criteria for each prospective school.

"I'm looking at the coaches," Campbell said. "If I play offense, I'll look at the quarterback. But mainly, it will be if I'm going to play or not. Like if I will redshirt or not and also if the academics fit me."

Campbell, who will be done with visits for the summer after Florida's Friday Night Lights camp, said he will visit Florida for the Florida-LSU game on Oct. 6.

Campbell said he will likely make his college decision before his senior year.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida State's efforts to continue building a relationship with one of the top running backs in the state of Alabama, Kerryon Johnson (Madison, Ala./Madison Academy), continued over the weekend.

The 6-foot, 175-pound tailback traveled down the road to the Seminoles' campus to take in their annual Garnet and Gold Game from the recruit section.


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MILWAUKEE -- The Under Armour Summer Jam presented by NY2LA Sports was one of the must-see July events for college coaches. More than 900 college coaches from all over the country made the trek to Milwaukee for last year’s event and the arena was packed just as packed this time around, as coaches piled in to get a firsthand look at the elite talent.

The event -- in its fifth year and organized by Antonio Curro -- attracted elite travel teams from across the country that competed in pool play and a single-elimination tournament with each squad guaranteed to take the court four times.

This year’s event had significant star power, especially in the frontcourt with top-10 seniors Cliff Alexander (No. 2), Karl Towns Jr. (No. 6), Kevon Looney (No. 9) and Myles Turner (No. 10) facing off in high-level matchups with few -- if any -- empty seats in the gym.

Here’s a breakdown of how the elite bigs and others top prospects performed during the five-day event.


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James Rosen joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in 1999. He currently serves as the chief Washington correspondent and hosts the online show "The Foxhole."

Throughout his tenure with FNC, Rosen's beats have included the White House and the State Department. He has also reported from Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, the U.S. Supreme Court and the campaign trail. His datelines include almost all 50 states in the U.S. and three-dozen foreign countries across five continents, including Afghanistan, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, Pakistan, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia and Uganda.

Rosen has broken many exclusive stories, on subjects ranging from Iran and North Korea to government contracting and presidential campaigns. Most recently, he interviewed Secretary of State John Kerry in Doha, Qatar on the attacks in Benghazi, Libya and the United State’s involvement in training Syrian opposition. He has interviewed two former presidents, four justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, and many other high-ranking officials and celebrities, including noted authors William F. Buckley, Jr. and Tom Wolfe.

Prior to joining FNC, Rosen worked as a researcher to CBS News anchor and managing editor Dan Rather; as an associate producer at WWOR-TV in New York; as a producer in the political unit at NY-1 News; as an anchor and reporter for WREX-TV in Rockford, Illinois; and as an anchor and reporter for News12/The Bronx.

Rosen's book, "The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate," was published to wide critical acclaim. His articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, and National Review, among many other periodicals.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Rosen attended public schools on Staten Island. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from The Johns Hopkins University and his master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. He has lectured on politics and the media at Georgetown University and the George Washington University.

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MVNHS© Hates Atheists

Well, how else to explain this:

"Former NHS director dies after operation is cancelled four times at her own hospital"

Seems to me, this is God's way of proving that he exists, and has a wicked sense of humor.

If there's any silver lining to this, of course, it's that the Brits' system is at least "fair:" no waivers for previous Directors.

The truly sad part is that the poor woman was hospitalized for quite some time before her family finally decided to bring her home, concerned that she was becoming "institutionalised" from the extended stay. One wonders, given previous examples of poorly equipped and run "trusts" (the MVNHS© name for "hospitals"), whether the family was also concerned about additional health risks, given her condition.

But remember: the MVNHS© (and its ilk) is so much more efficient than our system (for now).
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Safer Beauty is Going Mainstream

by Holly on October 13, 2016

Have you seen Beautycounter in Target?

You know what this means right?

Safer beauty is going mainstream! It’s getting easier and easier to attain, and gone are the days of only finding natural skincare at health food stores and risk smelling like patchouli.

Beautycounter at Target is only for a limited time, after which you will have to go to my website to purchase it again. I am so excited about this partnership, as it only proves that women in this country are waking up to the need for safe and non-toxic personal care products.

This subject is particularly important in the month of October when pinkwashing is everywhere. Things that are known to cause cancer are emblazoned with pink ribbons in the name of Breast Cancer Awareness.

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Oh no they didn’t! SUGAR FEEDS CANCER

Here’s a question- is anyone NOT aware of breast cancer? Anyone??? Anyone???

What you might not be aware of is that you are increasing your risk when you slather on lotion day after day, wash your face with cleanser that contains petrochemicals, and shampoo your hair with parabens.

You’ve heard about parabens right? A preservative used in everything? Did you know that one study found parabens in 99% of breast cancer tumors? Parabens also increase the expression of many genes that are usually regulated by the natural estrogen estradiol and cause human breast tumor cells to grow and proliferate.

No thank you. Nope. Not on my body. Not in my hair. Not on my skin.

Beautycounter lists parabens as one of the ingredients they will NEVER USE.

I am passionate about this. I would not be spending my time and energy trying to convince you if it didn’t matter. It matters. We can’t control so many things, but we can control what we put on our bodies.

Check out Beautycounter and make the switch to safer cosmetics and personal care products.

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Jeesh I did not realize how bad parabens were. Thank you again!

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Why We Die, by Mick Herron

Why We Die is the third of the four Zoë Boehm novels by Mick Herron. Each of them (so far) is quite different. In the first, Down Cemetery Road, Zoë is not at the center of the action (which shifts from comedy to thriller), and in the second (The Last Voice You Hear), Zoë's somewhat morose inner voice sets the tone for a story that is ruminative until it, too, shifts into thriller territory (though with cops rather than spooks as the active agents in the shift). Why We Die has a good deal of meditation on death, as the title implies, but embedded in a story that combines Daniel Woodrell with Elmore Leonard. Zoë is still working (somewhat reluctantly) as a private detective and takes a case that she would rather turn down mainly because she suddenly owes back taxes. A jeweler has been robbed and wants her to find out who the robbers are rather than going through the police, since what was stolen was itself stolen property. Following the trail leads Zoë to a fence and his unusual driver and a trio of foster-brother-thieves, one of whom (the brains of the trio) is married to Katrina, who will play a larger and larger role in the story as it goes along (as will the crossbow that is the preferred weapon of another of the brothers). In pursuit of the brothers, and their money, there are numerous hair's-breadth escapes from death and several shifts in the story, all motivated by the personalities involved: the importance of character and the twisty story are very Elmore Leonard-like, with an overlay of the ruminations on death (which are not very Elmore-like). This is a very clever crime novel and the plot moves along much more quickly from the start than did The Last Voice You Hear. I've grown in the last few months to be fan of Herron's quirky style, and it is with some regret that when I get hold of a copy of the 4th Zoë Boehm book I'll not only be caught up with his published books but it will be the last of Zoë.

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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Italians: Camilleri, Lucarelli, De Cataldo

A few short fictions by some of Italy's leading crime writers are coming into English: Andrea Camilleri's Brewer or Preston and a collection of novellas called Judges, with short works by Camiller, Carlo Lucarelli, and Giancarlo De Cataldo.

The Judges collection includes Camilleri's Judge Surra, which deals with the appearance of a northern Italian judge in Montelusa and Vigata (the fictional Sicilian cities of his Montalbano series) just after the unification of Italy; Lucarelli's The Bambina, about a young female judge in Bologna during the years of violent political action that are called the anni di piombo, or years of lead; and De Cataldo's, The Triple Dream of the Prosecutor, which  concerns the lifelong conflict between two boys who grow up to be a crime boss and a prosecuting magistrate in a northern Italian town.

Each of the stories has an element of comedy as well as threat. In Judge Surra, the magistrate's utter innocence regarding the ways of Sicily leads him not to failure but to paradoxical success in his endeavors. The Bambina, whose title comes from a popular nickname for the young-looking woman magistrate, deals with an attempt on the judge's life in which the police force is implicated and, not able to trust anyone, she adopts a somewhat extra-legal strategy. De Cataldo's story deals with the extension of a schoolyard bully's domination of his classmates into a career of intimidation and untouchability, along with the judge's strategies to thwart his activities.

All the stories are short, but long enough to engage the reader effectively in the judges' (and Italy's) struggles. Camilleri exploits a similar strategy in The Brewer of Preston, a short novel that whose brief chaptes each take a different poiint of view and narrative strategy, almost as if the book were an anthology rather than a single novel (each chapter begins with a phrase drawn from a literary classic (there's a key at the end), and one of the books is Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, and anthology-novel each of whose chapters parodies a literary style.

The Brewer, also set in Montelusa and Vigata just after Italy's unification,  is the funniest of Camilleri's novels to appear in English so far. It takes off from a real incident, in which a bureaucrat sent from the north attempts to put on an obscure opera to inaugurate a new opera house. The locals, however, regard the opera (as well as the bureaucrat) as a cultural intrusion being forced upon them. What ensues is an operatically tragic tale of arson, murder, the Mafia, misunderstandings, and the invention of a steam-powered fire engine. Along the way, the story frequently takes on something of the character of a sex farce, albeit a sometimes deadly one. This is the only one of Camilleri's novels (among those translated) to fracture both the narrative timeline and the style and tone of the narrative approach, to considerable comic effect.

While fans of the Montalbano series may be a bit puzzled at first, The Brewer definitely rewards the reader's persistence. The cultural contradictions of contemporary Sicily have their roots in the social discrepancies that Camilleri skewers in his historical novel.

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July 29, 2008

Align Technology Targets Mainstream Orthodontics Market With Invisalign Teen(TM)

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 29, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Align Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALGN) today announced a new addition to its Invisalign product family: Invisalign Teen for non-adult, comprehensive orthodontic treatment. With Invisalign Teen(TM), teenagers get clear, removable aligners that meet their desire for aesthetic treatment and their need for appliances that fit their busy schedules of sports, music and other activities. According to consumer research conducted by Align, Invisalign is the most recognized orthodontic brand by teenagers age 13 to 17; two-thirds of respondents in the same age group indicated that Invisalign would be their first choice of orthodontic treatment.

According to the American Association of Orthodontists(i), patients age 12 to 17 years represent more than half of the more than 2 million orthodontic case starts in the U.S. each year. Until now, only a small number of orthodontists have routinely treated teenagers with Invisalign due to concerns about patient compliance and the ongoing development of permanent dentition; Invisalign treatment has been used primarily for adults and older teens. Invisalign Teen addresses orthodontists' demand for a product tailored to younger patients whose second molars have begun growing in. Invisalign Teen leverages the innovative technology and proven efficacy of the Invisalign system, along with new features and specially engineered aligners that address patient compliance and dentition challenges common in teen patients.

"We are thrilled to be able to offer orthodontists and their teen patients the clear benefits of the Invisalign system," said Darrell Zoromski, Align Technology vice president of global marketing. "Since commercial shipments of Invisalign began in 1999, Align has grown tremendously on the merits of its first generation product. The introduction of Invisalign Teen gives us a better opportunity to reach this mainstream patient segment within orthodontic practices and lays the foundation for continued innovation and long term growth."

Gauging Compliance

In a 2007 survey commissioned by Align, orthodontists cited patient compliance as their number one concern when treating teen patients. In response, Align designed Invisalign Teen aligners with compliance indicators that provide a visual cue of approximate patient wear. When worn as directed, the indicators fade from dark to light blue or clear during the two week wear period for each set of aligners -- providing doctors, parents and patients with a visible monitor of compliance.

In another move to help ensure continuous aligner wear, Align includes up to six free individual arch replacement aligners to compensate for aligner loss or breakage during active Invisalign Teen treatment. "One of the benefits of Invisalign Teen treatment is the ability to remove the aligners for sports, music lessons and for meals at school or on the go. We recognize how easy it might be for an aligner to get lost during a teen's hectic day, so replacement aligners will help ensure that compliance doesn't become a stumbling block during treatment," said Mr. Zoromski.

Meeting Teen Dentition Needs

In addition to compliance concerns, orthodontists identified dentition issues common to teen patients. Teenagers often begin orthodontic treatment while their permanent teeth are still coming in, or "erupting." Invisalign Teen accommodates this growth by allowing doctors to prescribe the space necessary for erupting teeth and has aligners with specially engineered "eruption tabs" to compensate for second molars that continue erupting during treatment. Invisalign Teen aligners also include a new feature called Power Ridges(TM) which are designed to provide additional force in cases where certain types of root movement are prescribed. Power Ridges are engineered into the aligner shape, and are used instead of attachments that are traditionally bonded onto the teeth to help achieve certain difficult tooth movements.

Dr. Orhan C. Tuncay, chairman of the department of orthodontics at the Kornberg School of Dentistry at Temple University, serves as lead investigator for Align's teen marketing study and sees Invisalign Teen's potential for improving compliance and for increasing efficiency and profitability in his practice: "As a product, Invisalign Teen is a trouble-free alternative to braces. It eliminates appointments to replace broken brackets, worries of decalcification, poking wire emergencies, poor tooth brushing, and the like. Fewer appointments and no emergencies significantly decompress the daily schedule in my practice and improve profitability. Teenagers like Invisalign Teen treatment for many of the same reasons and are actually more cooperative than their parents might give them credit for -- giving teenagers a choice of braces or Invisalign treatment makes them feel empowered about their treatment. In turn, they cooperate more responsibly."

Invisalign Teen is now available through Invisalign-trained doctors in North America.

Second Quarter of Fiscal 2008 Financial Results

In a separate announcement today Align also announced quarterly financial results. For more information, please see Align's press release titled, "Align Technology Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2008 Results."

About Align Technology, Inc.

Align Technology designs, manufactures and markets Invisalign, a proprietary method for treating malocclusion, or the misalignment of teeth. Invisalign corrects malocclusion using a series of clear, nearly invisible, removable appliances that gently move teeth to a desired final position. Because it does not rely on the use of metal or ceramic brackets and wires, Invisalign significantly reduces the aesthetic and other limitations associated with braces. Invisalign is appropriate for treating adults and older teens. Align Technology was founded in March 1997 and received FDA clearance to market Invisalign in 1998.

To learn more about Invisalign or to find a certified Invisalign doctor in your area, please visit http://www.invisalign.com or call 1-800-INVISIBLE.

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CTXS Stock – Citrix System Shares Take a Post-Earnings Hit

Stock down 10% pre-market

Cloud computing specialist Citrix Systems (CTXS) beat fourth-quarter estimates but CTXS stock is down after the company admitted to slowly growth amid increased competition.

citrix-ctxs-stockPrivate equity firm Robert Baird downgraded the stock to “neutral” from “outperform” and gave a price target of $64.

CTXS stock is down 10% pre-market.

Via the Street:

After the bell Wednesday, the Fort Lauderdale-based company announced net income of $1.04 a share on $802 million in revenue. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected earnings of 98 cents a share, while revenue came in as expected.

Over fiscal 2014, management said net revenue should increase between 8% and 10%, compared to analyst estimates of 11.4% growth. Excluding one-time charges, earnings are expected to range from $2.85 to $2.95 a share, far below the $3.35 previously expected by analysts.

For the latest quarter, Citrix reported a profit of $138.6 million, up from $114 million, or 60 cents a share a year ago.

Analysts are looking for changes in the new year, and just might get them sooner than later.

CTXS’ CEO Mark B. Templeton will return from his leave of absence, but plans to retire within the next year.

CTXS stock is down 19% in the past year.

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The super salmon are (almost) here. The Food and Drug Administration has reportedly finished its evaluation of the environmental impacts of the first fish genetically engineered (GE) for human consumption.

The GE fish under review is AquaBounty Technologies' AquAdvantage Salmon, pictured in the background up top (the salmon in the foreground is an unmodified Atlantic salmon sibling of the same age).

The evaluation, along with a document written in support of the commercialization of AquAdvantage salmon in the U.S., is currently under review at the White House's Office of Management.

According to a 2010 study by The National Agricultural Statistics Board, 93 percent of soybeans and 86 percent of corn in the United States is genetically modified, and many companies are looking to broaden genetic engineering's marketability by expanding to animal modification.

Talking Points Memo's Jim Kozubek reports that AquaBounty's is one of as many as 16 applications for transgenic fish currently under review throughout the world, though none of them is believed to have been approved yet.

So what's the story with these fish? Does the fact that they're genetically modified make it easier for them to rise up and revolt against humanity? Will they develop the ability to speak, or even dance? Not likely. But that doesn't mean people aren't worried about the implications of a mass-produced, genetically modified fish.

According to TPM, most people are worried about the conservation-related implications of GE fish. Organizations like the non-profit Center for Food Safety — a group that has been very active in campaigns against GM-crop company Monsanto — are concerned that the genetically modified fish could escape, and mix with wild salmon populations, something the Center for Food Safety claims could jeopardize salmon immune systems and alter the balance of whole ecosystems.

The GE salmon have also been shown to have a ravenous appetite, which could also pose a problem for natural ecosystems were they to become inhabited by GE/wild offspring.

That said, AquaBounty has reportedly gone to great lengths to ensure their genetically altered fish are born sterile, and has emphasized that the company's farming program would be limited to isolated "land-based systems" that would — according to Aquabounty CEO Ronald Stotish — make the risk of GE/wild-fish-mating infinitesimally small.

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It's amazing what you can do with digital cameras and CG effects nowadays — just check out this short film called XXIT, which channels Blade Runner on a tiny budget. Shot entirely using the new Canon EOS C300 camera, this film manages to create a brilliant future cityscape, with lots of great Syd Mead touches.

XXIT is the work of Stargate Studios, a production company that has done visual effects work for The Walking Dead, The Event, Heroes and several other shows. XXIT is about a condemned BioClone (or Replicant, really) who goes back in time to present-day San Francisco, to save the human her DNA was duplicated from, or rather her duplicate's boyfriend. It's sort of Blade Runner meets Terminator, I guess. In any case, the visuals are definitely the best part, especially in the opening moments.

Here's a featurette about how they shot the whole thing using these $20,000 Canon handheld cameras:

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The latest trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness, attached to showings of Oz: The Great and Powerful, goes light on the Benedict Cumberbatch. Instead, it takes us to the disperate venues where this movie's action takes place: a bright pink forest, a volcano, underwater, and, of course, space, where Kirk gets to fly sans ship. Meanwhile, he gets some fatherly love—and tough love—from Rear Admiral Pike.

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    Per the other site, and my own verification, the 00:1A:78 MAC prefix now works.

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Almen T.N.T. - 1979 - Ya Nadie Cree en la Revolución 7'' (SPN)

Almen T.N.T. - 1979 - Ya Nadie Cree en la Revolución 7'' (SPN)
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Uhm, I forgot these TNT (possibly because of the "Almen" part in their name) when mentioning 2 Spanish TNTs in other posts. (The famous punk TNT was the Granada band that became known after their 1981 demo "Una naranja mecánica" and then released 2 singles and an LP with DRO.) This artifact is said to be the first punk DIY record released in Spain and I have no objections to that. There's some mentions of the record in the Shit-Fi article. The music is not my cup of tea, very much the same abuse of soloing and prog-rock changes that can be found in Basura, Mortimer or Ramoncín & WC. The lyrics and the graphics are interesting though.
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nice to know... to be pretty honest with you, fernando, i only know this TNT's that i already posted over here... but didn't know any of the ones you mention, and it's a little hard to find something from then to download hehe

by the way, thanks for the warning in the teenage jesus and the jerks warning post... i'm fixing that one in a while

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Yeah, with such a name, it's not easy to search, heheh. If you're interested in the TNT from Granada -a great band even with their singer problems–, you may start with their 1982 single. Not a UK82 band at all, more 77 style with postpunk elements. There was a reissue of the 1st single not long ago but it was remixed and very different. The original can be found here:

A member of the band left interesting comments there and a version of the lyrics. Their 1983 LP (there ain't been no reissue as far as I know) can be found here:

About the other Spanish TNT (Los TNT), it was a pop band from the 60s. They went to the Eurovision festival in 1964 with "La caracola"...

About TJ&J, I forgot to mention that "Less of me" and "My eyes" have the titles mixed, exactly like the CD "Everything" has them mixed too, so I'm guessing that the CD comp was the real source for whoever made that file and not the original "Pre" 12"...

Saludos and I hope you enjoy the TNT. The singer's not convincing but the music is (imho).

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SUBHEAD: A major crude oil pipeline in Oklahoma sprang a leak a few days ago. Company has no estimate of spill.

By Deirdre Fulton on 26 October 2016 for Common Dreams -

Image above: The Seaway Crude Pipeline is a 400,000-barrel per day conduit that transports crude oil from Cushing, Oklahoma to Gulf coast refineries. From original article.

Sunday night pipeline leak underscores dangers of Dakota Access Pipe Line (DAPL).

Underscoring once again the dangers of America's unreliable fossil fuel infrastructure, a significant U.S. oil pipeline has been shut down after a leak was reported Monday morning.

Enterprise Products Partners said Monday it had shut its Seaway Crude Pipeline, a 400,000-barrel per day conduit that transports crude oil from Cushing, Oklahoma to Gulf coast refineries. The leak occurred Sunday night in an industrial area of Cushing. The company did not provide an estimate of the volume spilled, but said there was no danger to the public.

Seaway personnel continue to make progress in cleaning up the spill, substantially all of which has been contained in a retention pond at Enbridge's facility," the company said in a news release (pdf), explaining that the pipeline is a "50/50 joint venture" between Enterprise and Enbridge Inc. "Vacuum trucks are being used to recover the crude oil and return it to storage tanks on-site."

"The impacted segment of the legacy pipeline has a capacity of 50,000 barrels," the release added, "however the actual amount of crude oil released will be significantly less and won't be determined until recovery efforts are complete."

The incident comes after another pipeline rupture in Pennsylvania early on Friday, where 55,000 gallons of gasoline poured into the Susquehanna River, and about one month after a major gasoline pipeline run by Colonial Pipeline Co. had to halt pumping for a couple of weeks due to a spill in Alabama.

Meanwhile, UPI reports that "[t]he release from the Seaway pipeline is the second associated with the Cushing storage hub in less than a month. Plains All American Pipeline reported problems with infrastructure from Colorado City [Texas] to Cushing earlier this month."

Environmentalists, Indigenous people, and energy companies are in the midst of a heated debate over pipeline safety. Water protectors and their allies along the proposed route of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) have been saying for months that the project threatens their right to safe drinking water.

"Oil pipelines break, spill, and leak—it's not a question of if, it's a question of where and when," 13-year-old Anna Lee Rain YellowHammer, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, wrote in a recent appeal.

"With such a high chance that this pipeline will leak," she wrote of the Enbridge-backed DAPL, "I can only guess that the oil industry keeps pushing for it because it doesn't care about our health and safety. The industry seems to think our lives are more expendable than others'."

Indeed, referring to the Cushing leak, one observer tweeted on Monday: "That's why we're screaming ! They always break!"

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Ea O Ka Aina: NoDAPL reclaim new frontline 10/24/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Amy Goodman "riot" charge dropped 10/17/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Amy Goodwin to face "Riot Charge" 10/16/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Shutdown of all tar sand pipelines 10/11/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Why Standing Rock is test for Oabama 10/8/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Why we are Singing for Water 10/8/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Labor's Dakota Access Pipeline Crisis 10/3/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Standing Firm for Standing Rock 10/3/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Contact bankers behind DAPL 9/29/16
Ea O Ka Aina: NoDAPL demo at Enbridge Inc 9/29/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Militarized Police raid NoDAPL 9/28/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Stop funding of Dakota Access Pipeline 9/27/16
Ea O Ka Aina: UN experts to US, "Stop DAPL Now!" 9/27/16
Ea O Ka Aina: No DAPL solidarity grows 9/21/16
Ea O Ka Aina: This is how we should be living 9/16/16
Ea O Ka Aina: 'Natural Capital' replacing 'Nature' 9/14/16
Ea O Ka Aina: The Big Difference at Standing Rock 9/13/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Jill Stein joins Standing Rock Sioux 9/10/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Pipeline temporarily halted 9/6/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Native Americans attacked with dogs 9/5/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Mni Wiconi! Water is Life! 9/3/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Sioux can stop the Pipeline 8/28/16
Ea O Ka Aina: Officials cut water to Sioux 8/23/16

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The antivirus company Sophos is reporting that Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is shipping with a previous version of Flash. The problem? Flash has been updated since then, patching several security vulnerabilities. The biggest problem is that, an upgrade installation of Snow Leopard on top of Leopard installation containing the most recent Flash Player, downgrades Flash to the earlier version without warning the user.

Unfortunately during the course of that update (and unknown to you) Apple downgraded your installation of Flash to an earlier version (version, which is known not to be secure and is not patched against various security vulnerabilities.

The version you should be running is the latest version of Flash Player for Mac –

Mac users are not informed that Snow Leopard has downgraded their version of Flash without permission, and that they are now exposed to a raft of potential attacks and exploits which have been targeted on Adobe’s software in recent months.

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Tasting an Aleatico of Elba at the Ilio Hotel

Among the hotels of Elba Island, Hotel Ilio offers a route of taste really special. Raisins wine tasting with a base of Aleatico and Ansonica.
Here are fertile lands, which from Roman times have nurtured vines that can give rise to unique wines, thanks to the particular climatic and environmental conditions. They are those of Elba, where the great tradition of winemaking discovers a new season and a new exploitation. The Elba "wine routes" pass from the Boutique Hotel Ilio (www.hotelilio.com), set in one of the most beautiful island, Sant'Andrea. To appreciate this land of fine wines as the fragrant Aleatico, of white grapes Ansonica, red, rosé, full bodied wines, dry, light, fruity, spicy of garnet, ruby or gold color. A palette of colors and flavors, to taste going into vineyards and wineries, to discover the authentic taste of a territory that in addition to the beaches offers landscapes of ancient beauty. The Boutique Hotel Ilio allows residence in their rooms and a guided tour with a guide to the wineries of the Elba Island. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the hotel, the owner Maurizio Testa has created its own wine, baptizing it Ilio. This wine, produced by Acquabona of Portoferraio, can be tasted every night at dinner. Among the hotels of the island, Hotel Ilio offers a route of taste really special. Don’t lose it this summer!


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The first episode of Doctor Who I ever saw all the way through was "School Reunion."

Actually, that's not quite true. I saw at least two other episodes around that same time - "The Age of Steel" and "The Satan Pit" - and my memory is hazy enough that I might have seen them first. Also, I didn't see "School Reunion" all the way through that first time; I turned it on just after Mickey discovers the cupboard full of frozen rats, by which time they'd finished setting up the premise of the episode, so I should have been pretty lost.

But I wasn't, and I loved it, and it made me want to watch more. I saw "School Reunion" and that same day I went on Wikipedia to get an episode guide, and then I found "Rose" on YouTube, and by the time that was over any illusion I'd had of not being a massive sci-fi geek was long gone, because I was in love.

Except that's too long a story for most people when I'm trying to explain why I love Sarah Jane Smith so much - as if anyone ever needed a reason!

So: The first episode of Doctor Who I ever saw all the way through was "School Reunion."

And I knew who the Doctor was, of course, and I knew who Rose was, and I may or may not have known who Mickey was - again, depending on whether or not I'd seen "The Age of Steel" first - but Sarah Jane was new to me.

So I was a bit surprised when I got to this scene and started crying:

"My Sarah Jane," indeed.

I hadn't realized how much of Doctor Who was about loss and moving on. I loved that. I still do.

And I could never pick a favorite companion, but if you forced me? I might have to say Sarah Jane.

She was a journalist and a feminist and yeah, sometimes she screamed and needed to be saved, but she was also clever and tough and didn't take shit from people. She didn't quite know what to do with herself after the Doctor left her in Aberdeen, but she went on and had a fantastic life anyway.

I've never met a Doctor Who fan who didn't like her, at least a little bit. Do you know what a big deal that is? Doctor Who fans can't agree on anything.

From every account I've ever heard, Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane, was an utter sweetheart.

Elisabeth Sladen died today.

It's been a long time since I've been this sad about the death of somebody I'd never met. I don't really know what else to say, except that the universe was a much cooler place with her in it.

Goodbye, my Sarah Jane.

My life no longer has any meaning.

I am an avid player of the Great Name For A Band Game. You know how it works: You're out with a friend - or maybe you're alone, but it's always more fun with someone else, I think - and you come across an odd phrase, or perhaps a vandalized sign, or one with half its letters missing, and you go, "Cop Fondle/Starfucks/Diptheria would totally be a great name for a band!"

"I am definitely going to start a band and name it that!" your friend agrees. And you both chuckle for a minute, and then forget the entire thing and return to your conversation.

(Incidentally, torchbaby and I really are going to start a band called Glitteroo. We have Plans and everything; they involve dressing up like large animals and busking. AWWW YEAH.)

I have been doing this for as long as I can remember. My dad and I used to come up with big long lists of them; one of us would choose a name for the headlining band, and the other had to think up two related names for the openers, and sometimes a name for the tour based around the same theme as the band names. A lot of them were cheesy metal bands named after grotesque-sounding diseases.

Anyway, I was looking up...something, just now, I don't remember what - and I had the following realization:

Somewhere, there is a band called Great Name For A Band.

And you just know they're a bunch of douchey frat boys, or trustafarians, or bro-types of some other sort. Maybe they're giant hipsters.

It goes without saying that they're terrible.

And now every time I come across the right sort of ridiculous band name, this is all I'm going to be able to think about.

...I feel like I'm caught in an endless loop of losing The Game, or maybe like I've reached the end of the internet.

The White Stripes announced they were breaking up today.

Some of you will know why this matters to me. For those who don't, I don't even know where to begin, except: they're one of those bands.

They were the first favorite band I ever had. I was twelve years old and obsessed with Top 40 radio, and one day I saw this video on MTV. Not long after, I sneaked my mom's copy of White Blood Cells into my CD player and listened to "I'm Finding it Harder to be a Gentleman" and fell deeply, madly in love.

They were creative and sexy and soulful and strange. They gave me the courage to embrace my nerdiness in middle school, a time when I was lonely and isolated and needed that pretty damn badly. They were the reason I began playing guitar and collecting records (my 45 of "The Big 3 Killed My Baby" is still one of my most prized possessions). They led me to discover more bands than I could ever name, both directly (the Von Bondies, the Dirtbombs, Blanche) and indirectly (Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth, Pixies).

Maybe more importantly here, they were one of the first things I was really, properly fannish about - and while I was already online somewhat at that point, White Stripes forum the Little Room was the first place I ever made friends on the internet (and also the place where I learned just how wanky fandom could get, but that's another story). I'm still friends with most of those people today, people of all ages from all around the world. They were the reason I joined LJ, back in 2003.

They were my life for pretty much all of my teenage years. I saw them twice, traveling to Portland the second time, where I met up with people from the Little Room - still the only time I've met online friends in person. I was supposed to see them again, in 2007, but they canceled that tour due to Meg's anxiety. The band places great significance on the number three, and I always hoped I'd get a chance to see them live for a third time, even as Jack took on new project after new project and another White Stripes tour began to seem less and less likely.

The White Stripes haven't released a new album in almost four years, and aren't in my thoughts nearly as constantly as they were before then. That's at least partly why I'm not as devastated by this news as I was when I found out that my other favorite band, Sleater-Kinney, were breaking up. Still, I'm the person I am today because of them, and I couldn't let news like this pass by without comment.

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So: thanks for everything, Jack n' Meg.

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Rachel Maddow's high school graduation speech. I have all sorts of amused and flaily feelings about this, but my favorite part (other than her classy socks-and-sandals combo, naturally) might be the very end, when you can hear the voices in the crowd:

"She's going on to Stanford."

"Someday she's going to do something memorable."

Oh, yeah...

And if you go look at this link to The Stranger's blog, they mention how I was involved in Miranda July's awesome presentation at Bumbershoot last night.

I showed up around forty minutes early, but a sizable crowd had already gathered outside. If we could just convince everyone to start lining up later, everything wouldn't be so ridiculous...but no, there will always be someone around who has to try to get ahead and ruin it. Anyway. I had been waiting in line for some time when I felt someone tap my shoulder. I turned and realized I was staring right at Miranda July. I blinked. "Hi," she said, "I was wondering if you had anything in your backpack that you wouldn't mind giving away. You know, permanently?"
"Oh!" I said. I could feel this insane grin spreading slowly across my face and had the strongest urge to start giggling. "Um...." I rifled through my bag for a few moments before coming up with a pair of shitty kindergarten scissors. "I have these scissors that don't work very well."
"Let me see those." She held out her hand. "Yeah, those would work. Those are great. Okay, thank you!" She walked away, leaving me scissors-less and unable to stop smiling. I made eye contact with the guy in front of me, who said, "She stole your scissors!"
"I know! I let her steal my scissors!"
"I'd let her steal my scissors..."

And she did. And then, at one point, I found myself onstage, talking about them. I still wanted to start giggling quite badly, which is what I do when I'm nervous, but I managed to refrain from doing so for the most part. For the record, I have absolutely no idea what I want to do "when I grow up," but she made me choose. "What if you had no time to think about it? What if you had to decide what you were going to do for the rest of your life, right now?"
"Well...that would be unfortunate, wouldn't it?"

Ahahahahaha Miranda July asked me what I want to be when I grow up. Ahahahahahahahahaaaa.

And since I was the only one onstage who gave her name, I spent the rest of the night walking around Seattle Center hearing complete strangers call out "FERN!" every so often. It was odd.
However, since it meant I'd gotten to meet Miranda July, I'm really finding it hard to complain.
♥ Fern


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Database security bloopers

Ken Cline Profile: Clinek

As we reported last week, a new survey shows that IT security pros have a “disturbing lack of confidence” in the ability of organizations to use sensitive information securely.

The survey looked at the data privacy and data protection concerns of 1,000 IT security workers and compliance professionals. It found that many see the potential for disastrous data loss and feel that their organizations aren’t equipped to deal with the risk. Well-known Oracle blogger and consultant Peter Finnigan agreed, saying “my experience [with] users of Oracle databases and database users in general is that databases tend to not be securely deployed. They are better than they have been in recent years but still not where they should be in terms of protecting data.”

Frankly, it’s hard for me to believe that DBAs aren’t already doing all they can to protect their data assets. If not, why not? The years of warnings haven’t been enough? The multiple and expensive break-ins didn’t jar you into action? Don’t think it can happen to you? You think your data isn’t all that valuable? Just plain lazy?

If you are an experienced DBA or a consultant, send me the worst (and/or funniest) security nightmares you’ve seen and we’ll post the most horrifying here in the blog (anonymously, of course). Come across a company using SCOTT/TIGER as their admin login? We want to hear about it!

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Joanie Spina, magic’s premier artistic advisor, has helped countless magicians over the years. Her advice has helped amateurs become successful professionals and solid acts become award winners. Now the Las Vegas magic community is helping her with the financial burden of a serious lung ailment that has left her on oxygen. David Copperfield, who hired Spina as a dancer for his live show and then used her as a choreographer on at least eight of his television specials, helped to organize a fundraiser attended by Vegas magic celebrities including Norm Nielsen, Mac King, Lance Burton and more.

Robin Leach, one of the attendees, brought the story to Las Vegas Sun readers in an article complete with a slideshow that features a veritable “who’s who” in magic and comments from Magic Magazine publisher Stan Allen. Follow Joanie Spina’s blog and learn more about her magic consultant services at her website


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China has a long history of making knockoffs, so much so that it's got its own traditions for it under the term "shanzhai." But this mutated attempt at a Cadillac Escalade EXT is so blatantly aspirational that it's wrong. It's as if the Cadillac had a kid with a Ford Ranger, and they named the result "Sloth."

We've seen Chinese pickup clones before, and they were honestly pretty good, as Chinese pickup clones go. But this one just isn't right, somehow.

The Shanxi Victory Jinchi JX1 is built by state-owned automaker Shanxi, so you know the government doesn't give a crap about intellectual property laws. It's got the stand-up headlights of the Escalade EXT, and bodywork vaguely reminiscent of the rest of the car, but that's about where the similarities end, according to Car News China.

Instead of the EXT's 6.0-liter V8, the Jinchi JX1 puts out a maximum of 100 horses, and instead of the Caddy's luxurious interior fit for naught but the most discerning NFL lineman, the Jinchi's got acres of black plastic from the 1980s:

The Cadillac Escalade EXT is a fine car for the people that want one, I suppose, if what you what is heavy on the luxury, not as heavy on the utility, and extra-super-duper heavy on the chintz. And a Ford Ranger revival is something that pickup fans in the US long for all of their days and nights. But mixing the two together just feels wrong, really really wrong.

Imagine a construction worker, with calloused hands, sinewy strength, and a tenacious sense of duty.

Now imagine he spends his entire day working in a plastic Bill Gates mask.

Yeah, it's like that.

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In no time you will be a towing master capable of buying and hauling all kinds of crap around town thanks to the optional rear-view camera system now available on a variety of Ford truck and sports-utility models. Backup cameras have existed in years past, but this one is a bit different. It displays the backup video feed on a miniature LCD display embedded in the rearview mirror, rather than the in-dash display.

This allows more attention to be paid to the overall process of backing up, rather than going back and forth between umpteen mirrors and displays to just park at the mall, or hook up the boat.

Models that include this option are the Super Duty, F150, Lincoln Navigator, Mark LT and Mazda CX-9. The video also includes a distance gauge, which could be extra convenient while parking your gigantic truck in a compact parking spot, ass. [Autotopia]


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We saw the Gremlin beat the Spirit by quite a margin in our last Choose Your Eternity poll. Maybe it was the Wayne's World connection, or maybe it was just the obscurity of the AMC Spirit. Either way, we're going to follow up a pair of quirky American machines with a pair of equally quirky Japanese machines. Sure, Subaru is plenty mainstream in North America these days, but remember when Subarus just seemed vaguely weird, say a couple decades back? When you only saw the little boxer-powered cars in areas with huge amounts of snow and NPR listeners? Those 80s Subies are semi-rare and quite cool, not as bulletproof as your Japanese Big Three machines of the era, and parts are getting tough to find... which makes them great raw material for your exile adventures in the garage!

The acronym behind the Subaru BRAT's name stood for "Bi-drive Recreational All-terrain Transporter," which doesn't sound as good as "Leonamino," but we can't fault the marketers for going with the safe bet. The whole concept of sticking a truck bed on the Leone and then throwing some lawsuit-magnet jumpseats in the bed in order to claim carhood and avoid the Chicken Tax didn't work out so well for Subaru in the long run, though you might want to retrofit such seats onto this 1986 BRAT ('86 was the first year the vehicle arrived on these shores without the extra seats). One think you won't need to retrofit, however, is the T-tops, because that critically important option is present and accounted for in this truck, which can be yours simply by trading "almost anything as long as i like it" to the owner. There's rust. There are many dents. It's been sitting for a long time. You know, the usual. How about swapping in a turbocharged EJ25 and giving your jumpseat passengers the last best road trip of their lives?

We like the BRAT, but maybe your 80s Subaru Hell Project needs less cute and more weird. How about a car with TR7-esque wedge-shaped styling and an interior designed to resemble the cockpit of a 747? Yes, we're talking about the Subaru XT, which was available with a six-cylinder, all-wheel-drive setup that was pretty damn wild for its time. These things aren't easy to find, but we've done the work for you by locating this 1989 Subaru XT6 for just $500. Five hundred bucks! How can you lose? This one needs both head gaskets replaced (possible translation: both heads cracked), but it's had $2,000 worth of "recent parts" installed. There's rust. We suggest getting really good head gaskets when you start working on this project, because this car is just crying out for all the boost your wallet you can stuff into the engine!

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