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At his rally, Glenn Beck reminded us of the importance of loud, boisterous celebrations which recommit nations to their destiny and creed.
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On August 28, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck confounded his colleagues in the media when he brought hundreds of thousands of Americans to the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC for a rally he called “Restoring Honor.”

While former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was the keynote speaker, the rally was decidedly apolitical. The speakers said nothing controversial.

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The crowd was enthusiastic but not rowdy.

US President Barack Obama was never even mentioned by name. In the event, the massive crowd gathered, prayed, celebrated American military heroes, listened to patriotic speeches and songs. Then the participants picked up their garbage and went home.

So what was it all about? Why do many people see it as a watershed event? Although Beck called the rally “Restoring Honor,” it wasn’t really about restoring honor. It was about restoring something even more important. It was about restoring the American creed.

That creed is so ingrained that it has served as the subtext of every major political and civic speech by every American political and civic leader since the 18th century.

The American creed has two main components.

First, its core belief is that America is an exceptional country and that the American people are an exceptional nation. Second, it asserts that as Abraham Lincoln first said outright, America is the last, best hope for mankind.

The reason Beck’s rally was a watershed event is that in the Age of Obama, millions of Americans for the first time feel the need to reclaim what they believe is their birthright as Americans.

Because what distinguishes Obama from his predecessors is that he is the first American president who clearly rejects the American creed.

This basic truth was first brought to the public’s attention during Obama’s visit to Turkey last year.

A reporter there asked him, “[Do] you subscribe, as many of your predecessors have, to the school of ‘American exceptionalism’ that sees America as uniquely qualified to lead the world, or do you have a slightly different philosophy?” Obama replied, “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”

That is, the US president said, no, he doesn’t believe in the American exceptionalism. He rejects the American creed.

Obama’s unprecedented position stands at the core of the actions he has taken and the positions he has adopted since coming into office. From his move to nationalize the American healthcare system, to his attacks on the free market; from his insinuations that his political opponents are bigoted and primitive to his effective rejection of the mantle of US superpower status and global leadership in favor of transnationalism, Obama has clearly rejected the building blocks of America’s national DNA.

And this is why Beck’s rally was important. At the rally, Beck and the crowd he assembled committed themselves to repairing the damage Obama is causing. What the multitudes who congregated at the Lincoln Memorial two weeks ago understood is that America’s greatness as a nation is entirely predicated on its creed. If the creed is abandoned, while America may hang around for awhile, its path to ruin will be inexorable.

Lincoln once called Americans “God’s almost chosen people.” In saying that, he linked American history to the history of the Jews. Whereas the Jews singled ourselves out as the chosen people by agreeing to accept God’s law, in Lincoln’s view, Americans accepted the burdens and the gifts of a unique national path and mission in accepting the American creed.

THE AMERICAN creed has been cultivated, preserved and defended for some 350 years. The Jewish creed America’s founders turned to for inspiration has been cultivated, preserved and defended for 3,500 years.

The Jewish creed is predicated on the dual destiny of the Jews: to be both a nation that dwells alone and a light to the nations.

God bestowed the Jews with three tools to achieve these twin, and seemingly contradictory missions. He gave us the Law of Israel. He gave us the Nation of Israel. And he gave us the Land of Israel.

The law of Israel, the Torah, is the human path to righteousness and holiness. By obeying the laws and recognizing the frailty of mankind as a collective, the Jews comprise a distinct nation that is a blessing and an inspiration to the world.

By building our lives in the Land of Israel, our birthright, the Jews are able to cultivate our heritage and perform our dual mission in relative peace and make the blessing of chosenness tangible for ourselves and the world as a whole.

For 3,500 years, successive generations of Jews have understood our mission and creed.

They internalized it and lived their lives by it.

Since the dawn of modern Zionism, the overwhelming majority of Jews, in Israel and throughout the world have recognized the return to the land of Israel as the harbinger of redemption for the Jewish people – and through it, for the world. This understanding has been so ingrained that it has seldom necessitated a mention.

On almost every level, the State of Israel has been an overwhelming success for the Jewish people and for the world that has enjoyed its blessings. Economically today, the Israeli economy is the envy of the world. And this is no mean feat. In its first 45 years of independence, Israel’s socialist and otherwise economically backwards leaders went to extraordinary lengths to stifle market forces and essentially doomed Israel’s economy to sclerotic performance and basket-case status.

But the reforms enacted over the past 15 years or so, mainly initiated and pushed through by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, have transformed Israel into an economic powerhouse. Although much remains to be done to expand economic opportunity and growth, because of Netanyahu’s sound economic leadership, Israel has been largely immune to the recession now plaguing much of the Western world.

Technologically as well, as the world is now recognizing, Israel has become a pint-size superpower.

As George Gilder demonstrated in The Israel Test, Israeli computer entrepreneurs created the foundations of the digital age by inventing, among other things, the microprocessor and the main components of cellular telephone technology.

The world we inhabit would be inconceivable without Israel’s pioneering role in building it.

As for Judaism, it is flourishing in Israel today as it never has at any time in the past 2,000 years. The Jewish people emerged from the brink of annihilation 65 years ago to build a Jewish state whose population is more learned in Jewish law than any Jewish community has ever been. More Jews study in institutions of Jewish learning in Israel than have studied at any time in our history. And even non-observant Jews live Jewish lives in Israel to a degree their families could never have enjoyed or imagine just four generations ago.

ISRAEL’S EXTRAORDINARY success is marred by but one failure. Since Theodore Herzl’s untimely death in 1904, Israel has lacked a leader who recognized the importance of espousing the Jewish creed both to the world and to the Jewish people. That is, since Herzl, Israel has lacked leaders who have understood the first principle of statecraft. For a nation to flourish and succeed over time, its leaders must assert its creed with utter confidence both to their own people and to the world at large. They must assert their nation’s creed with complete confidence even to leaders who reject it. And they must never give anyone else the right to deny their people their identity.

That is, whereas Obama is the first American president to deny and denigrate the American creed, Israel has never had a prime minister who was willing to assert Israel’s creed. Leftist prime ministers have failed to assert the creed because they don’t accept it. Rightist prime ministers have failed to assert our creed because they fail to understand what it means to have the confidence to boldly assert an identity that people don’t want you to have.

Many scholars have argued that Jewish history is also the history of anti-Semitism. By not asserting Israel’s creed, Israel’s leaders have essentially accepted this claim. But this claim is utterly false. The history of the Jews and the history of anti-Semites are based on parallel narratives – one is true and one is false. And like parallel lines, they never intersect.

Throughout history, anti-Semites have sought to deny Jews the right to define ourselves by replacing our creed of law and holiness and homeland with a false creed of conspiracy and avarice and rootlessness. Today the instruments anti-Semites employ to tell Jews who we are involve accusations against a monstrous “Israel lobby,” and an attempt to deny our rights to the Land of Israel.

Jews have survived repeated attempts to destroy us not because we have argued the finer points of the anti-Jewish narrative of the day, but because we have been faithful to our creed. That is, we have not survived by attacking anti-Semitic slurs, but by loyally upholding our truth.

Yet in Israel, rather than proudly assert the extraordinary, tenacious and indeed miraculous nature of our people, our law and our land, our leaders have turned our creed into a bargaining point. And if this course is not soon abandoned, it will be our undoing.

Our leaders are leading us astray by insisting that it is possible to achieve peace in the near term with our neighbors. Peace today is impossible because our neighbors reject at least two of our national creed’s three components: Jewish nationhood and the Land of Israel.

Furthermore, by introducing the demand that the Arabs recognize Israel as the Jewish state, our leaders are only making matters worse. In presenting this demand, our leaders are suggesting that the Arabs have the power to grant or deny that which is not theirs to give or take away.

THIS EVENING we begin our observance of Rosh Hashana. The Bible describes Rosh Hashana as the day of trumpeting. When we assemble in prayer and blow the shofar, we engage in a loud and boisterous celebration of national unity and uphold our sacred birthright to our religious heritage and the land of Israel.

At his rally, Glenn Beck reminded us of the importance of loud, boisterous celebrations which recommit nations to their destiny and creed. Yet what Lincoln referred to as “the mystic chords of memory” cannot only be recalled in times of celebration. Like the American nation, for the Jewish nation to survive and prosper, that creed must resonate in all we do on all the other days of the year, when the trumpets are silent.

It is my prayer for the coming year that our leaders take a measure of strength from our people and our creed. I pray that they recognize that it is both their sacred duty and their great privilege to confidently represent and defend our exceptionalism and our destiny as the nation of Israel.
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    When it came in September 1975, Papua New Guinea's independence was marked by both anxiety and elation. In the euphoric aftermath, decolonisation was declared a triumph and immediate events seemed to justify that confidence. By the 1990s, however, events had taken a turn for the worse and there were doubts about the capacity of the State to function. Before independence, Papua New Guinea was an Australian Territory. Responsibility lay with a minister in Canberra and services were provided by Commonwealth agencies. In 1973, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam declared that independence should be achieved within two years. While Australians were united in their desire to decolonise, many Papua New Guineans were nervous of independence. This superlative history presents the full story of the 'trial separation' of Australia and Papua New Guinea, concluding that — given the intertwined history, geography and economies of the two neighbours — the decolonisation project of 'independence' is still a work in progress.

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  1. Introduction (pp. 1-6)

    Independence in Papua New Guinea was marked by flurries of activity and stately rites, anxiety as well as elation. Formal celebrations were muted, even nervous, in Port Moresby. Hubert Murray Stadium commemorates a long-serving proconsul. There, on the eve of independence, the Australian flag was lowered with solemn respect. Michael Somare, Prime Minister-designate, hosted a dinner in a house above Fairfax Harbour, to watch the midnight fireworks. Speaking without notes and with rare passion, he paid tribute to his colleagues and his subordinates, then he turned to the Prime Minister of Australia. The two were at loggerheads over Australian aid...

  2. Part 1: Australian Rule
    • Like a handful of other Papuans and New Guineans in the 1950s, Miss Tessie Lavau of Iokea Village in Kerema District of Papua visited Australia as a nursemaid with her employers on their vacation ‘down south’. Most Australians in the Territory employed a servant, but few brought them to Australia. These household relations must have been friendly: when Miss Lavau moved on to be a public service typist, the family offered her a place to stay if she ever visited Australia. In 1958, she acted on their suggestion and made her application. That very ordinary action startled Australian officials on...

    • Tessie Lavau’s curiosity was widely shared but seldom satisfied until 1962 when ‘native leaders’, including nominated members of the Legislative Council, asked to visit Australia to see how government worked.¹ Their interest delighted the officials who were planning to create an elected legislature: a tour might produce ‘men who know what we are talking about when we ask them to consider further changes’. All official thinking accepted that Papua New Guineans must understand the workings of Australian government, not that Australians should understand Papua New Guinea society.

      Selecting a party was tricky. Each district should send one person and David...

    • After half a century of patrolling coastal villages and half a generation of police rule in the Highlands, government in the 1950s still relied on ‘native leaders’ to relay their purposes to isolated villages and report back. The middlemen could act as ‘traditional’ Big Men, such as Bin Arawaki from the Eastern Highlands and Kup Ogut from the Western Highlands (Chapter 2), or as ‘modern’ office-bearers such as Lukas Chauka in Local Councils.

      Less personal arrangements were in the wind. After a report by the Melbourne Law Professor David Derham in 1960, the new policy was to remove police from...

    • John Guise’s Select Committee was scarcely more democratic than Gunther’s. Not only did it contain three expatriate elected members of the House, but also three officials, one of whom (W. W. Watkins, the abrasive Law Officer) became deputy chair, while Fred Chaney was its secretary. Watkins argued for ‘certain matters to be the subject of talks between the Commonwealth Government and the Committee’.¹ As members were keen to protect the Australian connection, they consulted Canberra on the following agenda before they consulted the people.

      In the event of the people deciding that they wish Papua and New Guinea to be...

    • After 14 years as Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland retired in 1967 and used his final speech to take stock. Ted Wolfers glossed his address:

      Strong Australian control, the stress on the long distance still remaining before self-determination, the assumption that inter-racial cooperation was still a viable proposition, were the principal points of Cleland’s speech, as they had been the hallmarks of Hasluck’s career and policy.¹

      There was no sign of faster change. Cleland even suggested that constitutional matters would be better handled by lawyers than by political processes. When Hay took over, he accepted the glacial pace but wanted to...

  3. Part 2: Decolonisation
    • A generation later, it is hard to imagine a time when decolonisation seemed neither inevitable nor perhaps achievable. But, in 1969, the pace of parliamentary politics in Papua New Guinea was still leisurely. Weeks before Whitlam’s visit and Gorton’s U-turn, the Member for Ijivitari in Papua’s Northern District, Paulus Arek, took the initiative. A graduate of Sogeri High School, Arek was more articulate and more experienced than most members. When he proposed another Select Committee, the House agreed, expecting that this, like Guise’s Committee, would merely tinker with the status quo. Its membership reinforced that impression. Having proposed the Committee,...

    • Early in 1972, two political surprises changed the pace and the nature of devolution, bringing in new men, new vision and new energy. Prime Minister Gorton was alienating his Liberal colleagues. When they had passed over Hasluck and selected this little-known war veteran, they imagined him to be a hawk in the war in Vietnam and a conservative at home. His economic and cultural nationalism shocked any Liberals who were not already offended by his autocratic style. Opposition gathered behind the Treasurer, the conspiratorial Sir William McMahon (Whitlam mocked him as ‘Tiberius with a Telephone’). The feud reached its climax...

    • Keen to decolonise Australia, Whitlam assured Somare that he endorsed the timetable that would confer self-government on December 1, 1973, and independence as early as 1974. He allowed little latitude in the timing, and none in the shape of independence. His policy speech (‘It’s Time’) made ‘a secure, united and friendly Papua New Guinea’ a priority, an outcome essential to regional stability and Australia’s fulfilment of the UN Trust. Twice in 1972, the UN General Assembly reaffirmed the need for unity and policies for ‘discouraging separatist movements and promoting national unity’.¹

      Whitlam’s government believed that speed was essential. Given enough...

    • Self-government offered a rare opportunity to review and overhaul economic policy, hitherto decided in Canberra. Ross Garnaut describes the economy rather well as ‘a big lump of Australian public expenditure’. Public servants, the Panguna mine and service industries offered the only practical tax base.¹ Despite the misgivings of John Stone in the Australian Treasury,² the lump had grown since 1964 with the drive to create infrastructure. This spending deepened the Territory’s financial dependence and complemented an extraordinary reliance on skilled Australian bank tellers, shop assistants, drivers and even labourers. And years of Australian subventions entrenched dependent attitudes. Mark Lynch, as...

    • Decolonisation transformed a dependent Territory into a sovereign State, making people citizens instead of subjects. Sovereignty confers international equality and membership of global institutions. Some landlocked mini-states in Europe could leave it at that. Some insular mini-states in the Pacific and the Caribbean were experimenting with partial sovereignty, while Britain, France or the US continued to provide services.¹ Papua New Guinea was too large to behave like a mini-state and had opted for full independence so the new government had to provide schools and colleges, clinics and hospitals, roads and harbours, diplomats and soldiers, courts and police, agricultural, marketing and...

    • A new State must define itself, especially if its inherited shape owes everything to the convenience of colonial powers and nothing to cultural or economic compatibilities. Papua New Guinea’s borders were so arbitrary and its internal links so frail that national sentiment mingled with parochial passions — and with pan-Melanesian solidarities. The 800 spoken languages measured not only people’s isolation but the parochialism of each language community. English was spoken by a tiny elite of school-leavers; Tok Pisin was spoken mainly by men (and fewer women) who had lived away from home; hiri motu served as a lingua franca along the...

  4. Part 3: The Limits of Independence
    • Papua New Guineans handled the transition to independence with flair, despite their limited experience, the speed with which they had to act and the explosive agenda that they inherited. With great skill and some luck, they brought their country united to independence with new institutions, a new public service, a guaranteed income and a home-made constitution.

      The coalition that achieved these feats tottered in 1978 when Julius Chan took the PPP into opposition, and collapsed in March 1980 when the Leader of the Opposition, Iambakey Okuk, won a no-confidence motion, naming Chan as preferred Prime Minister. Chan had quit the...

    • John Guise held every high office except the one he most wanted. Speaker in the Second House, he was Somare’s deputy in the third. For the rites of independence, he was Governor-General. In that capacity, he declared:

      Papua New Guinea is now independent.

      We have at this point in time broken with our colonial past and we now stand as an independent nation in our own right.

      On the distinguished visitors’ platform, Gough Whitlam thought the same of Australia since ‘Australia was never truly free until Papua New Guinea became free’.¹ At this euphoric moment, when Australians celebrated the end...

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Battery went dead on my Kymco Peoples 125cc. Battery was

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Battery went dead on my Kymco Peoples 125cc. Battery was dead. Changed the battery but still no power anywhere. No lights go on. Engine does not crank. Wont even react to boost.
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My info is somewhat limited on your exact model but as no one else has responded I will try to help you.

It is very common for the main fuse to blow when the battery is changed, this would be the 1st thing to check along with the fastness of the battery terminals

If that is not the problem I will need to ask for some background history, such as - has your Kymco been unused for any length of time?

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This is a tangy sweet sauce you will probable will want to double. This recipe is great served over chicken and rice or noodles..great with grandma's biscuits too!

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4 medium
skinless,boneless chicken breast halves
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each salt and pepper
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bacon, uncooked and chopped
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diced onion
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unsweetened apple cider juice not vinegar
1/2 c
chicken broth, low salt

1Roll or pound each chicken breast between 2 sheets of plastic wrap to 1/2 inch thickness. Sprinkle each with salt and pepper evenly.
2Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium heat until crisp. Remove bacon; add chicken to the bacon drippings and cook 6 minutes on each side or until done. Remove chicken from pan and keep it warm under foil.
3Add onion to the pan; cook until tender. stirring constantly. Add cider and broth; bring to a boil, scraping pan to loosen the brown bits. Cook broth mixture until reduced to about 1/2 cup( about 5 minutes). Stir in the bacon; serve over chicken with rice or noodles.

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Taylor Swift: Top Selling & Most Played Artist of 2010!

Taylor Swift: Top Selling & Most Played Artist of 2010!

Taylor Swift has been named Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan’s top selling artist of the year!

The 21-year-old country cutie was also named Billboard’s most played artist for the second year in a row. Tay had more than 1.128 million airplay detections throughout the year.

Taylor is also the best selling digital artist in music history with 34 million tracks sold. Wow!

Tay will hit the road next month to tour in support of her latest album, Speak Now. Check out Taylor’s tour dates!

Congrats, Taylor!

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    oh god.poor jake.taylor will probably write a song about that stupid 14 year olds would listen.can’t belive this because there are so many great artist out there and this is our best.-.-

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    ok dont hate because you cant be in a top billboard or anything. i so upset because ur criticing pplzs taste of music and i hope u know i was on one the first to buy Speak Now

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    @Mashly: not true i brought it and i am all black my cuzin likes her who is all black to so check urself

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    Who plays her music? I have yet to hear a Taylor Swift song.

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    @Bubbles: Agreed 100%

  • robert jaime

    I think everyones upser over taylor swift because of the fact shes getting more attention than carrie underwood. If it wasn’t for the little blue truck tour, know one would have been to carries concerts

  • rbob

    i know she has haters and lovers … and im a lover lol
    i just wanna defend her

    BEING AN ARTIST/SINGER IS NOT ONLY ABOUT SINGING! its also about sharing your talent, ideas to the fans and other artist! maybe she is not the best from all the rest but she is the greatest in her own ways! she can sing but not as great as whitney but at least she is not afraid of showing her talent. Maybe she is not good in live performance BUT GUYS! SHE IS JUST STARTING!!

    NO ONE STARTS FROM THE TOP!! she is still learning!

    … maybe she had many boyfriends but whats important is that she DONT GET PREGNANT!!

    …. its hard to write songs about your life!

    …. she’s been an artist since she was 11 but she was exposed at the age of 18, she deserve all the credits because she is a hardworker..
    everyday she rehearse/write song/go to the awards/do pictorials and everything dont you see that?? … every penny she earn is because of her!!

    she is the last role model that i know.. she not like miley cyrus who turned bad girl! what the hell right?

    …. but im okay with the haters.. coz i hate britney, … lol JOKE!!

    …. its just my opinion

  • floridagirl

    @DL: don’t forget her daddy bought the record company to ensure her success…talent doesn’t matter these days, just money..

  • floridagirl

    @zoz: no wonder, she sells digital downloads for single songs for 99cents, kids buy them for their phones which is why she sells so many!

  • floridagirl

    @darla: so true! I will never forget the look on stevie nicks face when she was trying to sing with Taylor!! It was like WTF is that noise coming out of her mouth? Some say she stepped back to sing backup to Taylor and let her have the spot lite ,others say she stepped back hoping no one would see her!

  • floridagirl

    @pickles: and you know its always ” a close source” that leake the news or where she is and who she is doing! Jake flat out asked her if she was the one that told the magazine that he broke up with her on the phone and she said “NO’ that it wasn’t her…probably wasnt’ HER but she had her pr do it…

  • floridagirl

    @Mashly: this album is selling cause of all the hype before hand that she was “naming names” off all the people that did her wrong…I wonder if any of them ever responded like Mayer to Dear John or Taylor L to back to december? hey this year she can make a new song…Back to December AGAIN cause Jake broke up with her in December too! LOL And then the stories about jewelry,private planes, etc still came out even though we found out later that he had already broke up with her!

  • floridagirl

    @pickles: she is slowly starting to fade away..she loses more awards than she wins, <Miranda or Carrie is beating her at most awards. she is winning this because of album sales and digital sales not because of talent. And this is due to all the hype before this album about her “naming names” to all that has done her wrong and people had to buy the album to see who they were because she had the letters to their names highlighted or something stupid and you had to put them together to figure it out. As far as her writing, she is basically singing her diary. So far her next album can only be about Jake cause she named the other ones in this album. Notice that she didn’t win the country award or the pop award just the most sales and digital downloads. the downloads she sells for 99cents for single songs so little kids can download them to their phone. She hasn’t done all this alone..she has daddy’s money backing the record company, the pr and everything….she needs to get dumped again a few times this year to get a new albumLOL

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Katharine McPhee: 'Smash' Sneak Peek!

Katharine McPhee: 'Smash' Sneak Peek!

Check out the special seven-minute sneak peek from the upcoming musical series, Smash.

The drama, which centers around a group of people working to be part of a Broadway musical, stars Will & Grace actress Debra Messing (and her real-life beau Will Chase), American Idol vet Katharine McPhee, Anjelica Huston, and Jack Davenport. Its executive producers include Steven Spielberg.

If you missed it, check out Katharine‘s rendition of Rihanna‘s “Cheers” and Christina Aguilera‘s “Beautiful.

The series premiere of Smash airs on Monday, February 6 at 10/9c on NBC. Can’t wait to watch!

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    I can’t wait for this!!! This looks amazing! And I love the cast so much!!

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    Don’t watch Glee… but i’ll watch this!!!! Damn Speilberg is there anything you can’t do….this is gonna be hit!!!!!!!

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Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. (Columbus, OH) is debuting a new, more efficient epoxy system for mass producing lightweight carbon-fiber structural components at the JEC Europe 2012 Composites Show, March 27-29 in Paris.

The new system, a combination of Epikote Resin 05475 and Epikure Curing Agent 05443, enables direct infusion of carbon fiber material using industrial-scale high- or low-pressure resin transfer molding (RTM) process equipment, with curing in less than five minutes.

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Hello beauties! I'm going to keep this post short and sweet.. It's been a long weekend filled with champagne swilling, barbecuing, seaside frolicking and dancing into the wee hours of the morning.

In an effort to cure our sore heads Eloise and I decided to hit Red Leaf Bay pool today. After grabbing a few cheeky vacay-esque snaps we dedicated the next few hours to perfecting our pin dives and bombs. If todays anything to go by then I'm anticipating a delightfully long summer of pontoon jumping, ray catching and endless overflowing cups of summer wine.

  1. Words cannot express how incredibly gorgeous both of you are in these snaps! I truly wish I could visit you again and eventually meet lovely Eloise too, she looks like the sweetest gal ever.
    Enjoy your summer, love!

    1. Ale, you truly are an angel I hope one day to meet, too. Summer would be just so wonderful if you could pop by and share tea and madeleines and wine and a slither of beach towel with us xx

  2. You two have the most fabulous bathing costumes!

  3. You are such a doll. You both have the most gorgeous bathing suits, ahh! Summer dream.
    xo, Tori Lynne

  4. Talk about gorgeous, my goodness! xo

  5. awesome vintage swim wear. love especially the red-yellow-orange bathing suit.

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NG: A Night called Fashion by Standard Style Boutique

Where were all the fabulous people on Thursday night in KCMO?

At the Views fashion show, of course! The Views fashion show, hosted by Standard Style Boutique, lived up to all its hype. Amazing weather and a rooftop setting were two of the ingredients for its success.

VIP seating cascading down along both sides of the long runway accommodated the elite and beautiful of this city. Bright light fixtures illuminated the darkened surroundings giving us fashion hounds the ability to seek out and scan all the in-crowd trends (and blunders).

Which I would have to say might have even been better than the show itself.

The music selection topped off the ambiance for the night. What’s a fashion show these days without great music? I’m sure  Anna Wintour herself would have been impressed.

Military chic was the theme.

A blend of military-inspired pieces and colors paired up or down with feminine dresses, fur vests and lots of sequin. Sequin tops and dresses were collaborated with motorcycle boots to give a modern edgy twist. One of my favorites, the gun metal blazer, was to die for (yummy!).

Female models sported non-structured fun hair with barely visible side braids that seemed to say: “I’m cute! And I’m not even trying!”

The downside: The show could have been a little longer with a few more of this season’s must-have styles; the camel colored coats, biker asymmetrical zipper leather jackets and ever-so-major Shearling jackets.

All in all, this show is on my A list!

A great turnout of gorgeously groomed stunners made it a fantastic, fabulous night! Can’t wait for the next one!

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  1. Anonymous says:

    I was home working another 18 hour day. To support the lifestyle she has become accustomed to.

  2. Anonymous says:

    You said, “I’m sure Anna Wintour herself would have been impressed.”

    I say, too stupid of a comment for a cornpone blogger to make. Who are you trying to impress? How in the hell do you know what impresses Anna Wintour? Lemme guess you watched The Devil Wears Prada, or The September Issue, and that gives you all the insight you need to make such a na

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    It’s Me B@#%@#$!
    Hey smartman! I’m sooooo impressed that you even know who Anna Wintour is, you’ve seen The Devil wears Prada and you shop at Walmart!! Either you’re fabulously gay or still in the closet! 🙂

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    I don’t normally go to these things (too pricey), but did this time because the Walkmen were playing. It was a bit disheartening to see so many of the Beautiful People fade away once the group started playing, leaving only a relative handful of us to hear their amazing songs.

    Admittedly, I’m no fashion expert, but ‘military chic’ is one of the most blatant oxymorons I’ve heard in a long while.

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    All City Champ
    This blog is satire, right?

    Please, please tell me it’s satire.

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    Well finally met Craig Glazer. Yes at this event. No he did not know it was me. We had met years before in Westport, but I was only 21 then. Craig, I was the blonde at the door when you came in, that you said hi too and Hearne joked with. You still look damn good Craig. Like the all black. Sunglasses at night? Maybe you need them, don’t know. Kinda Jack Nicholson, don’t you think? Anyways, as you passed everyone around me had a ‘craig’ story. I think some were likely not true, but they told them anyways. You are a conversation piece young man. See you soon.

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No Regrets: Widzgowski Leaves it all on the Track at NCAA Outdoor Championships

June 12, 2014
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“He’s going to remember this race, every step of it, his whole life,” said longtime Keene State College track coach Peter Thomas. He was reflecting on senior Ryan Widzgowski’s 1,500-meter race at the recently held NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships hosted by Ohio Wesleyan University. “It was his last college race, but it was his best college race.”

Listening to Thomas, one might come to the conclusion that Ryan Widzgowski had the race of his life at the NCAA Championships, triumphantly riding off into the collegiate sunset firmly grasping the 1,500-meter trophy that had he been chasing his entire college career. But that wasn’t the case.

As much as he’d like to change the outcome of the race, Thomas wasn’t talking about a championship, or, for that matter, an All-American award for Widzgowski, a lean, sturdy runner from Camden, Maine. Leading the talented field with 100 meters to go, Widzgowski suddenly found himself staggering, trying to keep himself upright as his body went in different directions. While his chest, pulled by the inertia, continued its forward course, his legs refused to move, a sensation Widzgowski called “hollowing and stiffening” that left him trying to wade out of quick sand.

“I had a split-second choice,” said Widzgowski. “I could see how far my momentum takes me and maybe fall on my face at nationals or slow down, try to regain my balance, and see if I had a chance of somehow getting back in the race.”

With arms flailing by his side, Widzgowski took the latter approach, shortening his stride in hopes of returning to some semblance of form that would get him to the finish line. But it was too late. He could do little but watch peripherally as eight runners passed him over the final 80 meters of the race. The dream of winning a national title, much less earning All-American in his final college race, had become a nightmare.

The strong, athletic legs that had carried him to four All-America honors, including a third-place finish in the same race last spring, had failed him. Unlike Miami Heat superstar LeBron James, who scored 35 points in the second game of the NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs after he cramped up in the opener, Widzgowski wouldn’t have a second chance.

Staggering to the finish line, Widzgowski placed ninth with a time of 3:51.23. So why does Thomas call it his best race? “He finally put himself out there and executed perfectly,” said Thomas about Widzgowski’s swan-song college race. “If Ryan was healthy, I think he would’ve won. Unfortunately, things didn’t go his way. I told him that I was more proud of him than when he won double All-American honors at the indoor championships as a junior.”

Ironically, Widzgowski almost didn’t make it to the start line at Ohio Wesleyan’s George Gauthier Track, inside Selby Stadium. Still savoring his double All-American performance, finishing second in the mile (4:10.18) and sixth in the 800 (1:53.36) at the NCAA Indoor championships, Widzgowski had high expectations as he ramped up for the spring outdoor season. While he dealt with his share of nagging injuries during his career, nothing prepared for the unexpected health issues he was about to confront.

As the season progressed, Widzgowski began developing breathing issues and chest pains. “As a runner you look past that,” he said. “We all have aches and pains, so I didn’t say anything to anyone. I just continued doing everyday stuff and running.”

It wasn’t the first time Widzgowski had kept quiet about an ailment. Six years ago he was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome, a heart condition he described as similar to arrhythmia that is found in only .3 percent of the population. Cleared to run, Widzgowski said the only time the condition came up was at the start of the season when he had to do his NCAA paperwork.

When his chest pains persisted well into the season, Widzgowski eventually told his parents, who immediately told him to go to the hospital. “It was just a strange experience being so tired for no reason,” said the 21-year-old runner. “In my opinion I wasn’t burnt out. I just didn’t know what was going on.”

The problem didn’t go away. “I felt exhausted after normal runs and workouts,” he said. “I was breathing heavily and my heart rate would accelerate drastically. It got to a point where I had to walk during workouts.”

Two weeks before the NCAA Championships, Thomas got an unexpected text message from Widzgowski, telling him he was in the emergency room. “Peter was in shock,” said Widzgowski, who wished he had told his coach about the severity of his condition earlier. “He sent me back a one-word response, ‘WHAT????’ before I lost service.”

Thomas raced down to the emergency room to be with Widzgowski, who was given a series of tests including an EKG and echocardiogram. Although he was cleared to run again, Widzgowski had his own questions. “Do I really want to go? Am I capable of going? But I earned this, I’m still working hard,” he reasoned. “My biggest thing was not giving up. It was difficult but I made the choice to go to nationals.”

Getting the go-ahead to run from a cardiologist a day before leaving for Delaware, Ohio, Widzgowski faced not only health concerns, but a talented 1,500-meter field on the track.

Getting to the finals wouldn’t be easy. A fast first heat required a top-four finish by Widzgowski in his qualifying race. One of five runners galloping down the stretch, he wouldn’t be denied a place in the finals, placing fourth and claiming the 12th and last spot by just 0.5 seconds. “In my best shape, I never closed that hard,” said Widzgowski. “I wasn’t ready for my college career to end.”

Despite his close call in the preliminaries, an optimistic Widzgowski re-evaluated his goal as he got set for the finals.

“I asked Ryan, ‘What do you want to with this race?’” said Thomas. “He told me it was his last college race and he wanted to take a shot at winning.”

In a matter of seconds the goal was no longer to win, but to finish. The ordeal and trauma in the late stages of the race left Widzgowski with barely enough energy to cross the finish line.

Following the race, a distraught Widzgowski met up with Thomas, who accompanied him to the OWU Fieldhouse where he was checked over by the medical staff. “Peter told me that I left it all out there,” said Widzgowski. “I never knew what that term meant until now.”

Back in Keene a few weeks following the championship, Thomas and Widzgowski reflected on the race. “At previous championships Ryan finished races knowing he could’ve done more. But in this race he couldn’t have done any more,” said Thomas. “He really learned the difference between running and racing.”

“I fought my body to the limit and I ended up having a memorable race – one that I can share with other people in the future,” said Widzgowski, who will meet with doctors in the upcoming days to evaluate his condition. “It took me to my last college race, but I now know what it’s like to put yourself out there and really try to win. There’s no regret. And now I get to share that experience and explain what it’s like to give it everything you have inside you.”


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Phnom Penh –Sweden has provided new grant to support United Nations Development Programme in carrying out projects aimed at improving livelihoods of Cambodian people in rural communities most vulnerable to impacts of climate change.

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"We are happy to be able to continue the cooperation with UNDP and support a program that has so far produced very good results. It provides civil society organizations and local authorities with a better understanding of climate change issues, challenges and opportunities, and help communities to prepare for and adapt to climate changes," Ambassador Höglund said.

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Egypt beat South Africa in Africa Youth Championships

Posted: 23 April 2011 Time: 13:59

Egypt beat Amajita 1-0 in the 2011 African Youth Championships at Dobsonville Stadium to qualify for the semi-finals.

This was a match that Amajita had to win to qualify for the semi-finals but a defensive error cost them.

The goal was scored just before half-time when a back pass was intercepted by Egyptian striker Mohamed Hamdy who then lobbed the ball over goalkeeper Ronwen Williams to score.

Both sides missed many good scoring opportunities throughout the match due to poor finishing.

In the other game Mali and Lesotho shared the spoils in a 1-1 draw at Millpark Stadium in their final group stage match.

The Group A leaders Mali consolidated their place at the top of the standings after the draw, having won two games already.

Ballo Drissa scored for Mali in the 17th minute and seemed on course for a win before Mosiuda Christopher Boseka equalised for an impressive Lesotho in the 82nd minute.

Mali and Egypt advance from Group A into the semifinals and will both represent Africa at the 2011 Fifa Under-20 World Cup in Colombia later this year.

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too bad,to be eliminated in this stage...........

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posted: 02:44 pm
We failed to qualify for the tournament from the first place. We had a weak team.
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Eish, this is terrible, terrible ... bin laden you happy now?
posted: 03:15 pm
wen i first saw da final squad..i noticd dat de wer no pirates youngsters i was likes of defender siyabonga zulu(17) who trains under da legend krol,PSV bound mopedi n cryril mashego.
posted: 06:25 pm
Very weak- crazy mistakes, no athletes just kids chasing, trying- an dthey did try. And unlike under 23s no proper passing and, I am sorry: no proper coaching. Sad,sad,sad!
posted: 08:51 pm
Da fact dt none of those youngsters feature for any of the PSL teams shd b a gr8 cause 4 concern 4 us as a footballing nation. These boys must pull up deir socks & make it difficult 4 PSL coaches to ignore dem, but watching dem play does nt challenge any PSL to want to draft dem in his first team...

These boys must shape up, development coaches can only do so much 4 dem...
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posted: 09:15 pm
Well done Egypt good for the country these small palookas were going to embarass us. We didn't qualify so what??? Typical South African don't wanna work hard expecting freebies!!!
posted: 12:12 am
Firstly I'm unhappy because of this result.

Secondly, I'm unhappy about this report because the way it is said the goal came about is false. Yes, there was a back pass from a defender (Baloyi) to the goalkeeper, which was not intercepted by anyone. The 'keeper then sent a weak forward pass (not back pass) to another defender and thats when an Egyptian player stole the ball heating it with his knee over our 'keeper.

Thirdly, I'm angry that KickOff is allowing some people to place adverts (that has nothing to do with soccer - it even sounds like a 419 scum) in this forum.
posted: 12:38 am
Last year Ghana did so well in the WC. Few of the players in their squad were members of the U20 Ghana team. Some of the Egyptian U20 team that beat us are regular players for top team in Egypt.

Can someone in SAFA or the PSL explain to the nation why players like;
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posted: 12:44 am
Last year Ghana did so well in the WC. Few of the players in their squad were members of the U20 Ghana team. Some of the Egyptian U20 team that beat us are regular players for top team in Egypt.

Can someone in SAFA or the PSL explain to the nation why players like;
Siyanda Xulu (Sundowns 30/12/1991),
Avive Longer (Wits 20/06/1993),
Letsie Koapeng (Wits 17/02/1992),
Bhongolwethu Jayiye (Wits),
Siphesihle Nzimande(Arrows 30/08/1991)
are not in the U20 team.

It is clear SA don't take such tournaments seriously.
posted: 10:48 am
Again the youngsters proove me right, Football in SA is dead. People in this country know nothing about football & will keeep being heartbroken everytime.
posted: 11:56 am
Having been booted out early in the qualifying rounds by unknown Lesotho.........was a clear indication that our boys are USELESS.Anywhere even if we had won the cup, we would have done so by default. Shame SAFA!!
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Almost all these players are from Gauteng clubs. What do you expect when the selection process is so narrow?
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I have no idea why they are called Boston cookies. I’ve made them before obviously but I still don’t get it. They are a raisin walnut cookie and even though I don’t like walnuts I eat these. At least this time I remembered the cinnamon. Some days I can be so out of it.

I used egg replacer again and made a half batch. Still makes quite a bit!

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Grandma’s Boston Cookies

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  • 1/4 tsp Salt
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Kiribati (pronounced Kiribas) is an independent republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, located in the central Pacific Ocean, about 4,000 km (about 2,500 mi) southwest of Hawaii. It is part of the division of the Pacific islands that is known as Micronesia. Kiribati consists of 33 coral islands divided among three island groups: the Gilbert Islands, the Phoenix Islands, and the Line Islands.

All of the islands are atolls (ring-shaped islands with central lagoons) except for the island of Banaba in the Gilbert Islands which is a raised limestone Island. Of the 33 islands of Kiribati, 21 are inhabited. Most of the population is concentrated in the Gilbert Islands and only one of the islands in Phoenix Group (Kanton Island) is inhabited and three of the Line Islands are permanently inhabited. The capital of Kiribati is Tarawa, an atoll in the Gilbert Islands. Bairiki, an islet of Tarawa, serves as an administrative center.

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Land and Water

Kiribati has a total land area of 811 sq km (313 sq mi). The islands extend about 3,900 km (about 2,400 mi) from east to west. From north to south they extend about 2,100 km (about 1,300 mi), straddling the equator. Kiritimati (also called Christmas Island), one of the Line Islands, occupies 609 sq km (235 sq mi) and has the largest land area of any atoll in the world. Kiribati’s exclusive economic zone (area of the ocean in which it controls fishing and other rights) covers more than 3 million sq km (more than 1 million sq miles).

The majority of the atolls is barely more than six metres above sea level and surrounded by barrier reefs creating picturesque lagoons for fishing, snorkeling, scuba diving, swimming and other water sports. Professional scuba diving guide are available on Christmas Island, Fanning Island and Tarawa.

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Prior in 1994, the eastern and western islands groups were on either side of the International Dateline with a 23-hour time difference between them. The President of Kiribati at that time decided to move the dateline for convenience which attributed a 2 hour difference between Islands in the Gilbert Islands Group and the (Line and Phoenix) Islands Group. This also marked Kiribati to become the first nation to see in the Third Millennium and Caroline was renamed Millennium Island to celebrate the occasion during the year 2000.

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