The elusive six-pack abs we want is the one part of the body more women want more than any other. The good news is that getting that six pack does not have to be all that difficult. The bad news is there is not a way to get it while eating pizza sitting on the couch all day. There are plenty of ads geared at us trying to sell us the latest miracle fat burning pill or late night TV electronic gadget. They claim it will melt pounds while watching television, but the reality is nothing but work and discipline will get you there.
The formula is simple: eat a healthy diet and a solid core workout. You are on your own for the first one, here are our tips for the second!
Here is our guide to a killer core workout in four easy steps. We have put this together especially for men who want to build a strong six pack fast, and without the need for any equipment. For each exercise, we recommend two or three sets, with a 30-second break between each set.
To perform your first exercise, you will begin in a tabletop position. This is a core exercise all on its own when you hold your body in place for yoga or Pilates. Bend the knees, so the thighs are perpendicular to the floor, and your shins are parallel to the floor while squeezing your legs together. Start by lifting your right arm and left leg at the same time. As you kick the foot back, flex outward while your palm faces inward open to your face. When you reach full extension, pause for a second, drop back to the original position. Repeat with the opposite arm and foot. Repeat this left and right exchange for 15 repetitions for a full set. For a challenge, you can even change it up daily.
The sit-up is the ultimate classic abdominal go to exercise. Everyone should know this one so that we will focus on posture. You lie down with your feet under something stationary like a door or couch. Bend your knees up pointing them straight into the air. Next, place your arms crossed at your chest, not behind your neck and elevate your body straight up and down breathing in on the ground and out while up. Make sure you do not twist or jerk but move up and down in a fluid motion. While this is a simple exercise, it is also one of the easiest to injure yourself due to poor posture. You will want to do at least 20 per set.
For the jackknife, lie flat on the floor with arms raised above your head and legs flat in your starting position. Begin by exhaling while you bend your waist lifting yourself into a v shape with your arms and legs parallel to each other at about a 35-45 degree angle off of the floor. Finally, lower yourself back to the starter position while inhaling. Repeat this 15 times for a set.
This exercise is easy to remember since you look like a dead bug. The dead bug is possibly one of the most overlooked and effective ab exercises you can do. It is also easy to do because it is like an upside down Bird Dog. You begin by lying face up on the floor with your arms above your shoulders. Lift your legs, bringing your knees over your hips with the knees bent making a 90-degree angle. Be sure to keep your back in contact with the floor and breathe along with each repetition. You will then move your right arm above your head while at the same time moving your opposite left leg lowering it even with the floor. Next, return to your position with both arms and legs raised and repeat the same process with the opposite arm and leg. A bonus for this exercise is it trains left-right coordination between the extremities. This also helps improve cognitive function. Repeat this exercise 15 times on each side to complete a full set.
And there you have half of what you need for that killer six pack everybody wants. You do not need any fancy equipment or expensive trainer, 20 minutes a day dedicated to giving you the results you need. Remember, a strong core is also the key to a better and safer workout for the rest of your body. As you tone that six-pack, the rest is sure to come with it.
My name is John Welborn and I specialize in helping overweight and obese individuals transform their bodies, lives, reclaim their freedom and confidence, and reach the best shape of their lives. I am the founder of John Welborn Fitness, where I offer my services as an experienced personal trainer and group workouts at my gym in the Fairview / Portland Oregon area. I'm loving every minute of it!


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TPMS can be quite an inconvenience. These small components come in a variety of shapes, sizes, fitments, and frequencies. Finding the right sensor for your vehicle can be a real drag and with so much misinformation floating around, you also run the risk of purchasing the wrong sensors and throwing money down the drain.
Don't sweat it. TPMS Direct has got you covered. Schrader and Siemens VDO are the original equipment manufacturers for Buick. You can find Schrader and Siemens VDO sensors in Buick's entire product line, from the Allure to the Rainier.
Buick is the luxury division of General Motors and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.
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In a big blow to TTDP, after Revanth Reddy resigned from TDP membership and as MLA, another TTDP general secretary Vem Narender Reddy resigned from the post and party primary membership. He wrote a letter to TDP national president and AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in this regard. In the letter, he mentioned that after Telangana comes into existence, still there is no assurance to weaker sections. He mentioned that he will try to follow path which according Telangana society. Narender appealed Chandrababu to understand the situation with kind heart. Meanwhile,Sathish Madiga too resigned from party posts and membership .


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Oakmark Global Fund - Fund Letters
Oakmark Global Fund: Fourth Quarter 2017
Quarter and Calendar Year Review
The basic concept of the Oakmark Global Fund—with its broad geographic and market capitalization mandates and relatively focused portfolio—is to offer a single product that uses our firm's bottom-up approach to find the best values around the world and invest in those opportunities with conviction. As a result, the portfolio occasionally looks very different from the global indexes. This is a natural outcome of our investment process and, as many of our long-term investors know, it can take time for the market to recognize these values. This can lead us into some unpopular geographies and sectors, like our recent investments in Europe/U.K. and financials, respectively, which produced a couple of difficult years for the Fund. In that respect, we are pleased to report that this year, our large holdings in Europe/U.K. and the financials sector were the largest relative and absolute contributors from a regional and sector standpoint. Specifically, our holdings in Europe and the U.K. contributed to over 90% of this year's outperformance, relative to the MSCI World Index, and our financial sector holdings contributed to over 40% of this year's outperformance. While it may not feel like it every quarter or year, we are building what we believe is a truly conservative global portfolio of our best ideas, one company at a time, to maximize returns over a multi-year period.
The Oakmark Global Fund returned 3.9% for the quarter, which brings the Fund's calendar year return to 27.1%. Meanwhile, the MSCI World Index returned 5.5% during the quarter and 22.4% for the year. Please understand these absolute returns are exceptional relative to what one should expect on an ongoing basis, but we hope you enjoy them, as we do as fellow shareholders in the Fund. Since inception, the Fund has returned 10.8% versus 4.9% for the MSCI World Index and 5.7% for the Lipper Global Fund Index.
Our largest contributors in the quarter were Bank of America, TE Connectivity and Credit Suisse Group. From a country standpoint, our largest contributors were the U.S., Germany and the U.K. Our largest detractors were General Electric (GE), Grupo Televisa and CarMax. We purchased GE, believing the new management team would improve the cost structure and capital allocation. We discussed the motivation for CEO John Flannery to reset earnings expectations last quarter. Fast forward 90 days, and the rebased earnings at GE were worse than we anticipated with the primary difference being more secular, cyclical and company-specific issues in GE's power generation businesses. We continue to hold the stock, given the combination of price, our confidence in management and the strength of the businesses outside of power generation, which generate the vast majority of profits.
For the calendar year, the largest contributors were CNH Industrial, Allianz and TE Connectivity, while the largest detractors were GE, Grupo Televisa and Interpublic Group. From a country standpoint, the largest contributors were the U.S., Germany and the U.K. Mexico was the only detractor.
Portfolio Activity
During the quarter, we added two new positions—Johnson Controls and CoreLogic—and eliminated Itron, which had reached our sell target.
Johnson Controls (JCI) shares have underperformed since the $18B Tyco merger, which also brought a new CEO, George Oliver, whom we know and respect from his days at Tyco. We believe JCI had been undermanaged prior to the merger, and Oliver has the opportunity to improve operations in addition to achieving the merger synergies. Roughly three-quarters of revenues and two-thirds of earnings come from the legacy Tyco fire and security business and JCI's legacy HVAC and building automation businesses. JCI is also the largest producer of lead-acid automotive batteries with nearly 40% market share. While this business is lower growth, the fundamentals tend to be fairly stable as aftermarket accounts for 75% of sales.
CoreLogic provides unique residential real estate information to the financial services sector. The shares have been weak due to near-term cyclical concerns about declining refinancing activity. We do not believe this has a long-term impact on business value. Unique data businesses tend to have great returns and are difficult to replicate. CoreLogic fits this mold. The management team has been good stewards of capital and has reduced the share count 30% since 2010. Management has been improving margins for years, and we believe there is more room for improvement over the next several years. Meanwhile, CoreLogic is selling well below public and private market values of other high-quality data providers.
Geographic Allocation and Currency Hedging
We ended the quarter with 44% of our holdings in Europe and the U.K., 43% in the U.S., and 7% in Asia (Japan, China and India). The remaining positions are in Australia and Mexico.
We continue to believe the Swiss franc is overvalued versus the U.S. dollar. As a result, we defensively hedged a portion of the Fund's exposure. Approximately 15% of the Swiss franc exposure was hedged at quarter end.
We thank you for being our partners in the Oakmark Global Fund. As always, we invite you to send us your comments and questions.
David G. Herro, CFA
oakgx@oakmark.com
Clyde S. McGregor, CFA
Jason E. Long, CFA
Oakmark Global Fund – Investor Class
Since Inception (08/04/99) 10.78%
10–year 6.43%
3–month 3.90%
Gross Expense Ratio as of 09/30/16 was 1.23%
Net Expense Ratio as of 09/30/16 was 1.17%
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. The performance data quoted represents past performance. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. The investment return and principal value vary so that an investor's shares when redeemed may be worth more or less than the original cost. To obtain the most recent month-end performance data, view it here.
The securities mentioned above comprise the following percentages of the Oakmark Global Fund's total net assets as of 12/31/17: Bank of America Corp. 4.6%, TE Connectivity, Ltd. 4.3%, Credit Suisse Group AG 4.4%, General Electric Co. 1.5%, Grupo Televisa ADR 2.0%, CarMax, Inc. 1.4%, CNH Industrial N.V. 4.3%, Allianz SE 3.9%, The Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc. 2.1%, Johnson Controls International PLC 1.0%, CoreLogic, Inc. 0.04% and Itron, Inc. 0%. Portfolio holdings are subject to change without notice and are not intended as recommendations of individual stocks.
Access the full list of holdings for the Oakmark Global Fund as of the most recent quarter-end.
The net expense ratio reflects a contractual advisory fee waiver agreement through January 28, 2018. Harris Associates has agreed to continue the advisory fee waiver agreement through January 28, 2019.
The MSCI World Index (Net) is a free float-adjusted, market capitalization-weighted index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed markets. This benchmark calculates reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes using Luxembourg tax rates. This index is unmanaged and investors cannot invest directly in this index.
The Lipper Global Fund Index measures the performance of the 30 largest mutual funds that invest in securities throughout the world. This index is unmanaged and investors cannot invest directly in this index.
The Fund's portfolio tends to be invested in a relatively small number of stocks. As a result, the appreciation or depreciation of any one security held by the Fund will have a greater impact on the Fund's net asset value than it would if the Fund invested in a larger number of securities. Although that strategy has the potential to generate attractive returns over time, it also increases the Fund's volatility.
Investing in foreign securities presents risks that in some ways may be greater than in U.S. investments. Those risks include: currency fluctuation; different regulation, accounting standards, trading practices and levels of available information; generally higher transaction costs; and political risks.
The percentages of hedge exposure for each foreign currency are calculated by dividing the market value of all same-currency forward contracts by the market value of the underlying equity exposure to that currency.
All information provided is as of 12/31/17 unless otherwise specified.

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Did Johann Sebastian Bach die from eye surgery complications?
by Desiree Ho	September 21st, 2010
September 21, 2010 By admin0 Comments
'Father of Music' Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) suffered visual problems from a young age. In his portrait, Bach appears to squint, and the way his facial muscles are aligned has led analysts to believe that he suffered from shortsightedness. His condition was probably mild, however. If it was serious, it would have been very difficult for him to play the organ. With both feet pressing against the organ pedal, the body would naturally lean backward, and the eyes would then be further away from the music. Yet according to his son, his eyesight was always weak; and according to his first biographer Forkel, he had a "very painful disorder in the eyes".
By the time Bach reached the age of 64, his eye sight and general health were failing him. As a result, Bach had difficulties completing his final piece of work "the Art of Fugue" (Die Kunst der Fuge). Then, he heard of Taylor at one of the public lectures in Leipzig, Germany.
John Taylor (1703–1772) was a well-known British eye surgeon. Appointed eye surgeon to King George II and many of the European courts, he was honoured by many and wrote many books, including his autobiography. And like most eye surgeons in his day, he travelled and practiced his medicine extensively in different towns.
Taylor would begin his practice in each new city with a big lecture. This attracted large crowds to his lessons, and so did the exuberant paintings of eyes on the exterior of his carriage. Before performing each surgical procedure, he would deliver a long, self-promoting speech in his own unusual style. In fact, his arrival would be publicized several days in advance. He claimed that his unsurpassed surgical skills could cure misaligned eyes. He made his name as a cataract surgeon. The procedure he performed involved using a hook needle or thorn to pass through the cornea or sclera into the opaque material caused by cataract, in order to manipulate it, break it up or "couch" it below the pupil level. Many say travelling was common practice for eye surgeons in those days, because improvement from treatment was often temporary, so travelling allowed them to flee before the bad effects could surface.
Determined to complete his life's work, Bach sought Taylor out and underwent two painful eye operations. The condition that he suffered was likely to be cataracts. Cataracts occurring in the elderly are characterized by an initial opacity in the lens, subsequent swelling of the lens and final shrinkage with complete loss of transparency. The modern-day treatment for cataracts is to make a cut into the envelop of the lens and surgically remove the cloudy lens, not unlike couching. However, with modern instruments, anesthesia and antisepsis, the operation is highly effective and takes no more than 15 minutes.
More than a hundred years before John Taylor's time, the Chinese eye surgeon Fu Renyu reported curing cataracts with the couching procedure, which he carried out with a curved needle. In his book Shen Shi Yao Han (literally the "Sacred book of eye surgery"), he described washing the eyes of the patient with icy water until the "blood stopped flowing." The patient was then seated with two men firmly holding his head, while he fixed the eyeball in place with one hand and removed the cataract with a gold needle with the other. He then treated the patient's eyes with medicine and wrapped them in cotton bandages for three days.
Taylor's operation was probably similar to Fu Renyu's and modern-day surgery, as all the procedures involve the removal of the cloudy lens. Back in the day, anesthesia had not yet been invented, so alcohol and opium were used to alleviate the pain from surgery.
After the surgery, Bach suffered immense pain both in the body and in the eyes, probably due to badly treated post-surgery complications. Taylor, to our surprise, reacted by dripping fresh dove blood into his eyes, and allowed Bach to further undergo blood-letting procedures that did not do much but make him weaker. On a more terrifying note, Taylor even cut a small wound next to the eyes and rubbed in bird stools and tree root in Bach's eyes, which were then covered under bandages.
According to his biography, Bach exclaimed that he had gained a full recovery and could see completely when the bandage was taken off after three months. However, Bach suffered an apoplectic fit just within a few hours of his claim, leading many to believe that he was hallucinating. Thereafter, he suffered a stroke and fever, and fell into ten days of coma. He passed away on 28 July that year.
While the opinions are not unanimous, many historians believe that Bach's death was largely due to complications from Taylor's incompetence.
Imagine if Bach had never met John Taylor. How many more years would he have lived? How many more tunes would he have composed? Perhaps Bach would have gone on to complete "the Art of Fugue". Perhaps children today would be sitting on their piano chairs, practicing a few more of his world renowned classical tunes. Or maybe, Bach would just have gone completely mad, and wished that he had actually met John Taylor.
Jackson, D. M. (1968, October 12). Bach, Handel, and the Chevalier Taylor. Retrieved July 26, 2010, from Medical History: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1033864/?page=6
Jan Hanford, J. K. (1995-2010). The J.S Bach Home Page. Retrieved July 26, 2010, from http://www.let.rug.nl/Linguistics/diversen/bach/leipzig3.html
Lienhard, J. H. (1988-1997). No. 1186 Bach and Handel. Retrieved July 26, 2010, from Engines of Our Ingenuity: http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1186.htm
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Finnland nahm an den III. Olympischen Winterspielen 1932 in Lake Placid mit einer Delegation von sieben männlichen Athleten an zwei Sportarten teil. Dabei konnten die Athleten drei Medaillen erringen, davon je eine Gold-, Silber- und Bronzemedaille. Es war die dritte Teilnahme Finnlands an Olympischen Winterspielen.

Teilnehmer nach Sportarten

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Marcus Nikkanen (Platz 4)

Eisschnelllauf
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Ossi Blomqvist (Vorrunde)
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Ossi Blomqvist (Vorrunde)
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Ossi Blomqvist (Vorrunde)

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 Martti Lappalainen (Platz 4)
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 Veli Saarinen
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 Martti Lappalainen (DNF)
 Tauno Lappalainen (Platz 7)
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Telephone support is also provided by our Service Department, which operates Monday through Friday, from 09:00 - 17:00.The Service Department also stocks a large range of spare parts to cover customer's needs.
Specific service contracts are available for certain products and systems. For further detailed information, please call the company during regular working hours at the telephone 0030 2107248144.
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The Civil Wars (z ang. Wojny domowe) – epos historyczny tworzącego na przełomie XVI i XVII wieku angielskiego poety Samuela Daniela. Dzieło składa się z ośmiu ksiąg i opowiada o wojnie Dwóch Róż, czyli walce rodów Lancasterów i Yorków o panowanie w Anglii w XV wieku. Pierwsze cztery księgi tej rycerskiej epopei zostały opublikowane w 1595. Epos został napisany oktawą, czyli strofą ośmiowersową pochodzenia włoskiego, rymowaną abababcc. W literaturze włoskiej ta zwrotka jest układana jedenastozgłoskowcem, a w poezji angielskiej pentametrem jambicznym, czyli zasadniczo dziesięciozgłoskowcem, w którym akcenty padają na parzyste sylaby wersu. Poniższa strofa przedstawia charakterystykę rycerzy z rodu Percy:

Utwór składa się z prawie 900 strof, liczy więc około 7000 wersów.

Zobacz też: The Barons' Wars

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Why Even the Most Innovative Companies Are Struggling with Diversity
Dianna Labrien April 21st 2016 10:04 am
When you think about a company that is struggling with a lack of diversity or cultural acceptance, what do you picture? Perhaps you envision a mom and pop business that is struggling to succeed in spite of the principles of the organization holding views that are no longer seen as relevant in modern society. It certainly wouldn't be a company known for innovation, or a tech startup run by Millennials that suffered with this kind of problem, would it? Well, as it turns out, these companies are having serious problems with diversity.
The Benefits of Diversity
Diversity isn't just a nice idea, and it isn't just about political correctness. People who work in diverse environments simply perform better. That is the simple benefit of working with people who are not exactly like us. We work hard to make our ideas clear, to consider the input that others have to offer, and in general create and perform to the best of our abilities. Lack of diversity is almost like working in an echo chamber.
A Homogenous Workforce in the Tech Sector
The truth is, members of racial and cultural minority groups are not getting hired at tech firms, at least not in numbers that come anywhere close to reasonable representation. When it comes to compensation, things get even worse. On average, the salaries paid to white employees in the technical sector absolutely eclipse the earnings made by African and Latino workers. Consider software publishing in particular where a white person might earn close to 200k while an African American professional will only earn, on average, less than 100k.
Why Aren't Tech Companies More Diverse?
First of all, recruiters from tech companies have long been showing up at plenty of different colleges and tech schools ranging from the University of California to MIT. Where they haven't been showing up, at least until recently is at traditionally black schools, like Howard University. In addition to this, minority candidates are often held to higher standards than others both in recruiting and when it comes to meeting the standards for advancement.
The Trouble With Gatekeepers
Unfortunately, tech companies are not immune to the problem of gatekeepers, and the unfortunate truth is that many of these gatekeepers aren't always that enlightened about or interested in diversity. In fact, they may even work directly against it. Consider the well-known scientist who made extraordinarily offensive and backwards statements about other female scientists. There's also the problem of presumed ownership from many white, males who are interested in technology. For them, women and minorities are often seen as faking their technical passions. So, everything must pass through their criteria, rather than being treated with professionalism and respect.
One place where this has really played out is in the area of gaming, especially online gaming. Not only does diversity lack in the workplace, many gaming communities are known for focusing intense verbal and emotional abuse on female gamers.
The time has long passed for tech companies to become more diverse on their terms. Candidates, employers, vendors, etc, must all demand that these companies prove that they are committed to diversity before giving them their business.
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@DiLabrien
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text:
NYT: Gore to Appear With Obama
Anthony Watts / June 16, 2008
I wonder if Obama will create a new cabinet position for Gore? I'm sure he could find a staff, as you can now get a degree in Global Warming from the University of Mumbai.
Gore to Appear With Obama
By Jeff Zeleny
Former Vice President Al Gore will endorse Barack Obama tonight in Detroit.
(Photo: Denis Balibouse/Reters)
FLINT, Mich. – Former Vice President Al Gore will appear in Detroit tonight for his debut campaign appearance with Senator Barack Obama, extending an endorsement and urging all Democrats to rally behind the party's fall ticket.
"A few hours from now I will step on stage in Detroit, Michigan to announce my support for Senator Barack Obama," Mr. Gore said in an e-mail sent to his supporters. "From now through Election Day, I intend to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected President of the United States."
The whole article here
June 16, 2008 in Al Gore, Climate_change, Politics.
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76 thoughts on "NYT: Gore to Appear With Obama"
There is no chance that Gore will accept a position in government. If he wanted a government job he would have run for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination and won it by a landslide. The Goracle is going for the big bucks and any government job would force him to put his large business portfolio in a blind trust.
jblethen says:
No way would Gore accept a cabinet spot, too much of a pay cut.
David Segesta says:
How does this sound?
Obama for prez
Hillary for VP
Al Gore for secretary of global warming.
Ah Jeeze!
I saw an advertisement recently touting a cure for awakeness. I think I may need it soon.
Rick Lambert (aka Rico) says:
Just what Obama needs — another crazy preacher. Lol!
Craig McPeck says:
Evan Jones says:
One' rection is stuck halfway between "Oi" and "Oy".
Jeff B. says:
Kiss of death for Obama.
just Cait says:
Rico, that's hysterical! I can hear it already,
"God HEAT America! God HEAT America!
(notice how rearranging the word heat you get the word hate… and he certainly must with all his lies and popaganda)
Robert Coté says:
One heartbeat away from one world government. Shudder, and not from the cold.
Upon reflection on the single issue of AGW this could be the best thing for skeptics. It would force McCain to reevaluate his superficial positions on AGW and would by necessity be forced away from the racial interventionist left.
Steve Moore says:
Bob Barr for President!
You suppose Montana will secede before Election Day? Maybe I can move there.
John A says:
I suspect that this will be the first and last time you'll see Obama and Gore together.
Tom Bruno says:
Doesn't England have a spot for a religous leader who at one time was almost as powerful as the King or Queen? Perhaps BIg Al can be the Archbishop of Canwetakeyourmoney.
Mike C says:
Cool! Maybe now Obama can do what Gore refuses to do; explain how to correct for the temperature stations at Tahoe City, or Lewiston Maine, or Lampass TX, or Miami AZ, or… or… any of the 87% of bad stations in the "high quality" US network. I hope he doesn't feed the public the same old line about how they are compared to surrounding stations; "yes folks, here we will adjust the record of this urban station in the middle of the concrete jungle to these stations in the country side… like this one next to the barbecue, or this one in the parking lot… or this one on the roof…"
Andrew Upson says:
Where'd that puking emoticon run off to?
I've no doubt that if HopeChange wins in November (looking increasing, and frightenly, likely) that the Goreacle will wind up as some sort climate advisor at a minimum. And if that happens, the cap'n tax bill will become but a fond memory of what could have been a preferable alternative.
I just really hope McCain makes a wise decision on his VP candidate. Any of Gov.'s Jindall, Rall, or Palin would be awesome. Choosing any of Messers Bloomberg, Romney, Huckabee, or Leiberman would leave me little choice other than to vote for Bob Barr.
Traciatim says:
May $diety have mercy on our $internalEssences
Dishman says:
Al Gore is possibly the person most responsible for $4+ gasoline.
David Gladstone says:
This was written to several large threads:
Here is another self-serving, very late endorsement that means less than nothing good for the Democrats. Despite the attempts of some, to deify the loser of what ultimately will have proven to be, the most important campaign in our time (2000, not 2008, of course!). Many democrats have always considered that he was a terrible candidate and that judgment has been borne out by events, Gore was unable to swing his home state and now he is a straw-man for a quasi-religious environmental movement that has little connection with scientific truth.
Anthropic Global Warming (AGW) poses a threat to our economy, future energy supplies and perhaps individual freedoms as well. My own support for Obama will not withstand Obama's full throated support for Gore's alarmist fictions; I think this should worry the candidate. I voted for him over Hillary, but this involves one of the crucial issues of our time and my vote will be guided by my instinct as to what is best for my country and not guided by a win at all costs democratic campaign that eschews the need to make good legislation based upon reality and not phantoms. The Democratic energy bill, thankfully shelved, was a complete joke and boondoggle, weighted down with earmarks, a disgrace. At the same time the media has done nothing to educate or inform their viewers about the true state of the energy/climate-change debate. Not once have any of you mentioned that Gore is not a scientist and has no such credentials. His Nobel prize is a black mark on that once august body. There is a raging wildfire of controversy over Gore's so called AGW; an incredible number of scientists object to the whole 'house of cards', yet the networks act as if this issue is settled and that Gore's assumptions and that of his anonymous AGW mentors, are correct; even a very brief survey of the net shows emphatically that this is patently false. I only wish there were enough people who support Obama who could educate him on the realities of these issues, however, I am feeling completely cynical at this point about the stupidity and credulity of the American people!
Pamela Gray says:
If Obama lets that man speak one word on his behalf, Obama will not get my vote. He is far more dangerous than any crazy preacher/priest/pastor/evangelical/minister/frier/or televangelist. I didn't vote for Obama in Oregon's primary. He has not won my vote yet. This could be the one that leaves me throwing a dart in the booth.
You suppose Montana will secede before Election Day?
To drag back a quote from 1860 regarding SC.
"Too small for a country yet to large for a lunatic asylum."
Ric Werme says:
That link to the global warming course doesn't work for me (random Linux, Firefox V2). However, I was able to find it at http://www.mumbaimirror.com/net/mmpaper.aspx?Page=article&sectid=2&contentid=2008061620080616024120237f8620d45
They don't offer a degree yet, it's just a pilot program patterned after programs they saw in London.
I'd be tempted to buy a degree in Global Warming from some degree mill. Perhaps I can start my own.
As for me, I'll be voting Libertarian.
Brent Matich says:
Reid:
You're absolutely right, only an absolute moron would put his carbon trading billions in a trust to be in government. Er ,on second thought, maybe your wrong!
deadwood says:
I once called myself a liberal because that meant I supported individual freedom. I once called myself an environmentalist because that meant I supported balance between civilization and nature.
I still support individual freedom and balance between civilization and nature. But I can't support the fascist, one-sided, anti human policies to which these labels now apply.
It truly saddens me that Obama would seek anointment by the high priest of the pseudo-religion of AGW.
My opinion of him is diminished.
theironwang says:
b-rack O -presidente
rev. al sharpton- veep
al gore- sec of the state of the world
bill clinton- sec of keepin' it real
random gun-toting citizen from south carolina- sec of def
it'd be like the justice league of america…. TWO POINT OH!
http://suburbanconnoisseurs.wordpress.com/
Jeff Norman says:
I was wondering about that too. Could the Gore Effect have the same impact on Obama's campaign as it does on the weather?
poetSam says:
"He is far more dangerous than any crazy preacher/priest/pastor/evangelical/minister/frier/or televangelist." Pam
Thanks for not including "poet". If Al is dangerous, it is because no one has considered him worthy of attention. I guess he snuck up on us like Hitler did.
I went to great effort to make sure none of this rhymes.
DR says:
Other than promising everything under the sun, what qualifications and executive experience does Obama have? Now Al Gore throws full support for Obama. Will this be yet another "he wasn't who I thought he was"?
Obama is nothing new or fresh. He's from the same mold as any other politician making big promises of doling out money from the public treasury…..oh, and of course confiscating wealth from producers to give to the non-producers. Isn't there a definition for that form of government? It used to be taught in schools long ago.
I live 1/2 hour from Flint, Michigan. Aside from gang shootings, high crime (4th most dangerous in country, or is it 3rd now), political corruption, failed schools and boarded up businesses, its a great place to live.
Obama comes to town and basically lists off multiple new government program band aids as if that's going to improve Flint's status. There's nothing like buying votes with other people's money.
People think energy and food prices are high now? There's gonna be "change" alright. We are screwed.
old construction worker says:
I also, once called myself a liberal because that meant I supported individual freedom and less goverment in my pocket.
Deadwoods, we are showing our age.
I my vote for Bob Barr
Roger Carr says:
just Cait says: God HEAT America! God HEAT America!
I guess he snuck up on us like Hitler did.
I hate to break this to you, but Hitler didn't sneak up on anyone.
He did it all quite out in the open with the West singing, "LA-LA-LA WE CAN'T HEAR YOU, WINSTON!"
I'm still trying to figure out how Al Gore did it. (Maybe Like mini-Sauron with his missing finger saving up his spit in Dol Guldur since the Y2K elections?)
I still call myself that. My kind will eventually defeat the unliberal radicals who hijacked the word "liberal" and reestablish the term.
A vote for Bob Barr is a vote for Obama. A vote for Obama is a vote for Al Gore. He ain't my first choice, but so far as I'm concerned, it's raining McCain.
I'll dodge tornadoes and non-existent terrorists to write in Ron Paul's name. Also, unless I know better (which I don't) I will vote against EVERY incumbent. Take my country to hell, will you? You first!
Syl (Lutnes) says:
It's going to snow in Michigan tomorrow! (ya think?). Perhaps this election will end up being about AGW or NOT after all!
I heard the DNC is strapped for cash for the convention party in August. Mayhaps with the 'new kind of politics' they can solve their problem by redistribution of wealth. Take some of Obama's campaign cash and give it to the DNC! Would Obama learn the lesson?
No Barr for me. McCain is the Safety Net and don't forget that.
hugo smith says:
Obama looks like a fairly clever chap to me, with all the recent caimpaning he probably hasn't had the time to sit down and work out the numbers. That fixing the so called climate problem is just not feasible. Especially with the current US economy doing badly, trade deficit, food and oil prices. On the surface he thinks its a goog idea to have the Climate God Gore on his side but if he wants to stay in office he's going to have many many others things that will take priority.
This Gore/Obama alliance isn't complex. Obama is the Democrat candidate. Gore must support him or take a chance on years w/o influence.
So Gore endorses.
If Obama wins Gore will get paid one way or another. If Obama loses Gore still can run in 2012.
A blind trust may not be all that "blind". It really depends upon the integrity of the administrators. But it would stop Gore from being an officer of the funds he is now running. I think he has some radio network ala Air America too.
Love that one. I think I'll borrow it.
Nothing unusual here.
Gore needs to help Obama or President Obama won't like Gore. That can make life difficult for up to 8 years.
So Gore helps Obama and as President Obama will reward Gore.
If Obama should lose Gore can run in 2012 against a very old McCain. That is probably Gores only shot at the top job.
Obama is taking a risk that Gore's endorsement will prove a liability. I don't see that happening and apparently Obama doesn't either.
To moderator and readers. Sorry for the double post about Gore.
My network crashed and I believed the first version had not been. After the outage I rephrased the message and submitted.
Then both appeared. Drat..
Redneck says:
Your right Hitler did not sneak up on us. And I think it will be hard for anyone to argue that Al Gore snuck up on us either if you consider An Inconveinient Truth and the $300 million he wants to spend to educate us about AGW (Al Gore Warming).
papertiger says:
The other guy is starting to dance to my music.
Updated ARLINGTON, Va. — With the price of gasoline surging past $4 a gallon in many parts of the country, Senator John McCain called today for the lifting of the federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling for states that want to permit it.
He said that he also favors giving states incentives to allow exploration, part of an energy proposal that he said would be "very helpful in the short term for resolving our energy crisis."
Someone's angling for my vote, inspite of his knot headed position on glb wrming.
cohenite says:
I don't usually do politics, next to it climate is pretty straightforward; but any political leader who has anything to do with Gore has no credibility at all. It is a travesty that Gore and people like Mann still have their nobels and are feted at dingbat web-sites, while people like McIntyre, who has heroically discredited the basis of Mann's pestilent 'hockey stick' with his work on Graybill's Bristlecones, have little recognition and are still plugging away. After Ababneh's more extensive 2006 study on the same Bristlecones as Graybill's produced a completly different result showing the MWP warmer than today, it is amazing that the leading AGW scientists are not digging ditches for a living.
And now there is a new tree study which demolishes the conventional temp and CO2 historical perspective;
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nature07031.html
If any one in political circles had any decency they would have nothing to do with Gore.
That's strange; I posted at Jennifer Maharosy's blog about bristlecones and a new plant study and thought I'd present the details here in the context of Obama's camaraderie with Gore and I got a repeat message signal. I'll try again. I don't usually do politics, next to it climate is pretty straightforward; but any political leader who has anything to do with Gore has no credibility at all. It is a travesty that Gore and people like Mann still have their nobels and are feted at dingbat web-sites, while people like McIntyre, who has heroically discredited the basis of Mann's pestilent 'hockey stick' with his work on Graybill's Bristlecones, have little recognition and are still plugging away. After Ababneh's more extensive 2006 study on the same Bristlecones as Graybill's produced a completly different result showing the MWP warmer than today, it is amazing that the leading AGW scientists are not digging ditches for a living.
oops, sorry about that; I'll take note of the signs next time!
Steve in SC says:
Many of you seem shocked by this turn of events.
The AGW thing has never been about science. It is strictly along politico-religious lines and always has been.
Obama will snuggle up right next to Algore because he is cut from the same piece of cloth. Democrats and a few Republicans are drinking the Kool Aid and asking for more. There is no way this should surprise anyone.
"… I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. " Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson warned us to beware of the ideals of liberal democrats long before they were in vogue.
MarkW says:
This election is rapidly approaching a choice between bad, and down right awful.
I'm calling for a do over, for both parties.
I believe you answered your own question.
Mike Bryant says:
Hitler didn't sneak up on us. Many here in the US applauded and supported him because he was the spearhead of Global Eugenics. Hollywood, Roosevelt, four of the supreme court justices, Roosevelt and the Rockefeller Foundation all admired his forward-thinking work to clean up Earth's gene pool. After all, Global Eugenics was the overwhelming consensus of scientists.
Steve Keohane says:
I don't think Gore snuck up on us, he had a book in the early 90s "The Earth In Balance" or something like that. Therein he proposed even more exagerated climate shifts than in AIT. I guess he's more conservative now…
Although I voted for him in 2000, Gore is now an abomination to me. A long time Dem, this whole AGW thing has changed me politically in a way I never would have thought possible, and I now think of myself as an Indie. Voting for McCain would have been easy if he hadn't idiotically climbed aboard the AGW bandwagon. So, I will most likely end up voting for Obama, but cast my support for the Repub senatorial candidate here in NH, John Sununu who will need all the help he can get.
Stephen Richards says:
The slimy Gore has waited to see who the outright winner will be and then begun his manipulative, slimy activity. The problem is that from France Obama looks like a relative amateur to Gore and we know only too well that Gore will be manipulating things from behind if Obama wins and then we know also that the Average American is not going to win any intelligence competition, after all you voted in Regan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and now a old hack or a young socialist. The rest of world will be trembling, except of course the Arabs and islamists.
Cohenite,
Politics and decency aren't those contradictory terms.
I hope it doesn't take a world war to put the lie to Global Warming, as it did to end Global Eugenics…
sid says:
The Audacity of Hope: Obama is indeed quite audacious in hoping that he can hug Al Gore in a town where factory workers are being laid off by car manufacturers and not have his actions perceived as another poke in the eye by blue collar workers…
I have seriously considered each candidate on both sides of the spectrum. I started a post on why I liked some things but not other things on each candidate and got so discouraged that I cut the entire paragraph out.
That dart board is beginning to beckon.
Or maybe we need to bring the biotch back.
Pierre Gosselin says:
I've predicted Gore becoming a part of the Obama Admin. (Obama will certainly capture the presidency), more than once in this blog.
Gore will become the Climate Czar, with broad powers in
1. NASA
2. FCC
3. IRS
4. EPA
timprosser says:
It is sad that so many are hung up in childish Gore-bashing, apparently quite distracted from the real challenges posed by our inevitable exhaustion of fossil-based energy resources, runaway population growth in the undeveloped countries, and the need to move towards sustainability. Those issues transcend your political affiliation, not to mention whatever pundits you get your "news" from …
Incidentally, I recommend the new book I got for father's day and just started – "Just How Stupid Are We?" by Rick Shenkman – very interesting.
Retired Engineer says:
Hitler did not sneak up on us. The world ignored him (except for a cranky old guy named Winston) Anyone who read "Mein Kampf" knew Adolph's intentions.
Gore did not sneak up on us. Read "Earth in the balance". Al said what he believed and would do if the opportunity arose.
As Secretary of the Environment, or perhaps Environmental Czar, he may well have the opprotunity do do what he said.
As for blind trusts, not needed, Al is far too honest to require anything like that.
"Bridge for Sale"
Rick Lambert says:
"Senator John McCain called today for the lifting of the federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling for states that want to permit it."
Does anyone know which states would be likely to permit it? My understanding that Florida doesn't, California certainly doesn't. How about Alaska? What about other states?
As for being "very helpful in the short term for resolving our energy crisis," well, I guess that depends on how you define "short term". Even if access is provided tomorrow, off shore sites aren't likely to come on-line for another decade. It might help futures prices in the short run, but not supply.
I'm in favor of more access to domestic oil, but I don't think it will make much of a dent in resolving our energy crisis. For that we need better efficiency and cost-effective alternatives. And with a little capical investment (e.g., a robust investment tax credit) I think the ingenuity is available to make it happen.
If it's raining McCain I'll have to bring my um-Barr-ella.
I guess that's how we have to talk politics on a weather website.:-)
Demesure says:
"you can now get a degree in Global Warming from the University of Mumbai."
It's must be easy to earn a degree on how NOT to build coal or nuclear plants, how NOT to use cars or planes, how not waste MWhs in electronics gadgets, especially for an Indian student.
Rick Lambert,
Gov Crist of Florida is getting on board with drilling in the Gulf. This will be a good thing because our territorial waters extend only 9 miles into the Gulf. China, Cuba, Venezuela and a host of others can drill there if they want and we know they won't care if there is any damage done to the US coast line. How politically unpleasant it would be for the US to have to buy Gulf of Mexico oil from another country because we didn't allow drilling.
opsailor says:
This link contains a well-stated overview of the hoax being perpetrated on a dependent and fawning population:
http://www.cityviewmag.com/stories-the-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated_134.html
Tom Bruno, by golly you're right! What a difference a few days makes. Now, if he could only get the FL legislature on board.
By the way, my understanding is that Cuba has no problem allowing American companies to bid for drilling rights within their territorial waters. It's the US embargo that prevents it. How do you feel about that? Also, I dispute your contention that US territorial waters extend only 9 mi into the Gulf. I believe you mean 9 mi is the limit where FL state jurisdiction supercedes federal jurisdiction. Federal jurisdiction extends further out. And as far as I know, national drilling rights anywhere in the Gulf is not being questioned by anyone — at least not at this point. So it's not as if Cuba, or anyone else, is impinging upon any territory that is in dispute. Am I incorrect?
G. Halliwell II says:
That was a reasonable post for your point of view, but you are banned for previous behavior~jeez
It may well be the 9 miles is where State of Florida jurisdiction ends. I didn't mean to imply there was any territoral dispute, only that once in international waters anyone can drill without US approval or environmental jurisdiction. So if some other country is going to do it, why shouldn't we? BTW, I heard today that the Democratic leadership in Congress is arguing that it will take 10 years to get this crude to the pumps in the US. Their conclusion based on that is: why bother, it doesn't help now. Of course, it was Wild Bill Clinton that vetoed drilling in Alaska in 1995, 13 years ago. Using their own timetable, we would have had plenty of that oil by now. This is also what discourages oil companies and their investors from even starting a project, fear of changing politics that will close them down after a few years and billions spent, all without results or ROI.
You asked for my feelings on the Cuba embargo. It is my understanding that the embargo was imposed after Castro nationalized all the private businesses and industries operated by large US corporations stealing billions of dollars from them in the process. Until his regime is gone, or they repay the corporations (many of which are still in existance) the embargo will stand.
I am sure it isn't that simple anymore however, I agree with the embargo based on that.
"inevitable exhaustion of fossil-based energy resources"
Since this won't happen for several thousand years, I fail to see why immediate attention is so urgent.
"runaway population growth in the undeveloped countries"
You haven't been paying attention for decades. Even in Mexico, the birthrate is down to little more than 3 live births per woman. The UN's last prediction was for population to peak in 2050. It is my belief that they are too pessimistic by at least 2 decades.
Try looking at the facts, you will be surprised.
I'm pretty sure that Texas and Lousiana would permit drilling. Alabama and Georgia probably would as well. Florida doesn't seem to be as lost a cause as it used to be.
As for "taking 10 years" to get to the pump, it will take a whole lot longer if we don't ever start. More efficient cars will take at least that long to have a real impact, people won't change overnight. Same with any improvement. We have to start. And realize that we don't have the ultimate answers today.
But if we don't start, we'll never get there.
Perhaps the Rev's electric runabout isn't the best solution. It may start someone else thinking of a better way. I rather doubt a massive "cap-n-trade" tax will have the same result.
Tom Bruno, "I didn't mean to imply there was any territoral dispute, only that once in international waters anyone can drill without US approval or environmental jurisdiction."
What I'm saying is that it is my understanding that when it comes to national drilling rights, "international waters" doesn't apply anywhere in the Gulf. In other words, it's not a question of who gets there first, it's merely a question of who wants to exploit the resources within their national province. That's my understanding. The only thing in real question is the veracity of my understanding. Can anyone provide compelling evidence that my understanding is incorrect?
As far as whether members of one party or another are more to blame than members of the other party for the current circumstances, I think it's pretty obvious that both are responsible. If nothing else, you have to admit that Gov Crist's flip occurred only in the last few days. So did McCain's, for that matter. Moreover, my recollection is that former Gov. Jeb Bush wasn't at all fond of the idea either when he was in power. Neither was his dad when he was president. Now the question is in the hands of the FL legislature. How do you think that's going to go? I mean really?
You single out Clinton on a completely different issue (Alaska) — an issue, by the way, which even McCain hasn't flipped on even now. As far as I know, he's still against drilling in ANWR. That may change. And I guess you could say that's getting to be my fundamental problem with McCain… I'm beginning to have real trouble discerning between what he stands for and what he just says in order to garner votes. As a long-time McCain supporter I have to say that really hurts. Goddamit John, say what you mean — and keep saying it! It's precisely because he isn't doing that that makes Obama more attractive to me. I'm not saying I will vote for Obama, just that I'm considering it more than I otherwise would. And that's painful.
On the other hand, I have been a long-time supporter of domestic drilling — especially in ANWR. So on that issue I guess it puts me to the right of McCain. I mean come on… look next door at the north slope. Once they figured out how to do it, it appears to me that the environmental impact was minimal. If others disagree I'd love to hear your POV.
I don't consider myself heavily influenced by traditional ideology of any sort. If I subscribe to any ideology it would be efficiency: to me, it's whatever works best — in the broadest terms. I'm not insensitive to environmental concerns, but I don't consider them in a vacuum. I'm not insensitive to market concerns, but I don't consider them in a vacuum either. That attitude tends to make me unpopular with members of both the traditional left and right. But so be it.
This poem is for jeez
him only to please.
I'm afraid if you post
we'll both be soon toast.
Contract for America
Newt is a ninnie.
Twice traitor is he,
both to the South
and to liberty.
If I had the money
and it weren't no sin
I'd buy a contract FOR America
and his name append.
Gee jeez, you posted!
If you don't here from me
assume I'm toasted.
Gerald Ingle says:
Perhaps a B.S in BS would be in order for "Dr." Gore……….
statePoet1775 says:
Al, poor Al!
His bet on the future:
Looks like it's turned sour.
Did he learn not
(in Sunday School)
the future is His,not his,
to rule?
Fossil fuel will be around in a thousand years, but who will be able to afford it? "Exhaustion" is a relative term based on cost. Many are struggling to pay the increased gas cost they've had to pay to get to work lately. In my area gasoline went up 33% in 16 weeks. Granted, that's an aberration, but the trend is clear (unless and until demand is reduced). Costs are rising, and substitutes aren't ready or sufficient yet.
As any system is pushed near capacity its resilience and ability to recover from changes are reduced. How much of a problem with food or water supplies does it take for a city like Mexico City or Karachi to become a humanitarian disaster?
Personally, I'd rather see humanity become smart enough to limit its numbers and live a lot more efficiently before things get too bad. Education and family planning, and economic assistance that mandates ecologically responsible courses of action, are needed, IMHO.
http://www.timprosserfuturing.wordpress.com


Great news! Your propensity for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, or not knowing what to say at the right time, may not be so bad after all!
You don't have to rely on other people to make you laugh; you can laugh at yourself. When you trip and fall over your own high heel shoes, you don't have to feel embarrassed, I'm sure the words coming out of your mouth are much more embarrassing.
An article on A Plus directed me towards a Vsauce video by Michael where he explains how being socially awkward is not all bad! Social awkwardness can actually make you seem more trustworthy and more forgivable. Socially awkward people are often thought of as kinder and more generous! Yay!
So relax and let your socially awkward personality shine through because it's saving you from focusing on all the other embarrassing things that you do…like seeing how many beads you can stuff down your shirt at inopportune times.
But friends of socially awkward people, beware! Appparently our awkwardness is contagious! Michael explains something called vicarious embarassment, where our awkward behavior can make those around us feel awkward as well. But hey, why wouldn't you want to join the party? It's fun!
All those times you thought to yourself, why did I say that?! or why didn't I have anything I could have said?! No worries, you're most likely a really cool person…you just have troubles showing people because you're too busy being awkward. The good news is, socially awkward people are more likely to show empathy to others who are going through a hard time.
Your familiarity with feeling awkward, should help you notice when others are feeling the same way, giving you the opportunity to reach out to them and either be awkward together (power in numbers!) or create a social situation that's less awkward. My last personal tip from one socially awkward woman to another…try wine… I'm not sure whether it actually makes us less socially awkward, or whether it just makes us forget/not realize how socially awkward we are, but either way it's a social lubricant worth keeping in your toolbox.
Got any socially awkward friends? Share this article with them to make them realize it's not that bad!
I think we should all stay loveably awkward.


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good day - 45 to an hour with traffic.
worst - hour and a half to 2 hours.
20 Minutes and in my experience this is the sweet spot. Just enough time to caffein-ate and prepare for work, additionally on the way home its perfect amount of time to decompress.
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I don't know how folks can do over an hour. Salute.
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Honestly. At that point it's time to relocate or find a new job...especially if you're doing it 5 days a week.
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Been relentless here too man. Better than polar vortex though.
5 minute walk. Also walk to the crib for lunch. I appreciate the amount of time saved.
5 mins in a cab that work pays for.
When the MTA wants to run smooth & if I legit catch the train once I get down to the platform, it can take me 10-15 minutes tops.
On average, I'd say 10-20 depending what train I take. Before I moved tho, door to do about an hour .
Roughly an hour to go home.
25 minutes with no traffic.
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Phoenix' sprawl is ****ing horrible.
Fortunate enough to find an apartment not too far from work.


Forever I am always fascinated by stars and I got a chance to photograph the stars out in Payne Lake which is in southern Alberta near the US border. A close friend of mine passed away that week and I knew he was there with me. The stars and my friend will be in my mind and my hearts forever. This photograph is dedicated to him. Field Notes: Nikon D800 / f4 / (1hr10min) / ISO80 / Nikon 16-35 @ 16mm.


One thing I find interesting is when brand names of products are adopted as the actual name of a product. For example when people say they need a kleenex. Kleenex is a brand of facial tissue. So they should actually say they need a tissue.
Sometime it bothers me for example when people say they rollerblade. Rollerblade is a brand of inline skates. You skate, you don't rollerblade.
Here are a couple of awesome links with examples of this phenomenon of products being called by a brand name rather than their actual name.
Oh yeah, and about "Googling" I hate when people say "Google It". I'll "search for it" thank you. There are other search engines out there you know. Ok, so I will use Google, but I'm still searching for it.


Recently I was asked to describe the 'under the hood' memory management of variable and objects in blocks.
I think that in 2013 almost every iOS dev knows the practical usage and effect of putting the __block keyword before the declaration of a variable, but maybe what's happening for real is not so straightforward.
If blocks aren't kept around anywhere, will remain on the stack and will go away when their stack frame returns. While on the stack, a block has no effect on the storage or lifetime of anything it accesses. If blocks need to exist after the stack frame returns, they can be copied to the heap and this action is an explicit operation. This way, a block will gain reference-counting as all objects in Cocoa. When they are copied, they take their captured scope with them, retaining any objects they refer. If a block references a stack variable or pointer, then when the block is initialized it is given its own copy of that variable declared const, so assignments won't work. When a block is copied, the __block stack variables it reference are copied to the heap and after the copy operation both block on the stack and brand new block on the heap refer to the variables on the heap.
LLDB shows that a block is a nice piece of things.
The most important thing to note is that __block variables and pointers are treated inside the block as structs that obviously handle the reference to the real value/object.
Ready? Here is the log. With explanation!
Hey, this pointer or primitive type relies on the stack with its own address. Please refer to this little friend with a new variable on the heap. I mean… refer to the object with double dereference, and don't retain it.
If at some time after the declaration but before the invocation of the block, the object has been released and deallocated, the execution of the block will cause a crash. __block variables are not retained within the block. In the deep end… it's all about pointers, references, dereferences and retain count stuff. As expected.


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Inflatable Tap Sticks are great for getting a crowd going!
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The Three Shades It is both a privilege and pleasure to see Rodin's craft up close and observe the nuances of his creations,en plein air, at the Cantor Arts Center in Stanford.
Seen from behind, The Three Shades are a picture of powerful musculature. These three pieces are one and the same but turned at different angles.
Up close, you can see the curvatures and indentations, feel the strength emanating from the composition and enjoy the play of light on the surface. Rodin's contemporaries were the Impressionists and his works are as much about the effect of light on the object or subject as they were with Monet and his generation. And since many of Rodin's works are displayed outdoors, light is a defining factor in his ouevres. Notice the contrast of light and dark on the faces of these two Shades and how light intensifies the facial expression.
And here are their hands, as expressive as their physique, like the fingers of Michaelangelo's David in the Sistine Chapel.


An image of two Newhaven fishermen in a small boat. One man stands holding an end of the net. He wears a red cap and long black boots. The other man is seated in the boat and holds the other end of the net. He wears a blue hat. Two larger sailing boats can be seen behind them. The image is surrounded by an intricate gold design of birds and butterflies.


Ah, the Internet: Banksy Arrested. Not!
London, England — The elusive graffiti artist, political activist, film director, painter and long time fugitive that for years has gone by the pseudonymous name of Banksy, was arrested early this morning by London's Metropolitan Police. After hours of questioning and a raid of his London art studio, his true name and identity have finally been revealed.
Within hours, the story was shared over 200,000 times on Facebook and Twitter and picked up by a number of major online sites, including the Gawker blog Jezebel. The story quotes "London Police Chief Lyndon Edwards" at a press conference "confirmed by the BBC" and includes an "AP" photo of the real Banksy.
This morning, though, several news sites have reported that the whole story was a hoax. Then again, this very story could be a hoax planted by Banksy fans while he sits in jail. But, no—because everything you read on the Internet is true.


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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › District Courts › Texas › Southern District of Texas › 2013 › VALUEBANK, TEXAS v. UP2U, LLC et al › Filing 136
VALUEBANK, TEXAS v. UP2U, LLC et al, No. 2:2012cv00294 - Document 136 (S.D. Tex. 2013)
Court Description: AMENDED ORDER granting 104 Motion for Reconsideration; granting 105 Motion for Reconsideration and amends the Court's Order of October 11, 2013 (DE 98 )..(Signed by Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos) Parties notified.(mserpa, 2)
VALUEBANK, TEXAS v. UP2U, LLC et al Doc. 136 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI DIVISION VALUEBANK, TEXAS, Plaintiff, VS. UP2U, LLC, et al, Defendants. § § § § CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:12-CV-294 § § § § AMENDED ORDER The Court GRANTS the Motion for Reconsideration of Motion to Dismiss filed by Simply Taxes, LLC (D.E. 104) and the Em-Tax Motion for Reconsideration of the Document 98 (D.E. 105) and amends the Court's Order of October 11, 2013 (D.E. 98) as follows: Before the Court is "Defendant Simply Taxes' First Amended Motion to Dismiss Defendant-Claimants United States, People of the State of Illinois, and UP2U, LLC for Lack of Subject-Matter Jurisdiction" (D.E. 70) pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1). Prior to consideration of this Motion, the Court granted Defendant UP2U, LLC's Motion for Summary Judgment, dismissing that Defendant from this action. D.E. 74. Defendants, United States (US) and People of the State of Illinois (Illinois) have filed their respective responses (D.E. 78, 80). For the reasons set out below, the Motion (D.E. 70) is DENIED. 1/6 Dockets.Justia.com DISCUSSION A. Statement of Jurisdiction This is an interpleader action, filed in the Nueces County District Court by ValueBank, Texas (ValueBank) against several adverse claimants to two deposit accounts held by ValueBank in the name of UP2U, LLC (UP2U). ValueBank did not plead a specific rule or statute supporting the use of interpleader procedure. D.E. 1-1. In its Amended Answer, Illinois refers to the interpleader action continuing in this Court as initiated under "Rule 43 of the Texas Code of Civil Procedure." D.E. 61, p. 1. Illinois does not plead any additional jurisdictional provisions. Interpleader in federal courts is permitted under a number of authorities, including 28 U.S.C. § 1335 and Fed. R. Civ. P. 22. The US removed the action to this Court, reciting federal question jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331, jurisdiction over the US as a Defendant under 28 U.S.C. § 1346, and actions affecting property on which the US has or claims a lien under 28 U.S.C. § 2410(a)(5) (reciting the use of interpleader actions). In stating its cross-claim to the interpled funds, the US has recited subject matter jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1340, regarding actions arising under the Internal Revenue Code, specifically 26 U.S.C. § 7402(a) (conferring jurisdiction to enforce the internal revenue laws) and § 7405 (regarding the right of the US to file actions for erroneous tax refunds). Title 28 U.S.C. § 1367 provides supplemental jurisdiction over all claims that fall within the same "case or controversy." 2/6 B. The Competing Claims At issue are monies related to Internal Revenue Service tax refunds. According to the pleadings, certain tax returns were prepared by Simply Taxes d/b/a Mo' Money Tax Service, LLC (MMT) and Money Co. USA, LLC (MCUSA), and were filed electronically. MCUSA and/or Em-Tax Software, Inc. (Em-Tax) provided tax preparation software to MMT which was used to account for the receipt, segregation, and disbursement, through UP2U, of individual tax refunds. The monies were held in UP2U's account for payment processing and were then allocated to (1) the taxpayer's net refund, (2) the tax preparer's (MMT's) fees, including Electronic Return Originator (ERO) fees, and (3) MCUSA's and/or Em-Tax's licensing fees. The interpled funds represent some of these non-disbursed funds. The pleadings can be summed up to reflect the following status of competing claims to the interpled funds: • UP2U disclaimed any interest in the funds and has been dismissed. • Simply Taxes makes a claim for funds held on behalf of MMT, MCUSA, and Em-Tax. • The US claims an interest in the funds because the gross tax refunds included amounts paid in error due to improper education credits claimed on individual tax returns. The US asserts that its claim properly extends to the interpled funds with respect to both the amounts held for the taxpayers and the amounts held for ERO fees. • Illinois holds a money judgment against MMT, and MCUSA for violation of consumer protection statutes, which it seeks to collect from any amount of the interpled funds that is found to be owed to those judgment debtors. 3/6 • Illinois also claims that Em-Tax was a part of a fraud perpetrated by Simply Taxes, MMT, and MCUSA and that some of the funds belong to Illinois taxpayers as legitimate tax refunds and that some should be paid to those taxpayers as reimbursement of tax preparation fees that should not have been charged and/or in restitution for a fraudulent scheme. C. Jurisdiction and Standing in the Interpleader Context Subject matter jurisdiction includes the "irreducible constitutional minimum of standing." Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 560, 112 S.Ct. 2130, 119 L.Ed.2d 351 (1992). In Lujan . . . , we held that, to satisfy Article III's standing requirements, a plaintiff must show (1) it has suffered an "injury in fact" that is (a) concrete and particularized and (b) actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical; (2) the injury is fairly traceable to the challenged action of the defendant; and 3) it is likely, as opposed to merely speculative, that the injury will be redressed by a favorable decision. An association has standing to bring suit on behalf of its members when its members would otherwise have standing to sue in their own right, the interests at stake are germane to the organization's purpose, and neither the claim asserted nor the relief requested requires the participation of individual members in the lawsuit. Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Comm'n, 432 U.S. 333, 343, 97 S.Ct. 2434, 53 L.Ed.2d 383 (1977). Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc., 528 U.S. 167, 180-181, 120 S.Ct. 693, 704 (2000). Both the US and Illinois have stated claims related to the interpled funds that satisfy this test of Article III standing. See generally, California v. Texas, 457 U.S. 164, 171, 102 S.Ct. 2335, 2339 (1982) ("The presence of these justiciable controversies between stakeholder and claimants satisfies the 'case or controversy' requirement of Art. III."). 4/6 Simply Taxes contends, however, that the US and Illinois do not have the necessary standing to maintain their alleged claims in an interpleader form because they may have a claim to some money, but not "this particular money", and thus they do not have adverse claims to the interpled funds. D.E. 70, p. 2. Simply Taxes argues that the claims must be mutually exclusive and adverse to one another. As summed up in 7 CHARLES ALAN WRIGHT & ARTHUR R. MILLER, FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE § 1705 (3d ed. 2001): It now also is settled that the claims need not be mutually exclusive in order to be adverse. Interpleader may be used whenever a limited fund is involved that could not fully satisfy all the claims being asserted. This interpleader action, involving Simply Taxes, the US, and Illinois, is permitted because there are competing claims that exceed the amount of a limited fund, and because the US is making a claim to the same funds in the registry of the court that Illinois claims for its taxpayers—tax refunds paid in error to the taxpayers. And Illinois, as a judgment creditor of MMT and MCUSA is making a claim to the same funds that Simply Taxes claims in MMT and MCUSA's name. A judgment creditor has standing in interpleader to enforce its judgment against a stake in which the judgment debtor retains an interest. United States v. Barry Fischer Law Firm, LLC, 2012 WL 591396, *7 (S.D.N.Y. 2012) (citing Weininger v. Castro, 462 F.Supp.2d 457, 471–475, 500–501 (S.D.N.Y.2006)). 5/6 CONCLUSION For these reasons, the Court DENIES "Defendant Simply Taxes' First Amended Motion to Dismiss Defendant-Claimants United States, People of the State of Illinois, and UP2U, LLC for Lack of Subject-Matter Jurisdiction" (D.E. 70). ORDERED this 20th day of December, 2013. ___________________________________ NELVA GONZALES RAMOS UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 6/6


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August 17th, 2021 Breaking News
Taliban plot next steps as U.S. retreat accelerates
THE WASHINGTON TIMES — A surge of American troops restored order and evacuation flights resumed from Afghanistan's main international airport Tuesday, while Taliban representatives now ruling Kabul began a publicity blitz to plead for calm and convince the world the militant group has changed its ways since ruling over the Afghan capital with an iron Islamist fist two decades ago.
A top Taliban leader issued a statement ordering the group's fighters not to enter the homes of ordinary Afghans, while spokesmen claimed they'll honor women's rights, as long as those rights fit within the group's definition of Islamic law — an assurance that fell largely on deaf ears as men, women and children tied to the fallen U.S.-backed government continued to scramble for the exits in Kabul.
The scene at Hamid Karzai International Airport was, however, notably calmer Tuesday than it had been a day earlier when chaos reigned as throngs of people rushed the tarmac and seven Afghans were killed, including several who fell from the wheel well of an American military transport plane after it had left the runway.
Biden administration officials said more than 4,000 U.S. troops are now at the airport, arriving via waves of C-17 transport planes, several of which were later used to ferry U.S. citizens home. Thousands of Afghans are also being housed in third countries or in temporary holding facilities at American military bases.
Pentagon officials said the goal is to move as many as 9,000 passengers a day out of Kabul. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the Biden administration had set a deadline of Aug. 31 to complete the evacuation amid uncertainty over the extent to which the Taliban may seek to violently halt the operation.
April 30th, 2018 Related News
Slain Young Journalists Saw Their Work As A Way To Make Afghanistan A Better Place
(GANDHARA) — Radio Free Afghanistan journalist Abadullah Hananzai was furious on April 25 when he learned that a former colleague had been gunned down at a market in Kandahar in an apparent targeted killing.
"The murder of my former colleague at Kabul News, a great journalist named Abdul Manan Arghand, has greatly upset me," Hananzai wrote in Pashto on his Facebook page. "Arghand is now a martyr for freedom of speech."
It would be Hananzai's last public Facebook post.
Hananzai and Radio Free Afghanistan video producer Sabawoon Kakar were among multiple journalists killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul on April 30. The journalists were covering an earlier suicide attack when a second bomber, disguised as a reporter, approached them and detonated his explosives.
Maharram Durrani, a 28-year-old university student who was training to become a journalist at the Kabul bureau of RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan, was also killed.
Claimed by Islamic State militants, the blasts killed at least 25 and injured 45. The Afghan Journalists Center said that, with nine reporters killed, it marked the deadliest attack against journalists in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.
Hananzai was a video journalist who had been working since October 2016 on an antinarcotics project at RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan — a project called Caravan Of Poison.
A graduate of Kabul University, Hananzai was 26 years old and was preparing to celebrate his first wedding anniversary on May 8.
He previously had worked for Kabul News and for Zhwandoon TV, as well as for the Educational and Cultural Center for Afghan Women.
Hananzai's recent reports for RFE/RL focused on the social and economic implications of drug addiction in Afghanistan, as well as efforts by the Interior Ministry to crack down on international narcotics trafficking out of Afghanistan.
One of Hananzai's last Facebook posts was a message in English on April 19 and a photograph taken of himself in the compound of Radio Free Afghanistan's Kabul bureau shortly after a rainstorm.
"Feeling fantastic. I find Peace in the Rain," Hananzai said.
Kakar was one of the first journalists to arrive at the scene of the first suicide bombing in Kabul on the morning of April 30.
He died from his injuries at a hospital in Kabul several hours after the second blast.
Kakar was a key member of Radio Free Afghanistan's video team over the past five years.
His work included feature stories about social issues in Afghanistan — such as the status of women's cricket in the country — as well as news about counterterrorism operations and security issues.
Kakar's last video report was on April 29 — a package he produced with RFE/RL reporters in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan about a battle between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants.
"He was often covering the aftermath of suicide attacks and other dangerous spot news situations," said Qadir Habib, a senior editor for Radio Free Afghanistan. "He was a brave man who was never afraid to cover dangerous stories."
On his Facebook page, Kakar declared that despite bombing attacks against voter registration centers in Kabul, he had registered and planned to vote in Afghanistan's October 20 parliamentary elections.
The 30-year-old Kakar, a native of Kabul, died one day before his fifth anniversary as an RFE/RL journalist. He is survived by his wife and a two-year-old son.
Maharram Durrani was a third-year student of Islamic law at Kabul University who was just starting her career as a journalist.
Durrani was being trained to take part in the weekly woman's program RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan — a job she was due to start on May 15.
She previously worked for an Afghan online music channel called Radio Salam Watandar.
"When I began working in media, one of my first bosses asked me why I was studying Islamic law but working in media," Durrani told RFE/RL during a February phone-in program.
"He said these are not related subjects. But I said, 'No, that's not true'," Durrani explained. "It's very much related because the media can provide information to all people."
July 23rd, 2017 Related News
In This War Minnesota's Twin Cities Are Lost to Islam
(UNDERSTANDING THE THREAT) — After spending all of last week in Minnesota, UTT's professional assessment of the enemy situation is this: the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota – known as the "Twin Cities" – are in enemy-held territory. They are, at least for the time being, lost – meaning, they are under the control of a collaborative jihadist/marxist element there.
The jihadi network in America is documented by UTT here, here and here, as well as in Raising a Jihadi Generation.
The Islamic jihadi network in the United States includes the most prominent Islamic organizations in America, as well as most of the 3,000+ Islamic Centers/mosques, all of the 700+ Muslim Students Associations (MSAs), all of the Islamic Societies and Islamic Associations (Hamas), and a large number of the Islamic non-profits created in 1993 forward.
The purpose of the Islamic Movement here – per their stated doctrine – is to wage Civilization Jihad until America becomes an Islamic State under sharia (Islamic Law).
One of the most popular junior high school text book in Islamic schools in the United States (Emmerick, Yahya, 1999, What Islam is All About, page 382) states:
"The duty of Muslim citizens is to be loyal to the Islamic State."
Enemy Strength
Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in America. It is estimated that over 125,000 Somalis live there, most of whom are in the Minneapolis area. This community sent at least 22 Islamic jihadi fighters overseas to fight for the terrorist group Al Shabaab, although some estimate the number is closer to four dozen.
The Cedar Riverside neighborhood is also called "Little Mogadishu" in reference to Somalia's capital. Some Minneapolis residents feel parts of their city have become like a third world nation.
Inside a 10 mile radius of Minneapolis city-center, there are at least 29 Islamic Centers/mosques, and an unknown number of home-mosques. The Twin Cities area is home to Hamas organizations including CAIR and Islamic Associations. The Muslim Brotherhood's Muslim Students Associations (MSAs) are on at least 21 Minnesota college and university campuses. There are MSAs in at least 11 Minnesota high schools recruiting jihadis and turning public opinion towards the Palestinian Cause (Hamas) and away from Israel.


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Eric Clapton - Timepieces
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time.
Timepieces: The Best of Eric Clapton is a greatest hits album by blues-rock musician Eric Clapton. It was released in May 1982 with his smash hit singles. The album cover features Eric Clapton's favourite guitar, Blackie.
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