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The other team better mooove over! Chear on the home team from the stands in this Mascot Cow Costume. Jump around, dance, even do a backflip in this funny animal costume. This is one cow that won't get tipped!


Along with some friends, we volunteered to help out at the Laramie Enduro ( a 70+ mile mountain bike race that brings riders from all over the US to little 'ol Laramie, Wyoming) yesterday. This has become an annual event that we love to take part in.
This piece was created after returning home and thinking about the wonderful day spent in the wilds of Wyoming.


A manager for Charlie Sheen said that the actor had actually entered rehab yesterday.
"[He] is currently in rehab," Mark Burg told People magazine. "He was bombarded by every rehab in the country looking for his wallet and publicity, and he has been deciding where to go. With the help of friends and family, he finally agreed to go and went into rehab on Saturday."
Burg, who is also an executive producer on Sheen's TV series "Two and a Half Men," told the magazine that his client has much to work on as far as his treatment goes. "Charlie hopes to be back at work in the near future but there is no time frame. Regaining his sobriety is what is most important."
it was previously reported that Sheen was in treatment on Friday, said the actor's rep Stan Rosenfield.
As a result of Sheen's current situation, production on Two and Half Men is now on hiatus.
Selected Readings: People, "Charlie Sheen Enters Rehab, "Two and a Half Men" on Hold"


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What a massive performance!!.... :goodie:
How wrong can appearances be..!! :Yahoo:
Anyone who has not seen her on UK TV.....this is a woman that has never got married, has never had a boyfriend and, as she says, she has never even been kissed. Look at the judge's reactions just before and just after she starts singing.... :uhm:
We should never judge people by appearance....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk
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WOW! She was amazing! And the saying goes, Never judge a book by it cover!!! An outstanding performance by any means.
The UK does have talent!
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Much have I seen and been listening to, but this is just amazing and warmhearted. Great preformance. I hope she will win it all!
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A friend called me yesterday and told me about it then sent me the youtube video, it truly did bring tears to my eyes, I would say she got her wish, she will be a great singer, she already is!
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Niecarrah,
you are spot on and we also got Simon Cowell who in my humble opinion the best of the TV judge's going.
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we also got Simon Cowell who in my humble opinion the best of the TV judge's going.
He definitely seems to know his stuff..... :thumbsup:
Simon Cowell who in my humble opinion the best of the TV judge's going.
You are spot on here, Cowell is definitely the BEST judge, also on this side of the pond!
Would somebody please pass me a beer!
Talent knows no boundaries - see http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/2009/04/at_the_risk_of.html
If you like the sound of Susan, try this:
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Susan Boyle's audition on Britain's Got Talent looks set to become the most viewed YouTube clip of all time.
With just over a week after it was uploaded to the site, Susan's audition has now been watched more than 100million times.
The current record for number of hits is 'Evolution of Dance' by Judson Laipply which has been viewed more than 118million times.
Miss Boyle's 'I Dreamed a Dream' audition has already eclipsed that of Barack Obama's victory speech (18.5million hits) and George W. Bush ducking a shoe in Iraq (33.2million hits).
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And once again Susan Boyle did it :Yahoo: ...Go for it Susan! :dance: :Hammys pint:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5WXTefb6kc
Indeed, she did it again! :thumbsup:
She is Great.....She will win it...
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TOMMY BAHAMA INTRODUCES NEW MEN'S FRAGRANCE
by Stephen Garner Feb 28, 2017
Island-inspired lifestyle brand Tommy Bahama has announced the national wholesale distribution of its latest men's fragrance, Maritime. The new addition to the Tommy Bahama men's scent portfolio is now launching at fine retailers nationwide including Belk, Bon-Ton, Dillard's, Lord & Taylor and Von Maur following its exclusive debut at Tommy Bahama stores and online for holiday.
Tommy Bahama Maritime is an aromatic-woody fragrance created by Frank Voelkl, Senior Perfumer at Firmenich.
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The scent draws the wearer in with a zesty combination of citrusy bergamot, sweet Lavender, fresh pink pepper and clary sage, concluding with smooth notes of violet leaf, geranium and ambergris. The fragrance is rounded out with cedarwood, sandalwood, musk and Moss to create a long-lasting aroma reminiscent of the sea air.


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PNB Rock "Notice Me" MV
By Essince 8:54 PM notice me, pnb rock No comments
So I'm on tour with Reverie right now and we have an off day in my old stomping grounds of St. Louis. We were coming back from some bomb BBQ and was tuned in to 104.1 and a song of his came on ("Selfish") and I was immediately hooked...I looked it up and it was the cat, PNB Rock. I'd seen his name before on flyers and never really went out of my way to hear him. I think it's because I assumed he was another mumbler or something or I think the dudes he was on shows with weren't my cup of tea (best of luck to 'em). But I heard this and realized how foolish I'd been.
I work in this industry for a living and am all about new music and wanted to formally apologize to PNB and his fans for being a d-ckhead. He's incredible. I've been hooked on his videos for HOURS. He's incredible. I was planning to post like 3 others but ended up deciding on THIS single instead, "Notice Me".
I love the concept of this song and video is fire.
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Basic - "3 Weeks Sober" MV
I came across this video recently and not only do I like the song but the subject is something that hits close to home.
Michigan-based emcee Basic (@basicmuzik) tells a dark, and beautifully realistic story of a man's struggle with heroin.
I actually went to a funeral for a friend since first grade who'd overdosed on heroin in the past 6 months and heroin hit my city and friends pretty hard since high school. I actually ran into a friend who'd been clean and sober from a Nasty heroin addiction about 3 days ago.
This subject is important and I'm glad to have the platform to share it.
Directed, Filmed, Edited and produced by Cracka Lack who I was blessed to meet this past A3C in Atlanta.
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Chris Rivers' Hot97 Freestyle on Pun's Deathiversary
By Essince 11:04 AM Big Pun, Big Pun's Son, big punisher, Chris Rivers, flex, freestyle, funk flex, video 1 comment
Anyone who knows me knows Big Punisher is my favorite MC. 17 Years ago This Week Big Pun passed away. And on the anniversary one of his friends, the OG Funkmaster Flex invited Pun's son, Chris Rivers to Hot97 to spit a Nasty freestyle over his dad's "Brave in the Heart" beat (which has arguably mt favorite Pun verse).
Rimy Low Key "On The Floor" [Toronto]
By Essince 11:45 PM on the floor, rimy low key, toronto 5 comments
It's been a while since I blogged here. I've been busy but also, uninspired. Lots of submissions but they didn't fit the steez of the site, n'ahmean?
Enter Toronto-based singer, Rimy Low Key. He just released his new song, "On The Floor" produced by Akeel Henry and Versedl. I recognized the voice from before but this
"It's an eclectic blend of synth pop and funk reminiscent of 80's dance music. The song is about a girl who finds herself too far gone at the party but instead of this leading to her downfall she's overcome by the music and finds love, at least for the night."
It's super catchy. Great to break me out of my blog funk. Cheers, Toronto.
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The first female recipient of a Nobel Prize, Marie Curie is also the only person to have received two Nobel Prizes in different scientific fields.
If asked to picture a female scientist, Marie Curie is most likely the first woman that comes to mind. Born in Poland in 1867, she moved to Paris at the age of 24 to continue her studies at the Sorbonne, where her career in the physical sciences started.
Jamie Gallagher discusses some of the difficulties she encountered during this time.
Multiple Nobel Prize Laureate
Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize and is the only person, male or female, to receive two Nobel Prizes in different scientific fields.
Together with her husband, Pierre, she was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics in recognition of their study into spontaneous radiation.
She continued her research into radioactivity after the death of her husband and in 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry. It was awarded in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry through the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element.
Marie Curie died in 1934 but her scientific legacy continued beyond her death in the shape of her eldest daughter, Irene. Along with her husband Frederic Joliot, Irene was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements.
Marie Curie's contribution to the chemical sciences was further recognised when in 2011 when it was declared the International Year of Chemistry to coincide with the centenary of her being awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry.
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President Obama Speech on Immigration in Las Vegas
2013-01-30T01:00:16-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/4f0/20130129144334001_hd.jpgPresident Obama outlined his proposals for immigration reform. His plan included increased border security and penalizing businesses that knowingly hire undocumented workers, an option for the 11 million illegal workers already in the country to earn citizenship, and streamline the current legal immigration system. In his remarks he complimented the efforts of a bi-partisan group of senators who announced their immigration reform plan the previous day but said that if Congress could not pass its own immigration reform legislation "in a timely fashion," he would send his own bill and "insist that they vote on it right away." The event took place at Del Sol High School in Southern Las Vegas.
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President Obama outlined his proposals for immigration reform. His plan included increased border security and penalizing businesses that knowingly hire undocumented workers, an option for the 11 million illegal workers already in the country to earn citizenship, and streamline the current legal immigration system. In his remarks he complimented the efforts of a bi-partisan group of senators who announced their immigration reform plan the previous day but said that if Congress could not pass its own immigration reform legislation "in a timely fashion," he would send his own bill and "insist that they vote on it right away." The event took place at Del Sol High School in Southern Las Vegas. close
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Financial and Tax Expert, Sean O'Hare, was interviewed by realtor.com on what to do if there are more than two beneficiaries in a home trust.
The article titled, "In a Home Trust, How Does One Beneficiary Buy Out the Others?," talks about how a home trust that has more than one beneficiary can get complicated. The article also discusses how to buy out another beneficiary and missteps that can happen in the process.
Clients who are homeowners often ask us how they can lower their tax liability. This answer is always complex, as you have to put in mind so many variables such as marital status, income, dependents, etc.
One of the recommendations we give for people who own homes that are at least eight years old is to simply fix it.


When the moral panic concerning widespread abuse of children by Roman Catholic clergy surfaced in early 2002. many people asked why the Church hierarchy allowed the abuse to continue so long.
"I am quite certain that sexually abusive priests were well known to Catholic authorities for years. There was a history of bishops and archbishops moving offending clergy to another jurisdiction rather than confronting the issue. My guess is that both the abuse and the cover-up were quite systemic, far more prevalent than has yet been admitted or faced. Perhaps that is the clue to their allowing it to continue. If it was as widespread as we now believe, it must have involved people in high places, including bishops, archbishops and cardinals. A thorough investigation and a complete and honest admission might well have constituted so severe a threat to the life and integrity of that noble institution that they deemed their needs better served by dishonesty rather than honesty, by cover-up rather than admission. Of course, in the long run, the integrity of the Church itself is eroded and the exodus of members that begins as a trickle and ends with a flood."
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The Philadelphia Inquirer has a section on its website detailing its investigation of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the Philadelphia, PA and Camden, NJ areas. See: http://www.philly.com/ This requires a free registration. It includes links to a 424 page Grand Jury report, a catalogue of sexually abusive priests, letters from Cardinal Rigali, etc.


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Alexei Tsvetcoff: The Myth of Moscow's "Bourgeois Liberal" Protesters
"Fuck Off, Putin!" Protesters at the August 10 fair elections rally in Moscow. Photo by Vadim F. Lurie
Alexei Tsvetcoff
I have to say something about the extremely tenacious, contagious myth that bourgeois liberals are the only people protesting at present. They are strangers to regular folks, so the myth goes, and thus the cops, who come from the common people, take such pleasure in beating them black and blue.
The myth is not borne out by the facts. Among the most malicious "street extremists," the people who have had criminal charges filed against them, there are an unemployed man, a construction foreman, and several students from a variety of colleges, some of which are not so posh.
There are, of course, also a couple of programmers and a manager in the group of people who have been arrested and charged, meaning it is a cross-section of the Moscow populace, with no class dominating one way or another. If you have been to the protest rallies you will have seen that members of nearly all social groups were in attendance except for oligarchs, officials of the current regime, and the cops, who are on the other side.
When you present this simple empirical evidence to proponents of the "elite protest" myth, they have one last argument, also fallacious, up their sleeves.
Okay, they say, maybe Muscovites of all stripes really have taken to the streets, but their leaders, the people who encouraged them to come out, who led them onto the streets, are definitely bourgeois liberals who are strangers to simple blokes.
There is no evidence of this, either. Among those who spoke at the rallies and somehow represent the protesters, there were people who espouse completely different political views and come from all walks of life. It would be hard to pigeonhole municipal district council member and independent candidate Sergei Tsukasov as a bourgeois and liberal, wouldn't it? And what about Alexei Polikhovich? I could go on but I would have to list nearly all the speakers.
To see "liberals" and "agents of the west" in this extremely diverse group of people, who share only one demand (the same rules for everyone: the universal right to nominate candidates for public office, vote for them, and run for public office themselves) you have to be willing to see the world the way the Putinist TV channels paint it.
As for the cops, they retire at a completely different age, earlier than ordinary folks. The current oligarchic regime provides them with apartments and tons of other perks. So, there is no way they could be classified as ordinary people.
They have such great fun waving their billy clubs at any and all dissenters because they have a very specific material interest. The thievish regime need only toss them scraps from its table for them to have an excuse to be really cruel to anyone who threatens the regime's privileges.
Meaning, simply, that the cops are in on the take. They do a good job of guarding their master, who keeps them well fed. They could not care less who this master is. In this sense, it is completely pointless to reason with them, shame them, and appeal to their conscience.
Returning to the popularity of the myth that it is snobby liberals raising a ruckus on the streets nowadays, I should point that, first, although the myth is at odds with the obvious facts, it is so persistent because it is propped up by two crutches, not one. And, second, it relies on the regime's ubiquitous propaganda. In this case, the oligarchic regime has no argument but that everyone who opposes it is an enemy of ordinary people.
So, the choir of Solovyovs, Kiselyovs, and hundreds of other agitprop yes men sing this song at a deafening volume, competing with each other in the process, because how loud they sing probably has something to do with how close they will get, in the end, to the feeding trough and, thus, with being able to be as far from the selfsame hoi polloi as they can. There is no way people like them want to get mixed up with the broad popular masses, to sink to their level. They want to keep on living the good life of propagandists with all the foreign real estate, offshore bank accounts, and other perks that working as professional fans of the Motherland entails.
But that was the second reason the myth of anti-populist liberals is so persistent. The first reason is completely different. It is the perfect excuse for the political passivity and political fear experienced by people in our atomized society with its extreme shortage of solidarity and self-respect.
The Russian man in the street says something like this to himself.
Of course, I see what has been going down. I see how the haves have divvied everything up among themselves and where things are going. Why don't I go out and take my stand against them? Maybe it's because I'm a bit of a chicken?
But that hurts and I don't want to think about it. I need another, more flattering argument . . . Right, that's it. I don't go to protest rallies and avoid getting messed up in politics because all the people who do go out and protest are—
(He reaches for a lifesaver in the shape of his TV set's remote control or a Kremlin-funded website.)
—all liberals and agents of the west. (Thanks for the prompt!) Employees of the US State Department and enemies of the common folk, they want to bring back the nineties. Elections are only a cover.
I am no fool. I would never go anywhere with these people and demand anything. I am smart and discerning, and now I have an alibi for when I look at myself in the mirror. And since I want to stay this way forever, I am going write the treasured mantra on the inside of my door: "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't."
Thanks to Sergey Abashin for the heads-up. Photo courtesy of Vadim F. Lurie. Translated by the Russian Reader
P.S. You are probably wondering why a pro-common people myth-buster such as Mr. Tsvetcoff would resort, in the end, to trotting out the sock puppet of the Russian "man in the street" (obyvatel') who, allegedly, believes everything he sees on Kremlin-controlled Russian TV. This is because, whether liberal, leftist (like Mr. Tsvetcoff), nationalist or none of the above, almost no one in the country's self-styled opposition has figured out that you oppose a terrifying, destructive, criminal regime like the Putin regime with superior political organization, not with a sense of your own moral and intellectual superiority.
Since the Russian opposition is inordinately fond of protest rallies and marches, you would think it would pull out all the stops to get as many people to them as possible and, thus, scare the hell out of the regime. But if there is anything the Russian opposition hates more than the Putin regime, it is grassroots political organizing, meaning knocking on doors, stopping strangers on the street, buttonholing friends, neighbors, and workmates, and persuading them to do something most of them will not want to do at first: protest publicly against the regime. As nearly no one does the dirty work of getting people to rallies, almost no one goes to them.
Rather than blame themselves for their unwillingness to mobilize people and thus organize a movement that could, eventually, be capable of confronting the regime and perhaps defeating it, the opposition is fond of blaming the unwashed masses and "men in the street" for their passivity and timidity. When opposition liberals play this blame game, they usually target public sector employees, the lumpenproletariat, and residents of Russia's far-flung hinterlands, who, allegedly, constitute Putin's electoral base.
I would have thought opposition leftists would know better than to make what amounts to the same argument, but I was wrong. // TRR
By hecksinductionhourin leftists, politics, protest, regime, society, solidarity, zeitgeist August 14, 2019 August 14, 2019 1,332 Words1 Comment
Alexei Tsvetcoff: A Supremely Intelligible Speech
Vladimir Putin, "Address to Russians on the 2018 Pension Reform," 29 August 2018
Putin's speech was supremely intelligible. It boiled down to this. We could just as well not change the retirement age over the next ten years, but we are going to do it anyway merely because we want to do it. We are going to fuck each of you over to the tune of one million rubles at least, because we like lining our pockets with the money, and no opposition can do anything to stop it.
We are not going to raise the taxes of the oil and gas bourgeoisie, because we are the oil and gas bourgeoisie. The Pension Fund's palaces and the palaces per se of the ruling class are beautiful, but there is no need to touch them. Let them be. Anyway, things could be a lot worse, believe you me.
The speech was an open declaration of class warfare on the majority on behalf of the ruling minority. It was a rude statement by the modern-day equivalent of Yuri Olesha's Three Fat Men, a group of people rendered insolent by their impunity.
The tsar in his mercy granted indulgences. He took three years off the proposed new retirement age for women, and six months off the retirement age for the first cohort whom the reform will roll over, as well as promising guaranteed employment and property tax benefits for pre-pensioners, and so on.
This summer's political upsurge has borne preliminary fruits, but they are decorative. The wave of opposition to the proposed reforms must rise higher and higher, and popular hatred must adopt really effective guises, meaning guises that frighten the regime.
A genuine mobilization of society would smash this reform, conceived by thieves, to smithereens, and maybe some other things as well—if such a mobilization occurred, of course.
If the entire country takes to the streets in September, we shall soon see a new speech by Putin, in which he says he has changed his mind. Now the authorities will be gagging, demonizing, isolating, and banning vigorous opponents of their mean-spirited reform on a daily basis. All of us, therefore, must become vigorous opponents of the reform.
Alexei Tsvetcoff is a well-known Marxist writer and manager of the Tsiolkovsky Bookstore in Moscow. Thanks to Valentin Urusov for the heads-up. Translated by the Russian Reader
By hecksinductionhourin capitalism, economy, leftists, politics, protest, putinism, society, solidarity, zeitgeist August 30, 2018 September 19, 2018 400 WordsLeave a comment


A refresher course on superconductivity.
Hadronic superfluidity in neutron stars.
These are then driven by statistics to Bose condense.
 Number of atoms N=105-106.
 Fermi temperature EF ~ 1 mK.
may be relevant to cuprate superconductors.
How can we prove superfluidity ?
How can we measure transport?
distribution is measured after time of flight.
can only be so low.
Will be discussed in this talk.
turn up at low temperatures.
physics– the nature of lowest T excitations.
Summary of Ground-breaking experiments in cold gases.
perfect fluids. Analogue in cuprates = bad metals.
What really happened during the projection?
high temperature superconductors and quark gluon plasmas.
Similarity of Spectroscopic, Transport and Scattering probes.
fluids. Analogue in cuprates = bad metals.
 Pairs are anomalously small.
( Summary article --Nature Phys. 2006).


This is our household power, it is 220Vac / 60 Hz in the Philippines, 220Vac / 50Hz in China and 110Vac / 60Hz in the USA. It is available in our home AC socket.
This is a relay that can handle 10 Ampere (10Amp) of current, we used the relay to open (break) and close (make) the 220Vac line so we can implement ECO mode deep-sleep when it is not being used, it is like you switch off the power amplifier with a switch. But using a relay is much better so we can control it with a Micro Controller in a different way, like (a) manual (b) remote control (c) mobile application (APP).
The Rectifier will transform the Secondary AC voltage of 36Vac into a pulsating DC voltage, normally the rectifier used in Power Amplifier is a bridge diode. The large value capacitor like 4,700uF/50V or 10,000/50V is used as filter capacitors to smooth out the pulsating voltage from the rectifier. A pair of 0.1uF/50V is used to filter high-frequency component of the filtered DC signal. The resulting of this block is a good DC voltage, but it is not a regulated voltage.
The power amplifier with the heatsink is the major block of our project, where we monitor the DC offset voltage, not to output voltage of more than +/-1.0Vdc. We also use FAN to cool down the heatsink. The amplifier must conform to the output voltage of the rectifier + filter board. If you amplifier supply is +/-30Vdc, you must use an AC input of 36-0-36Vac, this is about +/-50Vdc.
Remove the fuse in series with the speaker.
It runs by a Micro Controller based on the Intel 8051 high-speed MCU, and driven by 1diyTeam propriety program. Don't be shock !
SAMuC is driven by a firmware wrote by me (us), and you can learn to do that by yourself in a DIY way if you have the guts and determination to learn. We are putting our effort to make DIY hobby as fun as possible with new learning and a new ingredient.


I was discontent on how my rear hub sounds and operates on my Fuji Feather bike. Also, the freewheel was whack, full of rust. I decided to clean stuff myself.
New noname freewheel with 16 teeth. Sorry, the picture is out of focus; I hope you get the idea.
Orange bearing cover and spacer with a nut from the hub axle.
Old freewheel removed, bearing cover removed. Bearing balls cleaned and visible.
Other side of the hub - the another bearing is cleaned. The fixed cog is not removed — I did not realize that I had a tool for removing it at the time. Besides, it did not obstruct the service.
New grease is applied to the bearing. Time to remove excess grease, put the cover on, thread bolts and spacers, thread new freewheel and install the wheel back to the bike.


Over the years, I have heard the idea that luck means being prepared when opportunity knocks. It may seem like an obvious statement, a statement of fact or some self-evident truth but it certainly seems to be the common belief that luck has more to do with something like winning the lottery. Yes, we do have lottery winners in the world but the vast majority of successful people did not hit the jackpot; they tackled the entire issue of being successful by working hard. Ah, hard work. Hmmm, we come back to the idea of being prepared. So, just how long has this idea been floating around?
[chuckles] While we think we may have hit upon something, it's obvious those Romans knew a thing or two about luck.
The point about all this is that while we may think of luck as being associated with winning the lottery or setting off the bells when we pull the handle of a one-armed bandit, the true nature of the beast is connected to the simple idea of being ready when the proper moment arises.
For instance, there's a job opening at the local hospital for a doctor and the position pays $200,000. That's a lot of money. Is the guy who gets it lucky? He's the one who went to medical school, studied hard, passed the exams and did his internship. Lucky? I think he was quite simply prepared for the opportunity when it presented itself.
Go down the list. Is Tiger Woods lucky? The guy practises like crazy. Sure he's got talent but undeveloped talent is undeveloped talent and being good involves a lot of hard work.
Is Bill Gates lucky? He was lucky in the sense he was in the right place at the right time but, and this is the big but, he had what IBM wanted. If he hadn't had what IBM wanted, he would have completely wasted the "right place at the right time" and would have spent the rest of his life like us common Joes.
Ms. Thatcher may sound a little conceited, maybe arrogant might be the word but she does have a point. You work hard; you get the brass ring. Well, maybe you do deserve it. Tiger Woods deserves it; Bill Gates deserves it.
I can't find out whether the story and the quote is 100% accurate but it does make a great tale and exemplifies the connection between work and so-called luck.
Anonymous proverbial saying sometimes attributed to Samuel Goldwyn and various other figures, including Thomas Jefferson; variant: "I've noticed that the harder I work, the luckier I get!"
Ever had somebody say to you, "Boy, are you ever lucky"? Ever think of what they may be talking about? You own a nice car; boy, are you ever lucky. You went on a nice vacation; boy, are you ever lucky. You just got a promotion; boy, are you ever lucky. Don't you just want to slap them silly? Luck, my eye. You worked hard and you got your reward.
However, I must take a moment and acknowledge that for some, there does seem to be bad luck. Okay, it looks like bad luck and we can argue whether their bad luck is really the result of bad choices.
I guess though people will always attribute good fortune to that stroke of luck. With the randomness of the universe, I suppose there is no other way of explaining how some truly amazing coincidences crop up in our lives.
Chip Denman, University of Maryland.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. The harder I work, the luckier I get. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Gee, this seems like a Tony Robins type of moment where we dust off the story of The Little Engine That Could. Rah rah siss boom bah. Nevertheless, I would say that statistically speaking, hard work, getting prepared and persisting seem to be the way to go. Yes, there will always be the prize winners but as I say, "statistically" that isn't something I want to bet the farm on.
This dates back to, if I remember correctly, the early 80's. A couple in Pennsylvania mortgaged their home and sold all of their possessions to buy tickets in the state lottery. I saw a picture of the two of them sitting on the floor of their living room now devoid of any piece of furniture but awash in lottery tickets. There were the two of them grinning for the camera betting the farm on winning the big one. I remember that the article had said the two of them had managed to amass $90,000 in tickets.
I forgot all about them but then, about 6 months later, I discovered this tiny follow-up article in a newspaper. I'm sure you can guess the results: they had won $25,000. Okay, they didn't lose everything but that did leave them $65,000 in the red. And they now had to pay off the mortgage they had taken out on their home as part of putting the original ninety thousand together. [chuckles] It certainly seemed like a wild idea and just imagine if they had won? I'm sure their hands must have been shaking while they were checking their tickets.
But, we come back to that age old adage: only bet what you can afford to lose. I'm not going to mortgage my house to buy lottery tickets so I guess I'm going to have to go back to my job on Monday and just work hard. [sigh] Okay, that doesn't have the same pizzazz as my picture in the paper holding up a giant cheque but at least I'm not going to end up in a house with no furniture and a big fat mortgage to pay off! Oh yeah, all with nothing to show for it. Ha!
Chip Denman, manager of the Statistics Laboratory at the University of Maryland.
Incorrectly attributed to Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller.
When the subject of luck came up, Penn would sometimes refer to a famous quote that frequently gets mis-attributed to him: "Luck is probability taken personally". The quote is properly attributed to Chip Denman (manager of the Statistics Laboratory at the University of Maryland).


Our guided tours (groups of 5 to 60 persons) take place by appointment only: Monday to Friday, 8 am to 12 noon and 1 pm to 5 pm, Saturdays from 9.30 am to 12 noon (Saturday Cellar Tour at 10 am). The "Piccolo Package" includes a cellar tour with 3 tastings and costs € 10.00 per person. The "Magnum Package" includes 6 tastings and costs € 14.00 per person. You may also order canapés (minimum quantity: 30) in advance at an additional charge.


From security training and the recruitment of civilian experts for OSCE, EU, or UN missions to policy advice for subcommittees of the Bundestag – the Center for International Peace Operations provides "one-stop" services and expertise on peace operations.
ZIF's integrated approach, combining training, human resources, and analysis under one roof, is internationally recognized as a leading model.
Thanks to its result-oriented work, ZIF has become a valued partner for international cooperation in various projects. ZIF projects address specific demands for qualification or conceptualization in the field of peace operations. For example, ZIF advises the African Union on the establishment of a civilian expert roster, coordinates a European training initiative aimed at developing common standards, and develops scenarios for the future of peace operations.
Providing up-to-date information, analyses, policy advice, and conceptual contributions along with event services in the field of peace operations.
To this end, ZIF works closely with the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministries for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), of the Interior (BMI), and of Defense (BMVg), and international organizations, especially the UN, the EU, and the OSCE.
The Center is organized in three divisions corresponding to its tasks: Training, Human Resources, and Analysis. These divisions are closely connected in their daily work.
ZIF is a non-profit company with limited liability funded by the Federal Government. The Federal Republic of Germany is the sole shareholder, represented by the Federal Foreign Office. Its governing bodies include the management, the supervisory board, the international advisory board, and the shareholders' assembly. ZIF is located at Ludwigkirchplatz in Berlin-Wilmersdorf.
The Berlin Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) was established in 2002 in close cooperation between the Federal Government of Germany and the Bundestag to strengthen German civilian capacities for international peace operations.
Reasons for ZIF's foundation were developments in the Balkans in the mid-1990s, particularly the events in Kosovo. Demand for experienced civilian experts rose dramatically during that time and the character of peace operations underwent a fundamental change. If purely military tasks were originally in the foreground, namely monitoring ceasefire lines after inter-state wars, this changed after 1990. In Somalia, Afghanistan, Haiti, former Yugoslavia, Liberia, or DR Congo, the international community increasingly saw itself confronted with intra-state conflicts. As a result, civilian expertise became sought after for peacekeeping and stabilization in conflict regions. The German government reacted to this increased demand by putting the idea of a competence center for civilian expertise in peace operations into practice. Dr. Winrich Kühne, the founding director of ZIF, developed and significantly advanced this concept. The central idea was to unite the selection and placement of personnel, the field-oriented preparation and specialization, and the analysis, advising, and lessons learned under one roof. Other – above all European – states have developed similar institutions on the basis of this integrated model.


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This utility operates on Windows 98/95.
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Chapter 9 – Redeemed at Any Cost
By klbic • April 10, 2016 The Story
http://klbic.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2016/04/Chapter-9.mp3
There is nothing better in this life than knowing that we are accepted. It is craved by the many, but found by the few. We can so easily feel lost in a crowd, alone in a family, an outsider in this world. It is the pursuit of such acceptance that often draws many people to Christ, but soon irony takes over because it is not popular to believe in God. It is not culturally acceptable to live the way Christ calls us to. Being a Christian can sometimes make us feel like an outsider in this world, or even not welcome. We don't speak like them, act like them, think like them. This, however, should come as no surprise. Jesus, on many occasions when speaking to His disciples—the first followers of Christ—warned them of this outsider mentality.
"If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you."
Essentially, Jesus is saying, "you will feel like an outsider in a land not your own." But this is not the Gospel. This is not why we follow Christ. It is, in fact, because he gave us a new land to live in, a new home in Heaven, a new life to live. It is in those moments of feeling rejected by the world that we can so easily forget the beauty of be accepted by God.
Acceptance always comes at a price. If you have had a child who went to college, or went there yourself, you know what I'm talking about. It starts with the acceptance letter. Joy spills from your son's face as he comes into the living room, waving his prize. "I'm in. I'm in!" He cries… but you are crying too. Though he holds the right of acceptance, you are staring, glassy-eyed at the bill you have to pay. Acceptance is a beautiful thing, especially in a world full of rejection, but it always comes at a cost.
Ruth's story proclaims this truth all too well. It's brimming with great moments of acceptance, but the house being built does not have such a strong foundation. It is a dark moment in the history of Israel. We discovered the darkness in its fullness last week as we walked through the Book of Judges, and we don't have to go too far down the timeline to find the little town of Bethlehem in Judah. What we find there is not a time of pleasure and plenty, but failure and famine.
Ruth 1:1-2
In the days when the judges ruled in Israel, a severe famine came upon the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah left his home and went to live in the country of Moab, taking his wife and two sons with him. 2 The man's name was Elimelech, and his wife was Naomi. Their two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in the land of Judah. And when they reached Moab, they settled there.
This family from the line of Judah finds a home away from home. They are forced to leave to find food as the Israelites fall into a downward spiral again. A famine from God to judge the people for their unfaithfulness to him, and even though some are still faithful, they face the pain of the society around them. In the land of Promise they were to find peace and plenty, but as we zoom the story in on this little family of faith, we see that's not the case.
Naomi and her husband search for belonging among the Moabites, people who should have been their enemies, but they find more acceptance there than at home. Naomi's sons marry foreign women of this new land they think will be their place of refuge. Just when you think the story is looking up it takes a turn again; around the next bend Elimelech and his two sons die leaving Naomi and her two new daughters-in-law alone.
Though things may look bleak, this is not a story without hope. This isn't the first time that
God uses a famine to accomplish his purposes. Joseph hangs in the shadows of Naomi's past, and she is left wondering if maybe her story will look the same. Perhaps God has a great show of grace and hope in store for her, but it's hard to see the sun when you're face-down in the mud.
The first sign of hope shines through the trees as Naomi hears that the famine is ended. With no reason to stay in Moab anymore, she starts the long journey home, a more lonely road than the one that brought them. Naomi, words matching the desperation in her heart says to her two daughters, "Go home, back to your people." If there was barely any hope for this widow back in Bethlehem, surely there was none for two foreigners. They could find new husbands, new lives, forget that Naomi had ever come into their lives (for what had she truly brought them but pain). One woman leaves, but despite her mother's urging, Ruth stays.
Ruth 1:16-17
Ruth replied, "Stop urging me to abandon you!
For wherever you go, I will go.
Wherever you live, I will live.
Your people will become my people,
and your God will become my God.
17 Wherever you die, I will die—and there I will be buried.
May the Lord punish me severely if I do not keep my promise!
Only death will be able to separate me from you!"
What a show of faith from this woman who had no ties to Yahweh in her past. She was from a people of idol-worshippers and should have known more about child sacrifice than commitment to a God who never knew her. Naomi had much to learn from Ruth in this great role reversal. When arriving back in her home town, she doesn't praise God for the end of the famine of the provision of Ruth who chose to stay with her when she didn't have to. Naomi was known for her pleasantness, but not anymore. She grows bitter.
20 But she replied to them, "Don't call me 'Naomi'! Call me 'Mara' because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly. 21 I left here full, but the Lord has caused me to return empty-handed. Why do you call me 'Naomi,' seeing that the Lord has opposed me, and the Sovereign One has caused me to suffer?"
"Naomi means pleasant. That used to be me, but not anymore." Mara means bitter, a name she could relate with. God had a plan for Naomi and Ruth, one that was beyond their wildest dreams. In the middle of the pain, it's hard to celebrate with what God is going to do, but his plans never changed. He is constantly seeking to redeem his people, and on the other side of the pain, Naomi and Ruth would find redemption in more ways than one.
Ruth Meet her Redeemer
It is never those who have their lives together who are in need of redemption but the lost, needy, helpless, and hopeless. Ruth was lost in this foreign land. She traded the familiar for the foreign, a new beginning for living in the land of her enemies. Israel and Moab weren't at war at this time, but nations have long memories. Ruth was needy. She had no home, no food, little family. Naomi was helpless. She had no land to work if she could find the energy, and no house to clean if she could find the time. She was hopeless, serving a God she felt gave up on her.
Along comes their redeemer. Ruth is picking up whatever scraps she can in the fields to take back to her hopeless mother-in-law, perhaps enough to get them through one more day. Boaz notices her lagging behind his harvesters, gleaning what she can. He is intrigued by this foreign beauty, enthralled by her audacity—a woman all alone in the fields, unafraid and unashamed. He finds out that this is not the first time she was so bold, for what blind faith it must have taken for one such as herself to leave everything she knew to follow Naomi to Bethlehem. What loyalty, commitment, and trust. In a word, Ruth was Devotion.
Such women acting so strong amidst her weakness should not be ignored. Boaz comes to her, touches her soul and says, "don't glean anywhere else, for here, under my wing, you will have all you need." Ruth replies in 2:10-12
10 Ruth knelt before him with her forehead to the ground and said to him, "Why are you so kind and so attentive to me, even though I am a foreigner?" 11 Boaz replied to her, "I have been given a full report of all that you have done for your mother-in-law following the death of your husband—how you left your father and your mother, as well as your homeland, and came to live among people you did not know previously.12 May the Lord reward your efforts! May your acts of kindness be repaid fully by the Lord God of Israel, from whom you have sought protection!"
Ruth risked everything, but what reward she receives. Her people oppressed God's people for 18 years, but Boaz holds no national prejudices. He sees her as more than a Moabite. She is a widow in need of his care, and one of greater character than most. He accepts her as one of his own harvesters.
Ruth, full of joy, life, and wonder, rushes home to tell her mother-in-law. "Mother!" She cries, out of breath. The weight on her soul was lifted, but arms loaded down with grain replaced the weight.
"Daughter," Naomi says, trepidation trembling her lips. "Where did you get such plenty? Blessed be the one who looked on you with such favour." She felt the sting of that blessing in the deepest parts of her soul, a blessing from the Lord that once she knew… such grain from another a mere shadow of God's provisions.
"Boaz."
That single word lifted Naomi's heart more that Ruth could have known. Through Boaz there was hope. In Boaz there was a way, through slight it might be, for Naomi's name to be restored, her house to be established… but Boaz would have to give up much. Perhaps, if he found such favour in Ruth, he would continue to bless them.
Naomi knew the Law well, being raised in such steep tradition. Ruth didn't understand the true blessing that caused her mother's eyes to sparkle until she quoted the words passed down from Moses so many generations before.
Deuteronomy 25:5-6
5 If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man's wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband's brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law. 6 Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.
Ruth understood. Boaz was Naomi's kin, a close relative of her lat husband. Could this be what God had planned all along? With this the only question in her mind, Ruth heads out with the same boldness she once had in the fields, but this time it is to Boaz while he sleeps. She lays herself down at his feet like a servant to a king, a peasant to a king—a woman in need to a man who could provide. Perhaps to some this marriage proposal would look strange, and to others it would be too bold to ever imagine performing, but Ruth has faith. Perhaps she was still learning the laws of this new land she found herself in, but she knew the ways of this new God she now followed. All night she lay there, prostrating herself at the feet of Boaz, and praying to Yahweh.
Boaz is gracious to her again, accepting such a bold proclaimation, but grace does not come without a cost. He promised to redeem Ruth and Naomi, but at what cost to himself? Boaz was wealthy. How much would he have to leave behind to join himself to this humble family with little more than hearts full of hope.
Ruth didn't belong. She didn't feel at home with her own people who rejected the God of Isreal, and wasn't at home in Bethlehem either. She was lost and alone when Boaz comes into her life and accepts her. He accepts her right where she is. She did not promise him anything grand, nor did Boaz have anything to gain from showing her grace, and not only did he gain little but lost much by joining her to himself. His house was forfeit; his own inheritance no more. His land, servants, riches, all gone for the sake of this foreign woman who deserved much less than he gave.
It was not long before this unlikely couple was married, and but a short year later they have a son named Obed which means "worker," and indeed he would have to be. He would work much, but through great work comes great reward. His reward would be seeing his grandson growing up, raised from lowly shepherd to might warrior and king of all Israel. King David.
Not only is this the start of David's story, but it is no surprise that many generations later, still behind the great clouds of fog in Israel's future, this very city would produce another child, and he would be a worker too. He worked for grace, out of faith, and became a redeemer too. But this child born in Bethlehem was not such the redeemer of one widow and her mother-in-law. Jesus, the Christ, came to be the redeemer of the world.
Boaz is but a shadow of the redeemer to come, yet his story holds the patterns of the gospel in the lines between lines. As we read between those lines we find Jesus who too noticed us when we didn't deserve it. He accepted us is a world filled with rejection; noticed us lagging behind the work of his angels, called us and said, "come. Glean in my fields of plenty, for you won't need to go anywhere else. Come in under my wind. He found favour in us the favourless.
Not only this, but he gave up his own inheritance to be with us.
Phillipians 2:6-11
6 who though he existed in the form of God
did not regard equality with God
as something to be grasped,
7 but emptied himself
by taking on the form of a slave,
by looking like other men,
and by sharing in human nature.
8 He humbled himself,
by becoming obedient to the point of death
—even death on a cross!
He had it all. Not just a grand field and large home. Not just plenty of servants and a beautiful future. He had a crown, a throne, the highest place in all of Creation. More than this, he shared equality with God… but he did not hold onto such inheritance. He let it all go, emptied himself, but a greater price was yet to come. The price of his blood. When we sat at his feet and cried out for his help, he showed us the holes in those soles. He didn't just give up his throne, his inheritance, but his life. For you. For me. To be our redeemer from the hopelessness of this world.
Now, when the world tells us we are nothing, we can find our acceptance in God. When they tell us to go to Hell, we can smile and say, "no, I am going to a better place. We have been reborn into a new family, taken out of this world and given a new inheritance in glory. We have been redeemed at the Cross. He holds the bill for our freedom in those nail-scarred hands, and smiles. May we rejoice in the freedom of his grace, the hope given to the hopeless, help to the helpless, acceptable to the rejected, and a new home to the lost.
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Your boss, the museum curator, has sent you into the museum collect 4 objects. Can you find the shortest path to the right rooms?
Was Mozart before Rossini? Was the discovery of oxygen before Franklin played with lightning? Put things in order.
Do the discoveries of the cell, blood circulation, and galaxies have something in common? Roll like objects into a bucket, but be careful!
Can you recognize composers from their major works or biographies? Can you recognize movies or books by quotes or plots?
Some prankster has put 11 museum objects into the wrong rooms. Can you sort them out, carry each to the right room in the museum?
Can you beat the computer in building a timeline? It takes knowledge and strategy.
6 free games with 7-10 topics each including history, science, music, literature, art, nature.
Collections is a many-room shortest-path object collection game. In this game, you are a gofer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gofer) in the museum, asked to collect 4 objects from the museum and bring them to the curator for more work -- whatever it is she does. Because you are the newbie, for initiation she has only given you a set of clues to these objects, and your task is to visit the right places to find and collect objects. Topics include Objects in the British Museum, Discoveries in Science, Western Literature, Western Art, Western Composers, Movies, Nature. Allows you to post achievements to Facebook.
Strings is a sequencing game, put events or topics in chronological or numerical order. Points for speed and accuracy, penalties for guesses. Topics include Objects in the British Museum, Discoveries in Science, Western Literature, Western Art, Western Composers, Movies, Nature, City Latitudes. Includes a leaderboard and allows you to post achievements to Facebook.
Buckets is a quick game sorting objects into groups of the same category. In this game, you see a vending machine with 24 objects, and you have to select those from one category at a time. Don't select one from the wrong category!. Topics include Objects in the British Museum, Discoveries in Science, Western Literature, Western Art, Western Composers, Movies, City Latitudes. Includes a leaderboard and allows you to post achievements to Facebook.
Clues is a quick but tricky clue-event matching game. You are given 16 images, and presented one clue at a time. Each time you touch the correct image for that clue, you are given the next, until you get them all right. Topics include Objects in the British Museum, Discoveries in Science, Western Literature, Western Art, Western Composers, Movies, Nature, City Latitudes. Includes a leaderboard and allows you to post achievements to Facebook.
We have a problem. A history student borrowed 11 objects to make a report on them, but then carelessly (or intentionally!) returned them to the wrong room. As the newest member of our museum staff, your task is to move them all to the right rooms, and you must finish before we open in 20 minutes! Topics include Objects in the British Museum, Discoveries in Science, Western Literature, Western Art, Western Composers, Movies, Nature.
Paths is a 2-person game of building a timeline of events. Success depends on knowing the events and strategy is in the order you play them. You play against the computer and set the skill level of the computer. Topics include Objects in the British Museum, Discoveries in Science, Western Literature, Western Art, Western Composers, Movies, City Latitudes.


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Happy Anniversary, Harvey! Let's Make Him Proud.
November 8, 1977. On this day, 34 years ago, Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man to be elected to office in a major U.S. city. His assassin, Dan White was also elected that day.
While Harvey inspired many while he was alive, it wasn't until the Academy Award-winning film was released a few years ago that he became a household name. Since then, dozens of openly-gay elected officials have followed in his footsteps. Organizations like the Victory Fund have helped to see LGBT leaders elected all over the country – from bluer states like Rhode Island to the reddest of states like Texas.
Harvey understood that by electing gay people to office, it would give young people hope. He understood that by seeing openly-gay people in positions of power and leadership would know that they could too, succeed.
Tomorrow, dozens of LGBT candidates will face voters. One of those candidates (though a longshot at unseating an incumbent) is Bevan Dufty, a San Francisco City Supervisor who is sitting in the very same seat that Milk served in 34 years ago. Victory Fund highlights "10 Races to Watch" for those interested in seeing more LGBT candidates make history.
Not to pick any one of these out as I'm sure they are all wonderful candidates, but openly-gay 22 year-old and Point Foundation scholar Alex Morse is running for Mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts. As a Mass. native, I'm especially proud to see this going on. Daniel Hernandez Jr. – the young gay man who saved the life of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is also running for office in his local school district.
Please check out Victory Fund's full list of "10 Races to Watch":
Zach Adamson, Indianapolis City Council – Adamson could become Indianapolis' first openly LGBT city council member. Learn more here.
Caitlin Copple, Missoula, Montana City Council – Missoula has become a focal point of the Montana debate over LGBT non-discrimination laws. Copple's election would add an authentic voice from the LGBT community to this discussion and many others concerning her community. Learn more here.
Bevan Dufty, San Francisco Mayor – A former San Francisco Supervisor who represented the same district as Harvey Milk for 8 years, Dufty is prepared to continue Milk's legacy and serve as the top elected official in the city. A victory in this race would make him San Francisco's first openly LGBT mayor. Learn more here.
Patrick Forrest, Virginia State Senate – If he wins, Patrick would become the only openly LGBT Republican state legislator in America, and one of the first openly LGBT members of the Virginia Senate. Learn more here.
Daniel Hernandez, Jr., Sunnyside Unified School District Board of Governors, Tucson, Ariz. – When his boss, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was shot along with numerous others at a district event in Tucson, Hernandez sprang into action and is credited with helping to save Giffords' life. The world marveled at his quick thinking and leadership qualities on display that day, and many have urged him to consider a career in public service. Learn more here.
LaWana Mayfield, Charlotte, N.C., City Council – Mayfield's primary victory made national news because Charlotte has never elected an openly LGBT city council member. She'll finish the job and join the council if she wins her general election. Learn more here.
Pam Miller, Savannah, Ga., City Council – Miller could become the first openly LGBT candidate in Georgia to win outside the Atlanta metro area. Learn more here.
Alex Morse, Mayor, Holyoke, Mass. – At just 22, Morse already has a public service record to rival candidates twice his age. In the primary he bested the incumbent mayor by a single vote. He could make history this November as the city's youngest and first openly LGBT mayor. Learn more here.
Rory Neuner, Lansing, Mich., City Council – Neuner has already worked to make Lansing a better city, and her door-to-door campaign for city council could make her the only openly LGBT city council member. Learn morehere.
Chris Seelbach, Cincinnati, Ohio, City Council – Seelbach has already been instrumental in making Cincinnati a more welcoming place for all families. Now he could become its first openly LGBT city council member.
If voting is taking place in your state, town or district, please make sure you vote. Staying home is not an option. Obviously support the candidate who best speaks to you and your family's needs, but above all, do not stay home. Our futures depend on it.
Tags: 2011 Elections, Alex Morse, Daniel Hernandez, Elections, Gay, Harvey Milk, Holyoke, LGBT, Mayor, Politics, Victory Fund
Categories 2011 Elections, Get Out The Vote, Harvey Milk, Victory Fund
The First Openly-Gay Congressman
This Thursday would have been the 74th birthday of the first openly-gay federal politician. Congressman Gerry Studds of Massachusetts was my Congressman growing up and I can proudly say that both my mother and my aunt took a major part in getting Gerry elected.
When he was first elected in 1972, he was not out of the closet. It wasn't until a scandal outed Gerry, that he admitted publicly to being gay. Gerry was censured by Congress for having a sexual relationship with 17 year-old page Dean Hara. He fought to avoid a hearing so as to avoid outing young Hara. But instead of abandoning his post, like many outed politicians do, Gerry was re-elected six more times, until he retired in 1997 after serving the country for 25 years. He fought for many issues, including environmental and maritime issues, same-sex marriage, AIDS funding, and civil rights, particularly for gays and lesbians.
Following his retirement, Gerry continued to lobby for the fishing industry – one of the primary industries of his constituents in Massachusetts.
Gerry Studds and his husband Dean Hara
Gerry defended himself regarding the scandal by saying that he was in a consensual relationship with the the young man. In 2004, one week after Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage, my aunt got a call from Gerry inviting her to his wedding. Gerry was marrying his partner of 25+ years, Dean Hara. Two years later, Gerry passed away following a pulmonary embolism. Due to the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, Dean was not eligible to receive the pension provided to surviving spouses of former members of Congress.
Tags: Bill Clinton, Congress, Dean Hara, DOMA, Gay, Gerry Studds, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Massachusetts, Politics
Categories Activism, Anti-Gay Discrimination, Bill Clinton, Discrimination, DOMA, gay marriage, Gerry Studds, Marriage Equality, Massachusetts


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Say hello to Michelin's new max performance Pilot Sport 4 S tire
By Benjamin Yong February 16, 2017 Michelin Pilot Experience Michelin Pilot Sport 4 S Michelin Pilot Super Sport PS4S UHP ultra high performance tires
Rubber. Synthetic compounds. Fibres. These are the common core components that make up a tire, used by several companies in the highly competitive industry. Legendary manufacturer Michelin says it has generously added one more unique, and critical, ingredient to the mix when creating the brand new Pilot Sport 4S (PS4S) ultra-high-performance tire: passion.
To demonstrate said passion, several dozen writers, social media influencers, racing personalities and more were invited to Palm Springs for a unique product launch in mid-January. Dubbed the Michelin Pilot Experience, the event was broken up into several waves and encompassed everything from driving supercars shod with the tires through the desert, to trying out the fresh rubber on the track at the nearby members-only Thermal Club.
"You're going to enjoy really putting yourself into the driver's seat because that is Michelin's whole point about this. This tire worldwide has, in testing and results, been basically dominating and it's number one in every set of parameters you can apply to a new tire. It's created the benchmark for itself against the benchmark that it set itself with its predecessor, and that's saying something, says Justin Bell, former racecar driver and motorsports personality during the opening ceremonies.
"The whole genesis of this event was don't take their word for it, they wanted you to experience it. For Michelin, it's about that genuine passion. They share it, they feel it and that's what you're going to get from this event."
A quick briefer on the PS4S — the model replaces the outgoing Pilot Super Sport, made with high output sedans and sports cars in mind and boasts a Y speed rating with a top speed capability of 300 km/h.
Three big claims the tiremaker makes about the PS4S is that it is first in dry braking, first in wet braking and first in dry lap times, determined through third party evaluation done in Germany.
The reason we were brought was to see whether these claims held up. Funny enough, on drive day, Southern California experienced an uncharacteristic torrential downpour that made it difficult to see just how the model performed in dry conditions. Nevertheless, spirits remained undampened, and we set off on the journey's first leg driving various fast cars equipped with PS4S' including an Audi R8, Mercedes-AMG C63 S, and, fittingly, a Ferrari California T.
With normally baked roads leading to our destination slick with rain and runoff, Joshua Tree National Park, speeds were kept at a safe level. A new proprietary construction containing high levels of silica concentrated on the inboard side of the tread allowed the vehicles we drove to stay composed even while cornering through and braking in the water pooled up on the pavement.
Fortunately, by the time we got to Thermal Club in the afternoon, the sky was slowly clearing up. There, a part of the track was sectioned off into a decently sized slalom and BMW 340is were ready and waiting, wearing not only PS4S but also comparable competitor rubber like Bridgestone Potenza S-04 Pole Position. Around the slightly damp course, the Michelins definitely provided more grip when taking turns at speed. The biggest surprise, however, was the markedly shorter stopping distance at the end of the run after slamming on the brakes.
The rest of the day was spent following an instructor, in small groups, around a proper section of the track, piloting a selection of BMW M2, M3 and M4 sedans to see how the tires truly behaved when pushed. We were reminded that while ultra high performance in nature, the PS4S is not intended for dedicated race applications. This became evident when I entered a long sweeping turn a little too close to the limit and spun out (disclaimer: my technique, or lack thereof, was mostly to blame).
The proverbial cherry topping the event was actually not vehicle-related. For each wave of the event, a different Michelin Star chef made an appearance to prepare the evening dinner. Curtis Duffy was our star guest, owner of Chicago fine dining establishment Grace. Dish after dish featured fancy-sounding ingredients like heart of palm, hato mugi and black truffle, all, of course, delicious and beautifully plated. Fun fact: the annual guidebook that publishes Michelin Star-awarded restaurants started in the early 20th century as a strictly automotive publication.
The Michelin PS4S is already on sale in Europe and will make a North American debut next month, initially available in 35 different sizes for wheels 18 to 20 inches in diameter.
Posted in Automotive, Events


Another excerpt from Game of Gods: The Temple of Man in the Age of Re-Enchantment. This section is taken from the chapter entitled, "The Cult of World Order," which examines the historical quest to find a politically administrative messiah. Keep in mind: This is a rough draft. I'm still working through some thoughts and details.
There is a time in an international crisis when all are so frightened of what might happen that they will accept many things that they would not have even contemplated before the crisis; and indeed are unlikely to contemplate a week after it has ended. So at the time it was introduced my resolution for a police force was greeted with almost unanimous acclaim.
The introduction of an Emergency Force helped reinvigorate world-order theories, as did other Cold War complexities. In England, ten Conservative Members of Parliament lobbied for a "world security authority" armed with "the most modern nuclear weapons." America and the Soviet Union diplomatically toyed with "general and complete disarmament," a phased reduction of national forces in concert with the strengthening of an international authority. "General and complete disarmament" was maneuvered as a propaganda chess piece. And then the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 brought the two superpowers to the brink of open war.
The Cuban experience energized academia, activists, and policy wonks to pursue an imposing bulwark against the very real threat of nuclear holocaust. Peace must be enforced through an authoritative political agency.
The peoples of the earth turn to the United Nations as the last hope of concord and peace… Is there anyone who does not see the necessity of coming thus progressively to the establishment of a world authority, able to act efficaciously on the juridical and political levels? Once more we reiterate Our good wish: Advance always!… Let unanimous trust in this Institution grow, let its authority increase.
Or maybe, for the sake of efficiency – of course! – the world authority could use hostages to force change.
If one really believed in the reliability and permanence of an international arrangement, such schemes for providing the authority with 'hostages' might be more efficient, even more humane, than providing it with bombers and shock troops. One could even go further and let the force have a monopoly of critical medicines to use for bacterial warfare on a transgressor country. As soon as it starts an epidemic, it sends its medical units in to make sure that no one suffers who cooperates. Those who oppose it – military forces, government leaders, or anyone else – are without essential vaccines and must decide for themselves whether to stay at large and suffer or to surrender to be cured.
Schelling himself recognized these ideas suffered from "meanness" and "probably go too far." He understood that the "more omnipotent" the world authority becomes, the more likely it would be viewed as an enemy. Lesser but still powerful national systems, he surmised, will be required to keep the international military from overpowering too quickly.
Knowing that Schelling was primarily theorizing in his advocacy of a world force, I am still left with nagging thoughts: How far is "too far" in the cause of global unity? Can international harmony exist without compulsion from a centralized authority? Should the whole tolerate opposing values and dissenting voices – be it from individual nations, identifiable groups, or single persons – and thus court the risk of separation and fragmentation? Is oneness sacrosanct? Are its expressions sacred?
Is the ideal of community more valuable than individualism?
If so, then we shall ultimately have little problem accepting Schelling's proposals.
 Pearson originally hoped that Ireland and Sweden would join NATO, forming a strong Atlantic core, instead of the Mediterranean nations of Greece and Turkey. The creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was closely linked to the ideas of Clarence Streit and his Federal Union proposal.
 Lester B. Pearson, Peace in the Family of Man: The Reith Lectures, 1968 (Oxford University Press, 1969), pp.14-15.
 See A World Security Authority? (Conservative Political Centre, 1958).
 On June 6, 1960, the Soviet Union released its three-stage plan for general and complete disarmament. Shortly after, the US State Department established the Disarmament Administration, and in 1961 the two opposing nations co-produced The McLoy/Zorin Agreement on disarmament. That same year the Disarmament Administration released State Publication 7277 – essentially mirroring the Soviet plan – and upped the ante by calling for a global and effective United Nations military force. For more information, see The Soviet Stand on Disarmament (Crosscurrents Press, 1962); Freedom From War: The United States Program fro General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World (US State Department #7277, 1961); Lincoln P. Bloom, The United Nations and U.S. Foreign Policy (Little, Brown and Company, 1960); and Lincoln P. Bloom, A World Effectively Controlled by the United Nations (Institute for Defense Analysis, Special Studies Group, US Department of State contract No. SCC 28270, released March 10, 1962).
 Some of those voices included Kenneth Boulding, Lincoln L. Bloomfield, Richard Barnet, Arthur I. Waskow, and Lucile W. Green. Hans J. Morgenthau, known for his political realism, also courted world order for world peace. Saul Mendlovitz created the influential World Order Models Project (WOMP) with Richard A. Falk, Carl von Weiszacker, and the input of Georges Abi-Saab. On WOMP and its contributions, see Saul Mendlovitz, "The Emergence of WOMP in the Normative Tradition: Biography and Theory," Principles World Politics: The Challenge of Normative International Relations (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000, edited by P. Wapner and Lester E.J. Ruiz). Before the Cuban Crisis, Glenville Clark and Louis B. Sohn were riding on their World Peace Through World Law (Harvard University Press, 1958), attempting to codify an international order for world peace.
 Holy Father's Talk at United Nations, October 4, 1965, speech on file.
 Thomas C. Schelling, "Strategy: A World Force in Operation," reprinted in The Strategy of World Order: Volume 3 – The United Nations (World Law Fund, 1966), pp, 669,682-684. Schelling's essay was also published in International Military Force: Peace-Keeping in an Armed and Disarmed World, edited by Lincoln P. Bloomfield (Little, Brown and Company, 1964).
I so enjoyed each months Forcing Change periodical. I thought they were very informative and accurate. Sorry you couldn't continue them. Looking forward to buying the long awaited book you are working on.
Thanks Karen, I worked hard to ensure that everything could be documented and kept contextually accurate – and I'm doing the same with my upcoming book (which is the main reason it's taking so long to finish). Again, thank you for your kind words.
Perhaps post some excerpts from your book?
Hi Jean, I need to do that. I've been so focussed on the writing – and the research work that goes with this. Most of my public posts have been done on other social media platforms, but it's time I did more with the blog. Thanks!


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La quatrième saison de The L Word a été diffusée sur la chaîne de télévision Showtime et compte 12 épisodes.

Épisodes

Épisode 1 : Légende en fabrication

Épisode 2 : La Vida Loca

Épisode 3 : Les Lois de la gravité

Épisode 4 : La Lèche

Épisode 5 : Lez Girls

Épisode 6 : Ligne de chance

Épisode 7 : Leçon n°1

Épisode 8 : Linge sale

Épisode 9 : Leitmotiv lascif

Épisode 10 : Lippé

Épisode 11 : Larguez les amarres

Épisode 12 : Longue sera l'attente

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心迷就會苦,心悟就自在。 A confused mind suffers agony;, an enlightened mind feels at ease.
理直要氣和,得理要饒人。 Remain soft-spoken and forgiving, even when reason is on your side.
理想要放在遠方,腳步要落實現在。 Though we aim high,, we must take solid and, concrete steps, here and now.
一個人的快樂,不是因為他擁有得多,而是因為他計較得少。 Happiness, is not about, how much we possess, but how little we, bicker over trivials.
一個人面臨絕境時,還能心存感恩很是難得。永保感恩心付出的人,比較不會陷入 絕境。 It is difficult to, remain grateful , in destitution, but a person, who does good, with a grateful heart is, less likely to, fall into destitution.
人人本具菩薩心,也具有和菩薩同等的精神與力量。 Everyone has a Buddha nature, , and a Bodhisattva's strength and spirit.
不要小看自己,因為人有無限的可能。 Do not underestimate yourself, everyone has unlimited potential.
普天之下,沒有我不愛的人、沒有我不信任的人,也沒有我不原諒的人。 In this world, there is no one I do not love, no one I do not trust, and no one I cannot forgive.
「戒」是不起心動念;「定」是臨危不亂;「慧」能運心轉境。 Discipline is to, not give rise to , unwholesome thoughts., Meditative concentration is to , be calm under adversity., Wisdom is to , take control of our mind , and change our destiny.
多原諒人一次,就多造一次福;把量放大,福就大。 To forgive once is to be blessed once. The more we forgive, the more we are blessed.
布施若不是真正心存喜捨,則非但沒有功德,反增煩惱。 To give without joy,, not only carries no merit, but engenders afflictions.
轉一個角度來看世界,世界無限寬大;換一種立場待人處事,人事無不輕安。 When you view the world, from a different perspective, the world becomes, vast and wide. Try shifting your perspective, in everything you do,,and all will be, light and easy.
忘功不忘過,忘怨不忘恩。 Forget , our achievements, but not our mistakes. Forget , the trespasses of others , but not the kindness, they have shown us.
真正的心好,應該是非常自然、沒有一絲一毫地考慮,馬上伸出援手去扶助別人。 True goodness , is to reach out naturally , without , the slightest hesitation.
心平靜,當下就是淨土。 When the mind is pure and tranquil, we have arrived in Pureland.
善於利用時間的人,無時無刻不是修持參禪的好機緣。 For someone who , makes good use of time , every moment , is good for meditation.
發脾氣是短暫的發瘋。 Getting mad is, like a bout of temporary insanity.
勇於承擔,是一分動人的力量;勇於承擔錯誤,則是一種高尚的品格。 To shoulder a burden is an inspiring force. To admit a mistake is a noble virtue.
人都是在原諒自己的那一分鐘開始懈怠。 We start to slacken the minute we find excuses for ourself.
不能低頭的人,是因為一再回顧過去的成就。 People who are preoccupied with past achievements cannot humble themselves.


How you doin'? 'Cause you folks are looking great. You seem to really be holding up well with the whole 'shut down government' thing.
I'm chatting up you fine (and I mean fine) people today because I saw that ELF Villains line over on the MP, and I might need them. In fact, I do need them. I need them with every fiber of my make-up addicted self. ELF cosmetics does ship to Canada, and there is on online retailer for them here, BUT this line is exclusive to 'select Walgreens' in America.
Sooooo, I'm just gonna lay it on the line here, who wants the start a clandestine makeup smuggling ring and send me makeup (that I will totally pay you for, obviously)? Perhaps with the fine extra bonus of adorable hand-written letters on polka-dot stationery? And stickers? Possibly a personalized tour of Toronto if you ever come up?
I WANT THE MAKEUP. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
Edit: It appears a few people are willing to check out their local Walgreen's for me! This is so exciting! If you do find some of the Ursula makeup set or the Ursula nail set, email me at liztaylorsearrings @ gmail.com (or reply here) and we shall come to a glorious new business agreement!


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A senior US diplomat has told President Ashraf Ghani that US officials will no longer deal with his national security adviser Hamdullah Mohib, Reuters news agency reports, quoting four knowledgeable US and Afghan sources.
The report published on March 18 said the diplomat told President Ghani that the United States was ending contacts with Mr. Mohib.
According to Reuters, the State Department declined to comment, and a representative of the Afghan Embassy in Washington could not be reached for comment.
Mohib in a Washington news conference on March 14 accused the US Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad of "delegitimizing" the Kabul government by excluding it from peace negotiations with the Taliban and acting like a "viceroy". He also said that the US has created an information vacuum regarding the peace talks with the Taliban.
According to the Reuters report, the day after Mohib made his comments, David Hale -- the US undersecretary of state for political affairs -- told Ghani by phone that Mohib would no longer be received in Washington and that US civilian and military officials would not do business with him.
"Hale called Ghani and told him that Mohib is no longer welcome in DC. The US will not deal with him in Kabul or in DC anymore," said a former senior Afghan official who requested anonymity, according to Reuters report.
The remarks by the National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib on the peace efforts by the US chief negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad met with more reactions, but some analysts supported his stance.
The fifth round of the talks between the US and Taliban negotiators in Qatar ended after 16 days on March 12 with agreement in draft between the two sides on some key issues under debate.
A senior official has told President Ghani that the US was ending contracts with Hamdullah Mohib.