Its the end of May and wanted to give a quick update.
In Kentucky April really kicks off the horse season with the Kentucky Rolex 3-Day Event at the end of the month and then things kick in to overdrive in May with the Kentucky Derby the first Saturday in the month. Of course we should say congratulations to Street Sense and his whole crew and to Curlin for running a great race in the Preakness. Hopefully we will get to see these two again in the Breeders Cup Classic.
As most people have probably realized by now, I am an all around horse person. If it involves horses I have an interest in it, which makes this time of year very busy.
On Preakness day I was actually out watching a Combined Driving Event at the Gala Driving Center in Georgetown, Kentucky. There are not a lot of Combined Driving Centers in the U.S. unlike Europe and the Gala Driving Center is certainly amongst the top.
As for the funding for the Kentucky Horse Park we have taken a wait and see attitude as we wait to see if the Governor calls a Special Session in June. We continue to promote the Games by talking to people where ever we meet them and the response has been largely positive. The real concern always comes back to the money that is going to be spent for the Games as most know if Government tells you one number it is always going to cost more. Our primary goal then has to be to make the Games more successful then what people are expecting so that the State reaps benefits in 2010 and beyond.


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Uncharted 4 and the Lost Legacy coming to PS5 and PC in Legacy of Thieves Collection
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Nathan Drake and Chloe Frazer will very soon make the leap not only to computers, but to the new generation of consoles. Naughty Dog announced Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, a compilation that includes remasters of the excellent Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and The Lost Legacy with notable graphical improvements that will take advantage of the power of PS5 and the best PCs.
In case you haven't played them, we want to tell you that these are probably the best games in the series. On Uncharted 4 We take Nathan on an epic adventure with his brother Sam to find Libertalia, the legendary pirate nation. The Lost Legacy
It is carried out by Chloe, who in the company of Nadine travels to India in search of the relic that haunted her father.
Here you can find our reviews from nate's adventure and la de Chloe.
Among the improvements that both games will have on PS5, are the following:
Fidelity mode with native 4k resolution at 30 animation frames per second (fps).
Performance mode that allows 60 animation frames per second (fps).
Highest performance mode targeting 120 animation frames per second (fps) at 1080p resolution. Requires a compatible 120hz display.
Almost instantaneous loading times.
Immersive 3D audio.
Support for DualSense wireless controller haptic feedback and adaptive triggers.
Please note that the included multiplayer mode of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and The Lost Legacy it will not be part of this new collection.
What is the release date of Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection a PS5?
It will be available in both a physical and digital version for PS5 from January 28, 2022.
They have not yet confirmed the release date of the versions of Uncharted 4 and The Lost Legacy for PC, but it will arrive that same year.
What should those who already have the games on PS4 and want the new versions do?
Players who already own the PS4 games will be able to pay $ 10 to upgrade to the digital version of PS5. This offer does not apply to those who obtained the game through PS Plus.
Those who have the discs of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and The Lost Legacy on PS4 they will need to insert them into the PS5 each time they want to download or play the digital versions for PS5. If you have the game on disc for PS4 and purchased the discless digital edition of the PS5 console, you will not be able to get the discounted version for PS5.
Source: official PlayStation blog
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Approximately 1.7 million people in the U.S. are living with the amputation of a limb. Every year, another 156,000 experience an amputation. Nearly one-fourth of all these are due to trauma. The rest are due to vascular disease, diabetes and cancer. Only 4 percent are due to congenital reasons.
No matter why a person has to have a limb amputated, there is an adjustment period. Not only are there physical challenges to coping with the loss of a limb, but emotional scars can also run deep. Fortunately, there seems to be a number of resources for helping folks live with an amputation.
If you know you will be having an amputation, you may want to meet with a prosthetist prior to the amputation to discuss using a prosthetic following surgery. Although your surgeon will be the one to determine what your prosthetic needs are, a preoperative consultation with the person who will make and fit your prosthesis may ease your mind. Some prosthetics are fitted in the operating room in place of a dressing, so the pre-amputation consultation is required.
Research shows those who immediately begin using a prosthesis recover more quickly from their amputation than those who begin using one at a later time.
Resume decision-making for your life as soon as possible so you are back in control.
Do all you feel capable of doing. Let others know how they can help, but you take charge of directing them.
Talk to people about how you are feeling. A counselor may be helpful.
Give up thinking, "if only." You cannot change what happened to you.
Adjusting to your new body and learning new ways to perform activities of daily living may be a challenge. You may feel unsteady on your feet even if your arm was amputated, although the specific challenges depend on which limb you lost and at what level the amputation was made. You may find difficulty in eating, brushing your teeth or putting on your socks if you lost your dominant hand.
Occupational and physical therapists will help you learn how to become more mobile, whether it is learning to walk again with your prosthesis or how to manage in the kitchen if you lost an arm.
And, yes. You likely will be able to drive again. There are a multitude of adaptive devices that can be used no matter which limb was amputated. It will take adjustment, education and practice, but you should be able to do it.
Many people with amputations report phantom pain, which is a feeling of pain or itching in the missing limb. If this is happening to you, you are not crazy. It is a very real pain and an itch that you cannot scratch. Researchers do not know exactly why this happens, but it is likely caused by a "rewiring" of the nerves in your spinal column and brain. When a part of your body is stimulated, it gets transposed as a feeling in the "phantom" limb; the limb that is no longer part of our body.
It may also be caused by nerve damage that occurred during the amputation process. Build-up of scar tissue may also contribute to phantom pain.
Medications that are used to relieve nerve pain, depression or epilepsy.
Pain medications in general, including opioids.
Mirror box therapy. Both the missing limb and intact one are put in a box with a mirror in the center. All you see is the reflection of the remaining limb. This somehow tricks your brain into thinking you have two intact limbs and has been found to help with phantom pain.
Practice meditation, mindfulness and relaxation techniques.
Distract your mind with some intellectual activity such as solving puzzles or reading.
If you are adjusting to life as an amputee, you may have questions we can help with and there may be resources we can suggest. Unfortunately, there are times when you may have been discriminated against because of your disability. Contact one of our health care or disability rights attorneys at Davis Levin Livingston for more information.


One of the hardest parts about living a life of anxiety is the way that it always tends to be present in your life. It doesn't matter what you're doing or how much you need to focus. That feeling of anxiety is often there, and the knowledge that you have anxiety and reminders of its presence are common.
That's because anxiety is a naturally overwhelming condition, and in some cases it can become so overwhelming that your mind and body suffer as a result.
Anxiety is not a single condition. It is a host of different conditions, and it can be both physically and mentally overwhelming.
Feeling overwhelmed is perhaps the most common symptom of anxiety, and it can actually affect you on a very base level.
We'll get into the actual feelings of being overwhelmed in a moment, but what's perhaps most telling about anxiety is that it actually overwhelms the brain in ways you may not even realize.
Your brain has limited resources - chemicals that it uses to send messages from one part of the brain to the other. During periods of intense anxiety, the brain is so overwhelmed that it moves those resources to the areas of the body that it thinks need it most. For example, one of the reasons that some people need to urinate when they are scared is because the chemicals in your brain move away from the part of the mind that controls urination and towards other parts of the brain that control fight or flight.
At its most chemical level, anxiety even affects the way neurotransmitters and hormones are produced, possibly leading to changes in the way you think and feel. When we talk about anxiety feeling overwhelming, it should be remembered that it's not just the way you feel. Anxiety really does have many overwhelming qualities, and can genuinely overwhelm your mind in many ways.
Of course, when most people talk about feeling overwhelmed, they're talking about the way anxiety tends to cause severe stress that affects all of their thoughts. That's what anxiety does: it makes it very hard to focus on anything other than your anxiety, and the more you focus on that anxiety, the more anxiety you seem to feel.
People talk about anxiety as if it makes it difficult to focus. But that's not entirely true. Anxiety often makes it easy to focus, but only on your anxiety. Some people experience such a feeling of emotional distress that they may start to cry or feel like they're about to cry, while others may experience a complete lack of hope as if their anxiety is never going to be treatable.
Those with panic attacks may have other symptoms as well. During panic attacks, that feeling of being overwhelmed may actually be less about the actual overwhelming nature of anxiety and more about a feeling of doom that seems to affect those that are struggling with the attack. This feeling of doom can make you feel like you're about to suffer from something terrible, and it can cause your entire body to become completely on edge.
These symptoms seem to be felt in every area of your body, and they also tend to cause severe anxiety on their own and ultimately lead to an anxiety attack. Anxiety genuinely is very physically overwhelming, especially if you're prone to panic attacks.
Find Distractions Obviously for something to feel overwhelming, distracting yourself is difficult. But there are some strategies that can still be effective. One that many people find beneficial is to simply call someone on your cell phone. Talking on a phone is hard for the mind to do while still focusing on your anxiety, thus reducing your anxiety from getting too out of control.
Go For a Walk Like talking on the phone, walking itself can make it harder for your mind and body to be as overwhelmed. When you walk, you take in lots of new information. You see things, you feel things, and you smell things with each step that you take. Walking also helps move blood around your body and is a good tool for controlling your breathing and heart rate.
Controlled Breathing The reason controlling your breathing is important is because anxiety symptoms can actually create new anxiety symptoms. A great example of this is hyperventilation, a common anxiety symptom that occurs during anxiety attacks. Hyperventilation occurs when you don't allow your body to create enough carbon dioxide because you breathe it out too quickly, resulting in feelings of faint, chest pains, and lightheadedness. Hyperventilation also makes it feel as though you need to take deeper breaths which ultimately make it worse. So controlled breathing (breathing in very slowly, breathing out very slowly) is a great way to control this experience.
Journaling When your thoughts are too overwhelming, another effective thing to try is journaling. Writing out your thoughts in a permanent place has been shown to have a powerful effect on your mind. It's as though your mind relaxes about the thoughts because they're on paper. So if thoughts are overwhelming, write them down more to experience some relief.
Exercise Exercise is also a powerful tool to combat feeling overwhelmed for two reasons. First, it tires out your muscles and improves your breathing so that your symptoms are not as severe. Secondly, it floods relaxing neurotransmitters into your brain and tires your mind so that you can't have as many overwhelming thoughts. Exercise is not just for your physical health, and can be a powerful tool to combat anxiety.
Once you have your anxiety more under control, you can also start trying various anxiety reduction strategies.


Our Senior Housing Forum Empower initiative is giving voice to the many women and men in the industry offering opportunities to lift women up in our business of caring for others. I am honored to introduce a special seniors housing sales and marketing leader with more than two decades of supporting and leading creative sales and marketing strategies for companies like Sunrise, Alterra, Emeritus, and now, for more than eight years, as First Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Greystone Communities out of Dallas, Texas.
In our interview, Mindy Cheek and I discuss her journey as a north Texas Mother to a business professional. Most importantly, is Mindy's personal mission to be an advocate for vulnerable LGBTQ seniors, when compassion and sensitivity is most needed by management, associates, and residents. Today, Mindy sits on the Housing committee for the Coalition on Aging for LGBTQ Seniors and is a Volunteer Education Ambassador for SAGE, the country's largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ) older adults. For more information about how to get involved and volunteer for SAGE go to www.sageusa.org.
Fara brings more than three decades of specialty healthcare sales, marketing, and management experience to the dynamic senior housing sector.
With a Bachelor of Science and graduate work in Human Development and Family Studies from Texas Christian University, Fara understands the complexity of services needed to care for seniors and their families.
Joining Sunrise Senior Living in 2003, Fara grew revenue and market share through coaching and training community sales teams in effective lead management, as well as, creating referral partnerships. As a Division Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Brookdale Senior Living from 2007 through 2010, Fara integrated three divergent operating groups, including Alterra and American Retirement Communities under the Brookdale brand; serving more than 10,000 residents in 72 communities.
Fara went on to work with the Greystone Communities to lead the Assisted Living, Memory Care, and Skilled Nursing pre-sales and fastest fill of Aberdeen Heights CCRC in 2012, turn around occupancy in Seattle for Skyline at First Hill, and open Greenfields of Geneva. With an established network of over 5500 senior living company relationships; Fara actively recruits and refers senior housing talent for leadership positions.
In 2015, Fara helped launch the SRI (Stanford Research Institute) Fellow, Blue Willow Systems, and revolutionary resident safety Technology Company with real-time location, personal wander management, automatic fall detection, and predictive analytics. Fara continues to serve Blue Willow Systems on their Advisory Board. Fara supported the sale and acquisition of Blue Willow Systems to the international technology company, Philips in 2018.
As a fifth generation Texan, Fara brings her pioneer spirit to finding new approaches to helping senior housing owners attract new residents to their communities. Fara lives with her husband, Donald, a retired engineer in an active 55+ adult community in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, near her family home and own actively aging Mother. She loves to travel and learn about how science and technology improves our human experience.
Fara can be reached at fara@goldmarksenior.com or 503-877-8280.
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Rory McIlroy joked he's heading into his Christmas/New Year break looking for a 'brain transplant' after ending his year well down the board at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.
Such was McIlroy's 'glad the season is over' mood in posting a final round 73 for an eight-under par tally for a distant share of 21st place in the year-ending European Tour event at Jumeirah Estates.
If left McIlroy trailing 10 shots behind England's Danny Willett who ended a 953-day winless drought since capturing the 2016 Masters in shooting a closing round 68 for an 18-under par tally.
The duo of England's Matt Wallace (68) and American Patrick Reed (70) shared second place at 16-under par.
After winning the European No. 1 crown in 2012 and again in 2014 and 2015, McIlroy closed his 2018 season finishing seventh on the money list.
"I mean it is disappointing over the weekend only to shoot even par when I put myself in a good position," he said.
"I shot eight-under the first two days and if I had of shot eight-under the next two, I would have been in a with a real chance of winning.
The result ended a disappointing season for McIlroy despite having won early in the year in capturing the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
McIlroy has only managed to break 70 in two of his past dozen rounds, and those were a 69 and 67 in Dubai this week.
"There has been very fine margins between shooting 71 yesterday and turning that into a 67 and then all of a sudden you in the final couple of groups, and you're looking at a chance," he said.
"The margins are so slim and this year I've just been on the wrong side of it but there's been a lot of good in there. There's been a lot consistent golf and I just haven't turned some good opportunities into wins.
"Another year it could have been a different story and all of s sudden you have four or five wins and you are feeling really good about yourself.
McIlroy was asked if he needed to also work over the Christmas/New Year break on his mental outlook and laughed in responding: "After this season what I need is a brain transplant".
McIlroy indicated he will spend the off-season tinkering on his game while he's to be 'Best Man' at his caddie and friend Harry Diamond's, wedding on December 8th at Gleneagles in Scotland.
The McIlroy's have also been invited to the wedding of the European Tour's first Mr. 59 Ollie Fisher at The Renaissance Club also next month.
"Yes, I'm best man at Harry's wedding as he was my Best Man and we're attending Ollie's wedding and with both the next two weeks so I am going to go and work on my speeches," he said also smiling.
Given the lateness in the UAE, McIlroy had missed the historic Ireland 16-9 victory over the All Blacks but was naturally delighted with the result.
"I was asleep and fell asleep 15-minutes into the Scotland-v- South Africa game," he said.
And McIlroy was also delighted for Ryder Cup winning colleague, Francesco Molinari and the new European Tour No. 1 who also becomes the first Italian-born player to win the title.
"Francesco has been incredible, I have been on the receiving end of it at couple of times this year, at The Open and at Wentworth," said McIlroy.
"Then at the Ryder Cup he was incredible. He's been great. He's the ultimate pro. He does everything the right way. He practices hard. He does the right things and he's really concentrated a lot on the physical side like his diet and all that stuff.
Shane Lowry carded a final round of one over par 72 to finish back in a tie for 30th and Paul Dunne finished his season by carding birdies at his final two holes to return a two under 70 and finish in a tie for 41st.


One of the most stressful things about being in debt is the constant pressure and calls from bill collectors and creditors. It's common for debt collectors to make harassing phone calls all hours of the day. They may threaten you with legal action or make embarrassing calls to your family and friends. All these tactics can make you feel helpless, hopeless and humiliated. But are all of these tactics legal? No.
Debt collectors must comply with the Texas debt collection and federal Fair Debt Collection Practice laws. Debts covered under these regulations include automobile loans, medical care bills, and credit card debt. Debt collectors must provide information about the debt within five days after contacting you and send a notice about the amount you owe, who you owe it to and what actions you should take if you do not think you owe the money.
Debt collectors may contact you in person, by mail, telephone, email or fax. They may not contact you before 8:00 am or after 9:00 pm or contact you at work without your permission.
Debt collectors may not contact you if you write them a certified letter to tell them to stop. They may continue to attempt to collect the debt you owe by suing you.
Debt collectors may not contact you if you are represented by an attorney. They may contact other people to find out where you live, your phone number and/or your employer, but they may not contact those third parties more than once and they may not tell anyone else that you have a debt.
Debt collectors may not harass, oppress or abuse you. They may not use threats of violence, obscene language or repeatedly use telephone calls to annoy you.
Debt collectors may not use false or misleading statements, imply that they are attorneys or government representatives or work for a credit bureau, imply that you committed a crime or lie about how much you owe, etc.
Debt collectors may not threaten to seize, garnish or repossess your property, wages or assets unless they contact you by postcard to say that it can be done legally.
Debt collectors may not use a false name or identification.
The Texas Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner website provides additional information about what debt collectors are allowed to do by law and how to file a complaint about a debt collector. When a debt collector crosses the legal line, an experienced attorney can help you make them stop. You may even be able to receive monetary compensation.
When you are bothered by creditors, Oliva Law can make them stop harassing you. Every week, we help our clients in Brownsville, McAllen, Harlingen, Corpus Christi and throughout the Rio Grande Valley sue harassing creditors. Get peace of mind and freedom from harassment. Call Oliva Law (956) 683-7800 or contact us online and let us fight for you today.


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A Dangerous Precedent Abuilding in California
Category: Abstinence News
A Dangerous Precedent Abuilding in California - By Paul M. Weyrich (October 25, 2007)
There is terrible news from California. On October 12, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law three bills which, the opposition argues, introduce the radical homosexual agenda into educational institutions. Unquestionably the traditional purpose of public education is to teach reading, writing, mathematics and other fundamentals necessary for well-rounded intellectual development. Instead, these institutions apparently will become miniature laboratories for redefining nature, implementing "gender theory" and experimenting with the effects of sexual lifestyles.
The first bill, SB 777, evidently bans anything in public schools that could be interpreted as discriminating against or critical of homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality or other alternative lifestyle choices. It prohibits any classroom instruction or school-sponsored activity that "promotes a discriminatory bias" against "sexual orientation" and "gender," which includes cross-dressing, sex changes and any other behavior "not stereotypically associated with one's assigned sex at birth." Forget any book, reference or teaching aid which shows marriage as only between a man and a woman (the definition California voters approved several years ago); materials which say people are born male or female (not in-between or subject to change); sources which fail to include a variety of transsexual, bisexual and homosexual historical figures; and sex education materials which fail to offer the option of sex changes. In addition, homecoming kings can now be either male or female, as can homecoming queens, and students, whether male or female, must be allowed to use the restroom and locker room corresponding to the sex with which they choose to identify (potentially especially pernicious to young girls). Such an attempt to redefine language to suit one's political and sexual interests would make George Orwell proud.
AB 394 requires the State Department of Education to monitor adherence to anti-discrimination and anti-harassment requirements involving "actual or perceived gender identification and sexual orientation" in local schools. Schools must adopt policies which prohibit discrimination and harassment based upon sexual identity or orientation and a process to receive and investigate complaints in these cases. Schools also will have to provide classroom handouts (including some specifically for parents) and display information in the halls, lounges and on websites that specifically address "bias-related discrimination and harassment" against homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality or other "alternative lifestyle choices."
The final bill, AB 14, prohibits state funding for any program that does not support a range of alternative sexual practices, including state-funded social services run by churches. This means that day-cares, preschools, after-school programs, food and housing programs, senior services, anti-gang efforts, job programs and others must all teach and accept homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality and all the other sexualities. It also forces every hospital in California, even private and religious hospitals, to adopt policies of support for the aforementioned sexualities and opens up non-profit organizations to lawsuits if they exclude members who engage in any such sexual conduct.
Governor Schwarzenegger rejected a bill to authorize same-sex marriage. Also, a year ago he vetoed bills similar to SB 777, AB 394 and AB 14, stating that existing state law already provided penalties for discrimination. Why he reversed himself now is unclear. He has not held a press conference or issued a statement on this legislation. But the harm his decision will do is clear if the law becomes effective on January 1, 2008 and is interpreted and implemented literally. It would turn California's children over to those who want to indoctrinate them in perversion in order to validate their own lifestyle choices. Homosexual advocates are aware that there is no more captive audience than schoolchildren, both because they are impressionable and because education is compulsory, and have pursued their agenda aggressively through state legislators and bureaucrats. In California they may have succeeded in implementing intolerance for what, in every human society and culture, has been the understanding of men, women, marriage, sexuality and nature.
Those parents who can afford to pull their children from public schools and place them in private schools or homeschool them will probably do so. But most families cannot afford to do so. They will be forced to send their children to schools which expressly contradict their values. Multiple studies have shown the disastrous effect the breakdown of marriage has had on the poor¬e.g., it keeps them in a vicious cycle of poverty. Now the Government of California plans to do more harm to the poor.
Sex has no place in educational institutions. It belongs at home, where parents have a responsibility to teach their children about it. But California's politicians, intent upon using the power of law and manipulating public institutions to deny nature, control thought, speech and action, and force their perversion on others, want sex everywhere in public schools.
The Capitol Resource Institute in California has launched a referendum campaign to overturn SB 777. The group will need to secure 433,971 valid voter signatures within 90 days to qualify for the June 2008 ballot.
If the referendum is unsuccessful, be prepared for some momentum to spread east because California's resources and population make California enormously influential. Textbook publishers will take note of this new legislation and amend their books accordingly in order to stay in business in the State.
We must make Americans aware of what is happening and be prepared to fight it. Either that or we must be prepared for the "tolerant" left to begin persecuting those who advocate social and cultural positions opposed to theirs. This is as gross an abuse of power as I have ever seen.
Paul M. Weyrich is Chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation.
Campus Group Urges Abstinence
The Hilltop
March 16, 2007 Campus Group Urges Abstinence
Vanessa Mizell
He's more than willing to show you his two bullet wounds on the side of his arm and on the night he led his organization's meeting, 31-year-old Carl L. Miller didn't even realize he was wearing the same shirt he had been car jacked in outside his Southeast home nearly two years ago.
When he lay in the hospital bed watching doctors extract bullets from his flesh, all he could think of was: "I've got 60,000 dollars in student loans! I can't go now! I haven't done anything for you yet God!" he recounted jokingly behind a kiddish smile and emerald green eyes.
Howard graduate student and licensed social worker, Miller said that it was the night he was face-to-face with the barrel of a gun against his Lexus GS-300 window and the viewing of a documentary on HIV/AIDS that drove him to saving lives.
Miller and Kristi Love, also a graduate student in social work, decided to create S.T.A.A.N.D., Students Against AIDS and the Abolition of National Denial. The organization seeks to highlight the pandemic's crisis in the African-American community and combat the ignorance thereof.
"AIDS is one of our enemies," Miller said.
For that reason, S.T.A.A.N.D is charging all Howard University students to abstain from sex for a semester. The initiative is called Semester of Abstinence and Advocacy and it challenges Howard students because Miller feels strongly that the university is the leader of the African-American community.
The general response he gets from students when proposing the initiative?
"Huh? What? You want me to do what?" he imitated. But he and other members of STAAND say that many students are receptive to the cause behind the idea.
"People really want to know it and just may not know the proper steps to make change," said freshman African-American studies major Nikita Ford, who decided to join after she attended the organization's co-hosted panel entitled "Sex Matters."
This week's meeting, STAAND discussed ways for members to be certified in HIV/AIDS starter facts. The group also wants to find ways to engage the community.
In a visit to Ben's Chili Bowl last week, Miller read that a group of Middle and High School students were holding a panel discussion to kick off their Abstinence Awareness Week, challenging the D.C. metropolitan area and District Council members to promote abstinence as a way to curb HIV/AIDS, STDs and other health dangers to D.C.'s youth.
Miller knew he had to attend. He did.
The eight panelists ages 12 to 20 all belong to an organization called Ultra Teen Choice, a local teen peer-counseling program.
"I'm too young to be having sex," said eighth grade panelist Sabrina Donelson in her introduction.
When the floor was open to comments from the audience, Miller approached the microphone and championed the students' decision to abstain from sex. Regarding the subject that surfaced about the impact of the media, Miller also shared his story about his first assignment as a social worker.
"It was an 11-year-old pregnant girl whose 24-year-old mother had full blown AIDS and when I walked into the living room, the rest of the kids were sitting there watching BET."
The co-founder and executive director of Ultra Teen Choice, Richard Urban believes that abstinence should be the standard for the youth and questions why the government doesn't fund more "serious" tracks to help youth stay abstinent. He disagrees with the promotion of condoms to encourage safe sex.
"The majority, 52 percent, [of youth in D.C.] have never had sex. That's down 16 percent in two years and that's not because they're handing out condoms. These are kids who are saying, 'I've never had sex.'"
But watch out for misleading figures, says Family Nurse Practitioner Anne Squires. She has been working at Eastern Senior High School's Unity Health clinic for nearly six years. The clinic is only one of two in the District located inside a school.
She agrees that abstinence is a great tool for curbing STD rates but says that a lot of students are not making that choice.
"I think we have to be realistic," Squires said. "If they have made that choice then I feel it's my responsibility to help them make safe choices."
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the District has the highest rates of HIV infections in the country. The Administration for HIV Policy and Programs reports that nearly 1 out of 50 District residents is living with AIDS.
Miller still believes that abstinence until marriage is the only way to combat the HIV/AIDS disease, whose most common victim in the U.S. is likely to be an African-American woman.
Beyond Howard students, Miller also challenged Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards about the issue while the former senator visited the campus yesterday. Edwards did make mention of the AIDS pandemic in Africa.
Miller rushed Edwards after his speech in a crowded School of Business lobby: "I know Africa's bad, but what's your plan to deal with it here in America?" asked Miller to Edwards.
"I haven't announced a plan yet but I'm working on it now. I know it's a big issue," responded Edwards distractingly as he and his team snaked through the throng of students.
Miller said that STAAND will be contacting Edward's aides to arrange a meeting. "I'm not going to say that Edwards doesn't have a plan," said Miller, "I just can't wait to see what it is."


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Test web application with acyncio, aiohttp and aiopg. React frontend.

### Prerequisites

VirtualBox with GuestAdditions
Vagrant

## Deployment

### Clone repository

```
git clone https://github.com/TeaTracer/aio-test.git
cd aio-test
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###  Vagrant

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vagrant up
vagrant ssh
/vagrant/server/deploy/script.sh
```

### License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE.txt](LICENSE.txt) file for details

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''Though She Be But Little, She Is Fierce.'' Let this Shakespeare quotation (describing the heroine Hermia from A Midsummer Night's Dream) inspire your fiercely independent reading!
Shakespeare's words shine with eye-catching gloss and gold foil highlights against a matte off-white background with a bird and floral design in shades of cerise, coral, and green.
Beaded bookmark comes with a silky pink tassel and a bubbly chartreuse bead.
The perfect companion for fiercely independent reading!
Bookmark is printed on sturdy, smooth-finish cardstock.
On the back: A handy printed ruler in inches and centimeters.
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V: The Second Generation is a novel written by American telewriter/producer Kenneth Johnson. It is an alternative sequel to his 1983 science fiction television miniseries V, which depicted an advanced race of carnivorous reptilians known as "The Visitors".

Plot summary

Set 20 years after the original miniseries, The Second Generation depicts an Earth still under Visitor domination with the Resistance fighting a losing battle. They desperately try to persuade the masses that the Visitors are evil aliens bent on mankind's destruction. However, they are largely ignored as the many technological and social advancements brought by the Visitors to the planet have convinced the majority that the aliens have their best interests in mind. They are halfway to taking all of the planet's water under the guise of cleansing it of all polluting substances. Many people were also convinced to join the Visitors' civilian militia, the Teammates (an evolution of the miniseries' Visitor Youth), to hunt resistance members.

When all seems hopeless, the message that Resistance leader Juliet Parrish sent into space at the end of the original miniseries is finally heard. An alien race called the Zedti, who are long-standing enemies of the Visitors reinforces the Resistance in their time of need and soon the war is turned in their favor. However, all is not as it seems, as the Zedti's actions make the Resistance wonder about their newfound allies' actual motives.

Background
In 2004, Kenneth Johnson announced plans to produce a sequel to the first V miniseries from 1983, which would disregard both The Final Battle mini-series (1984) and the subsequent weekly series (which had been made without Johnson's involvement). He made it known that NBC wanted a remake of the original V miniseries, rather than a sequel. In an interview with the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, he said the idea for a sequel was born during the production of the Original Mini-Series DVD in 2001, particularly while remastering the final scene where Julie Parrish and Elias Taylor send the distress signal.

In a press conference at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con, Johnson revealed that the novel has been written and negotiations were taking place with NBC regarding the production of its film version, a four-hour TV movie. However, in 2008, Warner Bros., which holds the television rights to the V franchise, opted to remake V from scratch, with a script written by Scott Peters (co-creator of The 4400), thus ending Johnson's plans for The Second Generation being made for television. The pilot of the remake aired on ABC on November 3, 2009.

References

External links
 Kenneth Johnson's Official Site
 The V series page  at the publisher's official website
 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Interview
Follow-up V:TSG book review by Rob Owen
 Kenneth Johnson Interview with The Scifi World

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Book Review: The X-Files 'Monsters of the Week'
By Avi Quijada
There's always been a very succinct way that we as fans identify our favorite parts of The X-Files: whether it be Shippers or Noromos, or we use abbreviations like MSR, or DRR, and then Mythology and MOTW.
The latter is the center of the newest critical companion written by Zack Handlen and Todd VanDerWerff. Monsters of the Week presents itself as the most complete one, with a foreword by Chris Carter and interviews with Vince Gilligan, Howard Gordon, Darin Morgan, Robert Patrick, Mitch Pileggi, Frank Spotnitz and James Wong. This isn't just a book about reviews, but it is one that is a very well placed balance of opinion and history.
We had the opportunity to speak with both Todd and Zack about their motivation for writing this collection of reviews.
Zack Handlen: "We're both long-term fans of The X-Files, and getting a chance to cover the whole series in a go had a lot of appeal, both as a chance to revisit the material itself and as a way to express our own appreciation (and issues) with the show as a whole. As bonus, the hardest part of the work--the rough drafts, so to speak--were already done when Abrams, our publisher, reached out to us about the possibility of this book. The original versions of these reviews all appeared online at the AV Club when Todd and I traded off writing about the series a few years back. Getting an opportunity to edit and rewrite those reviews in a more definitive, permanent format was hard to pass up."
Todd Vanderwerff: "The X-Files was the first TV show I ever really loved. It's ground zero for the entire career that followed, so when I got to cover it at the AV Club, it felt like a weird culmination of sorts. But now that we have this definitive book about the show, which people will have on their shelves to pull down any time they want to read about the show, which Chris Carter himself wrote a lovely little introduction for? To say 14-year-old me is freaking out is an understatement!"
XFN: Why focus on MOTW over the mythology or the show as a whole? Would you find it attractive to write a book only about reviewing the Mythology?
TVDW: "Well, we've reviewed all of the mythology episodes, too! Monsters of the Week just makes for a better title, honestly. That said, we hope the book can keep alive the old debates over which sorts of episodes are best. I think both Zack and I prefer the MOTW episodes, but I found a newfound affection for the mythology working on this project. At its best, it has a propulsiveness like few other things in TV history."
ZH: "I think a book that focused on the mythology would start exciting but get fairly depressing before the end. But I agree with Todd that this book helped me appreciate the show's attempts at long-term serialization, at a time when that wasn't really the norm for television. While there were some great MOTW episodes in the first couple of seasons, I don't think the show would've become the pop culture juggernaut it was (and, to some extent, still is); the way the conspiracy builds and intensifies in those early mythology storylines is still fantastic stuff."
XFN: What was the process of writing the reviews? How long did it take from conception to finishing? What was the hardest of the whole process?
ZH: "This is a bit unusual, as most (but not all) of these reviews were done in two parts: the first, when they were initially published online five or six years ago, and the second, after we knew we'd be putting this put together, and were going back in and reworking and editing everything for the book. So it's hard to say how long it took--the editing process was over the course of a year or so, going back and forth with our (terrific) editors, but there were also those initial drafts, which were written with a very different context in mind. For me, the hardest part of the whole process was trying to get back in the mindset of those original reviews and finding a way to bridge the gap between how I watched and wrote about television back then, and how I watch and write about television now. The changes weren't drastic, but they were often more substantial than I was expecting."
TVDW: "A lot of the first drafts of those reviews were written in a panic on a Saturday morning, when they were due to publish in a couple of hours. So it was great to go back and smooth out the problems in them, and even look at some of the comments people had left on those reviews to consider other opinions on certain topics. (I especially found this useful in "Small Potatoes," which I had reviewed in a way that glossed over some of the episode's less amusing bits.) But Zack is right that we did a fair bit of rewriting, and there are a lot of reviews in the book that are brand new, including much of season one, some of season two, our discussion of the movie, and then plenty of seasons 10 and 11. Even if you obsessively followed the AV Club reviews, you're going to get a lot of stuff you've never read before in this book!"
XFN: MOTW for The X-Files range between humor, science, horror, suspense, fantasy, religion - sometimes a mix of all those elements. Which mix do you think worked best in the final draw of it all?
TVDW: "I love the comedy episodes, of course, but a format that almost never went wrong for the show was "Mulder and Scully try to survive in an isolated location." It's present in the show's first capital-G Great episode, "Ice," and it keeps popping up throughout the series. There's even a great example of the form in season eight, when Mulder and Doggett head out to the oil rig in "Vienen." Something about isolating the characters so they had only their wits to work with really reflected well on the show."
ZH: "I'm not sure I could pick out one specific mix that always worked best; one of the things that makes The X-Files such a great series is, as you say, the show's range. One week you could get something absolutely terrifying, like "Home" or "Folie a Deux;" the next, you could get something as funny as "The War of the Coprophages" or as outright loopy as "Hollywood A.D." The first couple of seasons (especially season one) are fairly consistent in terms of approach, and while there's a lot of great episodes in there, for me, the show really found its voice when it started experimenting. So I guess I'd say it's not one specific mix (although I agree with Todd with that isolating the characters was always a great idea), but rather a willingness to keep trying new things that ultimately served the series the best overall."
XFN: Which writer - besides Chris Carter - do you think was the champion in writing these MOTW? Why?
ZH: "I have to go with Vince Gilligan for this one. Darin Morgan (who wrote, among other things, my favorite episode of the series) was tremendous, but Gilligan (who did classics like "Pusher," "Drive," and "Bad Blood" among many others) really helped to establish the flexibility of the concept. Among other things, he's just a master of structure--it's something he took to Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, and you can already see how good he is in building up a story and putting the characters through their paces."
TVDW: "Zack took my answer, in that Gilligan was the show's best writer among its most prolific writers. (I love Darin Morgan, but he's written just six scripts for the series!) But let me give a shout-out to Glen Morgan and James Wong, who solidified so much of what The X-Files was in those early days and, more importantly, wrote the first true monster of the week episode in "Squeeze."
XFN: Was there any particular surprise while writing the book, in terms of knowledge gained or anecdotal?
TVDW: "I will say that I had always respected Chris Carter as a writer and director, but I'd also found his approach to showrunning just a bit curious. Where other showrunners kept a super steady hand on the proceedings, Carter was always willing to give in to an idea if it was good, which meant the show often ranged all over the map. Most of the time, that was for the better (it's why the series still holds up today), but there are certainly a few episodes in that vein I'm sure all would prefer to forget. But in talking to people who worked on the show, I came to realize that Carter's willingness to let others play in his sandbox was a strength, not a weakness. Not only did it make The X-Files as elastic as it could be, but it also trained a whole generation of great showrunners, like Gilligan, Howard Gordon, and Alex Gansa."
ZH: "I guess I'm continually surprised at how well the show holds up. Which may be slightly disingenuous, coming from a guy who just co-wrote a book on the whole thing, but so much of what The X-Files did well--great character work, a willingness to mix standalones with serialized entries, and the show's gorgeous visual style, which only got more impressive over the course of the series--is what we look for in television today. Heck, plenty of modern shows could stand to take a few pages from The X-Files playbook."
XFN: If you could pick one MOTW episode of the whole series as your favorite, which would it be?
ZH: "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose." It's been my favorite ever since I saw it as a kid, and it still holds up beautifully today."
TVDW: "I adore "Jose Chung's From Outer Space." It's one of the 10 best episodes of TV I've ever seen, and I feel like I've learned so much about myself from watching it obsessively. But if I were to pick a truly scary episode as my favorite, I'd likely go with "Home."
XFN: Do you think it's possible to watch the show without paying attention to the mythology, focus on the MOTW episodes and still be a sound show?
TVDW: "I think it is, sure. The great thing about The X-Files is that its endless inventiveness means you can watch it pretty much however you want and get something out of it. The true story at its center isn't the alien conspiracy so much as it is Mulder and Scully coming to trust each other, and a whole country full of monsters that they bring into the light. Sure, I think most viewers should watch the mythology episodes, and I imagine in a Hulu binge, they will. But why not pick and choose? It's one of the great shows of all time for doing that."
ZH: "Agreed. That's part of the genius of it--you can pick up pretty much any place you want to, but it'll always leave you coming back for more."
Accompanied by the great and moody illustrations by Patrick Leger, reading "Monsters of the Week" is the book version of every Sunday night that you sat down to watch the show and then discussed it with your friends; the book version of binge watching the show today and live-tweeting each episode, while stopping here and there to explore in the behind-the-scenes and several critical and widely informed conversations about what it took to create this show.
Whether you agree with all of their opinions or not, it is truly refreshing to read a collection of reviews by people that devoted great appreciation for the object of their examination, which isn't always the case. Their reviews are rich on filmmaking criticism, based on knowledge and respect for the creators of these 218 episodes and 2 movies.
So, if you're in the market for an elevated discussion in book form, this is definitely a must. Beyond that, this is a great addition to your collection, to be filed under "essential books for an X-Phile education."
As you know, we're running a contest for Monsters of the Week - go here to participate! You can also purchase the book directly from the Abrams website. For a limited time, those that have pre-ordered the book could receive a book plate signed by the authors and Chris Carter.
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1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. 2"Honor your father and mother—" (This is a very important commandment with a promise.) 3"—so that it may go well for you, and that you may have a long life on the earth."
4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up by training and instructing them about the Lord.
5Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear, trembling, and sincerity, as when you obey the Messiah. 6Do not do this only while you're being watched in order to please them, but be like slaves of the Messiah, who are determined to obey God's will. 7Serve willingly, as if you were serving the Lord and not merely people, 8because you know that everyone will receive a reward from the Lord for whatever good he has done, whether he is a slave or free.
9Masters, treat your slaves the same way. Do not threaten them, for you know that both of you have the same Master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.
10Finally, be strong in the Lord, relying on his mighty strength. 11Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the devil's strategies. 12For our struggle is not against human opponents, but against rulers, authorities, cosmic powers in the darkness around us, and evil spiritual forces in the heavenly realm. 13For this reason, take up the whole armor of God so that you may be able to take a stand whenever evil comes. And when you have done everything you could, you will be able to stand firm. 14Stand firm, therefore, having fastened the belt of truth around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15and being firm-footed in the gospel of peace. 16In addition to having clothed yourselves with these things, having taken up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to put out all the flaming arrows of the evil one, 17also take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18Pray in the Spirit at all times with every kind of prayer and request. Likewise, be alert with your most diligent efforts and pray for all the saints. 19Pray also for me, so that, when I begin to speak, the right words will come to me. Then I will boldly make known the secret of the gospel, 20for whose sake I am an ambassador in chains, desiring to declare the gospel as boldly as I should.
21So that you may know what has happened to me and how I am doing, Tychicus, our dear brother and a faithful minister in service to the Lord, will tell you everything. 22I am sending him to you for this very reason, so that you may know how we are doing and that he may encourage your hearts.
23May peace and love, with faith, be with the brothers, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah! 24May grace be with all who sincerely love the Lord Jesus, the Messiah!


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Items Brooklyn: Plymouth Street - Pearl Street
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Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy
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GERALD FORD STUNS THE WORLD * EDWARDS FOR PRESIDENT!!
God Bless Betty Ford and R.I.P. Gerald, who seems to be speaking from the grave with his shocking post-mortem tape. I adore Betty, and have always liked Gerald Ford for his humility and integrity. More on the Ford tape below.
I am thrilled that John Edwards has thrown his hat into the ring! He is such an honest, hard-working all-American patriot and visionary with real solutions for America. I love both Edwards and Gore. Obama and Hilary are equally qualified, but Edwards or Gore have a better chance of winning.
Breaking News: A new Associated Press poll has Bush as the NUMBER ONE VILLAN OF 2006. One out of four Americans chose Bush.
AP's Poll the breakdown; Biggest Villain 2006
Bush.......25%
Bin Laden..8%
Saddam.....6%
Pres. of Iran..5%
Dictator of Korea..2%
Satan.......1%
From Clif: "Bush is worse than Saddam, Kim Il Jung, Ahmadinejad, Bin forgotten, and EVEN Satan."
I just watched Chris Matthews interview David Gergen on Gerald Ford's stunning admission that the Bush administration made a catastrophic mistake in invading Iraq under the guise of routing out "weapons of mass destruction." Ford's taped interview was released upon his death; he would not allow it to be released while he was alive. He really sounds disgusted by the neocons.
Gergen said that there is a big difference between a true Republican -- and a neo conservative like Rumsfield and Cheney, who both played prominent roles in Ford's administration. Gergen said that everyone has noticed an astonishing change in Dick Cheney; he is not the man he was. It almost sounded as if he was saying Cheney has been posssessed by some demon. He did say "Once Cheney was made CEO of Haliburton, maybe he acquired CEO-itis." In any case, it was not a compliment. The implication is that Cheney and the Bush neocons have taken the country down a very dark path, fueled by greed and fear.
Gerald Ford and his courageous wife Betty are true heroes of mine. Betty Ford's honesty in admitting her alcoholism, and establishing the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage has helped countless people admit their own helplessness in this devastating disease.
I am posting Step 11 shortly. My favorite step.
Christmas wrap up: In our house, I do all the cooking, baking and housework — so it's not easy keeping up with the blog. Right before Christmas I scrubbed the house from top to toe, getting behind every piece of furniture and literally washing the woodwork by hand. My sweet husband strung icicle lights all around the house and then proceeded to accidentally hose down the boxes of kids' gifts which were hidden on our side porch. After I calmed down, we went to Costco to use the gift certificate my mom and Chuck sent us. WE LOVE YOU GUYS! My sister hung out all day on Christmas and helped the kids put their gifts together. We are so blessed to have each other. We are one of the few houses in our neighborhood with Christmas lights. My son is going to 6 Barmitzvahs this year; I wish we, as Protestants, had this ritual for our boys on the verge-of-manhood.
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Jeffrey Cohen is a wonderful attorney, and I would want him on my team. I apologize to him for any perceived misunderstandings, or implications in this blog that he is anything less than an upright, ethical, sober and responsible attorney.
I did not post Jeffrey Cohen's name on this blog in connection with any statements. I certainly do not remember doing so and can't imagine ever having done such a thing. Attorneys names are never mentioned here, and if they are posted accidentally, they are deleted it immediately — as I cannot find it now anywhere on the web, in my files or on blogger itself. In fact, I contacted the webmaster who publishes my items and posted my own statement back in August reprimanding the National Enquirer for defaming my character, and he has no record of Jeffrey Cohen's name anywhere in all my web postings. No one remembers seeing his name posted here.
That said, if his name was mistakenly printed, it was immediately retracted, and there exists no record of it anywhere on the internet. At the time, I was being viciously attacked and slandered on my own blog by a certain "Anonymous"* poster (see below). The blog referred to was deleted within minutes of being posted, so no one could have seen it except the attackers themselves.
Jeffrey Cohen is not the most "corrupt of all crooks" attorney that may have been anonymously referred to in that long-deleted posting, and if that was the impression taken, I deeply apologize. Nothing was said with malice; every impression gathered of the attorneys involved in the case was based on heresay.
If I ever gave the impression that I believed Jeffrey Cohen was disbarred, reprimanded or had drug problems, I also apologize. It has been brought to my attention that Mr. Cohen has never been reprimanded for unethical tactics nor has he been disbarred for corruption and drug abuse. At the time I may have believed these things based on heresay, which I now realize is false, and was not meant to implicate Mr. Cohen or cause him any problems. A blog is a personal opinion journal that often contains mistakes. Again, the immediate deletion of said blog, is evidence that the entire article was already retracted back in August.
Again, Jeffrey Cohen is a wonderful attorney, and I would want him on my team. I hope this clears up any mistakes or misunderstanding.
For the past few months I've received malicious taunts and cruel comments on my blog by a person posing as "Anonymous." This person has defamed my character and slandered me. I would appreciate anyone with knowledge of who 'Anonymous' might be, to please come forward.
This blog is a journal of personal opinion. While it allows visitors from all over the world to comment, the blog owner is not liable for content or for any comments left here.
LETTERS FROM IRAQ
Below is a very honest and amazing letter sent to me from SPC Timothy M. Deane. It's important to understand the kind of heroism and old-fashioned faith some of our troops have. I admire every single soldier, whether they have this kind of faith or not. But on that note please read the top comment from Human in the comment section here.
Our troops in Iraq, the deadliest war zone, are the most brave and inspiring people to me right now. Please pray for them. God Bless our troops.
With the threat of one Democratic senator suffering a stroke (Tim Johnson of South Dakota) last week, and the possibilty of a Republican Senate — I suddenly didn't feel so safe anymore. It's funny how we can go from hope to fear within seconds. Fear that mankind will self-destruct. This is what a Republican Congress would mean: the end of hope for America and all mankind. A Republican Congress means Dick Cheney would have veto power. It may sound extreme to make a statement like this, but it's how the majority "feels" right now.
Top photo: SPC Timothy Deane
Second photo is of our friend and fellow blogger Marcus "Tom Paine" and his wife Alissa, in Iraq.
The following letter is from SPC Timothy Deane. Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Lydia, I read your blog of the ten service members that were killed in country. The one that stood out was the mention of the one that was on his third tour. This is my third tour here as well. I came back from a injury that had me unable to walk for 90 days. I had my tendon repaired and my nerve dissected and repaired on my left foot. I came back to Iraq after healing...why?
If I can try to explain why...
1. We don't have to believe our leaders but we have to believe in our Country. Our love for our Country and our service is something we take pride in. Whether Foreign Policy is screwed up or not we have to protect our Country for whatever threat. Now, this comment can raise a few arguments I know BUT if I believe in my Country then I am willing to defend my Country. Notice, I believe in my Country even if my leaders are slightly off center.
Being in the military we are not allowed to discuss our political views and I will respect that and I don't think it's important on whether I am a Republican or Democrat (even though I am sure you know which I am). I am paid to be a medic, to save lives, not to get into a political debate with my Commander-In-Chief.
2. We continue to come over because we know others won't. This is an ongoing situation. We have folks that go AWOL and vanish on their units, we have folks that claim "conscientious objector" status after they
somehow woke up one day and said "hey, I'm not going to war", and then we have the National Guard men and women who claim the "I only joined for college". We also have entire Guard units that for some reason are
able to jockey their way out of deployments, but they and their personnel are able to remain in the Guard.
3. With being here three times you have experience. You want to share this experience with the younger soldiers or the "virgins to war". At 35 years of age I see it as my part to help those here and to ease their worries and to help them relax know that at any moment thing can and will go down hill fast. If you can learn from those who have been here before and if it helps you to stay alive and to do you mission then that is a success.
4. For some of us, like myself, being here is being able to support our families. Thanks to a poor job market or a job that only pays the status quo, by coming over here with the extra pay and the like we can keep our heads above water and make sure our families can survive. I am married with 3 beautiful children and I know that if anything does happen to me then they will be taken care of. I hate to think of anything happening but I am not the dictator of my time on earth. In the civilian side I would not be able to give my wife of 13 years and my children as good a life as they have now. Once I get back to Alabama after this tour, I return to the job I have and take a huge cut in salary. And once again I look forward to the prospect of having to work two or possibly three jobs just to stay afloat and to continue to provide for my family.
5. Family history. I come from a long line of military blood. I have had family in every major conflict since the Civil War. And due to my German heritage, I have had family on two fronts in two World Wars. Our dedication to Country and service is a way of my family saying "Thank You" to a Country that allowed us to cross the water and enter and to allow us the chance to make our lives better, brand new. From Grandfather to father to brother to sister and uncles and cousins (one cousin - William Wayne Seay gave the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam and was awarded the Medal Of Honor) we have all given our time to our Country. At one time over here my sister, my cousin and I were all in theatre together. Some were raised to be actors, doctors and lawyers and these are noble professions. My family - Deane's and Steiner's - see our calling differently. Some 44 years ago a great man told us to ask not our Country could do for us, but what we could do for our Country. I have never nor will I ever ask of my Country to do for me, I simply give to her without question.
6. Faith moves mountains. I have Faith in my God. And I know that if anything should happen I will look forward to being in His arms and standing with Him. There is a greater place and my Lord has a place for me in it. My family will miss me, yes, BUT what a glorious day when we will be reunited in the presence of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Faith keeps me going.
7. My family trusts and believes in me and that is all that matters. As long as I can look at my children and my wife when I get home and know I did the best that I could do and they love me, then that is all that I am after. I have nothing to prove to anyone but to my wife and babies.
8. This is my last tour. I will volunteer for no more.
Also, Please read this riveting post from Marine Philip Martin. Human
I will post excerpts from it, along with my favorite Marcus Byrne posts: Anger Management
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MOST INSPIRING PERSON OF YEAR
Most Inspiring Person of the Year, 2006
Most Inspiring of 2006: Why the Amish Won
With an act of radical forgiveness, a grieving community showed the world an alternative response to violence.
I vote for the Amish and also for CANDY CHRISTMAS, the beautiful Nashville singer who feeds the homeless every week out of her own pocket. Here's a letter I got from my friend Larry:
"I wish you have been in Nashville today. Candy took a semi load of food 20,000 lbs and a bus full of volunteers and a bus load of singers to Jamestown Tenn. which is the poorest area in Tenn. They put on a concert, gave away a refrigerator, Stove, 4 recliners and 20,000 lbs of food to the poor.
I don't know how many people I gave food boxes to, that told me this was a lifesaver. You would have loved it. A radio station in Columbus Georgia wants her to bring the troops there and do the same thing. They filmed it so I will get you a copy as soon as I get one. Monday night she is giving a Christmas party for the volunteers to Thank them for their hard work all year. These volunteers love doing this.
As I stood there watching Candy sing and looking over the gymnasium full of really poor people I thought about you and that you would like this."
MOST INSPIRING PEOPLE...
This year's 12 most inspiring people once again proved the power of individuals to act with love, courage, and forgiveness in the most challenging situations.
The Amish of Nickel Mines, Pa.—a pacifist religious community in rural Lancaster County who practice a simple farming life without modern conveniences much the same as their 17th century Swiss-German forbears—suffered a shocking intrusion into their world when a local milkman, Charles Roberts, invaded a one-room schoolhouse, shooting 10 young girls, leaving five of them dead. During the ordeal, one of the girls, 13-year-old Marian Fisher, offered to be killed first in hopes that the others would be spared. (View video: A Young Girl's Sacrifice.) A Beliefnet member wrote of this event: "I cannot ignore this unbelievable act of love by a girl this young. In my mind, this little girl did no more or no less than Jesus did for us on the cross." Within hours of the shooting, the families of the children not only expressed their forgiveness of the killer but reached out to his family, giving food and raising money for his wife and children.
In a Beliefnet video interview, Herman Bontrager, a spokesman for the Amish of Nickel Mines, explained, "The Amish believe that we must forgive because we ourselves need to be forgiven. [They're] trying to live the way Jesus lived. He turned the other cheek, he told us to love everybody, to love our enemies." A Beliefnet member noted, "The message of forgiveness, rather than vengeance, goes to the heart of how we should behave toward each other. This is an extreme example of how true faith and true forgiveness can be awe-inspiring. If the Amish can forgive the man who killed their children, how much more should the rest of us be able to forgive the petty hurts and perceived insults we receive each day?"
For the incredible example of living faith on the part of an entire community that lost its children, the majority of Beliefnet users cast their votes for the Amish. And the editors of Beliefnet follow their lead by naming the Amish of Nickel Mines, Pa. the Most Inspiring People of 2006.
We asked you to choose between some tremendously inspiring folks, and we were in for some surprises. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, who spoke against racism and anti-Semitism, and "green" evangelical Rev. Richard Cizik, who works to save the environment, were knocked off in the first round.
Perhaps the biggest surprise was that a homeless Detroit man, Charles Moore, who returned $21,000 in savings bonds he found in the trash to their rightful owner, defeated billionaire philanthropist Warren Buffett, who this year gave the biggest charitable donation in history. Some of you wrote that Moore's story reminded you of the New Testament lesson of "the widow's mite." Moore gave everything he had, because of his deeply grounded sense of honesty and integrity, shattering stereotypes about homeless people in the process.
Some other truly remarkable people lost by a slim margin. Elissa Montanti, the "saint of Staten Island," who with single-minded devotion cuts red tape to get prosthetic limbs and medical help for war-maimed children, lost narrowly to Todd Corbin, a marine who courageously saved the lives of his unit in Iraq. One remarkable teenager—Adam Zuckerman, who is already one of the country's most outspoken activists for Darfur—was edged out by another teen, Jason McElwain, an autistic boy whose amazing final-quarter shots for his high school basketball team proved that disability is no impediment to achieving your dreams. Another inspiring child, Bindi Irwin, daughter of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin who has taken up her father's mantle of wildlife preservation, was chosen over wheelchair-bound actress, Kathleen Traylor, who started a theater where the disabled showcase their formidable acting talents.
In the second round of voting, Lance Corporal Todd Corbin of Ohio was named one of the final three. He is an outstanding example of heroism under pressure. On patrol in Iraq, Corbin saved the lives of many of the men in his unit, carrying people off the field of battle under heavy fire. At one point, he carried his wounded patrol leader over his shoulder while returning enemy fire with his free hand. When he drove away—in a 7-ton truck with three flat tires—he had the entire remaining platoon safely inside. His courage is only equaled by his modesty and faith. In an interview with Beliefnet, he explained, "The way I was raised, you always put yourself out for other people because there is going to come a time when you are down and are going to need someone to help you up. It is the core of my family values." He added, "I always say people should not credit me with what happened on May 7, but credit God."
The other two final candidates showed the kind of radical forgiveness that some have called miraculous. Both finalists suffered the horror of having of having family members brutally murdered. Immaculee Ilibagiza, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, hid in a tiny bathroom for three months and emerged to find her parents, siblings, and thousands of countrymen dead. At first unable to pray because of her anger, Immaculee surrendered "everything to God" and in a vision understood what Jesus meant when he said "Forgive them, Father, for they don't know what they do." She prayed for her enemies and the anger was lifted. She reached out to her father's killer, and has been lecturing all over the country on the power and importance of forgiveness. Her inspiring example is a beacon for many Beliefnet users.
THE ULTIMATE ANTIDEPRESSANT * MEDIA AS MENTAL SWITCHBLADE *
Depressed, sad, anxious? Read about the ultimate ANTIDEPRESSANT below. But first these items:
From HuffPo: 25,000 U.S. troops dead or injured since war began...
O.I.L. Do you know why Ari Fleischer had to stop calling the invasion of Iraq, "Operation Iraqi Liberation" (Oil)? Because it was too close to the truth; Bush was embarrassed that it spelled OIL. Hence the war slogan was changed to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Got this tidbit from Cenk and Jilly, THE YOUNG TURKS, on Air America this morning.
Did anyone see the brilliant Robert Dreyfuss on Hannity & Colmes last night? Last time he was on with Sean Hannity during the Israel-Lebanon strikes, Hannity said, "If I hear the word 'proportional' one more time I'm going to punch myself.' So Dreyfuss very dryly says, "Proportional." And Hannity just sat there; he didn't punch himself darn it. Another false Republican promise. But it was a hilarious moment. Dreyfuss is an Iraq strategist, investigative reporter for Rolling Stone, The Nation, Mother Jones — and good friend of mine. He also had a cover story in THE NATION last week. check out his latest article at http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/12/13/bush_v_the_two_majorities.php
THE ULTIMATE ANTIDEPRESSANT: helping others. Angelina Jolie said that until she found "her purpose", in being a mother and helping others — she was depressed, nihilistic, suicidal — as many of us are until we transcend our ego-centered selfishness and really look around at the world. As pain is the touchstone of all spiritual progress, we grow from our tragedies. Again, kudos to Jolie for her compassion, her humanitarian work -- and for using the gifts God gave her.
This is a spiritual-progressive blog, and after this week I want to get back to our true moral values: loving our neighbor as ourself peaceful solutions to conflict, and understanding our enemy. Or in the case of George Bush, SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL. On that note I have to say that I'm beginning to think Bush is a planted spy for Al Quaeda or the Taliban. He had plastic surgery and his Muslim name was changed from Al-Bushawi. He has got to be on their side because every move he makes empowers the enemy and enhances their cause. Definition of a narcissist or Neo-Con: Someone who is so full of self-loathing, he projects all of his self-hatred onto others. No one can live up to his perfectionistic standards because he is so unaccepting of himself — and his flaws. Ted Haggart, Newt Gingrich, Dick Cheney, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and Mark Foley come to mind, among many others.
The extreme right-wingers are the poor souls who need to be deprogrammed. They need a new view of liberals and a healing view of their fellow man. Of course you can't propagandize someone who doesn't want to be swayed or lied to. Neo-Republicans have been willing participants in a brainwashing, and this is because Bush and his hatemongers feeds their bigotry, anger and fear of their fellow man. It's a form of "getting high" by indulging in self-righteous anger.
The remarkable thing is that if we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
– Eric Hoffer
CAN WE TRUST THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA?
WASHINGTON — After toppling the long-dominant Republicans in a hard-fought election, the Democratic Party's incoming congressional leaders have immediately found themselves in another difficult struggle — with their own supporters...
My letter to the editor regarding the above article
This article provides a perfect example for showing you why Americans no longer trust newspapers, one of the main reasons your circulation is declining.
First, you create controversy where there is none. Very few people, if any, in the Democratic base are demanding immediate action on anything other than what the Party promised in the campaign--raising the minimum wage, affordable health care, bringing accountability to Congress and the administration, and so on. We will lobby for other issues, but we're not demanding that Party leaders to shoot themselves in the foot the way overeager Republicans did just after 1994.
Second, you have an amazingly poor understanding of politics. I rolled on the floor laughing when I read your assertion that "Conservatives, though splintered over Iraq, immigration and other issues, had succeeded in keeping power since 1994 in part by forging a coalition built on compromise and shared goals — a practice that Democrats have yet to perfect."
How anyone who's lived in this country for the last twelve years could believe that Republicans built their coalition on anything other than lies, hate, fear, and corruption has just not been paying attention. There was no compromise in the Republican coalition. The leadership used blackmail, fear, bribery and coercion to force their members of Congress to do what the leadership wanted. And that led to some of the most god-awful legislation ever passed in this country. I sincerely hope the Democrats never "perfect" that kind of "compromise".
Carolyn Kay MakeThemAccountable.com
WE CAN'T WAIT UNTIL 2008 TO BRING THE TROOPS HOME
Here is a post from a friend, a Paratrooper stationed in Iraq: "All of us wont be out of here for some time. It wont be a full withdrawal for some years. You have to pay attention to their definitions and nuance. Combat troops: I dont really know what this means but the media has been slinging this phrase around re: "pull out all combat troops." First of all troop refers to a member of a Cavalry unit which are a minority of Army units, and two we are all over here in combat which would give everyone over here the first part of that moniker. But what they mean is pull out all Line tactical units aka Combat Arms personnel (Infantry/Armor/Cav/Arty/Engineers), which would leave Combat Support and Service Support (Logisitcs, Mechanics, MPs, MI, Medics etc.), to do what????? Drive convoys to supply Iraqi units on routes secured only by Iraqis with a few embedded American trainers? That seems like a bullshit proposition to me. They're trying to make it sound like we'll all be out of here by 2008 but I sincerely doubt it. We'll have PTTs and MTTs here for sometime and we have to build up there logistics infrastructure which takes more than one year. It briefs well and sounds great but I'm not counting out another deployment to Iraq." ANGER MANAGEMENT
When the good guys won back Congress, I felt as if we had awakened from a terrible nightmare, and there was hope again. But half-measures avail us nothing. We cannot stand by and let our troops be killed for the bully-dictator's ego. I am proud of the Iraq Study Group, but will wait to hear from Robert Dreyfuss (who has a cover story in this weeks NATION.) Dreyfuss was there today at Congress, and at the White House press conference and he has some wisdom on how this will pan out.
Here is a photo of Larry Johnson, of Kokomo Indiana, taken on my trip there with Robert Dreyfuss. I have an article in today's "Perspective on Labor" issue. I'll have a monthly column in the Kokomo Perspective starting in January.
THANK YOU TO ALL my BLOGGERS called in on Sunday. You guys are incredible, and I feel so lucky to have such a great support system. The show I did was BARRY GORDON FROM LEFT FIELD with Arianna Huffington, Congresswoman Holtzman and Swannee Hunt.
Here's the archive link: DEC 3 SHOW ARCHIVE
Here's the direct podcast link: PODCASTmp3 I am on in the 3rd hour, after Arianna.
Ten more U.S. troops died today. Ten innocent American lives. On NPR last night I heard of one young soldier who was on his third tour of duty, on his way home, and he was killed in a roadside explosion. This is too much to bear. And thinking about Bush having the gall to ask James Webb about his son, and then ordering Webb not to respond in a way that made the dictator "uncomfortable," is just too much.
Bye Bye Bolton
There's nothing like starting your work week off on the right foot. And theres nothing more right tha n seeing the proud, arrogant, hand-picked policy drones of the Bush administration being forced to accept reality as they are being handed their walking papers and shown to the door. And John Bolton's reality this week? His 15 minutes are up. He has burned all the bridges he can burn for now, and since no one at the UN likes him. well, maybe the Chinese ambassador likes him, just a little, he has pretty much worn out his welcome. And for a diplomat, thats as real as it gets.
Back in March of 2005 when John Bolton was nominated to the stately position of U.S Ambassador to the United Nations by President Bush, he was already the subject of extensive criticism. Complaints from coworkers and subordinates dotted his resume, and he seemed perhaps the most unlikely candidate to serve in any position requiring diplomacy or statemenship. But President Bush knew better.
Now, after just over a year of service at the United Nations, Bolton is disliked and even despised by representatives from many other countries, and is described as being rude, arrogant and undiplomatic. In fact, the North Korean ambassador referred to him as "such human scum and bloodsucker", after Bolton openly insulted the North Korean President, Kim Jong Il during the 2003 6 party nuclear proliferation talks. Not exactly what one would normally call "diplomatic" but that didn't stop Bolton. Many republicans admire him for his frankness in speaking his mind. But those who do are missing the point.
He wasn't there to insult our neighbors and their leaders. He wasn't there to tell people "what he thought". He was there to work with representatives from other nantions in open and genuine dialogue that is designed to strengthen international relationships and ease tensions. He was there to "avoid" wars and make friends, and calling the leader of another country a "tyrannical dictator" is probably not the best way to accomplish that. I bet you knew that, didn't you?
Well try and tell him that. Like most Bush appointees, and indeed like Bush himself, Bolton seemed to feel he"knew it all", and no one was going to tell him otherwise. Not while still expecting to keep their jobs anyway. Bolton had mastered that amazing "my way or the highway" smuggery that is signature within the Bush regime. And Bolton also shares his leaders affinity for supporting wars in which one has no intention of fighting in. During the Viet Nam era, John Bolton was a strong supporter of the war. At least vocally. But instead of taking that support for the war and turning it into real action, like Bush, Bolton chose to instead enlist in the National Guard, and opted to avoid the actual combat of the war he so strongly tauted his support for. In fact, Bolton wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost".
And this is the man Bush thought should represent us in a position of diplomat to the world. This is what passes for "character" with George W. Bush, and his administration. After all, it mirrors his own. But fortunately for the rest of the planet, Boltons time is up. His lame duck President can't hold back the tides any longer, and smug, arrogant "chickenhawks" are having their wings clipped on an almost weekly basis now. Rumsfelds out, and now the bully Bolton is following him out the door. Who's next? Rice? Rove? We'll see.
But in the meantime, lets all open a cold beer, light up a good cigar, and wave old Johnny B, bye bye. In fact, lets throw a party. A celebration to acknowledge the leaving of a diplomat who had not one diplomatic bone in his body. We might as well. After all, we know they're rippin it up in the UN building this morning.
Mr Bolton. Your "shoot first and ask questions later" approach was just not welcome in an organization designed to facilitate discourse and comprimise between nations. So Bye Bye Mr Bolton. You were fun to watch, kind of like Yosemite Sam with a necktie, only not as funny. But now, thankfully, your 15 minutes are up and its time for you to go. So go.
Oh and in parting, I'd like to remind you sir, to not let the door hit you on your backside as you exit the building.
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THE ULTIMATE ANTIDEPRESSANT * MEDIA AS MENTAL SWIT...
GERALD FORD STUNS THE WORLD * EDWARDS FOR PRESIDEN...


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Chinese sales of Tesla's Model S electric cars are expected to match, if not outstrip, US demand – potentially as early as 2015. The anticipated growth in sales will warrant the creation of more local plants in the country, said Tesla's CEO Elon Musk in a statement last week.
Musk intends to inaugurate Tesla's presence in China at the end of March; when automotive parts begin circulation in the country, the car will reportedly cost around $121,280. In the US, the car currently sells for $81,070: this is 50% less expensive than the Chinese model, due to the higher costs associated with customs duties and the cost of shipping. A duty of 25% will be added to transport the finished vehicles to China which is nonetheless still below the anticipated price tag.
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