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The FCC Can Have My Pen and My Microphone When They Pry Them From My Cold, Dead Hands by John Ransom
I got a pen; I got a microphone. And they can have them when they pry them from my cold, dead hands.
While it looks like the FCC has at least temporarily backed down from their threats of putting monitors into newsrooms, we haven't seen the last of it.
This has been a dream of liberals for a long time.
"According to the research design presented to the FCC by a government contractor named Social Solutions International Inc.," writes RealClearPolitics, "it wasn't just television stations, either: Internet news organizations and newspapers were to be included in this information sweep, as if that were actually in the FCC's purview."
According to the company "Social Solutions International, Inc. is a research and evaluation firm dedicated to the creation of social and health solutions to improve the welfare of underserved populations worldwide."
Riiiight. Their clients look like a Who's Who of welfare states, big government and rent seekers.
While we knew that liberals wanted to kill all of the 2nd Amendment and parts of the 1st Amendment—Freedom OF Religion, for example– I never supposed that the liberal media would support killing of Freedom of the Press.
But that seems to be the case.
Every three months or so I get to write a column about how I am running out of excuses for my liberal friends in supporting Obama and the Democrats.
It's not that I object necessarily to their philosophical differences regarding the size and scope of government. But it's becoming increasingly obvious to me that Democrats are looking to substitute censorship for competency, spying on Americans for real intelligence work, IRS audits for real debate and welfare for real work.
Who knew that those idealistic, long-haired, peaceniks from the late 1960s and early 1970s would learn as their lesson that since their ideology and economy had failed the only thing they could do was to try to out-Nixon Nixon?
Let's face it: Democrats can't deliver the goods.
And all they are saying now is give censorship a chance.
They've served America a bowl of swamp water, and to make it go down they need the media to call it a soup.
But their liberal media folks, to the great dismay of some, can't make money calling swamp water a soup no matter how much pork barrel spending they add to it.
The latest casualty to be shot by this ratings bullet is CNN, which just canceled the prime time Piers Morgan show.
"CNN's audience has tired of hearing a [liberal] Brit weigh in American cultural issues Morgan said in a story posted online Sunday," according to Fox News.
Alec Baldwin, whose show on uber-liberal MSNBC was canceled when he angered a core liberal constituency by inserting the wrong part of his anatomy (his foot) into the wrong orifice (his mouth), has been so demonized by both the right and the left that he's quitting public life.
"I'm aware that it's ironic that I'm making this case in the media," he writes in New York Magazine, "but this is the last time I'm going to talk about my personal life in an American publication ever again."
He's retreating behind a "gate" in L.A.
"Everything I hated about L.A.," he continues, "I'm beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. I used to hate that."
Well Obama and the other liberals of the Pepsi generation want to put up gates too.
Because like Baldwin they can't seem to tame the real transformation that's going on it America.
I got a pen; I got a microphone, thanks in part to cheap distribution via the Internet.
And you have the same things too.
And to some that makes us every bit the equal of the president of the United States, if not a little bit better.
No wonder they're worried.
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2014/02/24/the-fcc-can-have-my-pen-and-my-microphone-when-they-pry-them-from-my-cold-dead-hands-n1799853/page/full
FCC, liberal media, Social Solutions International Inc.
A Force More Powerful Than Oscar by Chuck Norris
I don't have to explain to anyone how television is much more risque, with some programs being downright lewd, than it was decades ago. But I want to tell you about something that can change the course of values in television and movies.
Once upon a time, about as edgy as it got was Barbara Eden's "I Dream of Jeannie" character, who showed her trim tummy, and Elvis swinging his pelvis on "The Ed Sullivan Show" — though the broadcast screen only captured the upper half of his body as he did.
Today, of course, we've got everything from Miley Cyrus twerking in prime-time music award shows to explicit sexual scenes and over-the-top dialogue in even so-called "family programs," which are on when kids are still up and surfing channels.
While television programming continues to push the edges of licentiousness further every fall, many people, including parents, across the nation are looking for refuges of decency when it comes to entertainment — and that includes at theaters, too.
There is a man who has been in show business for more than 40 years and who is fighting to hold a line on decency, respect and moral boundaries in movies and on television. His name is Dr. Ted Baehr. My wife, Gena, and I are dear friends with Ted and his wife, Lili.
Ted is the founder and publisher of Movieguide, which is a family guide to movies and entertainment, and chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission, as well as a noted critic, educator, lecturer and media pundit.
I would encourage parents to check out Movieguide to see what movies currently in theaters or on Blu-ray are appropriate for your children. And I also highly recommend Ted's latest best-seller, "How to Succeed in Hollywood (Without Losing Your Soul)."
Ted's website explains that his life's purpose is to be used by God to redeem the values of the media while educating audiences on how to use discernment in selecting their entertainment.
I'm proud to be a member of the board of reference for the dynamic organization Movieguide. It has a very long track record of making a difference in Hollywood. As noted on Movieguide's website, everyone agrees that media have an immense influence on the way we think, act and even believe, and that is especially true of our children. Yet much of what is produced and praised in Hollywood attacks our core values of faith, family and freedom. But we can make a difference! The battle for the hearts and minds of the next generation has never been more important than now, and that battle is taking place at movie theaters and on your TV.
How can we ensure that our young people are being influenced positively through media? The answer is simple: Watch; comment; pray and invite; and fight.
–Watch. On March 1 at 2 p.m. EST, the 22nd annual Movieguide Awards airs on ReelzChannel. This year's star-studded gala will be hosted by actor-comedian Bill Engvall, with appearances by "Duck Dynasty" stars Korie and Willie Robertson, "The Bible's" Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Joni Eareckson Tada, who will exclusively perform the Oscar-nominated song "Alone Yet Not Alone."
(Speaking of faith and family values, I'd like to congratulate Downey and Burnett on their great movie rendition of the life of Jesus, "Son of God," due out in theaters and other venues this Friday, Feb. 28. It's certainly going to be a powerful and inspiring way to enter into the Easter season.)
–Comment. Go to ReelzChannel's Facebook page and state that you support Movieguide's mission and will watch on March 1.
–Pray and invite. Keep the telecast in your prayers; share the information through your social media accounts; and perhaps invite someone over to watch it with you. Go to http://www.movieguide.org/help-us-share-the-good-news for sample emails, tweets and Facebook posts — among other resources — you can send to your friends to invite them to watch the broadcast, just as I have used throughout my column here.
–Fight. Continue to fight for change. Renew your war on ratings. Change the channel and help change the culture. And stand up for Movieguide's mission and outreach.
By doing the actions above, you and your family will not only make a statement for decency but also stand up for future generations. Help those of us on Movieguide's board of reference to remind Hollywood that America consists of families who want inspiring, edifying and wholesome entertainment.
As Ted wrote me a few weeks ago, "help us to take on the goliath and win the culture for the future of your children and grandchildren. Fight the culture war for your family by watching the battle of the century this Saturday: Oscar vs. Teddy! This is a fun but serious battle between: Oscar (the symbol of movie awards) vs. Teddy (the symbol of the Movieguide Awards)."
On March 1, let's rally across the nation and pay gratitude to those in the movie and television industries who have given us inspirational entertainment, and let's encourage them to continue their fight for the sake of our children and future generations by watching — and encouraging others to watch — the 22nd annual Movieguide Awards.
We all can still change Hollywood and our country one channel and one theater ticket at a time!
For more information, go to http://www.movieguide.org and http://www.cftvc.org, or write to: Christian Film & Television Commission, 1151 Avenida Acaso, Camarillo, CA 93012.
http://townhall.com/columnists/chucknorris/2014/02/25/a-force-more-powerful-than-oscar-n1799912/page/full
entertainment, Hollywood, movie theaters, Movieguide, Movieguide Awards, Ted Baehr
New Obama Promise: If You Like Your Life, You Can Keep It by Ann Coulter
Liberals are winning wild praise for their candor in admitting problems with Obamacare. It shows you the level of honesty people have come to expect of our liberal friends. Now, liberals are applauded for not lying through their teeth about something.
What are they supposed to say?This Obamacare website is fantastic! And really, haven't you already read all the magazines in your current doctor's office anyway?
The New York Times has described Obama's repeated claim that you could keep your insurance plan and keep your doctor under Obamacare as a mere slip of the tongue: "Mr. Obama clearly misspoke when he said that."
Misspoke? How exactly does one misspeak, word for word, dozens of times, over and over again?
That wasn't misspeaking — it was a deliberate, necessary lie. Even Democrats couldn't have voted for Obamacare if Americans had known the truth. It was absolutely vital for Obama to lie about people being able to keep their insurance and their doctors.
Of course, it was difficult for voters to know the truth because every time Republicans would try to tell them, the White House and the media would rush in and call the critics liars.
The White House posted a specific refutation of the "disinformation" about not being able to keep your doctor or insurance plan. That claim, the website said, was being disseminated by Republicans "to scare people."
Their proof consisted of a video of Obama clearly stating, "If you have insurance that you like, then you will be able to keep that insurance. If you've got a doctor that you like, you will be able to keep your doctor."
A video of someone asserting the very fact in dispute does not rise to the level of "evidence," but it was more than enough for MSNBC.
Even when pretending to be critical of Obamacare, liberals lie about the real problems. They tell us they're worried about the percentage of young people signing up for Obamacare. The mix of young and old people in Obamacare is completely irrelevant. It won't help if a lot of young people sign up because their premiums are negligible.
To keep the system afloat, what Obamacare really needs is lots of healthy people, preferably healthy older people. Their premiums are astronomical — and they won't need much medical treatment.
Premiums are set by your age, not your health. It doesn't matter if you never go to the doctor. Obamacare punishes you for having a healthy lifestyle. The Obamacare tax is a massively regressive poll tax on the middle-aged and the middle class.
Apart from those who are subsidized, everyone pays the exact same amount in penalties or insurance premiums for his age group. It doesn't matter if you don't make as much money as Bill Gates. Any 58-year-old male who doesn't qualify for a subsidy will pay the same Obamacare tax as Gates.
When Margaret Thatcher tried to impose the same tax per person, as a "community charge," there were riots in the street.
Our extremely progressive tax system, where nearly half the country pays no income tax at all, and the other half pays about 40 percent of their income, may not be fair. But most people also don't think it's fair to tax a guy making $80,000 a year the identical amount as one making $80 million a year. That's exactly what Obamacare does.
With Obamacare, the Democratic Party has foisted the most regressive tax possible on America. This ruthless assault on the middle class is all so we can have a health care system more like every other country has.
Until now, the United States has had the highest survival rates in the world for heart disease, cancer and diabetes. Cancer comparisons are the most useful because all Western countries keep careful records for this disease.
For all types of cancers, European men have only a 47.3 percent five-year survival rate, compared to a 66.3 percent survival rate for American men.
European women have only a 55.8 percent chance of being alive five years after being diagnosed with any type of cancer, compared to 62.9 percent of American women.
American survival rates for breast, prostate, thyroid and skin cancer are higher than 90 percent. Europeans do not have a 90 percent survival rate for one of those cancers.
The European rates are even worse than they sound because many cancers are not discovered until the victim's death — twice as many as in the U.S. All those cancers were excluded from the study.
Canadian cancer survival rates aren't much better than the European rates — and they've been able to sneak into to the U.S. for treatment! Women in the U.S. have a 61 percent survival rate for all cancers, compared to a 58 percent survival rate in Canada. Men in the U.S. have a 57 percent survival rate compared to 53 percent in Canada.
That's why your insurance premiums have to go through the roof and your Obamacare tax is the same as Bill Gates'. So across the world, we'll all be equal, dying of cancer, heart disease and diabetes as often as everyone else.
It's not that Obama doesn't believe in American exceptionalism; it's that he wants to end it.
http://www.townhall.com
We Are Not 'All God's Children' by Matt Barber
You've heard it said that "We are all God's children." This rings flowery and nice.
It's an insidious lie.
Indeed, God both created and loves – in a way most unfathomable – everyone who ever lived. He wove us together in our mother's womb and numbered our every hair. But God the Father has only one begotten Son. The rest of us, in order to become one of God's children, must be adopted – in, by and through – the One Who is the Son: Jesus Christ. Those who are not adopted are not children of God. Christ and Christ alone is "the way, the truth and the life."
Indeed, to become a child of God, we must ask God – through Christ – to adopt us. We mustn't just believe upon Him – for "Even the demons believe that" (see James 2:19) – but, rather, we must also accept Him. We must follow Jesus, the one true God, as our only God. "But to all who believed him and accepted him (Jesus), he gave the right to become children of God." (John 1:12)
Don't believe? Don't accept? You have no right to become a child of God.
And that's unholy hell.
I'm not here to question God. I can neither fully understand nor explain why what He says is so. I can only convey to you that He unmistakably, unequivocally and without stuttering, says it is so.
And so it is so.
"'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,' declares the Lord. 'As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:8-9)
The postmodern concept of religious pluralism is likewise an insidious lie. It's a relativist tool of deception, dreamed up the greatest of all deceivers. It's a false religion – jazzed-up paganism – propagated by the rulers, the authorities, the powers of this dark world and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms (see Ephesians 6:12).
Merriam Webster defines "pluralism" – in the context of which I refer – as "a theory that there are more than one or more than two kinds of ultimate reality."
The goal of pluralist philosophy is to muddy the waters and divert mankind from the "narrow gate" that leads to eternal salvation (Jesus), while, at the same time, herding them along the "broad road" to eternal damnation (anything and everything that denies the singular and exclusive deity of Christ – or that rejects the certainty that He alone can save us from hell).
Pluralism is a non-starter. It's inherently self-defeating, contradictory and, frankly, just plain stupid. Pick your "ism" – be it progressivism, socialism, Hinduism, Buddhism, communism, Marxism, atheism, et al. – and central to each you will find the leavening lie of pluralism.
Each of the world's major religions fundamentally contradicts the other. They cannot all be true. Either one is true or none is true.
Jesus said, "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it." (Matthew 7:13) Again, Jesus alone is that "narrow gate."
Here's the thing. You can deny Christ until the day you die. But after that, you will deny Him no more. Hate Him you may still, but deny Him you will not. Philippians 2:10-11 assures us, "that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
John 3:36 warns: "Whoever believes in the Son (Jesus) has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."
Christ is both tolerant and intolerant – utterly exclusive and wholly inclusive. He said in no uncertain terms: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)
Universalists, atheists, pluralists and other followers of false god's and religions, take note: Jesus, rather conspicuously, did not say: "No one comes to the Father except through me, the Buddha, Muhammad, Ganesh or L. Ron Hubbard."
The narrow gate to heaven is utterly exclusive.
Yet Christ also promised us this: "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light." (Matthew 11:28-29)
Romans 10:13 is even more direct: "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
The narrow gate to heaven is wholly inclusive.
If religious pluralism is true, which it cannot be, then Jesus is a liar. And if Jesus is a liar, then Carl Sagan was right when he said, "The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be."
Worm food.
Thank God Jesus is not a liar.
Still, some apostate, celebrity mega-church pastors like Rob Bell have become wealthy calling Jesus a liar. They teach the heretical doctrine of "universal salvation," which suggests that, ultimately, everyone ends up in heaven – even those who rejected Christ while here on earth.
Bell and others like him claim that "we're all God's children."
This is a pseudo-Christian form of religious pluralism that may well condemn untold millions – to include celebrity mega-church pastors like Rob Bell – to the unimaginable horror of eternal separation from God. (Rob, brother, I pray that you'll repent posthaste and ask Christ's forgiveness for both your heresy and for leading your flock to slaughter. He'll forgive you, just like he's forgiven me for all the crap I've pulled over the years.)
And the Truth will set you free.
Romans 8:1-2 promises: "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death."
By logical extension, the converse is true. There is condemnation for those who arenot in Christ Jesus. Until and unless you believe upon, accept and follow Jesus – you remain imprisoned under the law of sin and death.
Unconvinced? You don't have to believe to quietly pray this simple prayer to yourself: "Jesus, if you're out there, please reveal yourself to me. If you're real, help thou my unbelief."
If I'm right – if Jesus is not a liar and He is who He says He is – then you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by inquiring further.
If you don't inquire further, you have everything to lose.
http://townhall.com/columnists/mattbarber/2014/02/10/we-are-not-all-gods-children-n1792180/page/full
children of God, Christ Jesus, God the Father, God's children
Gays for Late Term Abortion? by Mike Adams
Our UNC-Wilmington LGBTQIA Office is committed to equality. One of the ways they seek to promote equality is by promoting the dismemberment of innocent humans while they are trapped inside the womb. If you think these folks are compassionate then you're probably not on their mailing list. I received the following email from them just last week. It's reprinted below and interspersed with my usual biting commentary:
"Good Afternoon, The semester is off to a busy start, and there are many program [sic] to look forward to this Spring. I wanted to remind you of an event being co-sponsored by SGA, UNCW NARAL and the LGBTQIA Resource Office next week."
First, note that the student government association, or SGA, is sponsoring this event. It isn't without cost to the public. This significance of this will be apparent as we read the rest of the email sent by government employees using government resources.
"On Tuesday, January 21, to celebrate the 41st Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, there will be a showing of After Tiller at 7:00 in Lumina Theater. This showing is free and open to the public."
Note that the event is not free to the public because the taxpayers who attend pay for it with their taxes. Note also that this is not a discussion of Roe v. Wade. It is a "celebration" of Roe v. Wade. One hundred percent of UNCW money dedicated to discussion of abortion is decidedly pro-abortion. No dissenting opinions are ever funded by UNCW. The university has a clear position on abortion. That position is decidedly pro-Roe v. Wade. That is why university officials have lied to crisis pregnancy centers to keep them off the Women's Resource Center web page in the past – even as they promoted the services of Planned Parenthood, including, but not limited to, the termination of the lives of unborn human beings.
"About the film: After Tiller intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha Shane and Lana Wilson have created a moving and unique look at one of the most incendiary topics of our time, and they've done so in an informative, thought-provoking, and compassionate way."
It's tough to go on for an entire paragraph with such nonstop moral confusion. In fact, just about everything in the paragraph you just read was either wrong or deeply morally misguided. First of all, third-trimester abortions really aren't controversial. That is why, overwhelmingly, people reject them as morally unacceptable cold-blooded murder. Nor are the doctors who perform them courageous. It takes no courage to dismember a developed human fetus that is trapped in the womb and can't fight back. Nor is it "moving" to celebrate child murder. Nor is it "compassionate." It is simply twisted.
"Reviews: According to the Hollywood Reporter, 'Whether one is pro-life, pro-choice or without opinion on the issue, After Tiller provides personal insight into a heart-wrenching, complex reality. The film does not pretend to be an answer to the abortion controversy but rather a presentation of the people who are demonized, correctly or incorrectly, for their actions.'"
Interesting, isn't it? The LGBTQIA Office has included a set of reviews of the pro-abortion film. This one, by the Hollywood Reporter, actually suggests that the film is morally neutral on the issue of late term abortion. It isn't. This false characterization requires a substantial obfuscation. This is accomplished by characterizing a very simple issue as a "complex reality." It really isn't. Regardless of one's position on early term abortion, most people who are morally developed know that it is wrong to kill a developed human fetus.
"Additionally, Variety states, 'Martha Shane and Lana Wilson manage a rare feat in After Tiller, making a calm, humanist documentary about a hot-button topic …Well contextualized and sensitively shot with extraordinary access, the pic reflects the personal, moral and ethical struggles of the doctors as well as their patients, and deserves the widest possible audience.'"
Sensitively shot to depict the ethical struggle of the doctor? Does it have a shot of the little one struggling while he (or she) is being torn limb from limb by the "struggling" abortionist? I agree it deserves a wide audience. Too bad 55 million potential viewers have been aborted and won't be there for the showing.
"And, Movie City News says, 'A+! A terrific documentary that handles sensitively this controversial and heated topic.'"
Actually, I don't think the topic is heated at all. It is cold. It is heartless advocacy of cold-blooded murder. And your taxpayer dollars are going to support it. Amy Schlag, Program Coordinator of the LGBTQIA Resource Office and UNCW Instructor of Women's Studies, left her office public phone number at the bottom of the mass email she sent promoting this event. This number is published publicly on the UNCW web page. Therefore, it is entirely appropriate for pro-lifers to use it to express their concerns. If you call, please be more compassionate than she is. Thankfully, that won't be difficult.
And, while you're at it, email UNCW Chancellor Gary Miller atchancellor@uncw.edu. Ask him what LGBTQIA stands for. Is it "Leveraging Government Budgets To Quietly Increase Abortion?" If not, then why does the university refuse to fund the other side of the issue?
And, more importantly, ask Gary Miller if anyone employed by the LGBTQIA Resource Office is splitting time working for Planned Parenthood? I already know the answer. I bet you do, too.
http://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2014/01/27/gays-for-late-term-abortion-n1784193/page/full
Abortion, Pro-Life, Townhall.com
George Tiller, LGBTQIA Resource Office, UNCW
If You Hate Your Kids, Send Them to Public School by Doug Giles
Y'know, when I was a wee lad growing up in West Texas, public schools weren't all that bad. We started our day off with the pledge of allegiance, said prayers during football games, actually studied our nation's founding docs, sang patriotic songs, and we celebrated the true meaning of both Christmas and Easter.
In addition to that pro-American bliss, nearly everyone and their dog graduated. It's true. Dogs were actually graduating from school back then. I know. Weird, eh?
Indeed, out of our large graduating class there was only one drop out and that was my childhood buddy who left school to join the Banditos' motorcycle gang. He had a tattoo before tats became hip and groovy, ubiquitous and virulently narcissistic. (Speaking of tattoos: Girls … if you're going to get a cute butterfly inked into your shoulder, you must make the general public a promise that you will not gain 600lbs later in life and have that blue moth morph into a massive, faded condor that we all have to stare at. If that's too much to ask, then please cease to wear tube-tops so we don't have to gawk at that muted, colored vulture on your enormous back. Deal? Deal. Anyway, back to the good old days …)
When our parents dumped us off at school, they weren't riddled with fear that our schoolmarms were going to morph us into domestic terrorists who think Che Guevera is the bomb. Our folks also knew that sexed-up teachers wouldn't teach kinky weirdness to their twelve-year-olds. No, if their kids were going to learn about sex it would be done in the traditional way via their older brothers and theirPlayboy magazine stash in the alley behind the house.
Today, as far as public schools are concerned, it's a veritable loaded-dice roll regarding how your kids will come out after spending eight hours a day with our "educators". More than likely, Dad, unless you're Bill Ayers, Khalid Sheik Mohammed or Russell Brand, you're not going to be too pleased with what the public schools do with your kids' noggins.
This week, a story surfaced about the father of a thirteen-year-old girl who got righteously ticked when his daughter showed him a pic of what the loons were lacing his dear daughter's curriculum with. <href="#i54pggdgbilftgp0.99%20%5c%5c%20_blank">Check it out:
The father of a 13 year-old girl who was upset by a classroom poster that listed sex acts was shocked to hear that the poster is part of her school's health and science curriculum.
As local Fox News affiliate in Kansas, fox4kc.com, reported Tuesday, Mark Ellis said his daughter, a student at Hocker Grove Middle school in the Shawnee Mission School District, was "shocked" by what she saw on a poster on a classroom wall in school. Ellis said his daughter took a picture of the poster and showed her parents.
Originally, Ellis assumed the poster to be a student prank, until he called the school and discovered it was part of the curriculum.
Why would you put it in front of 13 year-old students? He asked.
The poster, entitled, "How Do People Express Their Sexual Feelings?" lists sex acts such as: Oral Sex, Sexual Fantasy, Caressing, Anal Sex, Dancing, Hugging, Touching Each Other's Genitals, Kissing, Grinding, and Masturbation.
Ellis said after being told by the school principal the poster was "teaching material," he is now concerned about what his daughter is being taught in school.
I've got two words for that poster being put out by a public school to 13-year-olds: they are "holy" and "guacamole".
Man, when I was thirteen I had no real idea what sex was. I thought it consisted of my mom and dad wrestling with their shirts off. At least that's what it looked like when they didn't lock the door that one Friday night that, try as I may, I'll never forget.
Sure, as a young pubescent boy I was attracted to girls. But we did normal things back then to show our interest in the opposite sex like: pull the girl's hair, or jump a tall ramp on our Huffy while they watched, or suck milk through straws shoved up our nostrils. Y'know … something to show our prowess. It was cave man stuff.
Now, certainly the aforementioned wasn't pretty or too suave, but it never came into to our minds that if we wanted to show we had feelings for a fair lass we should do it via anal sex. But that's what is being taught at frickin' Hocker Grove Middle School.
Good Lord, parents. You gotta take reins of your kids' brains and bodies and rip them out of the hands of these bastions of banality, communism and overt sexualization.
Do it now, before it's too late.
http://townhall.com/columnists/douggiles/2014/01/19/if-you-hate-your-kids-send-them-to-public-school-n1781132?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Mark Ellis, public school, public schools, Shawnee Mission School District
Why Pro-Aborts Oppose Free Speech by Star Parker
It's no surprise why pro-abortion forces in America don't want free speech when it comes to raising awareness about this issue of, literally, life and death.
The more people understand the reality of abortion, the more they don't want it as a legal, easily accessible part of American life.
Now, as 650,000 plus pro-life demonstrators are about to arrive in Washington, DC for this year's March for Life on January 22, noting in protest the 41st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, the Supreme Court has just heard arguments on a critical case involving freedom of speech on this issue.
Seventy-seven year old Eleanor McCullen's challenge to a 2007 Massachusetts law, which forbids anyone other than patients and employees to stand within a 35 foot radius of the entrance to an abortion clinic, has made it's way to the nation's highest court.
Arguments that this prohibition is about the physical safety of women entering these clinics are absurd. There already are federal and state laws that prohibit physical interference or intimidation of clinic patrons.
This law is aimed solely to abridge the free speech of pro-life activists and prevent them from communicating with women arriving to these clinics. This abridgement of speech is a clear and flagrant violation of freedom of speech guaranteed in the constitution's first amendment.
What a distortion it is that the pro-abortion contingent has managed to get itself labeled "pro-choice." Choice is about light not darkness, about knowledge not ignorance.
Why do those who claim to favor "choice" fight so hard against efforts to assure that women who are considering the horrible decision to extinguish life they are carrying make as informed a decision as possible?
Unfortunately, this is often driven by elitism and racism.
Abortion clinic clientele are disproportionately poor and disproportionately black.
Across the board, poor communities and black communities have been devastated over many years by policies designed by liberal elitists convinced that they know what is best for these unfortunate souls.
The abortion clinic is often the last stop in a chain of bad information delivered into low-income communities that creates the government-dependent culture that fosters the never-ending cycle of poverty.
But good information at any stage of the cycle can change things forever. That good information can be a pro-life Christian standing at an abortion clinic.
I wrote a number of years ago about a young black woman named Ebony. When she became pregnant her boyfriend encouraged her to abort the child. She found little problem in arranging an appointment at a clinic, where they assured her she was making the right decision because abortion would be "cheaper" than having the child.
But Ebony was uneasy. Sitting up late, she called into a Christian radio talk show where she was referred to a crisis pregnancy center. At the center, she saw her baby via ultrasound and changed her mind. At the center they helped her birth and provided clothes, food, and counseling.
When I wrote about Ebony her son was four years ago and she had no doubt about the correctness of her decision. A decision made because she had the good fortune to get information.
In 1995, 56 percent of Americans polled by Gallup self- identified as "pro-choice" compared to 33 percent as "pro-life." The last Gallup poll in 2013 showed 48 percent identifying as "pro-life" and 45 percent as "pro-choice."
As I tour the country to speak at crisis pregnancy centers I hear the stories of sorrow, regret, and guilt from those who went down the one way street of destroying the child with which they were blessed.
America cannot be a free country without free speech.
Free speech leads us to a deeper realization that we cannot be a free country without proper respect for life.
http://townhall.com/columnists/starparker/2014/01/20/why-proaborts-oppose-free-speech-n1780739/page/full
Pro-Life, Townhall.com
Abortion clinic, free speech, freedom of speech


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Anyone have a thought on how to get flocking particle behavior into LW? PFX effectors just dont cut it since they are really just displacement. Its frustrating when even old Particle Storm did it. Flocking is more rudimentary A.I. that allows each particle to take on its own velocity and semi- do it's own thing, while swarming.
RealFlow is for liquids and does not flock. I have seen flocking in ICE, Maya, Max plugins, and Blender Boids, but I dont know of a way to get those sims into LW to work with something like HD Instance(?).
Another LW limitation is you have to use a wind path to make particles follow a path, but it overrides all other wind effectors unless they are set to Heavy Wind, but then that makes for abrupt, jagged motions.
Anyone have a clue how to get this working easily?
I've been working on this type of things here, but for spaceships (which makes it alot easier). Since the ships all fly towards the same thing, I ended up using ALOT of windeffectors to make them avoid explosions and whatnot. The only problem was that in the end of the simulation, all ships have been avoiding things and ended up in lines instead of returning to their flock poisiton. Another issue would be that they got too spread out in the end.
One thing you coud try is to use a pointcloud and then use Worleys Poke tool (part of Polk) to make the points avoid specific places and then also make them go back to their flocking position.
Anyhow, so far, all my tests have been so-so... they are startingpoints in most cases, for some things it works, for most of the time, you better handanimate the individual.
Look for the ident that shows a girl balancing on a rope with butterflies flocking around her hands. They used LW as far as I know... my guess is that they used a target for the particles and a turbulence wind to force them to flock around, but again, a fairly simple shot compared to working with things that has to move on a non-flat ground.
Effectors just dont provide the degree of individual variation in velocity I am looking for. Effectors are a general motion displacement that cause particles to clump and move in too similar, and unnatural a way. If you study the examples I posted, each bird is moving more independently. And LW path wind overrides other effectors.
I've messed with that before but you cant import anything into it (and yes, I've seen Erikals overlay gag). I really wish a plugin person would pick up the ball on that.
I can jury rig pseudo-swarmy behavior but I cant get the swarm to follow a general path unless an animation path wind is used... which then overrides the other winds that are breaking up the motion. Typical LW game.
And I wish the point Gravity worked better. It affects only a small fixed radius, no matter what the radius is set to.
Thanks. The zip link is "not found"(?). Although I dont see any tips for getting the control I am looking for.
Luckily I have a massive archive of stuff that was given away free!
Every time I come up with a possible solution, LW throws up another roadblock.
Yeah... I never got attractor to work either..
I am using a swarm that is larger, longer and faster so the static Path Wind becomes apparent. I really need to undulate the swarm using Animation Path Wind, but it stupidly overrides other winds (Path Wind does not) unless they are set to Heavy Wind, which creates new problems. But it just occurred to me that I can parent the emitter and Path Wind to a null and move the whole thing around, which kinda helps.
I have been trying weird things like applying an image in the texture of a direction wind to direct the particles, or pushing them thru a collision tube, or aiming multiple direction winds at a target, and was about to try an IK chain of direction winds... but this is where it just turns into ridiculous workaround world where there ought to be a standard, functioning tool.
The speed presents another problem as Vortex Wind or a Direction Wind with procedural texture, result in jagged, unnatural turns.
Would all be solved by a simple damn flocking routine.
I think you should place a link to this thread in Feature Requests. Or copy your last post and paste it there. Sounds like it is sorely needed. And apparently there is no one in the plugin world covering it either right now.
If your comfortable in Blender you can use this to export Particles from blender as a pfx file.
Blender has Boids or flocking particles.
The script should go in the X:\Blender\.blender\scripts folder.
Bake the particles before exporting.
Only use one particle system per object.
Select the object with the Particle system on and in the export dialogue click on the particle system name so it is selected.
Thanks. I was looking for a way to import better particles simulations into LW, and am particularly interested in Boids.
Geeze... now LW groups are not working, again. I have items separated into 2 groups, but after saving and loading my scene, LW has mysteriously created a third group called "GROUP". Each time I reload my scene, LW switches all the items from my two groups, into the magic GROUP group. WTF?!
A few months ago in the heat of a deadline I needed 3 groups, but LW was completely ignoring any groups created after the first two.
... now I notice that if I load ANY scene, the three groups are still there. How do you delete groups BTW?
Ok, I just figured out that LW does not like group names with spaces in the name. Never ran into this before(?). If I make groups called "swarm one" and "swarm two", save scene, close LW, reload scene, and LW will have thrown out my groups and substituted a new group truncated to just "swarm" and lumped all items into it from the previous groups. The groups have to instead be named something with no spaces, "swarm_one", etc.
I believe Aurora (http://www.newtek.com/forums/member.php?u=55) was working on a flocking plug-in (named flock) but I don't think it was ever released.
Thanks for uploading your pfx, I will need to do this soon and I've been really impressed with Maya-particles. Do you know how long it took to make this sim?
The particular PFX example has a static noise pattern moving thru it, and looks like what can be done in LW. Someone did some flocking birds in Maya for me a few years ago, but I dont know if Maya particles has a specific flocking tool (?) or if they used a plugin or script.
I want rather specific control to make parts of the swarm break off in different directions, while each particle has its own velocity. The swarm might be smooth at moments and wildy erratic at other moments. Because effectors are just procedural displacement, no matter what I apply to break up the motion, I wind up with motions that are too jagged in some areas while not enough variation in other areas.
I just hit another bug when I use ClothFX to apply two different MDDs to two different objects, the two objects are insisting on deforming with the same MDD. Each mesh shows two different MDD filepaths correctly, yet they render as if they share the same MDD. I dont know yet what is causing this, but the problem does not occur if I instead use MDplug on one or both. I suspect it has something to do with having started with one object, cloning it, then replacing the second object with a different object, then applying a different MDD to each under ClothFX. I guess somewhere, some info is stuck in the clone.
Why does it seem like I am the only person that runs into this stuff every hour of the day?
Why does it seem like I am the only person that ever urns into this stuff every hour of the day?
Ugh, I dont like that- so I am Kahn, and LW is Captain Kirk? "He tasks me. He tasks me, and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Newtek, and 'round the Autodesk maelstrom, and 'round Houdini's flames, before I give him up!"
I only use cloth FX to scan my MDD's. Then I use Dponts nodes to control them - far more flexible and reliable.
This is a recurring problem! I once stumbled upon a possible solution and keep that scene since then! Don't know if you still need it or if it helps in your particular situation, but I am attaching it anyway.
-the boundiness factor (?) is the key in here, going over 100%... but 102% is already too much! I liked 101%, but you can increase the influence to 101.5% or something like that. The best is to control with the other parameters and the emitter motion path itself.
The particular PFX example has a static noise pattern moving thru it, and looks like what can be done in LW.
Ah..yes... the intention with the pfx was just to show that it is possible to transfer Maya particles to LW, because the rendered version (the fish) is all rendered in Maya mr and the particleanimation was created by Radek.
Well... a couple of hours, maybe... I can track down the content I have and do another conversion and clock it this time. I hope to get back with the info sometime during this weekend.
EDIT: I will point Lernie Ang to this thread as well. He is the author of Maya2LW2, and he may be able to find another way of converting Maya particles to PFX-files that are alot faster (the current tool is a MEL-script, if I remember correctly).
This seems to work the way you would expect an attractor to work. The problem is that it's such a non-standard way of doing it, the documentation says nothing about keeping the radius large enough to include the particles you want to swarm, maybe this was explained at one time but this is what's so frustrating about the current particle system. At one point there was a very useful set of scenes (v5.0?) on a content cd that showed just about every type of effect you could do with particles, but never made it to current versions of Lightwave content. Anyway, thanks for keeping that scene!
Ugh, I dont like that- so I am Kahn, and LW is Captain Kirk? "
Ok, that was a bad reference, no offense.
"He tasks me. He tasks me, and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Newtek, and 'round the Autodesk maelstrom, and 'round Houdini's flames, before I give him up!"
Do you know how long it took to make this sim?
There ARE things with hypervoxels that is damn neat and easy to do, compared to how Maya handles it.
If you asked around and could get honest answers, I suspect you'd discover that your "problem incidence" is not unusual, but most others stop trying to make it work in LW much sooner, and instead switch to a different tool/platform.
Personally, if I start in LW, I'll usually give it three or four "cascade" failures (e.g. run into a different major problem working around a major problem), then switch to C4D or Modo. Over time, I've found the kinds of tasks I do which are prone to such "cascades", and don't even attempt them in LW anymore.
I meant the conversion to pfx, which I believe you said took a couple hours. That time for me at least would be offset with creating the particles in Maya in the first place. I know what you mean about Maya though, N particles automate some things but having so many ways to control them is intimidating. For me the thing I like most are the forces, collision detection and the interactive playback. You're right Maya does not have a good solution for rendering like hypervoxels though.
This is great, all the way from Sunny Scotland!
Worked first time here, no bother, now one can really get into particles in Blender. Thanks again for this wonderful script.
RealFlow is for liquids and does not flock.
with a little bit of python you can make them flock. you have full per particle control in realflow.
My suggestion is that you fire up the conversion over night or get hold of a baking computer that can do this type of thing. The good thing is that it is dead easy and requires just a couple of mouseclicks to get the exporter running.
Man this thread has been so helpfull!!
I did this using path wind, vortex and eplotion to eplode and implode (enveloped the flock to -100 - 200%) the flock to get contract and expand.
The project I'm working on now demands a flock of thousand of particles flocking and playing in the sky. I have spent many days now getting something that looks decent in LW, but no luck until I found this thread.
I'm really impressed by Blenders particles, they are very fast to work with, easy to get to grips with, predictable. And I can get results in to time at all. I will shurely use this workflow for a lot of particle jobs in the future.
I made this quick OpenGL test using the butterflies from the mentioned project. 150 boid particles from boids, pfx exported to lightwave. Butterflies animated using FXLink and Relativity expressions.
I tried to get the PFX export script to work with Blender 2.5, but I don't see any extra options in the menu. Is it 2.49 only? Would love to export some of the new particle engine stuff to LW!
Thanks for going through the trouble, some test renders I've done with what you uploaded look very promising.
where did you download 2.5 from?
The script was written for testing.I knew I would be using boids which would have all particles active throughout the scene.
If a particle system creates a new particle at frame 5 then for frames 1 to 4 it is considered dead. I just moved dead ones to (0,0,0) rather than doing it properly and marking them as dead.
This means the pfx file will show all particles active through all frames with the dead ones at (0,0,0) until they are "born" when they will jump to the correct position.
I got the latest OSX build from graphicall.org, this a few weeks ago, so could be superseded by now.
Thanks for the explanation of the dead particles. Sounds workable. Hope you can find the time to finish this. Great work so far!
actually its super easy with nParticles. they have built in size ramps and random scale attributes.
Thats great! I havn't got around playing that much with particles in Maya. Always good to hear that things does improve on the userfriendlyness.
On that note... I made a pointcloud in LW wich I animated with displacements and then transfered over to Maya. In Maya I converted the vertex cached pointcloud to a SoftBody so that I could attach sprites to each vertex (more or less making each animated vertex a particle). That was where I ended up having to ask our maya-gurus to help out, because again, there was a fairly complex expression to randomize the sizes of the sprites. Is it possible to use nParticles in such cases as well?
Am allergic to scripting/code/expressions/algebra... when the interface has a big brightly colored "FLOCK" button, I'll be set. Basic flocking was in farckin' Particle Storm 1 over a decade ago. I should not have to script anything.
My special visual effects dream began as it did for many Harryhausen/Star Wars babys, in the 70s, pre-digital era. Am already disappointed I just missed out on the chance to get up every day to concoct special equipment and techniques for putting practical things in front of an actual camera to create movie magic. CG allowed any bozo like me with an Amiga to jump into VFX, and it was still fun concocting techniques for arranging CG things in front of a CG camera, I just got a lot less exercise. What little old school stuff I got to do with stop-motion and shooting practical elements and miniatures is still the most rewarding stuff I worked on, over any amount of mouse-pushing.
But now, most big time digital FX are so technically complicated and about scripting and proprietary code. Entering code is an abstract galaxy far, far away from what I got into this for. Its like dreaming of being a race car driver, but by the time you are old enough to do it professionally the industry had become pudgy nerds sitting in dark booths with a joystick and a monitor, remote steering an empty car on a track. And then winning races became about which 'player' can afford a team of programmers writing the best driving code. Just not my idea of fun.
Do you mean there is a change in the particle engine from 2.49 to 2.5?
This is the guy thats coding this part of 2.5. From what I've read, every system in 2.5 has had some form of re-write.
Next time im messing around with realflow ill see if i can write a flocking script :) ill pick a nice bright color of the icon just for you lol.
I LOVE simplifying overly complicated technical stuff.
actually... wait a second im pretty sure there is enough in maya toolset to make my own sprite based engine... hmmm.... mmm... I know what im doing this weekend!
looks good. I have some ideas for sprite texture generation :) so im pretty excited to take a crack at it (and make it easy to use heh).
so i take a look at the comments... and guess what... there is a raging debate about russian/american military conflict in that vid LOL (and i think someone is wrong on the internets).
GL shows the partigons displacing over to the right... but not displacing at the same time, over on the left. Voxels choose the non-displaced variety.
Try changing the order of what appears first in the custom object list. Make sure the HVs are last.
Is not affecting anything here. One thing I forgot that happens with partigons when I save and reload the scene, the 'FX Emitter' is no longer listed under custom objects. I dont know what that means.
The only time Ive had that happen when I created a point cloud in modeler then applied Hardfx to it in layout then used a collision object to knock the points around.
When I had those two things switched the HVs rendered where the points initially were.
what are you displacing your partigons with?
Textured displacement. Regular 'displacement map' textures do not do anything.
the cloth fx I then saved the motion out and used the playback mode set to local, that made it possible to get the hypervoxels to follow the cloth fx deformed vertices exactly as they are.
Yeah, I tried all that.
As mentioned, the problem with Animation Path is that it overrides all other winds for some dumb reason, unless they are set to Heavy Wind(?) but then weird motions occur.
I have no clue either. I dont get nodes, and I am not getting the applied MDD to affect the partigons. DP's instructions leave a lot to be desired.
Docs like these that assume too much about what the user already understands are a big peeve.
For novices, it should first explain how to add the plugin to Layout and where to locate the Particle Scan plugin under the deform tab, and make it clear you must be using a Partigon Emitter and not the other type of emitter.
'Usage' should explain steps and what each thing in the interface is for.
What does 'Unique ID' do?
What is this about 'limb or dead' particles? ... how do you reset the particle size? where?
Do not seem to be able to apply the scanned MDD to the Partigon Emitter itself but to an LWO.
Metapointer does not seem to work, but I guess it is only for associating with a cage(?).
Pointer works and the poly points can be displaced, but Action Start, Replay & End Behavior speed have no effect(?).
HV grads like speed, age and size based on particle size will not work. FX link will not work. Applying HD Instance crashes my scene if I apply a Preview Type in HDI, or hit F9.
If you scan and save a PFX, where do you apply this in a DP node?
let's not stop with good documentation but let's get an actual work flow that describes how to use that particular tool in a real world VFX setting. NT really needs to step it up on the documentation, the videos are a good start but they do not all apply to the people that use it in a VFX pipeline. While I realize that their majority customer base may not need that type of documentation but who's to say that one day they won't need it?
Did a small test in max. Path constraint where you can randomize motion path, speed, etc. A script can make it all automatic. Number of birds generated, distance between mesh, path variation, etc.
Maybe we can have something in lw to clone, randomize path constraint.


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Sundance winner disappoints horror fans
Alex Lasher
"The Witch" was released with an interesting marketing campaign. Trailers revealed very little about the film, but Stephen King, widely considered the "master of horror," said it was one of the scariest films he had ever seen.
With little revealed to me in advance and high praise bestowed on the movie from such a respected writer, I went into "The Witch" with high hopes. Unfortunately, I left the theater as I do with most horror films today: disappointed.
Story: One of the few positives of the film was a unique story. Taking placing in colonial America in the 1600s, the story is loosely based off of a colonial folktale. We follow a Puritan family, banished from their community for their extreme religious beliefs. Settling in to a cabin beside the forest, strange things begin to happen to the family of seven.
Taking place in a scarcely-covered time in history creates an interesting backdrop for the story. The film also plays heavily on the extreme religious fervor of the times and the fear those people had of anything supernatural. When seeing the paranoia take over this family in the film, it's easy to see how the Salem Witch trials got so out of hand. Fear can make people do all kinds of irrational things.
Directing: The biggest problem with the film is the strong direction by Robert Eggers. Most horror films suffer from attempting to show the audience too much, giving too many scares and not enough plot and character development. "The Witch" suffers from the opposite.
Almost the entire film is devoted to setting up our characters and developing the story, so much so that very little actually happens. With an hour and a half running time, only about 10 minutes of the film are actually devoted toward the thrills you pay to see. Toward the end of the film, I found myself checking the time (never a good sign for any movie) and was shocked to see there were only 15 minutes left. So little had happened in the first 75 minutes, I couldn't believe the film was almost over.
Generally, less is more when it comes to horror films; leaving more to a viewer's imagination can create a scarier film.
Not only does "The Witch" show you very little in the way of horror, but the little bit they do show you isn't all that scary. Apart from a few creepy images, there was nothing generally terrifying. When the finale of the film came around, where I felt the film needed to be strongest in order to make up for the hour and 15 minutes of relative tepidity, it resorts to the cheapest scare of all—the jump scare.
Acting/Characters: With so much of the film focused on developing the story and its characters, one would hope for the characters to be intriguing. While watching the characters battle their own paranoia along with their religion is compelling to watch, the characters themselves were hard to understand. A combination of Old English dialogue and near-constant whispering makes it incredibly hard to understand what the characters are saying.
When so much of a film is built around its characters, and so much of that information is divulged through the characters' dialogue, one might want to make sure the characters are understandable.
The performances themselves were serviceable, with no big names in the cast. Most of the cast is made up of child actors, a big risk for a film to take, but one that did not end up backfiring on the filmmakers.
Final Verdict: While there are a few unique concepts and a few creepy moments, there is too much build-up in the film and not enough pay off. You spend the entire film waiting for that stomach dropping moment, the one that makes the hair on your neck stand up, and it never comes.
In the end, there isn't enough to distinguish "The Witch" from the already crowded and stale horror genre.

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Starcasm Staff September 15, 2010 Cirque Du Salahi, Michaele Salahi, Real Housewives of DC
Michaele Salahi unleashed a bombshell Wednesday morning on "Fox and Friends:" she has MS (multiple sclerosis). There are accounts of her illness in the Diane Dimond book about them Cirque Du Salahi: Be Careful Who You Trust, which is out today, so they had to come clean about it. Dimond accompanied the Salahis to today's interview and even spoke for Michaele when she was too verklempt to speak.
Michaele says she was diagnosed with MS 17 years ago, and finds her cast mate's accusations that she has an eating disorder "hurtful," implying that her weight loss is connected with the disorder. She reportedly suffers from a tingling feeling and exhaustion, especially under stressful situations, and that's why they had to leave the White House party before the food came, not because they didn't have a table and weren't supposed to be there.
This is definitely an interesting development, but it's hard to parse out exactly what's true and what's false in Michaele's revelation. So much of what she and her husband have said and done on camera and to the media over the past year or so has been deception and spin that it's hard to believe anything they say. They are the Gatecrashers who cried wolf.
On the other hand, just because she's lied in the past doesn't necessarily mean that she's lying about being ill. Medical records are private, so there's no way to prove or disprove her claims. Even Dimond, who believes the Salahis didn't crash the White House and that Michaele has MS, doesn't believe that she was a Redskins cheerleader and describes their shady business deals. "They may have been downright duplicitous," she writes. "I have to conclude that Michaele Holt Salahi made up the story of having been a Redskins cheerleader … and once caught in the lie she responded by confronting those who questioned her with more lies," Dimond writes. "It raised the question, What else might she have been less than truthful about?"
Here's what we can speculate about from what we do know:
While many people become disabled from MS, early stages of multiple sclerosis can be well hidden (or easily fabricated) and include (via MayoClinic.com):
Numbness or weakness in one or more limbs, which typically occurs on one side of your body at a time or the bottom half of your body
Partial or complete loss of vision, usually in one eye at a time, often with pain during eye movement (optic neuritis)
Double vision or blurring of vision
Tingling or pain in parts of your body
Electric-shock sensations that occur with certain head movements
Tremor, lack of coordination or unsteady gait
The Mayo Clinic also note:
"Most people with multiple sclerosis, particularly in the beginning stages of the disease, experience relapses of symptoms, which are followed by periods of complete or partial remission. Signs and symptoms of multiple sclerosis often are triggered or worsened by an increase in body temperature."
Michaele is claiming that MS causes her rail-hin figure, but the diet she recently detailed for Life & Style revealed a calorie deficient diet that could arguably only consist of 500-700 calories, well below the minimum 1400 needed to keep a normal, thin woman healthy. Furthermore, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (via The Washington Post), weight loss or an inability to put on weight is not a typical symptom of MS.
"I start the day with a hot chocolate and cereal — I love Lucky Charms or Kashi GoLean — then some fruit. I don't really eat a lot in the middle of the day. I have an early dinner, which is always a salad, with plain chicken, grilled or broiled."
A Bravo rep has responded to Michaele's MS revelation, saying that they were not informed of Michaele's condition while filming.
UPDATE: Michaele explained her weight/MS connection further in this week's People Magazine: "With MS, if you weigh more, it's harder. My doctor said. 'Keep your weight balanced.' For MS it's critical." She claims to weight between 123 and 127 lbs.
She also added: "I"m the denial patient. I always say I can do it, even when I can't. But my attitude carries me through."
That statement seems to say much more about her psychology then just how she would respond to illness.
Photos by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images
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I have been to the flagship branch in Queensway and Canary Wharf before; both have similar smooth black lacquer interiors and gold surroundings. Currently, they have six branches in London and one out in Singapore.
The new menu at Royal China has visual images of dim sum, giving a better idea of what the dim sum would look like when you order. The variety is extensive; we ordered the usual classics plus a few from the specials menu.
Plates and bamboo basket come rapid fire once food is ordered, prawn dumplings (har gua), scallops dumplings, squid balls, deep fried prawn dumplings.
The prawn dishes are done particular well, ground white pepper and garlic are the flavours that come out. The see through transparent silken skins slides off as you bite into them. Squishy bouncy squids balls minced into a smooth ball, with wrinkled texture. The least favourite out of the bunch had to be the scallop dumplings, quite plain in flavour and didn't do anything for me.
The following five dishes came in an orderly fashion, one of them was from the specials steamed chicken dumpling. This one didn't quite go down so well, too many chives overbearing the chicken, the same goes out to the prawn and chives dumplings. However, the smell of sesame from the deep fried sesame prawn rolls will drive you insane. The texture and bite filled with juicy yummy minced prawns.
Shanghai pork dumpling pours out with actual soup; meat is soft flavourful bursting with juices of the fat. Minced pork and shrimp dumplings wrapped in an egg pastry skin were another success.
The cheung fun crepe like rolls were a little soggy but had great fillings. Crabmeat dumpling soup came with two large dumplings, crabmeat was sweet and the soup reflected that too.
We couldn't end the meal without the favourite Asian desserts, silken soft mango pudding and warm puff pastry egg tarts. Overall I really enjoyed dim sum at Royal China; there are hardly any places in the Docklands area. About 80% of the dishes were a big hit and prices are reasonable.


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Get pre-approved before you visit a dealership. Being pre-approved for bad credit auto financing gives you leverage and allows you to understand what cars you can afford. If your bankruptcy is recent and your credit hasn't been rebuilt, your bad credit auto loan rate may be a little higher.
Don't be afraid to approach lenders about a bad credit auto loan, and don't assume that only "buy here pay here" dealerships will work with you. Feel free to shop around and find a loan with terms that work well for you. Then pay your loans on time, monitor your credit score for six months, and consider refinancing your bad credit auto loan at a lower rate once your credit score has improved.
A bad credit score won't necessarily cut you out of the auto loan process. You can still qualify for a loan and buy a car with poor credit; but the payments, interest rate and terms will vary. Before you walk into the dealer, arm yourself with a list of questions to ask about your bad credit auto loan.
How high is the interest rate?
Before signing your loan, ask dealers about the type of interest rate attached to your bad credit auto loan. Remember that your interest rate on a bad credit auto loan affects your monthly payment, as well as the overall amount you'll ultimately pay. For example, if you have poor credit, expect to pay as much as 12.9 percent depending on your credit score, down payment and other financing factors.
Auto loans can vary in length for buyers with bad credit auto financing, but usually run thirty-six months. It's possible the terms will be shorter or a little longer depending on your dealer and any negotiations that take place over your bad credit auto loan financing.
What kind of car will I qualify for?
It's not uncommon to hear stories about people with bad credit auto financing being shown a different selection of cars than other buyers. Ask in advance if you will have any vehicle restrictions and what type of car you can expect to qualify for.
Can I get an auto loan with a repo?
Getting a car repossessed isn't an easy thing to go through. Credit scores usually drop between 60 and 240 points--people with higher credit scores will lose more points--and repossession stays on your credit record for seven years. However, you can still qualify for bad credit auto financing by following these steps.
Prepare to apply for a bad credit auto loan. Check your credit score and review the damage. You need to know what a bad credit auto loan lender will see when they consider your loan application. Pay your bills on time and settle any balances, especially if you still owe money on your previous auto loan. Then bring together what money you can for a down payment on your bad credit auto loan.
Shop around for the best deal. Look to different lenders for their rates on a bad credit auto loan. Keep your options open and don't restrict yourself. A high down payment or a co-signer will make it easier for a bad credit auto financing company to approve you, since it means they'll be taking less risk on you.
Be realistic about the car you want. Try to get pre-approved for a bad credit auto loan so you can set a budget for yourself before you go to the dealership. Alternatively, you can work with an in house bad credit auto loan lender. Bad credit auto loan financing from a dealership is usually more likely to approve someone with bad credit or a recent repossession.
When shopping for bad credit auto loans, the best course of action is usually to get pre-approved before going to the dealership and then looking into other lenders later on.
Pre-approvals are generally considered better than real approvals for bad credit auto loans because you can shop around, you will have more leverage at the dealership, and you will be able to plan out your purchase. You will already know what your bad credit auto loan rate and payments are, and the fact that you have a bad credit auto loan in hand will help you negotiate with other bad credit auto loan financing companies.
The process for getting approved for a bad credit auto loan is the same between pre-approvals and real approvals. Either way, you will need to have proof of your income or collateral, and the bad credit auto lender will pull your credit before approving you. It is a good idea to get a copy of your credit report before going in so you can see what the bad credit auto lender will be looking at. Some bad credit auto lenders, namely banks and credit unions, will also ask for payment stubs, copies of your last tax return, and pay stubs.
Pre-approval bad credit auto loans are just as accurate as real, post-purchase approvals for bad credit auto loans. For pre-approvals, your information will be verified at the dealership to confirm a real approval amount. As long as your income and other information is entered correctly for the pre-approval, many companies will approve you and give you financing terms in house. Because they are equivalent, it is usually better to get pre-approved for a bad credit auto loan so you can always get a real approval afterwards and have more options.
A bad credit score and poor history can make auto financing miserable for some, but it isn't impossible for everyone. Unfortunately for most Americans, buying a car with cash is just not an option, leaving some consumers behind a road block caused by bad credit. Some reports show that more than 50 percent of consumers are burdened with subprime credit (1).
If you're in the market for a used car but don't have the credit for a normal loan, here are several ways to secure a bad credit auto loan and buy the car you've always wanted.
Sub-prime lenders specialize in bad credit auto loans and generally have a high approval rate. Interest rates will typically be higher, but if you always make the monthly payment a sub-prime loan can improve your credit over time. Sub-prime lenders often finance in-house as well, so you don't have to go outside the dealership for a loan.
Credit unions are typically more consumer-friendly than banks and will work with members (if you have a checking or savings account with one) to set up bad credit auto financing. And if you're not a member, signing up for a number of bundled services could help secure a bad credit auto loan as well.
If you have a family member or significant other with good credit, and they're willing, they can sign on a bad credit auto loan to help secure a better interest rate. But remember, if you don't make your monthly payment it may hurt their credit as well as yours.
Some dealerships will offer bad credit auto loan rates for consumers who struggle to find financing elsewhere. This is a good place to handle a bad credit auto loan and purchasing (along with service and warranty) under one roof.
When you consider the options, there are many opportunities to secure a bad credit auto loan.


NJPW - NEW BEGINNINGS IN SAPPORO: The two nights together did 10,957 paid with one sellout up from 10,002 last year. Tanahashi & Okada as The Dream Team vs. Jay White & Bad Luck Fale did the same as Tanahashi vs. Suzuki did last year for the IC title but paid was much higher this year for Naito vs. Taichi in Taichi's hometown than for Kenny Omega vs. Jay White for the U.S, title last year, although both were sellouts.
At Smackdown on Tuesday, several talents with contracts coming due were asked to sign new long-term deals after Dean Ambrose told the promotion he wasn't going to sign a new contract. They really want to quell the talk of people wanting out and have promised a major focus on the tag team division, have given unhappy guys more of a push and are upping pay with the new TV deals and Saudi money.
Bellator is sending King Mo to Rizin in Yokohama on April 21st to fight Jirí Procházka for the inaugural Rizin Light Heavyweight Championship.
LJN, the company that had the WWE toy and action figure license from 1984 to 1989, and folded in 1995, was revived by Chalk Line, an outer wear company that works with WWE doing nostalgia jackets of wrestling and movies. The Young Bucks have been talking to them for about 15 months and the action figures are now on the market.
AEW Crew, Cody, Young Bucks, Brandi Rhodes, Dana Massie and Adam Page were at the Super Bowl, courtesy of Tony & Shahid Khan.
Les Thornton (real name Henri Pierlot) passed away on 2/1 at the age of 84.
WWE Halftime Heat: Aleister Black, Ricochet & Velveteen Dream defeated Adam Cole, Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa.
The match was great, it was what I expected the match to be. All six guys got to shine. Watching this match felt like watching any PWG match, and not just because all of these guys with the exception of Dream had some connection to PWG, but the overall pacing of the match.
Seth Rollins dealing with a back injury that happened before the Lesnar angle last Monday, and is okay, but will be resting up some for the next several weeks.
Sasha Banks had an injury from her match with Ronda.
AJ Styles has a hernia, should be cleared by Tuesday but probably will be taking it easy for a few weeks.


You're enjoying a wonderful summer—hiking, picnicking, gardening, enjoying the great outdoors.
So why have you suddenly developed a fever, chills, headache, joint and neck pains, and feel totally exhausted?
If you are suffering from a flu-like illness, it could in fact be the beginning of Lyme disease.
"It's important for people to understand that if they develop flu-like symptoms in the summer—especially within weeks of being in rural or suburban areas—they should see a doctor and get tested for Lyme," said Scott Santarella, CEO of Global Lyme Alliance (GLA), the leading private nonprofit dedicated to conquering Lyme disease through research and education.
That's what former "Real Housewives of New Jersey" cast member Amber Marchese discovered recently after posting to her social media followers that she had come down with a summer flu. But after she described her symptoms, a friend suggested Marchese get checked for Lyme disease. Marchese went to her doctor, got tested, and learned she had the tick-borne illness.
The risk of developing Lyme, a potentially debilitating illness carried by black-legged (deer) ticks, could be greater this summer than ever before. Lyme is now the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the nation, with 329,000 new cases every year.
Lyme disease-carrying ticks have undergone a population explosion, doubling their range in less than two decades. They are in all 50 states and in more than 80 countries.
"Nymphal ticks do seem more active this year, although we haven't quantified the numbers yet," said CT State Entomologist Kirby C. Stafford III, Ph.D. Stafford added that people need to be aware that Lyme disease is a constant risk in areas where it is endemic. They should also be aware that deer ticks may carry other pathogens that cause diseases such as anaplasmosis and babesiosis" too.
Many people think they need to see a bull's-eye rash in order to have Lyme, but less than 50 percent of those infected actually develop one. "Not everyone with Lyme has a rash, so even if the skin looks normal, don't be deterred from seeking a doctor's advice if there are flu-like symptoms that last a few days without signs of improvement," said Santarella.
"These early symptoms could lead to debilitating health problems, eventually affecting the nervous system, brain, joints or heart." There is currently no fool-proof diagnostic test for Lyme, but to get the most accurate blood testing results possible, ask your physician to use both the ELISA and Western Blot tests.
Global Lyme Alliance is the leading private nonprofit dedicated to conquering Lyme disease through innovative research and education programs. The 501(c)(3) organization is headquartered in Greenwich.


On behalf of Martin A. Kron & Associates, P.C. posted in Traffic Crimes on Friday, September 28, 2018.
Traffic crimes are normally situations that you wouldn't think of as having a major impact on others; speeding, weaving in and out of traffic in a rush or violating local traffic laws may all seem innocuous, but they can actually get you into deep trouble.
On behalf of Martin A. Kron & Associates, P.C. posted in DUI-DWI on Friday, September 14, 2018.
Proving that a person is intoxicated without a blood or breath test is not an exact science. There are three tests that officers use to determine if you are impaired. The problem with these tests is that people who are completely sober can fail them. The tests include standing on one leg, following a pen's movement with your eyes and walking and turning.


President Donald Trump on Tuesday predicted US economic growth would soon hit above five percent in a bullish speech hailing his administration's business record.
Speaking to business leaders at a lavish dinner party at his New Jersey golf course, Trump said growth "could be in the fives" by the next quarter.
"Nobody thought would be anywhere above, even close to 2 (percent), and we're at 4.1. And I think we're going much higher," he said.
"We anticipate this next quarter to be, this is just an estimate, but already they're saying it could be in the fives," he added.
The second quarter acceleration -- the highest in four years -- came in part after the injection of stimulus and Republican tax cuts.
But economists warned it could be a blip caused by temporary factors, including a one-off bounce produced by Trump's trade confrontation with China.
The White House is counting on faster growth to pay for December's sweeping tax cuts by generating higher revenues.


The Gymnic Multiform Geometric Shape Set helps your child learn geometric shapes and colors. They can be used to create small structures, sort, stack, and build shape and color association skills. It is ideal to enhance the child skill of associating shapes and colors and it stimulates prehensility. Kids love to grasp and squeeze them! The set includes 4 geometric forms (each of them in 4 colors). The geometric pieces are washable in soap and water.
Set includes 16 pieces in 4 primary colors and 4 geometric shapes.


STRENGTHS: Quick initial installation. Micro-services can be upgraded without disrupting network traffic.
WEAKNESS: None that we found.
ShieldX believes going beyond control is important for resiliency, and provides a dozen capabilities, including a firewall, IPSs, URL filtering and more. Customers can expect to be able to block new vectors of cloud-based attacks. ShieldX has the speed and scale to perform at the levels expected in the cloud.
Full stack protection is offered with FireEye, APP-aware ACL, DLP, malware detection, full-flow packet capture IDS/IPS threat detection and prevention, virtual tap, URL inspection for reputation and classification/filtering, unique anomaly detection, and micro-segmentation. Every workload and application in your data center will be fully mapped automatically without agents.
Automating infrastructure, security and applications helps ensure agents are inserted when and where they are needed. These agents are inserted directly into infrastructures. This allows for automated intent-based security policies. Security Analytics has a unique component called Indicator of Pivot (IoP) which is based on kill chain methodology.
When inserting into a network, customers can define the insertion method and specify environments. Insertion staging shows specifications for review before committing changes. Once committed, a job will be kicked off and tasks relevant to carry out intended changes are executed. The 3D Connectivity Map has a unique clustering algorithm that takes individual objects and classifies them in different groups to reduce the manual labor required for network administrators to apply policies to all devices on a network.
The Global Threat Configuration page shows the total number of threats and detailed information. In the Event Explorer, customers can deny connections and build zero trust policies. Visualization maps give the ability to tie applications to vulnerabilities, see which protections would remediate them, and easily create policies using a machine learning algorithm.
The multi-cloud security threat intelligence and forensics feature shows the timeline and breakdown of connections made along a kill chain process, giving a comprehensive set of security controls necessary to remediate each stage of an attack. Backups can be executed automatically or manually, as well as used to restore configurations and data. Automated backup to a designated storage location is done once per day. Content download is also automated and can be set to occur at specified start times.
ShieldX is reinventing cloud security to better protect organizations against cyber threats—regardless of where sensitive data resides or how it moves across public, private or multi-cloud environments. Organizations like Alaska Airlines, Park Holidays and Iowa State University are using APEIRO to scale security and micro-segmentation on demand, support business innovation, meet compliance requirements and protect against the latest cyberattacks. Since its public launch in 2017, the company has won industry recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Security, RSAC Innovation Sandbox 2018 Finalist, SC Magazine Awards finalist, Cloud Awards finalist and winner of Infosecurity PG Awards "Security innovation of the Year." Based in San Jose, CA, ShieldX was founded in 2015 and is privately funded through Series B. Visit us at ShieldX.com and Twitter @shieldxnetworks.


The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. Rowan AIAA is both a professional and project-based society designed to help you prepare yourself for a future in the aerospace industry. If you dream of working for companies like NASA, Boeing, or Lockheed Martin, come check us out! Between the International Rocket Engineering Competition, Design/Build/Fly, the Rowan PR Blimp, and many other projects, we'll help you find a place on one of our teams and give you your first aerospace experience here at Rowan.
AIChE provides an opportunity for chemical engineers, both undergraduate and graduates, to learn more about prospective workplaces, get chemical engineering related information, and have a good time! Monthly meetings take place, as well as periodic trips to local businesses. Speakers also present talks on their area of expertise.
Welcome! ASCE's mission is to provide essential value to it members and the public by developing leadership, advancing technology, and advocating lifelong learning and promoting the profession.
Engineers Without Borders partners with developing communities to improve their quality of life through implementation of environmentally, equitable, and economically sustainable engineering projects, while developing internationally responsible engineers and engineering students.
The IEEE student chapter at Rowan University was established in 1996, and is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology.
Welcome to Rowan University's Student Chapter of the New Jersey Water Environment Association. The purpose of this chapter is (1) to promote student interest in the environment, (2) to promote interest in the fields of water and wastewater treatment and global pollution mitigation and (3) to provide an avenue for the exchange of information and ideas between students and members of both the Member Association serving their geographical area, i.e. New Jersey Water Environment Association and the Water Environment Federation.
The primary focus of the Rowan University Chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) is to facilitate the funding, training, fabrication, and racing of the Rowan Motorsports collegiate design series teams that represent our school at international events. Underclassmen are mentored and trained to not only continue the legacy of accomplishments acquired since 2003 but give them engineering experience that is rivaled by few other collegiate projects.
The mission of the Rowan Society of American Military Engineers Student Chapter is to reflect the goals and values of the SAME National Organization. These include involvement of interdisciplinary projects, service events to support our veterans and K-12 outreach, and the mentorship of developing engineering students through speakers and tours. Our chapter also emphasizes having fun in order to develop a family bond among our members. Founded Fall 2014.
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is a non-profit service organization aimed at informing the community of the qualifications and achievements of women engineers. Its mission is to stimulate women to achieve their full potential in their careers as engineers and as leaders, to expand the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in improving the quality of life, and to demonstrate the value of diversity. We have professional development, outreach and social events all throughout the semester that can be enjoyed by both men and women!
Tau Beta Pi is the only engineering honor society representing the entire engineering profession. It is the nation's second-oldest honor society, founded at Lehigh University in 1885 to recognize students of distinguished scholarship and exemplary character. The Tau Beta Pi chapter was officially established at Rowan University on January 28, 2006.
The purpose of IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) is to promote the academic development of its members through hands-on engineering programs and to contribute to the development of women in engineering at Rowan University through its technical activities. Rowan WIE holds many workshops throughout the year, along with fun events and outreach programs!


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class Output
{
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    const HTML_SLASHES = 2;
    const SLASHES      = 3;
    const FLOAT        = 4;
    const INT          = 5;
    const NONE         = 6;
    const DATE         = 7;
    const JSON         = 8;
    const BOOL         = 9;
    const UTF8         = 10;

    /**
     * Clean an Variable or Array Values
     *
     * @param mixed $Var
     * @param int   $ClearingMethod
     * @param array $ClearArrayKeys
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     */
    public static function cleanVar($Var, $ClearingMethod = self::NONE, $ClearArrayKeys = [])
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                if (isset($ClearArrayKeys[$k])) {
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Q: showing div before submitting form is not working i have a form, i want to show a confirmation div BEFORE submitting it, if the user clicks ok on the new div, it submits, if not it won't, i'm using slideUp() and slideDown(), im kind if stuck, it's not working, it just redirects to the next page, how do i return true with a new button click to actually submit the form, not with the original submit button?

  <form action="rides.php" method="POST" id="tripinfo">
     Date of the trip:

      <input id="date" type="date" min="2021-06-21" required>

    <button type="submit" id="subBtn" class="btn"> Finish up</button>
  </form>

  //some stuff
  <button id="ok">ok</button>

the script:

A: use event.preventDefault() instead of return false

A: You'll need cancel submitting the form with preventDefault() and than use different event handler to listen when user clicked on "ok" button, and only than submit the form:

$('#tripinfo').submit(function(e) {
  if (e.originalEvent && e.originalEvent.isTrusted) //check if user clicked submit button or javascript clicked it
    e.preventDefault(); //prevent submitting the form if user clicked

  $("#choosing").slideUp();
  $("#confirmation").slideDown();

});

$('#ok').click(function() {
  $('#tripinfo').submit();
});

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     Date of the trip:

                          <input id="date" type="date" min="2021-06-21" required>

    <button type="submit" id="subBtn" class="btn"> Finish up</button>

  </form>

  //some stuff
  <button id="ok">ok</button>

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An individual retirement account (IRA) should be one of the cornerstones of anyone's nest egg, offering great tax benefits to anyone socking money away.
While individuals can and should contribute to their IRAs on a monthly basis, many don't. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, the largest source of contributions come from individuals who, when they leave a job, move their money into their accounts from an employer-sponsored plan like a 401(k) or 403(b).
This is fine, but most investors don't understand what options they have for their IRAs at different stages of their career, and knowing that can be quite beneficial from a tax or savings point of view.
Generally, there are four options. The first and easiest is to keep some or all of your savings in your former employer's plan. You can't make new contributions to it, but if you like the funds in the plan this can be a viable option.
Second, you can transfer assets to your new employer's plan, assuming they have one. If nothing else, this can make tracking your investments simpler and more convenient.
The third option is to simply cash out your balance, though this is rarely a good idea for younger investors. If you're more than six months away from 60 (that is, 59-and-a-half years old or younger), the IRS will generally consider your payout an early distribution, which is subject to an early withdrawal penalty of 10 percent as well as state and federal taxes. It's difficult to imagine the circumstances that would make this the right choice for anyone not nearing retirement age.
Finally, you can opt to roll your plan into an IRA. This is an option that investors should strongly consider, as it opens up a much broader menu of investment choices. Rather than the small number of mutual funds that a 401(k) can buy into, IRAs have access to the entire universe of mutual funds, individual stocks, variable annuities, and so on. In addition, rolling the plan into an IRA allows you to transition your retirement accumulation vehicle into a tax-efficient distribution vehicle and partner up with an investment professional who can help you customize your investments according to your specific needs and circumstances.
If your employer does offer a 401(k) or 403(b), you should absolutely take advantage of it. However, don't forget the options you have when you transition out of your current situation. You worked hard to save, and making the wrong decision can undo some of that work.