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A record crowd of approximately 500,000 people was expected to attend the event.</h3><h3 id="photocredit"><b>Photograph by: </b>Darryl Dyck , THE CANADIAN PRESS</h3></p><p>VANCOUVER - Two Olympians representing Canada's Olympic Team marched in Vancouver's Pride Parade today.</p> <p>Canadian Olympic officials say it was an effort to spread a message of tolerance, acceptance and diversity in light of Russia's anti-gay laws and the upcoming 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi.</p> <p>Alpine skier and 2010 Olympian Mike Janyk and two-time Olympian snowboarder Mercedes Nicoll joined Pride participants as they marched through Vancouver's downtown and the West End.</p> <p>Canadian Olympic Committee president Marcel Aubut says the coming together of COC and Pride is a reminder that sport is open to everyone, regardless of race, religion, creed or sexual orientation.</p> <p>Anti-gay laws in Russia have provoked strong protest from Canada's gay community, and anti-Russian sentiment was visible throughout Sunday's Parade.</p> <p>At least one marcher wore a T-shirt and hoisted a sign featuring a photoshopped image of Russian President Vladimir Putin wearing blue eye shadow and blush.</p> <p>This is the first time the COC has participated in Pride festivals across the country ? Olympians have already marched in Toronto and will also be present in the upcoming Pride celebrations in Ottawa, Calgary and Montreal.</p><p>?</p><p>?</p><p>?</p><p>?</p><p>?</p><p>?</p><p>Source: <a href="http://feeds.canada.com/~r/canwest/F264/~3/pvuw3LhHA6I/story.html">http://feeds.canada.com/~r/canwest/F264/~3/pvuw3LhHA6I/story.html</a></p><p><a href="http://my.telegraph.co.uk/members/rhyspadgett/profile/">capitals</a> <a href="http://elgg.ciiet.cl/elgg/profile/ColleoctteMitykchylell">dan savage</a> <a href="http://www.threadless.com/profile/2593243/lumber15kick">new world trade center</a> <a href="http://www.podclass.com/bronze62ramie/">kellen moore</a> <a href="http://www.social-bookmarking.net/user/profile/cirrus28ramie">octomom</a> <a href="http://rapurfamily.com/profile-12914/info/">stoudemire</a> <a href="http://cervejaseviagens.com/tripcapsule/profile/thomas96bomber">jordan hill</a> </p>arvidsonthaddeus01http://www.blogger.com/profile/06464590321374966185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560595932076583312.post-85731744813867131532013-08-04T21:03:00.001-07:002013-08-04T21:03:49.476-07:00TransCanada moves forward with oil pipeline, but it's not Keystone XL<h2 class="subhead" itemprop="description"> </h2><p>TransCanada, a Canadian energy company said Thursday it was moving forward with plans to build a?2,740-mile pipeline that would transit between 500,000 and 850,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) from western to eastern Canada.?Oil arriving through the Energy East Pipeline would feed refineries in Quebec and New Brunswick that at present get 86 per cent of their crude supply from the international market at much higher prices than they would pay for crude from Alberta.</p> <p class="sByline"> By <span class="ui-author">Robert M. Cutler</span>,?<span class="ui-staffline">Guest blogger</span> / August 2, 2013 </p> <p class="caption" id="pgallerycarousel_caption" title="Photo Caption">TransCanada CEO Russ Girling announces the company is moving forward with the 1.1 million-barrel-per day Energy East Pipeline project at a news conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Thursday. </p> <p class="caption" id="pgallerycarousel_credit" title="Photo Credit">Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press/AP</p> <span id="pgallerycarousel_related"></span> <!-- /pod --> Enlarge <p>The Canadian energy company TransCanada Corp announced today,?Thursday, its decision to move forward with the Energy East Pipeline, a 2,740-mile project that would transit between 500,000 and 850,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) from western to eastern Canada. Some longer-term estimates see the possibility of eventually ramping volumes up to 1.1 million bpd.</p> Skip to next paragraph <strong>OilPrice.com </strong> <p>offers extensive coverage of all energy sectors from crude oil and natural gas to solar energy and environmental issues. To see more opinion pieces and news analysis that cover energy technology, finance and trading, geopolitics, and sector news, please visit?Oilprice.com.</p> <h3>Recent posts</h3> <p>' + google_ads[0].line2 + '<br />' + google_ads[0].line3 + '</p>'; } else if (google_ads.length > 1) { ad_unit += ''; } } document.getElementById("ad_unit").innerHTML += ad_unit; google_adnum += google_ads.length; return; } var google_adnum = 0; google_ad_client = "pub-6743622525202572"; google_ad_output = 'js'; google_max_num_ads = '1'; google_feedback = "on"; google_ad_type = "text"; // google_adtest = "on"; google_image_size = '230x105'; google_skip = '0'; // --> <!-- subscribe ad: Article body left column --> <p class="subscribe-ad_title">Subscribe Today to the Monitor</p> <p class="subscribe-ad_message">Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS of<br />The Christian Science Monitor<br />Weekly Digital Edition</p> <p>Oil arriving through the Energy East Pipeline would feed refineries in Quebec and New Brunswick that at present get 86 per cent of their crude supply from the international market at much higher prices than they would pay for crude from Alberta. Conversion of the existing Canadian Mainline natural gas pipeline for carriage of crude oil would account for slightly over two-thirds the projected length. The remainder would be new construction. Cost estimates range up to $12 billion, excluding the transfer value of the Canadian Mainline.?(Related article:?Canada Threatens U.S. with Oil Trains if Keystone XL Not Built)</p><p>The announcement follows by three weeks the signature by Alberta province of a memorandum of understanding to pay up to $5 billion in tolls for transportation of its crude oil to eastern Canada, if a pipeline is built. The proposal still requires regulatory approval, but the conditions in favor of this have been lining themselves up for some time.</p> <p>The company anticipates beginning the regulatory process next year, with first oil flowing to Montreal and the Quebec City region by 2017, and to Saint John, New Brunswick, by 2018. TransCanada and IrvingOil have formed a joint venture, to construct, own, and operate a new deep water marine terminal at Canaport in Saint John.?<a name='more'></a></p><p>Company officials say that construction of the Energy East Pipeline would not exclude use of the Keystone XL Pipeline if the latter is ever built. Canada's oil sands are the third-largest crude deposit in the world, estimated at 170 billion barrels.</p><p> U.S. President Barack Obama's November 2011 postponement of a decision on the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline produced political and economic momentum in Canada to seek other markets.?<br />Keystone would feed multiple US refineries in the Midwest and Texas Gulf Coast with product from Alberta's Athabasca oil sands. However, the decision on Keystone is still in limbo and there are in addition a number of court cases in the U.S. that contest different aspects of it.?(Related article:?Keystone XL's Goose is Cooked)</p><p> Canadian companies have also explored possibilities of building a pipeline from there westwards to British Columbia's Pacific Ocean coast for export to Asia. At present, Canadian oil is sold to U.S.?<br />companies at about $30 per barrel below world market prices, simply because there are no export pipelines from Canada to take the oil anywhere else.</p><p>TransCanada is one of the largest energy companies in North America.</p><p> It is developing one of the continent's largest oil delivery systems and already operates a natural gas pipeline network of more than 42,500 miles with over 400 billion cubic feet of storage capacity.<br />Source:?https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/TransCanada-Announces-Decision-for-West-East-Oil-Pipeline-in-Canada.html</p> <p>The Christian Science Monitor has assembled a diverse group of the best energy bloggers out there. Our guest bloggers are not employed or directed by the Monitor and the views expressed are the bloggers' own, as is responsibility for the content of their blogs. To contact us about a blogger, click here. 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According to the Daily Star, Owen, who swapped the football pitch for the racecourse last season, trains 95 thoroughbreds with his wife Louise Bonsall at their Manor House Stables in Cheshire, England. Stating that horses are his main ... </p> </li> <li readability="10.5725806452"> <h3>Will-Kats royal prince George officially inked into royalty</h3> <p class="meta">Britain News.Net <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>The royal baby, who is the third-in-line to the throne, has now been officially named as 'His Royal Highness Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge', by proud parents Prince William and Kate. Sources have revealed that Kate, who usually sticks to 'Duchess of Cambridge' for royal engagements, has listed herself as a 'Princess', which is a more senior title, on Prince George's birth ... </p> </li> <li readability="8.62669245648"> <h3>Prince Harry happy pressure to produce heir off after royal babys birth</h3> <p class="meta">Britain News.Net <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>Prince Harry has admitted that he's in "no rush" to have kids now following the birth of his nephew, Prince George. During a conversation with Royal Marines and their families at HM Naval Base in Devonport, Plymouth, the 28-year-old said that Prince Charles is over the moon at being a grandfather, People magazine reported. When asked if he'd be rushing to have children now, Harry said that the ... </p> </li> <li readability="8.77227722772"> <h3>Nepalese folk-rock band Nepathya to headline Wembley Arena gig</h3> <p class="meta">Britain News.Net <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>Popular Nepalese folk-rock band 'Nepathya' is all set to perform at one of the UK's largest venues- London's Wembley Arena- on Saturday. According to the organisers, people are travelling to the country from Holland, Belgium, Norway and the US for the concert, the BBC reported. Singer Amrit Gurung told the publication that it is like a dream come true to play at Wembley. The band, which was ... </p> </li> <li readability="7.77192982456"> <h3>Swann backs sore back Cook to counter Clarkes gauntlet at Old Trafford</h3> <p class="meta">Britain News.Net <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>England bowler Graeme Swann has backed his team's batsmen '100 percent', and said that he is confident that captain Alastair Cook will be 'as right as rain' to carry on after a good rest following his two-and-a-half hours batting with a sore back. According to the Mirror, Cook, who battled hard for just over two hours to take his team to the close at 52-2, is as desperate for a big score as ... </p> </li> <li readability="4.31773879142"> <h3>Botham backs England to cash in at Old Trafford like excellent Aussies</h3> <p class="meta">Britain News.Net <span>- Friday 2nd August, 2013</span></p> <p>Former England Test captain Ian Botham has praised the Australian team for regaining control of the third Ashes Test although he backed England batsmen to cash in at Old Trafford like their rivals. Australian captain Michael Clarke completed a brilliant 187 on day two of the third Ashes Test at Old Trafford as part of his side's huge declared 527-7 which took control of the Test. According to ... </p> </li> <li readability="6.84984025559"> <h3>Duke of Cambridge lifts the lid on fatherhood</h3> <p class="meta">Telegraph.co.uk <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>Britain's Prince Harry (R) and Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge (L) share a joke with teammates Mark Tomlinson, (2nd L) and Luke Tomlinson (2nd R) after winning their charity polo match at Coworth Park, near Ascot, ... </p> </li> <li readability="4.58605664488"> <h3>England struggle despite Pietersen ton</h3> <p class="meta">RTE <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>England face another two days of hard graft if they are to retain the Ashes in Manchester this week despite Kevin Pietersen's 23rd Test century. Pietersen has been largely absent with the bat so far this series but saved his best for an innings of 113 that was the backbone of England's 294 for seven at the close on day three of the third Investec Test at Emirates Old Trafford. That ... </p> </li> <li readability="2.93436293436"> <h3>Your country needs you The myth of the most iconic World War I emblem</h3> <p class="meta">The Independent <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>The picture of Lord Kitchener has long been regarded as the poster that encouraged young men to join the army, but this may just be a popular ... </p> </li> <li readability="4.40206185567"> <h3>The essential etiquette guide to modern life | Rafael Behr</h3> <p class="meta">Guardian <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>fracking " - the process of extracting shale gas by pumping water deep underground and fracturing layers of rock in which the precious stuff is trapped. It is either the salvation of Britain's economy or an act of reckless environmental vandalism.The first rule when choosing one of those positions is to ignore the full range of evidence. It is inconclusive and so too confusing to be ... </p> </li> <li readability="0"> <h3>England 294-7 v Australia 527-7 Dec in Third Test-Close</h3> <p class="meta">New York Times <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>MANCHESTER, England ... </p> </li> <li readability="8.68884540117"> <h3>Airline forces teen to strip by check-in counter at England airport</h3> <p class="meta">Las Vegas Sun <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013 | 10:15 a.m. MANCHESTER, England -- Getting ready to jet off to Mallorca, Alix Townsend picked what she thought was the perfect outfit for a holiday in the sun. Unfortunately, her short denim shorts did not pass muster with airport staff. The 18-year-old says she was horrified to be told by a Monarch Airlines supervisor to take off her high-cut shorts in front of hundreds ... </p> </li> <li readability="9.29961832061"> <h3>Teenager charged after petrol station owner injured in West Kingsdown hit and run</h3> <p class="meta">This is Local London <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>Police outside the Texaco garage in West Kingsdown (Picture: Invicta Kent Media, Sidcup) A TEENAGER has appeared in court this morning three days after a 58-year-old man was allegedly carried for half a mile along the A20 in West Kingsdown on the bonnet of a car. 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(Kin ... </p> </li> <li readability="6.44467640919"> <h3>Pietersen rides luck to steady England</h3> <p class="meta">sportal.com.au <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>Another Australian review system blunder helped Kevin Pietersen and Ian Bell shift momentum England's way at Old Trafford on Saturday.At tea, the hosts were 4-211, with Pietersen (78 not out) and Bell (51 not out) slowly turning the third Test on course for a draw.England trail by 316 runs with 117 needed to avoid the follow-on.Australia would already have dangerman Pietersen out if not for ... </p> </li> <li readability="3.30735930736"> <h3>Dempsey set to leave England move to MLS</h3> <p class="meta">San Diego Union-Tribune <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>LONDON -; Tottenham says United States forward Clint Dempsey is returning to Major League Soccer, ending his six-year spell in English ... </p> </li> <li readability="4.27392739274"> <h3>Pietersen and Bell hit 50s to steady England</h3> <p class="meta">SBS <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>Australia's captain Michael Clarke reacts after the dismissal of England's Alastair Cook during the third Ashes cricket test match against England at Old Trafford cricket ground in Manchester August 3, 2013. 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Cuban state television said some of the victims had been temporarily blinded ... </p> </li> <li readability="5.27156549521"> <h3>Rouhani installed as president of Iran</h3> <p class="meta">Middle East Times <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>Iran's newly elected president Hassan Rouhani (C) attends a Jerusalem Day (al-Quds Day) rally on August 2, 2013 in Tehran, Iran. Islamic states mark the annual even on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan. UPI/Maryam ... </p> </li> <li readability="6.52034261242"> <h3>Local painter opening exhibition</h3> <p class="meta">This is Local London <span>- Saturday 3rd August, 2013</span></p> <p>Helen Alveranga with some of her paintings. A local painter is opening an exhibition of her works at the Winns Gallery in Lloyd Park tomorrow. Helen Alveranga, 50, has named her exhibition From the Ground Up as her oil paintings are inspired by all things in nature from the ground up to the highest tree branches. 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His younger brother, Dzhokhar, is the chief surviving suspect in the April 15 attack, which resulted in three deaths and hundreds of injuries.</p> <p> The FBI agents who looked into Tsarnaev following the 2011 tip said there were federal legal limits to the type of probing they could do, such as wiretapping.</p> <p> The experience of treating the many people injured in the Boston attack has led the city's six chief trauma hospitals to modify some of the ways they respond to large-scale incidents, the <em>Boston Globe</em> reported on Tuesday. ?Lessons learned will be made available to other hospitals throughout the United States.</p> <p> One of the central findings in attack response was the difficulty in timely identification of patients.</p> <!-- google_ad_section_end --><p>Source: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-reportedly-absolves-itself-not-preventing-boston-terror-150204227.html">http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-reportedly-absolves-itself-not-preventing-boston-terror-150204227.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.socialgrapes.com/users/cirrus55carp">gabrielle union</a> <a href="http://www.minisnap.com/index.php?params=profile/view/204542/">Andrea Bargnani</a> <a href="http://www.formspring.me/lumber10appeal">Bart Strike 2013</a> <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/user/bronze57jumbo">ciara</a> <a href="http://www.bookbump.com/profile.php?username=cirrus65kick">jessica simpson</a> <a href="http://burnpit.us/users/thomas03owner">Ray Donovan</a> <a href="http://www.streetfire.net/profile/tenor71sauce.htm">despicable me</a> </p>arvidsonthaddeus01http://www.blogger.com/profile/06464590321374966185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560595932076583312.post-84393072439886097392013-08-03T21:41:00.001-07:002013-08-03T21:41:56.943-07:00Jailed Vietnam blogger ends hunger strike after five weeks<!-- google_ad_section_start --> <p class="first">HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese dissident jailed for criticizing the country's rulers has ended a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375524381750_2">hunger strike</span> after five weeks when <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375524381750_7">judicial authorities</span> agreed to accept his complaint about poor treatment, his son said on Saturday.</p> <p> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375524381750_1">Nguyen Van Hai</span>, better known as Dieu Cay, resumed eating on July 27 after the Supreme People's Procuracy, the prosecutor's office, agreed to look into his claim of abusive treatment.</p> <p> The hunger strike has focused attention on <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375524381750_3">Vietnam</span>'s harsh treatment of activists and bloggers, who face intimidation and long prison terms for what authorities call abuses of their constitutional right to free speech.</p> <p> Hai, 61, refused food and water for 35 days in what was his second hunger strike over the prison's failure to forward his petitions. He was jailed for 12 years for "anti-state propaganda" last September.</p> <p> "It's not about my father. His hunger strike was for all prisoners of conscience," said <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375524381750_4">Nguyen Tri Dung</span>, his 27-year-old son, who said he saw Hai for just seven minutes on Friday.</p> <p> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375524381750_5">Communist Vietnam</span> has taken a tough line on dissent, with arrests and convictions on the rise in the past three years. Bloggers are increasingly targeted as the number of web users soars to a third of the one-party state's 90 million population.</p> <p> The United States wants closer trade and military ties with its former enemy as it seeks to strengthen allegiances in Asia and temper China's influence, but Vietnam's crackdown on critics is proving to be a major stumbling block.</p> <p> Two weeks ago, U.S. President Barack Obama pressed visiting counterpart <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375524381750_8">Truong Tan Sang</span> on human rights but chose his words carefully, mentioning both "progress" and "challenges that remain". Sang said the two "have differences on the issue".</p> <p> Vietnam's state-controlled media ran video footage and photographs this week of Hai receiving medical care in an apparent effort to counter human rights groups concerned about his treatment. In several cases, media referred to the hunger strike as a "rumor" and reported Hai had been eating.</p> <p> Dung last week told Reuters his father appeared gaunt, pale and dazed during his previous visit to the prison in Nghe An province on July 22, when he saw him for five minutes.</p> <p> (Reporting by Martin Petty; Editing by Jeremy Laurence and Ron Popeski)</p> <p> (This story corrects name in second para: Dieu Cay instead of Dieu Ca)</p> <!-- google_ad_section_end --><p>Source: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/jailed-vietnam-blogger-ends-hunger-strike-five-weeks-082139060.html">http://news.yahoo.com/jailed-vietnam-blogger-ends-hunger-strike-five-weeks-082139060.html</a></p><p><a href="http://armorgames.com/user/bit57ramie">kyle orton</a> <a href="http://www.kuailequn.com/sampan48ramie">2012 ncaa bracket</a> <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/profiles/1000368512/bio">john carlson</a> <a href="http://www.denmark.net/users/bit47jumbo">greg smith</a> <a href="https://flattr.com/profile/fear20carp">catamount</a> <a href="http://www.expotv.com/profile/home/uid-1040515/public">mike dantoni</a> <a href="http://www.houseparty.com/people/view/6970437">bulls heat</a> </p>arvidsonthaddeus01http://www.blogger.com/profile/06464590321374966185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560595932076583312.post-13295516503074787352013-08-02T21:51:00.001-07:002013-08-02T21:51:35.815-07:00When Washington Forgot How to Negotiate<!-- google_ad_section_start --> <p class="first">When members of Congress return from summer recess next month, they will have less than a month to act before the farm bill expires?and face long odds that they can clear the partisan hurdles set up between the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375402514939_4">Democratic Senate</span>, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375402514939_9">the Republican House</span>, and final passage.</p> <p>On the debt ceiling, the sequester, immigration reform, and fixing the tax code, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375402514939_6">Democrats and Republicans</span> have tried and failed to come up with comprehensive solutions to the country's problems. But the farm bill stands out as a case study of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375402514939_5">Washington</span>'s descent into an almost unbridgeable partisan divide precisely because the type of grand bargain <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375402514939_1">President Obama</span> and some Republican leaders now seek has been achieved so many times before?and now achieving one seems so far out of reach.</p> <p>The two sides are fighting over portions of the bill that allocate billions to food-stamp programs. The bill the Senate has already passed reduces $4 billion from the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375402514939_8">Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program</span>, a deep cut that has Democrats upset. The House has signaled it will take up the two halves of the bill?farm aid and food assistance?separately.</p> <p>That shreds a bipartisan legislative coalition that has existed since the 1973 version of the farm bill, when food-stamp funding was added to the bill to attract urban Democratic votes to a bill that had, until then, mainly benefited rural communities. The stalemate is the latest sign that Washington has either forgotten how, or is no longer willing, to negotiate to build bipartisan coalitions.</p> <p>It wasn't always this way. Even as Republicans made inroads in rural districts once held by Democrats while Democrats came to rely more on urban and suburban states, the coalition between backers of farm subsidies and food stamps held. Those who negotiated earlier farm bills took as a given that both pieces were necessary to build the bipartisan coalition that would ensure passage. The 2008 farm bill enjoyed such widespread support that 99 House Republicans and 35 Senate Republicans voted with most Democrats to override George W. Bush's veto.</p> <p>The farm bill has always led to contentious debate. Back in 2002, Sen. <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375402514939_2">Tom Harkin</span>, D-Iowa,?and then-Rep. <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375402514939_7">Larry Combest</span>, R-Texas,?led conference-committee negotiations over loan-rate structures and energy title and conservation provisions that Harkin backed, and on payment limitations and target price structures that Combest supported. The negotiations took weeks. The conference committee met first on the House side of the Capitol, then on the Senate side. When a deal seemed close, the conference committee met in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375402514939_3">Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle</span>'s office, just off the Senate floor, to hammer out the final compromises. Daschle was intimately involved with the conferees.</p> <p>Those involved in the negotiations said the two sides built up from a foundation they could both support. When Harkin realized he was outnumbered in opposing a so-called Freedom to Farm provision, which had been included in a previous iteration of the farm bill, he dropped his opposition in exchange for the loan-rate structure he backed. The final bill included what's now called the Conservation Stewardship Program, another Harkin-backed last-minute addition that came out of the conference committee.</p> <p>"You build from a base of mutual interest and build upon that mutual interest to reach accommodation, not by saying you can't get what you want and I can't get what I want," Harkin said in an interview, recalling his legislative strategy. "I had dance partners. Sometimes they liked to polka and I liked to waltz. They liked to tango and I liked to line dance."</p> <p>"Everybody was going to have a part" of the bill, Combest recalled. "You've got the parameters that are established and you end up somewhere in the center."</p> <p>The farm bill, Daschle added, was classic legislative construction: The bill was crafted to give members in each state the buy-in they needed to vote for the final product. "If their state has no stake in the bill, the only way you get them is by getting them invested in the bill," Daschle said. "You've got to figure out a way to make this relevant to them."</p> <p>That buy-in-based, ground-up approach to legislating has become almost extinct in the capital today. Most congressional observers and former legislators in both parties point to the conservative contingent of junior Republicans, who wield huge amounts of influence over House GOP leadership and who are more interested in cutting the size of government than they are in cutting deals.</p> <p>"The problem in the House is a Republican majority committed to oppose anything associated with the president," said Thomas Mann, the Brookings Institution scholar who cowrote a recent book explaining Washington's dysfunction. "Our governing problems are primarily a consequence of the radicalization?ideologically and procedurally?of one of our two major parties."</p> <p>But the White House deserves some measure of blame, too. While President Obama has been frustrated by his inability to sell Republicans on elements of his agenda that borrow heavily from earlier Republican ideas?health care, the stimulus package, and cap-and-trade legislation, to name a few?some Democrats are critical of his approach. Capitol Hill Democrats fault the White House for failing to negotiate with Republicans from a stronger position; by beginning with old Republican ideas, those Democrats believe, Obama gives away too many of his own bargaining chips before the real bargaining even begins.</p> <p>"A good lawyer compromises on the courthouse steps. In other words, you compromise just before you walk into the courthouse. It seems like Obama is willing to compromise at the get-go," Harkin said.</p> <p>Obama also has a habit of confessing a certain measure's shortcomings, almost right out of the gate. He will frequently acknowledge that a compromise he has offered doesn't contain all the elements he wanted, while urging incremental progress nonetheless. "So while this compromise didn't contain everything I wanted or everything that these families wanted, it did represent progress," he said of a bill to strengthen background-check requirements on April 17. "The bill introduced in the Senate doesn't include everything I want," Obama wrote in a <em>Miami Herald</em> op-ed on May 7. "It doesn't contain everything I want," he said five days earlier, meeting the press alongside Mexican President Enrique Pe?a Nieto.</p> <p>Obama's pessimism started even when Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress: "It may not have everything I want," he said when introducing credit card reform legislation at an event in New Mexico, back in May 2009. The president, it seems, is so determined to win over Republicans that he denigrates his own legislation.</p> <p>Negotiating big deals, Daschle said, "shouldn't be lose-lose, it should be win-win. 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In this file photo, Rihanna attends as..."/><p>Stuart Wilson / Getty Images</p><p> A High Court has decided in favor of Rihanna to ban Topshop from selling T-shirts with Rihanna's image on them. In this file photo, Rihanna attends as the Rihanna for River Island collection is launched at the Oxford Street River Island store on March 4, 2013 in London, England. </p><p>Pop star Rihanna has won a legal battle in London against fashion giant Topshop over the sale of a T-shirt bearing the R&B singer's image.<br/></p><p>Topshop began selling an image of the singer on a T-shirt in 2012, with the approval of the photographer who took the image, but not with the permission of Rihanna herself.</p><p>Rihanna sued Topshop's parent company, Arcadia, for $5 million, and the U.K. High Court found in her favor on Wednesday morning, although damages have not yet been settled. </p><p>(<em>Read more: </em>Billionaire Green plans 10 new Topshop stores in US) </p><p>Rihanna's lawyers argued that Topshop had misled customers into thinking that Rihanna had endorsed the use of her image on the T-shirt, leading to consumer confusion and damaging Rihanna's reputation.</p><p>Simon Clark, head of intellectual property at Berwin Leighton Paisner, said that that was exactly what had led Justice Birss to find in favor of Rihanna.</p><p>(<em>Read more: </em>Geek chic: Google revamps Topshop runway) </p><p>"In finding that a substantial proportion of Rihanna fans will have mistakenly bought the Topshop T-shirt thinking that she had endorsed it, the judge appears to have been influenced by two key factors," Clark said. </p><p>"Firstly, the image showed Rihanna wearing the same clothes that she wore in the video for her 'We Found Love' single. Secondly, the fact that it was Topshop, which has a reputation for associating fashion with celebrities, meant that there was more likely to be confusion than if the T-shirt had been sold in a different type of outlet." </p><p>Indeed, Birss said that Topshop's use of Rihanna's image "amounts to sales lost to her [Rihanna's] merchandising business. It also represents a loss of control over her reputation in the fashion sphere." </p><p>(<em>Read more: </em>Topshop sells stake ? A new reason for US retailers to worry) </p><p>Topshop said it was surprised by Birss's decision, and would seek permission to appeal. Topshop's lawyers had argued that the Barbados-born star was attempting to assert image rights, which are unrecognized under U.K. law, in contrast to U.S. law. </p> <p>? 2013 CNBC LLC. 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The plea deal stipulates that Castro will be sentenced to a minimum of life in prison without parole, plus 1,000 years.</p><p>In Thursday's hearing, Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge Michael Russo asked Castro if he had anything to say. Castro, who was handcuffed and shackled, said he would like to apologize to his victims, but that he would wait until later in the hearing.</p> <p>It remained unclear whether Berry and DeJesus would present written or video-recorded statements. </p> <p>The three women, for the most part, have maintained a low profile since their rescue May 6, when Berry escaped from Castro's home with her 6-year-old daughter and called for police. </p><p>In July, the women released a YouTube video to thank the community for its support, and Berry surprised a crowd last weekend when she walked onstage during a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375369873113_4">Cleveland</span> concert and was greeted by cheering fans. She later returned to the stage at the invitation of rapper Nelly.</p><p>Knight wrote a note to the Cleveland police that the department posted on its Facebook page Wednesday.</p><p>"You don't know how much I appreciate all your time & work collecting cards and gifts from people for me and the other girls," Knight's handwritten note stated. "I am overwhelmed by the amount of thoughts, love + prayers expressed by complete strangers ... Life is tough. But I'm tougher. Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly."</p><p>The sentencing hearing opened Thursday with testimony by Cleveland police officer <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375369873113_6">Barb Johnson</span>. Johnson was one of the first officers on the scene May 6.</p><p>Johnson said that in the ambulance after they were rescued, the three victims told of repeated beatings by Castro and described how they helped Berry give birth at Castro's house.</p><p>Detective Andy Harasimchuk of the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1375369873113_5">Cleveland Police Department Sex Crimes Unit</span> told the court that all three women told him they were repeatedly sexually assaulted during the entire time they were held.</p><p>Castro, a former school bus driver, kidnapped the women from the streets of Cleveland's west side, then imprisoned them for a decade, court records state. During their captivity, he raped and beat the women, chained them in his basement, and allowed them outside only a few times, the records show.</p><p>DNA analysis also shows that Castro fathered Berry's daughter, and prosecutors say he impregnated Knight and then beat her to force a miscarriage. 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Bipolar disorder develops differently in obese people and among those who binge eat, a new study finds.</p> <p>Up to 4 percent of Americans have bipolar disorder, a serious mental illness that causes extreme mood swings. Just less than 10 percent of people with bipolar disorder are binge eaters, which the authors of the new study said is a higher rate than in the general population.</p> <p>This study found that bipolar patients who binge eat are more likely to have other mental health problems, such as suicidal thoughts, psychosis, anxiety disorders and substance abuse.</p> <p>Obese bipolar patients who do not binge eat are more likely to have serious physical conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.</p> <p>More women than men with bipolar disorder were binge eaters or obese, according to the study, which was published online recently in the <i>Journal of Affective Disorders</i>.</p> <p>?The illness is more complicated, and then by definition how you would conceptualize how best to individualize treatment is more complicated,? study co-author Dr. Mark Frye, a psychiatrist and chairman of the psychiatry/psychology department at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said in a Mayo news release.</p> <p>?It really underscores the importance of trying to stabilize mood, because we know when people are symptomatic of their bipolar illness their binge frequency is likely to increase,? 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The study shows a greatly increased number of phishing emails purporting to come from Apple in the first five months of this year when compared to the number of Apple-related phishing attempts detected in 2011. More specifically, Kaspersky seems to be looking at the number of attempts to access phishing sites that have been blocked by their products.</p> <p>Phishing scams send legitimate (or sometimes not so legitimate) looking emails that appear to come from companies that a person may have a real account with, such as Apple. While the contents of the emails vary, they often provide a link to click asking you to confirm your account, reset your password, or provide some other sensitive information. The biggest reported spike in phishing attempts so far took place last December. The day after iTunes stores launched in 56 new countries, including India, Turkey, Russia and South Africa, Kaspersky saw an all-time high of 900,000 phishing attempts directing users to fake Apple sites.</p> <p>These phishing emails will usually have a falsified "from" address, such as services@apple.com. People should be careful to not rely on the from address of an email, as they can be easily spoofed. A more reliable source to look at are the raw headers of the email to see the servers that the email has gone through, and where it originated from.</p> <p>People should also be cautious of the links in these emails. The URL will usually contain Apple in it somewhere to try and trick people into thinking they're on Apple's site, but if you look closely these scam URLs won't have apple.com as the root of the address. It's also a safe bet that if you're clicking on a legitimate link from Apple, you will see a green lock icon up in the address bar of your browser, indicating that the site you are on is using a trusted SSL certificate to encrypt your traffic. Clicking on the icon provides additional information confirming the identity of the site. Phishing sites often employ no SSL, or sometimes they will offer a certificate that is marked as untrusted or unverified.</p> <p>Finally, unless you were expecting to get an email from Apple, if you recently submitted a request to reset your password for instance, you should probably avoid clicking on the link all-together. Instead, navigate to Apple's site in your browser manually. You can manage your Apple ID at <a href="https://appleid.apple.com">appleid.apple.com</a>. If Apple needs you to add anything to your account or reset any information, you should be able to do it from that site just fine, without needing to click that link in your email. Among other account management features, My Apple ID is also where you can enable <a href="http://www.imore.com/apple-enabled-two-step-verification-icloud-accounts">two-step verification</a>. Having two-step verification enabled on your account will help make sure that even if you do get tricked by a phishing attack, the scammers won't be able to log in to your account unless they're also in possession of one of your trusted devices, which would be unlikely.</p> <p>After the recent <a href="http://www.imore.com/security-researcher-claims-have-reported-security-bugs-shortly-apples-developer-portal-outage">security threat to Apple's Developer Portal</a>, a number of people have taken to various outlets to report phishing emails they have received. An increase in phishing attempts as a result of the Developer Portal incident is certainly possible, or it could just be that people are more aware of these scams as a result of the threat. 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I had a boyfriend who had always struggled with his weight but got bigger over time. His body acceptance was zero and it interfered with his sexual appetite (and consequently ended the relationship.) Looking back and seeing it for what it is, this makes me sad. I'm not saying that being obese is good for health, but that everyone, male or female, should like their body. <p>I see men are under a lot of pressure to have a certain body now more than they did 15 years ago. It's good if men want to work out to be healthy, but I see some unhealthy attitudes and practices developing. The way their self-esteem is affected upsets the way they go about relationships too. </p><p>Thinking of the kind of men I'm attracted to: I like all sorts of body types. I like skinny rockstars and 'bears' just as much (although I'm not a gay man, I can see what gay men see in bears.) I also like athletic people like runners and cyclists. I even like a geeky computer guys with a 24 BMI and little man boobies (this is probably because I would probably look like this if I was a guy and was back down to my normal weight) <img src="http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0"/></p><p>Men are so insecure and try to bravado it away with 'bro' culture and if they're fat, laughing it off and being 'comedic' fat guys. It's much more acceptable to call a man a 'fat bastard' than it is to say a woman is fat. Their are tonnes of body acceptance blogs and sites for women but not for men. There's this idea that a woman can be hot if she's big, because she can be a BBW and have curves, but big men are just gross unless they have an unhealthily low body fat % and turn all the bulk into muscle. </p><p>This affects women, as well because women have relationships with these insecure guys. Also, I see body acceptance as a societal thing that men and women need to do together or not at all. </p><p>I think women (or men) should never: </p><p>1. Call a man a 'fat bastard'. <br/>2. Sing the 'who ate all the pies' song at a man (this is a popular British song used to make fun of fat people, it's nearly always sung at men.) <br/>3. Make fun of ectomorph men who take their top off and reveal a skinny chest and arms. <br/>4. Make fun of endomorph men who don't have the societally required muscle definition to take their top off. <br/>5. Refer to thin men as 'Skeletor' or a 'bag of bones'. </p><p>And I'm sure there are a few others. Who's with me?<br/>_________________<br/>I'm written in a language even I don't understand - but I am learning.</p></span><span class="gensmall"/></td> </tr></table></td> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><tr><td class="row1" width="150" align="left" valign="middle"><span class="nav">Back to top</span></td> <td class="row1" width="100%" height="28" valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"/> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_end --><tr readability="12.65625"><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><td width="150" align="left" valign="top" class="row2" readability="4.32926829268"><span class="name"><b>monsterland</b></span><br/><span class="postdetails" readability="29">Phoenix<br/><img src="http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/ranks/rank_rect_5_vet.gif" alt="Phoenix" title="Phoenix" border="0"/><br/><img src="http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/avatars/15784301634c5729c316af5.jpg" alt="" border="0" vspace="6"/><p>Joined: Dec 31, 2009<br/>Age: 36<br/>Posts: 749<br/>Location: San Francisco, CA</p></span><br/></td> <td class="row2" width="100%" height="28" valign="top"/> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><tr><td class="row2" width="150" align="left" valign="middle"><span class="nav">Back to top</span></td> <td class="row2" width="100%" height="28" valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"/> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_end --><tr readability="14.8703849175"><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><td width="150" align="left" valign="top" class="row1" readability="3.56603773585"><span class="name"><b>trollcatman</b></span><br/><span class="postdetails" readability="28">Velociraptor<br/><img src="http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/ranks/rank_rect_4.gif" alt="Velociraptor" title="Velociraptor" border="0"/><br/><img src="http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery/blank.gif" alt="" border="0" vspace="6"/><p>Joined: Dec 22, 2012<br/>Posts: 491<br/></p></span><br/></td> <td class="row1" width="100%" height="28" valign="top"/> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><tr><td class="row1" width="150" align="left" valign="middle"><span class="nav">Back to top</span></td> <td class="row1" width="100%" height="28" valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"/> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_end --><tr readability="12.8138424821"><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><td width="150" align="left" valign="top" class="row2" readability="3.89325842697"><span class="name"><b>puddingmouse</b></span><br/><span class="postdetails" readability="28">exclamation mark!<br/><img src="http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/ranks/rank_rect_5_vet.gif" alt="Phoenix" title="Phoenix" border="0"/><br/><img src="http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/avatars/26898437751e39771036a4.jpg" alt="" border="0" vspace="6"/><p>Joined: Apr 25, 2010<br/>Age: 26<br/>Posts: 7634<br/>Location: Cottonopolis</p></span><br/></td> <td class="row2" width="100%" height="28" valign="top"/> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><tr><td class="row2" width="150" align="left" valign="middle"><span class="nav">Back to top</span></td> <td class="row2" width="100%" height="28" valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"/> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_end --><tr readability="46.8752212389"><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><td width="150" align="left" valign="top" class="row1" readability="3.35106382979"><span class="name"><b>anotherswede</b></span><br/><span class="postdetails" readability="28">Emu Egg<br/><img src="http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/ranks/rank_rect_0.gif" alt="Emu Egg" title="Emu Egg" border="0"/><br/><img src="http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/avatars/gallery/blank.gif" alt="" border="0" vspace="6"/><p>Joined: Apr 26, 2013<br/>Posts: 1<br/></p></span><br/></td> <td class="row1" width="100%" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" readability="23"><tr readability="3"><td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0"/><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 6:56 pm<span class="gen">?</span>? ?Post subject: Re: Body acceptance and self-esteem in men</span></td> <td valign="top" align="right" nowrap="nowrap"> <img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/icon_quote.gif" alt="Reply with quote" title="Reply with quote" border="0"/> </td> <!-- google_ad_section_end --> </tr><tr><td colspan="2"><hr/></td> </tr><tr readability="43"><td colspan="2" readability="20"><span class="postbody"/><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center" readability="5"><tr><td><span class="genmed"><b>puddingmouse wrote:</b></span></td> </tr><tr readability="12.5"><td class="quote" readability="8">I'm starting to be more and more aware of this as an issue. I had a boyfriend who had always struggled with his weight but got bigger over time. His body acceptance was zero and it interfered with his sexual appetite (and consequently ended the relationship.) Looking back and seeing it for what it is, this makes me sad. I'm not saying that being obese is good for health, but that everyone, male or female, should like their body. <p>I see men are under a lot of pressure to have a certain body now more than they did 15 years ago. It's good if men want to work out to be healthy, but I see some unhealthy attitudes and practices developing. The way their self-esteem is affected upsets the way they go about relationships too.</p></td> </tr></table><span class="postbody" readability="38">To me there seems to be a trend in media, movies, TV, to feature more muscular men than in the nineties. The "ideal" man seems to have grown in muscle mass. <p>The trend amongst the general public seems to be that people are getting fatter. The number of people having the normal body type (that most everyone had before) men generally had doing manual labour seems to me to be rapidly declining. This pressure you speak of may reflect that, and when most everyone had the normal body type there would be no need for such pressure. </p><p>What seems to be strongly trending where I live is the fitness culture amongst most between 16 and 30, or somewhere there about. A seriously large number of girls now hit the gym and it wasn't like that 5 or 10 years ago. Number of gyms have doubled in 2 years and what a 20 year old girl considers a desirable body is way off what it was 10 years ago. This has nothing to do with being overweight but about being "tight", or what they call it... This could be a worrying trend if a normal slim teenage girls feels she doesn't have the muscle tone that is becoming the norm or trend. <br/></p></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center" readability="3"><tr><td><span class="genmed"><b>puddingmouse wrote:</b></span></td> </tr><tr readability="6"><td class="quote"> of the kind of men I'm attracted to: I like all sorts of body types. I like skinny rockstars and 'bears' just as much (although I'm not a gay man, I can see what gay men see in bears.) I also like athletic people like runners and cyclists. I even like a geeky computer guys with a 24 BMI and little man boobies (this is probably because I would probably look like this if I was a guy and was back down to my normal weight) </td> </tr></table><span class="postbody" readability="30"> <br/>A BMI of 23-24 seems to be what is generally considered desirable for men, with a BMI on the lower end being desirable for women, like 19-21. <p>The picture of the geek is more like being way heavier than 24, like obese, or on the low to end of the scale. </p></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center" readability="5"><tr><td><span class="genmed"><b>puddingmouse wrote:</b></span></td> </tr><tr readability="12.5"><td class="quote" readability="8">Men are so insecure and try to bravado it away with 'bro' culture and if they're fat, laughing it off and being 'comedic' fat guys. It's much more acceptable to call a man a 'fat bastard' than it is to say a woman is fat. Their are tonnes of body acceptance blogs and sites for women but not for men. There's this idea that a woman can be hot if she's big, because she can be a BBW and have curves, but big men are just gross unless they have an unhealthily low body fat % and turn all the bulk into muscle. <p>This affects women, as well because women have relationships with these insecure guys. Also, I see body acceptance as a societal thing that men and women need to do together or not at all.</p></td> </tr></table><span class="postbody" readability="41"> <br/>Depending on where you live, but being fat isn't something few are. In the US 64% were overweight, obese or pre-obese, 10 years ago. Likely significantly higher now and about a third being obese now. Most of western Europe isn't that far behind. With every second or so guy being a bit overweight it can't possibly have the same stigma attached to it as being an aspie, being gay, deaf, etc. <p>People get the weirdest ideas. This advocacy of being big could be dangerous to some degree. Even losing a little could have positive effect on health. Everyone knows being obese negatively effects health, and advocating the likes of obesity, smoking, drugs, alcohol, speeding, etc., probably shouldn't be done. This may be stretching what you were meaning, and I'm sorry about that, but after watching a few programmes about BBWs, acceptance and such, it did seem a strange culture. Either way society's pressure should not be making people feel bad and get depressed because they don't conform and have trouble shedding their weight. One is what one is and you have to be happy about that and accept yourself.</p></span><span class="gensmall"/></td> </tr></table></td> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><tr><td class="row1" width="150" align="left" valign="middle"><span class="nav">Back to top</span></td> <td class="row1" width="100%" height="28" valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"/> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_end --><tr readability="9.79166666667"><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><td width="150" align="left" valign="top" class="row2" readability="3.89325842697"><span class="name"><b>puddingmouse</b></span><br/><span class="postdetails" readability="28">exclamation mark!<br/><img src="http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/ranks/rank_rect_5_vet.gif" alt="Phoenix" title="Phoenix" border="0"/><br/><img src="http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/avatars/26898437751e39771036a4.jpg" alt="" border="0" vspace="6"/><p>Joined: Apr 25, 2010<br/>Age: 26<br/>Posts: 7634<br/>Location: Cottonopolis</p></span><br/></td> <td class="row2" width="100%" height="28" valign="top"/> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><tr><td class="row2" width="150" align="left" valign="middle"><span class="nav">Back to top</span></td> <td class="row2" width="100%" height="28" valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"/> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_end --><tr readability="8.73529411765"><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><td width="150" align="left" valign="top" class="row1" readability="4.13414634146"><span class="name"><b>auntblabby</b></span><br/><span class="postdetails" readability="28">Chief Assistant to the Assistant Chief<br/><img src="http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/ranks/rank_rect_5_vet.gif" alt="Phoenix" title="Phoenix" border="0"/><br/><img src="http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/avatars/12469755965191d6fcebaeb.jpg" alt="" border="0" vspace="6"/><p>Joined: Feb 13, 2010<br/>Posts: 19554<br/>Location: the island of 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valign="top"/> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><tr><td class="row1" width="150" align="left" valign="middle"><span class="nav">Back to top</span></td> <td class="row1" width="100%" height="28" valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"/> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_end --><tr readability="19.6463654224"><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><td width="150" align="left" valign="top" class="row2" readability="3.5"><span class="name"><b>PerfectlyDarkTails</b></span><br/><span class="postdetails" readability="28">Deinonychus<br/><img src="http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/ranks/rank_rect_4.gif" alt="Deinonychus" title="Deinonychus" border="0"/><br/><img src="http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/images/avatars/672818314f60743497ee3.jpg" alt="" border="0" vspace="6"/><p>Joined: Mar 14, 2012<br/>Age: 25<br/>Posts: 305<br/>Location: Wales</p></span><br/></td> <td class="row2" width="100%" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" readability="9.5"><tr readability="3"><td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0"/><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:02 pm<span class="gen">?</span>? ?Post subject: </span></td> <td valign="top" align="right" nowrap="nowrap"> <img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/icon_quote.gif" alt="Reply with quote" title="Reply with quote" border="0"/> </td> <!-- google_ad_section_end --> </tr><tr><td colspan="2"><hr/></td> </tr><tr readability="16"><td colspan="2" readability="6"><span class="postbody" readability="31"><span><span readability="6"><span readability="12">Eh, I feel there should be moderation for accepting the body completely. There is a very unhealthy culture of accepting unhealthy lifestyles etc, "thin privilege" and all that. <p>I had health and self-esteem issues in the past, I am at least proud of my 100lbs weight loss. My sense of being now feels pretty good. It is a shame that there are people that accept their unhealthy bodies as fate and that everyone else is wrong, I wouldn't be surprised this type of inflamed attitude is killing people. </p><p>Balance, moderation and promoting general good health is key. From experiences, Take full self-confidence within yourself but also take responsibility of health.</p></span></span></span><br/>_________________<br/>"When you begin to realize your own existence and break out of the social norm, then others know you have completely lost your mind." -PerfectlyDarkTails <p>AS 168/200, NT: 20/ 200, AQ=45 EQ=15, SQ=78, IQ=135</p></span><span class="gensmall"/></td> </tr></table></td> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><tr><td class="row2" width="150" align="left" valign="middle"><span class="nav">Back to top</span></td> <td class="row2" width="100%" height="28" valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"/> </tr><!-- google_ad_section_end --><tr readability="11.7030927835"><!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --><td width="150" align="left" valign="top" class="row1" readability="3.89325842697"><span class="name"><b>puddingmouse</b></span><br/><span class="postdetails" readability="28">exclamation mark!<br/><img 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Rick Snyder on Detroit: 'Enough was enough'?<span class="category">detroit</span> <p> <span class="byline-name">DAVID EGGERT</span> <span class="byline-affiliation">The Associated Press</span> </p> <p class="time"> <span class="value">8</span> hours ago </p> <p>Seven governors came and went during the decades-long decay of Michigan's largest city that culminated with a humiliating collapse into financial ruin.<br/></p><p>It's the eighth, former business executive and relative political novice Rick Snyder, who is aggressively tying his legacy to the prospects of a Detroit turnaround.</p><p>When he took office, Snyder pushed for more powers for the state to intervene in distressed cities and schools. After voters repealed the law last November, he ignored critics and signed another one. He also hired the city's turnaround specialist and, nearly four months later, blessed the request to file for bankruptcy.</p><p>For the man with the "one tough nerd" moniker, it's the latest bold decision in a 2 ?-year stretch that's remarkable for the sheer breadth and pace at which Snyder has moved. He's again in the national spotlight just a half-year after making Michigan ? the bastion of the auto industry and organized labor ? a right-to-work state, a move that pollsters say led to a drop in his approval ratings.</p><p>Though the impact of the bankruptcy filing on Snyder's 2014 re-election may be difficult to predict, it's still a legacy definer that's being watched not only in Michigan but also by Wall Street and other elected officials across the country.</p><p>Snyder, a former venture capitalist and computer company CEO, has no known presidential aspirations.</p><p>"I don't spend time dwelling on my legacy. I just try to do my job well," the Republican governor told The Associated Press in an interview. "That's relentless positive action. No blame, no credit. Just simply solve the problem.</p><p>"Here was a problem 60 years in the making. The can was being kicked down the road for far too long. It was time to say enough was enough. Let's stop, let's stabilize, let's grow."</p><p>Detroit's bankruptcy could last at least through summer or fall 2014, when Snyder is expected to ask voters for another term.</p><p>"I deeply respect the citizens of Detroit," Snyder said. "They along with the other 9 million people in our state hired me to do this job. They're my customers. This was a tough step, a difficult decision, but it's the right decision."</p><p>The first-term governor, perhaps more than any other state's chief executive, hasn't been afraid to confront mounting retiree pension and health care costs hampering state and city budgets. He's done that mainly by signing laws making public workers pay more of their health costs, ending retiree health care for new hires and enticing teachers to contribute more toward their future pensions.</p><p>But the stakes could be higher with the Detroit intervention under Michigan's emergency manager law.</p><p>Eric Scorsone, a Michigan State University economist and expert on government finances, said while Snyder helped revise the law to make it one of the toughest in the country, bankruptcy likely was inevitable even under the old law ? unless creditors had voluntarily agreed to accept far less than what they're owed.</p><p>"Other governors may have taken different approaches. But even under the old law, if we had a different governor, it's pretty obvious something would have had to be done," he said.</p><p>Scorsone said many other U.S. cities have issues similar to Detroit, though not on the same scale. 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Jennifer Granholm noted the connection between Detroit the city and Detroit, the heart of the U.S. auto industry.</p><p>?The city of Detroit is the poster child for the desindustrialization of America,? Granholm said. ?Since 1950, which was the heyday of Detroit?s burgeoning auto industry, there were almost 300,000 automotive or manufacturing jobs in the city. Today, it?s 27,000. Ninety percent decline in good paying manufacturing jobs.?</p><p>Snyder first struck a consent agreement in April 2012 with the Democratic-led city to wipe out its enormous budget deficit and mountainous debt but appointed Kevyn Orr as emergency manager after that didn't work.</p><p>Steven Rattner, who was chief adviser to President Barack Obama's auto bailout task force, said from his detached vantage point in New York, Snyder "has handled this thing quite well."</p><p>While acknowledging the political difficulties associated with anything viewed as a bailout, Rattner questioned why the state and possibly the federal government aren't offering Detroit a rescue package.</p><p>"It's not logical for there to be political fallout from putting Detroit in bankruptcy because there's no other alternative to that," Rattner said. "The question people can ask is whether Snyder is offering all the help the state of Michigan can offer. ... These are tough politics either way."</p><p>There seems little appetite from either Democrats or Republicans in Washington for a federal rescue of Detroit. Bailing out the city with state money could bring resistance in the Republican-led Legislature and prompt anger from out-state residents concerned about funding their own schools and local services.</p><p>"There are so many great things going on in Detroit. We resolve the city government issue, Detroit's really well poised to see outstanding growth take place when people can say there are better services," Snyder said. "We're going to get there."</p><p><em>Associated Press writer Ed White in Detroit </em><em>contributed to this report.</em></p> <p>? 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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"I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions. This situation has taken a toll on me and my entire family, and it is has been a distraction to my teammates and the Brewers organization."</p> <p> He continued:</p> <p> "I am very grateful for the support I have received from players, ownership and the fans in Milwaukee and around the country.</p> <p> "Finally, I wish to apologize to anyone I may have disappointed -- all of the baseball fans especially those in Milwaukee, the great Brewers organization, and my teammates. I am glad to have this matter behind me once and for all, and I cannot wait to get back to the game I love."</p> <p> Braun - along with Alex Rodriguez and about a dozen other players - has been linked to Biogenesis, an anti-aging clinic in Florida with ties to PEDs.</p> <p> He also tested positive for elevated testosterone levels in 2012, but successfully got his suspension overturned at that time due to a "chain of command issue."</p> <p> "I am deeply gratified to see Ryan taking this bold step," MLBPA association executive director Michael Weiner said in a statement. "It vindicates the rights of all players under the Joint Drug Program. 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"I love how they play, the style and spirit of the team."</p><p>Wenger guided Nagoya to win the national cup competition, the Emperor's Cup, in his first spring-autumn J-League season. He won the J-League manager of the year award in 1995.<br /></p><p>In 1996, Nagoya Grampus finished runners-up in the league -- the team's best position until 2010, when Stojkovic led the club to their first J-League title.?</p><p>"For me, this was an unforgettable period as a player. I really enjoyed," said Stojkovic, who hung up his boots in 2001 after seven years at Nagoya and returned to manage the side in 2008.</p><p>"I gave my best, I gave my talent," said the Serb, nicknamed Piksi.<br /></p><p>"He (Wenger) was the boss on the bench and I was the boss on the pitch, so it was a good combination."</p><p>Stojkovic added: "We have waited for 17 years to see him here again so it's a really special feeling for everyone here."</p><p>Although English Premier League clubs have flocked to the fast-growing and lucrative Asian market on pre-season tours in recent years, it is the first time in 45 years that an Arsenal first team will play a match in Japan.</p><p>In May 1968 the Gunners played four games during an end-of-season tour to the country, beating Japan's national team in three of the matches.?A planned tour of Japan in 2011 was cancelled after a massive earthquake and tsunami wrecked the country's northeast.</p><p>Arsenal have had a successful tour so far this pre-season, thrashing Indonesia Dream Team 7-0 and Vietnam's national side 7-1.<br /></p><p>In Japan, Arsenal will play 2007 Asian champions Urawa Reds at Saitama on Friday as the finale to their Asian adventure.<br /></p><p>Source: <a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/football-nostalgic-return/751206.html">http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/football-nostalgic-return/751206.html</a></p><p><a href="http://moodle.epach.com.mx/user/view.php?id=80422&course=1">young jeezy</a> <a href="http://venta.innovatic.es/user/view.php?id=60125&course=1">world wildlife fund</a> <a href="http://www.hieverywhere.com/hi/quiverbelt23">rosario dawson</a> <a href="http://konnectme.org/profile/quivergrease45">keith olbermann</a> <a href="http://snoopas.com/profile/levelskirt44">gsa</a> <a href="http://terracommon.com/profile/mayanimal60">andrew bynum</a> <a href="http://soulscribe.com/userinfo.php?uid=113074">the time machine</a> </p>arvidsonthaddeus01http://www.blogger.com/profile/06464590321374966185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560595932076583312.post-11050913843014871932013-07-22T05:10:00.001-07:002013-07-22T05:10:34.881-07:005 things to know about Helen Thomas<p>FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2006, file photo, President Bush, right, greets veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas during the final briefing in the press briefing room in the West Wing of the White House in Washington before its renovation. Thomas, a pioneer for women in journalism and an irrepressible White House correspondent, has died Saturday, July 20, 2013. She was 92. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)</p> <p>FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2006, file photo, President Bush, right, greets veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas during the final briefing in the press briefing room in the West Wing of the White House in Washington before its renovation. Thomas, a pioneer for women in journalism and an irrepressible White House correspondent, has died Saturday, July 20, 2013. She was 92. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)</p> <p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Here are five things to know about Helen Thomas, the groundbreaking White House correspondent, who died Saturday at age 92:</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">1. SHE WAS AMONG THE FIRST WOMEN TO COVER HARD NEWS AT THE WHITE HOUSE</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Her journalism career started in 1943, an era when female reporters were confined to stories about presidents' kids, wives, their teas and their hairdos.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">2. HER BIG BREAK CAME IN PALM BEACH IN 1960</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">She was sent by UPI to cover the vacation of President-elect John Kennedy and his family.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">3. THE BARRIER SHE BROKE THROUGH IN 1974</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">As United Press International's White House bureau chief, she became the first woman in that role for a wire service.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">4. THE DAY SHE WAS SCOOPED BY A FIRST LADY</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">It was Pat Nixon who announced Thomas was engaged to Douglas Cornell, chief White House correspondent for the archrival Associated Press. They married in 1971.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">5. THE COMMENT ABOUT ISRAEL THAT ENDED HER CAREER IN 2010</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine," she told a rabbi who was interviewing her. "Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land. It's not Germany, it's not Poland." She soon retired from her job as a Hearst columnist.</p><!-- SourceOrganizationStart --><span id="sourceOrganization" class="source-org vcard">Associated Press</span><!-- SourceOrganizationEnd --><p>Source: <a href="http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/89ae8247abe8493fae24405546e9a1aa/Article_2013-07-20-Helen%20Thomas-5%20Things%20To%20Know/id-7333d37b4e3a4331b47fe6b346e78f9c">http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/89ae8247abe8493fae24405546e9a1aa/Article_2013-07-20-Helen%20Thomas-5%20Things%20To%20Know/id-7333d37b4e3a4331b47fe6b346e78f9c</a></p><p><a href="http://www.90dayfitclub.com/index.php/profile/batgrease56">kony</a> <a href="http://insulttheprophet.com/index.php?members/cirrusart54.102642/">kony 2012</a> <a href="http://demos.xenfluence.com/blog/members/levelbelt25.79157/">jim irsay</a> <a href="http://www.tokenminds.com/index.php?do=/profile-39506/info/">the new ipad</a> <a href="http://www.videogametournamentleague.com/index.php?members/horseskirt94.52546/">apple announcement</a> <a href="http://www.resodici.fr/profile/turkeytoe70?tab=info">indianapolis colts</a> <a href="http://www.petsinnet.com/profile/horseyellow40">joseph kony</a> </p>arvidsonthaddeus01http://www.blogger.com/profile/06464590321374966185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560595932076583312.post-86042576543706699862013-07-22T03:04:00.001-07:002013-07-22T03:04:36.346-07:00WRAPUP 1-Golf-Westwood one round from glory but pitfalls await<span id="midArticle_start"></span> <p class="byline">By Martyn Herman</p> <p> <span class="location">GULLANE, Scotland, July 20</span> | <span class="timestamp">Sat Jul 20, 2013 8:56pm BST</span> </p> <span id="midArticle_0"></span><span class="focusParagraph" readability="6"><p><span class="articleLocation">GULLANE, Scotland, July 20</span> (Reuters) - Lee Westwood is 18 holes away from finally putting a major trophy on his mantlepiece but Sunday's British Open climax on Muirfield's dusty fairways may be the longest round of his life.</p> </span><span id="midArticle_1"></span><p>The 40-year-old Briton, who has knocked on the major door so many times only to have it slammed in his face, emerged from a gripping third-round scrap with world number one Tiger Woods with a two-stroke lead on three-under-par.</p><span id="midArticle_2"></span><p>Westwood, trying to win one of golf's big prizes at the 62nd time of asking, held a three-shot lead after seven holes, saw it evaporate before his eyes and then produced a gutsy finish to pull clear of the chasing pack with a one-under 70.</p><span id="midArticle_3"></span><p>Woods, who has been stuck on 14 major titles for five frustrating and difficult years, looked like he may seize control at certain times on Saturday only to falter to a 72.</p><span id="midArticle_4"></span><p>With the sun-scorched fairways, waist-high rough and zippy greens still proving a brutal test for mind and body, only three players remained under par compared with nine at the start of an absorbing third round.</p><span id="midArticle_5"></span><p>As several contenders saw their hopes choked in the long grass, American Hunter Mahan, who famously cried when he duffed a crucial chip in the 2010 Ryder Cup, put together a joint best of the day 68 to join Woods on one-under.</p><span id="midArticle_6"></span><p>Westwood will partner Mahan in the last match on Sunday and believes he can handle the pressure.</p><span id="midArticle_7"></span><p>"Even though I haven't won a Major, I know what it takes to win one," said Westwood who is trying to emulate fellow Briton Justin Rose, this year's U.S. Open champion.</p><span id="midArticle_8"></span><p>"It's a case of going out there tomorrow, having confidence in my game, which I've got, and putting it to the test," he told reporters.</p><span id="midArticle_9"></span><p>U.S. Masters champion Adam Scott is fourth on level-par after the Australian carded a 70 and he will partner Woods in the penultimate group on what is shaping up to be a nailbiting shootout alongside the Firth of Forth.</p><span id="midArticle_10"></span><p>Only six shots separate the top 17, which includes the likes of Phil Mickelson, Angel Cabrera, Sergio Garcia, Jason Day, Miguel Angel Jimenez and Zach Johnson.</p><span id="midArticle_11"></span><span id="midArticle_12"></span><p>ENGROSSING DUEL</p><span id="midArticle_13"></span><p>Jimenez, distinctive with his frizzy hair and blue tartan trousers, was the overnight leader but a 77 left the Spaniard back in the pack on three over.</p><span id="midArticle_14"></span><p>Westwood and Woods slugged it out from their opening tee shots, their engrossing duel ebbing and flowing over the bumps and hollows of a sun-kissed links which stubbornly refused to loosen its vice-like grip on the field.</p><span id="midArticle_15"></span><p>With Jimenez faltering, Woods was the first to make his move, rattling in a birdie at the second to move into the lead only to fritter it away at the par-three fourth.</p><span id="midArticle_0"></span><p>Westwood bogeyed the third but responded in magnificent fashion on the 559-yard fifth, blasting two drivers to reach the green in two and then curling in a 25-foot eagle putt to a crescendo of roars echoing across the parched course.</p><span id="midArticle_1"></span><p>Woods failed with a birdie attempt to leave Westwood one clear on three-under and he stretched his lead to three when he birdied the seventh and Woods bogeyed.</p><span id="midArticle_2"></span><p>Just as he appeared to have taken a stranglehold, Westwood faltered and the American scented blood. At the par-four eighth, the Englishman's putter failed him as he made a bogey.</p><span id="midArticle_3"></span><p>His lead did not even last until halfway as the world number 12 found a bunker off the tee at the par-five ninth and he ended up squirting an eight-foot par putt wide.</p><span id="midArticle_4"></span><p>Woods pounced, flopping out exquisitely from a greenside bunker and converting his birdie chance at the same hole.</p><span id="midArticle_5"></span><p>They parred the next four holes as the tension mounted but Westwood edged back in front on the 14th when a sensational second shot left him with a four-footer for birdie.</p><span id="midArticle_6"></span><p>All his hard work seemed to be unravelling at the par-three 16th when his tee shot found deep rough and his hack out dribbled back down a slope while Woods prowled the green eyeing a makeable birdie putt.</p><span id="midArticle_7"></span><p>Woods's effort finished agonisingly short and an ice-cool Westwood drilled in a long bogey putt that produced a roar as loud as if it were a birdie.</p><span id="midArticle_8"></span><p>Pumped-up by his escape, Westwood launched a huge drive down the 17th and Woods panicked, sending his second shot into a bunker - a terrible miscalculation that resulted in a bogey six.</p><span id="midArticle_9"></span><p>"If I hit it flat and flush, it's fine, it carries. But I spun it. And you spin it against that wind, it's not going to go very far," Woods said of the momentum-shifting moment.</p><span id="midArticle_10"></span><p>Westwood sank his birdie putt to pull two clear and both parred the 18th.</p><span id="midArticle_11"></span><p>The duo were put on the clock by the Royal & Ancient organisers who punished Japan's Hideki Matsuyama with a one-stroke penalty after he took too long on the 17th hole.</p><span id="midArticle_12"></span><p>Matsuyama had birdied the ninth, 10th and 11th to move to one-under but eventually slipped back to three-over.</p><span id="midArticle_13"></span><p>Mickelson's dream of a first British Open title looked realistic as he got himself under-par but three bogeys in his last six holes left him five shots behind Westwood and one ahead of Spain's Sergio Garcia who made hay early on with a 68. (Editing by Ed Osmond)</p><span id="midArticle_14"></span><p>Source: <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/UKGolfNews/~3/UJqUbssdkNs/golf-open-idUKL6N0FQ0FL20130720">http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/UKGolfNews/~3/UJqUbssdkNs/golf-open-idUKL6N0FQ0FL20130720</a></p><p><a href="http://sintorn.se/index.php?title=How_to_Import_Products_From_China">e news</a> <a href="http://wiki.reelisor.com/index.php?title=The_Value_of_Import_and_Export">bradley manning</a> <a href="http://vezha.kiev.ua/index.php?title=How_to_Import_Items_From_China">Money in the Bank 2013</a> <a href="http://info.action.or.kr/index.php?title=The_Value_of_Import_and_Export">Zimmerman Verdict</a> <a href="http://conteudo.marista.edu.br/index.php?title=How_to_Import_Goods_From_China">Casey Anthony Pregnant</a> <a href="http://gonur.co.cr/wiki/index.php?title=The_Value_of_Import_and_Export">Home Run Derby 2013</a> <a href="http://www.wietuichwas.de/index.php?title=How_to_Import_Products_From_China">Perez Hilton</a> </p>arvidsonthaddeus01http://www.blogger.com/profile/06464590321374966185noreply@blogger.com0