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Five days after her tragic death, friends and family honored the late Farrah Fawcett with a heartfelt Catholic service in LA. “It was absolutely beautiful,” Farrah’s cousin Lisa Fawcett told In Touch after the hour-long memorial ceremony at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on June 30. The iconic actress’s longtime love, Ryan O’Neal, and their son, Redmond, were joined by Farrah’s close friend Alana Stewart, her Charlie's Angels co-stars Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith, fellow Hollywood pals such as Joan Collins and Cheryl Tiegs, and other loved ones. “It was perfect. It was good to see my Uncle Redmond,” Ryan’s granddaughter Dillan O’Neal told In Touch of Farrah’s troubled son, who was temporarily released from jail rehab to attend the funeral. “I do think she would’ve loved the service. She would have just loved the simplicity of it all,” the blond beauty’s college roommate, Karen Spellings, also told In Touch. After gospel readings and an emotional eulogy by Alana, mourners left the church to celebrate the star’s life with a reception at the nearby Jonathan Club. Farrah, 62, passed away on June 25 after a long battle with cancer.
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Sink or float - Gifts for him
Sometimes when we have a brand brand new partner or beloved to impress, a genuine break impulse comes when a birthday, Valentines Day, Yuletide or an additional special arise comes around a corner! Suddenly its no longer simply about us withdrawal open calendars with vital markers left in upon a coffee tables for him to see - we additionally need to stir him with a undiluted benefaction which will pleasure as well as warn him, as well as uncover only how most we care! The difficulty is which anticipating gifts for him can be tough if we do not unequivocally know where to start!
Happily a blast of online selling has meant which theres no longer any need to rubbish finish weekends desperately acid a shops for befitting gifts for him. No some-more queuing for ages with alternative undone shoppers, encircling around bustling automobile parks acid for a last superfluous mark or carrying out complicated as well as spasmodic violation bags in a rain! The happiness of selling for undiluted presents online is which it can be finished in a loose as well as highlight giveaway approach - we can crop a outrageous operation of innovative gifts for him in joy as well as assent - even in your pjs if we so wish! With a potion of booze in palm we will find gifts as well as ideas youd never deliberate before, as well as a border of your exertions is simply to click occasionally, supplement things in to your basket area as well as compensate in a secure systemleaving we to put your feet up, lay behind as well as chill as we wait for for a postman to arrive with your gifts all easily boxed as well as packed.
Examples of a little of a uncanny as well as smashing gifts for him accessible include:
Own a Racecourse Giftbox
The idealisation benefaction for any racing fan, this will give your special male a genuine share in a genuine racecourse! Once hes registered, hell be a bona fide shareholder in Arena Leisure - a UKs largest user of important racecourses which embody Doncaster as well as Royal Windsor! Hell afterwards be authorised to embrace an Arena Leisure share obligation personalised with his name as well as shareholder info about his brand brand new investment! This illusory giftbox additionally has loads of info inside about a company, British competition courses in ubiquitous as well as additionally shareholder facts! Theres a acquire minute as well as exegetic leaflet, share registration form as well as guidelines, a personalised coop as well as obligation - as well as all presented in a neat as well as lush benefaction tin! The wrapping creates it really befitting for a postal benefaction as well - preferred if a desired a single lives a stretch away!
If this ambience of a great hold up is firm to stir him, afterwards demeanour during alternative tall rolling gifts for him, such as a gin rummy experience!
Poker Experience
This is a great benefaction for any one meddlesome in a erotically appealing diversion of poker, befitting for finish novices who wish to knowledge a disturb as well as play of genuine hold up gin rummy matches - prolonged a things of tall octane drive-in theatre as well as dramas! Real hold up croupiers insist a manners of Texas Hold Em poker, as well as share a tips of veteran players. Upon arrival, your propitious benefaction target will embrace a cold acquire splash as well as relax in a loll as they demeanour brazen to a refreshing knowledge of a live gin rummy game! All great fun as well as professionally run, any competitor will have during slightest dual games - with a leader receiving home a prize! The tip players from any UK segment will additionally get entrance to a London formed final, as well as there will be a UK crowned leader who will get an engraved potion prize to treasure! This is a illusory benefaction for those looking fun as well as thrills, as well as even improved no before knowledge is indispensable - as well as its played but genuine income so therell be no waste to bear!
All a sum of venues as well as how to book have been contained in a personalised benefaction minute which your propitious target will be presented with upon his special day - as well as we can be positive which hell be gay with this surprising as well as fun g ift! A second chairman can additionally attend - so we can see him in movement as well as soak up a ambience too this knowledge would be ideally dull off by a couple of drinks in a glamorous club - or even a great curry down during a internal Indian! Either approach its a arrange of benefaction which will emanate durability memories as well as give him lots to speak about with his friends as well as family !
These gifts for him have been only dual examples of a illusory options upon suggest - so have fun browsing as well as selecting those undiluted gifts for him which will have him smiling - as well as realising how illusory we have been in to a bargain a undiluted result.
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Sometimes when we have a brand brand new partner or beloved to impress, a genuine break impulse comes when a birthday, Valentines Day, Yuletide or an additional special arise comes around a corner! Suddenly its no longer simply about us withdrawal open calendars with vital markers left in upon a coffee tables for him to see - we additionally need to stir him with a undiluted benefaction which will pleasure as well as warn him, as well as uncover only how most we care! The difficulty is which anticipating gifts for him can be tough if we do not unequivocally know where to start!
Happily a blast of online selling has meant which theres no longer any need to rubbish finish weekends desperately acid a shops for befitting gifts for him. No some-more queuing for ages with alternative undone shoppers, encircling around bustling automobile parks acid for a last superfluous mark or carrying out complicated as well as spasmodic violation bags in a rain! The happiness of selling for undiluted presents online is which it can be finished in a loose as well as highlight giveaway approach - we can crop a outrageous operation of innovative gifts for him in joy as well as assent - even in your pjs if we so wish! With a potion of booze in palm we will find gifts as well as ideas youd never deliberate before, as well as a border of your exertions is simply to click occasionally, supplement things in to your basket area as well as compensate in a secure systemleaving we to put your feet up, lay behind as well as chill as we wait for for a postman to arrive with your gifts all easily boxed as well as packed.
Examples of a little of a uncanny as well as smashing gifts for him accessible include:
Own a Racecourse Giftbox
The idealisation benefaction for any racing fan, this will give your special male a genuine share in a genuine racecourse! Once hes registered, hell be a bona fide shareholder in Arena Leisure - a UKs largest user of important racecourses which embody Doncaster as well as Royal Windsor! Hell afterwards be authorised to embrace an Arena Leisure share obligation personalised with his name as well as shareholder info about his brand brand new investment! This illusory giftbox additionally has loads of info inside about a company, British competition courses in ubiquitous as well as additionally shareholder facts! Theres a acquire minute as well as exegetic leaflet, share registration form as well as guidelines, a personalised coop as well as obligation - as well as all presented in a neat as well as lush benefaction tin! The wrapping creates it really befitting for a postal benefaction as well - preferred if a desired a single lives a stretch away!
If this ambience of a great hold up is firm to stir him, afterwards demeanour during alternative tall rolling gifts for him, such as a gin rummy experience!
Poker Experience
This is a great benefaction for any one meddlesome in a erotically appealing diversion of poker, befitting for finish novices who wish to knowledge a disturb as well as play of genuine hold up gin rummy matches - prolonged a things of tall octane drive-in theatre as well as dramas! Real hold up croupiers insist a manners of Texas Hold Em poker, as well as share a tips of veteran players. Upon arrival, your propitious benefaction target will embrace a cold acquire splash as well as relax in a loll as they demeanour brazen to a refreshing knowledge of a live gin rummy game! All great fun as well as professionally run, any competitor will have during slightest dual games - with a leader receiving home a prize! The tip players from any UK segment will additionally get entrance to a London formed final, as well as there will be a UK crowned leader who will get an engraved potion prize to treasure! This is a illusory benefaction for those looking fun as well as thrills, as well as even improved no before knowledge is indispensable - as well as its played but genuine income so therell be no waste to bear!
All a sum of venues as well as how to book have been contained in a personalised benefaction minute which your propitious target will be presented with upon his special day - as well as we can be positive which hell be gay with this surprising as well as fun g ift! A second chairman can additionally attend - so we can see him in movement as well as soak up a ambience too this knowledge would be ideally dull off by a couple of drinks in a glamorous club - or even a great curry down during a internal Indian! Either approach its a arrange of benefaction which will emanate durability memories as well as give him lots to speak about with his friends as well as family !
These gifts for him have been only dual examples of a illusory options upon suggest - so have fun browsing as well as selecting those undiluted gifts for him which will have him smiling - as well as realising how illusory we have been in to a bargain a undiluted result.
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- Trend spotting (a.k.a. trend watching) is the science of identifying emerging shifts in our social behavior and aspirations. The latest trends are driven by a range of factors, including fashion trends, pop culture, media, news, innovation, and the arts. Trend spotting is used by industry professionals to develop products, identify fashion trends, enhance idea generation, and inform marketing, media, design and strategic planning. By developing a systematic approach to trend spotting, individuals and organizations can better develop disruptive products and creations that dance the beat of cool.
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Kambakkht Ishq, the big budget Hindi movie that was released yesterday is the story of a supermodel (Kareena Kapoor) and a Hollywood super stuntman (Akshay Kumar), two personalities with vertically opposite views, and who start fireworks (without fire!) whenever they meet.
The film is a remake of the 2002 Tamil film Pammal K. Sambandam. Hollywood actors Sylvester Stallone, Denise Richards, Brandon Routh and Holly Valance appear in cameos, playing themselves. The film also features Aftab Shivdasani, Amrita Arora, Kirron Kher, Javed Jaffrey and Boman Irani.
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The film is a remake of the 2002 Tamil film Pammal K. Sambandam. Hollywood actors Sylvester Stallone, Denise Richards, Brandon Routh and Holly Valance appear in cameos, playing themselves. The film also features Aftab Shivdasani, Amrita Arora, Kirron Kher, Javed Jaffrey and Boman Irani.
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Where are you from? I'm Gabriella, from Canton i like going to sporting events, movies and just having fun. Important thoughts...when you find love...you love them even when they can be big jerks...remember they are not perfect nor are you...give before yourself half the time...do things they enjoy...be there no matter what...always no matter how the relationship both should keep the fire,passion,and romance burning...always listen to eachother...compromise all the way.
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Zhouzhuang (周庄) is a town in Jiangsu province, China. It is located within Kunshan county-level city, 30 km southeast of Suzhou. Zhouzhuang, one of the most famous water townships in China, situated in Kunshan City which is only 30 kilometers (18 miles) southeast of Suzhou. It is noted for its profound cultural background, the well preserved ancient residential houses, the elegant watery views and the strong local colored traditions and customs.
Zhouzhuang favourite sightseeing and tourist attractions :
1. Twin Bridges (Shuang qiao)
Zhouzhuang is surrounded and divided by lakes and rivers. 14 stone bridges cross the rivers, showing distinctive views of the water-town. The Twin Bridges, which comprise of Shide Bridge and Yongan Bridge, are the most famous and are considered the symbol of Zhouzhuang. Built in the Wanli era (1573-1619) of the Ming Dynasty, the Twin Bridges are located in the northeast of the town.
2. Fuan Bridge.
Located at the eastern end of Zhongshi Jie, Fuan Bridge was built in 1355 during the Yuan Dynasty. The unique trait of the Fuan is the consummate combination of the single-arch bridge and the bridge towers which have, are used as tearooms, restaurants and stores, and are good places to appreciate the views while taking a rest.
3. Shen House
Built in 1742 and located at the southeast side of Fuan Bridge, Shen House was the private property of the descendant of Shen Wansan, the first millionaire of Jiangnan (South of Yangtze River) in the early Ming Dynasty. The whole architectural complex is of the Qing's style and occupies an area of more than 2,000 square meters (half an acre).
4. Zhang House
Built by Xu's family in the Zhengtong era (1436-1449) of the Ming Dynasty and bought by Zhang's family in the early Qing Dynasty. Located to the south of the Twin Bridges, Zhang House has more than 70 rooms and takes up about 1,800 square meters (less than half an acre).
5. Milou Tower
Once called the De's Tavern, Milou Tower perches next to Zhenfeng Bridge which is at the southwest corner of Zhouzhuang. It is famous for being a rallying place of the literators in old times. Numerous poets, songs and stories about Milou Tower are wide spread and make it more charming.
6. Chengxu Taoist Temple
Standing on Zhongshi Street which is opposite to Puqing Bridge, Chengxu Taoist Temple was built during 1086-1093 of the Song Dynasty and also known as Sanctity Hall (Shengtang Hall). After several periods of expansion, it is one of the most famous Taoist temples in Wuzhong Region. In an area of 1,500 square meters (1,800 square yards), simple but majestic Shengdi and Doumu halls, Yuhuang, Wenchang and Shengdi pavilions are really elaborate works and masterpieces of Taoist architectures.
Zhouzhuang Nightlife
Nightlife in Zhouzhuang is a tranquil and colorful affair. You will not find many nightclubs or bars here, but the nights can be enjoyed in an array of thoroughly satisfactory ways. The Venice of the East, as Zhouzhuang is called, is full of rivers and canals. They provide for a delightful way to enjoy the nightlife in Zhouzhuang.
Zhouzhuang is home to a number of colorful folk festivals and events, from frequent long boat races held on holidays and to celebrate marriages (teams consisting of some dozen scullers are driven by drums and gongs). Lantern races are also popular, with lantern-bedecked boats presenting a charming spectacle. During the Lantern Festival, held two weeks after the Chinese New Year, poles with "golden lanterns" are erected in Niulang Temple Square.
Zhouzhuang nightlife does not involve bars and nightclubs. Bars are few in the quaint town, and nightclubs almost nil. The nearby Shanghai has a throbbing nightlife. Nightlife in Zhouzhuang can be enjoyed most by those who are romantic at heart. Imagine sailing on the canals in the evenings as a mild wind blows on your face.
Nights at Zhouzhuang are a tranquil and pleasant experience. Colorful lights and lanterns are hung in front of all the houses. The cool nights are ideal for sitting on the riversides and having a drink of the local specialty, gra ndma's tea, with friends. You may also sit next to the waterways and engage in chitchats with the local people.
Zhouzhuang Photos :
Zhouzhuang city, a famous water townships in China.
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Zhouzhuang favourite sightseeing and tourist attractions :
1. Twin Bridges (Shuang qiao)
Zhouzhuang is surrounded and divided by lakes and rivers. 14 stone bridges cross the rivers, showing distinctive views of the water-town. The Twin Bridges, which comprise of Shide Bridge and Yongan Bridge, are the most famous and are considered the symbol of Zhouzhuang. Built in the Wanli era (1573-1619) of the Ming Dynasty, the Twin Bridges are located in the northeast of the town.
2. Fuan Bridge.
Located at the eastern end of Zhongshi Jie, Fuan Bridge was built in 1355 during the Yuan Dynasty. The unique trait of the Fuan is the consummate combination of the single-arch bridge and the bridge towers which have, are used as tearooms, restaurants and stores, and are good places to appreciate the views while taking a rest.
3. Shen House
Built in 1742 and located at the southeast side of Fuan Bridge, Shen House was the private property of the descendant of Shen Wansan, the first millionaire of Jiangnan (South of Yangtze River) in the early Ming Dynasty. The whole architectural complex is of the Qing's style and occupies an area of more than 2,000 square meters (half an acre).
4. Zhang House
Built by Xu's family in the Zhengtong era (1436-1449) of the Ming Dynasty and bought by Zhang's family in the early Qing Dynasty. Located to the south of the Twin Bridges, Zhang House has more than 70 rooms and takes up about 1,800 square meters (less than half an acre).
5. Milou Tower
Once called the De's Tavern, Milou Tower perches next to Zhenfeng Bridge which is at the southwest corner of Zhouzhuang. It is famous for being a rallying place of the literators in old times. Numerous poets, songs and stories about Milou Tower are wide spread and make it more charming.
6. Chengxu Taoist Temple
Standing on Zhongshi Street which is opposite to Puqing Bridge, Chengxu Taoist Temple was built during 1086-1093 of the Song Dynasty and also known as Sanctity Hall (Shengtang Hall). After several periods of expansion, it is one of the most famous Taoist temples in Wuzhong Region. In an area of 1,500 square meters (1,800 square yards), simple but majestic Shengdi and Doumu halls, Yuhuang, Wenchang and Shengdi pavilions are really elaborate works and masterpieces of Taoist architectures.
Zhouzhuang Nightlife
Nightlife in Zhouzhuang is a tranquil and colorful affair. You will not find many nightclubs or bars here, but the nights can be enjoyed in an array of thoroughly satisfactory ways. The Venice of the East, as Zhouzhuang is called, is full of rivers and canals. They provide for a delightful way to enjoy the nightlife in Zhouzhuang.
Zhouzhuang is home to a number of colorful folk festivals and events, from frequent long boat races held on holidays and to celebrate marriages (teams consisting of some dozen scullers are driven by drums and gongs). Lantern races are also popular, with lantern-bedecked boats presenting a charming spectacle. During the Lantern Festival, held two weeks after the Chinese New Year, poles with "golden lanterns" are erected in Niulang Temple Square.
Zhouzhuang nightlife does not involve bars and nightclubs. Bars are few in the quaint town, and nightclubs almost nil. The nearby Shanghai has a throbbing nightlife. Nightlife in Zhouzhuang can be enjoyed most by those who are romantic at heart. Imagine sailing on the canals in the evenings as a mild wind blows on your face.
Nights at Zhouzhuang are a tranquil and pleasant experience. Colorful lights and lanterns are hung in front of all the houses. The cool nights are ideal for sitting on the riversides and having a drink of the local specialty, gra ndma's tea, with friends. You may also sit next to the waterways and engage in chitchats with the local people.
Zhouzhuang Photos :
Zhouzhuang city, a famous water townships in China.
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MC CLATCHY NEWSPAPERS -- June 26 -- Seniors are the fastest-growing users of Internet dating services and the fastest growing group of cohabiters. Longer healthy life expectancy is part of the explanation. According to Mark Brooks, a consultant and newsletter writer who tracks the Internet-dating industry, the number of seniors joining online dating services has risen at double-digit rates annually since 2003, the most of any age group. According to Susan Brown, a demographer at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, cohabiting among older people increased 50% from 2000 to 2006. The older they get, the more senior men favor younger women, according to researchers. Good men are hard to find. Unmarried women aged 65 to 74 outnumber men of that age by more than two to one. Mark Brooks said seniors personal ads often were deceptive about sex and commitment: Women lie about wanting casual relationships. Men lie about wanting long-term ones.
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Ärzten nicht die Approbation aberkannt werden sollte.
Als Reaktion meint Schäfer, dass dies geprüft werden müsste.
Detlef Parr (FDP): Er möchte mit etwas Positiven anfangen und stellt heraus, dass sowohl Prof. Dickhuth als auch Prof. Berg laut Abschlussbericht nichts vorzuwerfen sei. Man solle endlich aufhören, Generalverdacht an der Universität Freiburg zu äußern. (Huch! Völlig überraschend, Herr Parr!/JW)
Katrin Kunert (Die Linke): Sie bringt der Abschlussbericht an die Grenzen des Optimismus.
Winfried Hermann (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen): Ist erschüttert, dass unter dem Dach der Sportmedizin in Deutschland, die öffentlich gehätschelt und gefördert wurde, so etwas passiert ist. Er will wissen, wo und wann öffentliche Gelder an die Ärzte Schmid und Heinrich geflossen sind. Er fragt nach Konsequenzen.
Christoph Bergner (BMI/CDU/SV Halle): Gibt an, dass keine Gelder in den Bereich Doping in Freiburg geflossen seien, doch weitere Prüfungen durch das BVA laufen. Des Weiteren ist für das BMI jetzt aber die Staatsanwaltschaft gefordert. Christoph Bergner wundert sich, dass den Ärzten noch nicht die Approbation entzogen wurde.
Jetzt geht es um den Umgang mit ehemals in Dopingpraktiken verwickelten Trainern
Klaus Zöllig (DOH e.V.): Er hält ein komprimiertes Eingangsstatement. Wichtig ist für den DOH die Prävention. Deswegen ist auch der Blick auf die Trainer wichtig. Dabei ist er nicht scharf darauf, nur Osttrainer anzugreifen, es geht auch um Trainer aus dem Westen. An der momentanen Diskussion trägt nicht nur der Fall Goldmann Schuld, sondern eher die Tatsache, dass nach 20 Jahren Schweigen im Konjunktiv über die Dopingopfer gesprochen wird. Und da ist das Fass übergelaufen. Daraufhin hat er wütende Anrufe von Dopingopfern bekommen.
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Als Reaktion meint Schäfer, dass dies geprüft werden müsste.
Detlef Parr (FDP): Er möchte mit etwas Positiven anfangen und stellt heraus, dass sowohl Prof. Dickhuth als auch Prof. Berg laut Abschlussbericht nichts vorzuwerfen sei. Man solle endlich aufhören, Generalverdacht an der Universität Freiburg zu äußern. (Huch! Völlig überraschend, Herr Parr!/JW)
Katrin Kunert (Die Linke): Sie bringt der Abschlussbericht an die Grenzen des Optimismus.
Winfried Hermann (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen): Ist erschüttert, dass unter dem Dach der Sportmedizin in Deutschland, die öffentlich gehätschelt und gefördert wurde, so etwas passiert ist. Er will wissen, wo und wann öffentliche Gelder an die Ärzte Schmid und Heinrich geflossen sind. Er fragt nach Konsequenzen.
Christoph Bergner (BMI/CDU/SV Halle): Gibt an, dass keine Gelder in den Bereich Doping in Freiburg geflossen seien, doch weitere Prüfungen durch das BVA laufen. Des Weiteren ist für das BMI jetzt aber die Staatsanwaltschaft gefordert. Christoph Bergner wundert sich, dass den Ärzten noch nicht die Approbation entzogen wurde.
Jetzt geht es um den Umgang mit ehemals in Dopingpraktiken verwickelten Trainern
Klaus Zöllig (DOH e.V.): Er hält ein komprimiertes Eingangsstatement. Wichtig ist für den DOH die Prävention. Deswegen ist auch der Blick auf die Trainer wichtig. Dabei ist er nicht scharf darauf, nur Osttrainer anzugreifen, es geht auch um Trainer aus dem Westen. An der momentanen Diskussion trägt nicht nur der Fall Goldmann Schuld, sondern eher die Tatsache, dass nach 20 Jahren Schweigen im Konjunktiv über die Dopingopfer gesprochen wird. Und da ist das Fass übergelaufen. Daraufhin hat er wütende Anrufe von Dopingopfern bekommen.
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Ever heard that before?
Read it now: Mid Day Contempt Controversy : Cartoonist Irfan 3 of his colleagues were sentenced for four months by Delhi High Court over making a cartoon on former Chief Justice of India'.
Cartoon is the most visible democracy index.
However, Cartooning had sent 4 Mid-Day journalists to jail for 4 Months! Incredible, isn’t it?
Cartoons – loved by all the ages are not mere disfigured sketches in black white, but rather are more alive than the most of the living groups.
Cartoons – have got the power to speak truth in the most humble way!
Cartoons – don’t fear to be like or disliked, they are very honest in their manner and they mirror the real complex life in simple and plain manner.
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Ever heard that before?
Read it now: Mid Day Contempt Controversy : Cartoonist Irfan 3 of his colleagues were sentenced for four months by Delhi High Court over making a cartoon on former Chief Justice of India'.
Cartoon is the most visible democracy index.
However, Cartooning had sent 4 Mid-Day journalists to jail for 4 Months! Incredible, isn’t it?
Cartoons – loved by all the ages are not mere disfigured sketches in black white, but rather are more alive than the most of the living groups.
Cartoons – have got the power to speak truth in the most humble way!
Cartoons – don’t fear to be like or disliked, they are very honest in their manner and they mirror the real complex life in simple and plain manner.
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An jaunty unvaried is to an contestant what a heading or a heading is to a business. It not usually gives him his singular temperament but additionally creates him feel confident, gentle and smart. Athletic uniforms have been so written which they raise the opening of the athletes. A law jaunty unvaried is tailored according to the inlet of the diversion and deteriorate also.
Fabric—lightweight and comfortable
The fabric of the unvaried should be done of lightweight, breathable and gentle material. It should not be complicated and weigh down the athlete. It should not means any inauspicious skin problems or allergies.
Not usually the fabric, but the lettering, numbering and graphics on the unvaried should additionally be done of light element and should not wear out fast by enormous or peeling. They should be painted without delay in to the fabric. The fabric of the unvaried should be done of clever element which can ward off the remarkable stretches, swings and astonishing earthy movements in march of games such as football, cricket, tennis etc. The seams on the uniforms have been the quite exposed areas, as they lend towards to rip and wear out soon.
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Fabric—lightweight and comfortable
The fabric of the unvaried should be done of lightweight, breathable and gentle material. It should not be complicated and weigh down the athlete. It should not means any inauspicious skin problems or allergies.
Not usually the fabric, but the lettering, numbering and graphics on the unvaried should additionally be done of light element and should not wear out fast by enormous or peeling. They should be painted without delay in to the fabric. The fabric of the unvaried should be done of clever element which can ward off the remarkable stretches, swings and astonishing earthy movements in march of games such as football, cricket, tennis etc. The seams on the uniforms have been the quite exposed areas, as they lend towards to rip and wear out soon.
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As I prepared for my mom to come and visit next week I was working with our family friend Betsy to organize their transportation between cities. To make a long story short I purchased tickets I had also asked Betsy to purchase. I had over 200 euro in train tickets that were already purchased. Elena went with me to the train station to ask how I could exchange the tickets. The woman told us we could get a refund to the credit card they were purchased on but it would take two to three months and there would also be a 20% penalty. The other option was to exchange the tickets for other tickets for their full value. I was taking a train the Saturday morning to Lake Como so I would have to decide before then where I wanted to use at least 80 of the 120 euro tickets. I thought about all the places I needed to go and between my trip to Como, my trip to Milano to meet my mom next week, and all of the trips Becky and I would need around Italy coming and going on our trip to Croatia I was able to find almost the exact amount I needed. After work I went to the train station and was able to exchange my tickets for my best guess at my trips for the next two months and I only had to pay seven euro! The man even told me my Italian was good! I was all set and ready to go.
Saturday morning I woke to find great newsmy friend Eliana had her baby boy Pietro. I cant wait to meet il bimbo!
As many of you know Im a putz. I find unneeded things to do, usually at inopportune times such as washing dishes before catching a train. That being said, Saturday morning, I was going to miss my train out of Porta Nuovo so I decided to catch it at the second stop Port Susa (pretty much equidistant from my house). Right before I left I looked through all my tickets I had just exchanged the night before. Now I have seven destinations, with multiple transfers which I though would be easy to figure out. The problem was not all the tickets had dates on them and I was going to Milan three different times! I grabbed them all and headed out the door. At the train station I punched one ticket from Torino to Milano and hoped for the bestit worked! The train ride to Milano was uneventful but the train ride to Como was anything but. I am sitting between the cars as the train is almost full and the conductor had said something about Como San Giovanni and I wanted to make sure I got off at the right stop without having to jump over people. It is a pretty short train ride (half an hour or so) and about ten minutes in I hear yelling. Now this is more than just Italian . I cant see who is yelling but they sure are angry. Shortly I see the issue. It seems a young man has not paid for his ticket so the conductor is not happy and yelling at him and basically telling him he is kicking him out at the next stop. It was a very interesting .
I arrive in Como and find my hotel. I should also mention that in my haste I did not think through my packing plan and realize I have no toothpaste, no deodorant, and no chapstick. I did remember a hairbrush though (as a side note it was so hot that my hair was up in a ponytail the entire time so really no need for a hairbrush). Also, I grabbed my zippie on my way out and as I put it on I realized that it was gray as was the skirt I was wearing. I mean I realize that my trendiness has just started to blossom but this was definitely a rookie mistake! The other funny thing is that I bought sun tan lotion before I left and thought it was the spray on invisible kind when in fact I purchased the stuff that looks blue when you spray it. As I was spraying it on I looked like a smurf! I walked around Lake Como and saw the beautiful duomo. Zigzagging between streets I found little cafés and shops to stop in.
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Saturday morning I woke to find great newsmy friend Eliana had her baby boy Pietro. I cant wait to meet il bimbo!
As many of you know Im a putz. I find unneeded things to do, usually at inopportune times such as washing dishes before catching a train. That being said, Saturday morning, I was going to miss my train out of Porta Nuovo so I decided to catch it at the second stop Port Susa (pretty much equidistant from my house). Right before I left I looked through all my tickets I had just exchanged the night before. Now I have seven destinations, with multiple transfers which I though would be easy to figure out. The problem was not all the tickets had dates on them and I was going to Milan three different times! I grabbed them all and headed out the door. At the train station I punched one ticket from Torino to Milano and hoped for the bestit worked! The train ride to Milano was uneventful but the train ride to Como was anything but. I am sitting between the cars as the train is almost full and the conductor had said something about Como San Giovanni and I wanted to make sure I got off at the right stop without having to jump over people. It is a pretty short train ride (half an hour or so) and about ten minutes in I hear yelling. Now this is more than just Italian . I cant see who is yelling but they sure are angry. Shortly I see the issue. It seems a young man has not paid for his ticket so the conductor is not happy and yelling at him and basically telling him he is kicking him out at the next stop. It was a very interesting .
I arrive in Como and find my hotel. I should also mention that in my haste I did not think through my packing plan and realize I have no toothpaste, no deodorant, and no chapstick. I did remember a hairbrush though (as a side note it was so hot that my hair was up in a ponytail the entire time so really no need for a hairbrush). Also, I grabbed my zippie on my way out and as I put it on I realized that it was gray as was the skirt I was wearing. I mean I realize that my trendiness has just started to blossom but this was definitely a rookie mistake! The other funny thing is that I bought sun tan lotion before I left and thought it was the spray on invisible kind when in fact I purchased the stuff that looks blue when you spray it. As I was spraying it on I looked like a smurf! I walked around Lake Como and saw the beautiful duomo. Zigzagging between streets I found little cafés and shops to stop in.
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Dr. Conrad Murray, a cardiologist, said via his attorney Edward Chernoff, he did not call 911 for 30 minutes after he began doing CPR on Michael Jackson.
To successfully save someone in cardiac arrest most supportive measures need to be performed within 5 to 10 minutes, or as quickly as possible, like shocking the heart with a defibrillator, after they are hooked up to an EKG to determine if they need to be shocked, an IV (intravenous line) started to administer drugs to support the heart and circulation like epinephrine (adrenalin), atropine, and perhaps anti arrhythmic drugs such as lidocaine, pronestyl, bretylium, or amiodarone, depending on the heart rhythm the person is in. If the heart stopped, or isnt beating effectively, an external pacemaker could be applied to keep the heart beating.
There are three extremely suspicious issues here. First Dr. Murray, who is a heart doctor, did not properly perform CPR. An adult is always placed on a hard surface, and CPR is then performed with two hands, otherwise the proper compressions may not occur to circulate the blood in the body, and to the brain. Second, the rumors are that Michael stopped breathing, but Dr. Murray never said he did mouth-to-mouth to provide Michaels body with oxygen. If Michaels heart stopped beating because Michael wasnt breathing, and the heart stopped due to a lack of oxygen, then giving Michael mouth-to-mouth would support his heart. Only giving Michael chest compressions, and not giving Michael oxygen with mouth-to-mouth breathing, for 30 minutes would kill anyone. Third, doing CPR for 30 minutes, with one hand behind the persons back is so exhausting you couldnt possibly keep going. Put a pillow on your bed, then put on hand underneath it, and do CPR type compressions on top of the pillow for 30 minutes, and you will see how hard that is.
The bottom line is this. Dr. Murray, in my opinion, did everything he could to delay Michael getting proper emergency medical attention, that the doctor could not possibly provide just by virtue of the fact he was a doctor. Without the proper emergency equipment and medication, Michael was sure to die, and he did.
Dr. Murrays other excuse for not calling 911 was that Michaels phones in the house didnt work, and Michael didnt have a phone in his room. All doctors walk around with a cell phone on their hip. Dr. Murrays response was that he didnt know Michaels exact address for 911, so he waited until he could get security to call for him.
We believe Dr. Murray should be investigated for malpractice, and possible criminal charges, in the death of Michael Jackson. Even if Dr. Murray did not give Michael the drugs that could have killed him, Dr. Murray certainly didnt do what a CPR trained non-medical professional would have done, like call 911 right away, and give Michael CPR on the floor with two hands. Murray admits he was being paid $150,000 per month to be Michaels personal physician, but he certainly didnt give Michael even a dollar worth of care in our opinion.
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WOT Releases Extended Protection for Web-Based Email Users
WOT, Web of Trust, extends the security protection of its popular browser add-on to the top three Internet-based email services -- Google Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. WOT checks links embedded in email and warns users of dangerous websites to help them avoid spyware, spam, phishing, identity theft and other Internet fraud, before they risk clicking.
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Today, the animating principles of the American idea are entirely absent from public discourse. To the new Administration, American exceptionalism means an exceptional effort to harness an exceptionally big government in the cause of exceptionally massive spending. The can-do spirit means Ty’Sheoma Bethea can do with some government money: A high-school student in Dillon, South Carolina, Miss Bethea wrote to the President to ask him to do something about the peeling paint in her classroom. He read the letter out approvingly in a televised address to Congress. Imagine if Miss Bethea gets her way, and the national bureaucracy in Washington becomes responsible for grade- school paint jobs from Maine to Hawaii. What size of government would be required for such a project? And is it compatible with a constitutional republic?
professor [Paul Rahe] opens his study with a famous passage from M. de Tocqueville. Or, rather, it would be famous were he still widely read. For he knows us far better than we know him: “I would like to imagine with what new traits despotism could be produced in the world,” he wrote the best part of two centuries ago. He and his family had been on the sharp end of France’s violent convulsions, but he considered that, to a democratic republic, there were slyer seductions:
I see an innumerable crowd of like and equal men who revolve on themselves without repose, procuring the small and vulgar pleasures with which they fill their souls.
He didn’t foresee “Dancing with the Stars” or “American Idol” but, details aside, that’s pretty much on the money. He continues:
Over these is elevated an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate. It is absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle. It would resemble the paternal power if, like that power, it had as its object to prepare men for manhood, but it seeks, to the contrary, to keep them irrevocably fixed in childhood … it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs…
The sovereign extends its arms about the society as a whole; it covers its surface with a network of petty regulations—complicated, minute, and uniform—through which even the most original minds and the most vigorous souls know not how to make their way… it does not break wills; it softens them, bends them, and directs them; rarely does it force one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting on one’s own … it does not tyrannize, it gets in the way: it curtails, it enervates, it extinguishes, it stupefies, and finally reduces each nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
Welcome to the twenty-first century.
“It does not tyrannize, it gets in the way.” The all-pervasive micro-regulatory state “enervates,” but nicely, gradually, so after a while you don’t even notice. And in exchange for liberty it offers security: the “right” to health care; the “right” to housing; the “right” to a job—although who needs that once you’ve got all the others? The proposed European Constitution extends the laundry list: the constitutional right to clean water and environmental protection. Every right you could ever want, except the right to be free from undue intrusions by the state. M. Giscard d’Estaing, the former French president and chairman of the European constitutional convention, told me at the time that he had bought a copy of the U.S. Constitution at a bookstore in Washington and carried it around with him in his pocket. Try doing that with his Euro-constitution, and you’ll be walking with a limp after ten minutes and calling for a sedan chair after twenty: As Professor Rahe notes, it’s 450 pages long. And, when your “constitution” is that big, imagine how swollen the attendant bureaucracy and regulation is. The author points out that, in France, “80 per cent of the legislation passed by the National Assembly in Paris originates in Brussels”—that is, at the European Union’s civil service. Who drafts it? Who approves it? Who do you call to complain? Who do you run against and in what election? And where do you go to escape it? Not to the next town, not to the next county, not to the next country.
In The Spirit of the Laws (1748), “the celebrated Montesquieu” (as both Madison and Hamilton called him) concluded that England had developed, in Professor Rahe’s summation, “a new form of government more conducive to liberty and graced with greater staying power than any polity theretofore even imagined.” The key words here, and the theme of Professor Rahe’s book, are “staying power.” Anyone can start a republic. The challenge that remains was posed by Ben Franklin: Can you “keep it”?
Examining England’s “crowned republic” in the wake of Montesquieu and Rousseau, Tocqueville wrote that, from the seventeenth century on, you could find “the classes mixed up with one another … wealth become power, equality before the law, equality in taxation, freedom of the press, public debate—all new principles that the society of the Middle Ages did not know. But these are precisely the new things which, introduced little by little and with art into the old body, reanimated it without risking its dissolution.” Monarchies do not always evolve, and republics seek to put their theoretical perfection into practice too instantly. If you abolish, wrote Montesquieu, “the prerogatives of the lords, the clergy, the nobility the towns,” you’re on a fast track to “a state popular—or, indeed, a state despotic.”
Thus, Tocqueville’s great insight—that what prevents the “state popular” from declining into a “state despotic” is the strength of the intermediary institutions between the sovereign and the individual. The French revolution abolished everything and subordinated all institutions to the rule of central authority. The New World was more fortunate: “The principle and lifeblood of American liberty” was, according to Tocqueville, municipal independence. “With the state government, they had limited contact; with the national government, they had almost none,” writes Professor Rahe:
In New England, their world was the township; in the South, it was the county; and elsewhere it was one or the other or both… . Self-government was the liberty that they had fought the War of Independence to retain, and this was a liberty that in considerable measure Americans in the age of Andrew Jackson still enjoyed.
For Tocqueville, this is a critical distinction between America and the faux republics of his own continent. “It is in the township that the strengths of free peoples resides,” he wrote. “Municipal institutions are for liberty what primary schools are for science; they place it within reach of the people.” In America, democracy is supposed to be a participatory sport not a spectator one: In Europe, every five years you put an X on a piece of paper and subsequently discover which of the party candidates on the list at central office has been delegated to represent you in fast-tracking all those E.U. micro-regulations through the rubber-stamp legislature. By contrast, American democracy is a game to be played, not watched: You go to Town Meeting, you denounce the School Board budget, you vote to close a road, you run for cemetery commissioner.
Does that distinction still hold? As Professor Rahe argues, in the twentieth century the intermediary institutions were belatedly hacked away—not just self-government at town, county, and state level, but other independent outposts: church, family, civic associations. Today, very little stands between the individual and the sovereign, which is why schoolgirls in Dillon, South Carolina think it entirely normal to beseech Good King Barack the Hopeychanger to do something about classroom maintenance.
I say “Good King Barack,” but truly that does an injustice to ye medieval tyrants of yore. As Tocqueville wrote: “There was a time in Europe in which the law, as well as the consent of the people, clothed kings with a power almost without limits. But almost never did it happen that they made use of it.” His Majesty was an absolute tyrant—in theory. But in practice he was in his palace hundreds of miles away. A pantalooned emissary might come prancing into your dooryard once every half-decade and give you a hard time, but for the most part you got on with your life relatively undisturbed. “The details of social life and of individual existence ordinarily escaped his control,” wrote Tocqueville. But what would happen if administrative capability were to evolve to make it possible “to subject all of his subjects to the details of a uniform set of regulations”?
That moment has now arrived. And administrative despotism turns out to be very popular: Why, we need more standardized rules, from coast to coast—and on to the next coast. After all, if Europe can harmonize every trivial imposition on the citizen, why can’t the world?
Would it even be possible to hold the American revolution today? The Boston Tea Party? Imagine if George III had been able to sit in his palace across the ocean, look at the security-camera footage, press a button, and freeze the bank accounts of everyone there. Oh, well, we won’t be needing another revolt, will we? But the consequence of funding the metastasization of government through the confiscation of the fruits of the citizen’s labor is the remorseless shriveling of liberty.
The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government “security,” large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time—the freedom to make their own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and eventually (as we already see in Europe, Canada, American campuses, and the disgusting U.N. Human Rights Council) what you’re permitted to say and think.
I’m often struck by how much of our language has become metaphorical: A few years ago, a Fleet Street colleague accidentally booked himself into a conference on “building bridges” assuming it would be some multiculti community outreach yakfest. It turned out to be a panel of engineers discussing bridge construction. Yet in an important sense the ability to build real bridges is indeed an attribute of community. A friend of mine is a New Hampshire “selectman,” one of those municipal offices Tocqueville found so admirable. In 2003, a state highway inspector rode through and condemned one of the town’s bridges, on a dirt road that serves maybe a dozen houses.
That’s the bad news. The good news was the 80/20 state/town funding plan, under which, if you applied to Concord for a new bridge, the state would pay 80 percent of the cost, the town 20. So they did. The state estimated the cost at $320,000, so the town’s share would be $64,000. Great. So the town threw up a temporary bridge just down river from the condemned one, and waited for the state to get going. Six years later, the temporary bridge has worn out, and the latest revised estimate is $655,000, such that the town’s share would be $131,000.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that, under the “stimulus” bill, they can put in for the 60/40 federal/state bridge funding plan, under which the feds pay 60 percent, and the state pays 40, and thus the town would be on the hook for 20 percent of the 40 percent, if you follow. If they applied for the program now, the bridge might be built by, oh, 2015, 2020, and it’ll only be $1.2 million, or $4 million, or $12 million, or whatever the estimate’ll be by then.
But who knows? By 2015, there might be some 70/30 UN/federal bridge plan, under which the UN pays 70 percent, and the feds pay 30, and thus the town would only be liable for 20 percent of the state’s 40 percent of the feds’ 30 percent. And the estimate for the bridge will be a mere $2.7 billion.
While the Select Board was pondering this, another bridge was condemned. The state’s estimate was $415,000, and, given that the previous bridge had been on the to-do list for six years, they weren’t ready to pencil this second one in on the schedule just yet. So instead the town put in a new bridge from a local contractor. Cost: $30,000. Don’t worry; it’s all up to code—and a lot safer than the worn-out temporary bridge still waiting for the 80/20/60/40/70/30 deal to kick in. As my friend said at the meet- ing: “Screw the state. Let’s do it ourselves.”
“Screw the state” is not a Tocquevillian formulation, but he would have certainly agreed with the latter sentiment. When something goes wrong, a European demands to know what the government’s going to do about it. An American does it himself. Or he used to—in the Jacksonian America a farsighted Frenchman understood so well. “Human dignity,” writes Professor Rahe, “is bound up with taking responsibility for conducting one’s own affairs.” When the state annexes that responsibility, the citizenry are indeed mere sheep to the government shepherd. Paul Rahe concludes his brisk and trenchant examination of republican “staying power” with specific proposals to reclaim state and local power from Washington, and with a choice: “We can be what once we were, or we can settle for a gradual, gentle descent into servitude.” I wish I were more sanguine about how that vote would go.
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professor [Paul Rahe] opens his study with a famous passage from M. de Tocqueville. Or, rather, it would be famous were he still widely read. For he knows us far better than we know him: “I would like to imagine with what new traits despotism could be produced in the world,” he wrote the best part of two centuries ago. He and his family had been on the sharp end of France’s violent convulsions, but he considered that, to a democratic republic, there were slyer seductions:
I see an innumerable crowd of like and equal men who revolve on themselves without repose, procuring the small and vulgar pleasures with which they fill their souls.
He didn’t foresee “Dancing with the Stars” or “American Idol” but, details aside, that’s pretty much on the money. He continues:
Over these is elevated an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate. It is absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle. It would resemble the paternal power if, like that power, it had as its object to prepare men for manhood, but it seeks, to the contrary, to keep them irrevocably fixed in childhood … it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs…
The sovereign extends its arms about the society as a whole; it covers its surface with a network of petty regulations—complicated, minute, and uniform—through which even the most original minds and the most vigorous souls know not how to make their way… it does not break wills; it softens them, bends them, and directs them; rarely does it force one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting on one’s own … it does not tyrannize, it gets in the way: it curtails, it enervates, it extinguishes, it stupefies, and finally reduces each nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
Welcome to the twenty-first century.
“It does not tyrannize, it gets in the way.” The all-pervasive micro-regulatory state “enervates,” but nicely, gradually, so after a while you don’t even notice. And in exchange for liberty it offers security: the “right” to health care; the “right” to housing; the “right” to a job—although who needs that once you’ve got all the others? The proposed European Constitution extends the laundry list: the constitutional right to clean water and environmental protection. Every right you could ever want, except the right to be free from undue intrusions by the state. M. Giscard d’Estaing, the former French president and chairman of the European constitutional convention, told me at the time that he had bought a copy of the U.S. Constitution at a bookstore in Washington and carried it around with him in his pocket. Try doing that with his Euro-constitution, and you’ll be walking with a limp after ten minutes and calling for a sedan chair after twenty: As Professor Rahe notes, it’s 450 pages long. And, when your “constitution” is that big, imagine how swollen the attendant bureaucracy and regulation is. The author points out that, in France, “80 per cent of the legislation passed by the National Assembly in Paris originates in Brussels”—that is, at the European Union’s civil service. Who drafts it? Who approves it? Who do you call to complain? Who do you run against and in what election? And where do you go to escape it? Not to the next town, not to the next county, not to the next country.
In The Spirit of the Laws (1748), “the celebrated Montesquieu” (as both Madison and Hamilton called him) concluded that England had developed, in Professor Rahe’s summation, “a new form of government more conducive to liberty and graced with greater staying power than any polity theretofore even imagined.” The key words here, and the theme of Professor Rahe’s book, are “staying power.” Anyone can start a republic. The challenge that remains was posed by Ben Franklin: Can you “keep it”?
Examining England’s “crowned republic” in the wake of Montesquieu and Rousseau, Tocqueville wrote that, from the seventeenth century on, you could find “the classes mixed up with one another … wealth become power, equality before the law, equality in taxation, freedom of the press, public debate—all new principles that the society of the Middle Ages did not know. But these are precisely the new things which, introduced little by little and with art into the old body, reanimated it without risking its dissolution.” Monarchies do not always evolve, and republics seek to put their theoretical perfection into practice too instantly. If you abolish, wrote Montesquieu, “the prerogatives of the lords, the clergy, the nobility the towns,” you’re on a fast track to “a state popular—or, indeed, a state despotic.”
Thus, Tocqueville’s great insight—that what prevents the “state popular” from declining into a “state despotic” is the strength of the intermediary institutions between the sovereign and the individual. The French revolution abolished everything and subordinated all institutions to the rule of central authority. The New World was more fortunate: “The principle and lifeblood of American liberty” was, according to Tocqueville, municipal independence. “With the state government, they had limited contact; with the national government, they had almost none,” writes Professor Rahe:
In New England, their world was the township; in the South, it was the county; and elsewhere it was one or the other or both… . Self-government was the liberty that they had fought the War of Independence to retain, and this was a liberty that in considerable measure Americans in the age of Andrew Jackson still enjoyed.
For Tocqueville, this is a critical distinction between America and the faux republics of his own continent. “It is in the township that the strengths of free peoples resides,” he wrote. “Municipal institutions are for liberty what primary schools are for science; they place it within reach of the people.” In America, democracy is supposed to be a participatory sport not a spectator one: In Europe, every five years you put an X on a piece of paper and subsequently discover which of the party candidates on the list at central office has been delegated to represent you in fast-tracking all those E.U. micro-regulations through the rubber-stamp legislature. By contrast, American democracy is a game to be played, not watched: You go to Town Meeting, you denounce the School Board budget, you vote to close a road, you run for cemetery commissioner.
Does that distinction still hold? As Professor Rahe argues, in the twentieth century the intermediary institutions were belatedly hacked away—not just self-government at town, county, and state level, but other independent outposts: church, family, civic associations. Today, very little stands between the individual and the sovereign, which is why schoolgirls in Dillon, South Carolina think it entirely normal to beseech Good King Barack the Hopeychanger to do something about classroom maintenance.
I say “Good King Barack,” but truly that does an injustice to ye medieval tyrants of yore. As Tocqueville wrote: “There was a time in Europe in which the law, as well as the consent of the people, clothed kings with a power almost without limits. But almost never did it happen that they made use of it.” His Majesty was an absolute tyrant—in theory. But in practice he was in his palace hundreds of miles away. A pantalooned emissary might come prancing into your dooryard once every half-decade and give you a hard time, but for the most part you got on with your life relatively undisturbed. “The details of social life and of individual existence ordinarily escaped his control,” wrote Tocqueville. But what would happen if administrative capability were to evolve to make it possible “to subject all of his subjects to the details of a uniform set of regulations”?
That moment has now arrived. And administrative despotism turns out to be very popular: Why, we need more standardized rules, from coast to coast—and on to the next coast. After all, if Europe can harmonize every trivial imposition on the citizen, why can’t the world?
Would it even be possible to hold the American revolution today? The Boston Tea Party? Imagine if George III had been able to sit in his palace across the ocean, look at the security-camera footage, press a button, and freeze the bank accounts of everyone there. Oh, well, we won’t be needing another revolt, will we? But the consequence of funding the metastasization of government through the confiscation of the fruits of the citizen’s labor is the remorseless shriveling of liberty.
The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government “security,” large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time—the freedom to make their own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and eventually (as we already see in Europe, Canada, American campuses, and the disgusting U.N. Human Rights Council) what you’re permitted to say and think.
I’m often struck by how much of our language has become metaphorical: A few years ago, a Fleet Street colleague accidentally booked himself into a conference on “building bridges” assuming it would be some multiculti community outreach yakfest. It turned out to be a panel of engineers discussing bridge construction. Yet in an important sense the ability to build real bridges is indeed an attribute of community. A friend of mine is a New Hampshire “selectman,” one of those municipal offices Tocqueville found so admirable. In 2003, a state highway inspector rode through and condemned one of the town’s bridges, on a dirt road that serves maybe a dozen houses.
That’s the bad news. The good news was the 80/20 state/town funding plan, under which, if you applied to Concord for a new bridge, the state would pay 80 percent of the cost, the town 20. So they did. The state estimated the cost at $320,000, so the town’s share would be $64,000. Great. So the town threw up a temporary bridge just down river from the condemned one, and waited for the state to get going. Six years later, the temporary bridge has worn out, and the latest revised estimate is $655,000, such that the town’s share would be $131,000.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that, under the “stimulus” bill, they can put in for the 60/40 federal/state bridge funding plan, under which the feds pay 60 percent, and the state pays 40, and thus the town would be on the hook for 20 percent of the 40 percent, if you follow. If they applied for the program now, the bridge might be built by, oh, 2015, 2020, and it’ll only be $1.2 million, or $4 million, or $12 million, or whatever the estimate’ll be by then.
But who knows? By 2015, there might be some 70/30 UN/federal bridge plan, under which the UN pays 70 percent, and the feds pay 30, and thus the town would only be liable for 20 percent of the state’s 40 percent of the feds’ 30 percent. And the estimate for the bridge will be a mere $2.7 billion.
While the Select Board was pondering this, another bridge was condemned. The state’s estimate was $415,000, and, given that the previous bridge had been on the to-do list for six years, they weren’t ready to pencil this second one in on the schedule just yet. So instead the town put in a new bridge from a local contractor. Cost: $30,000. Don’t worry; it’s all up to code—and a lot safer than the worn-out temporary bridge still waiting for the 80/20/60/40/70/30 deal to kick in. As my friend said at the meet- ing: “Screw the state. Let’s do it ourselves.”
“Screw the state” is not a Tocquevillian formulation, but he would have certainly agreed with the latter sentiment. When something goes wrong, a European demands to know what the government’s going to do about it. An American does it himself. Or he used to—in the Jacksonian America a farsighted Frenchman understood so well. “Human dignity,” writes Professor Rahe, “is bound up with taking responsibility for conducting one’s own affairs.” When the state annexes that responsibility, the citizenry are indeed mere sheep to the government shepherd. Paul Rahe concludes his brisk and trenchant examination of republican “staying power” with specific proposals to reclaim state and local power from Washington, and with a choice: “We can be what once we were, or we can settle for a gradual, gentle descent into servitude.” I wish I were more sanguine about how that vote would go.
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Going Local is not quite at its peak yet - more and more produce will be coming in the weeks ahead. However, this week I tried a Sugar Pea and Chicken (or Tofu) stir-fry that was an absolute hit. Pick up some peas and other veggies at your local market and give it a try!
Chicken or Tofu Stir-Fry
(from the cookbook Simply in Season)
3/4 c. broth
3 T. light soy sauce
2 T. brown sugar
1 T. sesame oil
1 T. sesame seeds
1 T. cornstarch
2 t. ginger root (peeled and minced)
1 1/2 t. garlic (minced)
1/2 t. crushed dried chilies or Tabasco sauce (optional, I left this out)
Whisk together and set aside.
1 lb. boneless chicken (cut in cubes or thin strips)
or 1 block firm tofu (cubed)
In large frypan over medium-high heat saute in a small amount of olive
oil until meat is cooked through or tofu is lightly browned. Remove
tofu.
1 c. snow peas or sugar snap peas (cut in 1 inch pieces)
Add to frypan. Add soy sauce mixture and bring to a boil, stirring.
Reduce heat and simmer until sauce thickesn, 3 minutes.
12 oz. fettucine, spaghetti, buckwheat soba noodles or rice noodles (cooked)
1/2 c. green onions (chopped)
Mix in. Top with chicken or tofu and serve immediately.
Variation: Add other vegetables according to the length of time
needed to cook until crisp-tender. Add first: thinly sliced carrots.
Next: sliced, peeled broccoli stems, onions, bell pepper strips,
asparagus, chopped Swiss chard stems, cabbage. Next: broccoli
florets, along with the soy sauce mixture.
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Chicken or Tofu Stir-Fry
(from the cookbook Simply in Season)
3/4 c. broth
3 T. light soy sauce
2 T. brown sugar
1 T. sesame oil
1 T. sesame seeds
1 T. cornstarch
2 t. ginger root (peeled and minced)
1 1/2 t. garlic (minced)
1/2 t. crushed dried chilies or Tabasco sauce (optional, I left this out)
Whisk together and set aside.
1 lb. boneless chicken (cut in cubes or thin strips)
or 1 block firm tofu (cubed)
In large frypan over medium-high heat saute in a small amount of olive
oil until meat is cooked through or tofu is lightly browned. Remove
tofu.
1 c. snow peas or sugar snap peas (cut in 1 inch pieces)
Add to frypan. Add soy sauce mixture and bring to a boil, stirring.
Reduce heat and simmer until sauce thickesn, 3 minutes.
12 oz. fettucine, spaghetti, buckwheat soba noodles or rice noodles (cooked)
1/2 c. green onions (chopped)
Mix in. Top with chicken or tofu and serve immediately.
Variation: Add other vegetables according to the length of time
needed to cook until crisp-tender. Add first: thinly sliced carrots.
Next: sliced, peeled broccoli stems, onions, bell pepper strips,
asparagus, chopped Swiss chard stems, cabbage. Next: broccoli
florets, along with the soy sauce mixture.
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American Psychological Association policy statement from their website.
APA POLICY STATEMENT
Discrimination Against Homosexuals
Adopted by the APA Council of Representatives on January 24-26, 1975.
1. The American Psychological Association supports the action taken on December 15, 1973, by the American Psychiatric Association, removing homosexuality from that Associations official list of mental disorders. The American Psychological Association therefore adopts the following resolution:
Homosexuality per se implies no impairment in judgement, stability, reliability, or general social and vocational capabilities; Further, the American Psychological Association urges all mental health professionals to take the lead in removing the stigma of mental illness that has long been associated with homosexual orientations.
2. Regarding discrimination against homosexuals, the American Psychological Association adopts the following resolution concerning their civil and legal rights:
The American Psychological Association deplores all public and private discrimination in such areas as employment, housing, public accommodation, and licensing against those who engage in or have engaged in homosexual activities and declares that no burden of proof of such judgement, capacity, or reliability shall be placed upon these individuals greater than that imposed on any other persons. Further, the American Psychological Association supports and urges the enactment of civil rights legislation at the local, and state and federal level that would offer citizens who engage in acts of homosexuality the same protections now guaranteed to others on the basis of race, creed, color, etc. Further, the American Psychological Association supports and urges the repeal of all discriminatory legislation singling out homosexual acts by consenting adults in private.
Please cite this policy statement as:
Conger, J.J. (1975). Proceedings of the American Psychological Association, Incorporated, for the year 1974: Minutes of the annual meeting of the Council of Representatives. American Psychologist, 30, 620-651.
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APA POLICY STATEMENT
Discrimination Against Homosexuals
Adopted by the APA Council of Representatives on January 24-26, 1975.
1. The American Psychological Association supports the action taken on December 15, 1973, by the American Psychiatric Association, removing homosexuality from that Associations official list of mental disorders. The American Psychological Association therefore adopts the following resolution:
Homosexuality per se implies no impairment in judgement, stability, reliability, or general social and vocational capabilities; Further, the American Psychological Association urges all mental health professionals to take the lead in removing the stigma of mental illness that has long been associated with homosexual orientations.
2. Regarding discrimination against homosexuals, the American Psychological Association adopts the following resolution concerning their civil and legal rights:
The American Psychological Association deplores all public and private discrimination in such areas as employment, housing, public accommodation, and licensing against those who engage in or have engaged in homosexual activities and declares that no burden of proof of such judgement, capacity, or reliability shall be placed upon these individuals greater than that imposed on any other persons. Further, the American Psychological Association supports and urges the enactment of civil rights legislation at the local, and state and federal level that would offer citizens who engage in acts of homosexuality the same protections now guaranteed to others on the basis of race, creed, color, etc. Further, the American Psychological Association supports and urges the repeal of all discriminatory legislation singling out homosexual acts by consenting adults in private.
Please cite this policy statement as:
Conger, J.J. (1975). Proceedings of the American Psychological Association, Incorporated, for the year 1974: Minutes of the annual meeting of the Council of Representatives. American Psychologist, 30, 620-651.
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