Is it about forgiveness?, let’s ask Obama after forgive Harry Reid’s about Obama’s skin color and lack of a “Negro dialect”, Now, let’s check what Obama said Trent Lott in 2002, Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D-13th), who hosted WVON’s Cliff Kelley Show, challenged the Republican Party to repudiate Lott’s remarks and to call for his resignation as senate leader. “It seems to be that we can forgive a 100-year-old senator for some of the indiscretion of his youth, but, what is more difficult to forgive is the current president of the U.S. Senate (Lott) suggesting we had been better off if we had followed a segregationist path in this country after all of the battles and fights for civil rights and all the work that we still have to do,” said Obama.

He said: “The Republican Party itself has to drive out Trent Lott. If they have to stand for something, they have to stand up and say this is not the person we want representing our party.”

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With Hollywood legend Jane Russell providing the pre-dinner entertainment and The Temptations and Ben E King popping up to finish the evening in fine fashion, it was quite a night at Liverpool Cathedral last week.
I’ve been remiss – although I’ve got a good excuse as I only got back from Hamburg last night (more of that later) – in recouting the incredible evening organised by cathedral supporter Margaret Harry and by David Gest on Thursday evening.

I’ve heard plenty of performances in the cathedral, but I’ve never heard people like Deniece Williams, Kim Weston and Dorothy Moore opening up their vocal chords and filling the “great space” with the most amazing gospel.

Then there was William Bell (whose piano player accompanist was apparently from Massive Attack) who performed a unique version of the Beatles’ Yesterday, followed by Freda Payne (who with Deniece Williams had been at the Everyman to see The Caretaker the other week) who went back to her first love of jazz and big bands to bring us a cracking version of Ella Fitzgerald’s first hit Mr Paganini. [...]

A convicted killer from Missouri has pleaded guilty to killing a family in Pampa, Texas in 2005.Twenty six year-old Levi King (a.) changed his plea this morning in a Lubbock, Tx, courtroom. But King’s story started hundreds of miles away near Anderson, Mo.

A relative of 70 year-old Orlie McCool and his 47 year-old daughter-in-law Dawn Burr McCool found them shot to death in a rural Pineville, MO., home on Sept. 30, 2005.

Orlie McCool was shot once with a 9 mm weapon, while Dawn McCool suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Ballistics tests determined that shell casings found at the scene matched a 9 mm Smith and Wesson handgun taken from the home of Scott King, Levi King’s father. [...]

Okay, I’ll admit it. I watched Blossom when I was young and always wondered what happened to actress Mayim Bialik. I knew she went to college, but then what? Well, thankfully, she’s back and we had a nice long talk about her involvement with the Holistic Moms Network, a non-profit organization connecting parents who are interested in holistic health and green living.

Why did you get back in the Hollywood eye now?

When Blossom ended, I was 19 and I went to college, because that’s what you do in my family. And I kind of went straight through to grad school. I did some acting, a couple episodes of Fat Actress, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, but I really wanted to focus on my degree.

My initial hope was that I’d be a research professor or something like that. I studied neuroscience, but once we had our first son, who’s now almost 4, my husband and I just started realizing that, in terms of lifestyle and how we wanted to raise our kids, being a research professor was not the best way to go. It was a lifestyle decision in terms of what kind of hours and schedule can allow us to be with our kids [...]

Pedantic,Pedantic Definition-A pedant is a person who is overly concerned with formalism and precision, or who makes a show of his learning.

pedantic-ped·ant (ped′’nt)
noun
1. a person who puts unnecessary stress on minor or trivial points of learning, displaying a scholarship lacking in judgment or sense of proportion
2. a narrow-minded teacher who insists on exact adherence to a set of arbitrary rules
3. Obsolete a schoolmaster

The English language word “pedant” comes from the French pédant (used in 1566 in Darme & Hatzfeldster’s Dictionnaire général de la langue française) or its older mid-15th Century Italian source pedante, “teacher, schoolmaster”. (Compare the Spanish pedante.) The origin of the Italian pedante is uncertain, but multiple dictionaries suggest that it was contracted from the mediaeval Latin pædagogans, present participle of pædagogare, “to act as pedagogue, to teach” (Du Cange). The Latin word is derived from Greek παιδαγωγός, paidagōgós, παιδ- “child” + ἀγειν “to lead”, which originally referred to a slave who escorted children to and from school but later meant “a source of instruction or guidance”.

Phi·lan·der  (f-lndr)
intr.v. phi·lan·dered, phi·lan·der·ing, phi·lan·ders
1. To carry on a sexual affair, especially an extramarital affair, with a woman one cannot or does not intend to marry. Used of a man.
2. To engage in many love affairs, especially with a frivolous or casual attitude. Used of a man.
[From philander, lover, from Philander, former literary name for a lover, from Greek philandros, loving or fond of men : phil-, philo-, philo- + anr, andr-, man; see ner-2 in Indo-European roots.]

Eight talented women, mostly stay at home moms and wives from the area who met at art classes and became good friends, have just presented a highly successful Ladies @ Art exhibition at the Carribean Beach Clubhouse.

The artists, Jeanne McLaren, Helen Alpino, Sandra Gerber, Rina Botha, Petronella van der Walt, Arina Swanepoel, Ulanda de Villiers (who paints as Violet) and Riekie Janse van Rensburg stunned everyone with their uniqueness, flair and extraordinary talents. Every piece submitted seemed to have captured a piece of the artists and it was clear that the had put in their whole hearts and souls in the creation of their works of art.

Rina was the one who persuaded her friends to join hands and put their work on exhibition. All felt that the time had arrived for them to introduce themselves to the public and to hopefully start building on their future as artists. According to Rina everything fell into place from the word go. The women all agree that they would never have been able to reach this point if it had not been for the loving support of their husbands and families. They also praised Pieter Haarhoff, owner of Creative Art & Framing for lending them a number of easels on which their work was displayed.

Petronella, who loves oil painting, has a passion for people and finds something unique and remarka-ble in every one she meets. She exhibited a number of paintings from her Innocent Children of Africa collection.
Arina grew up on a farm where she could relate to the beauty of the natural environment. “Natural, warm colours inspires me and it tells emotional stories,” she said.

Riekie is inspired by colour, love, life and people and says she loves to paint. “I enjoy myself thoroughly and love to give enjoyment to others through my art,” she said.

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During recent years, plagiarism has become a serious concern for universities and colleges. The prevalence of websites selling previously written essay papers has made obtaining counterfeit work easier than ever.

In 2002, 29 students at Carlton University received a failing grade after it was discovered they had copied portions of their essays from a website. This was one of several high-profile instances of plagiarism that brought attention to the issue.

In an effort to combat this trend, universities have sought the assistance of Turnitin.com, a plagiarism detection service designed to cross-reference a student’s work against a database of essays. The service will detect instances of plagiarism and alert the professor to potential misconduct.

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Anyhow, I suppose that as a young child, I was exceptionally sensitive and was repeatedly trauma’d by 1970s pop culture: the cover of the Queen album News of the World; those huge monsters that ate people on the MUPPET SHOW; the trailer for THE DEVIL’S RAIN (which ran before some thing much more mundane at the drive-in); and of course my cousin Roger’s thoughtful description of PHANTASM which I really didn’t understand but caused me to steal and bury my neighbor’s silver sphere garden decoration.

However, I must (somewhat shamefully) admit that the mightiest trauma didn’t come down until I was 12 or 13 years old. I was told by some of the older kids on the block that I should see this hi-larious movie called RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD. Now, I’ve seen the film a few times as an adult and it is pretty damned witty, but the kids on my block forgot to mention that the film could also be regarded as being UTTERLY HORRIFYING by a kid that was afraid of (certain) Muppets. I was doing O.K. until the “tar-man” zombie showed up. After that it was zero chuckles and pure white knuckles.

There was something about the RETURN zombies that really shook me up. These zombies were so much like living people that their acts of cannibalism seemed much more terrible. Freddy’s slow transformation from loving boyfriend to brain-craving zombie really underscored the point. Further, although they were much more human than other zombies, they were essentially unstoppable, which made me feel helpless. Finally, they wanted to eat living human brains, which greatly bothered me for reasons that I still don’t fully understand to this day.

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In its first week the New York International Fringe Festival can seem vast and impenetrable, one of the few times of year when you enter the theater with almost no idea of what to expect. By week 2, however, reviews and word of mouth spread, and for alert audiences the menu of more than 200 shows shrinks to a few hits everyone’s talking about.

The chance of disaster (and epiphany) decreases as the Fringe becomes more like downtown theater the rest of the year.

Of the Fringe elite this summer, no show has polarized more theatergoers than “666,” a raucous collection of physical comedy sketches from a Madrid company, Yllana, which has created 16 shows since 1991. European reviews ranged from glowing (The French newsmagazine L’Express describes “666” as a “masterwork of black humor”) to groaning (The Guardian of London: “Only for the drunk or dim”).

The good, dirty fun begins after a metal gate opens at the back of the set, revealing four grunting, wordless prisoners (Raúl Cano, Fidel Fernández, Joe O’Curneen and Juan Ramos Toro) hunched in threatening poses, ready to strike. And when they do, it’s best to keep a distance. These brutes, who pantomime spilling buckets of imaginary blood and bodily fluid, pester the audience, laugh themselves silly killing one another and dedicate considerable creative resources to plumbing the comic possibilities of urine. (Trust me: they can seem endless.) [...]