Whoosh Editing! Editing, proofreading and critiquing services for writers Orlandoweekly.com - NEWS+FEATURES: Guns N' Moses In case you hadn't heard, the National Rifle Association dropped by the Orange County Convention Center April 24. About 50,000 members attended the 132nd-annual meeting and show. They came to pay tribute to outgoing NRA president Charlton Heston, select a new president, wave the flag, pat themselves on the back for getting George W. Bush elected and check out some guns. Lots and lots of guns. What follows are the scribblings of a reporter who spent three days embedded with the NRA and is now in recovery in an undisclosed location. Thursday, April 24 12:30 p.m. The NRA's National Urban Affairs Committee is holding its first meeting at the Orlando convention, and I'm on the guest list. A woman with the NRA named Sue Ann or Sue Ellen is obviously uncomfortable that I'm here. The Urban Affairs Committee is charged with increasing NRA membership among minorities. But this right here is a very diverse group of blacks, whites and Hispanics. Does he really advocate arming airline passengers?
Home & Office The flat-out paranoia of the NRA and Wayne LaPierre Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, gave me a call at home the other day. In the taped message, my friend Wayne warned me that unless I and other patriotic Americans stepped forward to stop it, the dastardly United Nations, with Iran, China, North Korea and other evil countries behind it, would soon come into our country and into our very homes, strip the Second Amendment out of the Constitution and “take away every pistol, and rifle and shotgun” that we owned. Riiiggghhht. How is the UN going to accomplish this? Look, I recognize that the boundary between serious and seriously crazy has shifted considerably in recent years. The ostensible cause of LaPierre’s hysteria is something called the International Arms Trade Treaty. It would have no effect whatsoever on domestic ownership, possession or purchase of firearms. Money is part of the reason. In addition, such hysteria is part of the NRA’s own strategy for raising money for its coffers.
Married to the Market To the alarm of Central Park’s bird-watchers and pigeons alike, nine moms in sweats and sneakers, accompanied by their personal trainer, raced down the path toward the Alice in Wonderland statue on a recent morning, pushing baby strollers -- not three-wheeled jogging strollers but careening Maclarens and polka-dotted Peregos. “Think of a dirty toilet seat,” the trainer barked as they hit the statue and started hopping up and down its steps, their incredulous babies arrayed in a semicircle around them. “You can’t sit on it, so you’re going to squat.” The moms dutifully visualized a dirty toilet seat -- they had to look no farther than the ladies’ room at the boathouse just across the model-boat pond -- and squatted. “Listen to me,” their commander instructed after a dozen or so squats -- barely enough to break a sweat. “You’re going to leave the babies here. The ladies took off for a brief run; their children, thrown into spontaneous and collective separation anxiety, started howling.
Aztln Game description from the publisher: In the mythical land of Aztlán, four tribes strive to survive and prosper under the scrutiny of the gods themselves. Peaceful coexistence brings wealth and prosperity to all, but the fearsome Aztec gods favor those who are mighty in war and bring to them their subdued enemies as cruel offerings... Only one of the four tribes will be granted the right to stay in this blessed land when the Time of Exile comes at the end of the Fifth Age of the Sun. Guide your tribe to build the mightiest empire through the Five Ages, win the favor of the gods, and become the greatest ruler in the land of Aztlàn. Aztlán can be played by three or four players (or two players with the "Aztec Gods" variant). If a territory is disputed by several players, the strongest tribe may defeat the weaker ones – but war is not the only path to victory and peaceful coexistence with the other tribes sometimes brings greater rewards.
Memberdrive to Deliver Customized Content via New BackWeb Shadow -- re> SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 12 See more news releases in Computer Electronics | Electronic Commerce | Multimedia & Internet Memberdrive to Deliver Customized Content via New BackWeb Shadow Leading Marketing Agency for Associations and Affinity Groups to Enable Partners to Push Rich-Media and Time-Sensitive Content to 34 Million Members SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- BackWeb Technologies (Nasdaq: BWEB), a leading provider of push communications infrastructure for e-business, today announced that its new BackWeb(R) Shadow proactive desktop portal has been adopted by Memberdrive, an online and offline direct marketing agency that commercially represents leading national affinity groups. Featured Video Journalists and Bloggers Visit PR Newswire for Journalists for releases, photos, ProfNet experts, and customized feeds just for Media. View and download archived video content distributed by MultiVu on The Digital Center. Next in Computer Electronics News Custom Packages Start today. PR Newswire Membership
Youth For Tomorrow - Bristow, VA Thinking about going to a private high school in Bristow, VA? There are choices to be made if you’re thinking of studying in Bristow. We’ve broken down some information about Youth For Tomorrow as well as some high school demographics in order to make your decision a bit easier. Private high schools in the USA are privately-funded and an alternative to the public education system. Some schools have a particular religious or language affiliation, and may offer boarding or day-only programs. Private high schools are, like public schools, regulated by the state governments, but have more freedom to choose particular approaches or include instruction in multiple languages. Private high schools may have also specific admission requirements, such as high grades, high scores on an entrance exam, or a special assessment. The tuition for private high schools is often higher than that for the public system. Enrollment Characteristics Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
DataRecovery Deleted or lost files can sometimes be recovered from failed or formatted drives and partitions, CD-ROMs and memory cards using the free/libre software available in the Ubuntu repositories. The data is recoverable because the information is not immediately removed from the disk. Follow these steps to recover lost data. You should NOT write to the failed device, as it can worsen a hardware failure, and overwrite existant data in case of lost files . Shut down the affected machine as soon as possible, and restart it from a LiveCD or LiveUSB. Guidelines The following software will passively try to recover your data from failed or failing hardware. If your device is damaged, it is advisable to image the device and work on the image file for data recovery. To recover data from a failed device, you will need another device of equal or greater storage onto which to save your data. An Ubuntu Desktop CD will work fine. Lost Partition GNU Parted sudo swapoff -a sudo parted /dev/sda rescue START END or
H&R Block screws NRA and gun owners [Archive] - The FAL Files Moderator, Please don't move this. It needs the WIDEST publication. Thanks. Press Release For Immediate Release March 12, 2002 Contacts: Julie Bernstein Kristin Becker membercenter@gunindustrywatch.org H&R Block Severs Ties with National Rifle Association Washington, D.C. "Let this send a loud message to other corporate partners of the NRA," said Alliance for Justice President Nan Aron. "The termination of this agreement is a tremendous victory for everyone who was outraged that a reputable business like H&R Block would support an extremist organization like the NRA," said Michael D. "Corporations doing business with the NRA should be very concerned by the large efforts of hundreds of gun safety activists that came out in defiance of H&R Block's agreement with the NRA," said Bryan Miller of the Mid-Atlantic Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence. H&R Block had entered into an agreement with a marketing company called Memberdrive to market its products and services to NRA members.