Friday, July 26, 2013

You asked for it, ladies | A Voice for Men

No, this isn?t a post about rape. In fact, it?s about the opposite. It?s about walking away, maybe running away. Specifically, it?s about the right to run?specifically, men?s right to decline to trust, to, eschew focus on relationships, and to refuse to open themselves to women beyond anything but the most superficial levels of interaction.

Why?

Because of the folks who dismiss or advocate for false accusers (you know, the people who rail against due process for men in criminal or family court) while claiming both moral superiority and their own right to turpitude with impunity, push men around, knock them to the ground, step on them, and kick them when they?re down. Those same folks have the screaming audacity to act shocked and appalled when men feel maligned, get fed up, pick themselves up, turn their backs, and walk away.

My opinion of your sniffing response at men who don?t want any part of you anymore is simple: Kwitcherbitchen, ladies. It?s your own damned fault. You have no business complaining.

In recent weeks, there have been more than a few volatile discussions on the topic of the MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) movement. I?ve been part of similar discussions in the past, and what I learned is that other women with any real understanding of the evolution of Men Going Their Own Way, and women who are willing to acknowledge why we women may not be justified in complaining about it, are few and far between.

What I?ve heard from other women on this topic is often hypocritical at best, considering the decades we?ve had of feminists teaching women to hate and fear all men on the chance that some might be dangerous. Admonitions? like ?not all women are like that,? and ?don?t let a few bad eggs spoil your opinion,? are empty when offered to male survivors of habitual or chronic abuse by women, on women?s behalf.

At worst, there is a hurling of denial, accusation, and resentment, with complex versions of ?how dare you withdraw respect,? ?how dare you reject our judgement? and ?how dare you deny our control,? all of which are nothing more than a demand that men not learn from experience. Most of these responses stem from a sense of ownership?an ownership which feminist advocacy seems to feel it is entitled to in the realm of relationships, social interaction between sexes, and most emphatically, over sexual interaction.

The general social and legal treatment of males?has begun to remind me of a book I studied in a high school literature class: Richard Wright?s Black Boy. The passage that comes to mind as a highlighting parallel is the recounting of Wright?s first job interview.

?Do you want the job?? the woman asked.

?Yes, ma?am,? I said, afraid to trust my own judgment.

?Now, boy, I want to ask you one question and I want you to tell me the truth,? she said.

?Yes, ma?am,? I said, all attention.

?Do you steal?? she asked me seriously.

I burst into a laugh, then checked myself? I had made a mistake during my first five minutes in the white world. I hung my head.

?No, ma?am.? I mumbled. ?I don?t steal.?

She stared at me, trying to make up her mind.

?Now, look, we don?t want a sassy nigger around here.?

?No, ma?am.? I assured her. ?I?m not sassy.?

Wright goes on to describe his incredulity at the senselessness of the woman?s expectation that he would honestly answer such a question, but I remember at the time that I read the story feeling outraged at the woman?s implied assumptions in asking. The question suggested that being black meant he was suspect. The rest of the discussion demonstrated that sense of superiority among racist whites which lead to the treatment of?all blacks as children, as mentioned in the text following the?conversation. Further, the candid presentation of the insult represented by the initial?question, ?Do you steal?? struck me in its callousness, cruelty, and elitism. This woman felt entitled to treat Wright as an inferior being simply because of the darkness of his skin. To her, his ability to form and adhere to a moral code was questionable, and his emotional response to mistreatment and misjudgment irrelevant, all for no better reason than because he was black. After reading Wright?s recounting of the discussion, I felt a sense of impotent disgust and anger at the folks who chose to embrace such a heartless, barbaric outlook. I wondered: what the hell was wrong with these people, that they could live this way, think this way, talk this way, right to the faces of their fellow human beings?

In the past, the treatment of our fellow human beings in this manner was widespread and overt, supported in society by political writing full of made-up reasoning and lame excuses, well exemplified in a quote from John C. Calhoun?s February 6, 1837 Senate Speech.

I may say with truth, that in few countries so much is left to the share of the laborer, and so little exacted from him, or where there is more kind attention paid to him in sickness or infirmities of age. Compare his condition with the tenants of the poor houses in the more civilized portions of Europe?look at the sick, and the old and infirm slave, on one hand, in the midst of his family and friends, under the kind superintending care of his master and mistress, and compare it with the forlorn and wretched condition of the pauper in the poorhouse?

The statement overflows with condescension. The hypocrisy of a politician in the service of a nation begun with one group?s quest for freedom from the control of others who viewed them as inferior, arguing for the control of others he views as inferior, shines a glaring light on the arrogance and pomposity of the culture of supremacy. One must assume oneself to be?grand before one may consider one?s acts of aggression against and oppression of others to be a kindness. One must fully immerse oneself in the murky bog of intellectual bigotry before one may presume to hold others with such falsely ?benevolent? contempt.

I see the same thing in today?s feminist attitude toward men, shown by the treatment of?them as borderline animals with violent tendencies and barely contained sexual impulses, instead of as fully established human beings. Wright?s white employer treated him as dishonest, stupid, and lacking in either the emotional makeup to be?offended at the assumption, or the right to act on it. Despite their frequent denials, Feminism almost universally paints men with equally sweeping, bigoted generalities. Males are treated?as potential criminals; batterers, muggers, mashers, molesters, rapists, murderers; portrayed as inept, as deadbeats, as lacking emotional maturity and sensitivity, and as intellectually inferior, all for the purpose of excusing subjecting them to the very same disdainful and authoritarian treatment from which the civil rights movement has actively sought to relieve minorities throughout history. Even those feminists who don?t talk this way overtly deny the existence of, obfuscate, and give cover to the ones who do.

Feminist advocacy has pushed men into a corner, restricting them to narrowly defined, impossible to fulfill roles. In conflicts between men and women, men are designated?by various laws as perpetrators, presumed guilty until proven innocent. In family court, men have become nonpersons, nonparents, interlopers begging for any share in the existence of?their children ? for crumbs from the table of parental involvement ? seen as undeserving of regard or relationship, yet fully responsible for the well-being of the families from which they have been expelled. In education and the workplace, males of all ages are targets for both harassment and persecution, using female-centered human resource and behavioral policy to give women control over even the most minute aspects of interaction. Literally, everything men say, and everything they do not say, can and will be held against them. In daily life, men are subjected?to disparaging humor of a type which women need not tolerate, and men are routinely treated with suspicion which women would not abide. Men are treated to shaming of natural behavior in ways which women have fought to escape, objectification which women refuse to accept, and pressure to conform to standards of instinct-control and self-denial which women have been protesting for generations. Every exposure to female scrutiny and behavior, from the simplest everyday interaction to the complexities of various relationships, presents men with the threat of unwarranted censure under the feminist rules of intersex engagement.

The widespread female attitude of superior contempt, combined with activism which has successfully advocated the bypassing of human rights for men in the pursuit of female interests, and the application of double standards in every aspect of male-female interaction, has pushed some men beyond the point of reasonable tolerance. In response, they (and they are growing in number) have chosen to withdraw from the arena of male-female relationships in every way, opting out of collaborative personal investment in any woman. Such vulnerability could result in being used, abused, accused, adjudged, and enslaved. Why face the risk?

Now, after heaping pressure, resentment, bitterness, anger, hatred, blame, shame, and lies upon men as a group, after bawling first for equality, then for preferential treatment, now for absolute power, after shoving men to the side in the pursuit of self-interest, the femosphere has the gall to be?offended at the rejection represented by MGTOW.

The basis for protest seems to be the assertion that, just by virtue of our existence, men owe women some level of regard. It?s not supposed to matter that women are currently abusing feminist-won power, successfully using various false allegations as a weapon in disputes as a means of shutting down fathers who seek to maintain family relationships following divorce or separation, and even absent these gross abuses still routinely, even unthinkingly, use it as a tool to control every minor interaction with men?even, most ironically of all, using it as a means of?garnering attention and sympathy from other women.

Men are expected?to ignore not just the very real danger of being subjected to anything from public censure to prosecution and imprisonment with no recourse, to everyday malignment of their character and unthinking, axiomatic expectation that they must ?prove? themselves to e ?good? men in the face of possible lies and other misconduct toward them

Even though men are all treated as perpetual suspects, and despite abuses they may have encountered in past interactions, they?re supposed to presume innocence for every woman they meet. Even though men have collectively been objectified, marginalized, and devalued, they?re expected to offer social respect for our sex, acting on the assumption of?altruistic nurturing and higher moral disposition, with no supporting evidence other than the difference in genitalia. After decades of feminist protest against traditional relationship roles and demands for sexual equality, men are required to accept a set of rules of engagement imposed for the purpose of treating female sexuality as a commodity, while simultaneously ignoring the mercenary, exploitative motive behind the hoops through which they?re being ordered to jump.

Somehow, despite feminist assertion that women are entitled?to pursue sexual gratification with the same enthusiasm and indifference they?ve attributed to men, men are still expected to make all of the effort, leaving women free to approach interaction with the attitude of, ?What?s in it for me?? While feminist advocacy has fought to free women from the presumption of female sexual consent within a relationship, the same group continues to assert the demand for male consent to sexual interaction?if he doesn?t want it he?s inferior and if you push it on him he was, what, asking for it?

The choice of men to ignore these expectations, to refuse to cater to the rapacious nature of female dating criteria, flies in the face of the existing entitlement franchise women have seized. Far from acknowledging the iniquitous degree to which women, under modern social norms, have taken all this as if it were their entitlement, feminist advocates treat this resistance by men as a form of insubordination, claiming that by withdrawing their much-abused trust and intimacy, men are somehow denying women control over our own sexuality. The argument, reduced to its basest level, is that in order to?ensure?female sexual freedom, men cannot be allowed equal right to say no. Feminists claim total, uncompromisable?proprietary ownership and control of consent agency.

This, broken down to its simplest form, is a demand that straight men submit?their will and become nothing more than slaves.

Ladies, what honest, compelling reason can you offer to counter the existing circumstances which provoked this defensive movement? Would you seriously advise?anyone to place his heart back into the meat grinder that human courtship has become under the management and regulation of modern feminism? What reward potential can you possibly offer which has not been previously?ruined by other women? What protection can you assure which has not been eradicated by feminist activism? What comfort do you have that is more than lip service?

My answer to all of the?above, the only honest answer I can form, is none.

This is a bed women made, not a circumstance inflicted upon us by men. If women?s concern over the growing distance between the sexes is genuine; if they have any motivation?at all to regain the regard and interest of men; hell, if women want even the honest respect of men (as opposed to the genuflecting respect of sycophantic men who, if we were honest with ourselves, we?d admit we can?t stand); if they want any of that, what women first need to realize that it?s not men?s job to address any of it. It?s on women.

If women don?t want men going their own way, women should quit pushing men around. If women can?t quit pushing men around, they?re going to have to accept that eventually, ?around? rightfully evolves into ?away.?

That?s the choice: Make the effort to earn back the regard, the trust, and the consideration to which past generations of women were accustomed? or accept the adversarial role?into which feminists have unceremoniously shoved us, but give up the privileges previously associated with being ?the fair sex.?

Source: http://www.avoiceformen.com/sexual-politics/m-g-t-o-w/you-asked-for-it/

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

The top 10 SummerSlams in history

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

No link between prenatal mercury exposure and autism-like behaviors found

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The potential impact of exposure to low levels of mercury on the developing brain -- specifically by women consuming fish during pregnancy -- has long been the source of concern and some have argued that the chemical may be responsible for behavioral disorders such as autism. However, a new study that draws upon more than 30 years of research in the Republic of Seychelles reports that there is no association between pre-natal mercury exposure and autism-like behaviors.

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The Day Ghana Stood Still!?When President Mills Died

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Source: www.modernghana.com --- Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Tuesday July 24, 2012 started as a normal day for Ghanaians with the usual hustle and bustle at every facet of the country. As usual, there were heavy traffic flows in certain parts of Accra. Nothing seemed unusual. I remember going to the Accra International Conference Centre that very morning to see someone and ended up seeing then Vice Presi ... ...

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Video: Gold's best day in over a year

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Monday, July 22, 2013

Q&A With Ford Motor Company CFO Robert Shanks

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StockTwits is pleased to announce that Ford Motor Company will once again be taking questions from the StockTwits community to be answered by CFO Robert Shanks.

Ford ($F) releases their latest quarterly earnings results and guidance at 7am ET on Wednesday, July 24th. The @Ford stream maintained by the Ford Investor Relations team will publish all key bullet points from their report on StockTwits in tandem with Wednesday mornings? release.

To follow up their conference call, CFO Robert Shanks encourages the StockTwits community to send their questions for him to answer. ?Please get your questions in before the markets close on Wednesday afternoon (4pm ET). ?When crafting your message, be sure to address it to @Ford and include the ticker symbol $F. Mr. Shanks will publish his answers to some of the best questions received on Thursday (July 25th).

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7 Ways to Revive A Dying Sale by Keith Rosen

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Keith Rosen - Global Authority on Sales Management, Training for Managers, Sales Management Coach ... Read up on press releases, annual reports, social media or articles on the company that you're calling on. If you want ...

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Morsi's family lashes out at Egypt's military

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi hold poster with photos of him as they march on a street in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 22, 2013. The family of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi accused the country's military generals Monday of "kidnapping" him, and said that it holds the army responsible for his "safety and security." (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi hold poster with photos of him as they march on a street in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 22, 2013. The family of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi accused the country's military generals Monday of "kidnapping" him, and said that it holds the army responsible for his "safety and security." (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Osama Morsi, left, Shaimaa, center, and Abdullah, right, children of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi attend a press conference, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 22, 2013. The family of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi accused the country's military generals Monday of "kidnapping" him, and said that it holds the army responsible for his "safety and security." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans as they march on a street in Cairo, EGY, Monday, July 22, 2013. The family of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi accused the country's military generals Monday of "kidnapping" him, and said that it holds the army responsible for his "safety and security." The poster at right with Arabic reads, "yes to legitimacy." (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi holds a poster with a photo of him during a demonstration in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 22, 2013. The family of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi accused the country's military generals Monday of "kidnapping" him, and said that it holds the army responsible for his "safety and security." (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi march on a street in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 22, 2013. The family of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi accused the country's military generals Monday of "kidnapping" him, and said that it holds the army responsible for his "safety and security." The poster at left in Arabic reads, "El-Sissi massacre." (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

(AP) ? The family of Egypt's ousted president lashed out at the military on Monday, accusing the generals of kidnapping Mohammed Morsi, who has been detained incommunicado in an unknown location for nearly three weeks.

The statement by Morsi's family at a Cairo press conference underlined the unknown fate of Egypt's first freely elected president. Morsi has not been seen and has had no known contact with lawyers, family or supporters since the military ousted him on July 3 after mass protests nationwide demanding his removal.

During that time, the Islamist leader has become a tool for both sides. The new military-backed government has used Morsi to put pressure on his Muslim Brotherhood, launching criminal investigations without actually bringing charges against him. Government officials have said only that he is safe, is well cared for and is being held for his own protection.

The Brotherhood, in turn, has sought to drum up sympathy by saying Morsi's detention shows the military's coup is taking the country into dictatorship, as it tries to expand street protests demanding he be reinstated as president.

At Monday's press conference, Morsi's daughter Shaimaa read out a statement by the family, saying, "We hold the leaders of the bloody military coup fully responsible for the safety and security of the president."

One of Morsi's sons, Osama, described his father's detention as the "embodiment of the abduction of popular will and a whole nation," and said the family will "take all legal actions" to end his detention.

"What happened is a crime of kidnapping," said Osama, who is a lawyer. "I can't find any legal means to have access to him."

He said that the family met with Morsi for the last time on July 3, shortly before military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi announced the president's ouster. Since then, they have had no contact with him. The son warned el-Sissi "and his coup leaders against harming the life, health or safety of the legitimate president, our father."

Speaking at the same news conference, the secretary-general of the doctor's syndicate, Gamal Abdel-Salam, said the union has asked the military to grant doctors access to Morsi to check his health. He said the deposed president suffers from diabetes and liver problems.

Morsi's son, however, denied that his father has health problems.

The Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails, and his Islamist allies have held near daily street protests in Cairo and across the country. They have rejected any dealings with the interim president and Cabinet, saying Morsi must be brought back to office before they will discuss any reconciliation.

Egypt's prosecutors have said they are investigating allegations that Morsi and Brotherhood officials conspired with the Palestinian militant group Hamas to carry out a 2011 attack on prisons that broke Morsi and other Brotherhood leaders out of jail during the 18-day uprising against autocrat Hosni Mubarak. However, prosecutors have not formally ordered Morsi detained for investigation ? meaning his detention effectively remains outside the legal system.

However, also there also seemed to be a media campaign aimed at further depicting Morsi as turning to outside powers. On Monday, the state-run Al-Ahram daily splashed on its front page claims of a new investigation against Morsi, though the prosecutors' office and the military quickly denied its report.

The report claimed investigators were examining whether Morsi asked the United States to intervene militarily in Egypt and asked Hamas to "spark violence" in the Sinai to rescue his rule in the final hours before el-Sissi removed him. The paper claimed the military had recordings of the conversations.

The prosecutor-general's spokesman, Ahmed el-Rakeeb, said the report was not true and that Al-Ahram's chief editor Abdel-Nasser Salama was summoned for questioning over it, the state news agency MENA said. Military spokesman Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali in a statement accused the paper of "aiming to cause confusion and provoke public opinion."

The US Embassy in Cairo also issued a statement denying the paper report and described it as "totally fabricated and completely untrue."

The United States has been caught in Egypt's political turmoil, as rival parties accuse it to meddling in the country's affairs.

On Monday, a senior Brotherhood figure escalated the group's campaign against the United States, calling on protesters to "besiege" the embassy and expel the ambassador.

Essam el-Erian, deputy head of the Brotherhood's political party said Monday, "the American role in the coup is very clear and no one can hide."

"I call upon all the masses of the Egyptian people ... to besiege the embassies until they leave," he said at a meeting of some 100 other Islamist former lawmakers from the now-disbanded upper house of parliament, which under Morsi was the only legislative body.

The civilian interim leadership is pushing through with its fast-track timetable to return to democratic rule, by forming a 10-member constituent panel to amend the now-suspended constitution that was largely drafted by Islamists and passed during Morsi's presidency.

At the same time, the Brotherhood continued street pressure.

Thousands rallied in downtown Cairo, marching to the Defense Ministry to protest the killings of Morsi's supporters during earlier rallies. Others clashed in overnight street battles with anti-Morsi protesters in vital Suez city leaving more than 100 injured. Security officials said that military beefed up security alongside the Suez Canal corridor, with special forces, snipers and armored vehicles.

Associated Press

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Football: Pittsburgh linebacker Deaysean Rippy expected to join CU Buffs

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The Colorado Buffaloes are expected to have a Rippy on their roster once again with an incoming transfer of Pittsburgh redshirt linebacker Deaysean Rippy.

CBS Sports' Jeremy Fowler reports that the transfer is almost done for the 6-foot-2, 200-pound linebacker saying "Colorado is close to finalizing paperwork for Pitt linebacker Deaysean Rippy to enter school as a transfer with 2014 eligibility, according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation. Rippy should join the Buffs barring an unforeseen development, the source said, but the move is not yet done."

Rippy is the cousin of former Colorado linebacker Doug Rippy, who was released in May by the Denver Broncos after playing for the Buffs. Deaysean Rippy was a highly-touted recruit in the 2012 class, signing with Pittsburgh following his senior season at Sto-Rox High School in McKees Rocks, Pa. He was Rivals' No. 21 outside linebacker for 2012 and the No. 9 player in the state of Pennsylvania.

Rippy was rated as a four-star recruit by both Rivals and Scout and had more than 150 total tackles and 16 sacks over his junior and senior seasons. He also had strong numbers on the offensive side of the ball, posting 906 yards and 12 touchdowns at wide receiver.

Rippy was recruited by Colorado for 2012, but chose the Panthers over the Buffs and reported offers from Alabama, Auburn, Ohio State, West Virginia, Arizona and USC, among others. He redshirted last season and told the Tribune-Review he was leaving Pittsburgh in May, saying, "I was on the verge of being sure. I was kind of overwhelmed. I was an 18-year-old kid at the time. That's a lot of pressure."

Rippy was not on Pittsburgh's two-deep depth chart after the end of spring practice. The linebacker (No. 11 in the video of junior highlights above) would sit out the 2013 season and join the Buffs in 2014, once the transfer is finalized.

Source: http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_23703863/football-pittsburgh-linebacker-deaysean-rippy-expected-join-cu?source=rss_viewed

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Sunday, July 21, 2013

?We Will Not Retreat,? Teachers Union Rep Tells PUSH

CHICAGO (STMW) ? The Rev. Jesse Jackson and a Chicago Teachers Union representative said on Saturday that work will be done to fight back against the recent layoffs of more than 2,100 Chicago Public Schools employees, as well as laws that led ultimately to the acquittal last week of George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.

Addressing a crowd that included some CTU members, in red T-shirts, CTU organizer Brandon Johnson spoke at the Saturday Morning Forum at Rainbow-PUSH headquarters, 930 E. 50th St.

?The mayor of Chicago ? has misled the people by claiming we can close the budget deficit by closing scores of schools,? Johnson said. He said that CPS?s move to let go of 2,113 employees, including 1,036 teachers and 1,077 support staff, ?is unconscionable, and it?s dirty. This move by CPS will continue to exacerbate an already stressed system,? he said.

?We will not retreat,? Johnson said. In an effort to get action from elected representatives, he said, ?we?re gonna show up to ward nights, we?re gonna organize, get people elected. There is a line in the sand. That line is drawn today. We shall not be moved.?

Jackson said of those laid off by CPS, ?These people played by the rules, yet they don?t have a job today. The good news is they?re fighting back.?

Speaking about the Zimmerman acquittal, and the thought that some have expressed that it?s led to a conversation on race, Jackson said, ?It?s time for racial justice, not just racial conversation.?

He recalled the civil rights struggles of the past half-century, saying that each time a victory was won, there was ?daylight.? When Barack Obama as elected president in 2008, Jackson said, ?it was high noon,? but then a backlash came. ?In came an onrush of meanness and hostility,? with opponents of the president saying he was not born in the U.S., or that he was a Muslim. They were saying, Jackson said, ?he won, but he?s not one of us.?

These are among the same people who, when Obama addressed the racial divide in this country by speaking about the Zimmerman verdict this week, called him ?divisive,? Jackson noted. As a contrast, Jackson said, when presidents Carter or Clinton spoke of civil rights, met with members of Martin Luther King?s family or appeared on the Arsenio Hall show, they were said to be ?reaching out? to the African-American community.

Likening the death of Trayvon Martin to those of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers, and how their deaths sparked action in the black community, Jackson said, ?there?s power in the blood of the innocent.?

While it may seem that the sun is setting on the promise that past civil rights victories and Obama?s election brought, Jackson implored the crowd, ?Even when it?s dark, we toil at night. When it?s dark, we work the night shift. My light will shine when they take my job, when they take my schools, when there?s danger all around me, when there?s fear all around me. Light will cast out darkness.?

Also at the meeting, a 21-year-old intern at Rainbow-PUSH related a tale of being profiled by police this past week while walking near Rainbow-PUSH headquarters with another summer intern. He said they were made to put their hands on the hood of the unmarked car and handcuffed as a criminal check was run and subsequently came back negative. The situation, which he said has happened to him in the past, was resolved only when a PUSH employee walking by saw them being detained by police, and got others who were at PUSH to go out to the scene.

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire ? Chicago Sun-Times 2013. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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Just Like Van Gogh, Ocean Waves Paint Clouds In The Sky

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If you can't get to a beach this weekend, you can still see waves. Just look up.

Clouds, after all, are sculpted by waves of air. These clouds, in Birmingham, Ala., were formed when two layers of air ? one fast, the other slow ? collided at just the right speed to create rises and dips that caused the clouds to curl in on themselves and crash, just like waves on a beach.

They are called Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds. They don't last long, but they remind us that we live in a turbulent ocean of air. So too does this video, created by Simon Christen, who many mornings dragged his camera to a lookout high up in the Marin Headlands near San Francisco to watch a tide of Pacific fog come pouring in over the mountains, like a foamy, milky cascade. The air looks exactly like a wild sea.

But now comes an even more beautiful connection. Not only do clouds look like ocean waves, sometimes waves in the ocean help create clouds in the sky.

In his book, The Wave Watcher's Companion, Gavin Pretor-Pinney says that when waves come crashing down at a beach, creating that white, frothy foam, "the turbulence causes countless tiny air bubbles to form and burst, releasing a fine mist of water droplets into the air."

How Ocean Waves Build Clouds

When the water evaporates, what's left are microscopic bits of salt suspended in the air. (That's why the beach air tastes so salty.) As the air gets hotter, those bit of salt rise higher and become magnets for moisture.

Think of a little dot of salt moving up, up, up into the cooler wetter air. Bits of moisture cling to it as it rises, becoming droplets, the droplets begin to attach to each other, and before you know it, salt-seeded droplets are composing themselves into low-lying clouds.

The ocean, then, is seeding clouds in the sky!

(This doesn't mean you will see little clouds hanging above every wave-crashing beach. Nothing's that simple. What Pretor-Pinney is saying is that ocean waves produce some of the "condensation nuclei" that drift around the lower atmosphere, but the connection is real: Waves below can produce clouds above. That's why cloud spotters, though they may not realize it, are really wave watchers ? tuning in late.

I like listening to "Stacey" and her friends as they shoot footage of the Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds in Alabama. They are amazed by what they see, ("They're going to think I'm crazy, because this looks like a wave!" "That's not why we think you're crazy, Stacey.") They want to call the local TV weatherman to figure out what's happening. They want to know what's going on.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/07/19/203592228/just-like-van-gogh-ocean-waves-paint-clouds-in-the-sky?ft=1&f=1007

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Satechi Bluetooth Wireless Smart Keypad review

None of the laptops and keyboards I’ve had in the past several years has had a separate numeric keypad, and I still miss them. ?Even for something as simple as entering my ZIP Code, I often begin to reach for the right side of my Apple Bluetooth keyboard before I remember there are no number [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2013/07/20/satechi-bluetooth-wireless-smart-keypad-review/

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Hot summer for Japan and China disputes

Prime Minister Abe made some pointed comments this week, highlighting Japan's determination not to yield to China on territorial issues.

By Justin McCurry,?Correspondent / July 19, 2013

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (l.), who is also leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, shakes hands with voters during his stumping tour for the July 21 Upper House election in Funabashi, east of Tokyo, July 19.

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If Prime Minister Shinzo Abe?s choice to visit voters on a sparsely populated island in the East China Sea on a campaign stop earlier this week is any indicator, it could be a long and tense summer for Japan?s already fractious relations with China.

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?Today, we face continuing provocation to our country's territorial land, sea, and airspace," he told coast guard officers on the island of Ishigaki, located just 93 miles from the disputed Senkaku Islands, which are also claimed by China.

Though he was speaking to voters ahead of upper house elections this weekend ?? which are expected to give the Japanese prime minister?s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) control of both chambers of the Diet for the first time in six years ?? Prime Minister Abe?s real audience was China.

?Abe's message to China is extremely clear in regard to Japan's determination not to yield to China on territorial disputes,? says?Christopher Hughes, professor of international politics and Japanese studies at Warwick University in the UK.?

Abe said the that repeated incursions by Chinese surveillance ships into waters near the islands ? known as the Diaoyu in China ? posed an ?extreme challenge? to Japan?s territorial security.?

Later, Abe told voters from Ishigaki that he would make ?no compromise, not even a step? on the territorial issue.

Abe?s comments were a reminder that the perceived naval threat from China remains uppermost in his foreign policy thinking as China seeks to gain the upper hand by sending surveillance ships to the disputed area no fewer than 52 times in the past 10 months.

?Japan is keen not to militarize the dispute and is using the very substantial Japan Coast Guard as its first line of defense to ward off the Chinese presence," says Mr. Hughes.??His visit to Ishigaki ? was a demonstration of Japan's resolve on the territorial issue. It was designed to send a message loud and clear to China about Japan's standing up for the defense of its claimed territory, even if it is doing so through the civilian coast guard.?

Away from the economy?

In recent days, Abe has broken off from his early focus on Abenomics ? his multifaceted prescription for Japan?s deflation ills ? to remind Beijing that it could soon be dealing with a less benign Japan.

Last month, Japan noted China?s ?dangerous? maritime activities as a threat to stability in its annual Defense white paper ? a reflection of Tokyo?s military shift from Russia in the North to China in the southwest.

Tensions between the two East Asian rivals reached a low point in?September, when Japan?s then prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, nationalized three of the islets that comprise the Senkaku chain, sparking violent protests in Chinese cities.

While armed conflict to secure rights to the Senkaku Islands? rich fishing grounds and potentially huge gas deposits is almost unthinkable, analysts have warned of the dire unintended consequences of an accident or military misstep.

Coming up

The coming months could prove critical in determining the immediate future of relations between China and Japan, the world?s second- and third-biggest economies, with vitally important trade ties.

This week the Yomiuri Shimbun reported that Japan could nationalize hundreds of unclaimed remote islands in an attempt to shore up its territorial claims. If any island?s ownership is unclear, the government will give it an official name and nationalize it, the Yomiuri said.

The region is also waiting to see if Abe, a nationalist, will use his party?s expected election victory this weekend to kick-start his campaign to revise Japan?s pacifist Constitution and turn the self-defense forces into a regular army, complete with the legal authority to come to the aid of an ally even if Japan is not itself under attack.

There is a faint possibility, too, that Abe will choose to mark the?Aug. 15, anniversary of Japan?s defeat in the Asia-Pacific War by paying an official visit to Yasukuni, a Shinto shrine in Tokyo that honors the country?s war dead, including several class-A war criminals. Abe has not commented on a possible visit, but is known to regret failing to pay homage at the shrine when he served as prime minister for a year in 2006.

This September, China is unlikely to allow the first anniversary of?Japan?s purchase of the Senkaku Islands to pass unnoticed.

Cautious optimism

Despite the delicate diplomatic backdrop, there are reasons for cautious optimism, according to Tetsuo Kotani, a research fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs.

?Both Japan and China understand that they have to find common ground after September,? Mr. Kotani says. ?Their claims [over the Senkaku Islands] at completely at odds, so it will be hard to change their basic stance.?

One option, however, would be for Japan to end its insistence that there is no diplomatic case to answer over the islands, thereby allowing Tokyo to maintain its sovereignty claim and China to score a minor diplomatic victory.

Aides to Abe and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, are working furiously to arrange an informal meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Russia in September in the hope that the two leaders can begin an overdue thaw, Kotani says.

?But Japan understands that this is not a good time to fundamentally change its relations with China or South Korea,? Kotani adds. ?The leaders of those countries face domestic challenges [notably cementing their new leaderships] over which Japan has very little influence. It would be better for Japan to adopt a wait-and-see approach.?

?Exacerbated tensions?

Professor Hughes agrees that political transition in Beijing has encouraged the regime to play up territorial and nationalist issues, but adds that Japan, too, has ?exacerbated tensions? under Abe.

While standing firm?on the Senkaku Islands issue is understandable, Hughes says, the LDP?s obsession with historical revisionism, constitutional change, and other items on the Japanese nationalist wish list is ?simply worsening ties with China and South Korea, and is counterproductive for Japan's efforts to demonstrate its position as a leading international and liberal power in East Asia,? he says.

?Rather than moving to a brave new equilibrium, Japan just appears backward looking, obsessed with its past, and incapable of leading the region forwards.?

There appears to be little prospect, though, of a lull in the diplomatic tit-for-tat between now and September.

On Thursday, Chinese media accused Abe of playing the ?China threat? card in an attempt to pick up extra votes on Sunday.

The People?s Daily, the newspaper of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, accused Abe of using the Senkaku dispute to rearm Japan. ?The aim is to create tension and provoke incidents; to push Japan?s military development,? it said.

Fence mending??

Still, Hughes believes that Abe, who after Sunday will not have to face an election for another three years, may yet build on attempts to mend fences with China and South Korea, having recently sent envoys to?Beijing and Seoul.

?One hope might be that when he wins the upper house elections, that will give him a sufficient mandate and domestic breathing space to appeal less to certain elements of the electorate and his party by looking tough, and instead start talking to China,? he said.

?However, another thesis is that Abe will simply become more emboldened to focus on his real political agenda, which is not so much?Abenomics, but his pet projects on revisionism and military strengthening.?

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/world/~3/CMfFTVe4UoM/Hot-summer-for-Japan-and-China-disputes

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Friday, July 19, 2013

[Communiqu? de presse] Ubisoft fait monter la temp?rature avec Les Experts: Miami Heat Wave sur iPhone/iPad et Facebook

Les Experts: Miami Heat Wave est la suite du jeu Facebook ? succ?s Les Experts : Crime Scene Investigation : La cit? du crime

Ubisoft annonce aujourd?hui que les joueurs du monde entier vont d?sormais pouvoir exercer leurs talents de d?tectives partout, avec la sortie du titre Les Experts: Miami? Heat Wave, le premier jeu free-to-play et multiplateforme d?Ubisoft disponible sur iOS et Facebook.

Les joueurs rejoignent Horatio Caine et son ?quipe dans ce nouveau jeu vid?o d?enqu?tes, tir? de la s?rie t?l?vis?e ? succ?s Les Experts : Miami?. Ils travaillent de pair avec leurs coll?gues Experts pour enqu?ter sur des sc?nes de crimes exotiques, interroger des suspects et analyser les preuves pour lever le voile sur les myst?res du jeu. Enqu?tant sur de nouvelles pistes, ils peuvent utiliser des gadgets ?tonnants pour d?crypter les preuves. De r?v?lation en r?v?lation, Horatio Caine les guide dans leurs investigations ? travers les lieux les plus iconiques de Miami.

Avec le tout dernier jeu Les Experts sur Facebook, maintenant disponible sur iPhone, Ipod et iPad, les joueurs peuvent d?sormais :
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Obama to talk up health care law's rebates

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Eager to counter Republicans intent on repealing his health care law, President Barack Obama will argue that it's working and hold up as proof half a billion dollars in rebates insurance companies are sending to some 8.5 million consumers as a result.

At the White House on Thursday, Obama will argue that his Affordable Care Act is holding insurance companies accountable and putting money back into the pockets of consumers. The rebates average about $100, spokesman Jay Carney said.

Obama was arguing his case a day after the Republican-controlled House voted for the 38th time to eliminate, cut funding or scale back the 3-year-old law since the GOP took control of the House in January 2011.

Carney also seized on reports that some states, including New York, California and Oregon, already are anticipating lower premiums because of health insurance marketplaces that are being set up under the law so consumers can comparison shop for the coverage they will be required to by next year.

"Competition and transparency in the marketplaces, plus the hard effort by those committed to making the law work, are leading to affordable, new and better choices for families," he said.

The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to spend at least 80 cents of every dollar on medical care or quality improvement instead of administrative costs, or refund the difference. That's the $500 million consumers will collect this summer, half the $1.1 billion insurers gave back in 2012.

Republicans say the law is unworkable and must be repealed, arguing it will hurt the economy and force employers to cut much-needed jobs. They say proof that the law is unworkable lies in the administration's recent, unexpected decision to delay for one year, until after the 2014 elections, a requirement that businesses with 50 or more employees provide them with health care coverage or pay a penalty.

The Republican-controlled House held two health care votes Wednesday, both largely along party lines.

The House voted 264-161 to affirm the administration's decision to delay what's known as the employer mandate, the requirement that businesses of a specific size offer health care coverage to their workers. The House also voted 251-174 to extend a similar delay to individual Americans who will be required to obtain health care coverage starting Jan. 1, or face fines.

The votes were held to score political points. The House measures have no chance of clearing the Democratic-controlled Senate and the White House has said Obama would veto both if they were to reach his desk.

The goal of the health care law is to provide coverage to nearly 50 million uninsured people and lower skyrocketing costs, but the public remains skeptical about how their coverage may be affected. The administration's decision to delay the employer mandate only served to fuel more doubts.

"The president's health care law is a job-killing train wreck that is already hurting America's economy," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a statement issued after the votes. "Protecting big business from the president's health care law but denying the same relief to individuals and families is unfair and indefensible."

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Average refund by state: http://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resources/Data-Resources/Downloads/2012-mlr-rebates-by-state-and-market.pdf

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There's rumors of a mysterious girl in a forest in the California wilderness. There is also talk of sudden disappearances. And there are about to be quite a few more.

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Can I please reserve the teen?

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Cell Phone-Cancer Link to Be Revisited

Renewed interest in whether prolonged cell phone use and exposure to radiation can cause cancer has caused the Federal Communications Commission to revisit the potential risks. In April, the FCC announced it's soliciting information from health experts on the current research.

Some scientists and consumer groups have been critical of the FCC, since it has not revised its standards for mobile devices since 1996.

Kerry Crofton, Ph.D., author of ?A Wellness Guide for the Digital Age: With Safer-Tech Solutions for All Things Wired and Wireless,? believes that by not updating the industry standards for the past 17 years, the government has been lax in protecting the public.

?The BioInitiative Report 2012, an international group of scientists who reexamined these standards, did an exhaustive study of the evidence of a potential link between mobile phone use and brain cancer, as well as other concerns, and found flaws in the standards,? said Crofton, co-founder and executive director of Advisory Board Doctors for Safer Schools.

?There were very few cell phones in service back in 1996, and now, by some estimates, there are 5 billion globally," Crofton said. "The other concern is that the standards were based only on testing a 200-pound male mannequin, but the standards do not apply to more sensitive groups, such as children, pregnant women and teens.?

Current research has delved far more deeply into the potential risks. David Gultekin, a researcher at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, is conducting research into Specific Absorption Rates (SAR) of radiation into brain tissue via cell phone radiation.

?This needs further study, but what we know right now is that it is heavily absorbed by brain tissue,? said Gultekin. ?Radiation penetrates the brain and gets absorbed. It also causes the temperature of the tissue to rise. We also know that absorption is not uniform throughout the brain, that there are hot spots that cause variations in energy inside the tissue.?

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Thursday, July 18, 2013

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Australian Detective in Dallas Texas and Atlanta Georgia Sept 2013


Hello fellow LEO's,

I am a Detective from Melbourne Australia, part of the Victoria Police force.
I will be visiting the lovely state of Dallas Texas from the 25th Sept until the 28th Sept 2013. Looking to visit any of the local police stations or detective offices in the area.

I will also be in Atlanta Georgia from the 28th until the 30th october.

I will be staying downtown and look forward to swapping patches, pins, stories etc.

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PFT: Cruz thinks he took less than he deserves

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Eight NFL teams will participate in a pilot program this year which would put a player?s entire medical record at a doctor?s fingertips on the sideline, though there are still plenty of questions to be answered.

According to Tom Pelissero of USA Today, the plan could put everything from X-rays to baseline concussion tests onto handheld computers, and information could eventually be moved from team to team.

The Steelers, Ravens, Broncos, Texans, Patriots, Giants, Jets and 49ers will participate in the program, which would move information through the internet into each player?s electronic medical record.

?Let?s say he starts out with the Rams, and then he?s either cut or traded or leaves as a free agent, goes to the Denver Broncos, then the information will be portable,? said Matthew Matava, Rams team physician and president of the NFL Physicians Society. ?The Denver doctors will then have any information that was accrued while he was in St. Louis. Like any other electronic medical record, it will be portable with the player and therefore very accurate.?

The last collective bargaining agreement provided for such a system, though there are concerns among some players, agents and the NFLPA about how information would be distributed, and whether it could be used against players eventually.

The NFLPA didn?t respond to requests for comment, and the league said they?re still discussing with the union how to handle the technology.

?It is a work in progress,? the league said in a statement. ?We will not use the EMR to share records between teams until after the pilot stage of the program.?

It sounds like a great idea. While players have a general sense of their own histories (or should), having their charts available to a new staff when they change teams should ultimately be a good thing for them.

But most agree that HGH testing is a good idea as well, and the league and union haven?t figured out how to implement that, either.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/16/victor-cruz-thinks-he-took-less-than-he-deserves/related/

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GOP, Dems both laud deal to avoid ?nuclear option?

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters as lawmakers brokered a deal over filibusters of White House appointees on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Senate leaders on Tuesday lauded a compromise on presidential nominations that averted a fight that was likely to thrust the chamber into partisan chaos.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in separate news conferences made official what was known on Capitol Hill throughout the morning and early afternoon: Democrats withdrew plans to employ the so-called nuclear option to change Senate rules and eliminate the minority?s ability to filibuster President Obama?s nominees and Republicans agreed to release their objection to five of seven long-delayed nominations Obama sent to the Hill months ago.

But the unresolved issue both leaders sidestepped was what will happen if Democrats and Republicans end up in a similar conflict during the remaining 18 months of the 113th Congress.

McConnell light-heartedly accused reporters who asked about this hypothetical but realistic scenario of trying to ?rain? on a positive outcome and of ?snatching defeat from the jaws of victory,? emphasizing that ?a high level of collegiality on a bipartisan basis was achieved.? And Reid, while saying he was very ?happy? and hopeful that this compromise inaugurated a new era of functionality in the Senate, made clear what would happen if relations between the parties deteriorate again.

?Feelings don?t last forever, and I understand that,? Reid told reporters. ?They?re not sacrificing their right to filibuster, and we ? damn sure ? aren?t [giving up] our right to change the rules if necessary.?

Reid?s plan was dubbed the nuclear option because it would have ignored the Senate rule that mandates 67 votes to change any rule, and forged ahead with a complicated parliamentary procedure to curb use of the filibuster by requiring nominees to win a simple majority rather than the 60 votes now needed. The rule change would have eliminated the filibuster for non-judicial executive branch nominees. In 2005, the then-majority Republicans proposed going nuclear to get around Democratic filibusters of President George W. Bush?s judicial nominees.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Reid?s threat to employ the nuclear option was borne out of frustration that went beyond GOP obstruction of Obama?s nominees. Democrats and Republicans, McCain said, have been frustrated by the chamber?s dysfunction, with Democrats charging that the GOP has abused the filibuster and Republicans asserting that the Democrats have trampled their legitimate right under Senate rules to influence the process.

But ultimately, neither side really wanted to test how dysfunctional and partisan the Senate could become if Reid employed the nuclear option. Republicans feared that a chamber with a diminished filibuster could eventually turn them into a less relevant minority ? at least until the 2014 elections. And Democrats appeared to fear that all legislative business could grind to a halt if the Republicans followed through with threats to retaliate.

Reid noted that the need to negotiate a compromise immigration reform solution ?is still ahead of us. ? It is a big hard bill.? And even Democrats who favor filibuster reform generally suggested they were more interested in getting Obama?s nominees through ? particularly Richard Cordray as head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ? than they were in changing the rules. Cordray was poised for confirmation Tuesday evening.

For the Republicans, the victory was getting the Obama administration and Senate Democrats to pull two nominees to the National Labor Relations Board that the president had previously installed during a disputed congressional recess. A federal court later found those recess appointments unconstitutional, and the GOP took solace in the fact that McConnell months ago offered to allow Obama?s labor board picks through if he replaced the same two controversial nominees.

The nearly four-hour closed door joint caucus meeting on Monday evening was credited by senators of both parties with giving them a forum to hear each others concerns and appreciate their points of view, which they said is rare in today?s Senate.

Ultimately, neither side wanted to be responsible for diminishing the Senate as an institution and suffering the practical consequences of what that might mean.

?I?m pleased that the Democrats decided to not break the rules to change the rules,? Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said.

david drucker Senior Congressional Correspondent

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Traditional American spicy BBQ chicken | Food & Drink Blog

Barbeque or BBQ is a technique of cooking meat over slow fire at low temperature. Traditionally American used wood for cooking meat and this gave a smoky flavor to the dish. The cooking style varies from one region to another though every method makes use of the spicy sauce in which the chicken is coated with while cooking. This dish contains lots of spices and has a spicy flavor than the usual American food and hence not advisable for pregnant mothers and nursing mothers.

Ingredients:

Vegetable oil ? 2 tablespoon
Finely chopped onion ? 1
Garlic minced ? 1 clove
Ketchup ? ? cup
Vinegar ? 1/3 cup
Worcestershire sauce ? 1 tbsp
Brown sugar ? 2 tsp
Dry mustard ? 1 tsp
Salt ? 1/ tsp
Black pepper ? ? tsp
Hot pepper sauce ? 5 ounce
Chicken pieces ? 3 pounds

Traditional American spicy BBQ chicken
Method of preparation:

  1. Heat oil in a skillet in medium flame and saute onion and garlic until soft.
  2. Add vinegar, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar, Hot pepper sauce, salt and pepper. Mix these well and allow it to boil.
  3. Reduce the flame and simmer well for 10 minutes. Stir well in between to prevent it from burning.
  4. Remove from heat and keep it aside.
  5. Preheat the grill in high flame.
  6. Slightly drizzle oil on the grill grate and arrange the chicken on it.
  7. Brush the sauce generously on the chicken and cook well for about 15 minutes on either side until the juices of the chicken are clear. You can also check by cutting a piece of chicken.
  8. Discard the remaining sauce after coating all chicken pieces with the sauce.
  9. Serve hot as soon as soon as it is off the grill.

Source: http://www.foodanddrinkbuzz.com/recipes/traditional-american-spicy-bbq-chicken.html

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