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This post was written by David Besnainou, who is studying abroad in Surfers Paradise, Australia.
Even when it comes to monsoonal rains, Australians seem to think everything is ‘roses and butterflies.’
When I entered a café and acknowledged a barista on a rainy Monday morning, I was tired and grumpy so I complained about the weather. Seeking some sympathy, I said, “I hate the rain! I did not come to the Gold Coast expecting a monsoon.” The lady bluntly responded with a candid smile, “At least it is not snowing.” I was very surprised by this answer and requested clarification,
“I have never heard of snow on the Gold Coast. Does it ever snow here?” Unaffected by my less-than-ecstatic mood, she retorted, “No, but imagine if it did, now that would suck!”
Despite the occasional downpour, the most sunlight country on the planet has learned how to profit off its natural environment. Ausra, a solar-thermal energy, is the first of its kind to create solar steam generators that retain heat during periods of transient cloud coverage, allowing for unparalleled integration with the electric grid.
This heavy reliance on the environment also appears in Australia’s rugged work ethic. Unlike Americans, once Australians graduate from high school, they do not pursue a college degree right away. Rather, many young adults harness nature and work in mines for several years, gladly exchanging arduous 15-hour workdays for six-figure salaries. Finally, at age 25 or 30, undergraduate students excel academically and do not tolerate weakness of character for themselves and others. They already earned their right of passage working in mines and now attend university to pursue high goals and ideals.
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niqash | 22.05.2007Today, shareholders are converging in London and The Hague for Shell's annual general meeting. As investors hobnob in the Champagne Suite of the Hammersmith Novotel, those working in the oilfields that the company seeks to control are ready to strike over an oil law that Shell has helped to craft.
The focus is the culmination of four years campaigning by the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU). Demands range from bread and butter issues such as land allocation, unpaid wages, holidays, health and safety and full-time status for temporary workers, to wider political issues which have been the founding bedrock of the union: protection of Iraq's oil wealth from foreign companies and a say in the future of the oil industry. Shell is one of the companies that the union has cautioned against entering Iraq "under the guise of so-called production sharing agreements."
Yet Shell has had a say and a proposed stake in the future of Iraq's oil industry for as long as the union has been organising. Whereas the demands of the union have been ignored, Shell, through doors blown open by the war and occupation, has accessed government decision makers and lobbyists on a regular basis.
Shell has been positioning itself to sign long-term exclusive contracts with the Iraqi government for the past four years. Ever since Shell misled investors over its reserves to the tune of 4bn barrels, it has been seeking replacement reserves. With 115bn barrels of proven reserves, occupied Iraq is where the prize still ultimately lies.
February saw the Iraqi cabinet approve a controversial hydrocarbon law. The law will grant foreign companies the dominant role in developing Iraq's reserves. If approved by parliament, foreign companies will have access to the largest reserves open to private control on the planet.
Neighbouring Saudi Arabia and Iran (first and second in the world oil-wealth stakes) do not have production-sharing agreements, the type of contract that the oil law proposes. They use technical service agreements, or buyback contracts, that leave decision-making powers including development, rates of production and extraction, to the state. Private oil companies there act as contractors rather than controllers.
The current Iraqi oil law will allow foreign companies to control production, with potentially unlimited profits in Iraq's undeveloped fields - accounting for two-thirds of Iraq's known reserves. This is to be done by production-sharing agreements - defined by critics as a form of privatisation by stealth. Under production-sharing agreements, foreign companies will put capital upfront to explore for oil and shoulder the risk if none is to be found or it is difficult to extract.
Iraq, however, is home to some of the easiest oil to access. Known as "low hanging fruit" by the industry, extraction costs range from $1-$1.50 per barrel. Under terms to be agreed by contract, the state would then relinquish a fixed percentage of profit to oil companies for a period of up to 30 years. The terms and conditions agreed in 2007 - under conditions of war and occupation - could last a generation until 2037, with virtually no opportunity to renegotiate.
Companies like Shell would expect concessions to offset the risks of working in a dangerous country like Iraq. Risk, as with all capital ventures, presents opportunity. The risk represented by massacres in Haditha and Fallujah, the car bombings and terror on the streets of Baghdad, military air raids, sieges, walls of separation, kidnappings and assassinations all figures into the balance sheets of companies like Shell.
Shell was a key player in moulding the current oil law. Shell representatives, along with those of eight other oil majors, the US and UK governments and the International Monetary Fund, saw the law just weeks after it was written in July 2006. It would be eight months before the law would be presented to Iraqi MPs. Shell commented upon and influenced the law throughout its drafting process.
Since July 2006, the British government has worked earnestly to influence the law, repeatedly consulting with Shell on the type of contracts it would like to obtain. Through the oil industry lobby organisation International Taxation and Investment Centre, Shell - along with six other major oil companies - has been pressuring the Iraqi government to grant long-term contracts that would give them exclusive rights to extract Iraq's oil. The British government, through the Foreign Office, has been helping, delivering a report strongly advocating production-sharing agreements to the Iraqi government.
Shell's involvement in shaping domestic economic policy in Iraq stretches back to March 2003. Just days before the bombing of Baghdad, senior Shell managers met at 10 Downing Street to insist that Iraq's oil should benefit not just US companies, but European companies too. A month later, 100 worker activists from the Southern Oil Company formed the Southern Oil Company Union, with the explicit aim of securing workers rights and defending Iraq's oil from privatisation. American companies were shown the door by the union when they tried to work in the fields. The Union faced down British soldiers in protests over three months of unpaid wages and won. Membership leapt from 100 to 3,000.
From February to September 2003, former Shell CEO Philip Carroll worked with the Coalition Provisional Authority on plans to restructure the Iraqi oil industry. Meanwhile, Iraqi oil workers embarked on a reconstruction effort - rebuilding drilling rigs, pipelines and refining and port equipment.
Union leaders also deconstructed Bremer's Order No 30 wage table - arguing that Iraqi oil workers needed more than the occupation set minimum wage of 69,000 Iraqi Dinar (approximately £30) per month. After threatening to shut down exports, the union succeeded in eliminating the last two categories of the wage table and won a new minimum rate in the oil sector of 102,000 ID (£45) per month. Membership and confidence swelled.
In 2004, Shell hired a Dubai-based exploration and production executive to act as its "country chairman" for Iraq - the most senior overseas post in the business. To assist the new chairman, Shell sought an Iraq lobbyist, advertising for "a person of Iraqi extraction with strong family connections and an insight into the network of families of significance within Iraq." In the same year, workplace elections were held in the Maysan, Basra and Dhi Qar provinces, creating the General Union of Oil Employees (GUOE). Candidates with strong connections and credentials among the workforce were chosen to lead in nine oil and gas companies. The establishment of the GUOE significantly strengthened networks of influence and organisation for working people in the southern oil sector and their communities. Union membership now stands at 26,000 across four governorates in the south.
So the view of a black gold rush that may have glittered from The Hague and London just got hazier. The organisational strength of the IFOU could be a major spanner in the works of Shell's lobbying and legal mechanisms. The IFOU has repeatedly warned companies like Shell to keep out of Iraq's oil fields. Union president Hassan Juma'a recently said of the strike: "The federation calls on all unions in the world to support our demands and to put pressure on governments and the oil companies not to enter the Iraqi oil fields."
Questions will be asked both inside Shell's AGM and outside, through a peaceful protest, about the ethics of its policies in Iraq. Likewise, through the efforts of Iraqi unions, the debate in Iraq will expand on who really does have the right to control Iraq's oil. Who will decide the fate of the resource that accounts for 95% of government revenue? And who should have a say in the future of Iraq's economy - Shell or the people of Iraq?
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Sylvia Mathews Burwell confirmed as US budget chief
WASHINGTON -- The Senate confirmed Sylvia Mathews Burwell as director of the White House budget office, adding a key player to this summer's looming battle over raising the debt limit.
The chamber easily approved her nomination Wednesday, voting 96-0 to install the one-time Clinton administration aide as just the second woman to run the Office of Management and Budget.
It's a job that will give her a pivotal role in negotiations with congressional Republicans over raising the borrowing cap as well as overseeing the government's $3.7 trillion budget and managing the automatic spending cuts known as sequestration.
"Her experience will be especially important as we continue our efforts to replace the indiscriminate budget cuts that are already starting to cost jobs, hurt families and inconvenience Americans," President Barack Obama said in a statement praising the Senate vote.
Burwell replaces Jeffrey Zients, who has been acting director of OMB since January 2012.
She will be returning to familiar territory, having served as deputy OMB director near the end of the Clinton administration -- a time, like today, when government was under divided control and the budget was a major issue. In his statement, Obama said she had been "part of an OMB team that presided over three budget surpluses in a row." A former Rhodes Scholar, she also was President Bill Clinton's deputy chief of staff as well as chief of staff to his Treasury secretary, Robert Rubin.
Burwell has worked in philanthropy since leaving Washington, running the global development program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation before heading up the Wal-Mart Foundation. That experience in deciding how to dole out limited funds to anti-malarial programs and other public health initiatives taught her to say "no" to those long on good intentions and short on funding, she told lawmakers -- a skill that will be useful in budget negotiations.
"You can imagine the many great things that I see every day that people want to fund," Burwell told the Senate Budget Committee at her confirmation hearing earlier this month. "Most of my days are filled with 'no' -- there are many more 'nos' than 'yeses,' actually, when one works in philanthropy. And so that is an experience that I have on a daily basis."
She will begin work at OMB just as fiscal issues are reappearing on lawmakers' agendas after a brief lull. Forced furloughs of air traffic controllers causing airline delays around the country are refocusing Congress's attention on the automatic budget cuts that took effect last month.
In addition, the latest debt-ceiling increase expires May 19, and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, says that raising the debt limit again will have to be accompanied by equivalent spending cuts. Lawmakers can probably stave off having to lift the ceiling until August, when Congress is scheduled to recess for about a month, because the Treasury Department can use accounting maneuvers to avoid breaching the cap.
Another round of sequestration begins in less than six months. That will cut an additional $109 billion out of the federal budget, half from defense. The government's annual budget process, meanwhile, is off to a slow start after the administration delayed releasing its 2014 plan for two months.
Burwell, the daughter of West Virginia optometrist, is the first woman to head the agency since Alice Rivlin was Clinton's budget director in the mid-1990s.
She is one of several women President Obama named to cabinet-level positions this year after some women's groups criticized the administration for selecting men to lead the State, Treasury and Defense departments. Obama has also named Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency and Sally Jewell to run the Interior Department; Jewell was confirmed on April 10. | <urn:uuid:e963c12b-f675-43f2-abcf-7e0053e4ba27> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.charlestondailymail.com/News/201304240150 | 2014-04-18T04:03:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609532480.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005212-00051-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967276 | 769 | [
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From: "Tony Christiansen" <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] FLORENCE
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:27:54 +1200
Thanks Irene, I have this detail, altho have marriage year for George and Mary MASSIE as 1884 not 1881.
We have corresponded before but always happy to have any new info you may have relating to FLORENCE.
I have George FLORENCE b. 11 Aug 1821 Kennethmont, Abd
Helen BENZIE b. 26 Nov 1819 Oyne, Abd
George FLORENCE b. 17 Apr 1859 @ Oyne d. 18 Oct 1918 @ Ythan Wells, Abd
Mary MASSIE 9 Feb 1881 @ Culsamond, Abd
If you are interested in this FLORENCE family I do have more info as one
is connected to an unrelated ESSON.
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We need a food stamp overhaul
POSTED: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 7:47pm
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 11:59am
tyler — I saw this in Laura Ingram's blog today.
At one of those hoity-toidy fish markets in the Washington D.C. area there was a sign on top of the jumbo crab legs saying you can buy that seafood delicacy with your food stamp card.
Now before you think I am heartless and cruel let me assure you I am not.
But, food stamps for that?
Also a story in Seattle yesterday about a rich couple living in the lap of luxury on Lake Washington with a scam of her husband evicting her from their home, and she's getting government assistance and food money from uncle sugar.
The Wall Street Journal reports food stamp use continued to rise in the U.S last year, with almost 12% of all households receiving some form of the assistance.
The Census Bureau says it's 15%.
Mississippi reported the largest share of its population relying on food stamps, more than 21%. One in five residents in New Mexico, Tennessee, Oregon and Louisiana also were food stamp recipients.
Look, this is one reason I hate to see taxes go up.
I think there is a lot of fraud in the system.
And if this many people need food because of hard times, I say let them get job training to get those benefits.
We just can't keep hauling out food stamps for everyone. Trouble is there are many politicians that see handing out goodies for votes. That's the cultural war we are in right now.
Let me say again, if you really need the help, you need the help.
But, if you don't, shame on you and we need to get that fixed.
But this is all good news, according to this administration. Remember, food stamps stimulate the economy!
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The Science of Brain Freeze
Have you ever experienced a freezing sensation after eating an ice cream cone? You’re with a group of friends eating the dessert, and suddenly you have a severe headache that lasts for a brief amount of time. You’re not alone because billions of individuals have endured this common reaction called sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. It’s also known as brain freeze or ice cream evoked headache. Why does even the simplest discomfort get a scientific name? But in all seriousness, what exactly happens to the body when one experiences a brain freeze?
Diagnosis: Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia
Symptoms: Head pain, sharp freezing sensation, toothaches
Causes: Consumption of ice cream, popsicles and other icy treats
Treatment: Drink warm fluids or wait (self-limiting)
Prevention: Eat cold foods at a slower pace!
There are two possible explanations behind pain and its association with a quick, big gulp of slushies, slurpees or Italian ice.
1) Blood vessel phenomenon: It is known that blood vessels constrict when the body experiences cold temperature and dilates when in hot temperature. This simple fact can be applied to the biological cause of brain freeze. Upon contact with ice, the blood vessels in the roof of the mouth begin to constrict, making the vessels in the head to expand, and thus creating a headache.
2) Trigeminal nerve factor: The trigeminal nerve is primarily responsible for the sensation of the face, also known as the fifth cranial nerve (CN-V). As a result of eating cold foods, the trigeminal nerve in the palate of the mouth becomes overstimulated. Stimulation of the nerve causes neurons to fire pain signals to the brain, producing a headache.
Brain freeze is one of those common occurrences that bring the curiosity out of us. Curiosity stems from human nature. What other topics have made you ask, why and how?
Kaczorowski, M. (2002). Ice cream evoked headaches (ICE-H) study: randomised trial of accelerated versus cautious ice cream eating regimen. BMJ, 325(7378), 1445-1446. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1445
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Students at Alabama State University need to see history.
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This apartment is in Gary. Nearby parks include Norton Park, Roosevelt Park and Leonard Douglas Stadium.
832 W 19th Ave has a Walk Score of 40 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so most errands require a car.
Nearby schools include Lincoln Achievement Center, Frankie W McCullough Acad for Girl Elementary School and Glen Park Acad for Excel in Learning Elementary School.
The closest grocery stores are Mid Towne Food Market, Super Value Foods and Happy Foods Inc.
Nearby restaurants include Harold's Chicken Shack, Harvest Christian Cafe Delight and Church's Chicken.
832 W 19th Ave is near Indiana University Northwest.
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JDS’s Logistic City is a Wind Powered Vertical Forest for Shenzhen
Posted By Yuka Yoneda On September 13, 2010 @ 6:39 pm In Architecture,green roof,Wind Power | 3 Comments
Within Logistic City, lifted public space is surrounded by shops, offices and housing. Due to its height and design dynamics, the tower’s form allows for plenty of wind circulation, so open spaces within the program have been filled with wind turbines that will pump power into the city’s system. Since the underlying concept is to “open-up” the standard skyscraper, most levels of the structure are exposed to daylight. However, the use of PVs is still in discussion.
Verdant gardens grace many of the levels –meaning that the building must find a way to water them as sustainably as possible. Since pumping water up 888 meters is not very energy-efficient, water retention is key. Therefore, the top-tier sections of the ‘city’ will depend on systems for storing and recycling water.
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Madhukara Silver, menjual perhiasan perak bali atau kerajinan perak bali yang lebih dikenal dengan perhiasan perak celuk, perak bali 925 atau bali silver 925. Yang dikerjakan para pengrajin perak celuk. Nantikan koleksi produk terbaru kami tahun 2013.
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I love swwet and sour dipping sauce and there is always a bottle which is bought from the Asian store in my home, but then mostly they are too sweet than hot to my taste.
So I was delighted when I saw int he Wagamama Ways with noodles book.
I do have to say this dipping sauce is really hot and i mean spicy hot, it could be also of the kind of chillies I used, but I am not complaining, I like it hot ;-)
So I guess the hotness will depend on the chillies you use.
In the book the picture is more like a syrup, but my end result is thicker, could be also I used my hand blender, I blend it twice, once after 2 minutes and then after the full cooking was done, but next time I will use my blender or my mixer which i used for making Indiancoconut chutney's etc...so that it will be more smoother.
I made the sauce for half of the ingrrdients as I only had so much chillies here at home.
250 gm red chillies trimmed ( I used those small red thai chillies)
3 garlic cloves peeled and roughly chopped
100 gm light brown sugar
2 tsp whit wine vinegar
Compbine everything in a small pan with 100 ml water, brung to the boil and simmer over a moderate heat until soft, about 5 munites.
Blitz in a blender and season with a scant teaspoon of salt.
Return to the pan and siller for futher 10 minutes, taking care not to let it catch on the bottom.
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The Chinese economy has been referred to as "capitialism with Chinese characteristics." The visible capitalist elements in the economy are distinctly Chinese because they are part of a transitional economic process, rather than a system that will be sustained over time. Capitialism is one of the phases that the Chinese economy must undergo before it attains communism, therefore the current policies of the communist party are do not hinder the Chinese leadership from fostering a purely communist economy. In fact, it seems that the capitialist policies are effectively modernizing the Chinese economy. In many cases,the implementation of these policies has resulted in enterprises increasing efficiency in order to avoid backrupcy. The process of maximizing efficiency has involved both material and structural modernization As a result of these changes, output has increased significantly. The modernization and sufficient output will eventually ease the transition to communism. Thus, capitialism functions as a mechanism to create the necessary economic and social conditions for communism.
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GRAND RAPIDS — As expected, there were no surprises when the Grand Rapids Griffins announced their Clear Day roster Tuesday morning.
The biggest news was the team signed enforcer Adam Keefe to a standard player’s contract. He had been on a pair of professional tryouts since the Griffins pulled him from the Toledo Walleye on Jan. 5.
In 25 games with the Griffins, Keefe has three goals, two assists and 71 penalty minutes. He also has 11 fights.
According to the American Hockey League, only the 22 players listed on a team’s Clear Day roster are eligible to compete in the remainder of the regular season and in the Calder Cup playoffs, unless emergency conditions arise as a result of recall, injury or suspension.
Teams also can add signed junior players or players on amateur tryouts after their respective junior or college seasons are complete.
The Griffins' Clear Day roster consists of: goaltenders Joey MacDonald and Jordan Pearce; defensemen Greg Amadio, Travis Ehrhardt, Doug Janik, Sergei Kolosov, Brian Lashoff, Derek Meech, Logan Pyett and Brendan Smith; and forwards Joakim Andersson, Cory Emmerton, Ilari Filppula, Jamie Johnson, Keefe, Chris Minard, Jan Mursak, Francis Pare, Brent Raedeke, Brandon Straub, Jamie Tardif and Tomas Tatar.
In addition, injured forward Jordan Owens (broken arm) and backup goaltender Jimmy Spratt, who has been with the team since Feb. 22, currently are in residence.
That means goaltender Thomas McCollum and forward Willie Coetzee will spend the rest of this season in Toledo.
The Griffins also must expect to get MacDonald back at some point from the parent club Detroit Red Wings. He has served as Jimmy Howard’s backup since Jan. 24, as Chris Osgood recovers from hernia surgery.
McCollum, who was sent to the Walleye on Feb. 22, went 6-11-2 with a 3.18 goals-against average and .881 save percentage in 20 games with the Griffins. Coetzee, who had five assists in 25 games with the Griffins, was assigned to Toledo on Jan. 28.
The Clear Day rosters of all 30 AHL teams can be found at theahl.com.E-mail Michael Zuidema: [email protected] and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/michaelzuidema | <urn:uuid:4999419f-64d4-4380-9d21-6074b9cabbff> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.mlive.com/griffins/index.ssf/2011/03/griffins_clear_day_roster_has.html | 2014-04-18T06:06:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609532573.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005212-00387-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947658 | 524 | [
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The Museum of Making Music is excited to once again present a special concert series featuring prominent artists whose music represents traditions and innovations from around the world. The 2013 Global Spotlight Concert Series kicks off with Afro-Brazilian funk and groove artist Dendê.
This program is made possible in part by a Community Arts Grant from the City of Carlsbad’s Cultural Arts Office.
Tickets to this event are $20; $15 for Museum Members.
Dendê is a percussionist, singer, composer, bandleader, teacher, and multi-instrumentalist. He's been a professional musician since the age of 14, when he appeared in the frontline of Timbalada, Carlinhos Brown's superstar percussion ensemble. Since 2001, he's been splitting his time between New York and Bahia, and has played with Mongo Santamaria, Giovanni Hidalgo, Zakir Hussain, David Bryne, and Vinicius Cantuária. His own bands include the folkloric music and dance troupe Ologundê, the acoustic Samba de Três, and Arrastão do Dendê, a traditional Afro bloco (samba party band), but it's as leader and principal songwriter of his flagship band that Dendê has made his greatest impact.
The band, formerly called Hãhãhães, has been packing clubs and festivals up and down the East Coast and internationally for the past five years most notably at the Atrium at Lincoln Center, the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center, the Lake Eden Arts Festival in North Carolina, the Kalalu Festival in Saint Lucia, Joe's Pub, World Café Live and Johnny D's in Boston. Combining Brazil's rhythm heavy music with the grooves of afrobeat, reggae, merengue, and others from around the world their debut album, Bahia de Todos os Santos, showcases the band's sizzling showmanship and versatility.
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BLACK (Alexander) CEMETERY,
PULASKI, GILES COUNTY, TENNESSEE
Catherine Westmoreland memorial. memorial sit due east of Alexandre Black memorial 10 yards.
WESTMORELAND, Catharine, 3 Aug 1810 - 26 Feb 1830. (d/o _________ and _________.
"Sacred to the Memory of Catharine Westmoreland, who was born 3rd August 1810, and died 26th Feby. 1830."
Photo by Wayne Austin 29 Sep 2009. Listing from Jean B. Cosby & her husband. Added here 15 Oct 2009.
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Ahmed, Vaqar and O' Donoghue, Cathal (2008): Welfare impact of external balance in pakistan: CGE-microsimulation analysis.
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This paper studies the welfare impact of changes in the external balance of a developing economy (Pakistan). We explain that the economic growth achieved during the past decade is highly dependent on the improvements in external balance. After 2001, Pakistan has benefited from, an increase in the inflow of remittances, foreign assistance from bilateral and multilateral sources, and a relatively stable exchange rate. This was complimented by growth in the real sector. The GDP grew at an average of 7 percent from 2002 to 2007. During the same time period the growth in per-capita income was around 13 percent in dollar terms. This performance however has come under pressure due to the rising inflation, slowing down of global economy and external price shocks. The increase in import price of petroleum, raw materials and other manufactured goods has the potential of reducing the growth performance, impacting the competitiveness of the economy and thereby threatening the gains achieved during the past seven years in reducing the poverty levels. We study using a CGE-microsimulation model the effects of changes in import prices faced by Pakistan. Also provided in the simulation exercise is an analysis of increase in foreign savings that are usually prescribed for developing economies in order to augment the domestic savings and channelling investment towards developments in infrastructure and social sectors.
|Item Type:||MPRA Paper|
|Original Title:||Welfare impact of external balance in pakistan: CGE-microsimulation analysis|
|Keywords:||Computable General Equilibrium Model; Microsimulation; Balance of Payments; Economic Growth; Poverty; Inequality; Pakistan|
|Subjects:||D - Microeconomics > D5 - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium > D58 - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C0 - General > C01 - Econometrics
|Depositing User:||Vaqar Ahmed|
|Date Deposited:||24. Jun 2008 01:28|
|Last Modified:||13. Feb 2013 19:44|
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Forum talk:Help! I need help formatting my article on David Morgan-Mar. Please help me, somebody!
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This is a good page to use forum talk on, methinks. --02:05, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Y'know, it's only in the edit history that you can even tell why this is in the Best Forum Topics category. Without the part where nobody's comments showed up, it makes no sense. --Wehpudicontok-- 01:10, 6 June 2007 (UTC) | <urn:uuid:a362edf5-4834-402f-b74d-888a086165ba> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum_talk:Help!_I_need_help_formatting_my_article_on_David_Morgan-Mar._Please_help_me,_somebody! | 2014-04-19T17:45:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609537308.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005217-00091-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933813 | 119 | [
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Crows, direct and byways?
Google maps and by the most direct highways is one, byways touring is another adding many additional miles and crows are airborn:). The latter being just too poor an idea(eat crow). The first two are work, so volunteer. It IS more work to consider touring folks miles and validation of such to be fair. Google is the most simple of all, but considers NO touring off the beaten paths miles added! And last: We're ALL officials in this MOA, holding equal responsibility as members to keep it strong. We DO have Directors, Ambassadors, etc., but never consider yourself not able to make a change:). Sounds like somebody is HERE with mileage considerations. NICE work Canada:). Others too. Randy. PS; I couldn't help notice how few the "post numbers" were from Officials(Past and otherwise) here. Not often, it seems. Glad you did, however. Welcome to the Forum. I do know many old timers MOA here. NICE again. | <urn:uuid:51dbd44d-7cd3-45b6-93be-4ceaede9bbe5> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.bmwmoa.org/forum/printthread.php?t=66954&pp=15&page=3 | 2014-04-21T00:06:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609539337.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005219-00123-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954053 | 213 | [
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CHENNAI, India (AP) -- Sixth-seeded Robin Haase of the Netherlands and eighth-seeded Go Soeda of Japan reached the second round of the Chennai Open with straight-set victories Monday.
Haase beat local wild card Yuki Bhambri 7-5, 6-3. Soeda, last year's semifinalist, defeated Evegeny Donskoy of Russia 6-1, 6-2.
Eduardo Roger-Vasselin of France downed Andrey Kuznetsov of Russia 6-3, 6-4, and Aljaze Bedene of Slovenia knocked out Joao Sousa of Portugal 6-3, 6-2.
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Atlus shows off Persona Q’s super-deformed protagonists in two new trailers
Originally announced last month, Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth is a quirky crossover title in the form of a dungeon crawler featuring chibi-fied versions of cast of Persona 3 and 4. Atlus has released two new trailers for this 3DS-exclusive adventure introducing the characters from both of these modern role playing classics.
We’re eager to see just what awaits us in this interesting entry in Atlus’ flagship series. Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth will launch in Japan on June 26th, 2014, as US release has yet to be confirmed.
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Capital standards report that "the real estate sector in Kuwait experienced unparalleled growth during 2000–2007. Post 2007, however, the performance of the sector has remained lackluster." The contribution of the sector to GDP in Kuwait has been roughly 3.7%.
Furthermore, Capital standards says that 3 major segments private residential real estate, investment properties and commercial properties contribute (53%, 28% and 15%) to Kuwait's total transaction value. Residential real estate has been the least touched by the crisis fueled by the demand from the growing local population. Currently, there are at least 90 000 application pending under the housing scheme of the government.
The residential real-estate will continue to suffer from lack of supply as per Law no.8 stipulating that only 3-4% of the land in Kuwait can be put to residential properties. The commercial real estate will continue to head downward as more office space is poised to hit the market. Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) has 50 listed companies operating predominantly in real estate sector, 14 of which claim to be Shariah compliant, says Capital standards.
The industry is heavily indepted as a result of the events. Majority of real estate companies in Kuwait are owned or co-owned by the large Kuwaiti investment holdings. For the list of construction and contracting companies click here.
Top Real Estate Companies in Kuwait
Salhia Real Estate
Ghazi Fahad Alnafisi| Chairman
Salhia Real Estate Company, the highest revenue grosser in Kuwaiti real estate industry, has a long operating history dating back to 1974. SREC is engaged in development, leasing and management of real estate properties and care home operations..
Assets: USD 745 million (2010)
Commercial Real Estate Company- Al Tijaria
The Commercial Real Estate Company, KSCC Al-Tijaria has been in business for over 35 years, it was established on 4/2/1968. The main activities of CREC include purchase, leasing and sale of real estate property, construction of buildings & roads and establishment of real estate funds and portfolios, in Shariah compliant manner. Sheikh Salem J. Al Sabah owns 46% stake in the company according to Gulf Base.
Assets: USD 1.4 billion (2011)
National Real Estate Company
Jamil Sultan Al-Essa | Chairman
It was founded with a capital of KD5 million, NREC has developed into one of the largest real estate companies in Kuwait with assets and capital now exceeding KD566 million (US$ 2,058 Million) and KD81 million (US$ 296 Million), respectively, to become one of the most reputable and actively traded companies in the KSE. Major owners include (The Sultan Center K.S.C. 30.52%. - Sultan Family)
Assets: USD 2.085 billion
Mazaya Real Estate Company
Rashid Yaqoub Al-Nafisi | Chairman
Mazaya is considered as one of the most distinguished real estate development companies to position itself in the Middle East market with numerous impressive projects. Mazaya came about through a high investment idea and prevailed in creating and maintaining trust of big investors in the Kuwaiti market and abroad
Assets: USD 1,2 billion
United Real Estate Company
Tariq AbdulSalam | Chairman
United Real Estate Company (URC) is one of the largest Real Estate firms in Kuwait with an asset base of KD 323,270,000 as of 2009 financial. It has operations in Kuwait and across the Middle East region through a mix of fully-owned properties, subsidiaries and through investment arms. The company manages numerous commercial, business and residential properties as well as regionally-renowned resorts. As part of its expansion strategy, URC aims to continually search for new, innovative and profitable projects. URC is the Real Estate arm of Kuwait Project Company KIPCO, one of the largest diversified holding companies in the Middle East and North Africa with assets under management of US$ 23 billion.
Assets: USD 1,1 billion
Mohammed Abdulaziz Al-Shaya | Chairman
Specalized in construction of Malls. Majority owners is M.H. Alshaya ( Alshaya currently manages over 55 international brands and owns and operates over 2,200 outlets in 19 countries across the Middle East and North Africa, Russia, Turkey and Europe, employing approximately 28,000 people )
Assets: USD 921 million
Tamdeen Real Estate Company
Mohammed Jassim Al Marzouq | Chairman
Since its inception, TAMDEEN GROUP has rapidly become Kuwait's outstanding property developer, a name to be reckoned with throughout the entire region. As the parent organization, TAMDEEN REAL ESTATE Company was originally established in 1982 and recently rebranded as 'TAMDEEN GROUP' to reflect the dramatic changes in its corporate structure since its initiation. Projects: 360 Mall etc..
Assets: USD 921 million
ALARGAN International Real Estate Company
Khaled Khudair Al-Mashaan | Chairman
Established in 1994, ALARGAN is a pioneer in affordable residential developments and commercial outlets within the GCC region and has grown from a family-owned business into a publicly listed company on the Kuwait Stock Exchange, with approximately US$ 2.4 billion in assets under management.
Assets: USD 381 million
Action Real Estate Company (AREC)
Ali Abu Hadida | Chairman
From modest beginnings, Action Real Estate Company K.S.C.C. also known as AREC has decisively positioned itself as one of the most reputable players in the highly competitive real estate industry, gaining in a short time frame a reputable name in the market. Ownership: Action Group Holdings.
Abyaar Real Estate
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The Herald’s criticism of the new financial regulation package simply fails to go far enough (“Regulation history,” June 21). Suffice to say, there are many, many new rules, and very few of them will do anything substantial.
Does anyone really believe that the same tired government agencies will be able to manage ever more responsibility? Far from helping the American consumer, these new regulations will further restrict banking activity. Putting the brakes on the financial industry should be the last thing the economy needs. Obama’s regulation will fail to modernize the financial regulatory system, leaving it open to future disaster.
Ideally, the new rules should have centralized regulation by eliminating the legions of individual regulators. I don’t necessarily argue for a single agency, but rather for fewer, more effective institutions.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Messrs. Rivkin and Casey argue that a public healthcare plan violates the privacy rights established in Roe v. Wade. But where is the violation of privacy?
Roe v. Wade.prevents the government from limiting access to abortion on the grounds that the decision to abort is a private matter best left to the woman. That same logic may prevent government from limiting access to the type of treatment that a patient deems most suitable. But the existence of a public plan does not preclude access to private insurance. Those that disagree with the government plan are free to pursue whatever private alternative they choose.
Government restrictions on access to private care are the real privacy rights violations. For example, the ban on interstate purchases of health insurance, like a ban on abortion, limits an individual's autonomy on a deeply personal issue.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Academic Study Finds Critical Economic Flaws and Assumptions in Previous Reports
BOSTON, MA – Recent studies forecasting the potential economic benefits of government green job programs are critically flawed and erroneously promote these jobs as a benefit, according to a report released today by The Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) at Suffolk University.
The economic analysis reviewed the primary claims of three of the most influential green jobs studies and found serious economic flaws in each.
“Contrary to the claims made in these studies, we found that the green job initiatives reviewed in each actually causes greater harm than good to the American economy and will cause growth to slow,” reported Paul Bachman, Director of Research at the Beacon Hill Institute, one of the report’s authors.
The studies reviewed by BHI include:
* The United Nations Environment Programme, International Labor Organization, International Trade Union Confederation’s Green Jobs Initiative, “Green Jobs: Towards Sustainable Work in a Low-Carbon World.”The authors of the BHI critique identified a fundamental error in each of these studies, specifically "counting the creation of a green job as a benefit and rationale for its proposed program in and of itself.”
* The Center for American Progress, “Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy.”
* The U.S. Conference of Mayors, “U.S. Metro Economics: Current and Potential Green Jobs in the U.S. Economy” prepared by Global Insight.
The BHI study also stresses that “Jobs -- green or otherwise -- are not benefits but are instead costs. If the green job is a net benefit it has to be because the value the job produces for consumers is greater than the cost of performing the job. This argument is never made in any of these three green jobs studies.”
The executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute and co-author, David G. Tuerck, went further, noting that “these studies are based on arbitrary assumptions and use faulty methodologies to create an unreliable forecast for the future of green jobs.
“It appears these numbers are based more on wishful thinking than the appropriate economic models, and that must be taken into consideration when the government is trying to turn the economy around based on political studies and the wrong numbers,” Tuerck said.
According to BHI, the results of the study also show estimates on how a state-based cap and trade policy will negatively impact both job growth and wages. One specific critique involves job creation in the state of Indiana, where previous reports did not take increased energy costs from a “cap and trade” system into consideration when looking at job creation. In that case, BHI developed a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and found that contrary to previous studies, Indiana would lose more than 18,000 jobs in 2009, up to nearly 29,000 job losses in 2011, and that real disposable income would be cut by nearly $1 billion in 2009 and close to $1.5 billion in 2011.
The authors concluded by noting that further economic analysis is needed before governments move forward on green job initiatives. “All three green jobs studies we reviewed are riddled with economic errors, incorrect methods, and dubious assumptions. Economic policy should not be based on such faulty analysis. Serious economic studies of costs and benefits are desperately needed before the adoption of any green jobs proposal.”
For more information and the full study, please visit www.beaconhill.org.
... Congressional Budget Office did an analysis of what has come to be known as the Waxman-Markey bill. According to the CBO, the climate legislation would cost the average household only $175 a year by 2020. Edward Markey, Mr. Waxman's co-author, instantly set to crowing that the cost of upending the entire energy economy would be no more than a postage stamp a day for the average household. Amazing. A closer look at the CBO analysis finds that it contains so many caveats as to render it useless.BHI's work on cap-and-trade can be found here.
For starters, the CBO estimate is a one-year snapshot of taxes that will extend to infinity. Under a cap-and-trade system, government sets a cap on the total amount of carbon that can be emitted nationally; companies then buy or sell permits to emit CO2. The cap gets cranked down over time to reduce total carbon emissions.
To get support for his bill, Mr. Waxman was forced to water down the cap in early years to please rural Democrats, and then severely ratchet it up in later years to please liberal Democrats. The CBO's analysis looks solely at the year 2020, before most of the tough restrictions kick in. As the cap is tightened and companies are stripped of initial opportunities to "offset" their emissions, the price of permits will skyrocket beyond the CBO estimate of $28 per ton of carbon. The corporate costs of buying these expensive permits will be passed to consumers.
The biggest doozy in the CBO analysis was its extraordinary decision to look only at the day-to-day costs of operating a trading program, rather than the wider consequences energy restriction would have on the economy. The CBO acknowledges this in a footnote: "The resource cost does not indicate the potential decrease in gross domestic product (GDP) that could result from the cap."
The hit to GDP is the real threat in this bill. The whole point of cap and trade is to hike the price of electricity and gas so that Americans will use less. These higher prices will show up not just in electricity bills or at the gas station but in every manufactured good, from food to cars. Consumers will cut back on spending, which in turn will cut back on production, which results in fewer jobs created or higher unemployment. Some companies will instead move their operations overseas, with the same result.
When the Heritage Foundation did its analysis of Waxman-Markey, it broadly compared the economy with and without the carbon tax. Under this more comprehensive scenario, it found Waxman-Markey would cost the economy $161 billion in 2020, which is $1,870 for a family of four. As the bill's restrictions kick in, that number rises to $6,800 for a family of four by 2035.
Note also that the CBO analysis is an average for the country as a whole. It doesn't take into account the fact that certain regions and populations will be more severely hit than others -- manufacturing states more than service states; coal producing states more than states that rely on hydro or natural gas. Low-income Americans, who devote more of their disposable income to energy, have more to lose than high-income families.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Several things conspired to hurt Altadis' sales, McKenzie said, including the recession and the growth of indoor smoking bans. The bans have especially hurt sales in cold-weather states, where it's impractical to smoke a cigar outdoors in the winter, he said.
However, the company attributed much of its trouble to the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, a federal program that provides health insurance to low-income children. It is funded, in part, by a new federal tax on cigars and cigarettes. McKenzie couldn't say how much sales of Hav-A-Tampa cigars had fallen off, but the numbers have dropped significantly, he said.
Previously, federal excise taxes on cigars were limited to no more than a nickel, said Norman Sharp, president of the Cigar Association of America trade group. The tax increase, which took effect April 1, raises the maximum tax on cigars to about 40 cents, Sharp said.
Before the tax increase was passed, the cigar industry warned that consumption of cigars could fall as much as 30 percent in the year after its passage. It's not clear yet how big of an impact the law is having on sales, Sharp said.
Harrison said she understands the company's predicament and that Altadis has tried to treat its employees fairly, including guaranteeing employees two months of pay. Like her employer, she put part of the blame on the SCHIP tax hike.
"We can't afford to make these cigars in the U.S. anymore," she said.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
We have said from the beginning that the recession would end quickly and a V-shaped recovery would follow. Now, a combination of loose monetary policy and reforms to overly strict (and inappropriate) mark-to-market accounting rules have ended the financial panic.He has the charts to prove his case.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Charlotte Observer: Apple to build computer data center in North Carolina
Apple will come to North Carolina, investing $1 billion in a computer data center over nine years.The best tax system is comprised of a low rate with few or no exemptions.
Gov. Beverly Perdue announced the expansion this afternoon after signing legislation that will cut the California company’s tax bill in North Carolina by about $46 million over a decade. Legislators moved rapidly last month to approve the measure, which changes the way corporate income taxes are calculated for a capital-intensive business like Apple. It is expected to be the only company that will benefit.
“North Carolina continues to be a prime location for growing and expanding global technology companies,” Perdue wrote in a statement. “We welcome Apple to North Carolina and look forward to working with the company as it begins providing a significant economic boost to local communities and the state.”
The data center is expected to have at least 50 full-time employees, although another 250 contractors could be employed to manage security, landscaping and heating and air conditioning systems. Including construction jobs, the presence of the facility could put a total of 3,000 people to work, according to Department of Commerce estimates.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
The central fact of the cap-and-trade proposal is that it will increase the price of energy. If energy prices don't go up, the goal of getting energy producers, manufacturers, and consumers to shift away from carbon generating fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) toward low-carbon sources of energy (nuclear, solar, wind, conservation) will not be achieved.More on climate change mitigation here.
Whatever else they are, the folks in Congress are not stupid when comes to protecting their electoral viability. They are painfully aware of the fact that, while Americans express support for regulations to reduce greenhouse gases, 77 percent in a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll declared themselves either "very concerned" or "concerned" that "federal regulation of greenhouse gases could substantially raise the price of things you have to pay for."
So in an attempt to ward off voter displeasure over higher energy prices brought about by Congressionally-mandated carbon rationing, the denizens on Capitol Hill have tacked on a number of Rube Goldbergesque policy obfuscations designed the mask the price increases. These include subsidies and tax breaks for retrofitting buildings to use less energy, setting energy conservation appliance standards, subsidies for higher mileage automobiles, and imposing a renewable fuel standard on utility companies, among many other things.
The chief technique that Congress is using to hide the mandated price increase in electricity and natural gas from voters is giving away free emissions permits to local electricity and gas distribution companies. In the ACES bill, some 30 percent of emissions permits are allocated free to local distribution companies who are supposed to sell the permits and then pass along the money to consumers as a lump sum rebate to offset their higher utility bills. Why a lump sum?
As Harvard University environmental economist Robert Stavins explains in his article on "The Wonderful Politics of Cap-and-Trade," the hope is that such rebates will compensate "consumers for increases in electricity prices, but without reducing incentives for energy conservation." Even if they are getting a rebate, higher monthly electric bills will still likely annoy voters. But let's assume that this scheme actually works as intended and blunts household displeasure about paying more for electricity and natural gas.
There's one big problem: The proposal merely shifts the price paid by consumers for energy from local utilities to other products and services. For example, Resources for the Future economists Rich Sweeney and Dallas Burtraw calculate that auctioning all of the carbon emissions permits would result in a price of $20.91 per metric ton. However, allocating 30 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions permits free to local utilities as proposed under the ACES bill would mean lower electricity prices, and lower prices would mean more consumption. The result is that there would 24 percent fewer emissions reductions in the electricity sector than would have been the case had all permits been auctioned. | <urn:uuid:8c8db8f6-2cee-4636-92cb-4f0f17d803b0> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://beaconhillinstitute.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html | 2014-04-25T02:24:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223207985.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032007-00187-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954503 | 2,976 | [
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I just miss this girl wearing my shirt. <3
The Other Procrastinator.
The Other Glutton.
The Other Walking Disaster.
Happy Virus +.
"If I eat a banana, will you fall for me?"
- P C Y -
Illo 365: December 31st
BAM!! 365 illustrations in one year! Take THAT 2013!! BRING IT ON 2014!!!
Okay this convinced me that I need to practice more traditional again because I’m degrading as fast as Zelo can rap T__T.
This was definitely inspired by my fever, lol, because this is not even close to the picture I imagined. But at least I arted today, that’s something..
Also a huge sorry for not anwsering and not really posting anything these days. I’m kind of really sick and one of the medicine’s side effects is that I’m sleeping most part of the day OTL.
BAP Coffee shop speed sketches
(cough even though I’m on posting traditional art hiatus sketches don’t count right cough)
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At 8:00pm EST this coming Monday, the fellas behind Sang Lucci’s options trading team, who are responsible for $330,000 in profits so far this year – will be launching a four-day “Introduction to Options Trading” course available for just $150. This course is an amazing opportunity to learn Options. I encourage you to sign up quick. There are only 25 spots left in the course at the $150 discounted price and they won't last long. Click Here To Buy Now ( click to enlarge ) FLIR Systems, Inc.(NASDAQ:FLIR) has been consolidating nicely since it rose from $18.5 to a high of almost $27. The technical chart shows possible new rally as %K line is back above %D line developing new uptrend and with stock back above 9-day moving average we should see more upside coming. The key resistance level to watch tomorrow is at $27.16. Watching for possible breakout there. ( click to enlarge ) Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ:GEVO) broke out of its 50-day SMA today and surged considerably higher amidst impressive buying pressure, suggesting that it could be experiencing a medium-term technical trend reversal. The next major resistance level to watch is the 20-day moving average at 2.17 per share. ( click to enlarge ) Gran Tierra Energy Inc. (NYSEAMEX:GTE) Looking for a break of $6.25 to add partial position ( click to enlarge ) Cavium Inc (NASDAQ:CAVM) has been pulling back after a sharp rally on heavy volume and I think that it will resume its climb. A good entry point will be around 36.5 to be safer or on a break of the flag. ( click to enlarge ) Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA) is flagging right here, watch break of 3.75. Keep it on your watch list going forward. ( click to enlarge ) On daily chart, stock of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is still in a downtrend despite the pop in price on today's session. The resistance levels are now at 435.07 and then at 440.1. It is better to stay at the sideline. Only a close above $435 would trigger some positive sentiment. Long positions may be considered on a daily close above this level, with a stop-loss at $419 ( click to enlarge ) OSK shares have been consolidating a pretty tight range. Volume is starting to build and it may make an attempt at breaking out. Any move over 40 will probably lead to new highs. Let's keep an eye on it. During the day I tweet many times to my readers. I encourage everybody to subscribe AC Investor Blog twitter and newsletter, so you can receive my trade ideas and stock news in real time.
Disclaimer : This is not an investment advisory, and should not be used to make investment decisions. Information in AC Investor Blog is often opinionated and should be considered for information purposes only. No stock exchange anywhere has approved or disapproved of the information contained herein. There is no express or implied solicitation to buy or sell securities. The charts provided here are not meant for investment purposes and only serve as technical examples. Don't consider buying or selling any stock without conducting your own due diligence. | <urn:uuid:95063cf8-72c2-4b89-8aa1-f0919b744cca> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://thenumbers.marketplace.org/publicradio/news/read/23638880/friday_march_8th_watchlist | 2014-04-17T04:24:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609526252.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005206-00363-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926078 | 684 | [
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It’s about the process, not the result.
Gotta love that Nature Valley bar in the last panel.
I love how you manage to make a spider that doesn’t creep me out despite its awesome detail, but you always make humans look horrible.
That’s not sarcasm by the way, that is what I actually feel.
It’s the hope and optimism in spidey’s eyes… True happiness at a job well– SON OF A–!
I do a lot of walking, I mean… I walk everywhere, miles and miles a day. And if there’s one thing that pisses me off, and has actually become a mini-phobia for me, it’s running into frikin spider webs. During the winter it’s ok, but in the summer… for example. I thought maybe I was just making too big of a deal about it, so a couple of nights I actually looked for spider webs, and found THREE on one stretch of sidewalk… THREE HUGE SPIDERWEBS from tree branches to the ground in the sidewalk path. With huge spiders on them.
I still imagine that the spider is also poisonous and takes down this guy for eating later.
I love how you drew the spider with tears welling up in his eyes. :)
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1) So you won't pick up after 0 points in a stableford match? Most proponents of stableford (I like the format too) cite the ability to pick up as a benefit in combatting slow pace of play.
2) I'm just curious though.....in your estimation, given the popularity of both stableford and match play, how many rounds does the average golfer playing under EGA rules post in a year? Maybe the better question, is what percentage of their rounds are actually posted?
1) In Match Play you pick up only when the hole has been conceded or decided, nothing to do with stableford points (in EGA).
2) Difficult question. It varies so much but I would guess on the average not much more than 4, which is the required minimum. You must understand that in EGA system you need to announce your hcp round before it commences, i.e. you need to decide beforehand if you are going to post the score. This you need to either mention to your marker or record it in the hcp system (through internet). So people are quite lazy to do that and a very high percentage is not even interested in their hcp as they never compete.
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I hope that there is someone out there who has a copy of Quiltmaker magazine , the January/February 2002 issue. All I need is a scan of the directions and yardage information. I have the foundation piecing patterns which have appeared on a web page of Quiltmaker. The magazine is no longer available. Anybody have the issue?
I don't know if this is the pattern you were looking for but the magazine's website has an article about a pattern - Winter Twilight - on their website. This is the link:
You might try a Google search for "Quiltmaker magazine 2002 #83" and see what pops up if no one here has the issue.
Good luck :-)
Oops! duplicate post.
Eileen, that is where I found the patterns. It is the directions and yardage that I need and that does not seem to be available. I think Quiltmaker is teasing me.
Joan, I see what you mean - guess I jumped the gun since I forgot to look for yardage. Do you have quilting software like EQ? It can calculate the yardage for you after you put in the pattern & tell it what size quilt you're making. Maybe other QCAers will know of other tools, too.
This pattern looks like it was a "web extra" and may not have included yardage.
Good luck - I hope you get the assistance you need :-)
I HAVE IT!!!!!!!!!
See wtg Annie,It's nice to pay it foward, and help someone out.
Fantastic!!! This is the pages with the directions and yardage info? for paper piecing? I am ecstatic.
Is it possible for you to scan it to me? I will send you my email assress.
Leslie, you took the words right out of my mouth. I was actually getting nervous as I was going through my magazines, hoping to find the right issue. It feels good to give back, Thanks again Leslie. BTW my machine is getting serviced at the moment so I am out of service. Pictures to follow soon.
I can certainly scan the pages you need, or send you the issue if you want. I will friend request you and we can exchange emails that way?
I sometimes transpose my email info when typing too fast, can you email me and let me know I got it right?
Annie, as I said in my private message, thanks. The pattern is REALLY beautiful and I have several ideas going through my head on the colors I want to use.
You have been a big help!
Yeah for the internet, email and quilting friends.
So happy to help :)
Dear Annie, I have been looking for the same directions for Winter Twilight,
I printed the foundation pattern but still lack the direction.I came across your ( I have it !!!!!!!!!!!)
I am 84 and trying to sew a quilt I hope I didnt bite off more then I can handle.
My E mail is . [email protected] Thank you for what info, you can give me.
I also have directions for crocheing large purses from plastic bags cutting 1 inch strips
its a good way to recycle. Thank you again Ted Walters
I have been looking for the same pattern. As the others I have the block directions, just need the fabric and
how to put the block together. My niece love purples and would REALLY appreciate it if you could also e-mail me the info.
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I have made 1 simple servlet and I try to deploy it to tomcat directly, without making war file and as a new entry in webapp called chapter_01. I am sure that the directory I have made is right and also modified web.xml in my directoy to add a servlet entry and also add a context in server.xml for chapter_01 but still I am getting error trying to call my servlet in this URL http://localhost:2005/chapter_01/servlet/HelloWorldServlet
web.xml needs to be in a directory called WEB-INF under your apps webapps dir. The structure of your app should be as follows:
webapps/YOUR_APP_NAME/JSPS, HTML webapps/YOUR_APP_NAME/WEB-INF/web.xml webapps/YOUR_APP_NAME/WEB-INF/classes/YOUR_PACKAGE/YOUR_CLASSES
You'll also need to map your servlets (in web.xml) The invoker servlet is no longer active by default in Tomcat. You don't need '/servlet' in your URL once you map the servlet. You also don't need to (and shouldn't) create a context entry in server.xml anymore. Check with the Tomcat documention for proper deployment procedures in version 5 and up.
If you want an example of a proper web.xml with a servlet mapping and the correct directory structure for a webapp, go to http://simple.souther.us, download and run SimpleServlet.
Tomcat will unpack the war file for you. You can then examine both the directory structure and the web.xml file to see what's different in your app that's keeping it from working.
-Ben [ January 22, 2005: Message edited by: Ben Souther ]
My structure is the same, but I am using tomcat 4 (and I have to) so I need to know without using war how to deploy a servlet(plus to what I have done). Additionaly I put the SimpleServlet.war in both tomcat 4 and 5 and even though they unpacked, using the URL I got error to access them.
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Now after using mapping I get error 500 and classNotFoundException
Originally posted by Sean Mohseni: My structure is the same, but I am using tomcat 4 (and I have to) so I need to know without using war how to deploy a servlet(plus to what I have done). Additionaly I put the SimpleServlet.war in both tomcat 4 and 5 and even though they unpacked, using the URL I got error to access them. Sean
Tomcat 4 handles war deployments.
What URL are you using? SimpleServlet (as the name implies) is about the simplest thing that can be deployed in a container. What error are you seeing?
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When I redploy SimpleServlet it is working fine, but if I understand right, you mean for tomcat 4, the only way to deploy a servlet is to make a war file? If I am wrong, what is the procedure, additional to what I have done before?
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FROM FAMINE TO FEAST
IRELAND TODAY – A GOURMET’S PARADISE
The teenager sat at the table across from her parents and their good friend, who was the best man at their wedding many years previously. Another younger gentleman sat next to the teenager. The conversation was about a ‘Culinary Tour’ of Ireland over the next few days, leaving Dublin that afternoon, after the lunch at the Russell Hotel. The teenager listened intently to her father telling his great friend about the route he had planned, starting in Co. Wicklow. The older man offered some advice about the trip, and the consensus of opinion between the two gentlemen indicated that choices on where to go were very limited. Finally, the teenager interjected.
“Well, I think that Ireland is virgin territory to become a gourmet’s paradise.” She spoke with the authority and knowledge of youth!
Her father’s friend smiled indulgently at the young woman facing him, and with a gesture of gentle laughter and mild skepticism in his voice, he replied.
“Then, why don’t you make it a gourmet’s paradise?”
The young lady was not deterred by the amused tone she heard in his reply. It was not an idle comment, which she had made. Her background from early childhood had involved culinary adventures around the world, thanks to her parents, who were connoisseurs of good food and wine. The ‘Culinary Arts’, a phrase she used whenever she spoke of her interest in good food, played a major part in her life. And, her passport already listed her Profession as Gourmet. She knew what she wanted to do, and had already begun a lifelong culinary odyssey.
The year was 1960. I was the teenager at that momentous luncheon in Dublin. The older gentleman seated across from me at the table was Dr. T.J. ‘Tim’ O’Driscoll, Director General of Bord Failte, the Irish Tourist Board (1956-1971).
The Way We Were
One hundred and sixty years have passed since the disastrous famine in Ireland. For several decades in the twentieth century, no great importance was attached to the food scene. Its’ image was still firmly entrenched in a ‘post’ famine era. The quality and choice of fresh foods available was excellent. However, knowledge was lacking on how to imaginatively, and tastefully prepare superb meals. People settled for some traditional dishes, and it did not seem to matter how they were cooked; or the fact that vegetables were soggy and puddings were stodgy. Apathy had settled on the nation.
Until the mid 1970s, the Irish rarely went out to eat. If they did, perhaps to celebrate a birthday, it was usually to a nearby hotel dining room for Sunday lunch. There was a dearth of decent restaurants, with few exceptions found scattered across the country. Hotels brought in food to prepare traditional Irish meals, mainly for tourists and some local diners. Food was overcooked, in particular the vegetables, and little attempt was made to rectify matters. Irish cooking did not have a good reputation. Consumers bought their meats at the nearby butcher; fish at the local markets; and groceries at the village store. Exports of meat, mushrooms and fish flourished in the 1950s and 1960s with help from government agencies. Otherwise, minimal attention was given to the subject of food, except that the tourist was encouraged to buy a gift package of Irish smoked salmon before leaving Ireland.
The tremendous potential to do something positive, and create a major food industry nationwide, with the scope for extensive employment in the culinary arts field, was virtually ignored on the home front by the Irish Government. The emphasis was on the development of tourism. The Government, together with Bord Failte, the Irish Tourist Board, established in 1955, seemed unable to equate the important connection between food and tourism. The stance taken was that Ireland was rich in natural fresh food resources; with an abundance of tender meats, fish, butter, eggs, and standard vegetables available. Therefore, as everything was satisfactory, it was unnecessary to change the status quo. Clearly, the world of food, and the vast opportunities it offered on the employment front, took last place to other more important things.
This Policy Directive came straight from the top, and was strictly adhered to by Government organizations. It is borne out in a letter I received from the National Development Association in 1976. The letter categorically stated: ‘The government’s special Directive was to concentrate on footwear, clothing, textiles and furniture, with no budget available to develop activities in the food industry.’ However, the letter does admit to the existence of the National Dairy Council, the NDC, and their specific role to help local producers promote sales of dairy products on the home front.
The letter was one of several I received during the 1970s, while I was actively trying to get Irish government organizations and other groups interested in developing the Irish food industry. I spoke from the floor at many seminars, and questioned government ministers and various guest speakers about their plans to promote and create interest in Ireland’s natural food resources. I emphasized the vast potential to develop a food processing industry, which I maintained, could bring about major employment opportunities. They paid lip service in their answers, but nothing much happened. Everywhere, existing attitudes prevailed – there was no reason for changes. Bacon, cabbage and potatoes or Irish Stew ‘were just fine’. There was no need for a ‘blow-in’ to tell them to change their cuisine. That is the popular expression used in Ireland, for people who come from overseas. Occasionally, I encountered outright hostility, and was told: ‘Why don’t you go back to where you belong?’ Yes, some people thought I was English. I had the dreaded unacceptable English accent. They did not want to hear that my parents came from Cork and Bantry, or that my family is Irish. I found myself hitting my head against a brick wall; and personally encountered some threatening situations, to put a stop to my work, and silence my voice on the public stage. This happened when some well-established organizations, who openly and wholeheartedly supported my activities on the food scene, were threatened with major loss of business, if they did not disassociate themselves from my efforts to create and promote a new Irish cuisine. One group succumbed to the threats, but wrote to me assuring me of the goodwill that existed between us. However, their hands were tied. I understood, but was very disappointed as they were already an integral part of the development of the new Irish cuisine. Another more powerful group did not give in, beat the trouble makers at their own game, and continued to support my work for several more years. Friends explained the political situation, and told me that ‘American Irish’ returning to the old sod, are greeted with open arms. Whereas the ‘English Irish’ returning home, are viewed with suspicion, and not welcomed so readily. It was an issue written about by some journalists at a later date, when attitudes eased somewhat towards ‘foreigners’!
In 1976, Bord Failte revised their book ‘Ireland Guide’, and reprinted it in 1982, without further changes. In the book, they acknowledged that the basic foods in Ireland were of the highest quality, such as mutton, lamb, Limerick ham, Irish stew, bacon and cabbage; plus an abundance of excellent seafood, and game when in season. The book stated that the keynote to native Irish cooking was simplicity; and made brief mention also of a move towards international Haute Cuisine, found in some hotels and restaurants. Thereafter, the subject was dismissed with a statement, that it was unnecessary to use appetizing sauces or elaborate presentations. It is clear that the Tourist Board felt there was little need to change the Irish culinary scene. No further interest was shown on the subject of food other than a mere single line ‘listing’ of the very traditional cookbook by Theodora Fitzgibbon, titled ‘A Taste of Ireland’, published in 1968. Likewise, another book ‘Traditional Irish Recipes’ by John Murphy, was also listed. These items were relegated to the back of the Guide, under a sub heading ‘Domestic Arts’. The entire discussion about Irish food was covered in the ‘Ireland Guide’ on 1 (one) page, in a book that ran to 140 pages, promoting Ireland to the foreign tourists and the Irish. Such was the lack of interest shown at official levels, in Ireland’s best natural resources – its’ food. In the meantime, emigration in large numbers continued throughout the 1950s, and reached new heights by the 1980s, as people left Ireland in search of their livelihoods in other lands.
The mistaken belief prevailed in Europe at the time, that only complicated food, rich in creams and wines was good food, referred to as Haute Cuisine. It was also a time when classical training was very restricted to a very specific format. Chefs were not allowed or expected to side step from the chosen path. As a result, classically trained Chefs would make better or worse versions of Sole, or prepare their hams with a coating of aspic or gelatin, as if they were suitably embalmed in wax! Such were the guidelines observed by Chefs everywhere. Few dared to be different and expand their horizons, or incorporate originality into their cookery. That was the scene too in the Emerald Isle during the ‘40s, ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s.
The Mavericks: The Irish Culinary Scene in the ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s
There was minimal culinary activity in the ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s in Ireland, and cooking training was virtually nil. St. Mary’s College of Domestic Science opened in 1941 in Dublin, and held home economic courses. However, due to the expansion of the tourism industry, the emphasis changed in 1951. St. Mary’s college was transferred to Sligo. In its place at Cathal Brugha Street, the College of Catering began. These students would then take jobs in hotels across the country. At the same time, The Shannon School of Hotel Management (1951) trained hotel staff, but did not provide culinary training. The long established group of elegant Victorian style hotels, many dating from the early 1800s, catered to the surge in tourism during the ‘50s and ‘60s. Two castles had opened as hotels. Ashford Castle in the West of Ireland was refurbished into a hotel as far back as 1939, and Killiney Castle south of Dublin, opened its doors in 1952. Standard Irish food, sometimes called comfort food, was served at lunch time in hotel dining rooms, which closed their kitchens by 3:00 PM. Three country manor houses Ballylickey Manor House, Currarevagh House and Newport House opened their dining rooms to the public in 1946 and 1947. They were the alternative to the old fashioned hotels; and were the forerunners to the bed and breakfast tourist route.
The ‘fast food’ type of establishments of the post war era existed in places like Dublin and Cork, but had a very different connotation to what the term means today. They catered to people with minimal time on their hands (even in those far off days). Owned by the Savoy Cinema group, the Savoy restaurants served lunches to shoppers on the move, and high teas to cinema-goers. In those times, lunch was called ‘dinner’ locally, and high teas, served at 6:00 PM, included mixed grills or cold meats, served with lettuce, tomato, sliced Cheddar cheese or sliced egg, and freshly made Irish soda bread. Delicious fresh cream cakes rounded off the meal, which was always accompanied by a generous pot of Barry’s Irish tea. Supper was a late night ‘cuppa’ with cake or a sandwich, served at home. Coffee shops were popular in the cities. People, mostly women, met for mid morning coffee, fresh cream cakes and a good gossip. The best known one was Bewleys in Dublin, where ‘dinner’ (lunch) was also served. Cork had Thompsons Café in Patrick Street, the main road that ran through the center of the city. A handful of public houses ‘Pubs, provided homemade soup and sandwiches, but most people went home at midday for their main meal of the day.
The icon that stood the test of time was the Oyster Tavern in Cork City. It opened its doors in 1792, and bar food was served. After Woodford Bourne (a local wine distributor) purchased it in 1943, they opened a magnificent elegant wood paneled dining room for lunches. Soon, the Oyster Tavern became the ‘in’ place for dining out in the evenings. Many of its earlier customers combined a shopping trip to the famous 200 year-old open air English market next door to the Oyster Tavern. (The market was renovated and got a roof during the ‘70s.) In the ‘50s, everyone who was anyone walked through the Oyster Tavern’s doors, and reservations for a meal were essential by the early ‘60s. There was great consternation in 1969 when a fire broke out in an upper section of the premises. Restoration work commenced immediately. In record time (sixteen weeks), the dining room was re-opened in all its traditional former glory, much to the relief of the regular patrons, including my parents.
The Annual Oyster Festivals began in Clarinbridge and nearby Galway City in 1954 and 1955 respectively. Oysters have been a popular seafood eaten in Ireland for more than 200 years; and Moran’s Oyster Cottage, which opened in the West of Ireland in the 1800s, is always packed with diners. Reservations made a couple of days ahead were the only way to guarantee a table.
Television came to Ireland in 1961, with one channel. Between 1962 and 1965, Radio Telefis Eireann – RTE, featured a cooking show (black ‘n’ white) with ‘finger licking’ Monica Sheridan who prepared traditional Irish food, and horrified or amused everyone when she kept licking her fingers, then dipped them into the food again! In 1963 Bunratty Castle began serving medieval banquets to visitors, followed by Knappogue in 1967. CERT, (Council for Education and Recruitment Training) opened in Dublin in 1963, to provide a trained workforce for the burgeoning tourism industry. The City and Guild of London programs were introduced, and included cooking courses for Chefs (men) and Cooks (women). These were held at hotels across the country, and were transferred to the Regional Colleges when they opened in the 1970s. In the early 1960s, several more country homes opened their dining rooms to the public; Rathmullen House (1961), Tinakilly (1962) and Ballymaloe (1964), joined the group of early Culinary Entrepreneurs, who were already very successful in this line of work. Like their predecessors, they too established a home based business, catering mainly to the increasing tourist trade . One rarely heard an Irish accent at these places until the late ‘70s, as very few Irish people ventured out on long drives, to try out an eating establishment.
Following in the footsteps of the famous Oyster Tavern in Cork, a new trend began during the 1950s. Beaufield Mews, a licensed premises in Dublin, started an afternoon tea and cakes café in 1951, and later began serving meals. The Abbey Tavern in Howth, Co. Dublin, which opened in 1945, added a restaurant in 1956. By the early ‘60s, a handful of new restaurants could be found on the Irish scene. Arbutus Lodge opened in Cork in 1961, and in the ‘70s, went on to become Ireland’s first restaurant to achieve Michelin Awards. Lord Edward’s, Dublin’s oldest seafood restaurant began in 1963. Jammets was a popular choice too in Dublin. In 1962, in the very picturesque seaside town of Kinsale, Co. Cork, Heidle MacNeice owned the only restaurant in the area - the Spinnaker. She served seafood, brought ashore in trawlers that docked at the nearby Trident hotel. A year later, Peter Barry returned to Kinsale, after completing hospitality training in Switzerland. He opened the Man Friday restaurant, and served steaks. Soon, Gino joined their ranks, and opened an Italian restaurant – Ginos. This trio, popularly called ‘the trinity’ locally, proved to be the forerunners of greater things to come on the Irish culinary scene a decade later. Chez Hans, a very popular Dutch owned restaurant opened its doors on the tourist route in Cashel, Co. Tipperary in 1968.
The Bed & Breakfast Scene
By the late ‘60s, many more country homes followed the popular growing trend to cater to the tourism market. Assolas House (1966); Coopershill (1967); Rosleague Manor (1968), Cashel House (1968), Longueville House (1969) and West Lodge joined the ranks of the existing group. Country homes that had previously opened their dining rooms to the public, now opened their homes to the Bed & Breakfast trade. Among these was Ballymaloe, who began to accept overnight guests in 1967. Opening one’s beautiful home and estate to the public was the way to go, to earn a livelihood, in an otherwise depressed market with mass unemployment. It had become big business by this stage, and was growing by the year. However, this new trend catered to the tourism market (again mostly Americans), as the Irish did not travel out of the cities and towns in those times, and the majority of the population still did not own a car. If they wanted to go out for a meal, they went to their local hotel for lunch, and the hotels still closed their dining rooms by 3 PM in the afternoons. That trend only began to change slowly by the mid to late 1970s.
Co-operatives in Ireland started to develop their activities on the local dairy scene, with help from Bord Bainne, the Irish Dairy Board (1961). Perhaps the best known at the time was the Mitchelstown Creameries in Co. Cork. The CBF Meat Board began in 1969. More Bars (Pubs), followed the food trend started earlier by Beaufield Mews in Dublin, and the Abbey Tavern in Howth, Co. Dublin. The Purple Heather Bar in Kenmare, Co. Kerry, opened a tea and cakes shop in 1964, and by 1966, started serving lunches.
One of the most interesting aspects of life in Ireland in the ‘60s decade, was the age old custom whereby travelers could find a drink anywhere, at any time. When the Pubs closed the doors at night, one only had to drive seven miles distance from one’s residence, knock on a beleaguered Pub owner’s door, and request a drink. According to the law, they could not refuse to serve you. Surprisingly, it was not taken advantage of widely, (as mentioned previously, many folk did not own a car) and people stayed close to home. However, it was useful at times for those who needed an excuse to continue drinking behind locked doors! Pub life and horseracing were the prime interests in the country. Food, while a necessary part of life, was of secondary importance. More interest was shown in what happened at the Curragh (Ireland’s premier Racing Center) in Co. Kildare. The most famous horse in those days was Arkle. Born, bred and trained in Ireland, Arkle was owned by the Duchess of Westminister. Arkle won twenty nine major trophies at races in Ireland and England; but his name lives on forever, as the only horse to have won the prestigious Gold Cup at Cheltenham, England, three years in a row – 1964, 1965 and 1966.
During the ‘60s, I lived in Rome, Italy, and Kensington, London; continued my culinary education; married my American husband, and we had two daughters. London was the ideal base from which to travel to Ireland three times a year. It was an opportunity to visit my parents, who had retired and returned to live in Ireland, and keep abreast of Irish food activities. On average, I spent three months every year in Ireland, initiating and promoting ideas to develop a new image of Irish cuisine. There was no interest shown whatsoever anywhere in Ireland to change and improve the food scene in those days. It was a depressed market, and people were more concerned in trying to keep body and soul together, to survive, and the unemployment levels were still very high. Other travels were frequent trips to France, Italy, Belgium and Germany; and visits to other parts of Europe, Asia and the Pacific; plus an eight-month stay in Australia and New Zealand. One had golden opportunities to study national and international cuisine first hand from the culinary experts everywhere. Perhaps the greatest influence on my future culinary work came from a neighbor in London, Elizabeth David, whose knowledge on French and Italian cuisine was renowned. It was Elizabeth, who taught me the use of olive oil in cooking, and I have never used any other oil since. In time, I passed on this knowledge at the culinary tours, which I began in Ireland at the start of the 1970s. Olive oil at that time came in tiny bottles, sold only at the Chemists shop, (both in England and Ireland), and was used for beauty and medicinal purposes.
In 1969, the Irish Government made a momentous decision. They decided to turn Ireland into tax-free haven for writers and artists.
My husband and I decided to leave our beautiful Regency house in Holland Park, London, and we moved with our two daughters to live in Co.Cork, Ireland. Immediately, I established myself as a ‘Culinary Artiste’. I felt the timing was right to move full speed ahead with ideas to launch and establish a new Irish cuisine. I was fed up with the snide remarks made constantly by ignorant people overseas, that ‘the Irish lived on a diet of potatoes’. Something needed to be done. It was time to make people across the world aware of the wonderful natural fresh food resources available on Ireland's’ door step; and make them realize that there was a great deal more to Irish food, than Irish stew, or bacon, cabbage and potatoes. It would require an educational process, whereby at grass roots level, one could impart knowledge and new ideas on the entire concept of a new updated modern Irish cuisine. How to do it in an appealing and entertaining fashion led to my establishing the ‘Culinary Tours’ throughout the Emerald Isle.
In another part of Ireland, before the ‘60s decade ended, a young lady whose family ran a pub and grocery shop in Co. Laois, received a diploma at the Cathal Brugha Street College of Catering. She got wind of a country house farming family in Shanagarry in East Cork, where the dining room was open to the public, and they were now taking in B & B overnight guests too. She applied for a job in their kitchen. The job offer led to her meeting her future husband. In 1970, Darina O’Connell married Tim Allen, son of Myrtle and Ivan Allen of Ballymaloe House.The stage was set for changes.
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AT&T Responds to Poor Consumer Reports Showing
December 8, 2010 7:29 AM
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Touts Better Business Bureau "A" rating
of a wireless carrier customer satisfaction survey that was not too favorable for AT&T. In fact, the nation's second-largest carrier ranked dead last, and was the only carrier to drop significantly in score.
Today, AT&T is on the offensive, countering the
a press release
touting the carrier's "A" rating with the Better Business Bureau.
According to AT&T, the company has logged the fewest number of complaints and has the lowest complaint rate with the BBB out of the four major wireless carriers. AT&T has even put together another color-coded graph, similar to
the one provided
in its "fastest-network" claim, which charts the results without calling out any of the other carriers by name.
AT&T says that wireless customers log more complaints with the various BBB's each year than any other entity, including the Federal Communications Commission. Thus, the argument goes, having a complaint rate that is 34% lower than the nearest competitor (Verizon) means that AT&T's services are better.
When doling out scores, the BBB evaluates companies based on 17 categories which include accreditation (which AT&T has and pays for), how the company responds to consumer concerns, complaint history, and "the truthfulness of its advertising claims."
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I agree with this in re: to the network and geography commentary. My wife and I switched to the iPhone in 2007 after years with Verizon. Verizon had been largely usable in the midwest and upstate NY. When moving to FL we found our service would drop out in certain areas. When switching to ATT for the iPhone our service was great in all the areas Verizon had dead zones. That said, when I did have to rely on Verizon's customer service it was pretty horrendous. As in, "We've damaged your credit rating for 2 years because not only did we not know how to manage your account correctly, once we realized we had worked in error, we were apparently blind to our past actions and didn't know how to fix it." We will see how Verizon's iPhone offerings boil down. If they come with any of Verizon's spamware apps installed I'll consider it only with the possibility of a jailbreak and deletion of the offending app(s). This last issue was perhaps my greatest gripe with Verizon, how they perpetually would strangle the capabilities of a device to force you into their overpriced services via their network.
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by Michael Karpman and Stacey Levitt
Last week, municipal leaders from cities across the country gathered in Nashville for both the NLC Summer Policy Forum and a meeting of NLC’s Council on Youth, Education and Families (YEF Council).
In hosting and welcoming the nearly 200 NLC leaders, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean and Councilmember-at-Large Ronnie Steine, co-chairs of the 2012 YEF Council, showcased many of the accomplishments that flow from strong municipal leadership and vision.
During a keynote address to members of the YEF Council and all seven of the NLC Policy and Advocacy Steering Committees, Dean reviewed his three top priorities for the city – education, public safety, and economic development – and described in detail the ways in which they are interconnected. Even though he has no control over Nashville’s public schools, he stressed that progress in education is the top priority and a key driver for success in reducing crime or violence and attracting companies or retaining business in the city.
“If you’re producing students who succeed in school, go on to get college degrees and are work-ready, you’re going to have a city that thrives,” said Dean.
Carefully planned tours also enabled participants to learn about a broader set of local achievements. The Summer Policy Forum, a gathering of the seven policy and advocacy steering committees, kicked off with two mobile tours of various sites across Nashville. Stops included the construction site at the city's new Music City Center, a convention and tourism space set to open in 2013; the Nashville neighborhood of Rolling Mill Hill, which features affordable housing for artists and historic landmarks sustainably converted into businesses and homes; the Country Music Hall of Fame; and the Omohundro Water Plant, a facility built in 1889 that became the unlikely hero during the 2010 floods.
Councilmember Steine led members of the YEF Council on a site visit to Nashville’s highly acclaimed Youth Opportunity Center, which features an impressive range of co-located services for young people who are homeless, behind in school, in need of connections to caring adults or struggling to cope with personal or family crises.
The committees joined together with their YEF Council colleagues for a dinner and reception on Thursday evening, sponsored by Mayor Dean and Councilmember Steine, the Nashville Convention and Tourism Bureau, the Tennessee Municipal League and Tennessee Municipal Bond Fund, Gaylord Entertainment and the Wildhorse Saloon.
In a series of meetings on Friday and Saturday, both the YEF Council and the Policy Committees maintained a focus on collaboration and shared knowledge and resources that all in attendance could bring home to their own communities.
The YEF Council discussed creative approaches to local collaboration, including through multi-sector partnerships that rely upon shared vision, common outcome measures and accountability mechanisms to achieve “collective impact.” Youth-adult partnerships, small-city initiatives and strategies for linking children and family efforts to other top municipal priorities also dominated the YEF Council agenda.
The Policy Forum meetings began with a joint plenary session featuring remarks from NLC President Ted Ellis, mayor, Bluffton, Ind., and a presentation entitled, “State of the Cities: Views from a Municipal Analyst,” from Natalie Cohen, Managing Director and Head of Municipal Research for Wells Fargo Securities, an NLC Capstone Corporate Partner. Cohen offered an overview of the forces that are shaping the national economy and the fiscal outlook for cities over the next 12 to 18 months. The business portion of the Forum followed the plenary, when individual and cross-committee meetings were held to discuss and develop federal policy positions that the full NLC membership will consider at the Congress of Cities in Boston in November.
The Community and Economic Development (CED) Committee, chaired by Neal Andrews, council member, Ventura, Calif., discussed emerging local economic conditions and met with Yolanda Chavez, Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing, to consider options for strengthening support at the federal level for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program.
In a joint meeting with the Finance, Administration, and Intergovernmental Affairs (FAIR) Committee, chaired by Robert Avery, council member, Gadsden, Ala., the CED Committee discussed creative ways cities are leveraging the CDBG program and other resources to help improve access to credit for small businesses in their communities.
The FAIR Committee and the Information Technology and Communications Committee (ITC) met together to continue their ongoing joint work to establish principles to inform telecommunications tax reform from a hometown perspective.
The ITC Committee, chaired by Chris Whitley, mayor pro tem, High Point, N.C., also met with the Public Safety and Crime Prevention Committee (PSCP) to discuss the benefits and risks of operating a municipally-owned broadband network and the role of local governments in planning for and constructing a nationwide public safety broadband network.
Joined by representatives from U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, PSCP and the Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources (EENR), and the Transportation Infrastructure and Services (TIS) Committees discussed strategies for building communities that are resilient against disasters.
The EENR Committee, chaired by Michael Sesma, council member, Gaithersburg, Md., also discussed the need to strengthen funding options for water infrastructure with Rick Farrell, Executive Director of the Council of Infrastructure Financing Authorities, and engaged with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding concerns that hydraulic fracturing may present to drinking water resources and public health.
The committee also met with Kerry Duggan, director of Legislative, Regulatory, and Urban Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy for an update on the agency’s federal priorities and to share with her opportunities and challenges for cities in implementing energy efficiency and renewal energy programs.
Among other issues, the TIS Committee, chaired by Lee Dunlap, council member, Plano, Tex., discussed active transportation, and the use of technology to manage transportation. Michael Skipper, executive director of the Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), discussed the region's support for active transportation (a transportation strategy that incorporates public health considerations) through its urban investment strategy. The MPO has been proactive in adding these factors into their planning since current federal standards do not address the impact of transportation on public health.
In her presentation to the committee, Erika Young, transportation director for the National Association of Regional Councils offered perspectives from MPOs and Councils of Government on strategies for integrating public health and transportation and reviewed different options communities are implementing to do this. Young’s presentation can be viewed here: http://narc.org/wp-content/uploads/Public-Health-and-Transportation-Info-0606121.pdf. Of the Committee’s work, Dunlap said, “The committee members were able to share best practices and really learn from each other.”
The Human Development (HD) Committee, chaired by Van Johnson II, alderman and mayor-pro-tem, Savannah, Ga., discussed the impact the new health care law will have on cities and towns and strategies for urging Congress to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. “These are important programs that need to be modernized and updated,” said Johnson. “We must urge Congress to move forward with these bills.”
The committee and YEF Council meetings concluded on Saturday, setting the stage for additional discussions in the fall, as well as for NLC advocacy efforts in the months leading up to the presidential elections and beyond.
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Hurricane Irene struck the east-cost of the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean last summer, and brought winds up to 85 mph (120 km/h) that caused mortalities and extensive damages among various communities. The tropical storm was called the ’100-year event’, but scientists from MIT and Princeton University hypothesize that similar storms like Hurricane Irene could occur as often as every 3 to 20 years.
The study used a variety of climate model projections and found that due to global warming, flash floods and strong hurricanes could happen more frequently than we think. The research leaves a lot to think about for urban planners and architects to rethink buildings, dams and structures that can be storm-proof and prevent flooding every 20 years.
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BT has turned up the heat on the Chinese government, demanding that international telcos be allowed to sell their wares directly into the country. The telecoms giant’s APAC president, Kevin Taylor, told attendees at its Asia Pacific Influencer Summit in Hong Kong on Thursday that it has a good “two way partnership” with domestic …
The analysts are right to note that many other telcos have been, tried, and come home again, but that applies beyond telecomms. Many companies in different sectors have taken the slow boat to China, but found that they can't add sufficient skill or value to overcome the regulatory, political, and cultural issues, and they've been forced to retreat. This includes some of the world's biggest and meanest retailers, the largest and most agressive banks. Admittedly some Western product companies have managed to do well on the basis of "show off brand" value to the emerging rich/middle classes, but even the internet and energy giants have found that it is a struggle that they don't usually win.
So I think the interesting thing here is to ask what the **** was going through BT's director's tiny brains when they thought that (a) unlike every other infrastructure/channel/intermediary/retail business why will lardy-bottomed monopolist BT be able to bring home piles of Chinese gold, and (b) why do they think that whining that it isn't fair will change things? Smells like they've had some expensive management consultants in, who bedazzled them with 160 page decks of Powerpoint, blowing off about China's growth rates and market size. But I'm sure that the BT board are worth every penny of the £6.6m they collectively pocketed last year.
Going back a few years, they saw everybody piling into BPO and infrastructure support, so they had to do that too as BT Global Services, and that all ended in tears with a £1.6 billion write down, as more than a few Reg readers will know. China has rightly told them to go forth and multiply, so their next idea for losing shareholders money is to get involved buying football rights, there's another sensible decision, based on the considerable media rights expertise BT has! They are paying around £500m for rights to 38 matches, so to break even (allowing for financing and bid costs) they've got to make an incremental profit of £15m from each of those games, half of which aren't even exclusive to BT. According to BT's own wishful thinking, this "investment" will win back customers, "drive fibre", increase loyalty, and open up the market.
Re: Wild optimism
"...unlike every other..."
Someone is going to be first - it might be BT, it might not, but hit a wall often enough and eventually it will fall.
"...lardy-bottomed monopolist BT..."
Ignoring the fact that even in the UK they aren't a monopoly, on the Global scale they are "just another player" in the world market.
"...they saw everybody piling into BPO and infrastructure support, so they had to do that too as BT Global Services, and that all ended in tears..."
Largely due to the bottom falling out of the world economy, a lot of other players got burned too.
Until such time as Western politicians find the fortitude to mirror China's regulatory scheme Western businesses will not get a foothold in China.
Western economies (especially the US) are eventually going to collapse because we've sold our base manufacturing capability down the river and we've flat out become soft. We regulate our own businesses to the point they can't compete domestically with China, while China outright bars outside investment. They are smart enough to realize they can keep their money in house as well as get our money by allowing cheap manufacturing to continue and we won't do anything substantial about it.
Now finally a middle class is evolving in China and putting pressure (subtle but there at least) on the ruling class to allow more freedoms. There is even a budding environmental movement which will eventually put the same economic pressures on their manufacturing as we have. Once the trifecta of environmental regulation, health and safety regulation and increasing demand for similar amenities as other nations have take root there it will sway the balance back towards our domestic suppliers. The question is whether it will be too late to save our economies. Or will the West become the suppliers of cheap manufacturing and desktop support for the new wealthy elite countries of China, India, etc?
There would be some karma in that, but I don't want to see it come about. Call me what you will. I would prefer that we ALL have safe, clean and economically viable jobs whatever they might be and that the cultures of various nations be respected by all. Since I don't partake of reality altering substances I probably won't be seeing that, but it is a nice pipe dream.
China embody the very spirit of monopoly. Forget it, BT.
Instead, please invest about 100 times more in the crumbling infrastructure of your own country.
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Duchovny plays it cool. ''Sometimes I have to fight, because [directors] say, 'Here's this dead body, how come Mulder's not more emotionally involved?' Everybody's aghast, and I'm detached, like, 'Look at those beautiful maggots.''' He's more scientist than G-man: ''Like in the episode with the liver-eating squeeze guy who could elongate himself through chimneys, the director wanted me to be mad about this horrible serial killer. I was like, 'No, this is an amazing discovery! He's not morally culpable, because he's genetically driven.' I judge no one.''
He doesn't have time for much deliberation. The X-Files must pack about 70 scenes into an hour show that's shot in about eight days. The two stars shoulder most of the scenes, with special effects often added later, and their performances are necessarily spare. Given a roomier rehearsal schedule and fewer lines to learn, such guest stars as Carrie Snodgress and Brad Dourif have contributed attention-grabbing one-shot characters (Snodgress as the mother of an abducted child, Dourif as a convict-mystic). ''My character comes across better in reaction to them,'' says Duchovny. ''Thank God for the guest stars.''
Ratings permitting, The X-Files could surpass the L.A. eatery Babylon as the spot for actors to be seen; and it's just as attractive to directors, who change from episode to episode. ''They encourage cinematic stuff,'' says Michael Lange (Northern Exposure, Sisters), director of the Salamander Man episode. ''Instead of shooting at a normal eye level as the Salamander Man takes the gun, I tilt up, and now I'm shooting up his nose almost, and it was kind of like very disorienting. The show's got a certain ennui that appeals to me, the film noir-y movies of the '40s look, an undercurrent of tension and anxiety 'cause of all the weird things going on. ''
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|After considering the NFL, Brian Kelly will stay at Notre Dame. (US Presswire)|
Notre Dame fans let out a sigh of relief Saturday afternoon when the school announced coach Brian Kelly would be remaining in South Bend. Kelly had been considering making the jump to the NFL, with the Philadelphia Eagles reportedly being interested in hiring him.
Here is the statement Kelly released about his decision:
"This week, I had an incredible opportunity to speak with one of the premier organizations in sports about becoming their head coach,” said Kelly.
“Like every kid who has ever put on a pair of football cleats, I have had thoughts about being a part of the NFL. However, after much reflection and conversation with those closest to me, I have decided to remain at Notre Dame.
“This decision was motivated purely by my love for Notre Dame and the entire Fighting Irish community, the young men I have the great fortune to coach, and my desire to continue to build the best football program in the country.
“We still have a lot of work to do and my staff and I are excited about the challenges ahead.”
Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick also commented on Kelly's decision to stay.
“I was always confident that Brian would continue to lead our football program, I am very happy to have that confirmed and share Brian's excitement about what lies ahead for our program,” said Swarbrick. “I appreciate the Eagles reaching out to request permission to speak with Brian, and I also appreciate Brian keeping me fully informed throughout this process. We all look forward to what's ahead for Notre Dame football.”
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As always, Fr Stephen’s recent post is filled with accessible spiritual insight. Really good stuff. It’s a wonderful reminder of the power our “mere” thoughts, words and prayers possess, especially as we live in a culture that has trained us to naturally look at everything with a critical eye.
But for me, the highlight of Fr Stephen’s post was the introductory quote by The Elder Porphyrios:
Man has such powers that he can transmit good or evil to his environment. These matters are very delicate. Great care is needed. We need to see everything in a positive frame of mind. We mustn’t think anything evil about others. Even a simple glance or a sigh influences those around us. And even the slightest anger or indignation does harm. We need to have goodness and love in our soul and to transmit these things.
We need to be careful not to harbor any resentment against those who harm us, but rather to pray for them with love. Whatever any of our fellow men does, we should never think evil of him. We need always to have thoughts of love and always to think good of others. Look at St. Stephen the first martyr. He prayed, ‘Lord, do not hold this sin against them’ (Acts 7:60). We need to do the same.
Our goal is love. Spiritual disciplines, the various church services and the other vibrant resources of the Orthodox Church are wonderful traditions that have carried the life of Christ from the first Apostles until now and will do so far into the future. But the life of Christ is love.
“Lord, may I one day echo St Paul’s words:
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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The first call for funding for training, as part of Creative Skillset’s new Film Skills strategy, is now open. Organisations and individuals can apply for £750,000 in this first funding round to support training and skills development in priority areas identified by the industry.
The BFI believes that investing in skills is vital but with increasing demands from a successfully growing sector, we are concerned to ensure that this skills base is effectively supported. We will work with Creative Skillset (the Sector Skills Council for the Creative Industries) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to develop and execute an advocacy plan to help ensure that investment is adequate.
Using research looking into the needs across the film sector in 2011, we will work with our strategic partner Creative Skillset and its Film Skills Council to develop a new skills strategy. This will be developed with further input from all parts of the film sector and will focus on the following priorities:
Developing new and quality talent
We will focus investment on establishing clear and coordinated career paths for new talent based on work experience, internships, apprenticeships and new entrant schemes as well as supporting skills development for those already working as film professionals. In line with the Film Policy Review recommendation, we will work with Creative Skillset, Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Scottish Funding Council to undertake a review of the three Skillset Film Academies to ensure appropriate public financial support is in place – similar to that enjoyed by leading music, drama and dance academies. In addition, because urgent development is needed, we will also create a one-off capital fund of £5m to support film schools across the UK.
Skills for the future
Digital technology has transformed the ways in which audiences access films as well as the production process. We have to build on our strengths in creative, technological and entrepreneurial skills if we are to remain competitive. We need to make sure that the UK anticipates technological developments and identifies the skills needs which are likely to emerge as a consequence. | <urn:uuid:cef48ac5-659a-459f-b025-feea676915d8> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://bfi.org.uk/film-industry/bfi-film-skills-fund-bfi-business-development-fund | 2014-04-24T04:21:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223205137.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032005-00163-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963792 | 411 | [
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A brothel owner in Nevada was recently elected to serve as the county commissioner. He's the first person from such a profession to be elected to office in the state's 148-year history.
Lance Gilman, the owner and operator of the Mustang Ranch, faced little local opposition and says that his critics should understand that he is a business owner just like anyone else.
Gilman, 68, states that he is a "dye-in-the-wool Republican who loves American values" and that his business is treated like any other in the eyes of most people.
"To 99 percent of the voters, they view it as just a business," Gilman told The Associated Press. "It's a prosperous business that's helped the county."
Gilman maintains that his business, which is located about 10 miles east of Reno, is good for the local economy. He employs 44 full-time workers and anywhere from 30 to 80 working girls at any given time.
He also claims that his business has provided over $5 million to the county's budget over the past decade, mainly through taxes.
Gilman is thought to be the first brothel owner to be elected to public office since prostitution was legalized in Nevada in 1971, according to Nevada historian Guy Rocha.
"He's in rare company," Rocha told KWTX. "Of course, it's going to be rare because the business of selling sex for money is illegal in every jurisdiction in the United States except in rural Nevada."
Prostitution is illegal in the most populous counties of Nevada including Las Vegas and Reno, but presently there are about two dozen brothels that are operating in 10 of Nevada's 17 counties.
Gilman cites his entrepreneurial prowess for his success and feels that being a brothel owner is just a small part of his experience in business.
"People want to focus on the brothel issue ... (but) I've had a wonderful 43-year record of business success that I bring to the commission," Gilman told AP. | <urn:uuid:3aae26d4-3965-4dec-92b0-a4545527cbd5> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.christianpost.com/news/nevada-brothel-owner-elected-to-public-office-first-in-states-history-85228/ | 2014-04-24T03:50:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223205137.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032005-00163-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988086 | 419 | [
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Hate the sin, not the sinner!
Hate the sin, not the sinner!
Yes, these are very true words.
But do kids know what it means when they make the cute little pictures and post this phrase on their timelines? It doesn’t mean, “Well, I think it’s bad what you are doing, but I love you anyways, so keep on doing it.” It means that we shouldn’t be mean or hateful towards the person who commits a sin or make a immoral decision because how many of us haven’t sinned who is over the age of 5? Whether it’s idol worship over a celebrity or sports star, whether it’s violence-related, whether it’s discrimination-related, whether it’s hate-related, whether it’s sexually-related, whether it’s language-related, or watching stuff you shouldn’t and the lists goes on… We all have sinned. But does that make us bad people? Um Well, it only does if we haven’t asked God for forgiveness and really meant what we prayed about. You are automatically forgiven for a sin if are sorry for doing it and pray for forgiveness. But you gotta mean it! And only God and you know if you are really sorry.
The point is that we all have sinned and we have no right to hate someone for doing wrong because God forgives us when we asks Him for it. But sin, it’s annoying! It gets on a lot of Christians nerves when people do bad stuff around us. Believe me. I know.
I was fired once for hating all the sin that was going on around me. But it got out of hand and I never heard the phrase “hate the sin and not the sinner” at that point in time. I began to build up hate for anyone who did bad things in front of me. I didn’t realize that in my heart, I was letting the sin make me hate people. I became bitter towards a lot of people. I had to take a step back and do a lot of praying and soul searching. And now I’m finally able to shake my head to the sin and feel sorry for the sinner without anger. The slavery of sin is a sad world, and we should pity people for wanting live a life of slavery, when there is freedom in living for the Lord. I try to pray for people I come in contact with who do bad things. I know it’s up to them to change, so that is why I give many that chance and that choice by spreading the Word of God daily.
Hating sin is basically the only thing you are allowed to hate in Christianity. And you should hate sin, so that it will be easier to resist doing bad things in the future. But as Christian’s we are not allowed to hate people just because they choose to do wrong. We must separate the person from the sin and treat the wrong-doing like a cancer. Because when you think about it, if you sin and you keep on doing that same sin without remorse, over time it starts to control you. You become a slave to it unknowingly. And by then, love ones, friends, and (a lot of times) strangers, who want you to stop doing the act become angry and resentful towards you. And when we are talking about adults, some would rather kill you then stop the things they are doing. They have let what they are doing control their lives, and the devil convinced them that you are the enemy. And that is why the hate starts. That is why the world is such a mess! They don’t understand that they are slaves.
Serious Christians know that if you sin, you must admit to God that you sinned, you must ask Him sincerely for forgiveness, and you must try with effort not to do the sin again. After that you are free from the slavery of sin. That is the whole reason Jesus died for us. He died so that if we make a mistake and sin, we can honestly apologize for the sin and be forgiven for it. But if you have not gotten to the point where you have a righteous fear and respect for the Lord, you will never care about hating sin or asking for forgiveness. That is why it is so important for us as Christians to spread the word of God, and give people the chance to choose good over evil. God bless. | <urn:uuid:1f43aded-ef9e-4ed4-ab04-10a6c0ece00d> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://lkeishal.tumblr.com/tagged/sin | 2014-04-17T13:31:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609530131.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005210-00371-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967008 | 933 | [
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ok, so i'm about to pull the trigger on either a se stout or a dawes deadeye. both are sold by bikesdirect The deadeye is 80 dollars cheaper, but i'm not sure about the quality of the frame and components compared with the stout. can someone give me advice based on experience or hearsay? thanks.
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To make sure that you find a reputable and trusted moving company a lot of aspects should be taken into account. Perhaps the most important is the price. Alaska moving companies will provide very different estimates for the same services, and finding the one that meet your needs can be very time consuming. Another important aspect is the safety of your belonging, so you need to choose movers in Alaska with a great experience in this area of services.
If you short on time you will want to see how fast you can expect to receive service and how soon the moving company can travel to the destination of your move. So hiring Alaska local moving company that will know the roads and quick routes will surely save time and money for you.
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Alaska is the largest state in the United States. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait. Alaska is the least densely populated state of the U.S. Alaska's position on the globe makes it a natural crossroads for sea and air cargo transport between North America, Asia and Europe. The state has no personal sales or income taxes. The biggest industries in Alaska are oil production, tourism and fishing.
Alaska has few road connections compared to the rest of the U.S. The state's road system covers a relatively small area of the state, linking the central population centers and the Alaska Highway, the principal route out of the state through Canada. Many cities, towns and villages in the state do not have road or highway access, so the only modes of access involve travel by air, river or the sea. In areas not served by road or rail, primary transportation in summer is by all-terrain vehicle and in winter by snowmobile or "snow machine," as it is commonly referred to in Alaska.
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1997 Castello Banfi Brunello di Montalcino Poggio alle Mura
Free shipping with a purchase of 12 bottles or more.
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International Wine CellarRating: 95/100 - As reviewed by Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar on Jul-02
CellarTracker Community Tasting NotesCommunity Tasting Notes (average 91.6 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 66 notes)
Wine AdvocateRating: 88/100 - As reviewed in Wine Advocate # 144 on Dec-02
Vintage ChartRating for Italy-Tuscany: 95 (good year)
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: Blackberry Bold 9000 for AT&T Price
:$265 shipped Currency
: 8.5 /10 Includes
: phone, battery, charging dock, wall charger, usb cable, premium headphones, OEM holster, brand new OEM bezel, all original books and cd Selling Details Location
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Any additional info: I got this phone mid August 2009. it is in perfect working condition. There are zero scratches on screen. no issues with screen or keyboard whatsoever. I rated it an 8.5 for the sole reason of minor scratches on the bezel. The bezel happens to scuff very easily and i am including a brand new OEM bezel for you to replace if you wish. Also i am looking to move the phone quickly and my price shows it. I also included an OEM charging dock. I have great feedback both on here and ebay (userid jserure20) please check. | <urn:uuid:1a5f4f4d-a68d-4eeb-8968-6d4c8dbd714b> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.blackberryforums.com/buy-sell-trade/211039-wts-lnib-blackberry-bold-9000-t.html | 2014-04-18T22:01:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609535095.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005215-00403-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887299 | 209 | [
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Sweet and giving
Most of us feel at least a slight rush of guilt when reaching for a delicious cookie to satisfy our craving, but thanks to Cookies by Shar and Rhea of Hope foundation, you won’t have to! Anyone can enjoy a gourmet cookie (or three) for a good cause this October.
All about the cause
Cookies by Shar and A Rhea of Hope will be teaming up for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, resulting in a deliciously good cause! The gourmet bakery will be presenting limited-edition pink ribbon cookies in two different sizes. Large pink ribbon-shaped cookies will also be available in several Florida retail locations and small pink ribbon-shaped cookies will be available in packages of two at Epicure Gourmet Market in Miami Beach, Florida, and can be shipped nationwide.
As well as the pink ribbon cookies, Cookies by Shar will be offering cookies with the lavender Rhea of Hope label trimmed with silver crystals during October. These cookies will help fund the organization’s goal of increasing awareness about cancer-related fertility issues and provide options for men and women who face these obstacles. These cookies can be purchased exclusively online.
A Rhea of Hope
This nonprofit foundation works to bring awareness to the fertility issues that cancer can bring about and seeks to create opportunities for individuals and families who have been affected by these issues. A Rhea of Hope is committed to educating people on parenthood possibilities after cancer, providing emotional and financial support for cancer patients facing infertility or seeking fertility preservation, increasing the communication process between doctors and patients about the risk of infertility with cancer treatments and increasing funding for fertility preservation.
Cookies by Shar
Cookies by Shar is a national gourmet bakery located in Davie, Florida. Sharmila Melwani creates delicious and beautiful one-of-a-kind cookies. The cookies can be customized for events such as holidays, birthday parties, fundraisers, baby showers and more. Supporting A Rhea of Hope isn’t the only way Cookies by Shar gives back -- 5 percent of all cookie sales are donated to Share Our Strength, a nonprofit organization aimed at ending childhood hunger. Not from Florida? Not to worry, Cookies by Shar can be shipped nationwide!
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How to Use MP4tools
Hopefully, most of the operations of MP4tools are fairly intuitive. If you enable Tool Tips in the preference window or the help menu, then you'll see useful contextual help for key operations. Here is a general guide.
- Launch MP4tools and open the file(s) you want to process. You can open files by either clicking the Open button, selecting “Open” from the file menu, or if you've registered the application, by dragging the file, or files to the table in the main window. The file you open must contain a video track.
- You should see a list of the media tracks contained in the video file as well as some information about each track.
- (Registered Version Only) If you drag multiple files, MP4tools will display track information for the first file in the group. When you start the processing, every file in the group is added to the queue using the preset selections and preset settings you've defined in the presets area. Note, you will get a warning if either or both of the preset are set to "Manual".
The Main Window
The main window contains tabs for various types of processing. The following is available for all tab views.
- Track information for the file you have opened is displayed in the video information table. The leftmost column contains checkboxes that are used to select the tracks that you want to process. Note, many functions in MP4tools will not be enabled until you have made appropriate track selections.
- Click on Add Tracks if you want to add tracks to the table. This will allow you include additional, non-video tracks to the processing. For example, you might have the subtitles for a video in an external file, that you want to hard-code into the video.
- Click on the "V", "A", or "S" buttons to toggle the selection of all video, audio or subtitle tracks.
- Click on Play to open an Mplayer window to preview the tracks you've selected. This can be useful to identify the file's tracks in case the track information is not clear. You can also use this as a movie player.
- Click on Watch Folder to start the watch mode of MP4tools. See below for more details.
- The Presets area lets you select and define presets for both the selection of tracks for a video, and settings for the video. See below for more details.
The Main Window - MP4 Tab
This tab will give you more control in the creation of MP4 files. Note, while MP4tools does a little bit of error checking and warning, you are free to make settings that will result in non-playable videos. So you do need to know a little bit about MP4 video creation.
If an option is not selectable, then it is either not needed, or you have made some incompatible selection that you need to change. For example, you can't create 5.1 audio if the original audio track is stereo. MP4tools will color text red to warn you against options it thinks are a bad idea.
- Select the target device for your video in the AVC Level popup button. Note, unlike with the presets, MP4tools will not set properties like the resolution appropriate for the selected device. That is for you to decide. It will however set the correct avc profile level for the file.
- Use the video radio buttons to choose what you want done to the selected video tracks.
- Pass Thru will copy the video track to the new file. This is a fairly quick process and is accomplished with no loss of quality. This would be the preferred option as long as the video codec is compatible with mp4 files (e.g., H264 or Mpeg4).
- If the video codec is not H264 or Mpeg4, or if the result of a conversion is not playable on your selected hardware, then you’ll have to use either of the H264 re-encode options. Depending on your computer, this can be time consuming. The 2-pass will give better quality but will take twice as long.
- The video bit rate and the horizontal resolution (in pixels) of the video is displayed for you. If you are not using pass thru for the video, then you can edit these values for the video you are creating. It is not a good idea to increase these values.
- Use the audio check boxes to choose what you want done to the selected audio track(s). If more than one audio track is selected, then use the track popup to choose the track you want to make selections for. Note that you may make multiple conversion selections for each track.
- Pass Thru will copy the audio track to the new file. This is a very quick process and is accomplished with no loss of quality. This would be the preferred option as long as the audio codec is AAC or, if for Apple TV, AC3.
- AAC (2-Ch.) will re-encode the audio track into a 2-channel AAC audio. This would be the preferred setting for iPhone/iPod and iPad, or if the original audio is 2-channels.
- AAC (5.1) and AC3 (5.1) will re-encode the audio into a 6-channel audio track. It should only be used if the original audio is 6-channels. If converting to AC3, it is recommended that you also include at least one AAC track.
- The subtitles radio buttons will become enabled if you select a subtitle track.
- Burn “hard codes” the subtitles into the video track. The subtitles are a permanent part of the video and can’t be turned on or off. This requires the video to be re-encoded.
- Mux adds the subtitle track inside the MP4 file. This does not require the re-encoding of the video track, and will give you subtitles that you can turn on and off, however, not all hardware devices will recognize these subtitles. Also, some types of subtitles (e.g., vobsub and pgs) are not text based and can't be muxed.
- You can also use the options in this tab to create a video from multiple files.
- The first file that you "open" must have the a video track.
- Use the "Add Tracks" button to add more files to the track window, though keep in mind that each added file must contain only one none-video track.
- Click on Convert to start the conversion process. The file(s) will be added to the queue.
- If you have opened MP4/M4V videos, then the extract button will be enabled. This will extract the selected tracks as separate files.
The Main Window - Edit Files Tab
This tab will allow manipulation of MP4 videos at the file level. Note, the main table now displays a list of MP4/M4V files, not tracks. If multiple files have been dragged to MP4tools, then the selected edits will be applied to every file in the group.
- There are two ways that you can Segment MP4 video(s). For both methods, the original videos are maintained.
The accuracy of the location of the cuts can vary greatly depending on the properties of the original video.
- If you choose Time, then you specify a start time and an end time for the desired interval of video.
- If you choose Size, then the video is split into equal sized segments of the size you specified.
- MP4tools can set the Pixel Aspect Ratio of MP4 video(s). This can be used to correct videos that are too "fat" or too "thin". You need to specify the width to height ratio. Note that this is not the same as the display aspect ration. It is a stretching of a video's normally square pixels. Not all software/hardware support this feature.
- MP4tools can Join MP4 files listed in the file table. Note that the more the properties of the files vary, the less likely it will be that results are satisfactory.
- You can use MP4tools to edit the metadata of an group of MP4/M4V videos. See the sections below for more details.
The Main Window - Presets
Presets are collections of predefined or user defined rules for automatically making either track selections and/or process settings. When a new video is opened, the currently selected presets are automatically applied to the video. To define your own preset, click the Edit button. The tool tips (turned on in the help menu) in the preset panels should help you with the options available to you. Use the Best Guess options in the settings presets to have MP4tools use what it thinks are the best settings for the device you have selected.
Batch Mode (Registered Users Only)
If a group of files are dragged to MP4tools, then you must use the presets to tell MP4tools what selections and settings to apply. If either preset is Manual then the process will not be started. Once you start the process, the presets will be applied to every video in the group and the jobs will be added to the queue.
Watch Mode (Registered Users Only)
Press the Watch Folder button to enter the watch mode. Note, this button is not selectable if either of the preset pop ups are set to Manual. The main window will be replaced by the watch mode window. Here you can define the folder that you want watched. Once defined, MP4tools periodically checks the content of the folder for videos that are added to it, and then adds the video(s) to the queue using the current presets. Click on the Stop Watching button to return to normal operations.
Some things to be aware of:
- Only videos added to the folder after entering watch mode are processed.
- MP4tools only checks the watch folder every few seconds, so there will be a small delay before the processing starts.
- MP4tools monitors the size of files added to the watch folder. So if a large file is copied to the folder, or a video is being downloaded directly to the folder, MP4tools will wait until the file size remains constant before it starts to process the video. This adds to the delay that you will see before videos are processed. This may also be a problem if you have unreliable or slow internet connections, or you experience pauses in the downloading of files.
- You can let MP4tools run in the background during watch mode.
- Videos already in the queue, stay in the queue when you start Watch Mode. Videos added to the queue in Watch Mode, stay in the queue once you return to normal operations.
The Queue Drawer
- The Queue Drawer opens to display any completed, running or queued processes. It also shows the progress of the current job.
- If you have registered MP4tools, then you can add more than one process to the queue at a time. Or you can add files to the queue in batches if you've dragged multiple files to MP4tools. So you can load the queue and then let MP4tools run all night, Jobs will be handled in the order that they are entered in the queue.
- You can delete individual processes in the Queue Drawer by selecting the X button for a particular process.
- Click on Clear to delete all completed processes from the Queue Drawer.
- You can click on the Pause/Restart button to pause the processing. This can be helpful on slow computers when you temporarily need to focus the cpu on another task.
Your Username and Registration Code (if registered) are displayed at the top of the window.
- If you don't want to save the files produced by MP4tools at the same location as the original, then you can enter a new save folder/location.
- You have some general option that you can set.
- If Show Tool Tips is checked, then when you hold the cursor over certain elements of MP4tools, you will see a helpful description of the particular element.
- If Keep Log/Temp Files is checked then, the temporary files that are created during processing are not deleted. This can useful if you encounter an error during the processing of your file. The log files typically contain error messages. You can also use this to keep the track files that are created during some jobs.
- If Optimize For Streaming is checked, then the moov atom is moved to the front of the file. This can be useful when streaming videos, though for something like the Apple TV, the difference is negligible. This does add to the processing time.
- If Add Metadata Padding is checked, then the free space is added to the moov atom which allows for metadata to be edited without having to to a complete rewrite of the file.
Metadata - Edit Window
- The files table lists the files that you opened in MP4tools. Click on the file for which you want to edit the metadata.
- Use the text fields to edit/create metadata for the currently selected file.
- Use the "+" to add an image (poster/cover) to the video.
- Save to File writes all of the metadata to the files.
- Search will open a new window that you can use to search the internet for metadata and then transfer the search results back to the Metadata Edit window. Note that you can edit the transferred search results before saving to file.
Metadata - Search Window
- Use the radio buttons to select type of search - Movie or TV. If you click on the database banner, you will be taken the the website of the respective database.
- Searches are typically a two step process - first a rough search and then a detailed search.
- Enter a title and then click Search to get an initial list of titles returned for your search request.
- Select the search result you are interested in and then click the Details/Episodes button to get detailed metadata for your results. Double clicking on the initial search result is equivalent to the above.
- You must now "link" the result of interest to the file that you want the metadata associated with. You do this by clicking and dragging from the Gray anchor point in the search results table to the appropriate video in the file table.
- You can fine tune which metadata to include by using the check boxes in the metadata table.
- Use the "+" button to find artwork for the current search result. The Add to All button will set the current artwork to the artwork of all of the search results. This can be handy for TV episodes.
- Replace All will transfer all of the metadata search results of the linked metadata to Metadata Edit window. All previous metadata in the Metadata Edit window will be overwritten (i.e., deleted). Note that this does not yet save any metadata to files. The Save to File button must be clicked to write to file.
- Update will update the to Metadata Edit window with the metadata search results of the linked metadata. Only non-empty metadata search results will be changed. Note that this does not yet save any metadata to files. The Save to File button must be clicked to write to file
The Mplayer Window
- The Mplayer Window is a movie player. Here are some basic commands for controlling playback:
- Use the left/ right arrow keys, or the up/down arrow keys to skip forward and backwards in the video.
- The space bar toggles pauses and play.
- Command-F toggles full screen playback.
- Q or Esc will quit Mplayer and return control to MP4tools.
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Have a rehearsal dinner on cape cod this weekend. Its called beach formal, BUT I know most people arnt going to be wearing even a sport coat.
Threw these together real quick. Would love thoughts/suggestions. Even if it does not include anything in the pictures what would you be wearing?
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Submitted By Todd on July 8th at 10:22pm
Overall, 52% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance so far. Yesterday and today are the first time that the number of voters who approve of the President’s performance has slipped below the 53% share of the vote he won last November. Forty-eight percent (48%) now disapprove.They're not bad numbers in general, but they just might indicate that an end to the silly period is moving in.
32% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –5.The blind support that the President has enjoyed is critical to his un-American agenda coming to fruition. He won't be able to force compliance amongst traditional members of Congress, even in his own party, if they don't fear his sway with voters.
The number who strongly disapprove inched up another point to the highest level measured to date and the overall Approval Index is at the lowest level yet for Obama (see trends).As Joe Biden, Chris Dodd and other leading Dems indicate that the administration blew it with the stimulus package, the President is scrambing to convince Americans that he's made the right moves on the economy, even as some Democrats admit that a second stimulus might be needed.
In the wake of last week’s disappointing report on job loss, consumer confidence has fallen to the lowest level in two months. The Rasmussen Investor Index shows investor confidence falling to the lowest level in three months. The number of investors who say the economy is getting worse jumped from 43% before the jobs report to 51% today.If Obama goes into a decline that matches the economy, say goodbye to Cap and Trade and Universal Health Care dreams. Bad for the socialists, good for America. So the news from Gallup is also... constructive.
President Obama's job approval rating for the month of June is 61%, which is one percentage point below his previous monthly low of 62% in March.As of yesterday, his Gallup approval is at 56%. | <urn:uuid:35086184-f154-471e-8949-a86d38944e34> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.wrko.com/blog/todd/getting-real | 2014-04-20T05:30:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609537864.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005217-00435-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962971 | 445 | [
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|The fourth punch swung me around but it wasn’t until my knife was knocked from my hand that I became truly terrified.
“Three against one is a bit cowardly; wouldn’t you think?” I backed up toward the corner of the room.
“Why don’t y’all come at me one at a time, nice and honorable like?” Somehow I doubted my pleas would sway the minions of my unknown opponent.
I ducked underneath a swinging fist. My movement wasn’t fast enough, however, some of my long hair was caught painfully between the big man’s rock of a hand and the wall. I wrenched my head to release the pull on my scalp, only to break or rip out most of the strands. The man pulled his hand from the wall and I received a marvelous and gut wrenching view of the four-inch deep dent. It appeared they had just gotten started.
“Oh, Lord God of Heaven and Earth, have mercy.” My dry throat scratchy, the words were barely audible, yet she managed to hear.
A disembodied voice floated out from seemingly every corner of the room, “Fight, you pathetic excuse for a girl! Your deplorable lack of skill will indubitably cause your poor mother to toss and turn in her grave!”
I dropped into a roll, away from my three pursuers and towards my fallen blade. Just as my fervent digits closed around the bloodied handle, my back felt the pressure of what I knew to be a series of spikes along the sole of a shoe larger than my head. I had been provided with those once, in the beginning.
It shoved my body prostrate upon the ground. As the spines pushed in on my back and the rusted metal broke through my skin, I gave forth a shrill cry, broken only by my choking on my own wretched tears. My hand still clutched the slick hilt of my knife. In desperation, I slung my arm backwards, scraping the barbs down my spinal column and releasing the knife in the process.
I assume he avoided the flying blade, for his foot lessened the force on my back briefly. I find solace in the fact that, he being a large, stable man, it must have been a good shot to shake him so thoroughly.
I heard the crunch of the steel wall as the knife made contact, and I knew it was over. He drew up his foot as the other two men jeered and brought it down roughly into my innards.
Then the weight was gone. It wasn't released or taken off, but just vanished. I looked up, and the other two were no longer there. The pain melted away in a less abrupt fashion than my opponents did.
My head fell upon my hands while the remaining blood staining them disappeared. As I wept, my mind dourly pondered why I was distraught over not being dead. Oh, I knew why, I merely found it grimly comical. I was sick of this game. My deranged and sarcastic chuckle at the irony of my situation did little to relieve a burdened spirit.
She swept into the stark white room from a door I have yet to discover, dressed in her usual solid tights and split tunic, all black. Her similarly colored cloak billowed out behind her, making her appear significantly larger and more menacing. Personally, I didn’t think the cloak necessary as the color of her garments and their contrast with the environment did plenty for her entrance.
My subconscious may have decided on that point for my own comfort, however.
She was only an inch or so taller, but her presence and authority made her seem exponentially larger than myself. You wouldn’t assume that a black and silver-haired woman of average height and an age she had revealed to be eighty-two could beat you into submission, but you would be wrong. I learned that valuable lesson the day I had a death wish and sassed her. I have not done so since, although my wish remains unchanged.
“I am disappointed, child. One hit? They were unarmed!” she shook her head. “Rise.”
I made no movement to do so.
Still no sign from me.
She snapped her fingers and two men dressed in white entered the room via the nonexistent doorframe. They took hold of my arms, lifting me to my feet. Upon closer inspection, I saw that they were not as old as I had suspected, but younger, probably teenage. I had never seen anyone but her in this game of torture, so they were unfamiliar.
Shockingly, one whispered in my ear, “I most sincerely apologize for your circumstance and, in advance, anything myself or my colleague may be ordered to do or say. If it makes you feel better, doing things this way wasn’t my idea.”
I would never forget his voice, or his face; the only even mildly caring person I had met in this terrible nightmare. The only one who even cared just a little? His voice was not too deep or too rough; what I could see of his hair under the hood of his cloak was a dirty blond, his eyes dark blue, and his nose tip-tilted. His cheekbones were high. He smelled of oranges and Christmas trees, even though spring had already set in.
The woman did not see him speak to me, as she was turned round and tapping her foot, undoubtedly planning my rebuke.
“You have a destiny to fulfill, my dear, and quite a destiny it is. If you cannot succeed in these battles, then there is little hope for any of us. The sanctuary must be retaken.”
She kept her back to me as she spoke, but then clapped her hands together in a wide sweeping movement and I saw the edges of the room blur.
“Perhaps it is time to bring you back. Goodbye, child.”
“AH!” I woke with a start, gasping for air, sweat coating my face and matting my hair.
I heard my mother’s voice drift up from the depths of the kitchen. “Kaylie, darling, wake up! Time for school! I made pancakes! Hurry up now, dear!”
I rose from my bed, my movements dogged and slow. I walked with tiny steps to the bathroom. As if still in a dream, I slowly dabbed at my damp skin with a towel and sprayed perfume strategically on my body. As with other days, I hoped no one would notice.
Though the fight was long over, the sting of his boots remained bright in what I thought to be memory. My eyes darted about, and I ripped off my nightshirt, turning my back to the mirror. I breathed in slowly, and, in one fast movement, I brought up the black hand mirror and angled it so I could view my back.
My green eyes froze in place. I recall that they were green for I wished to look at anything but my back. Sometimes my eyes appear blue.
“Kaylie, love! I don’t hear anything from you, dear! Get out of bed!”
It couldn’t be true; it couldn’t be real. It was just a dream! My mother lives, she does not rest in her grave. But then, what, exactly, was I looking at in the mirror?
I reached tentatively up to my back, feeling along my shoulder blades and down. They hurt.
“Kaylie! The pancakes will get cold! Come down here!" Absently, automatically, I replied, “Coming!”
There was no reason for why I wasn’t moving. Tonight, she would summon me back to the nightmare, and tomorrow night, and the night after that. I might as well accept my fate. She would keep coming to torture, to yell about the ridiculous destiny she seems to think I’m involved in. Dark Lordess indeed. Why can’t she find someone else to take back this ‘sanctuary’ of hers? I just want to graduate from high school and get into a good college.
But maybe I would see him again; maybe he could do something, anything, to stop her. All clouds have a silver lining, after all.
I readied myself for school, taking out a black polo. The silver welts on my back shot pain through my body as I slid the rough material over them. I had always thought that fabric fine.
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Newspaper Page Text
TELl AUG US. SATURDAY. JUL.Y 18 1891.
Published Daily and Weekly t 1134 Second Av
enue, Rock Irland, 111.
J. W. POTTER.
Turn a Daily, 60c per month; Weekly, $3.00
All communication! ot critical or argnmenta
ttTe character, political or religlouA. man have
real name attached for pnbllcation No each arti
tic lee will be printed over fictitious signatures -Anonymous
communications not noticed.
Correspondence toliclted from every township
i a Rock Island county.
Saturday, Jtjly 18, 1891.
What a (happy thing it is, both for
Europe and the United States, that.while
the grain crops in- several European
conntries are abort this year, the yield of
our own fields will be so abundant that
we can tnpp'y any foreign demand. We
grieve with the foreign farmers whose
harvests have failed; we rejoice that the
American farmers are able to make up
for the failur j.
Purely a umImm Principle.
Congressman Henderson, of Princeton,
for whom Rock Island always entertains
a kindly feeling because of bis noble work
for the Hennepin canal and many good
deeds for this community in fact being
tbe only representative of this neighbor
hood in congress in the past four years
gets wofully muddled sometimes and says
some things be would not at all times like to
beheld responsible for. He says for in
stance, tbe tariff is purely a business
question, and it should be taken out of
politics altogether. Tariff agitation hurts
business aDd should be avoided as fir as
possible." Perhaps tbe tariff agitation
hurts the republican party and for that
reason it should be avoided.
To this point tbe Clinton Age remarks:
The fact is, business enters into all
issues upon wbicb tbe great parlies of tbe
. country divide. No issue of a political
nature was ever yet abandoned because
of tbe injury to business. If business is
seriously affected it behooves tbe people
to settle tbe question as soon as possible.
No doubt tbe tariff question hurts gome
folks. It also robs millions of their bard
earnings. It will burl and rob until it is
settled, and it can only be settled on a
business principle, wbicb principle in
this case is tbe unrestricted right to buy
and sell wbere one pleases, subject ot
course to such a tax as may be essential
to raise revenue to pay tbe necessary ex
penses of tbe government.
.HedrtnzfcaaH' Htrlke Again.
St. Louis Republic: Mr. F. G. Nied
ringbaus, late of tbe Read congress, now
of the Tin-Plate combine, is making
determined orjDosition to a strike of bis
employes on tbe ground, a a, we under
stand him to say. that be does not pro
pose to allow tbem to run bis business.
To what business does Mr. Niedring
baus refer? He can hardly mean tbe
manufacture of "granite iron," of gal-
vinized iron, of sbeet iron, of tin-plate or
of any other business on wbich the
American people sre compelled to pay
tariff bounties and subsidies. We un
derstood from him wben be was voting
for these subsidies that he was not doio
it for his business at all, but purely as a
statesman and patriot to give American
labor higher wages.
But now Mr. Niednnghaut til Its about
"my business" as if be and not the Ameri
can people bad built up tbe factory he'
has charge of. He thinks it is bis pri
vate property, but be is very greatly mis
taken. He has not earned it; or more
than a cent in every f 10 of its value. It
has been pat there by taxation on tbe
earnings of American labor, and be is
illogical wben be says it is bis business
and that he is going to run i: to suit him
self. That remains to be seen. Tbe strikers
have tbe law on tbeir side, and be voted
for tbe law. Under it they are entitled
to make him disgorge every cent of tbe
money be gets by virtue of the tariff
without earning it. If be refuses to dis
gorge, he is breaking tbe law be helped
to make, and is keeping from tbem wbttt
legally belongs to tbem according to bis
own public confession in congress of tbe
intention of tbe law.
Instead of obeying tbe law and sur
rendering to tbem tbe enormous jiraflts
he cx'.orts or expects to extort from the
American people, be intimates Carnegie
and the other protected Plutocrats; puts
his thumbs in bis buttonholes and de
clares that no one else shall run bis busi
ness. If be were competent to have a busi
ness and run it, why did he not say so
sooner instead of going to congress and
demanding that tbe American people
should run it by submitting to taxes for
wbich there was no other demand? Hav
ing done that, he stultifies himself wben
he talks of "my business" as if it were a
priyate affair. Under tbe McKinley tariff
it is nothing of the kind. It is the prop
erty of the commune under tbe republi
can communism of tariff sudsidies and
bounties. His employes have a right to
run it to the extent of forcing biin to give
up to tbem all the law allows, and tbe
tariff laws, according to bis own iuterpra
tation, allows tbem what be gets as tbe
difference between a fair price for wbat
he sells and a high tariff monopoly price.
They will never get rid of bim, it is
true, but his knowledge of tbeir lack of
ability to do so does not jusiify bim in
pretending that be has built up a busi
ness by bis own energy and enterprise or
that he has earned wbat he intends to
TENNIS AND YACHTING GOWNS.
Characteristic Feature of Thla Season's
Coetnmea for Outdoor Sport.
Shirt waists and blouses are an impor
tant feature in this season's tennis and
yachting costumes, which latter are in
many instances made in lighter colors than
were those of last year. Homespuns, serpes
and flannels are the favored materials for
the gowns, while the blouses and shirt
waists are of washing silk, flannelette,
twilled flannel or linen, as best suits tbe
taste of tbe wearer. For yachting cos
tumes the most popular materials are navy
bine serge for tbe gown and white washing
silk or linen for the shirt, worn under an
open coat of tbe serge.
BLOUSES FOR TESXIS AXD BOATIXG.
The shirt waist shown in the cut is the
latest novelty of the season. It is made in
cream twilled flannel; the front cuds and
collar are in silk striped delaine. The re
maining figures in the cut give pleasing
illustrations of blouses suited alike to
tennis or boating. Two of these are made
with side pockets and collars that turn
down over tbe fashionable necktie. A eood
idea is also given in this cut of the girdles
and belts worn with, tennis shirts and
blouses, ns well as oi the variety of hats
that are worn with ontinz costumes. Tbe
low sailor hat is a popular style for yacht
ing. Roots and Shoe.
Seal leather is a special feature brought
out this season. This skin, which super
sedes Russian leather, the favorite of !a.t
summer, is really a part of tbe sealskin,
carefully tanned, to be used as leather, and
is so delightfully soft as to render it a per
fect boon to tender feet. It has besides the
great advantage of not only showing oil
its natural shades, ranging from light tan
to dark brown, but of being dyed in lovely
There is a decided tendency at fetes, wed
dings, promenades and all fashionable
gatherings to wear shoes of bright, cheer
ful hues, harmonizing or contrasting with
the gowns. Moreover, fashionable ladies
are particular to wear stockings in plain
or lace silk, matching exactly the tone of
their shoes, hence tan, yellow and silver
stockings, etc., have boJ to be manufac
tured expressly to agree with the shoe
maker's materials. Many examples are
made entirely of plain leather or kid, with
toecaps and fronts cut out in fanciful de
vices, yet tbe majority appear to be goloshed
with black patent leather, which is pret
tily punched and pinked out, while the
upper colored part is either buttoned, laced
np or jauntily tied with moire or tinsel
As to shapes, they vary according to the
diversity of styles patronized by society
leaders. Now there is, for instance, one
suitable for a piquant Watteau gown.
which really sets one dreaming of the glass
slipper of fairy tales, softly padded and
covered with delicate dove gray silk; it is
decorated on the vamp with exquisite roses
wrought in grav snk aud crystal beads.
For a stern Louis XIII costume, on the
contrary, there is the glossy shoe in black
patent leather, and for the short waistcd
empire robe an elongated red slipper, with
the baby's or the X straps, seems the very
thine, while the fashionable draperies and
hair knot cannot be lietter set off than by
boots, high at the back and opened in
front, to be laced up with gold cord or
fastened with a buckle.
For the warm summer days t he lace cape
mantelet affords a dressy aud at the same
time lightweight wrap. Laces and pas
sementeries are embroidered in these sum
A CAPK MAyELF.T.
In the ent is shown one of these fashion
I'jle capes made in rich Chantillv lace, it
has a Medici collar fminbed w ith a lace
rutlle. There are lace epaulettes on the
shoulders. The trimming consists of rows
of jet passementerie which outline the
figure at the back uud edge the collar.
The favorite summer silk this year is
glace that is, changeable taffeta, which
is employed not only for entire costumes,
but iu addition under transparent mate
rials, grenadines aud laces, and under white
and cream batistes and muslins.
4& - I Y
NINA A REAL WIFE.
Referring to the August Spies
MAEEIAGI 01 MISS NINA VAN ZAND1
The Young Chicago Woman Who Added
to the Sensational Features of the An
archist Trials Weds a Native of .Sunny
Italy The Ceremony Performed by a
Jontice of the Peace, and the Happy
Couple to Leave for the Groom's Native
Land Next Week.
Chicago, July 17. Bright lights flared
from the wicdows of tbe Van Zandt resi- j
dence, 221 Scailler street, until a late hour
last night. Saunds of mirth and festivity
came from within. The parlors were
filled with gty company and tbe house
rang with laughter. There was feasting,
music and dancing. The cause of this un
usual rejoicing was the marriage of Miss
Nina Van Zaidt to Signor Salvatore Ste
fano M?.lato. The ceremony was per
formed at 9 o'clock by Justice David J.
Lyon in the presence of about forty
guests. The ceremony was purely a civil
one, but it is possible that the young
couple may have their union solemnized
in a church on some later date. They
were in too great a hurry to get away to
sunny Italy to wait for a church weddicg
and elaborate preparations Just now.
Vtilized a Theatrical Costume.
The ushers were Lieutenant Almagia
and Signor Mammala. The witnesses for
Signor Malato were Count V. Manassero
di Costigliole, resident Italian consul, anc
Arthur Stefatii. The witnesses for Miss
Van Zandt w re Henry Fauntleroy, a well
known Chicagoan, and John C. Love, of
Philadelphia. The bride looked charming
in her wedding gown, which was oi
white, satin, with a veil of tulle. Her or
naments wer.j pearls. This dress was
originally created for Nina's appearance
in "Francesca da Rimini" at the Salvini
club, but was never worn, for the reason
that Van Zandt pere objected strenuous
ly to his daughter making her debut in a
west side beer hall.
Met and Loved at a Club.
Itwasatth:s Salvini club that Signor
Malato and Miss Van Zandt met a few
months ago and liecame lovers. Tbe
black-haired, slender, aud foreign-looking
groom wore a conventional Prince Albert
suit. After tbe ceremony, wnicn was
brief, but in J istice Lyons most impres
sive manner, t be newly wedded couple re
ceived t he cone ratulations and good wishes
of evervbody i resent. Then refreshments
were served, and there was a sort of in
formal recepti m. which lasted until a late
hour. Signor Malato was anxious to take
his handsome and intellectual young wife
and board a f.ist train for New York at
once, in order that be might the sooner
be able to present her to bis mother and
friends at his ancestral estates in Palermo,
Will lea v.- for Italy Next Week.
But Father an Zandt would not agree
to this hasty departure. Nina is his only
daughter and U greatly worshipped both
by himelf and her mother. The young
couple were prevailed! on to remain in
Chicago until Sunday at least; then they
expect to start for New ork in time to
call on a few friends and sail on the
steamship La ISoureogne July 25. Their
first plan was o sail on the La Cham
pagne, but tbis had to be given up.
Signor Malato came to Chicago only last
January. He is an Italian journalist, as
vet unable to speak more than a few
broken words of English.
Nina I a Yassar Girl.
But be is happy in possessing an Ameri
can wife who can talk love to him bv the
hour in his owr soft and liquid Italian
Malato is an oclv son. His mother, jt is
said, owns orange groves near Palermo
and has both a town and country house.
As for his bride's accomplishments, she
speaks Italian. French, a little German
and is a thorough Latin scholar. She has
studied literature, particularly that of the
realistic French school, with great dili
gence. She has also fine musical attain
ments. In short, she is a Vassar girl.
And Ha a Wealthy Aunt.
Better tban a 1. perhaps, she has a rich
aunt in the east who is said to have for
given her part in tbe anarchist tragedv.
and to have reinstated the newly maf
bride inherwid. Mrs. an Zandt, who is m
extremely poor bealtb, said last eight that
she was very sot ry to lose her daughter.
and that she would have been happier if
Nina had c-boset. One of her own national
itv for her husband. It is understood
that Malato and bis bride will remain iu
Italy uiftil fall, ind then, perhaps, return
to Chicaco to lhe; but, as Mr. Van Zandt
says, these plans- may all be changed.
Brief Hit t ory of the Krltle.
Nina Van Zan It came into very public
notice during the trial of tbe anarchists in
this city, by falling in love with August
Spies, the youi g anarchist editor. She
tried to eet permission to visit him in
prison, but the authorities would al
low none but rel itives to see Spies. Thn
she proposed to marry bim, and obtaintd
a license; but again the unsympathetic
minions of the liw stepped in and would
not per mit the marriage to be performed.
The Celebrated Proxy Marriage.
After taking It gal advice Nina went 1 e
fore a justice w:th a friend of Spies and
married him as proxy for the prisoner.
But she was never permitted to see ber
proxy husband. After the execution she
edited a life of Spies. During the past
few days she has charged that Spies'
counsel induced her to marry him that
halo of romance might be cast around the
young anarchist and induce the jury to
acquit him. Captain Black, the counsel
however, not on.y denies this, but says
that he tried to dissuade her, but that she
was very much in love and would not be
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I think your blog is adorable - I love your illustrations!
I love stroganoff and your artwork of it is adorable!
wow! im really really honored by this! =) thank you so much for finding inspiration in my simple cooking...=) i came straight home after work coz i can't wait to see this in your site..=)cheers!ac of confession nook
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Beyond Mobile: Where No Geek Has Gone Before
Everyday technology is hurtling at warp speed into science fiction. Mobile's at the forefront, but what's next? At the hazy edges of the tech universe, emerging trends hint at the future of connected devices and even a redefinition of the very idea of user interfaces. Designer Josh Clark, author of "Tapworthy," takes you on an expedition of this final frontier, with a bevy of practical techniques and cutting-edge examples that anticipate what comes next after mobile.
Post-PC computing is about more than just phones or tablets. See how your current work lays the foundation for a future of social devices (and why more and dumber machines will make us smarter). Learn how sensor-rich devices change the user experience, and explore how to better design for sensors. Along the way, you'll see how games lead the fleet, how robots will help you build software, and which smart technology choices will prepare you for this future, to boldly go where no geek has gone before.
- What design techniques can I use now to take smart advantage of sensors and extend the UI beyond the screen?
- How do I organize my content now for a growing diversity of devices, including devices without interfaces at all? How flexible must content and designs be to accommodate all these form factors?
- What are social devices? As gizmos start talking to each other to work on our behalf, how does that change the user experience—and my interface designs?
- How do I design to help content flow among devices? What role do new input methods like natural gesture, speech, and touch play in that interaction?
- Never mind content, what about control? We already design for remote control (drive your tv with your iPad), but how do I design for SHARED control (your tv can drive your iPad, too)?
- Josh Clark Global Moxie
Josh Clark Global Moxie
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However, this is not necessarily the preferred backup method since data potentially has to travel twice across the network (NAS to backup client and backup client to backup server).
If you are using NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) based backups, which are available with the latest release of the Guardian OS, it is now possible to take NDMP "hot backups", where data is backed up while remaining accessible to the users. In fact, the WorkGroup Edition of BakBone's NetVault software is integrated into the GuardianOS v3 used by Snap Server, which enables online backups. More details are available on that option at: http://www.snapappliance.com/page.cfm?name=bakbonemain&nav=NAS
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I have a tape of jungle sounds. Sometimes I put it into my computer when I’m working. It starts in silence, then dawn creeps across it like light across a sky. The trills of nameless birds, the croaks and cheeps of cicadas and tree frogs – the sounds of the Belizean rainforest are as evocative as any other memory I have of the country. I could play its score from first day to last, and never tire of it.
But for me, the sounds of Belize City are where it all began, newly arrived in the country, trying to find my feet. I remember it all so well – the roar of four-by-fours on potholed streets, the thump of punta rock from speakers stacked in open shop doorways, the cries of hustlers after dollar from the tourists. ‘Yuh lookin fu wa guide. Yuh wanna hea a song? Yuh wa I show yuh weh fu go?’
At the time there was an election under way. People on the streets were politicking. I saw their slogans on their banners, heard them calling out for change. And in the heat of evening, lying on my hotel bed, I heard a rally underway across the street. Voices carried across the air. Cheers from the rally. Music from the sea front. Night-birds whistling, full-throttled. I could hear them too.
This was my first experience of Belize, and my second was Caye Caulker. The roar of the distant reef, which was always there – how could I ever forget that, or the bird-walk with Dorothy, who taught me to follow sounds through the littoral forest, and then identify the birds who were making them; the bananaquit, the scarlet tanager, the hooded warbler, the mockingbird.
Later my landlady, Luciana, told me of a night of birds which she was once awoken by – birds of all kinds including parrots and ibexes. The north wind brought them over, blown together in a mighty cloud. The event was unique. No one on Caulker had ever witnessed anything like it. You could see their white beaks in the darkness like flashes of light. You could hear their wings beating through the rain, and hear them calling to each other.
She told the story so well I could imagine I was there. Even now at my desk as I write this, I can hear those birds calling and the beating of their wings.
After Caye Caulker, I went up to San Ignacio. There, in Crystal’s Supermarket, I heard a rare, rich bird of another sort – Paul Nabor. I stood there with headphones on. I’d never heard paranda before, and never a voice like this. There are moment, aren’t there, which change everything. And that was such a moment for me.
In my novel about Belize, ‘In the Trees’, I describe Paul Nabor’s voice rising like smoke out of darkness, and the experience of hearing him being like having the deepest, darkest, finest drink uncorked and poured down you:
‘The singing was as sweet as honey, yet there was gravel in it too. His voice was full of birds and beasts and tall white stately ceiba trees. Flowers were in his voice, and clouds of butterflies, and Kid could hear rivers flowing through the music booth, and hear people too. He could hear their voices caught up in the song, the people of Belize, and he didn’t feel lonely any more…’
So says Kid Cato – the young hero of my book, visiting Belize for the first time to try and find his dad, upon first hearing Paul Nabor.
The other musician who impacted my journey around Belize was Lucky Dube. The first time I heard him was on a bus traveling south from San Igancio with a group of gap year volunteers. The driver’s girlfriend was sitting up front with her little girl, bobbing about to the reggae music that kept being putting on. Reggae, sunshine, the disappearing foothills of the Maya Mountains over which I’d just trekked – they’re now all meshed together in my mind.
It was reggae all the way down south to the Kekchi-Mayan villages of Toledo District. But only when Lucky Dube came on did I find myself leaning across the aisle and asking, ‘Who’s that?’ Then later I heard Lucky Dube again on another bus. Somewhere on the dirt roads around Punta Gorda I heard ‘I Feel Irie’ for the first time, ringing out in contrast to anything else that got put on. ‘Do you feel like we do?’ Lucky Dube’s electrifying voice sang out. ‘We all have trouble now an’ again, know what I’m sayin…’ ‘People have troubles since the Pope was an altar boy…’, ‘No man can hide from his fears…’, ‘Since they are part of him, they always know where to find him…’, ‘Come on, walk tall…’ and, again – and again – ‘Do you feel like we do…?’
And I did. And still do. Whenever Lucky Dube’s voice rings out, I feel alive. I know now that he’s dead – tragically dead – but his voice will always have that effect.
Down in Toledo District, I stayed in the Kekchi-Mayan village of Medina Bank. My memories of that village are so rich. The rattle of the corn-mill started up before first light. Then children started chasing squawking chickens, riding turkeys, swinging from guava trees and asking ‘what’s your name’ over and over again. I remember the school bell ringing for the flag to be raised and the Belizean anthem being sung by a choir of ragged little voices. Then I remember women chattering in the river in the heat of the day, the sound of water flowing past them as they pounded their clothes on a series of flat stones. Then school was over and the children were in the river too, laughing, dive-bombing and splashing about. Then evening fell, smoke rising through thatches from all those village hearths, stars and fireflies coming out, birds falling silent and the cicadas starting up. Then finally, I remember my hosts’ voices as by candlelight they talked to me about land rights, the founding of their village, and the Mayan way of life.
I spent six weeks traveling around Belize. But if I had to choose one sound above all others, it wouldn’t come from Medina Bank, Belize City, Lucky Dube or Paul Nabor. It would come from Chiquibul. With my son, Idris, and a guide from the gap year organization, Trekforce, I trekked across that vast and beautiful wilderness to interview young British volunteers working on a conservation project in a remote location. First night out in the jungle, I lay in my hammock wondering what to expect next. All around me, the sounds of the jungle were as loud as anything I’d heard on Albert Street or the swing-bridge over Haulover Creek. So many creatures out there in the night, whistling, whooping, whirring, croaking – and then, to top it all, an incredible roaring sound that I took at first to be jaguars. But oh no. In the distance, drawing closer, howler monkeys were on the move.
Here was another of those moments which change things. Once you’ve heard howler monkeys calling to each beneath a full moon in the jungle, believe me life is never quite the same. Slowly the sound grew until it was overhead. Without as much as a rustle of a branch, those howler monkeys had moved into our camp, and now they were calling to each other to come and take a look at us. Despite the moonlight, I couldn’t see them back. But I could hear them, by God. And what a privilege.
Never mind bottling Paul Nabor and drinking him down. I want to bottle howler monkeys too. But then I want to bottle it all – the whole six week experience, which I’ll never forget. Or, at the very least, I want the soundtrack – Belize on tape so that I can have it on my computer and, every time I switch on, it’ll take me back.
To hear Lucky Dube sing ‘I Feel Irie’ click HERE.
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Steampunk Owl Ornament
by dutchmogul, published
Happy Holidays everyone!
Though I don't generally dabble in seasonal pieces, I figured I'd make a nice and secular ornament. Hang it from whatever takes your fancy! It makes a decent little statue any time of the year too, I suppose. Just clip off the loop at the back of his scarf.
This guy is my one and only entry for the ProtoParadigm December Design contest. Jump on this if you get the chance. There's 3 days left! http://www.protoparadigm.com/blog/2012/12/december-design-contest-win-a-years-of-plastic/
-Dedicated to Joyce
Designed in TinkerCAD: https://tinkercad.com/things/hG2ROxQ5iNK-steampunk-owl-ornament
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“I saw an opportunity to benefit tourists, the environment, and local cultures all at once.”
- Year selected
With Alltournative, Carlos is proving how large-scale tourism and sustainable development can be mutually beneficial. In its first six years, the company hosted 500,000 tourists, won 3 internationally recognized awards for regional sustainable development and ecotourism, and provided job opportunities to over 200 Mayans. Carlos’s principal innovation — combining profitable and sustainable adventure tourism with Mayan indigenous culture — is blazing a trail in a growing high-profile industry.
Endeavor and Alltournative
Projects with ATKearney and Deloitte have been particularly beneficial to the company — Carlos describes the business plan developed by AT Kearney as his “new bible,” while Deloitte developed all the company’s manuals. Carlos also benefited from publicity support, and mentoring with finance experts on raising capital, along with a range of local strategy events and workshops.
Carlos demonstrates commitment in numerous ways, including by doing media appearances for Endeavor Mexico.
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UPDATE(Jan 10, 2013): Thank you to the mystery commentator who has pointed out that the digital recorder Crump used does not have USB connectivity. That leaves only two ways to get the audio onto a computer. One method, I do not recommend, is to record through a microphone as the recorder is playing. The second and best method is to connect a minijack to the recorder(Headphone Output) directly into the computers soundcard.
It has come to my attention that the State gave O’Mara the files from Crumps recorder in wma format. There is a description of this on O’Mara’s website which I apparently missed the first time I looked unless it was added after.
The big problem is that particular recorder saves its files in mp3 format. This is what the files ought to look like;
That screenshot is of my recorder;
Model number: ICD-PX312
This is Crump’s recorder;
Model number: ICD-BX112
All the State had to do was to right click on the files of W8’s interview and copy them which they could have easily sent to O’Mara as attachments in an E-Mail. That way O’Mara would have had the original files. There was no reason whatsoever not to do this.
Bernie mentioned that there was other audio on the recorder that had nothing to do with the interview. And so he did not want to hand the recorder itself over to O’Mara. He didn’t have to. All he had to do was send the files that were of the W8 interview in the original state to O’Mara. But that was NOT done because they have been changed from the mp3 format to the wma format.
UNLESS of course the files on the recorder were in wma format. Anyone want to tell me how that happened?
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My thoughts on Social Media Markeing and why most people get it wrong... what are your thoughts?
social media marketing vs social media networking Does your business use social media? Or are you planning on using it? Social media marketing seems to be one of those buzz words. Most so called "online marketing experts" will probably tell you: "You have to get into social media marketing!".
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AUSTIN — Here is the weekly fishing report as compiled for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for Sept. 15. Full report available at www.txfishing.com.
AMISTAD: Water murky; 87 degrees; 1.70 feet high. Black bass are slow. Striped bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie slow. Catfish are slow. Yellow catfish are slow.
BRAUNIG: Water clear; 86 degrees. Striped bass are excellent on liver and shad off points near the pier and at the north end of the park, and down rigging silver and gold spoons near the jetty and dam. Channel catfish are excellent on liver, shrimp, cut bait, and cheesebait near the dam and the discharge. Blue catfish are good on cut bait.
BUCHANAN: Water clear; 86 degrees; 9.65 feet low. Black bass are good on daiquiri JDC Skip-N-Pop topwaters, blue shad flukes, Rat-L-Traps, and wacky rigged watermelon red Whacky Sticks along docks and over flats early. Striped bass are good on Spoiler Shads plastic swim baits and drifting or free lining live bait around Lighthouse Point at first light. Channel catfish are good on liver, minnows, and dipbait. Yellow and blue catfish are very good on rod/reel, juglines and trotlines baited with goldfish and perch upriver.
CALAVERAS: Water clear; 86 degrees. Striped bass are good on spoons and striper jigs near the dam and the crappie wall in 15-20 feet, and on chicken livers and shad along the shoreline. Redfish are good on rigging spoons with green grubs between the crappie wall and the dam in 15-20 feet, and on crawfish and tilapia along the shoreline. Channel and blue catfish are excellent on liver, shrimp, cheesebait, and shad near the railroad trestle, 181 Cove, and the discharge.
CANYON LAKE: Water clear; 87 degrees; 1.13 feet high. Smallmouth bass are fair on topwaters, root beer JDC grubs, and craws in 10-30 feet at daylight. Crappie are fair on white or chartreuse crappie jigs and live minnows tight to lay down tree tops and brush upriver. Channel catfish are slow. Yellow and blue catfish are very good on trotlines and juglines baited with live goldfish and perch from Cranes Mill Park to the mouth of the river.
CHOKE CANYON: Water clear; 88 degrees; 4.14 feet low. Black bass are fair on minnows and white spinnerbaits. Channel and blue catfish are very good on frozen shrimp and punchbait. Yellow catfish are fair on live perch.
COLETO CREEK: Water fairly clear; 86 degrees (97 degrees at discharge); 0.10 feet high. Black bass are fair on minnows. White bass are fair on minnows. Channel and blue catfish are good on shrimp, liver, and live perch. Yellow catfish are fair on trotlines and juglines baited with live perch in 10-20 feet.
FALCON: Water clear; 85 degrees. Black bass are good on white spinnerbaits. Striped bass are slow. Channel and blue catfish are excellent on stinkbait and frozen shrimp.
LBJ: Water stained; 88 degrees; 0.30 feet low. Black bass are good on watermelon Curb’s Erratic jigs, watermelon red Whacky Sticks, and pumpkin 4-inch tubes near docks and lay downs along seawalls and in 10 feet at daylight. Striped bass are good on Creme Lure’s 2-inch Spoiler Shads and 1-inch Li’l Fishies at night. White bass are fair to good on Li’l Fishies at night. Crappie are fair to good on Curb’s crappie jigs and live minnows over brush piles in clear water. Channel catfish very good on nightcrawlers, liver, and dipbait. Yellow and blue catfish very good on trotlines baited with goldfish and perch.
TRAVIS: Water fairly clear; 87 degrees; 8.05 feet low. Black bass are good on bone topwaters, watermelon worms, and grubs in 5-15 feet. Striped bass are slow. White bass are fair on chrome jigging spoons and minnows in 35-42 feet. Crappie are slow. Channel and blue catfish are good on nightcrawlers and fresh cut bait in 28-45 feet.
Saltwater (north to south)
EAST MATAGORDA BAY: Trout are fair for drifters on live shrimp over humps and scattered shell. Trout and redfish are fair to good on the shorelines for waders tossing small topwaters and plastics. Redfish are good in Lake Austin.
WEST MATAGORDA BAY: Trout are fair on sand and grass humps on soft plastics and topwaters. Redfish are good on live shrimp and topwaters in Oyster Lake, Crab Lake and Shell Island.
PORT O’CONNOR: Bull redfish are good in the surf and at the jetty on natural baits. Trout and redfish are fair for drifters working the back lakes with live shrimp.
ROCKPORT: Redfish are good on mullet on the Estes Flats and around Mud Island. Redfish are showing up in large schools. Trout and redfish are good in the back of Allyn’s Bight.
PORT ARANSAS: Trout are fair around Super Flats on topwaters. Redfish are fair at East Flats and Shamrock Cove on topwaters and plastics under rattling corks. Offshore is good for amberjack, kingfish, tuna and dolphin.
CORPUS CHRISTI: Redfish are good on the shallow flats on gold spoons and small topwaters. Sand trout and croakers are good in the channels on fresh shrimp.
BAFFIN BAY: Trout are good on topwaters and plum plastics around rocks and grass. Redfish are good in the Land Cut on live bait. Redfish are fair to good in knee-deep water on gold spoons and topwaters.
PORT MANSFIELD: Trout are fair to good around East Cut. Redfish are showing in large schools on the sand. Redfish are fair to good while drifting pot holes on topwaters and soft plastics under a popping cork. Offshore is good for kingfish, ling and dolphin.
SOUTH PADRE: Trout, redfish and snook are fair to good on the flats on DOA Lures and live bait. Tarpon are fair to good around the jetty.
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eOS Luna Stable
Conky by me
Conky by me
Hey how to get the music progress bar?
me anda del baño DX
que es el conky? Es el widget de la hora? Me gustaría intentar y digo intentar porque no lo he hecho nunca hacer un widget para UCCW que es una plataforma de widgets para android, y había pensado en hacer una cosa como esta. Me podrías decir la font que has uilizado o como lo has hecho? xD Gracias
si alguien puede indicar como instalar esta super...
Hey guy ! Thanks for this awesome work ! Can you please help me? Because I did like to have my wingpanel as your's. I don't know if it is tranparency or something else, but if you can help, I will really appreciate. Which app have you used to do so? Thanks !
how the hell do you do this? im new to linux i just installed ubuntu 11.04 on my mac. i was going to get linux mint 15 cinnamon but it gave me problems while installing it so didn't wanna deal with it. i don't know how to do anything yet. this is pretty much what i want to do but i have no clue where to start haha
Buen shot, ahora revisaré mas de tu gallery! Que íconos son esos
¿Usas el tema "transparente" del plank?
Se ve bonito tu escritorio.
Hi, I tried to get the wallpaper like yours, but yours still feels warmer and with crisper colours. Could you tell us how you modified the image to be like that?
Thanks anyway, pretty sleek desktop you have .
To make it feel warm: Just Gaussian blur the image like you normally would. Next, create a new layer and paste the color black in it. Then, set the property of that new layer to overlay. Hope that helped!
You have flawless taste in music. High five to you for liking one of my favorite bands.
Great wallpaper! Can you share it?
Awesome Conky, do you mind sharing?
can you share your conky?
Can you share conky config and wall?
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Welcome to the website of Larry Cunningham
A number of years ago, the Cunningham family were given this scrapbook by Alfie Sayers. His sister Winnie Morton was a huge fan of Larry Cunningham and the Mighty Avons and put the scrapbook together when they were at the height of their fame in the 1960’s. The book was featured in an RTE program on the life of Larry Cunningham ‘A Little Bit Country’.
The Cunningham family decided to have the book put into digital format in order to share the memories with all of Larry’s fans.
Click here to see the scrapbook.
Larry and Beatrice looking at the Scrapbook with RTE presenters looking on
On Sale Now
Larry Cunningham Book "A Showband Legend" The book Larry Cunningham - a Showband Legend is a trip down memory lane for the Showband scene from the 1960's to the present day. It will take you on Larrys' journey that spans counties, countries and continents and will leave you reeling at home one... | <urn:uuid:86d0f7eb-f3dd-48b5-8c56-8bc6e8752312> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.larrycunningham.ie/ | 2015-07-06T11:19:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098196.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00185-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955839 | 214 | [
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Happy Easter 2008!
The pups have gone on their Easter egg hunt and came back with some surprising results. XD
Hope your Easter holiday is a good one!
Don't forget, the finale of our Sugary Serials comic contribution, "Who is the Crimson Scarab?" is currently being published daily! Check in throughout the week for the thrilling conclusion! | <urn:uuid:54aab9eb-5fcf-46a7-9664-863cdb42681d> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.nemu-nemu.com/2008/03/22/happy_easter_2008.php | 2015-07-06T11:24:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098196.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00185-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935898 | 74 | [
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Re: Natural Mindfulness Meditation
- Dante looks like a fun guy. I've been walking through the woods with
the town dog, lately. It is nice. The city or towns have always been
great places for meditation walks for me also because I really get
into the geometry that's so prevalent there.
--- In [email protected], medit8ionsociety
> Dante and I just got back from our daily visit to a nearby statepark.
> It is so easy to be mindful and mind-empty of the usual innerchatter
> while in nature. I know that some people feel uncomfortable outsidemiddle
> of a city environment, but the distractions are so lovely in the
> of a forrest, it seems so melt-into-able. In a city you have carnoises,
> people yelling, and machines grinding. In the woods, birds chirp,is
> streams bubble, the wind whirls through the trees. Visually, there
> no comparison between a graffiti artist and Mother Nature. Thesmells,
> tactile sensations, and the tastes of nature (Baskin Robbinsexcluded:-)
> are of a finer degree of beauty and enjoyment than anything foundin a
> city. Of course it isn't "bad", and can be looked at as beingcharacter
> building, or some such thing, to be in a non-condusive tomeditation
> environment, but if your setting is naturally relaxing, it is far
> easier "To Be here now", "To Be", etc.
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Wendy has been a product manager here at Salary.com since 2008 and has been a web professional since 1999. Read more...
Respondents who had this summer job 23.8%
A Fast food worker is often called upon to up sell… "Would you like fries with that?"
Valuable skill for careers in: Sales and Marketing
A fast food worker learns about efficient production techniques.
Valuable skill for careers in: Manufacturing
Fast food workers often need to deal with difficult customers while still maintaining a pleasant disposition.
Valuable skill for careers in: Customer Service | <urn:uuid:b618d519-72fc-402c-9615-2e94b65b56a7> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://salary.com/summer-jobs-and-future-careers/slide/6/ | 2015-06-30T08:19:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375091925.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031811-00125-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962503 | 120 | [
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Miami Photo Fakeout: The Townhouse gets by with a little help from its photo-editor friends
Well, we can think of one person in this great country that deserved yesterday's holiday -- it seems like someone certainly labored long and hard in Photoshop to produce the image on the left.
Behold: a beautiful example of the wonders of Photoshop, as displayed in these two images of the rooftop lounge at The Townhouse Hotel in Miami. On the left, take in the photo from the hotel's website: pretty ethereal light in the gazebo; the building-less skyline; the furniture that appears inviting and vibrant and sleek.
And on the right...reality. Considerably less glow-y, no?« Back to Oyster Photo Fakeouts | <urn:uuid:8d47dc2f-eab5-4c9f-86ad-fc31f2613496> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.oyster.com/hotels/photo-fakeouts/miami-townhouse/ | 2015-06-30T09:22:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375091925.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031811-00125-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936642 | 156 | [
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Tim Cook is visiting China for the second time. Although the details of Cook’s visit, according to Apple spokeswoman Carolyn Wu, are not available (whatever that means), Reuters is reporting that the Apple CEO has meet with China Mobile Chairman, Xi Guohua, on Thursday to talk about “matters of cooperation.” In an email statement, China Mobile spokesman Li Jun wrote, “In the morning, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook visited China Mobile’s headquarters. China Mobile’s Chairman Xi Guohua and Tim Cook discussed matters of cooperation.” It is important to note that Apple has yet to strike a deal with China Mobile, considered as the largest mobile carrier in the world in terms of subscribers – roughly around 700 million.
Currently, Apple has China Unicom and China Telecom on its side. Inking a deal with China Mobile will give Apple a boost in sales. Tim Cook also told reporters that he is confident that China will soon become Apple’s largest market. “Currently, Apple has 11 stores in the Greater China region, as well as many resellers. We will continue to expand in China and the number of retail stores we’ll have will exceed 25,” Cook said. The CEO to one of the world’s biggest and most successful tech companies also met with government officials and China’s Minister for Industry and Information Technology. | <urn:uuid:9336c8dd-5e80-4400-92ec-e53ca7cb7783> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/01/tim-cook-china-could-become-apples-largest-market-in-the-future/ | 2015-06-30T08:25:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375091925.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031811-00125-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966555 | 289 | [
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“The Tiniest Place,” the remarkable documentary by Mexican filmmaker Tatiana Huezo, records the memories of the people of Cinquera, a small town in the mountains of El Salvador that was destroyed by the military during the Salvadorian Civil War. Huezo’s debut film is compelling, formally and emotionally. (“The Tiniest Place” screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival.) We talked to Huezo about the evolution of her film.
ZYZZYVA: In the Q&A after one of screenings at the San Francisco Film Festival, you mentioned your grandmother was born in Cinquera. Perhaps we could start there and then talk about the origins of the film.
Huezo: My grandmother was the one who took me to Cinquera. She goes there often, and in one of my visits to her in El Salvador — I was born in El Salvador but grew up in Mexico — she asked me to go to Cinquera with her. She wanted to introduce me to some friends, to eat cuajada from her hometown. Cinquera made a big impression on me as soon as I arrived, an impression which stayed with me, this small place with just four or five streets, this quiet town in the mountains three hours from the capital.
Z: Your grandmother lives in the capital?
Huezo: My grandmother has been living in San Salvador for many years, but Cinquera is the town where she grew up, where all her friends are from. The old ladies there are my grandmother’s friends. The woman who sings “El Pajaro Hermoso” at the end of the film is my grandmother’s best friend.
So on the afternoon I arrived, I went out for a walk and walked into their church. It was a big empty room with barely any religious images on the walls. Instead there were rows and rows of portraits of guerrilla children, guerrilla teenagers, all dead from during the war, all very young. A tail of a military helicopter hung on one of the walls. In what kind of church do you find a helicopter mounted on the wall inside the church? This is what led me, I think, to want to know what had happened there.
The people of Cinquera were very open with me. From the start, people were telling me about things that had happened there, that their children had died, as if updating me on something I had missed by chance. I left that first time restless, knowing I wanted to come back and do more research. A year and a half later, after I’d saved some money, I returned and stayed there for two months.
Z: This is before you started filming?
Huezo: Yes, but I already knew then that I wanted to do a film there. In fact, on this trip, Ernesto, my cinematographer, came, too. But I stayed to meet people, to traverse the mountain from end to end, to find the characters of the film.
Z: You decided not to direct the camera at people as they narrate their stories. They tell their stories through voiceovers almost through the entire film. This seemed to me to give the film an uncanny intimacy, as if the relationship you had developed with the subjects was too personal to be set on camera. Could you talk a little bit about this decision?
Huezo: With one fleeting exception all the stories were only recorded with audio because of a formal decision made beforehand not to put a camera in front of people. I had a strong desire to experiment, to find a less conventional aesthetic approach to the subject. Form in a movie is half the movie. I wanted to film from the point of view of a ghost, because they live among ghosts. And the forest was an important element, too. “The forest is sacred to us,” they told me. “The forest isn’t just any forest but the tomb of our brothers and our parents and our children.” I went back and forth about how to film this forest, and I thought that it could be from the point of view of a ghost, that one had to feel as if one was flying above the forest.
Z: Their voices do seem to hover over the forest like ghosts.
Huezo: And I felt like I was among ghosts, too. It was a strange and strong sensation. They speak of the dead and of strange things, of a double level of a strange reality. Elba [who is 72 and lost a daughter during the war and is one of the film’s subjects], for instance, would tell me, “My daughter came to visit me today and she slept here.” I thought, OK, one of her other daughters who rarely visits her came here. And then she would casually tell me she had been speaking with Aida. Aida? But Aida is her dead daughter. That’s how they talk to their dead. Listening to them talking about the dead in such a casual way, in such an everyday way, something strange, magical — and dark at the same time — starts creeping in you.
Z: I was hoping to talk about Elba. What she says, questioning the purpose of — Well, here people like to talk a lot about redemption. But the impact upon her over the horrible things done to her daughter seems so irreversible.
Huezo: What happened to them is irreversible. And it isn’t that we forget so we can live in happiness and be at ease in the world. That isn’t an option for them, no? What I discovered from them is the capacity to carry this painful burden. There’s a sense of wonder about life, this contradictory thing – pain and darkness, and life and laughter — and they go on, without forgetting the past, sowing their land, caring for their animals, educating their children. That is life, too. I think that’s something special in this movie.
Z: I also was hoping to talk about Pablo. That sequence in the film when we see his library and all the books he’s read, describing how they thought of the conflict in terms of coming to the realization there was an injustice. Pablo reminds us of how it all started.
Huezo: Pablo is a very special man. Absolutely committed with the times he’s had to live. He worked very closely with the liberation theology priests when it was all beginning. In some ways he continues what he learned from them, hosting weekly meetings where people get together to read the Latin American Bible [a translation of the Bible with commentary from a liberation theology perspective] and help to anchor passages to the realities of the town. There’s really no talk of religion. They talk about what’s happening in the town, in the country, in the world.
I think Pablo carries a painful burden because he lost seven of his nine children. All of them died fighting, kids, while he was organizing the people, far from his family because he was persecuted. And I never wanted to pass judgment, I didn’t dare to ask or pass judgment, about whether it had been worth it, this long war, so terrible, so much blood. I think the film distances itself from any judgment, although I think there’s a clear point of view. But I never dared to talk deeply about any of this with him.
Z: There’s a clear point of view but it never feels heavy-handed. You show us how it all started from the point of view of Pablo and you leave it at that.
Huezo: Pablo would say to me, “This is how they educated us, how the country used to be like before the war.” The Church would tell them, What if there were no rich people, eh? Where would you go work? You would have starved already. The Church would tell them that the rich existed so they could exist, that if the rich didn’t exist they would be even more miserable. And that they were miserable because God had ordained it so, and that the money you have is for the church, for cleaning the saints, that kind of thing.
An important story, for instance, is that before the war there used to be an organization called ORDEN, a paramilitary organization created by the far-right and military governments. All the men had to belong to it. They had these credentials and they would be sent to work the land, to inform on what was happening in their town; it was a way to keep an eye of them, to keep them subjugated. Pablo belonged to ORDEN. Everyone belonged to ORDEN. And then the liberation theology priests came and started making them realize that, no, they weren’t going to heaven just because they were miserable, that it wasn’t normal that their children were dying of hunger.
And so Cinquera was one of the first towns where a group of men, Pablo among them, said we don’t want to be part of ORDEN anymore. They went to see the chief of ORDEN and said, we’ve come to quit. And the chief said, no, this is mandatory, you can’t just quit. And Pablo told them, you figure out how to handle it, here are our credentials. We’re only ten now but the rest of the town is coming behind us. And from that point on the military started tracking them. And soon after the military invaded the town and the men couldn’t return. They had to stay in the forest. And then the war came.
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I got a ridiculous amount of summer squash in my CSA, *cough cough a couple months ago* (yes, I’m that far behind lol) and knew that whatever I did, it would need to be the starring ingredient.
I’ve done a lot with zucchini and summer squash – sautéed it, made fries with it, stir-fried it, and roasted it. Frankly, I was running out of ideas. Now don’t get me wrong, summer squashes are guaranteed winners at my house and I’ve thrown them, quite happily, into too many dishes to name here.
Zucchini and summer squash offer a multitude of different nutrients, only have about 20 calories per cup and are super tasty as a bonus. But what to do with it that I haven’t done many, many times before?
Why shred it and use it as a pizza topping of course!
Alright, let’s be completely honest. I’m not sure if I really used this as a topping, or if it was more like a full on layer on the pizza, but however you consider it the pizza ended up delicious.
I was in a bit of a rush so I used a prepared pizza crust and some organic pizza sauce – if you have a favorite homemade dough recipe and homemade pizza sauce feel free to sub your own in instead.
Between the shredded yellow squash layer, the thinly sliced red bell pepper and basil, and the herbed feta with the nutty Parmesan, this is a winning pizza that’s sure to please.
I used a fresh red bell pepper, but roasted red bell peppers would also be delicious.
- 1 ½ tsp of Italian seasoning
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp crushed red pepper (optional and can either decrease or skipped if desired)
- ½ tsp each onion powder and oregano
- 1 whole wheat pizza crust (mine was 12 inches)
- 1 cup of pizza sauce
- ¾ lb of yellow squash, shredded and then squeezed dry (I used my box grater)
- Salt and Pepper
- 1 large red bell pepper, thinly sliced
- 4 oz herbed feta
- ¼ cup of fresh basil, thinly sliced
- 4 Tbsp freshly shredded Parmesan
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees (or whatever your crust recipe calls for).
- In a small bowl, combine Italian seasoning through oregano.
- Spread pizza sauce over crust and sprinkle with most of the spices.
- Place yellow squash in a single layer on the pizza and season with remaining spice mix, along with salt and pepper. Top with thinly sliced red bell pepper, herbed feta, basil and then sprinkle over Parmesan.
- Bake for 8 – 12 minutes (or however long your dough recipe requires) until warmed through and delicious!
We actually cut our pizza into 6 slices and made six servings then rounded it out with a big salad. You could easily cut your pizza into 8 slices and make 4 servings. Nutritional info quotes is for 4 servings. 6 servings would have approximately 141 calories and 6.6g of fat. | <urn:uuid:c11c2923-017e-491b-956c-677a279cf9c0> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://foodjaunts.com/summer-squash-pizza-with-feta-and-peppers/ | 2015-07-04T19:01:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096870.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00005-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939161 | 655 | [
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A dapper “30 Rock” star Tracy Morgan, with a purple umbrella and hankerchief, arrives at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 17, 2010 in Beverly Hills
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Whether you missed him at Sasquatch or if you’re just up for another dose of the former The White Stripes frontman, tonight’s your chance to see Jack White‘s first Seattle solo headlining show.
As of posting, tickets still available. Doors at 7pm. LaFarge et al expected to start at 8pm.
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BEST way to develop C-41?
Hopefully this won't start a war; I'm sure there are as many opinions on this as there are methods, but I have some specific talking points.
Recently I've had some C-41 stuff done at several local labs, one being a very long established "Pro" lab, down to the local camera shop. To the best of my knowledge, they are all using Noritsu processors.
It seems all of the film (Portra and Ektar) I have had done on the minilabs has come back with too much contrast, pronounced grain, and heavy color casts in the base. Some to the point where I feel they are unusable, even the prints I've had them make (compared to me scanning negs). Not to mention the negs have always come back horribly scratched.
I have also done a few on my Jobo, with the Jobo 3 bath kit. I find the grain, contrast, and base to be much more under control, but still I'm not sure if I am leaving something on the table. Of course scratching and dust is a complete non issue.
I'm thinking this all may have to do with developing speed and agitation? The only thing I haven't tried is traditional small tank developing. I'm wondering if the gentler agitation will give me finer grain and smoother tones, or would small tank with a 3 bath kit be about the same in a Jobo CPP2 or small tank? | <urn:uuid:2a23a155-8749-4a31-9533-20369a30b0f7> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.apug.org/forums/color-film-paper-chemistry/print-96361-best-way-develop-c-41-a.html | 2015-07-04T20:16:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096870.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00005-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977851 | 306 | [
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More Noted Things ...
Feuding Neighbors: Mary Battiata,"Blood Feud," Washington Post, 22 May, seemed to resonate with historians. Rebecca Goetz at (a)musings of a grad student and Sharon Howard at Early Modern Notes explore comparable blood feuds found in their research in early Virginia and early modern Welsh sources.
History and Community:"Joint History Textbook," Korea Times, 27 May, reports on a history textbook produced by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean historians. The work was done in response to failures of a Japanese text to accept responsibility for the use of forced labor in World War II. In praising the text as the first ever produced by cooperating scholars from non-European three countries, the Korea Times article may exaggerate its potential for creating a northeast Asian community of nations. Thanks to Moby Lives for the tip.
History Scandals: At Easily Distracted, Tim Burke reviews Jon Weiner's Historians in Trouble. Tim's one of my friends on the academic left who've been reading Jon's book. It's a pretty good source for academic gossip (a form I'm more inclined to indulge in than Tim would be), but really it's a very wrong-headed reading of the history scandals. It just isn't the case that right-wing scholars have committed their offenses and survived unscathed, while lefty scholars have been savaged. Did Ann Lane survive? Is Ward Churchill still drawing a handsome paycheck? As I've said before, Peter Charles Hoffer's Past Imperfect is a book with its own imperfections, but it's a whole lot more illuminating about the history scandals than Weiner's Historians in Trouble.
Lobbying Washington: Scott McLemee's"Show Clio the Money!" Inside Higher Ed, 31 May, looks at our professional lobbying in Washington. So, we're pragmatists and, so, we get funding for certain kinds of projects and hope that other kinds of projects benefit from the left-overs.
Recommendations: eb at No Great Matter has been consulting such venerable authorities as Invisible Adjunct and Edmund Wilson about what to read on the Enlightenment and the emergence of social history as a field of study. Hume, Michelet, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Vico, yes; but do you have additional recommendations? They're all welcome.
Memorial Day: Even it cannot pass without controversy. How do you honor those who died in lost or, worse, bad causes? At The Weblog, Adam Kotsko argues that American men and women have not died in a good cause since World War II. Kieran Healy at Crooked Timber and Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy cross swords over whether it is appropriate on Memorial Day to distinguish service in honorable causes and in ill-conceived ones. Of the lot, I recommend Margaret Soltan's Memorial Day tribute to Marc Bloch and Caleb McDaniel's"On Memorial Day" at Mode for Caleb. The Scope's Evan and I read such work and can only say:"Amen."
Octagon Houses: If you like to think about the construction of space, as I do, here is a fairly comprehensive index of 19th century octagonal, hexagonal, and round houses in the United States, with many photographs. There are lots of quirky features, like the lovely central octagonal fireplace in an octagonal livingroom in an octagonal house. Thanks to Cranky Professor for the tip.
Teaching Writing: Stanley Fish says we don't do it. His"Devoid of Content," New York Times, 31 May, is the provocative Fish at his best. Thanks to Manan Ahmed for the tip.
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Van L. Hayhow - 5/31/2005
I sometimes teach writing classes which are combined with research courses. I constantly run into students who feel that the substance is all that matters, even though they haven't even expressed their content clearly or convincingly. Since I often teach students who will work in law offices, the ability to be persuasive is key. Yet that requires that they ignore to some extent the content (which is a given in the assignments anyway) and pay attention to the expression. One way I do this is by assigning the "side" the students take. I wonder what Fish uses for a text, if anything. Any ideas?
Michael Meo - 5/31/2005
Perhaps Dean Fish's dorm-room discussions were more edifying than my own, but to my recollection I learned a lot more about marshaling evidence and argument from my history classes than anywhere else.
Jonathan Dresner - 5/31/2005
Honestly, I'm not sure. For one thing, though he doesn't admit it, not all languages draw the distinctions that he insists are fundamental (I'm thinking of Japanese and the lack of plurals, for example), so he loses points for linguistics.
He is misrepresenting Communications/Writing pedagogy considerably, of course: the "magic" of transfering content to skills is a gross misstatement of the idea that students will be more receptive to skills work -- and that is most of what goes on in the classroom and in instructor feedback -- if they are pursuing what they see as a useful purpose. (and just selling skills to students doesn't work so well, these days) It's entirely possible, to my mind, that a student passing through Fish's linguistic wringer would come out with a great deal of knowledge of linguistics, possibly even English linguistics, but I don't know that it would translate to writing and analysis skills any more than working on the same concepts through the lens of political problem-solving or cultural literacy.
Van L. Hayhow - 5/31/2005
Now there is a course I would like to take.
- 150 years later, schools are still a battlefield for interpreting Civil War
- Where are America's memorials to pain of slavery, black resistance?
- Richmond split over Confederate history
- The World's Jewish Population Is Nearing Pre-Holocaust Levels
- Bernie Sanders’s Revolutionary Roots Were Nurtured in ’60s Vermont
- Did a historian who said he’s a victim of McCarthyism get the story wrong?
- Stephanie Coontz’s work on the history of marriage cited by the Supreme Court.
- How Does It Feel To Have One’s Work as a Historian Cited by the Supreme Court? Cool. Very Cool. Thank You Very Much.
- NYT History Book Reviews: Who Got Noticed this Week?
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A rock’n’roll vampire spoof about a down and out band, The Winners, who will do anything for a record deal. When their disgruntled manager (Dave Foley) tells them that they are getting “long in the tooth”, he doesn’t know that his words are truly prophetic. During a road trip, their humdrum image radically changes when Jennifer (Jessica Paré), the bass player, disappears one night with a hip vampire (Dimitri Coats). She emerges with a sexually charged charisma that drives the audiences wild.
Suck features extraordinary turns by Malcolm McDowell, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper and Moby, Suck
Comedy, Horror, Music
- Certificate 15
Suitable only for 15 years and over.
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I can comment directly on the PSC Orion, since we have one. Great little boat for the money. But if you want a microwave, A/C, a blender, and all of that other stuff they pack into a floating condo, then you will have to go a little larger. But, if you want a boat that can go around the world, is small enough to easily handle, and has relatively low maint. cost due to everything aboard being smaller and simpler, then look no further. If you want those luxury items; a Crealock 37, Cabo Rico 38, maybe an old Westsail to fix-er-up would do better.
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This isn’t about budgets, its about the 2012 election and American workers/middle-class are the scape goat. While the President and his administration do all they can to promote job growth and shore up the economy, Republicans do all they can to crush American workers and the American dream.
On April 4, 2011, millions of American Workers are attending a host of events, standing in solidarity with fellow workers. Join an event on April 4th and show your support. Why? LA Times reports that there are bills in every state attacking America’s middle-class:
The National Conference of State Legislatures is tracking an explosion of 744 bills that largely target public-sector unions, introduced in virtually every state.
“Almost every week, I read of at least one more bill to restrict union rights at the state level,” said John Logan, director of the labor studies program at San Francisco State University. … Nearly half of the states are considering legislation to limit public employees’ collective bargaining rights. … But it’s not just budgetary concerns driving Republican officeholders to take on unions, traditionally a strong Democratic ally.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Earth Conservancy's Land Use Dilemma
Michael Dziak, President/CEO of Earth Conservancy drew himself into the 11th Congressional Race yesterday with his appearance on WILK's Steve Corbett Show.
I want to demonstrate that Mr. Dziak is acting more like a politician than a CEO. The following pictures depict land use that was determined by a slew of consultants on behalf of Earth Conservancy. It should clearly demonstrate that both Kanjorski and Dziak are grossly deviating from published plans on record regarding the use of the proposed site for an anti-terrorist training center.
The top picture above is an illustration that award winning graphics artist Gary Visgaitis made for the Times Leader depicting the proposed site for the Foreign Affairs Security Training Center (FASTC). The picture below it is from the Land Use Plan on Earth Conservancy's website. It is Figure 5.1 under Recommended Development Plans. If you read the legend you will see that the proposed use for the area designated in Paul Kanjorski's release is listed as RESIDENTIAL/RESORT.
This picture is Figure 6.1 under prepared by EDAW, Inc. of Alexandria, Virginia in conjunction with many consultants including engineering firms. If you look at the legend it again states the land use as RESIDENTIAL/RESORT with the remaining portion of the land in question as PARKLAND/OPEN SPACE.
Let's take a look at another picture. Below is Figure 4.2 under Alternate Development Concepts. It lists the area in question as the PENOBSCOT MOUNTAIN RESORT.
Let's look at one final picture to bring this issue home. This map is from Earth Conservancy's Open Space Constraints web page listed as Map 1-1.
Expand the picture and read the legend. The site proposed for FASTC is listed as "THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES". In this article from the Baltimore Sun the EPA had serious concerns for the proposed 2,000 acre farm site in Ruthsburg, Maryland.
"EPA believes that the project may adversely affect the aquatic and terrestrial environment, including wetlands and, potentially, endangered species," wrote Jeffrey D. Lapp, associate director of EPA's regional Office of Environmental Programs in Philadelphia.
In this press release from Paul Kanjorski last September he applauds the Earth Conservancy for restoring many acres for gamelands, greenspace or recreation, such as the Mocanaqua Loop Trail and Penobscot Ridge Bike Trail. According to the Earth Conservancy website the Penobscot Ridge Bike Trail encompasses 1,577 acres.
The trail includes two trailhead facilities with picnic areas including tables and grills and ample parking are located at either end of the two-mile long trail. The mountain bike area consists of a main trunk trail suitable for families, which has easy to moderate bicycling opportunities. There are other unofficial trails throughout the area. Acreage of the entire reclaimed area is 1,557 acres. The project was completed in November 2005.
It is important to remember that appropriate gear and clothes be worn for any cycling or hiking done in the area. Cyclists and hikers should bring appropriate rain gear to be prepared for quick changes in weather. Hydration and energy are also important in cycling and hiking, so always bring bottled water and easy trail foods like granola bars to keep in pockets or backpacks. They left out ear plugs when the bombs go off.
Evidently the CEO of Earth Conservancy is coming to the political rescue of his founder, Paul Kanjorski. Otherwise he would be transparent with the public about the real issues and concerns for using such a site. He claimed on Corbett's show that he went to Kanjorski with this site. Mike, do you ever look at your own maps and drawings? Well at least I did. | <urn:uuid:7ea07b59-0c12-42c3-981e-e50b1402c5d1> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://sightsonpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2010/08/earth-conservancys-land-use-dilemma.html | 2015-06-30T14:27:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375093974.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031813-00195-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949312 | 808 | [
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Physical Details: Exhibition catalog : 1 item ; 17 x 13 cm.
Creator: James Graham & Sons
Description: Full title of exhibition: Half a century of Everett Shinn's Oils and Pastels depicting the theatre, the ballet, the circus & genre scenes of Paris and New York.
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation: Catalog for exhibit Half a Century of Everett Shinn's Oils and Pastels, 1952 Nov.
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It was a year ago tonight that the Red Sox ended generations of heartbreak and sent an entire region into celebration with their first championship in 86 years.
Behind a masterful Derek Lowe, the Sox finished off the Cardinals in Game 4 of the World Series on Oct. 27, 2004, at Busch Stadium. Some memorable quotes from after the game:
John Henry: "We won't even need the airplane to fly home."
Theo Epstein: "This is for anyone who ever played for the Red Sox, anyone who ever rooted for the Red Sox, anyone who has ever been to Fenway Park. This is bigger than the 25 players in this clubhouse. This is for all of Red Sox Nation past and present. I hope they're enjoying it as much as we are."
Johnny Damon: "A lot of people thought it would never happen. So to be able to celebrate and carry that trophy, that's what it's all about."
Pedro Martinez: "The ring is meaningless, it's a material thing. But the feeling that the people are going to have in Boston is indescribable."
Curt Schilling: "We're world champions. There's no living player who can say what we can say today: We're the world champion Boston Red Sox."
Dan Shaughnessy: New England and a sprawling Nation of Sox fans can finally exhale. The Red Sox are World Champs. No more Curse of the Bambino. No more taunts of "1918." The suffering souls of Bill Buckner, Grady Little, Mike Torrez, Johnny Pesky, and Denny Galehouse are released from Boston Baseball's Hall of Pain.
Jackie MacMullan: Go ahead. Say it. The Boston Red Sox have won the World Series. Let it roll off your tongue, washing away the bitter taste of 1948 and 1978 and 1986 and 2003. Let Bill Buckner and Mike Torrez and Grady Little go gracefully into the night. Let go of all the angst and anger and agony that has been simmering for 86 years.
Bob Ryan: Eight straight! It's ovah! Red Sox win! Red Sox win! Theeeeeeee Red Sox win! God, I hope you're satisfied.
Bob Hohler: Hail the lovable idiots. Bless the baseball gods. Raise a cup to the good souls in Red Sox lore -- from Ted Williams and Joe Cronin to Gary Waslewski and Pumpsie Green -- who chased but never captured the game's greatest prize. The Red Sox are champions of the world.
Eric Wilbur: Dusty bottles of champagne, the cork half popped 18 years ago, are opening all over the world. Phone lines everywhere are jammed as loved ones call each other to share in the moment. Many of us remember those who would have loved to witness this moment, just ever so quickly, if their time hadnít run out on them first. | <urn:uuid:f0deef8b-5e74-4d67-9768-aae436d1d1d3> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2005/10/happy_anniversa.html | 2015-06-30T14:46:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375093974.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031813-00195-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955758 | 607 | [
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This supply forum is quite strange... there' s folks that want 1KW - 4KW smps.... to supply what? The Captain Kirk Enterprise ? :smash:
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This Day in Wrestling History – December 25th
Dec 25, 2013 - by Andrew Davis
Everyone here at GERWECK.NET would like to wish all of our readers & their family’s a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!
1982- The Fabulous Freebirds vs. Von Erich feud is born in Dallas, TX. when Michael Hayes turned on Kerry Von Erich
2003 – The first WWE Tribute To The Troops airs as a Smackdown Christmas special
1978 – Bill Watts’ Mid-South Wrestling held a “Superdome Extravaganza” in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Superdome, headlined by a tournament for the United States Tag Team Title:
– Jim Shields defeated Bill Irwin.
– Karl Von Krupp defeated Bob Markus.
– Jerry Stubbs defeated The Assassin #1 to win the Mid-South Louisiana Title.
– Ron Bass defeated Karl Kox to win the Mid-South Brass Knuckles Title.
– Ernie Ladd defeated Ray Candy via forfeit to win the Mid-South North American Title.
United States Tag Team Title Tournament: Round One
– Jack & Jerry Brisco defeated Terry Latham & Ricky Fields.
– Ernie Ladd & Stan Hansen defeated The Angel & Gama Singh.
– Wahoo McDaniel & Jim Shields defeated The Assassins.
– Bobby Jaggers & Jerry Brown defeated Randy Tyler & Mike George.
– Andre The Giant & Dusty Rhodes defeated Rob Bass & Ron Slinker. Andre & Rhodes received a bye into the semifinals.
United States Tag Team Title Tournament: Quarterfinals
– Ernie Ladd & Stan Hansen defeated Jack & Jerry Brisco. Ladd & Hansen received a bye into the finals.
– Bobby Jaggers & Jerry Brown defeated Wahoo McDaniel & Jim Shields.
United States Tag Team Title Tournament: Semifinals
– Andre The Giant & Dusty Rhodes defeated Bobby Jaggers & Jerry Brown.
United States Tag Team Title Tournament: Quarterfinals
– Andre The Giant & Dusty Rhodes defeated Ernie Ladd & Stan Hansen to win the tournament and the U.S. Tag Team Title. Danny Hodge was the special referee
1983 – World Class Championship Wrestling held their “Christmas Star Wars” card at Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas, drawing over 19,000 fans. Here are the results:
– The Missing Link defeated Johnny Mantell.
– Iceman Parsons & Brian Adias defeated The Super Destroyers to win the World Class American Tag Team Title.
– Kerry Von Erich defeated Kamala via DQ.
– Mike Reed defeated The Mongol.
– David Von Erich defeated NWA World Champion Ric Flair via DQ.
– Jose Lothario defeated Black Gordman.
– Kevin & Mike Von Erich defeated Terry Gordy & Buddy Roberts in a No DQ Loser Leaves Town match when Kevin pinned Gordy.
– Jimmy Garvin defeated Chris Adams to win the World Class American Title
2003 – UPN airs the 1st ever WWE Smackdown “Christmas In Iraq/Tribute To The Troops”, which was taped at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq on 12/20th for an audience of soldiers overseas. The show included Vince McMahon knocking down Santa Claus for not bringing him a gift, only for “Santa” to reveal himself as Steve Austin. Austin then gave McMahon a stunner. Here are the matches from the show:
– The APA defeated Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin.
– Rikishi defeated Rhyno.
– Eddie Guerrero defeated Chris Benoit.
– Torrie Wilson defeated Dawn Marie and Sable in a “Santa’s Little Helper” contest.
– John Cena defeated The Big Show with an FU. After the match, Steven Austin came out and gave stunners to both men
1902 – Don McLeod defeats Tom Jenkins in Worcester, Massachusetts to win the American Heavyweight Title for a second time. The match was actually stopped and Jenkins forfeited the title to McLeod due to problems with his leg, later diagnosed as blood poisoning
1967 – Art Nelson & Pat Patterson defeat Red Bastien & Mario Milano for the International Wrestling Alliance (Australia) Tag Team Title in San Francisco, Ca.
1968 – Alberto & Ramon Torres defeat Butcher & Stan Vachon to win the NWA Georgia Tag Team Title in Savannah, Ga.
1975 – Dutch Savage & Jimmy Snuka defeat The Roayl Kangaroos (Jonathan Boyd & Norman Charles) to win the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Title
1978 – Kevin von Erich defeats Bruiser Brody to win the WCCW American Heavyweight Title
1979 – Bob Armstrong defeats Sterling Golden (Hulk Hogan) for the NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Title in Knoxville, Tennessee
1981 – Jose Lothario defeats Ernie Ladd to win the Texas Brass Knuckles Title
1982 – Mike Rotundo defeats Bad Leroy Brown to win the NWA Television Title
1982 – Terry Gordy, Michael Hayes & David von Erich defeat Mike Sharpe, Ben Sharpe & Tom Steele to become the first WCCW World 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Von Erich immediately gives up his share of the titles to Buddy Roberts
1983 – Jimmy Garvin defeats Chris Adams to win the WCCW American Heavyweight Title. Also, King Parsons & Brian Adias defeat The Super Destroyers (1 & 2) to win the WCCW American Tag Team Titles
1983 – Magnum TA & Mr Wrestling II defeat Butch Reed & Jim Neidhart in a Cage Match to win the MSW Tag Team Titles
1984 – The Rock N Roll Express (Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson) defeat Ted DiBiase & Hercules Hernandez to win the MSW Tag Team Titles
1987 – Lord Humongous (Sid Vicious) defeats Danny Davis for the NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Title in Knoxville, Tn.
1987 – Eric Embry defeats Shaun Simpson to win the WCCW World Light Heavyweight Title. Also, Chris Adams, Steve Simpson & Kevin von Erich defeat The Freebirds (Terry Gordy, Buddy Roberts & King Parsons) to win the vacant WCCW World 6-Man Tag Team Titles
1988 – Mike Graham defeats The Terminator to win the vacant NWA Florida Heavyweight Title in Tampa, Florida. The title had been vacated when champion Mike Rotunda gave the belt to Rick Steiner
1991 – Jushin Liger defeats Brian Pillman to win the WCW Light Heavyweight Title
1993 – Black Bart & John Hawk (JBL) defeat Steven Dane & Chaz Taylor for the Global Wrestling Federation Tag Team Title in Dallas, Tx.
2003 – Mr Gannosuke & Tetsuhiro Kuroda defeat Jun Kasai & Tengu Kaiser to win the vacant AJPW All Asia Tag Team Titles
2006 – Lady Apache defeats Hiroka for the CMLL World Women’s Title in Mexico City, Mexico
Happy birthday to 7-time NWA World Tag Team Champion Chris Harris (40) and former TNA wrestler Trenesha ‘Rhaka Khan’ Biggers
Also, today would have been the birthday of Cauliflower Alley Club co-founder Mike Mazurki (106) and former NWA tag team star Bronko Lubich (88)
On this day in 1991, the wrestling world lost 2-time AWA Tag Team Champion Wilbur Snyder aged 62. Like many wrestlers, Snyder began his sporting career as a football player and made his debut in the 1953 off-season. One year later, he decided to pursue a full-time wrestling career and began training with Warren Bockwinkel and Sandor Szabo. His first major championship came in Chicago in 1956, with further titles following in Omaha, Ohio, Texas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Detroit amongst others. In 1965, Snyder and Dick The Bruiser bought the NWA Indianapolis territory, forming Championship Wrestling Incorporated. The promotion drew strong crowds into the mid-70′s, by which time Snyder’s age had seen his ring work deteriorate. He continued wrestling into the early 80′s, but it was clear that the desire was gone and he retired for good in 1982, selling his share of CWI to Bruiser. He made a brief comeback to wrestling in 1984, attempting to co-promote the AWA in Indianapolis, but the venture was a failure and he retired once more. He lived out the rest of his life in and around Pompano Beach, Florida where he eventually died of a leukaemia-related heart attack. Snyder’s lasting legacy on the wrestling business is the invention of the Abdominal Stretch hold | <urn:uuid:da2d8557-13b0-4ad8-9083-045df6bc5255> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.gerweck.net/2013/12/25/this-day-in-wrestling-history-december-25th-2/ | 2015-06-30T14:37:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375093974.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031813-00195-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921299 | 1,807 | [
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Library details: JNCASR Library is an Academic library.
This library is affiliated with Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (view map) . The collection of the library contains 18,500 volumes. The library circulates 3,000 items per year. The library serves a population of 500 FTE Enrollment.
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Administration: The director of the library is Nabonita Guha .
Wireless: The library offers wireless access to the Internet.
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Electrons Can Behave as Waves: The Quantum Model of the Atom
Although the Bohr model adequately explained how atomic spectra worked, there were several problems that bothered physicists and chemists:
- Why should electrons be confined to only specified energy levels?
- Why don't electrons give off light all of the time? As electrons change direction in their circular orbits (i.e., accelerate), they should give off light.
- The Bohr model could explain the spectra of atoms with one electron in the outer shell very well, but was not very good for those with more than one electron in the outer shell.
- Why could only two electrons fit in the first shell and why eight electrons in each shell after that? What was so special about two and eight?
Obviously, the Bohr model was missing something!
In 1924, a French physicist named Louis de Broglie suggested that, like light, electrons could act as both particles and waves (see De Broglie Phase Wave Animation for details). De Broglie's hypothesis was soon confirmed in experiments that showed electron beams could be diffracted or bent as they passed through a slit much like light could. So, the waves produced by an electron confined in its orbit about the nucleus sets up a standing wave of specific wavelength, energy and frequency (i.e., Bohr's energy levels) much like a guitar string sets up a standing wave when plucked.
Another question quickly followed de Broglie's idea. If an electron traveled as a wave, could you locate the precise position of the electron within the wave? A German physicist, Werner Heisenberg, answered no in what he called the uncertainty principle:
- To view an electron in its orbit, you must shine a wavelength of light on it that is smaller than the electron's wavelength.
- This small wavelength of light has a high energy.
- The electron will absorb that energy.
- The absorbed energy will change the electron's position.
We can never know both the momentum and position of an electron in an atom. Therefore, Heisenberg said that we shouldn't view electrons as moving in well-defined orbits about the nucleus!
With de Broglie's hypothesis and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in mind, an Austrian physicist named Erwin Schrodinger derived a set of equations or wave functions in 1926 for electrons. According to Schrodinger, electrons confined in their orbits would set up standing waves and you could describe only the probability of where an electron could be. The distributions of these probabilities formed regions of space about the nucleus were called orbitals. Orbitals could be described as electron density clouds (see Atomic & Molecular Orbitals for a look at various orbitals). The densest area of the cloud is where you have the greatest probability of finding the electron and the least dense area is where you have the lowest probability of finding the electron. | <urn:uuid:ab5bd930-4be1-45b6-9247-b1807a7075b2> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://science.howstuffworks.com/atom8.htm | 2015-07-02T21:31:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095671.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00135-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956654 | 591 | [
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PROVO, Utah -- Kim Parker had 16 points and BYU scored 20 straight in the second half to rout No. 19 Gonzaga 70-40 on Thursday night, handing the Bulldogs their worst conference loss in a decade.
"Unfortunately we couldn't get (the 20-0 run) stopped once it got started," Gonzaga coach Kelly Graves said. "We were completely outplayed."
Jennifer Hamson added 14 points and Kristen Riley had 11 points and 10 rebounds for the Lady Cougars (22-4, 10-2 West Coast). Haley Steed had eight points and 10 assists to move into fourth all-time on the school's career assist list.
Kayla Standish scored 12 points to lead Gonzaga (21-4, 10-2). The Bulldogs leading scorer missed her first 10 shots. Gonzaga shot only 15 percent from the floor in the first half and finished the game making only 22 percent. The Bulldogs went eight minutes without a point in the second half and scored only nine points over the final 13:47.
"I don't know how many shots we missed early at the rim, but maybe if we make a few of those things might have turned out different," Graves said.
Gonzaga was last beaten this bad by Santa Clara on Jan. 10, 2002, losing 99-69.
The Lady Cougars, now tied with Gonzaga atop the West Coast standings, shot 65 percent in the second half and 45 percent for the game.
"It was our night," BYU coach Jeff Judkins said. "Some nights you have those; the ball bounces your way."
With both teams struggling to make shots in the opening half neither team could get much separation until Riley hit the game's first 3 and Dani Peterson followed up with a hook to put BYU ahead by seven.
Gonzaga made only 5 of 33 shots in the first half, while BYU wasn't much better hitting only 8 of 28. The two teams were a combined 2 of 16 from 3-point range in the opening 20 minutes.
"I think tonight was one of the best defensive efforts I've coached in a long, long time. We were physical. We executed the game plan very well . . . I think we did a good job of not letting them get easy baskets," Judkins said.
The Bulldogs, by adding some backcourt pressure, trimmed the margin to 34-31 early in the second half on a steal and layup by Haiden Palmer.
But BYU took over from there and scored 20 straight. Stephanie Vermunt came off the bench to hit two 3s and score eight in the stretch. Hamson had seven during the run.
Gonzaga struggled with BYU's length inside, especially the defensive prowess of the 6-foot-7 Hamson, who finished with three blocks.
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The Harbus staff recently published an updated version of the Unofficial HBS Interview Guide, expanding the perennial offering to incorporate new findings from the Class of 2014 . The 45-page booklet, written for applicants looking for insights specific to Harbus Business School’s unique interview process, features real interview questions and answer analysis from last year’s successful applicants as well as preparation strategy. Upon election to their posts last Spring the Harbus staff has focused on working with the new first-year class to incorporate new questions posed in the most recent round of interviews and to help shed light on the ever-changing tactics of the Admissions office.
“We worked hard to get the first-hand advice not only from past interviewees but from students who successfully navigated in the process and enrolled at HBS,” said Bart Clareman, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the periodical. “Applicants know that HBS puts a lot of importance on the interview, and we believe this source is the most accurate and the most helpful for prospective students who want to know what to expect on the big day.” Clareman and Co-Editor-in-Chief Kate Lewis spear-headed the initiative with the help of the Harbus’ Board of Directors.
The team organize the questions they received from a survey of the first-year class upon their arrival on campus into six main categories: experience, leadership, career, current events, curriculum, and situational. The experience, leadership, and career buckets prompt interviewees to tell “their story” by reflecting on past challenges and achievements. Admission Board members may also pose questions that assess an interviewee’s perspective on current global events or his thoughts on the HBS curriculum. The situational bucket helps candidates prepare for the occasional “off-the-wall” ask that requires on-the-spot resourcefulness.
“While the only person who can get you into HBS is you, the guide helps you present your best self on interview day,” says Harbus publisher Alex Pak. In addition to the pre-interview preparation, the guide also offers applicants logistical day-of advice and instructions for planning a trip to the Allston and Harvard Square areas. It is available for online purchase at www.hbsinterview.com. | <urn:uuid:82bef712-f16e-4564-b58a-d2bcd85d07de> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2012/10/24/harbus-staff-works-with-current-hbs-students-to-publish-new-interview-guide | 2015-07-02T22:29:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095671.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00135-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938805 | 475 | [
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September 2007 Booksense Notable
Acclaimed for her excquisite prose and crystalline insights, Amity Gaige returns with The Folded World, the story of an idealistic young social worker drawn into the lives of his mentally ill clients. Charlie Shade was born into a quiet, prosperous life, but a sense of injustice dogs him. He feels destined to leave his life of "bread and laundry," to work instead with people in crisis. On his way, he meets his kindred spirit in Alice, a soulful young woman, living helplessly by laws of childhood superstition. Charlie's empathy with his clients — troubled souls like Hal, the high-school wrestling champion who undergoes a psychotic break, and Opal, the isolated young woman who claims "various philosophies have confused my life" — is both admirable and nearly fatal. An adoring husband and new father, Charlie risks his own cherished, private domestic world to help Hal, Opal, and others move beyond their haunted inner worlds into the larger world of love and connection.
A collision of extraordinary characters, The Folded World addresses the universal dilemma of love, wherein giving to another can seem like "the death of the world of oneself." With an unerring eye for both the joys and devastations of life, Amity Gaige once again reminds us of the pleasures and depths to be found in her fiction.
About the Author
Amity Gaige is a graduate of Brown University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. She is the author of the acclaimed novel O My Darling, chosen by the National Book Foundation for its "5 Under 35" program to recognize the achievements of five first-time fiction writers each year. She teaches creative writing at Mount Holyoke College and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. Visit her website at www.amitygaige.com.
Nancy Pearl Book Reviews - NPR
Nancy Pearl Puget Sound Public Radio
"In reading [The Folded World] I was struck by three things: Gaige's crystalline prose, the three-dimensionality of all of her characters, even the minor ones, and her ability to convey the darkness in the mind's of Charlie's clients, who are suffering from schizophrenia or other mental illnesses. Gaige takes what is really just an ordinary plot (boy meets girl; boy marries girl; problems ensue) and offers us something very special indeed"
[T]his darker story connects the romance of coupledom to the territory of madness... Gaige’s off-beat orientation, wit and piercing insights... [offer] greater breadth in exchange for sweetness.
Indeed, it is exhilarating to see Alice... transform herself into a competent woman. This alchemy, in concert with a beautiful story wonderfully told, makes this highly recommended for all fiction collections.
In her exquisitely written second novel, Gaige explores the ups and downs of a fragile, mostly joyful young relationship: Charlie's overcommitment to his mentally ill clients; Alice's fleeting attraction to a bookstore clerk; their infant daughter's first, tentative steps. The bitterness and disillusion of marriage have been thoroughly plumbed in contemporary fiction; Gaige is one of the rare novelists who is more interested in its potential for happiness and grace.
Christian Science Monitor
Gaige (one of the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35") writes elegantly, and she makes the survival of this young marriage a question of grace. Grade: A-
The New York Times Book Review
"[A] tightly written and emotionally satisfying novel….Gaige, the author of the well-received novel “O My Darling”…[is] extraordinarily adept at revealing her characters’ personalities in just a few words.”
Colorado Community Newspapers
[A] beautifully written second novel.
Curled Up with a Good Book
In this eulogy on life and loyalty, Gaige beautifully dissects the language of marriage and gets right to the heart of what it means to be in love. Full of profound observations on the nature of intimacy, The Folded World also shows how happiness can turn to bitterness and adversity, how the loss of love or the possibility of never finding love can ultimately drive people crazy with defeat.
The Boston Globe
Idealistic young social worker Charlie Shade tries to save his psychiatric patients, but puts his marriage and sanity at risk. Gaige offers striking prose and layered explorations of relationship boundaries and madness.
More are the wonders awaiting you in Amity Gaige's The Folded World. Strands of memory and thought intersect in this sensitive tale of a social worker Charlie Shade and his wife, Alice...In Charlie, Ms. Gaige has created fully developed character with whom we come to empathize. Then there's Alice, a woman who has escaped the droning misery of her small-town past and made a life for herself with Charlie. There is nothing patently grand about her, yet in describing the motions of her life, Ms. Gaige demarcates her individuality as clearly as any other's in fiction. | <urn:uuid:e99e719b-f5e0-4f8b-b4d9-96ad75453aff> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9781590512487 | 2015-07-02T22:49:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095671.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00135-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946449 | 1,040 | [
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Manuel Pellegrini has warned CSKA Moscow fans that there should be no more racist abuse when their team visit the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday evening, with the Manchester City manager calling on them to remember that the 2018 World Cup is being held in their country.
During their first group game in Moscow two weeks ago a section of CSKA's supporters aimed monkey chants at Yaya Touré, causing Uefa to rule that a section of their stadium should be closed for their next home game in the competition.
CSKA denied that Touré had been racially abused during their team's 2–1 defeat, and Pellegrini was asked about the state of relations between City and their Russian opponents. "I don't know about the relations of both clubs," he said. "The fans of CSKA made an important mistake. The club, I don't know why they denied at the beginning or what their reaction is now, but Uefa acted and gave them the punishment they deserve. I hope we can leave it in the past and [give something to think of] for Russian fans because they have a World Cup in their country."
Pellegrini will not say anything special to Touré ahead of the game, which 500 CSKA supporters are expected to attend. "I think Yaya is an experienced player," the Chilean said. "What happened in Russia, maybe he can't forget but tomorrow is a special match for him, not because of that but because Manchester City can go to the next stage of the Champions League. I think he will only be thinking about football."
Pablo Zabaleta said: "Obviously what happened in Moscow was really hard for Yaya. We are all behind him and any time we see something like that we try to help the players. Hopefully Uefa is always on it, as players we can do nothing we just need to give a massive support to the black players when they have some problems like that. Let me talk about football, that is the most important thing.
"I don't want to talk too much about racist chants or problems because I think we need to be more focused on football. That is the most important thing. And let Uefa take decisions about it."
If City beat CSKA they are all but certain of progressing to the knockout stages for the first time in the club's history. "I think in the last four or five years this club has been improving incredibly," Zabaleta said. "We know that the owners been spending much money to try and build a good team and try and have one of the best teams in Europe. Sometimes it takes time. We won the FA Cup, the Premier League – the Champions League is a different competition, you play against the best teams in Europe.
"It is time for this club to take a step forward. If we can qualify for the next round, it will be great for this club. Hopefully in the next few years we can be one of the top clubs in Europe."
Pellegrini confirmed that Joe Hart will again be omitted in favour of Costel Pantilimon but the manager does not believe his decision has affected the England goalkeeper's confidence. "No, I think Joe reacted very well. He is a professional player," Pellegrini said. "For him it is also a good thing to have a rest after playing so many matches. He is working without any problem, supporting Costel Pantilimon. Nobody wants to be out but he thinks it will be useful for him."
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Hundreds of thousands of American parents and disabled people have fought hard to bring about the dramatic changes that have occurred in our country over the decades. Today we have laws that protect our rights, and have enforcement provisions to ensure those rights are not denied. Twenty-three years ago, the United States became the first country in the world to adopt national civil rights legislation, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), banning discrimination against disabled people. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a United States federal law that governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to children with disabilities. It addresses the educational needs of children with disabilities from birth to age 18 or 21 in cases that involve 14 specified categories of disability. Both of these laws have led to the inclusion of people with disabilities in all areas of life. Internationally, the ADA has long been regarded as the gold standard for disability rights.
But what about the parents and disabled people in other countries who face the same kinds of challenges our families faced? What about Americans with disabilities who wish to enjoy the same opportunities as our fellow citizens to study, travel, serve, and work overseas? What can the United States do to help move other countries forward the way our country has moved forward?
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) recently resumed their consideration of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Disabilities Treaty). This treaty embodies, at the international level, the principles of non-discrimination, equality of opportunity, accessibility, and inclusion grounded in our own ADA.
Almost 140 countries have ratified the Disabilities Treaty, but the United States has not. The treaty fell six votes short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification a year ago.
The challenge now is to ensure effective implementation and enforcement of the Treaty for the benefit of the world’s one billion disabled people. This includes over 50 million Americans with disabilities, of which approximately 5.5 million are American veterans with disabilities, who wish to serve, study, work and travel overseas. Voting no for this treaty would be saying that the United States does not think the global community deserves an ADA of their own.
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There's no telling where you might encounter the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Since 1966 it's been on a many-year mission to explore strange new worlds of the pop psyche, to seek out new life as a pizza cutter or a Halloween costume for a dog, to boldly go where no spacecraft--fictional or otherwise--has gone before.
So while in LA recently, exploring the beachside neighborhood of Venice and its canals (vestiges of the Italianate fantasy the area had been in the early 20th century), we weren't exactly surprised to round a corner and run into our beloved starship.
The Enterprise as a gondola? Why not?
Many of the lucky residents of canal-side houses have boats and canoes and such, and it seems that some of these folks like to engage in a bit of DIY geekery.
We wanted to ask someone about the charmingly jury-rigged vessel and its clever maker, but unfortunately there was no one about (except for that one guy with the pointy ears and severe bangs, and he was dozing contentedly in a deck chair and we didn't want to disturb him).
However, we later heard tell of an annual holiday boat parade, and--aha--still later realized we might (gasp) use the Internets to do a little digging. Lo and behold, we discovered the Starship Canoe in action, in a YouTube video no less--one featuring a floating James Brown cover band with Godzilla on bass and Spider-Man on drums. (They're performing "Sex Machine" too. How could we have missed such exuberant revelry? Next year, we'll be sure to make it to Venice a couple of weeks earlier. And to heck with the Rose Parade.)
We did some more Internet sleuthing in the hope of discovering the identity of our enterprising canoe-hacker, and it looks like the "S.S. Enterprise" was put together by Liz and Tim Prokop and Stephen Kruger, and that it won a prize for being one of the best boats in the parade. Bravo (Kirk would be proud). We've provided the gallery above for your bemusement (and inspiration).
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Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome
Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Also, I use kmix for a volume control, because this seems the only
> application that provides a small speaker applet on the fluxbox panel
> to control sounds. I'd like to get rid of it, and the kde libs that
> accompany it. So, is there a fluxbox-specific volume control that
> sits nicely on the panel?
My findings are that when I start RealPlayer, its volume control acts
as a master volume control for everything.
It has always been like this, on several distros and all versions of
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Big H – Wake Up EP & Grime T-Shirt – Competition
You could be in with a chance to win a Big H – Wake Up Ep CD & Grime T-shirt, We have 3 CD’s to give away and one lucky winner will receive a custom Grime T-shirt.
All you have to do is Like us on Facebook/Twitter and hash tag #Soundophiles
The lucky 3 winners will be announced on January 7th 2012.
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We hate unresolved questions. And we hate not knowing for sure what to think about something. Good? Bad? We want to know where to slot it.
The Bergdahl case probably will gnaw at a lot of people for quite a while. We aren’t completely sure what to make of him, or what we should have done – or should do now – about him. War, messy and unpredictable beast it is, has a way of producing irritating loose ends like Bergdahl.
Go back a year, and what did we know? That U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, whose home town was Hailey, had been held by the Taliban for four years. On June 20 last year, Idaho’s congressional delegation issued a joint statement on the possibility of a prisoner exchange: “Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with Bowe Bergdahl and his family. His safe return has always been of the utmost importance to us, and his well-being is something we raise with senior administration officials whenever possible.”
Why would the delegation have said anything much different than that “his safe return had always been of the utmost importance to us”? He and his family were, among other things, United States citizens and constituents.
Such quotes have been a constant from the beginning. In July 2009: “With the Pentagon now confirming his identity, we add our thoughts and prayers with others for his reunion with family, friends and Army colleagues. Private Bergdahl represents Idaho and his nation courageously.”
On April 8 this year, Senator Mike Crapo, in an interview with KBOI-TV, reported on a trip to Afghanistan: “And with every one of those meetings at highest levels, I raised the issue of Bowe Bergdahl. I’m pleased to report that not only had they heard of him, they were co-ordinating among themselves. It is a priority for them.” But he also suggested, based on what he’d heard, the idea of extracting him forcibly, rather than negotiating a release, was not realistic.
These recitations aren’t gotchas; to the contrary, they’re what most people would expect any congressional delegation to say. That’s true even with this: Reports that Bergdahl may have walked away from his post, may have deserted, have surfaced and flown around the Internet for a long time. (“May” is a key word here: This is a subject hotly debated, not yet resolved.) Anyone who has followed the Bergdahl case even peripherally has not been surprised to see them surface again now.
And the idea of trading Bergdahl rather than obtaining him in some other way, as the statements from Crapo and others make clear, is nothing new either.
The Idaho delegation, having visited all this over the years, may be more sensitized to the gray areas than most people, walking a line involving party loyalty but also other considerations. Compared to many in Congress and certainly to the cable news blatherers, they have couched their language cautiously and tamped rhetorical fireworks.
Representative Raul Labrador on KBOI radio last week, for example: “I’m a little bit disturbed by some of the Republicans out there who keep saying this has never happened before. That is not entirely true. If you look historically, at the end of any conflict, you have a swap of prisoners, and that happens. Usually our side will release people that are less than desirable in order to get some of our people back in these swaps. So I would suggest that anybody who’s being hyper-critical about this, they should look at the history. This has happened before.”
We have been here before, all right, in this discomfort zone, where messes get sorted out one deliberate step at a time. Welcome to one of the realities of war.Share on Facebook | <urn:uuid:ddec62d2-3c3e-476d-9daf-ce495cedf32e> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2014/06/07/rarely-so-simple/ | 2015-07-07T02:46:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098987.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00015-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980746 | 822 | [
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