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Photo of the week: Bartlett Indians Billy Phillips and the agony of defeat.
Text and photos by Steev Riccardo
If you have been reading this column for the last 13 months, then there is one name that you can probably spell without a problem – Emily Dawidczyk.
The 2011 View From The Sidelines Athlete of the year is at it again.
Last Thursday “The Sweet Assassin,” as we have so fondly named her, put on an unforgettable performance against Shepherd Hill as she and the Lady Pirates played the 6-1-3 Rams to a 6-6 tie in girls’ soccer.
Dawidczyk scored all six Pirates goals in a record-breaking effort that made her the all time leading scorer in Pirates history with 80 goals.
Now if you have been following “The Sweet Assassin,” you know she already holds several track records at Oxford and is a shoe-in for the OHS Athletic Hall of Fame. She is also on the verge of being heavily recruited. It’s safe to say that we are talking Division 1 schools, which would be a rare and incredible feat for an athlete from this area.
When she been asked if she would rather play soccer or run track in college, she has yet to really give this reporter a definitive answer, but if I was to guess, I would say that she is playing big time college soccer a year from now. That is just a guess though.
The View’s Top 5 of the week:
1. Emily Dawidczyk, Oxford High School girls’ soccer: 6 goals vs. Shepherd Hill and a record breaking 80 goals.
2. Amanda Keovongmanysar, Shepherd Hill girls’ soccer: The Shepherd Hill senior with a big kick scored a hat trick against Oxford in a 6-6 tie.
3. Brad Picard, Shepherd Hill football: The senior captain has been a spark all year. Against Gardner on Friday he had a sweet 53-yard run for a touchdown.
4. Marisa Colby, Shepherd Hill girls’ field hockey: The Rams goaltender recorded the shutout in her team’s 5-0 win over Oxford last week.
5. Dani Stone, Bartlett girls’ soccer: Dani Stone continues to be a bright spot for a struggling Indians team. She scored a key goal in a 2-2 tie versus David Prouty last week for the 1-6-1 Indians.
Pirates lost 41-7: The Oxford Pirates are having a tough time of it so far, dropping their fourth straight 41-7 to the Uxbridge Spartans on Saturday. Matt Faucher, who has been pretty much all the offense the Pirates can muster lately, scored the only Pirates’ touchdown.
Andrew Delille: Apologies to Bartlett defensive sparkplug Andrew “Darkness” Delille for repeatedly butchering the spelling of his name and calling him “Darkman” instead of his ultra true cool moniker of “Darkness,”
Kobel-Ravenelle connection: Bartlett freshman Katie Kobel, who can be seen on the soccer field in the fall and shooting hoops in the winter for the Indians, was also recently seen at a Shepherd Hill football game cheering for their quarterback Drew Ravenelle. Why, you ask? Because they are first cousins! Kind of reminds me of the Lindsay Bond/Kyle McKissick/Anthony Wilga connection.
Speaking of Kobel(s), Katie tells me that her big brother Nick Kobel is doing great at Springfield College, where he is seeing plenty of playing time on the varsity soccer team.
Game(s) of the Week:
Shepherd Hill at Auburn, Friday (Oct 5) night football
Tantasqua at Shepherd Hill, Thursday (Oct 4) day girls’ soccer
- Tuesday, 02 October 2012
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The number of Apps available for Googles Android is expected to reach 140,000 within the next couple of weeks as the market place becomes increasingly competitive. While still lagging behind the number of apps available for the unlocked iPhone4 by an estimated hundred thousand Android is increasingly becoming a respectable alternative for those attracted by the variety of third-party software available for the iPhone.
However when comparing the two markets the quality of Android apps are often brought into question. This is because unlike Apple, who review and check every App that they allow to be sold or downloaded, Android apps are subject to very little quality control. This means that many apps are malicious or in some cases just useless.
An example of malicious software is the recent news in the headlines that many third-party apps were transmitting users GPS location and phone number to advertising servers which many people have seen as a severe breach of privacy.
However this isn't always the case. One successful and safe Android app is the Geolocation based Foursquare which has just released version 2.0 to Unlocked Motorola Milestone Android users. Foursquare utilises the GPS function on phones to allow users to 'check in' to physical locations so they can show friends where they have been.
As this shows, the Android app market still has a lot to offer but users may have to be more aware and perhaps tech savy if they are to avoid installing malicious content. It is worth noting however that Google dismiss this criticism citing that “Not only must each Android app get users' permission to access sensitive information, but developers must also go through billing background checks to confirm their real identities, and we will disable any apps that are found to be malicious.” | <urn:uuid:87395ecf-b4be-4ef1-835e-1f88e94573f7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.puremobile.com/insiderblog/category/smartphones/page/19/ | 2013-05-21T17:39:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96417 | 349 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Friday, February 29, 2008
So Farewell then, Plastic Bags: You Won't be Missed
Using the turtle picture (right) the Daily Mail yesterday declared itself against plastic bags. Public opinion is a strange beast. At times it seems immovably selfish and conservative- for years the overuse of plastic bags seemed not to cause a ripple of concern, whilst supermarkets in Ireland charging for them virtually changed the culture back to using 'proper' shopping baskets and other cities abroad, like San Francisco got the message. It seems like pressure builds up over time and then, suddenly, a collective epiphany occurs. And in the most unlikely places, like the Daily Mail for instance.
The paper credited with a direct hotline to Middle England, points out that the 13 billion bags handed out each year are both an unnecessary expense and threat to the environment from the point of view of litter, danger to certain animals and the fact that it takes 1000 years for them to biodegrade.
A Press Association release shows that the culture is finally changing, with usage of bags dramatically declining by 8%, 2006-7. With Sainbury's and M & S also getting in on the act, it seems the demise of the bag is nigh. Great news, say I, together with the hope that the next cultural change, gestating slowly and painfully onto the agenda, will be a determination to stop the nation drowning in litter.
You are so up your own arses with your anti-Tesco whatever campaigns that you forget that these outlets allow poor people access to cheap food in a way that was never possible when little bastard tyrants controlled filthy fucking corner shops that offered no choice, only high prices.
I am now off to ASDA to do a bit of a buying-in. I'll use as many plassy bags as I can in the process and woe-betide any fucking turtle I happen to come across on my way home.
This kind of stuff gets the blogospere a bad name and I think such tossers do not deserve the comoplimehnt of a sensible reply. I just say 'Bollocks' to you, you brainless twerp!
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It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 O”clock.
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
The name was derived from the founder’’s name Dr.Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ”Googol”, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros.After founders – Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ”Google”.
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in ”mail” and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” – the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ”Moore Noyce” but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ”The Lotus Position” or ”Padmasana”. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ”-” was removed later on.
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.
It originated from the Latin word ‘’sonus” meaning sound, and ‘’sonny” a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
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I Left My Family for the Free Syrian Army
Illustration by Daniel David Freeman
Loubna Mrie grew up in a high-profile Alawite family, but unlike most of the adherents to the Twelver school of Shia Islam, Loubna does not support the Assad regime. When the civil war first broke out last March, when Assad’s troops began shooting civilian protesters, she was persuaded by friends to support the rebels of the nascent Free Syrian Army (FSA) in Damascus, where in February she was assigned to a six-month ordnance-smuggling stint.
When the revolt began I was opposed to armed revolution. Then the cruelty of the Syrian Army forced me to change my opinions about the possibility of a peaceful resistance movement.
When I was growing up in Lataika, I started reading all the forbidden books about the history of the Assad family and the government. Through the internet and through friends, I got these books and I started to learn more about the government and how it’s controlling our lives.
I had a big problem my first year of college because I didn’t know it was forbidden for you to say your opinion and express your feelings. I wrote a short article about Tal al-Mallohi, a blogger who was arrested for publishing her views on the internet, and shared it amongst my friends.
One day I was in the cafeteria, sitting alone, and a guy from the Mukhabarat (secret police) pulled up a chair and sat with me—he seemed so normal that I thought he was a student. He said, “You have a long tongue,” which is something we say in Arabic. “So you have to shut up and stop bringing up these subjects in college or you’ll be in trouble.” So I’m not new to troubles. I’m a troublemaker, but in a good way.
I moved to Damascus in February 2012 because Latakia became a bad place for activists. I had to leave. I didn’t work with the FSA at first; I worked with the families from Homs. At first I started smuggling medicine, food and money—the things that will keep you alive. I was connected to many wealthy people making donations to the revolution and they were connected to the activists. They would give us money to buy medicine and food for the families in Homs. Can you imagine that we used to smuggle rice and bread? A guy was killed for taking bread from one city to another because the Syrian Army knew he was a relief worker. I used to be so afraid at the checkpoints, even just carrying antibiotics.
You should know that the FSA are not a strange army that just came to Syria. They are friends whom we were protesting and working with before any sort of rebel force was actualized. I knew they needed help, so I asked what I could do. One of them said they needed bullets, so I called my friend who took me to another area (it would be irresponsible for me to say exactly where) to buy them. I later smuggled them back. It’s not complicated, but it is very dangerous.
At checkpoints, the Alawites, Christians, and Druze (followers of a branch of Shia Islam who also incorporate other beliefs into their religion) are always free to pass—the government and the shabiha (armed men in plainclothes who support the regime) think all the activists are Sunni. They don’t thoroughly search believers of these faiths, so they can smuggle anything easily—even guns.
I know a very brave man who has been running weapons to other areas for over a year. One day he called and told me, “Come, you have to take some chocolates from me.” When I discovered the “chocolates” were actually guns, I said no, that’s where I draw the line.
One day I was smuggling bullets with my friend and the police pulled us over, asking to see the registration for the car. The papers we needed were underneath the box of bullets between the seats. My friend and I pulled the papers out slowly; if we shook the box it would have definitely made a noise. They don’t expect people to transport something so dangerous close to their bodies, so we were able to get away. They are stupid, the people on the checkpoints.
When I was in Salma, Latakia, the most dangerous area in mountains, I was interviewed by a guy from the FSA on camera. I was covering my face, but people recognized me once they uploaded the video to YouTube. I received many messages on Facebook like, “Shame on you, you are betraying us and now you are collaborating with the terrorists.” Many people from my hometown and my father’s family have sent me threatening messages, saying that they will kill me if they see me. My father’s family is well known in Latakia—my uncle, my cousins and my dad founded the shabiha there.
Before the YouTube video was released, I was planning to leave Damascus anyway. But now I fear that I cannot return. Most of my friends got arrested, many of them died, and Damascus was under siege and full of checkpoints where I knew Assad’s soldiers had my name. The YouTube video wasn’t the main reason for my departure, but it did result in my mother being kidnapped. I haven’t heard from her since August and I don’t know if she’s still alive.
I knew that I couldn’t make it past a border checkpoint, so for that reason I was smuggled into Turkey in August by the FSA. We went through the mountains and walked for three hours, eventually arriving in Istanbul.
I want to find my mother; if she is dead I want a decent grave for her so I can put flowers on it. She is the most important person in my life. From the very beginning she was there for me. I remember calling her many times when I was in Damascus, telling her something bad happened or that my friend had died and I was afraid that I would get caught. She kept saying, “Keep going, I know that you are brave and I am proud of you.” So I know that if I stop now and I say, OK, I surrender, she would be so upset.
When this all ends, I will need a therapist. I can’t sleep. I’m trying my best to be a normal girl, but I just cant. It’s really hard for me. I’m forcing myself here in Istanbul to just have a normal life—I know the city is so beautiful and all the people here are so nice—but I can’t.
But my sacrifice is nothing compared to the people in Syria. OK, I lost my college. OK, I lost my mother. OK, I lost my old life. But most of my friends have lost their lives. We have to be strong, because I know many people in Syria are waiting for the future, for this crisis to end.
I hate when people ask me “What do you think about the future for Syria?” and “Are you afraid of the Islamic people or the Salafists?” The area I stayed in is the most conservative area of Syria. The guy that interviewed me in the YouTube video is Salafi. They were so nice to me; when I went to them it was Ramadan and they cooked for me. They put themselves in danger to get me to Turkey.
I am not afraid for the future of Syria.
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philipjterry - 6:17 am on Dec 25, 2012 (gmt 0)
Totally agree. Some industries are hackneyed and some are not. Fortunately I'm in an industry where it is more of a novelty to receive a request for a link. I'm guessing the guys at the top of the ranks in whatever industry are still going to receive more requests.
If the content is valuable enough and sells itself - just the fact that you are drawing 'awareness' to the right person at the right time could be enough to trigger a positive response. Even if that means a very simple email - highlighting your value proposition... and site content for example "Advice on" "Common problems" "Myths dispelled"
Unfortunately as with any awareness campaign - it requires numbers. I am currently manually hand picking prospects and segmenting them in Excel - by how I will approach them: phone prospects/ email prospects/ forums and recording the source: how I found the link. Always interesting to see if a pattern emerges with what types of sites go for what types of pages. | <urn:uuid:c4b8b67b-2907-4f52-9b8c-8ed6cbf854aa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.webmasterworld.com/printerfriendlyv5.cgi?forum=12&discussion=4529929&serial=4530919&user= | 2013-05-21T17:47:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943178 | 222 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Mike Horton’s new book, The Gospel Commission, which rounds out his three book series that started with Christless Christianity, is now available. Last week Tullian Tchividjian pointed out one of the important points Mike makes in the book:
Mike’s excellent point is one that I’ve made time and time again. Namely, that imperatives – indicatives = impossibilities! Whenever we see an imperative in the Bible (what we must do) we need to look for the indicative that grounds it (what Jesus has done). Because, no matter how hard you try or how radical you get, any engine smaller than the gospel that you depend on for power to do what God has called you to do will conk out…most importantly, the Great Commission!
You can now purchase The Gospel Commission directly from White Horse Inn through our new online store. We’re slowly adding resources to the store and the prices are hard to beat. Right now, you can get all three books in this trilogy for less than Amazon sells them. | <urn:uuid:6884aacf-8a25-406c-bc70-38fca2deb2d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.whitehorseinn.org/blog/2011/04/21/tullian-on-the-gospel-commission/ | 2013-05-21T17:36:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95105 | 220 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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4:45 p.m.: Snow is falling in parts of York County.
4 p.m.: Forecasters are still calling for some snow tonight, but accumulations are expected to be no more than one inch.
Update noon: AccuWeather.com shows snow possible at 4 and 5 p.m.
The National Weather Service continues with a winter weather advisory from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., with 1 to 3 inches of snow forecast.
Areas north of Interstate 80 could get up to 4 inches of snow.
Flurries this morning should clear by about 7 a.m., but a mix of rain and snow is expected to move into the region after 10 a.m., according to AccuWeather.com.
The wintry mix could change to only rain by about 1 p.m., but snow is expected to return by about 5 p.m.
Today's high temperature is forecast to reach 40 degrees in York County.
Scattered flurries are possible overnight into Saturday, with lows in the mid-20s.
A winter weather advisory is in effect until 7 a/m/ Saturday in the Susquehanna Valley, according to a news release from the National Weather Service.
Up to 4 inches of snow is expected to accumulate in the region.
A winter weather advisory means periods of sleet, snow or freezing rain could cause travel difficulties.
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- http://webtrendmap.com/ by IA Inc. is farking amazing and beautiful. Congratulations, @iA.
- OH: “Type means the letters.”
- http://www.biggestapple.net/ is an exquisite new blog by a Wodehouse fan and non-designer (but you’d never know).
- My 5-year-old just spent 10 minutes showing me the correct way to massage her foot. My little girl is becoming a woman.
- HTML5 Super Friends declaration of support: http://www.zeldman.com/superfriends/
- In the park with the kid and friends, watching the sunlit hours melt away. It is the mellow end of summer and our bodies know it.
- http://bit.ly/InfXh Installing Snow Leopard: What you need to know. Fewer options make for simpler installation.
- The difference between marriage and divorce is, in divorce, the person who’ll never have sex with you again has her own apartment.
- “HTML 5 and me” by Jeremy Keith: http://bit.ly/sOqt7
- Dreamed about Mackenzie Phillips and woke up with a $500 a day habit.
- RT @leeclowsbeard Every client wants something new. And three examples of where it’s worked before. (via @Coudal)
- #twitterwit is now in bookstores. It’s an honor to have my work appear in the same volume as real writers like Ashton Kucher.
- Laura Dern’s hair is the scariest thing in Blue Velvet.
- @sourjayne At a certain level, you don’t write a resume, you write a paragraph.
- @sourjayne A multi-page resume suggests you’re narcissistic or inexperienced. These are not desired qualities in an employee.
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- Actually, Barnes & Noble, I think I’ll save *100%* on Dan Brown’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code.
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Let me frame this Killzone 3 review by saying that while I enjoyed the original Killzone, I wasn’t a huge fan of Killzone 2 at all. When I started hearing things about Killzone 3 being in the works, I hoped so much that they would find their way back to what made the first game so good. With all that said, I went into this review with an open mind, and Killzone 3 has made me a fan of the franchise again.
The first thing you will notice about Killzone 3 is the stunning graphics and visuals. I mean you expect a Sony game to look good but damn, this game is just gorgeous – cutscenes and actual gameplay. The game also features great voice work. Each of the main characters has their own personality and none of them feel incomplete. This game keeps with a great trend we have been seeing in recent first person shooters, and that is smart A.I. The Helghast won’t just wait for you to come to them, they will bring the fight to you. These guys are very tactical, will lay down suppression fire, move up in waves, and even roll out of cover and shoot at you.
From a gameplay perspective it plays really well. The controls are a little different than what we have become accustomed to, but nothing a switch to the alternate configuration couldn’t fix for me. Killzone 3 does an excellent job of explaining what happened in the last game and framing everything that is to come in this game early on. I don’t know if there is anything innovative about Killzone 3 from a gameplay perspective, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. I did really like the weapons that you had at your disposal though, some of those guns really packed one hell of a punch. The single player game had a good length as well. The average player should be able to finish it in between six to eight hours, which is right on par for what we would expect. I also liked the small touches they put in the game. For instance, when moving through tough terrain your movement is automatically slowed down. Why? Because you can’t move through heavy brush at full speed in real life, now can you?
In terms of the multiplayer experience, I found less to love. I would describe Killzone 3′s multiplayer experience as … limiting. When you first start, you have certain classes which is normal, but the problem is that it won’t let you change the primary weapon for a certain class until you have leveled up quite a bit. The end result of this is that you die a whole lot. More than you have to because they force you to use a shotgun by default on a map that is not designed for that. By the time you line up a good shot and get close enough for the shotgun to be effective, more than likely you have been killed by someone with an automatic rifle. That’s the rub, the overall multiplayer gameplay itself isn’t that bad, but the way the game forces you to play from the beginning will turn some people like myself off to the point where they won’t come back. I would have really liked to see them give players the same type of freedom they get in other shooters.
The thing that I hated the most about Killzone 3 was the amount of ammo you had to use to take down even regular Helghast – it was absolutely ridiculous. You literally have to unload almost a whole clip into some of these guys, and don’t even get me started on some of the the mini-bosses. I know that the Helghast are a race with highly advanced technology and all, but come on. If I shoot you in the head, you should die the majority of the time. Even with heavy armor it shouldn’t take as much damage as it does to take down enemies. I also didn’t like the fact that when you died, and it was possible for your teammate to revive you, often times it would take them far to long to get to you, which meant you had to lay there and just wait for them or hope you died quickly.
The issues I had aside, Killzone 3 is a great game and we would recommend it to anybody looking for a solid FPS in a sea of really good ones lately. We don’t know what the next skirmish in the battle between the ISA and the Helghast will look like, but we can’t wait to find out. ZoKnowsGaming gives Killzone 3 8.5 out of 10. | <urn:uuid:ccff9260-93ea-41ae-8e1c-cc31fa35ca7c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://zoknowsgaming.com/2011/03/14/killzone-3-review/ | 2013-05-21T17:17:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978662 | 940 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Just a year ago, Washington policy-makers looked to managed care as one of the best solutions to the rising costs of Medicare.
Even as it reduced Medicare spending by $115 billion over the next five years, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 envisioned that the number of beneficiaries enrolled in managed care would nearly double during the same period, to around 27 percent of all seniors.
Today, there are signs that the government's goal of quickly increasing the number of health plans available to seniors was overly ambitious.
In fact, the managed care industry appears to be having serious doubts about its capacity to care for Medicare beneficiaries without going broke, and more and more companies are withdrawing from the program. In Maryland, Aetna, Prudential and Rockville-based Mid Atlantic Medical Services (MAMSI) plan to close their Medicare health plans by the end of the year.
Nationally, Medicare managed care plans offered by PacifiCare, Oxford Health, Kaiser Permanente, Anthem and other large companies have pulled out of 371 counties across 29 states and the District of Columbia, affecting more than 400,000 beneficiaries.
Why are we seeing such turmoil in a program that successfully cares for the vast majority of Medicare's 39 million beneficiaries?
The answer, in part, lies in the care needs of the small number of very aged or very ill Medicare patients who generate extraordinary costs. In fact, about 10 percent of beneficiaries cost Medicare an average of $37,000 per person per year, and they account for nearly 70 percent of the program's total expenditures.
In the past, many managed care plans avoided these high-cost patients like the plague, carefully tailoring their marketing and "extra" benefit incentives to attract younger and healthier Medicare subscribers. And, realistically, who could blame them? With the government planning to pay from about $6,000 to just about $8,000 next year for all the health needs of an aged or disabled beneficiary in a Medicare managed care plan in Baltimore City or County, it is apparent that caring for even a relatively small number of enrollees with chronic or multiple or terminal illnesses could quickly explode a health plan's budget.
Addressing the problem
So, how can this problem be addressed? When a Medicare beneficiary has cancer and diabetes, or congestive heart failure and Alzheimer's, or a broken hip and a chronic lung disorder, how can we ensure that all of the patient's care needs are met, and do so without bankrupting Medicare?
The solution is not in the traditional cost management strategies of managed care. All too often the use of "gatekeepers" and pre-certification and telephonic utilization review and limited provider panels succeeds only in making the patient with complicated and serious health problems feel driven from pillar to post, and left not only ill-served but confused, frustrated and angry.
Part of the answer is to focus on what Medicare patients with serious (and expensive) illneses really want. To put the patient - not the health plan - at the center of the care system. And then, as the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging recently heard from former first lady Rosalyn Carter and others, to help these elderly patients and their families to make thoughtful, well-informed decisions about which treatment options and which available services and supports are best for them.
Research is beginning to suggest that when provided good information by a care coordinator or consultant who has no incentive to deny care, patients facing serious and complicated illnesses may make quite different decisions than the managed care reviewer who sees the situation as forcing the health plan to decide between, or ration, various high-tech, high-cost interventions.
For instance, a study from Dartmouth reports that men who were given assistance to review for themselves the scientific evidence concerning various treatments for prostate cancer were more likely to choose "watchful waiting" than surgery. Similarly, advanced cancer patients given individualized education and face-to-face support by a nurse case manager in a voluntary program were more likely to choose radiation therapy to relieve pain instead of a course of chemotherapy intended to "cure" the disease, when compared with managed care plan patients who did not receive such additional assistance, according to a study from Franklin Health, a care management company that works with insurers and health plans nationwide.
When enlisted as responsible partners in medical decision making, Medicare patients with serious illnesses are likely to choose care that appropriately matches their concerns: that focuses on managing pain and other symptoms, that maintains independence and quality of life, that aims to prevent dying alone and in a hospital. | <urn:uuid:297dae5b-905b-481b-ac23-8ef6a4266de2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-11-01/news/1998305011_1_medicare-managed-managed-care-plans-care-for-medicare | 2013-05-24T01:46:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963071 | 922 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
"Alex's Interconnects are fantastic. The Wywires XLRs completely transformed my Bel Canto rig, kicking the Cardas made Bel Canto XLRs to the curbside. The RCAs did a similar number to my Audioquest King Cobra cables in my PrimaLuna rig. What then of the Wywires digital cables? Bits are bits and all that jazz... Digital cables can't make that much of a difference, right? WRONG! In every one of my rigs, the Litespd made a profound and significant difference. In my headphone rig, it replaced a cheap Audioquest spdif cable. In my Bel Canto rig, it replaced a Luminous audio Synchestra spdif cable. In the PrimaLuna rig, it replaced an AudioQuest VDM5 BNC-BNC cable and in my Marantz rig it replaced a Blue Jeans BNC-RCA cable. I used test material from Cesaria Evora, Patricia Barber Pink Floyd, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. What struck me instantly was the smoothness and the air around the instruments. Any trace of congestion in the midrange was instantly removed. The music flowed effortlessly and it appeared as if the frequency range had been stretched at both ends. Instead of the music congealing around the midrange (yes, I do mean congeal), the frequency response was extended in both directions, along with vastly improved sound-staging. Vocals and instruments seemed to float holographically in the center of the soundstage. The difference in most cases bordered on stunning. The difference between the AQ VDM5 with solid silver conductors was smaller, but still significant and definitely audible. Honestly, I was shocked at how much better the Litespd was than the other cables I was using. Yes, the Litespds are significantly more expensive, but in my opinion, completely worth it. So what gives with these cables? Were the other cables not true 75 ohm cables? The lack of shielding of the WyWires should allow RFI and EMI to wreak havoc on the signal, right? Not so! Maybe Alex can opine to why these cables sound so good. Seriously guys, I put my money where my mouth is....and bought 3. This, despite needing to be on a budget. They really are that good!" This was posted a few minutes ago on Audio Circle. | <urn:uuid:fb4c2420-0b95-4651-9725-a53e57e0a2f6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://audioevo.org/index.php?option=com_community&view=groups&task=viewbulletin&groupid=54&bulletinid=419&Itemid=2 | 2013-05-24T01:52:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954798 | 494 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Dhaka University violence(3): coming out of the curfew August 23, 2007Posted by bdoza in BANGLADESH, Dhaka University, GOVERNANCE, POLITICS, University.
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The Curfew imposed in Dhaka and other 6 divisional towns is entering into the 3rd day.
2nd day began in a relaxed state. People started to move to their offices and businesses. Many vehicles were found running on the streets. But the police and law enforcers became active in the mid morning and started announcing that offices and businesses are closed and asked the public to return to their houses.
Dhaka University violence (2): after developments August 23, 2007Posted by bdoza in BANGLADESH, Dhaka University, GOVERNANCE, POLITICS, University.
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11-30 pm BDT 22nd August, 2007
Though Authority at the highest level of the Govertment expressed
[courtesy: the pictures are taken from daily Inquilab]
sorrow for the incident at the DU campus, the Army camp has been removed as per demand of the students and Govt has formed a Judicial Committee with a retired Judge in the chair to enquire into the matter, the violence continued into the 2nd day in the sorrunding areas of the University and sometimes deep into the city. Reports of clashes were also coming from other university campus and different institutions of the country.
On the streets, many young men also joined with the students the clashes took ugly and violent look – hundreds of vehicles damaged, many were torched, they fought piece-meal battle with the police at different areas, many were injured but none reported death. | <urn:uuid:e979a988-e54a-4be5-ace8-52a62fc9c67e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bdoza.wordpress.com/tag/curfew/ | 2013-05-24T02:05:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977748 | 377 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Thu December 20, 2012
Former Official Sentenced To 35 Years For Role In Rwanda's Genocide
An international criminal court has found a former Rwandan government official guilty of genocide and other crimes, sentencing him to 35 years in prison for his role in the Hutu-led government's murder of ethnic Tutsis on an epic scale. The trial is the last stemming from events 18 years ago.
As Gregory Warner reports for NPR's Newscast unit:
"Augustin Ngirabatware was the planning minister in the militant Hutu-led government that ruled in 1994. Charged with distributing weapons at checkpoints for Hutus to kill ethnic Tutsis, he was found guilty today of genocide, incitement to commit genocide, and rape as a crime against humanity. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison by the United Nations tribunal based in Arusha, Tanzania.
"Ngirabataware was captured in Germany in 2007 and was the last defendant to be tried by the tribunal first set up in 1994."
He was found guilty for his role in a genocide that killed up to 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in a period of about 100 days.
As the court wrote in its judgment, "A number of Prosecution witnesses described Ngirabatware as being tantamount to 'a god' in the region."
Ngirabataware "is the son-in-law of Felicien Kabuga, Rwanda's most wanted man, according to court documents," says the BBC, which adds, "Mr Kabuga, who has a $5m (£3m) bounty on his head from the US, is one of nine people indicted by the [International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda] who remain at large."
While the U.N.'s international tribunal based in Arusha, Tanzania, is set to be dismantled in 2014, any future cases will be heard by either Rwandan or other international courts.
As Frank Langfitt reported back in September, Rwanda's economy has become an unlikely success story, with regulatory improvements and a recent average GDP growth rate that tops 7 percent.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has been credited with ushering in a new era for his country, bringing innovative changes to its agricultural systems and the wider economy. | <urn:uuid:79d2cc40-50ba-4a97-831b-74a4b4a1fcc2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.wlrn.org/post/former-official-sentenced-35-years-role-rwandas-genocide | 2013-05-24T01:58:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970349 | 471 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Geoffrey has made many television roles his own over the years, such as the lazy Onslow in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, and the dodgy Twiggy in The Royle Family. His other television credits include Doctor Who andHeartbeat, and earlier in his career he voiced Paul McCartney in the 1968 animated Beatles movie Yellow Submarine. He had a guest role in an episode of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) called Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave.
Unfortunately, in August 2010 it was reported that Geoffrey was seriously ill and battling prostate cancer. He passed away from the illness in July 2012. | <urn:uuid:79148583-b15c-44f0-8a6c-db61aaeef011> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://coronationstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Geoffrey_Hughes | 2013-05-24T01:32:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988958 | 129 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
We have a database and some data is stored in a Trucrypt folder, my question is how can I include this trucrypt folder. The data type is MyISAM. I saw there is a symbolic link, but not really clear for me how can I use that.
You could create a MyISAM and specify on-the-fly what the data directory and index directory are. The symlinks are made by mysqld.
According to MySQL Documentation, you can run CREATE TABLE with a DATA_DIRECTORY and INDEX_DIRECTORY option (not available for Windows).
For example, if you run this command
here is what you get
The advantage of doing this is to reduce disk I/O by having data and index files operate on different disks if you choose such mount points for the directories.
If you have data already established, you will have to do the following
If that fails, do this:
As a potential shortcut you could do this:
Give it a Try !!!
It is recommended to symlink the entire database, rather than specific tables - see section 184.108.40.206 of the MySQL 5.5 manual.
Section 220.127.116.11.2 states that it is possible to symlink the MyISAM data and index files to different directories (on different partitions for performance reasons), but NOT the .FRM table definition file.
You also need to ensure that you don't have "skip-symbolic-links" turned on in the server variables.
You can move existing data and index files (or a whole database) and then symlink back, just make sure you shut down the server first! If it doesn't start back up properly, check the "skip-symbolic-links" option has NOT BEEN SET...
You can use symbolic links with MySQL. All you would need to do is make a symbolic link for the .frm, .MYI and .MYD files of your MyISAM tables into the MySQL database schema directory that you want. After that, run
It is also important that the MySQL user is able to access those files, so you might have a bit of an issue with user rights.
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A Colorado Department of Transportation plan to ease congestion at the intersection of U.S. Highway 550-U.S. Highway 160 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Durango received a lot of second-guessing Wednesday at an open house.
Questioners wondered why bicycles got short shrift, why a roundabout wasn’t considered, why a grade change wasn’t in the plan, why a flyover wouldn’t work.
CDOT engineer Tommy Humphrey answered queries, welcomed comments and said he would look for answers to detailed questions.
CDOT is trying to uncork the interchange bottleneck, which at rush hour backs up traffic for 1,000 feet. It’s the area’s most congested point.
The annualized average traffic on Highway 550 at the intersection increased from 20,900 vehicles in 1986 to 32,000 last year. Traffic on Highway 160 increased from 17,000 to 30,000 in the same period.
The agency, short of funding, proposes a $3.3 million solution to tide it over for 10 to 15 years. Increasing capacity at the intersection now would cost $8 to $9 million.
The answer lies in a continuous-flow intersection, CDOT says. The project calls for a 500-foot to 600-foot turn lane on Highway 550 for northbound motorists who want to turn west onto Highway 160.
Synchronized stoplights on Highway 550 and at the intersection would keep traffic moving and tie up motorists for less time than they spend stopped now.
“But you can’t fix the intersection congestion without addressing the College Drive and Seventh Street issues,” Humphrey said.
The Camino del Rio-College Drive intersection also will be widened slightly and restriped.
A median on Camino del Rio between Seventh and Eighth streets would give pedestrians a refuge, but it also would prevent motorists southbound on Camino del Rio from turning left to go downtown.
Pedestrians would activate a light to cross to the median and then punch a second button to cross the other half of Camino del Rio.
The double action would allow vehicles to pass on the side not occupied by pedestrians.
Nothing has been finalized, Humphrey said.
The entryway to Durango deserves a classier look than an extended turn lane provides, the man who mentioned the roundabout said.
A pair of bicycle backers said cyclists should have equal ability as motorists to proceed north along Highway 550 or turn left onto Highway 160.
Another project, one not mentioned Wednesday, would install a median on Highway 160 to make it impossible for motorists to make a left onto Highway 160 from Roosa Avenue.
Humphrey said CDOT has looked at solutions that have worked elsewhere. But engineers are wary of ones that the public won’t accept or use, he said.
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter [Blu-Ray]
Directed by Timur Bekmambetov
Remakes, remixes and, maybe most of all, mash-ups are getting attention at previously unprecedented levels. The Internet has given us endless examples, copyright be damned, but it's the savvier companies that realize there's money to be made. Look no further than this summer's The Avengers or the success of the weekly song mash-ups on Glee for proof that audiences love to see worlds collide — a high-potency evolution of entertainment as "the same, but different." Seth Grahame-Smith tapped the zeitgeist early on when he reworked a Jane Austen novel in 2009 to create Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The book went on to become a New York Times bestseller, spawning inevitable sequels and cross-platform adaptations. But Grahame-Smith left those to other writers while he moved on to a different project: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The rights for both films were quickly scooped up, but Abraham Lincoln breezed through (or skipped) development to arrive in theatres first. The allure of Grahame-Smith's novels can be found in their titles, both of which suggest a mix of camp and pedigree. Released now on DVD, Blu-Ray and, most tellingly, Blu-Ray 3D, it's clear that the film adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has gone for sheer spectacle. Graham-Smith, loosely adapting the script from his novel, seems keen to play along, centering the story on Abraham Lincoln as a young man rather than the older, iconic president people are familiar with — this film obviously hopes to be the first in a franchise. Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) is mentored by a streetwise man named Henry (Dominic Cooper) and learns too quickly how to channel his anger into implausible strength. As Lincoln proceeds on a mostly unfocussed crusade against vampires, the story ticks off various historical check boxes, such as meeting Mary Todd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Joshua Speed (Jimmi Simpson). Lincoln's political career and feelings toward slavery are also touched upon but never tie into what should be a conflicted morality, as he simultaneously pursues murdering vampires. In the ample supplementary features included on the Blu-Ray, the filmmakers sound like they're discussing a different movie altogether. Director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) says the film is about the emotions between the characters, whereas in actuality what chemistry the actors may have had is lost in the ocean of CGI they struggle to stay afloat in. Grahame-Smith boats that the film aims to be unapologetically ridiculous, either unaware of, or else compensating for, the disappointingly dry final product. This film was never intended to stand against Steven Spielberg's upcoming Lincoln, but audiences would do better to see either that or the Asylum's Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies, depending on their tastes. As functional as it is, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter isn't campy enough to qualify as a B-movie, but better action, drama and history can also be found elsewhere. A good mash-up not only combines familiar elements, but uses them to complement each other and create new surprises. In trying to please everyone, however, this particular take on Lincoln doesn't achieve much at all.
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Re: In-House Mortgage Brokers
11-11-2012 02:59 PM
I am also buying a Ryan home in the DC metro, however, I don't think you are required to use NVR unless they are giving you free options/incentives. you could always sort your own financing besides if you get a lower interest rate they are required to match it, if they couldn't you could keep their incentives plus use your own lender. someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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Current Score: EQ: 648 Myfico 12/03/12, EX: 671 lender pull 3/11/13, TU: 663 (Myfico 9/6/12)
Goal Score: 700
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Phew…..Ohio State skated by. I was a little worried at halftime today. We really didn’t sit and watch the game start to finish, but it was on when I was eating out for lunch and we saw the halftime score before heading home. So, I started my baking and watching the game. My baking must have been the magic ticket, as the Bucks started to come back. Just kidding. I have been wanting to try this recipe from Cooking Light for Walnut Cake with Praline Frosting for a while, so that is on the list to bake today. Also, I have a couple of very ripe bananas, so I made a banana bread for Jon to eat for breakfast this week. I tweaked it a little for fall and added some pumpkin to it….YUM! Speaking of fall, I am getting super excited for pie baking (especially thanks to Whole Foods Bakehouse GF Frozen Pie Crusts; I passed these puppies off to very picky relatives last year with rave reviews), cookie baking and fudge making. Oh, the fudge, can’t wait for the fudge. Not only is there chocolate fudge, but peanut butter too. I can’t decide which I love more. These are recipes that my Grandmother (Dad’s Mom) used to make and when I eat them, I am reminded of her. It makes me smile. I am seriously going to have to step up the cardio at the gym come the end of October through my birthday (Jan. 9th for those who are curious), as it will be a 3-month long eating fest.
On to the goods. First I made the banana bread. This recipe was one I found on the forums at Celiac.com and was posted by Sue. Her SIL gave her the recipe and she converted it to a GF recipe and it was a hit! I have made some changes to it. I used Pamela’s baking mix for most of my quick breads & cakes and I didn’t have 1 1/2 cups of bananas, so I used half bananas, half pumpkin. I also used shaved semi-sweet chocolate on top instead of choc olate chips because the last time I put chocolate chips on top, they made my bread sink in those areas. The shaved semi-sweet chocolate seemed to work much better. Jon almost fell out of his chair he loved this so much. The combination of the pumpkin & banana makes this so moist. A lot of times I will add butter to my plain banana nut bread when I eat it, there is no need for anything at all on this bread. Here are some pics and the recipe for the bread:
Banana/Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread, pre-baking, pre-chocolate shavings
Banana/Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread, pre-baking, after chocolate shavings
Banana/Pumpkin/Chocolate Chip Bread after baking:
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
1 3/4 cups rice flour (Or Pamela’s Baking Mix)
1 tsp. baking soda ( only add 3/4 tsp if using Pamela’s)
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. baking powder (don’t add any if using Pamela’s)
5 TBSP butter (softened)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 large egg
2 egg whites
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas (about 3 medium) **I did 3/4 cup bananas, 3/4 cup canned pumpkin
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup heavy cream **I used whole milk b/c like a dumb a$$ I bought buttermilk, not heavy cream
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, divided **I used about 2/3 cup and did the Baker’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate bar shaved on top
1/2 tsp. xantham gum (omit if using Pamela’s)
1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Coat 9×5 inch loaf pan with crisco, set aside
2. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, and baking powder in medium bowl; stir to mix well.
3. Place butter in large bowl; beat at medium speed until fluffy. Gradually beat in sugars; beat in egg
and egg whites. Reduce speed to low; beat in bananas. Beat in vanilla. Beat in flour mixture in 2
additions alternately with heavy cream. Stir in 3/4 cup of the chocolate chips.
4. Spoon batter into prepared pan; sprinkle with remaining 1/4 chocolate chips (**or chocolate shavings). Bake 55 to 60 minutes
or until wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes on wire rack; remove
from pan and cool completely on wire rack.
Now, onto the Walnut Cake with Praline Frosting. OMG…this cake was truly TDF (to die for). I can’t believe I found the recipe in Cooking Light, of all places. The kids loved it. I can’t say that I blame them. So moist, so sweet, so yummy!! The only thing that I would change next time is to put it in a smaller pan (they call for a 13 x 9 pan, I would almost use and 8 x 11 if you have one), the cake is thinner than the pictures in Cooking Light show, but still super yummy. This is perfect for fall, perfect for company, or just for yourself if you feel like having a treat.
Walnut Cake with Praline Frosting
9 ounces all-purpose flour (about 2 cups) **I used Pamela’s Baking Mix
2 tsp Xanthan Gum (I didn’t use this b/c I used Pamela’s and it has guar gum in it)
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
7 TBSP butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
¼ cup packed brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 large egg white
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup 1% low-fat buttermilk
6 TBSP chopped walnuts, toasted
½ cup packed brown sugar
6 TBSP 1% low-fat milk, divided
2 TBSP butter
1 TBSP light corn syrup
Dash of salt
2 cups powdered sugar
½ tsp vanilla extract
2 TBSP chopped walnuts, toasted
1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. To prepare cake, weigh or lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour, baking soda and ½ tsp salt, stirring well with a whisk.
3. Place 7 TBSP butter, 1 cup sugar and ¼ cup brown sugar in a mixing bowl; beat at a med-high speed with a mixer until light & fluffy (about 3 minutes). Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in egg white. Beat in 1 tsp vanilla. Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning & ending with flour mixture. Fold in 6TBSP walnuts. Scrape batter in a 13 x 9 inch pan coated with cooking spray.
4. Bake at 350 for 28 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack.
5. To prepare frosting, place ½ cup brown sugar, ¼ cup milk, 2 TBSP butter, corn syrup and dash of salt in a saucepan over med-high heat; bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Cook 2 minutes. Scrape brown sugar mixture into a bowl. Add remaining 2 TBSP milk and powdered sugar; beat with a mixer at high speed 2 minutes or until slightly cooled and thick. Beat in ½ tsp vanilla. Spread frosting in an even layer over cooled cake; sprinkle with 2 TBSP chopped walnuts. Let the cake stand until the frosting sets; cut into squares. Yield: 16 servings. Calories: 306; Fat 9 g; Protein 4 g; Carb 52 g.
Walnut Cake Pre-baking
Walnut Cake After baking, pre-frosting
Walnut Cake Frosted (still in pan)
Walnut Cake & Chocolate Chip Banana Pumpkin Bread on my plate:
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County Election Offices across Nebraska are getting a lot of requests for early ballots. In Nebraska’s three largest counties: Lancaster, Sarpy and Douglas, foot traffic has also been steady as people vote in-person.
“Over 17,000 Sarpy County voters have already requested an early ballot be sent to them or have voted in the office,” said Election Commissioner Wayne Bena. “This shatters all previous records for this early in the election season.”
Requests have also been heavy in Lancaster County, nearing the 20,000 mark. “Four years ago we had a total of a little over 30,000 early vote ballots,” explained Lancaster County Election Commissioner Dave Shively. “I’m sure we will well exceed that number this year with just about two weeks left to go.”
In Douglas County, 3,676 people have voted in person. More than 54,774 requests have been submitted for ballots and of those, more than 20,000 have been returned. County Election Commissioner Dave Phipps said this already exceeds early voting requests and response during the 2008 general election and he believes it will only grow in the weeks to come. “We expect early voting to account for a fairly large percentage of the vote for this election. In 2008, approximately 27 percent of all Douglas County voters voted early. This year, we expect that number to be somewhere between 35 percent and 40 percent of the total vote,” said Phipps.
Other counties are also experiencing something of a “boom” when it comes to early voting requests. “I’ve got three computers going, and could literally use three more to process all the requests we’re receiving. We’ve been getting about 500 a day since it started,” said Hall County Election Commissioner Dale Baker.
The Lincoln County Election Commissioner said her office has also sent out 2,000 ballots since early voting started on Oct. 1. The first week was the busiest her office has ever had.
In reaction to the enormous response Secretary of State John Gale said, “A surge in early voting signals a probable high turnout for our Nov. 6 election. While convenience is a factor, early voting shows people have been paying attention and are ready to vote.” He reminded those who wish to cast their ballots early, there are deadlines approaching:
• Registered voters can make requests until 4 p.m. Oct. 31 for early voting ballots to be mailed. Nov. 5 is the deadline for in-person early voting at county election offices for registered voters.
• The close of polls on Nov. 6 is the deadline for the return of early voting ballots to county election offices, including ballots returned by mail.
• “Don’t waste your ballot. Early voting in person or by mail should be done well ahead of deadlines to make sure your ballot gets cast and counted,” advised Gale.
“Early voting mail-in ballots have been shown to have as high as a four percent rejection rate when envelopes aren’t signed, or signed by someone else, or sent in a wrong envelope, or returned due to no postage. So, follow the simple rules, get it done right, and make your ballot count. “
Nebraska’s three largest counties also utilize drop boxes, to make early voting more convenient. In Lancaster and Sarpy counties, they are located outside the Election Commission offices. Douglas County has five. Three of those sites are at local libraries.
Phipps added that in Douglas County, early voting is popular, and continues to be even more so with each passing election. “After people vote early once, they seem to be more likely to do so again in the future. It’s easy and convenient for voters who don’t want to worry about problems such as a busy work schedule, sick children, or being out of town on Election Day.”
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Today on Radio New Zealand National I talked about Vodafone’s announcement that it will be locking the mobile phones it sells from now on. This is a bad move for consumers in the short run – but it may in the long run break Vodafone’s and Telecom’s hold on the retail phone market. Read on for my speaking notes or down load the podcast.
Q: Now to locking mobile phones – what is that – do you mean using a PIN number so other people can’t use your phone?
A: Not really, although that’s not a bad idea. I’m talking about the practice of phone shops doctoring telephones before they sell them to you so that they can only be used on one phone network. Now, before we go on, most of this is going to be a brickbat for Vodafone and Telecom, so let’s just first acknowledge that Vodafone currently looks like the cat that ate the canary with its announcement that it wil bring the iPhone to New Zealand this year.
Q: There are iPhones here already – you brought one in last week!
A: Yes, and Voda were fond of saying privately that it was one of their fastest selling phones even though they didn’t sell it themselves. It illustrates one of the points I want to make today – you don’t have to buy your phone from the network company – any unlocked GSM phone will work on any GSM network.
Q: So what is locking? Is that using a PIN number to lock your phone someone who picks it up in the street can’t use it?
A: Not really – using a PIN is sensible thing to do if you can be bothered – but I want to talk about the way phones can be locked by their seller so that they will only work with one GSM network.
Q: Surely Telecom phones only work on the Telecom network, and Vodafone phones only work on the Vodafone network?
A: That’s always been the case because Telecom uses a different technology from Vodafone and most of the rest of the civilized world. The technology that most networks use is called GSM. With GSM you get a SIM card – people with Vodafone phones will know what I mean, it’s a thing about the size of a little fingernail that you insert into your phone and that gives the phone its allegiance to a specific network and it gives the phone its phone number. Telecom’s old technology, the 027 phones and the 025s before them, used different technology that didn’t need a SIM. So there was never a possibility of a phone bought for one network in New Zealand working on the other – the two networks were totally incompatible.
But now Telecom has been forced by market forces to move to GSM as well, and there’s a new network waiting in the wings called New Zealand Communications. So soon we will have GSM networks.
Q: So we’ll have some choice!
A: Yes, I really hope it will bring down our appallingly high mobile costs. But this is where locking phones comes in. The phone companies are far from rapt about selling you a phone to work on their network and having you take it across the road, so to speak, and running it on their competition’s network.
Q: I can see why they wouldn’t want you to do that if they have subsidized your phone from your contract.
A: But they get you to sign a commitment anyway! You try getting an on account plan for a mobile phone without committing for 12 months. They are going to get their subsidy back alright. That’s no justification for locking phones so you can’t change the phone to another network.
Q: But they are locking phones anyway?
A: They didn’t used to. But Vodafone has just started. It’s going to start locking all the phones it sells to its own SIM cards. You can physically change the SIM card to one for another company but the phone won’t work.
That’s really very irritating for the consumer. It’s likely to delay the effect of competition in the New Zealand market by preventing people form moving phones from one network to another. It will also prevent people who go overseas from buying a SIM in their local market wherever they are going and force them to pay the ruinous roaming charges that the mobile companies charge. This is almost a rort – it’s designed to keep consumers from taking advantage of competition.
Q: Why do Vodafone say they are doing this?
A: Ah yes. They say it’s to preserve the customer experience of the quality provided by the Vodafone network. Vodafone plasters its logo no the outside of the phones it sells but it guarantee other networks.
Q: Do they guarantee their own?
A: Not that I’d noticed! And, they say, Vodafone phones have the special Vodafone Live button, which gives people access to extra services and a uniquely Vodafone experience.
Q: I take it you don’t buy their explanation?
A: Hardly. I really can’t say on the radio what I think about this explanation – complaints would be made – but let’s just consider the excrement of the male bovine. “We are going to limit your options and suppress competition but we will tell you it’s for your own good”.
Q: Can’t you unlock these phones?
A: That’s possible for most types of phone and Vodafone have said they will unlock phones for you – on payment of $50. This is what gives the lie to their precious little arguments about preserving their customers’ experience. Vodafone says: we are anxious to preserve your experience and deliver you our quality services, unless you pay us some more money. Yeah, right.
Q: And what are Telecom doing about this?
A: Until recently they haven’t even supplied phones that would work on GSM. But over the last few months they have supplied their so-called world phones which are locked GSM phones that will go on any network except Vodafone New Zealand. That’s pretty bad as well –we’ve kind of got used to seeing Telecom as the bad guys and Vodafone as a breath of fresh air – but, really, this kind of feral corporate behaviour makes you think they are both as bad as each other. Oh – one other thing about the Telecom world mode phones – some of them at least don’t work across the whole world, they don’t do all the GSM bands and wouldn’t work in Canada. Before you take any phone overseas get a positive assurance that its going work where you are going.
Q: So what should people do about locked phones?
A: New Zealand is not the only country with this problem. In some other countries mobile networks lock phones to try to suppress competition. In France, locking phones is illegal, and it may be in other countries – I’d love it if the Commerce Commission looked at doing that here. Anyway, there are instructions on unlocking some models of phone out there on the Internet. It doesn’t work for all models, though. Best to check. But what this is really going to do is greatly increase the flow of grey market phones into New Zealand.
Q: You mentioned the grey market last week – what do you mean?
A: People who import unlocked GSM phones and sell them locally. There are people doing that on Trademe. Or, if you are brave, you can buy yourself from an overseas website. You might wind up needing a power adaptor to plug the charger into the wall, but they are pretty cheap.
I’m wondering whether this whole business will spell the end of the mobile networks running the distribution channels for mobile phones in this country. Perhaps we will someone like the Carphone Warehouse come here. That’s another wonderfully named British company, like Radio Rentals, which no longer supplies the thing it’s named after – but that’s another story. Carphone Warehouse is the biggest independent mobile phone supplier in the world, but there are lots of others.
Q: So, advice to people who want to buy a mobile phone?
A: Get one that is not locked. It will pay you in the long run. For the next few months you will probably be able to get one form the Vodafone shops – ask for an unlocked one – but just say no to buying a locked one and paying $50. Let’s see some consumer resistance here! Don’t let them get away with it! And if you can’t fond the phone of your dreams, unlocked, on the High street of your town, have a good look on Trademe. And use Google to check whether the phone will work in any country you might want to go to. That’s what the arrival of the iPhone has shown so many New Zealanders – there are thousands of them here, totally outside the control of the networks, which are now being forced by market pressure to support them. Unlocking phones promotes competition by separating the phone supplier form the network.
Vodafone’s announcement about the iPhone.
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Re: Sample exim config file?
On Thu Jan 31 23:29:30 2002 dman wrote...
>On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:04:40PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
>| After listening to everyones recomendations on an MTA for my needs, I
>| decided to give exim a try.
>| I used eximconfig, and took choice 2, but i'm afraid that I don't
>| understand the questions it asks well enough to arrive at a working config.
>| Here is what I'm trying to set up. I want all outgoing mail routed to
>| mail.xx.com, where xxx is one of my ISP's. I want the user ID's rewriten to
>| match how he recives mail for me (I'm pretty certain I have this part
>| correct). I wan't to retireve mail using fetchmail, which will then hand
>| off to procmail, which after filtering will place some mail in specific
>| mail foolders (list subscriptions), and then will pass the remainder on to
>| my default mailbox.
>This is a classic "smarthost" configuration. See
>for step-by-step answers to the questions.
Thanks for the help. I found out that the problem was that I had set up
.forward, as specifed in the SpamBouncer instructiosn, wgich did not work
with exim. I presently _am_ using forwar for my sendmail installation on
the HP, so it sounded like I need to do that. In an effor to break the big
problem down into small amangeable chunks, I deleted it, and vola, things
Looks like exim does not know how to deal with ,fooorwards? Does tha make
>As for the rewriting of names, edit /etc/email-addresses and add an
>entry for each user or read spec.txt regarding rewriting rules. I
>don't think you really need them anyways since you set the From:
>header in your MUA.
Umm,. I do need to hide the reall origin as much as possible. You would not
believe what sidiotic checks are being prefromed by some mailing lists (in
the _name_ of anit spam :-(). FreeBSD is just nuts babout this.
>| Does nayone have a smaple exim config file I could look at?
>If you really want it, but my setup is quite a bit different -- I send
>outgoing mail directly to the MX handlers and incoming mail is
>received directly (it would work just as well coming from fetchmail
>though, there's no difference).
I reallu _hate_ having to go to realy, but the above mailing lists are
forcing me to. Do you have a real registerd domain & reverse DNS working/
If so, what did it cost & who is doing it for you?
Thanks, for the help, again.
Stan Brown email@example.com 843-745-3154
Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit
company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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Results tagged ‘ Angels ’
ARLINGTON – A few hours before the start of a crucial four-game series with the front-running Rangers in the American League West, the three-time reigning division champion Angels moved to bolster their offense on Thursday.
Alberto Callaspo, a switch-hitting infielder expected to spend most of his time at third base, was acquired from the Royals in exchange for pitchers Sean O’Sullivan and Will Smith.
Callaspo, 27, is hitting .275 for the Royals this season after batting .300 in 2009 with a career-high 11 homers and 73 RBIs. He has eight homers and 43 RBIs this season. He signed with the Angels in 2001 as a teen in Maracay, Venezuela, and was trade to Arizona for pitcher Jason Bulger. The Royals acquired Callaspo for Billy Buckner.
“He’ll be a boost,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. “He can definitely play third base every day. We’ll see how some of the pieces fit. The work he does in the batter’s box is special. He can hit. He’ll help fill the void Kendry Morales’ departure created.”
O’Sullivan, 22, held the Yankees to two runs on two hits in six innings in a victory on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. The Angels were 9-2 in the big right-hander’s 11 starts over the past two seasons. The San Diegan was a third-round pick in the 2005 First-Year Player Draft.
Smith, a 21-year-old native of Georgia taken in the seventh round of the 2007 First-Year Player Draft, is a 6-foot-5 left-hander in his third professional season. He has pitched for high Class A Rancho Cucamonga and Double-A Arkansas this season and is considered to have high upside.
“This was not by any means an easy decision on Tony’s part,” Scioscia said, referring to general manager Tony Reagins. “It’s not easy to put Sean O’Sullivan or Will Smith in a deal unless we were getting a player who can help us.”
Callaspo is expected to join the Angels on Friday night. O’Sullivan, who had been scheduled to pitch Sunday’s series finale, likely will give way now to Trevor Bell. Scott Kazmir (shoulder fatigue) is not eligible to come off the 15-day disabled list until Monday, and it is unclear when he’ll be ready to rejoin the rotation.
“It’s weird,” O’Sullivan said, minutes after being informed of the deal by Scioscia. “It’s the first time I’ve ever been traded. The goal is to go to a place where they need you, want you, so you can show you’re capable of playing at this level.
“I’m trading red for blue. That’s all I know right now.” — Lyle Spencer
NEW YORK – Two games in Yankee Stadium, then four in Arlington, in that lovely Texas summer heat. The Angels, sitting five games behind the Rangers in the AL West, are in jeopardy of fading out of the picture if they don’t hold their own.
Adding Cliff Lee and Bengie Molina represented a show of strength by Texas, one the Angels aren’t likely to match. The players other clubs would seek for a performer who can lift their chances likely are prime-time prospects the club does not want to move – notably Mike Trout and Hank Conger.
There’s no way the Angels move Trout. This kid has star qualities, and he’ll get to The Show quickly. He can fly – we saw that in the Futures Game at Angel Stadium – and he has superior instincts in center field and at the plate. He’s the confident face of the future, along with a handful of other talented young Angels in the low Minors who figure to follow Trout to Anaheim.
Conger is a rare commodity – a catcher who can hit with power from both sides. Moving him would be a high-risk decision. He’s local, from Huntington Beach right down the road from Angel Stadium, and he’s loaded with personality. Just can’t see it happening.
The Angels need to look within to get back in this race. They need proven talent – Bobby Abreu, Hideki Matsui, Juan Rivera – to start banging away in a big way. They also need Scott Kazmir to rebound from his shoulder pain and deliver strikes and innings.
There’s a report on ESPNLosAngeles.com that the Angels are targeting the Royals’ Alberto Callaspo, a solid infielder. But he’s no better than Maicer Izturis, who was back on Tuesday night after missing five weeks, driving in a run against All-Star Phil Hughes in his first at-bat. Callaspo wouldn’t make a significant difference in closing any talent gaps.
The Angels should have a better grasp of where they are with their chances this season late Sunday, after wrapping up the four-game series against the Rangers.
If they’ve closed any ground on Texas, they might get serious about making a move before the July 31 non-waiver Deadline. But giving up prime young talent for an athlete who might help doesn’t make sense. If they fall deeper in the muck, it might be wise to write this off as the year Kendry Morales went down in a bizarre spill – and took the Angels with him. – Lyle Spencer
CHICAGO — Too bad Major League Baseball no longer showcases a second All-Star Game.
With Jered Weaver and, to a lesser extent, Howard Kendrick denied invitations to represent the American League in the All-Star Game in their home park, the Angels are not alone in their frustration and confusion.
So many qualified players were overlooked this season, MLB could stage a second Midsummer Classic with those neglected athletes and it would be almost as talent-rich as the one that will unfold on July 13.
I was dumbfounded when I learned Weaver, leading the Majors in strikeouts with a 2.82 ERA and 8-3 record, wasn’t chosen. I figured he was a dead-solid lock. You can make a strong case that he has been as good as any starter in the league, rising to the challenge of replacing good buddy John Lackey as the no-nonsense, no-doubt ace of the staff.
In fact, Weaver was that guy last season but nobody seemed to notice. This should be his second straight year in the All-Star Game, but he’ll be home with family members, pulling for Torii Hunter to represent his team with his customary passion, style and grace.
Hunter was visibly distressed when he learned that Weaver and Kendrick, who has been durable and productive, didn’t get the call. It stripped from Torii much of the satisfaction he took from earning the vote of his peers.
But even there, I was baffled. How could Jose Bautista of Toronto claim 10 more votes from the players than Hunter, who finished sixth in the players’ balloting? Sure, he’s hit a lot of home runs this season, but in no way, shape or form does Bautista compare with Hunter as a total performer.
The players’ infatuation with the Blue Jays, currently one game below .500, was puzzling. Vernon Wells is having a terrific season, but he’s not in my view the player Carl Crawford is. Yet Wells collected 64 more player votes than Crawford to finish third, ahead of the Rays’ star.
And don’t even get me started on the catching outcome. Toronto’s John Buck was third on the players’ ballots, ahead of Oakland’s Kurt Suzuki, arguably the most underrated player in the game. The only area of the game where Buck compares with Suzuki is in lifting big flies.
By taking Suzuki, rather than Buck, to replace injured Victor Martinez on the AL roster, manager Joe Girardi could then have taken Weaver rather than right-hander Trevor Cahill, the Athletics’ representative. A promising right-hander, Cahill is having a solid season, but he is not in Weaver’s class yet.
In Suzuki and Weaver, the AL would have two truly deserving, no-doubt All-Stars.
Yes, Weaver is due to work on the Sunday preceding the All-Star Game, making him ineligible to pitch in the game. But that didn’t prevent Girardi and the AL decision-makers from selecting CC Sabathia, whose spot was awarded to Yankees teammate Andy Pettitte. If Nick Swisher, running second behind Kevin Youkilis in the Final Vote, joins the party, that would be eight Yankees All-Stars, if you’re counting.
Hunter, as the lone All-Star from the Angels, clearly must be the league’s MVP at this point in keeping his team in the hunt for what would be a fourth consecutive AL West title.
As for the Rangers’ Ian Kinsler getting the call over Kendrick, the players could not have been paying enough attention to what these two second baseman have done this season. Kendrick clearly has been the more productive performer, given all the games Kinsler has missed.
The lack of respect shown the Angels was just as glaring with their neighbors to the south. Padres manager Buddy Black, Mike Scioscia’s former pitching coach, has done a masterful job with that club. The Padres had at least three richly-deserving pitching candidates for the big show and none got the call.
Judging by the performances of their teams, San Diego’s Adrian Gonzalez, like Hunter, must be the MVP at the midway point of the season. The first baseman is the only representative of the club with the NL’s best record.
One final thought, regarding the phenom: Stephen Strasburg should be in this game. The whole point of elevating the importance of the All-Star Game in attaching home-field advantage in the World Series to the winner was to make sure that the best players competed at a high level and didn’t coast through the game.
If you’re the NL, and you’re serious about ending the AL’s run of dominance, you want Strasburg on the mound for an inning or two. You can’t tell me there are 13 better pitchers in the National League than this kid. I’m not sure there are three better than Strasburg. – Lyle Spencer
ANAHEIM – With Boston’s Dustin Pedroia on the disabled list, there is a strong chance the Angels will have three All-Stars in uniform when they host the July 13 Midsummer Classic at Angel Stadium.
Torii Hunter and Jered Weaver certainly deserve to represent the American League, and Howard Kendrick also has moved front and center as a legitimate candidate.
Kendrick, who banged his 50th RBI with a first-inning double against C.J. Wilson and the Rangers on Thursday night, is the logical candidate to join the Yankees’ Robinson Cano on the American League roster.
Kendrick has been the most durable of the Angels, and one of the steadiest offensively and defensively. Only Cano among Major League second baseman have driven in more runs than Kendrick, who flourished in the leadoff role when Erick Aybar was out with a knee injury.
Kendrick went through a stretch when he was hitting in terrible luck, drilling balls at gloves on a nightly basis, but the hits started falling and he’s been on a roll, batting .342 over his past 18 games.
A natural hitter with a stroke reminiscent of Derek Jeter’s, Kendrick has put in most of his work on the defensive end – and it is paying off with improved glove work, notably in turning the double play.
“Howie’s having a terrific season,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. “He’s certainly deserving of All-Star consideration.”
Hunter makes an even stronger case.
“Howard belongs on the team,” Hunter said. “He deserves it.” – Lyle Spencer
The Rangers have eight, maybe nine legitimate All-Star candidates. Here they are: Josh Hamilton, Vladimir Guerrero, Michael Young, Elvis Andrus, Nelson Cruz, Colby Lewis, Neftali Feliz and Darren Oliver. Darren O’Day also has the numbers to be considered.
The Angels have two serious candidates for the Midsummer Classic they’ll be hosting on July 13: Jered Weaver and Torii Hunter. After that, you have to start reaching to make a case.
And you’re wondering why the Angels are chasing Texas in the American League West?
The only surprise is that they’re as close as they are. The Rangers could be running away and hiding.
Coming into Wednesday night’s middle game of the series, the Angels having held on to take the opener, the Rangers had outscored opponents by 80 runs in 76 games. The Angels had scored one fewer run than the other guys in 79 games.
The Rangers’ bullpen had the third-best ERA in the AL at 3.30. The Angels were second to last at 4.84.
It’s difficult to find an area where the Angels have been better than the Rangers. Mike Scioscia’s troupe was even running behind in steals by 14. Defense? The Rangers’ .983 team fielding percentage was tied for sixth in the AL, while the Angels were tied for 11th at .981.
The Rangers are batting .283, while their opponents are hitting .243. The Angels are getting out-hit, .264 to .259.
Rumors are swirling that the Angels are interested in Hank Blalock, Garrett Atkins, Adam Dunn. A quick-fix would appease fans, but would it really improve the club significantly? That’s the question management has to weigh.
The only player who could make a huge difference is out for the season: Kendry Morales. My view is that none of those names being tossed around in trade chatter would dramatically alter the landscape. I’d go with what they have and hope the athletes in-house catch fire in the second half.
They have been known to do that. And these Rangers haven’t yet demonstrated they can make it through the heat of September. – Lyle Spencer
The Angels are hosting the All-Star Game on July 13. It’s a pretty big deal. You’d think their fans would be doing everything they can to make sure one of their players — ideally, their best player, Torii Hunter — would be in the starting lineup for the American League.
You’d think that would be the case, but you’d be wrong. It’s a clear case of voter apathy in Orange and its neighboring counties.
Angels fans are sitting around not voting, evidently. They do a lot of complaining about what they have and don’t have, judging by my emails, but they’re not too interested in voting. They’re content to let eight other players start the game, without representation from the hometown team that has won its division the past three seasons and five of the past six.
Hunter is seventh in the AL outfield. That’s ridiculous. You can make a case that the three guys leading in the balloting — Ichiro, Carl Crawford and Josh Hamilton — are all deserving. They’re having big seasons, and they’re talented, charismatic players.
I’d take Hunter in a heartbeat over any of the three.
I’m biased, of course. I’m around Torii every day and see what he does on the field, in the clubhouse, in general life. He’s as good as it gets. He should be in center field when this All-Star Game unfolds.
What’s really absurd is that a pair of Yankees — Curtis Granderson and Nick Swisher — are running ahead of Hunter in the voting. I’m pretty sure they’d both agree they’re not in Hunter’s class as all-around players.
Hunter is having another big year. He started one All-Star Game, in Milwaukee in 2002, and made one of the most memorable plays in the history of the Midsummer Classic, scaling the wall in center to snatch a home run away from Barry Bonds.
Hunter is clutch. He goes all out, all the time. He lives for the moment and represents his sport as well as any athlete anywhere.
It’s a shame the fans aren’t doing their part to take care of a guy who never stops taking care of others. — Lyle Spencer
OAKLAND – Having spent three days drafting 55 amateur baseball players with dreams of playing in the Major Leagues, Angels scouting director Eddie Bane wasn’t quite ready to rest Wednesday evening. He was getting in his car, his work far from over.
“Now I’m going to go try to sign some guys – the fun part,” Bane said by phone.
For the second year in a row, the Angels stocked up heavily with premium prospects, armed with early bonus picks from free agency losses. They had five of the top 40 selections in the First-Year Player Draft, and there was excitement in his voice when Bane talked about the potential haul.
If he can be signed, third baseman Kaleb baseman Kaleb Cowart of Cook County High School in Adel, Ga., could be a Chipper Jones-type performer down the road. The upside is enormous for this big kid who also can go to the mound throw fastballs in the 91-94 mph range if his bat doesn’t make loud noises. It’s always nice to have options in life.
Pitcher Cameron Bedrosian of East Coweta High School in Sharpsburg and center fielder Chevez “Chevy” Clarke of Marrieta were the two other Georgians claimed in the opening round, and they also had Bane feeling absolutely peachy.
“Bedrosian reminds me of Phil Hughes,” Bane said. “You can tell he learned a lot from his father [former NL Cy Young Award winner and consistently superb closer Steve Bedrosian]. He throws hard with a clean delivery, and he has a tight breaking ball.
“Chevy Clarke will stay in center. He can really throw, and he’s a burner. You kind of like to dream about the outfield we could have down the road.”
The Angels have two potentially superb center fielders in their system in Peter Bourjos and Mike Trout, both of whom can fly. Bourjos is close to Major League-ready at Triple-A Salt Lake, while Trout has star qualities already in evidence at Class A Cedar Rapids.
Randal Grichuk, taken in the first round with Trout last season, is his teammate at Cedar Rapids and has a chance to be a power-hitting corner outfielder in the big time.
Another outfielder with skills was added to the mix with the selection of Ryan Bolden in the supplemental first round. Bane can envision Bolden, from Madison (Miss.) Central High School, moving to right. Not everyone can play center.
“People don’t realize how young Mike Trout is,” Bane said, referring to the mutli-talented 18-year-old New Jersey product who showed no fear in competition with big leaguers this spring in Arizona. “He’s younger than some of the high school kids taken in this year’s Draft.”
Trout, who bangs the gaps and runs like an anchor leg on a sprint relay team, will be 19 on Aug. 7.
The Angels love to draft shortstops and move them around, knowing that you’ll find the best athletes there and in center field.
Supplemental-round pick Taylor Lindsey of Desert Mountain High School in Scottsdale, Ariz., is a hitter likely to be moved to third or second. But third-round pick Wendell Soto from Riverview High School in Sarasota, Fla., a superlative athlete at 5-foot-9, is destined to remain at shortstop.
The Angels added power arms in the Draft to go with their three compensation-round gems from 2009, restocking the system with pitching to go with all these athletes.
“I’m sure somebody will say we didn’t have a good draft, like they did last year,” Bane said. “But I really like our guys. Our staff worked hard and found a lot of talent. We’ll see what happens down the road, but I’m excited with what we got.”
Now comes the, um, fun part – signing these impressive athletes and arms. – Lyle Spencer
OAKLAND — The Internet was not the force it is today. Phones certainly didn’t provide immediate access to the world’s events, including results of Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft.
So it was that Scot Shields, at home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., discovered from a total stranger that he’d been taken by the Angels in round 38 in 1997 out of Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn.
“I found out in the mail the next day,” Shields said. “I was home, about two weeks after school had ended. My doorbell rang at about 9 a.m., and I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and went to see who it was.
“It was UPS or FedEx. The package said `Anaheim Angels’ on it, and I could barely open it, I was so excited.
“I called my parents and told them I’d been drafted. Tom Kotchman [an Angels' area scout who managed the rookie team in Boise] called a few hours later, and we talked.”
Shields was amazed the Angels had taken him. He’d started and closed in college, once throwing an estimated 260 pitches in a 16-inning game. But he felt he’d blown an opportunity during an audition for Kotchman.
“A week before [the Draft] I drove up to Tampa and threw a bullpen for him, and I didn’t think it went that well,” Shields said. “I figured that was it.’
The day he received the package from the Angels containing a contract, Shields called his college coach and asked for some advice. He was told, basically, to “take whatever they offered.” That’s what he did.
“I drove to my dad’s work and signed with my mom there, for $2,000,” Shields said. “I was kind of pumped. I went to see my girlfriend in Michigan [Jaimie McGovern would become his wife three years later], and then about a week later I went to Boise and got started pitching for Kotchman.”
Shields was 7-2 with a 2.94 ERA in 30 games that summer, launching a career that would bring him to Anaheim in 2001 and again during the magical 2002 season — eventually landing him a role as one of the game’s premier setup men.
Only in baseball, to paraphrase Don King.
Maybe another story like Shields’ will emerge from round 38 in Wednesday’s final afternoon of bringing dreams alive for kids around the country. – Lyle Spencer
OAKLAND — Kendry Morales’ surgery for a fracture in his lower left leg will take place on Thursday, Angels manager Mike Scioscia said before Tuesday night’s game against the A’s.
“I think he’s scheduled for surgery Thursday,” Scioscia said. “I think he’s over the shock of it. I think he’s disappointed but has come to grips with understanding the process, the surgery. He’s got to listen to the doctors. It’s going to take time. Right now he’s anxious to get the surgery and rehab aspect [started]. He’s obviously disappointed.”
Morales suffered the fracture landing on home plate in the celebration following his game-winning grand slam against Seattle on May 29 at Angel Stadium. The initial diagnosis indicated that he could be back in September, but Scioscia said that’s all up in the air.
“I’m sure after the surgery we’ll get word from Dr. [Lewis] Yocum, whoever is in there, on the extent of what they had to do and the prognosis,” Scioscia said. Dr. Yocum is the team orthopedist.
The Angels, using three first basemen to replace Morales, are 8-1 since his injury and have moved to the top of the American League West with six consecutive wins in Kansas City, Seattle and Oakland. — Lyle Spencer
Before putting the Kendry Morales ordeal to bed, a few words of quiet reflection might be in order.
As Jered Weaver so aptly put it, this was a “freak accident.” It could have happened to anybody, but it happened to Morales, at the strangest of times. A moment of spontaenous celebration by the Angels turned into something unfathomable.
Moments after delivering one of the great efforts of his career, Morales was being carried off the field, wondering how severely his left leg was injured.
It turns out it was a fracture of the lower leg, and he’ll be undergoing surgery on Sunday. Morales will be out for a long time. The Angels and their fans will miss him a great deal. But he will be back.
This is something we need to keep in mind. Morales will be back. Angels fans understand the distinction after what we all went through last season.
It’s possible Morales, given the advanced nature of modern medicine and training methods, will be as good as ever when he returns to the Angels’ lineup. He is young and strong and resilient. We know how tough he is. The fact he is here is testimony enough. You don’t make the boat trip over from Cuba without being tough, physically and mentally.
In any case, he will be back. The Angels might not win a fourth straight AL West title, and that will make a lot of people angry. But they’ll rebound, rebuild, add pieces and touches if that’s the case. They’ll be just fine. They’ll continue to sell tickets and play exciting baseball, and Morales will be part of it.
I wish I could tell you exactly what happened, what I saw, but I was staring into this laptop when Morales slipped and went down on home plate in that crowd of teammates. I was writing my fourth or fifth sublede for my game story, hitting the send button right about the time he lost his balance and fell, damaging that left leg.
I’ve been told by those closer that it was a “crazy scene,” something nobody could have imagined. This just doesn’t happen, but it happened, and it’s a shame.
But this is not a tragedy.
This is misfortune.
What happened last season was a tragedy.
We need to keep this in mind as we move forward.
The Angels will have a new hitter behind Torii Hunter, when his injured hand allows him to return to the lineup. They’ll have a new first baseman – maybe three or four, who knows? The game will go on, and so will the Angels.
I feel for Kendry. I happen to have a great deal of respect for him, as an athlete and a person. He has done amazing things in his young life, and he will do many more amazing things.
This will pass. – Lyle Spencer | <urn:uuid:75220184-4ce4-4349-8d99-161eb177aa9b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lylemspencer.mlblogs.com/tag/angels/page/3/ | 2013-05-24T01:58:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968826 | 5,965 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Town Remembers 9/11 Tomorrow
Fire Department holds annual observance at 8:30 a.m. Second remembrance is 5:30 p.m. during Rotary BBQ on town common.
The following is an announcement from the Reverend Dennis Bailey, chaplain of the Lynnfield Fire Department:
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012, all First Responders and the Public are invited to attend two remembrances of the nearly 3,000 people who died in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., as the result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
The first remembrance will be as follows:
8:30 am, in front of the Headquarters of the Lynnfield Fire Department, 59 Summer Street, Lynnfield, MA. We will pause in silence, lower the American flag to half-mast, ring the station bell, and offer prayers on behalf of all who died.
The second remembrance will be on Lynnfield Town Common at 5:30 pm, during the Rotary Club of Lynnfield BBQ.
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SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The Reds scratched a pair of regular players from Friday's starting lineup against the Royals.
Center fielder Shin-Soo Choo remained at the Reds' complex with tightness in his right quadriceps muscle. Catcher Ryan Hanigan had irritation in his left oblique area. Neither injury was considered serious.
"[Choo] is just tight. Hanigan is a little tight," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. "This is the aches and pains of Spring Training, and the aches and pains of not having much time [before games start]. Choo works hard and is in shape, so is Hanigan. They are hard-working guys. Both of them are off tomorrow, too."
The new Reds leadoff hitter after his trade from the Indians, Choo is batting .273 (3-for-11) in five games this spring. He's also making the position switch from right field to center field, which Baker felt was going well.
"My read is he's taking good routes," Baker said. "He backs up. He runs. He hustles. He can throw."
Hanigan, the Reds' primary catcher, is batting .200 (1-for-5) in three games.
Ryan LaMarre started in center field for Choo while Devin Mesoraco caught in Hanigan's place.
Latos feeling comfortable in second spring camp
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The getting acquainted portion of his time with the Reds has long since passed for starting pitcher Mat Latos. Last spring, he arrived in the major off-season trade to help the club, making him the new kid on the block.
Latos, who made his spring debut with two scoreless innings against the Royals on Friday, is more comfortable with a year on the club behind him.
"It's comforting to know what to expect from the guys I am around," Latos said.
Latos began his start with back-to-back walks before he got a fly out to left field and an inning-ending 4-6-3 double play on the ground. With one exception, he threw all strikes in the second inning and allowed only a two-out double by Xavier Nady before escaping. Latos felt like he made the right adjustment in the second.
"I stayed on a straight line," said Latos, who threw 24 pitches overall, including 17 strikes. "Throwing in the first inning with a little adrenaline, I kind of opened up the front shoulder a little bit."
During his first season with Cincinnati, Latos was 14-4 with a 3.48 ERA, and his 33 starts and 209 1/3 innings pitched were both career highs.
The first month was rocky as Latos had a 5.97 ERA in five April starts before straightening out and finishing strong the rest of the way.
"A struggle early is better than a struggle late," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. "You're going to struggle. If you don't struggle, you don't win 20 games. You're going to struggle some if you win 20 games. I will just take more of the same. That's pretty good for a kid, to be 14-4 and struggle."
Broxton's strong spring continues
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Expected Reds closer Jonathan Broxton has had only two outings this spring thus far, but has made them relatively quick work. Broxton has retired all six batters faced, including his one perfect inning on Friday against the Royals.
"I feel good. It's still early," Broxton said. "I'm still working on getting in shape, getting the arm there and working on my timing. All of my pitches aren't there. We've still got a month."
Broxton, who was re-signed to a three-year, $21 million contract in November, will be the team's closer if the Reds ultimately decide at the end of camp that former closer Aroldis Chapman will go into the rotation.
The Reds acquired Broxton in a July 31 trade with the Royals for Minor League pitchers J.C. Sulbaran and Donnie Joseph. It was the first time he worked against Kansas City.
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WHAT IS FREEDOM?
I did not understand President Bush’s inauguration speech. He used the word “freedom” twenty-seven times, but what freedom means to him was not clear. Words can mean different things to different people and freedom is an example of that. To some people freedom means no responsibility. To others it means having power and ability to assume responsibility. Is it freedom to be taken care of, or does freedom mean to be able to take care of oneself? Is a baby free before it is born when it has no responsibility for its own physical needs, or is it free when it has been released from the confinement of the womb and must begin to do for itself? Does freedom mean we are free to use the Bible as a guide to our behavior? Or does it mean freedom from God?
"Freedom" is a good word, but it cannot stand alone. It needs an implied or stated explanation and that was not evident in President Bush’s speech. When a prisoner is allowed to leave his place of confinement, he gains his freedom from jail. Those who knew that he was imprisoned would understand his new situation if they were told he gained his freedom, because jail is implied. A recently divorced man or woman might say, "I'm free!", but only those who knew the situation would understand that they meant free of the obligations of marriage. On the last day of school in spring the children shout that they are free. They mean they are free from the necessity of going to school. They are free to play and have fun. If a merchant gives you a gift with no strings attached you might say it was free of cost or obligation. If you no longer hurt, you have freedom from pain. When our country was born its first citizens said they were free. They meant their country was free from the political domination of England.
People use the words, "free" and “freedom” to mean many things. “Free” is even heard at funerals, especially when a person has suffered in his lifetime: "At last he is free!" In this case "free" means freedom from pain and suffering, but it also means dead. What about freedom from want and fear? Couldn’t that mean the same thing as freedom from pain and suffering? Couldn’t it also mean dead? What about being free to have an abortion? That certainly does mean freedom to make someone dead.
In the Western world we often speak of personal freedom, but here, too, the meaning is vague. The idea of personal freedom is a subjective concept. A situation of freedom to one person can seem like unbearable bondage to another. I have two relatives from one family whose ideas on personal freedom are totally different. The sister likes to travel, meet new people, participate in group activities, and face new challenges. She is married to a man whose work provides many such opportunities. She is happy and emotionally comfortable with her choice. If she had to live all her life on the farm where she was born, and see mostly the people she had known in her own community she would be miserable.
Her brother, no less intelligent, owns a farm and loves farming. He enjoys being in surroundings familiar to him since childhood. Even a single day's journey away from his beloved land is a chore and a burden to him. His idea of freedom is staying close to home. Both of my relatives live lives of freedom because they were able to choose the type of life they wanted to live. Their concepts of freedom involved choices, and those choices were personal and emotional.
How far does personal freedom go? Does personal freedom mean believing, doing, and saying whatever we wish to believe, do, or say, whenever or wherever we wish--having no obligations to anyone? Some would claim their right to total release from all laws, rules, and obligations. Living with those who have this total concept of freedom could be extremely unpleasant and perhaps dangerous.
President Bush seems to believe that democracy means freedom. He said it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world. Does this leave United States citizens in a state of freedom? Or has the President placed a perpetual burden on citizens of his own country? Does freedom mean we must accept every burden we are told to bear and every restriction that this all-encompassing concept of freedom demands?
In the Bush speech we were also told that there now is a broader definition of liberty. That also troubles me. What it seems to mean is that the government is always at liberty to give away, rather than sell public lands and public goods, as was done following the Homestead Act. It means that the government is at liberty to control citizens’ retirement savings since the passage of the Social Security Act. It means the government was at liberty to give veterans extra compensation for their service only if they used that compensation for education, as was the case with the GI Bill of Rights.
And I do not understand what President Bush meant when he said, “We will widen ownership of homes and businesses, retirement savings and health insurance.” Did he mean more individuals would own homes and businesses? Or did he mean that individual ownership would be widened and eventually give way to communal ownership? I don’t know. Do you?
The concept of self government was discussed in the speech, but not clarified. I know that there are philosophers and writers who sincerely believe there is no such thing as individual self government or human freedom because humans are merely biological automata or robots who have no real control over their own thoughts, feelings, and actions. These materialist thinkers believe that everything we do can be explained by material causes. Heredity and environment account for everything. They deny the directing and controlling power of the will. This materialist concept is used to justify the notion that environmental influences should be set up for the masses and controlled by social, psychological, political, and economic “scientists.”
President Bush used the word freedom twenty seven times and the word liberty more than a dozen. I have heard it said that he made a wonderful speech, but to me it seemed to be full of contradictions. I do not really know what freedom and liberty mean to our President, and it worries me.
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I love to hear from my fellow authors, writers, bloggers and poets. I get the wonderful opportunity to interview some of my fellow writers and authors from different genres. Then I get to share a bit more about them and their books with you.
Author Interview with Kathleen Heady, author of The Gate House
Please share a bit of your background (where you were born, where you grew up, siblings, career, etc)
I grew on a farm in southern Illinois, the oldest of four. I could not wait to leave the farm and go away to college. I taught English and Social Studies at the high school level, and eventually spent seven years in Costa Rica teaching at international schools.
How did you begin your writing journey?
I have always loved writing, and I loved imagining stories. But I didn’t take myself seriously as a write until about ten years ago. I wrote some articles that were accepted by magazines and newspapers, and wrote two manuscripts for novels that I consider “practice,” although one has some possibilities. After visiting England in 2004, I was once again inspired by the places we visited, and wrote my first published novel, The Gate House.
What inspired you to write your latest book?
My latest book, Lydia’s Story, which is due out later this year, is a sequel/prequel to The Gate House. I am fascinated by the World War II era, and especially by the lives of people on the home front. And I have spent some time in Wales during the last few years. I brought all this together as a sequel to my first novel. The protagonist, Nara Blake, finds her great-grandmother’s diaries from the 1940s, and the story takes place in both the past and the present.
Please share the message of your latest book, The Gate House.
The message of my latest book is that none of us know what we are capable of until we are in a situation where we must take a risk for the greater good, whether it is the good of our family and friends, or even strangers, as happens in my new book, Lydia’s Story.
Most writers are readers. What are a few of the books you have on your nightstand and/or on your “to read” list?
There are so many! On my nightstand is a biography of Ka’iulani, a Hawaiian princess born in the nineteenth century. I love reading about unusual women. I am looking forward to reading Jacqueline Winspear’s latest Maisie Dobbs novel, Elegy for Eddie. That series is an all-time favorite. I have also heard great things about The Queen of Water by Laura Resau and Maria Virginia Farinango, so that is on my list.
What is your biggest surprise in writing?
The biggest surprise is that I have made so many wonderful new friends (both in person and through the Internet). It is a great feeling to be able to support each other in our writing efforts.
What do you find the most challenging part of writing?
Keeping myself at the computer putting down the words! It’s easy to imagine a story, but there is always such a temptation to jump up and water the plants or some other silly task.
What is the best writing advice you have received?
Like anything else in life — believe in yourself. When I finished my first novel, it took me six months to actually send it out. I just didn’t have the confidence.
Where can others find out more about you and your book(s)?
There is my web site — www.kathleenheady.com
My blog — headywriting.wordpress.com
My Facebook page — www.facebook.com/headynovels
Here is a question just for fun sake. What was your favorite childhood toy and why?
It would have to be my bicycle. There was a lane between our house on the farm and my grandparents’ place, and I rode up and down that lane living in my world of imagination. Often the bicycle became a horse named Lightning, or I might be riding in a circus act. My bicycle took me to new worlds.
Author Kathleen Heady lives in Havertown, Pennsylvania with her husband and two cats. The Gate House is her first novel, and was a finalist for an EPIC award in 2011. The sequel to The Gate House, tentatively titled Lydia’s Story, will be published in late 2012. | <urn:uuid:6f5ada7e-2560-4fe0-b36f-580b371af12a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://teresamorrow.com/author-interview-with-kathleen-heady-author-of-the-gate-house/ | 2013-05-24T01:30:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97077 | 938 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Who would have such poor taste to put on an ostentatious and disgusting display like this in a time when many Americans are wondering how they are going to make up that extra $50 or $60 missing from their paychecks? Donald Trump? Mitt Romney? Some other Wall Street fat cat? Not exactly. From Radaronline:
Nothing is too good for Blue Ivy Carter.
The doting mom and dad hosted a princess-themed party for family and friends. They reportedly spent $95,000 on the finest pink and white roses, and the cake cost just over $2,000.
Toys and gifts for their guests racked up another $30,000.
The truly over-the-top expenditure was for Blue Ivy’s dazzling gift — a spectacular diamond-encrusted Barbie doll that cost $80,000!
Let me go out on a limb and predict that no one is going to demonize them for not giving this money to long-suffering, underpaid school teachers, devoted environmentalists or organizations that assist “undocumented” “dreamers.”
What a great country we live in, where a former drug dealer can become a successful entertainer, and marry another successful entertainer, and they can become wealthy beyond their wildest dreams! It’s also a country where an international man of mystery, who was probably born in only one of the two hospitals reported to be the scene of his nativity, and who apparently believed there are 57 states in the U.S., can be re-elected not once, but twice, even though he has engaged in a continuing war on the U.S. Constitution, which he clearly despises. What a country!
I’ll say one thing for Jay-Z and Beyoncè. At least, unlike a certain repellant, big butted resident of Washington, D. C., when they live large, they are spending their own money. | <urn:uuid:b50c7e01-1528-469b-9630-53c324032c5a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://teriobrien.com/tag/hypocrisy/ | 2013-05-24T01:58:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965969 | 403 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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About Idylwilde Flies
Idylwilde was founded in 1996 by Zach Mertens as an excuse to fish more and get paid for it, which of course, backfired. Now he just works 6,000 hours a week, unless he's product testing. Being a quick study, it took Zach exactly three days to figure out a company is really about its customer, so this is the last time you'll hear any of that we're-so-awesome, company-centric, rah-rah dreck from us and where we turn this whole thing back on the folks who really matter: You, the fly fisher.
Fair Trade Only
Fact: If a fly's worth only $.99 it not only sucks, but it was likely tied in a third-world sweatshop and we'd rather not have that bad mojo hanging on our conscience. Idylwilde flies are tied in Manila, Philippines under a markedly forward-thinking arrangement with Sister Christine Tan, a Catholic nun who believed her people needed more than charity. They needed good-paying, honest jobs they could rely on as they built a life outside the confines of poverty. Our promise to Sister Christine continues some 12 years later, now enabling over 150 tiers to better provide for their families. The flies you see here are the work of their hands and their hopes. | <urn:uuid:1a719b27-1a22-48b9-a9a2-9dd17d44bfe9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://troutsflyfishing.com/store/aanes-mo-jo-stone | 2013-05-24T02:04:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969396 | 283 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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GardenCenter Therapy in Augusta, GA is in a unique position. This facility can offer therapy services for both Georgia and South Carolina residents. That's because Augusta, GA, is so close to the South Carolina state line in that area that there is a city of North Augusta, South Carolina.
Augusta, GA, GardenCenter Therapy facilities can offer family counseling as well as individual and group counseling sessions. The counseling services can be for families who are experiencing problems within the home severe enough to disrupt normal living and routines. They can also be for those people who suffer from depression, anxiety disorders, and other problems.
GardenCenter Therapy services for Georgia and South Carolina residents can also include help for those people who suffer from drug or alcohol addiction, or even a lifestyle addiction. Examples of lifestyle addictions are eating disorders, a gambling addiction, and even Internet addiction. This latter does exist, and the numbers of people who suffer from it are growing daily.
GardenCenter Therapy in Augusta, GA, will determine the type of addiction or problem that is present and direct those seeking help to the appropriate counselors. If necessary, the facility can help with finding or even provide inpatient care for those suffering from drug or alcohol addiction, and outpatient care for those who are only in need of those services.
When possible, GardenCenter Therapy services for Georgia and South Carolina residents will work around family schedules so that as little interruption as possible occurs. The staff members know that stress is often a large part of the problems that plague families, and will do their best to see that no additional burdens are placed on family members.
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“The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles command, what rogues teach, and young children are made to learn by heart.”
“CHRISTIAN: One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.”
“The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.”
Alfred North Whitehead
The mottoes on marquees outside churches are a unique communications form deserving careful consideration. They provide revelations into the believer’s mind. The pithy slogans, meant to be read on the fly, like the old Burma Shave signs, are intended to penetrate immediately and cause thought (and church attendance).
Unfortunately, they don’t always cause clear thought. A huge paper poster covers the interior of the window of a storefront church (actually, “Christian Fellowship Center”). It says Jesus paid the price so you could live the life.
Livin’ the life
I find this a little jarring, and more than a little ambiguous. Yes, I know we have to take the church fathers’ word for it that Jesus cut this deal with Himself to sacrifice His human form so that sinners would be forgiven AS LONG AS they went to church. Jesus paid the price.
But “living the life”? Life with a definite article (the) suggests an easy, carefree existence (“Now, THIS is the life!”), such as must be lived in sunny Boca or Palm Beach. That’s not the life that most people live, although the rhythm and almost-rhyme between “the price” and “the life” seem to mean something. Jesus didn’t pay the price so that we could all retire to Scottsdale and live the life.
Somewhere on the Internet are collections of stupid or at least childishly simplistic semi-thoughts from church marquees. The Simpsons has parodied them, always letting religion’s heavy hand show through the attempts to disguise it. My favorite: “Putting the fun back into fundamentalism.”
(Politically Incorrect Aside #1: Why does all the laughter go one way? Why are we unbelievers always snickering at them, while they hate and fear us? Can anybody find me anything written by a believer that genuinely finds atheists laughable?)
So I just drive around and catch the examples I can, on the fly, just as they are meant to be beheld. Some are around for just a short while, as was the case with Jesus came for you, whose ambiguity (and I refer to the other meaning, besides ‘he came to save you’) was suddenly apprehended by the pastor or somebody…and the barely-concealed, embarrassing double entendre removed. God came for you would have had more meaning, in the sense that he impregnated Mary.
Another, sighted in Ashby, MA, says Behold, I am coming quickly — Jesus Christ. The churchies seem not to see the double meaning (how could they not?), or maybe they’re implying that if YOU see it, you are sinful. Unfortunately, the list of verbs that officially describes what Jesus did is pathetically short. Mostly, he came. He performed miracles, did a little sermonizing, and he came. For you. And he is SO hot for you that he is coming quickly. Apparently he’s AC/DC and comes for both men and women. And lest you think some sleazy perv put that message up, the Christ-meister signed it himself.
Another: I read the Bible - and Jesus wins. Well, yes, if you think the Bible is just another NFL season, but with more violence. But really, show me where it says the whole world accepted Jesus as its savior. Yeah, there are a lot of vague promises as to what awaits those who accept him…but no record of Jesus winning, because, of course, he didn’t. There are MANY other religions, all of whom lay sole claim to the truth.
Here’s another: You’re not too bad to come in; you’re not too good to stay out.
Now that’s worth of a bit of cogitation. The first half says that whatever your sin, you can be forgiven within. Come on in. What a scam. I hate that clerics arrogate unto themselves the power to forgive. Only the injured party can forgive, if it’s even possible.
The second half is even more insulting: you cannot be a morally upright person without the church’s fairy tales and rituals; you cannot know good unless from the mouth of the deity or his middlemen. Another insulting proposition. (“Step into that small confessional/There the guy who’s got religion’ll/Tell you if your sin’s original…” [Tom Lehrer, “Vatican Rag”]).
Finally, we come to my so-far New England favorite: Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
This one lays out your moral bargain with the deity quite clearly: you must ALWAYS be praying (steering wheel) and not expect God to bail you out (spare tire) if you have not been praying constantly. It is in the religious institution’s interest to keep you busy and keep doubt at bay.
Keeping you busy
The Abrahamic religions do a great job. EVERY DAY, an Orthodox Jewish man gets up, thanks God he wasn’t born a woman, wraps leather straps around his arm, and prays. And that’s only the first of several prayer sessions during the day. Adhering to all 600-odd commandments is literally a full-time job. Ramadan sounds like a real pain in the ass, and not terribly healthy, either.
I encourage readers to regard the church marquee as an investigable communications form, affording insights into the minds of believers. I welcome your input.
(P.I. Aside #2: Why, in both the book and the movie Contact, did the selection committee insist on questioning Ellie about whether she believed in God, because 90% of the people on Earth believe in God, and we should send the highly advanced aliens a “representative”? Fuck that. Send someone who doesn’t believe, someone who represents the next evolutionary step in human consciousness, not the religious retards.) . | <urn:uuid:28d98c20-53a1-4f55-813c-d8ab33e60e5f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.atheistnexus.org/profiles/blogs/is-prayer-your-steering-wheel-or-your-spare-tire | 2013-05-24T01:33:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955694 | 1,375 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Tech, Organizational FactorsBy Anne Kershaw | Posted 2012-04-16 Email Print
Eighty percent of ostensibly “active” files and folders have not been accessed for three to five years, resulting in unnecessary IT expenditures. Yet, most of the costs associated with unnecessary data hoarding are hidden.
Tech, Organizational Factors
The massive accumulation of unnecessary data is a phenomenon that stems from several technical and organizational factors. From a technology standpoint, the growth of high-bandwidth Internet connections and the decrease in the price of drive storage have made it very easy to move and store large numbers of documents and files. Few managers were concerned about what was being stored when it seemed on the surface to be so cheap to just keep everything.
From an organizational standpoint, typically no one is actively involved in limiting the amount of data that is being stored. Records management is concerned with the retention of scheduled records: important business documents or other documents that have been identified as being official records of the company. IT provides and maintains the organization’s network infrastructure, but not the data within it.
Business unit managers don’t see a budget line item for all the costs associated with unused or unneeded data, so they don’t make it a management priority—at least, not until hundreds of gigabytes get swept up in a legal matter or government investigation, and the bill for legal review hits their desks or email inboxes. This is often the corporate coronary event that motivates companies to clean up their records.
So what should a company do if it decides it would like to reduce the risks and costs associated with data hoarding or over-retention?
The first thing is to understand that to the extent data preservation is driven by a concern about legal obligations, the touchstone for avoiding legal difficulties is to make good-faith, reasonable efforts to meet recordkeeping obligations and, ideally, to document those efforts. Perfection is not required.
Furthermore, the company normally is obligated to keep only “a” copy of relevant information, not “all” copies. For example, if data is on the active server, there’s little or no need to keep all backups. Recognizing this simple fact can sometimes enable corporations to dispose of tens of thousands of unneeded backup tapes at an enormous savings.
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UBS Faces Probe for Possible Misconduct on Hong Kong Rate
UBS AG, which will pay $1.5 billion to settle charges with U.S. and U.K. regulators for manipulating Libor, is under scrutiny in Hong Kong for possible misconduct linked to the benchmark rate set in the city.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has started an investigation to see if there was wrongdoing by the Swiss bank in its submission of data for setting the Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate, according to a statement from the de-facto central bank today. The HKMA is also reviewing whether the potential misconduct may have had a material impact on the rate.
Overseas regulators alerted the HKMA about potential manipulation of the local interbank lending rates and other reference rates in the region, it said. The move signals that the world’s biggest banks, some of which have already been penalized in Japan, may now be probed in more Asian nations even as they seek to placate U.S. and U.K. authorities.
“The whole episode is a wake-up call to regulators globally that markets are moving faster than regulators,” Sandy Mehta, chief executive officer of Value Investment Principals Ltd. in Hong Kong, said today. “While we do not need more rules and regulations, large firms in particular need to tighten their internal controls.”
For years, traders at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS), Barclays (BARC) Plc, UBS, Deutsche Bank AG (DBK), Rabobank Groep and other firms worked with employees responsible for setting the London interbank offered rate to rig the price of money, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg and interviews with two dozen current and former traders, lawyers and regulators.
Preliminary information provided by an overseas regulator indicates potential misconduct by staff rather than a problem with the bank’s systems, HKMA Deputy Chief Executive Arthur Yuen said at a news conference in Hong Kong today.
The investigation is focusing on UBS, Yuen said. It may expand to include other banks, and the HKMA can’t estimate when it will end, he said, without naming the other possible targets. The Swiss lender contributed to setting the Hong Kong interbank rate in 2002-2010, according to Yuen.
Libor is the global benchmark for more than $300 trillion of contracts, from mortgages and student loans to interest-rate swaps. The attempts to manipulate the rate -- which are at the heart of the biggest and longest-running scandal in banking history -- flourished for years, even after bank supervisors were made aware of the system’s flaws.
The penalties of $1.5 billion that UBS, Switzerland’s biggest bank, must pay to U.S., U.K. and Swiss regulators for trying to rig rates represent about one-third of the bank’s 2011 net income. The amount, announced yesterday, is triple the penalties against London-based Barclays.
“We continue to work closely with various regulatory authorities to resolve issues relating to the setting of certain global benchmark interest rates,” Mark Panday, a Hong Kong- based spokesman at UBS, said in an e-mailed statement today following the HKMA’s statement. “As we are currently in active discussions with these authorities, we cannot comment further.”
Two former traders at Zurich-based UBS, Tom Alexander William Hayes and Roger Darin, were charged with conspiracy in a criminal complaint unsealed yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department has said. Hayes also was charged with wire fraud and a price-fixing violation for manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate at another bank, the department said.
Those charges are the first brought by U.S. officials against individuals alleged to have manipulated Libor and comparable benchmarks in Europe and Japan. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s $700 million fine is the largest in the agency’s history, David Meister, the commission’s head of enforcement, said at the news conference.
Barclays in June agreed to pay 290 million pounds ($472 million) for submitting false London and euro interbank offered rates. The scandal led to the departure of CEO Robert Diamond, Chairman Marcus Agius and Chief Operating Officer Jerry Del Missier from Britain’s second-largest bank.
RBS has fired four traders and suspended at least three others for alleged rate manipulation, according to a person with knowledge of the probe. Barclays has disciplined 13 employees and dismissed five, Rich Ricci, now head of corporate and investment banking, told U.K. lawmakers on Nov. 28. More than 25 people have left UBS (UBSN) after that lender’s internal probe, a person with knowledge of the investigation said last month.
Japan’s Financial Services Agency this month joined a probe into possible rigging of interest rates at Edinburgh-based RBS, two regulatory officials with knowledge of the matter said. It began scrutinizing the lender’s local banking and brokerage units on issues including compliance related to the setting of Libor and Tibor, or the Tokyo interbank offered rate, the people said, asking not to be named as the matter is confidential.
A year ago, Citigroup Inc. (C)’s local securities unit and UBS were ordered by Japan’s FSA to suspend some derivatives transactions after staff of the firms attempted to influence interbank lending rates. The U.S. lender’s local securities unit was banned from trading tied to Libor and Tibor for two weeks in January, while UBS received a one-week suspension.
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Dog days of summer
Peter Harrison kicks back in a cosy beach cottage that welcomes canines.
After a few hours on the road and a big bottle of water in the car, the first thing I want to experience at our beachside hideaway is the bathroom. Unfortunately, I am not alone.
I realise the large bathroom window has no curtains and I am looking out directly into the eyes of a startled council worker standing not four metres away in a small playground next to the cottage. With the tide coming in, as it were, I have no choice but to stand my ground, give him a wry nod and accept the intimacies of small-town living.
A lot of Seafarers Cottage 1, one of three adjoining properties just metres from the beach in Currarong, is about intimacy. A one-bedroom fibro cottage restored with pastel paint and modern appliances, it offers just enough space for two people (and the dog) to hide away from the tourism bluster that spoils other coastal towns.
Inside, there is surprising modernity and proof that "affordable" does not have to mean "spartan". A small but functional kitchen has all the necessities, and the bedroom is cosy.
The bathroom lacks a bath, but compensates with a large double-headed shower over a funky floor of white pebbles set into concrete. A bit lumpy a first, it soon becomes a favourite feature, providing a subtle massage for the feet after long walks with Jack, our blue heeler.
Outside, a small tidal creek separates the cottage from the main beach. Crossing the creek requires planning around tidal movements, or wandering a few extra blocks to obtain access via another beach entry at high tide.
With Jack leading the way (dogs are welcomed before 8am and after 4pm), we savour mornings and evenings wandering along the waterline. At other times, with the sea spray freshening our sense of adventure, we turn in the opposite direction, past the rock pool and on to Abrahams Bosom Reserve on Beecroft Headland. This extensive nature area is a wonderland of beaches, bushwalks, clifftop lookouts and a shipwreck, accessible to people of all ages, dog owners and bicycle riders. We explore it day after day.
The small general store and cafe are across the road from the cottage and serve plenty of loyal regulars during peak periods, but visiting outside school holidays we find their facilities often closed and dining options limited. Instead we head 28 kilometres over to Greenwell Point, where DJ's Fish 'N' Chips whips up fresh fillets and yummy seasoned hot chips. The business is for sale as we visit, prompting a long discussion about whether a sea(food) change is in our future.
On the way back we swing through Culburra Beach and Callala Bay, each about 20 minutes' drive from Currarong, where supermarkets have ample supplies for lazy but satisfying home-cooked meals. Those less inclined to cook can walk 10 minutes to the Chinese restaurant at the Currarong Bowling and Recreation Club.
Seafarers Cottage is serene, encouraging morning swims and afternoon snoozes, daydreaming, and cuddling together under a blanket on the verandah. (And dogs love the fully fenced yard.)
Currarong is on the northern headland of Jervis Bay, which offers ocean swimming away from the surf, and whale-watching cruises. A short drive to the north of Currarong is the town of Berry, with excellent knick-knack shopping and quality cafes and restaurants. Slightly further afield is Kangaroo Valley, with spectacular scenery, more shopping and an excellent golf course. Dog owners can find maps of leash-free areas at shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au (click on the My Property tab, then Off Leash Areas).
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Address Piscator Avenue, Currarong.
The verdict Simple but stylish cottage for couples (and the dog) who need an old-fashioned beach holiday.
Price From $275 a night. Some minimum bookings apply at peak times.
Bookings Phone 0412 292 917, see southcoastescapes.com.au.
Getting there Currarong is about 200 kilometres south of the Sydney city centre, about 2½ hours by car going through Wollongong.
Perfect for Getting to know one another again, with swimming, boating and bushwalks all almost literally at your doorstep.
Wheelchair access No.
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Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art
The Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art, established in 2003, celebrates the career of an author of note and includes art criticism, art history, art biography, and/or art theory. The award is presented to an author who, among other distinctions, has demonstrated particular commitment to his or her work throughout a long career and has had an impact, nationally and internationally, on the field.
CAA recognizes T. J. Clark, professor emeritus of the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley, as an influential, prolific, and inspired art historian and cultural critic. For over forty years he has written scholarly books, journal articles, exhibition reviews, and essays on the history of European and American art from the Renaissance to the present. Since the early 1970s, with the publication of two seminal books on French nineteenth-century realism—The Absolute Bourgeois and The Image of the People—his voice has been consistently recognized for its articulate, committed advocacy of the social and political significance of art. An enormously influential essay from that time called for “a new art history,” one founded on the responsibility of the historian or critic for situating aesthetic objects and approaches within the larger frame of cultural critique. From these early books and articles, with their Marxist and theoretical orientation, through subsequent studies of Impressionism and Édouard Manet (1980s), Abstract Expressionism (1990s), and Nicolas Poussin and Pablo Picasso (2000s), Clark has engaged the foundations and outcomes of the phenomenon of modernity in art. Over many years of writing on art, culture, and politics for the London Review of Books and the New Left Review, as well as his contributions to the collective Retort, he has provided us with a large body of work that addresses the significance of the expanded field of the visual arts in the world today.
Although the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art was established fairly recently, the award juries have honored the writing careers of notable luminaries in the field, including Hans Belting, Oleg Grabar, Georges Didi-Huberman, and, most recently, Mieke Bal.
Read a list of all winners of the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art from 2003 to the present.
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Gregory Sholette spoke about ĎInterventionist Art: The Creative Disruption of Everyday Lifeí at the Literary and Scientific Institution in Bath, organised by Dan Hinchcliffe at ICIA. Ele Carpenter interviewed him after the lecture, and emailed particular questions to Nato Thompson, which have been added to the text.
Ele Carpenter: What was your political catalyst for getting involved in art activism?
Gregory Sholette: Politically I came along on the cusp of the Vietnam War generation. I registered for the draft, but didnít serve. I moved to New York City in 1977, sharing an apartment with a woman who was then 81 years old. Her name was Sophie Sarah and she was born in Russia. She had a large apartment on the Lower East Side and rented out a room to me. Sophie was an amazing woman who was involved in the Labour Movement. She was a member of the Socialist Party in the US then joined the Communist Party when those ranks split after the Russian Revolution. She had an incredible history, and re-educated me about an American history I knew very little about. Meeting Sophie gave me an alternate analysis of history that was complimented by my studies with Hans Haacke, who was my professor at The Cooper Union. Initially I wanted to study with him because I thought he was still exploring natural systems as art. Then I discovered that he was doing politicised work, and at first I was opposed to it, I didnít understand why this work would be Ďartí.
EC: Did you see that as a shift from the aesthetic to the political, or an integration of the aesthetic within the political?
GS: I think I spent a lot of time trying to question the formal issues that related to art, probably far more time than was necessary, or was good for me. Like many of my contemporaries I tried very hard to look for other examples of work, not just Haackeís, for different models of how to make art more political.
EC: One of the questions in the Interventionist Manual was: What spheres do you find appropriate for your work?
GS: Well, Iíve come to England to lecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University College London among other venues, so part of the answer is my effort at educating Art Historians as well as the public about this type of work and its history. Still, I try not to write in the vocabulary of Ďhighí critical theory, hoping that younger people, will become interested, but also so that people donít keep re-inventing the wheel, or if they want to reinvent the wheel, they know the history.
My own art practice is not generally interventionist: It tends to be more involved with making things - sculptures, short films, photographs - which means that I function in different and even contradictory roles or spheres of activity.
EC: You talk about re-inventing the wheel in terms of practice. Iím interested in the point of hybridity between art-activists and artists. Do you see hybridity as a building block towards social and political change? So that itís not simply about re-invention or repetition but about building a network? Or is that too strategic a view of what might be happening?
GS: I think itís really ĎTheí question. I spoke during my lecture today about Political Art Documentation / Distribution, or PAD/D (1980-1986) and building political networks was precisely what they were trying to do: to connect art-activists with activists who would actually rejuvenate, or put back together, a sense of unity or community on the Left. When I say ĎThe Leftí, I mean what was left over from New Left, May í68, the Womenís Movement, the Gay movement, the Anti-war Movement, and the Civil Rights Movement.
PAD/D sought to be the catalyst for unifying these scattered elements of political opposition, which I think was heroic but also quite misguided, both historically and from a political point of view. It was in fact the Right that was organising very concrete networks to create its own coup within U.S. politics, so that by the 80ís the Left was completely collapsed as a political option.
Why was PAD/Dís analysis mistaken? Because artists are not the vanguard of anything except aesthetics, politically they tend to borrow, replicate and mirror situations, not create conditions for lasting social change. For example, What is most interesting about these younger artistís collectives and interventionist practices today is the way that they mimic institutional and organisational structures that we normally wouldnít pay attention to, including even corporations and how they operate within our lives. The Critical Art Ensemble reverse engineers flows of power, thus making its social effects manifest. YOMANGO overdoes the idea of life-style branding. The Yes Men develop exaggerated business personas. And perhaps, because neo- liberalisation has pushed out actual, public social institutions, you have a lot of new art projects that resemble archaic institutional models, false communities, bureau of investigation and so forth. As if a discarded realm now offers space for artistic occupation.
The point Iím making is that artists donít create political movements per se. They reflect on them, or perhaps in this case they are keeping a pilot light burning when there isnít much of a political movement happening, at least in Europe and the US. Perhaps this will lead to something?
EC: I think that there is a frustration and disappointment with traditional forms of activism so artists and activists are being more creative in their direct -actions, thinking more conceptually about how they intervene in culture, and this is a tactical manoeuvre. So I wonder if artists are mirroring the activists or vice versa?
GS: Itís probably an impossible question to answer. But I think that both, to some degree, are mirroring the times we are in. The kind of entrepreneurial capitalism that emerged in the neo-liberal period is also interventionist. Consider the way interventionist artists typically consist of small groups, or cells, that are very mobile and tactical, not unlike the dot.com start-ups of the 90s whose business philosophy stood opposite that of the big lumbering corporations such as IBM.
EC: Letís talk specifically about the Interventionists Manual and Exhibition.
GS: I should make it clear that I had nothing to do with curating the show. Nato and I originally proposed to the Museum a more historical exhibition about activist art, which would include the work that I was showing you today (PAD/D, REPOhistory etc) and there werenít too interested in doing that. So Nato went on to do the Interventionists and we developed the catalogue together instead.
EC: Was there resistance from artists or art-activists to taking part in the Interventionists exhibition?
GS: That would be worth talking to Nato about.
EC: OK, perhaps I could also ask Nato about queries from funders.
Particularly with the Steve Kurtz and the Critical Ensemble Case, were there any concerns?
Nato Thompson: Thereís a fundamental misconception that political art is somehow antithetical to art funding. The Interventionists exhibition was, in fact, quite easy to fund. The National Endowment for the Arts and other funding agencies switched a lot of their grants towards community and educational values, so the Interventionists exhibition fitted quite nicely. In fact, granting organizations were not that concerned about the political nature of the work itself. I did have some resistance from artists in participating and for reasons that I am quite sympathetic. There is always concern that, as opposed to producing a pedagogic experience, an exhibition only participates in occluding the radical potential of the work displayed. The anarchist collective YOMANGO were very specific that they didn't want their shoplifting bags to be fetishized as hallowed art forms; instead they wanted to present them as models for others to take advantage of. So we had free handout patterns for making one's own bag. An other group, whose name I can't reveal, were concerned that they gain a lot of social leverage out of not directly declaring their political agenda and so they decided to not be in the show. In terms of the CAE case, the funders didn't inquire whatsoever. There was obviously concern on our end, but the funders, no.
GS: The Kurtz case happened as the show was going up. But I think that it is worth noting that when the FBI approached the director of the museum, Joseph Thompson, he didnít flinch or back down. He stood by the exhibition and the artists and that was really something given that since 9/11 we have seen so many cases of curators and arts administratorís self-censoring themselves after being visited by federal agents or simply from public pressure. Let me add that the new printing of the Interventionists Manual book (the first batch is largely sold-out) also has a new introduction about the Critical Art Ensemble case.
EC: Can you remind me what happened at the opening of the exhibition?
GS: The FBI served subpoenas to a number of people who are either part of Critical Art Ensemble, or are associated with Steve Kurtz, in order to get them to testify before a grand jury. Assistant Attorney General William Hochul is doing all in his power to see Kurtz behind bars for some period of time, and the whole investigation is clearly purely political. (See http://www.caedefensefund.org)
EC: Greg, do you describe yourself as a curator?
GS: No, not usually, Iíve done it occasionally for financial reasons. Even the show at the New Museum (Urban Encounters, 1998), was organised when I was briefly employed as their Curator of Education. Still, it wasnít really curating per se, and this is something some people criticised me for. I selected the artists groups, but then gave them almost carte blanche to do whatever they wanted within a certain budget and space, as well as following rough guidelines to do with representing historical influences. So that was my approach to curating. This would also be true for REPOHistory, where anybody that wanted to be part of the project could be part of it. We didnít ask for proposals, we didnít look at peopleís artwork; we just collected artists, or better yet gave them an organized resource to work together on a project.
EC: So would you describe your role as a facilitator of a collective effort?
GS: Yes. I hope so, some of the time.
EC: Iím looking at the effect of new technologies on this whole area of practice. Nato, can you describe the significance of technology in the Interventionists Exhibition?
Nato Thompson: In terms of technology, the show did highlight a lot of design work. The technology that lends itself to tent making was particularly present. Design itself embraces the utilitarian aspects that are endemic in much of the work in the show. We also highlighted the work of the Institute of Applied Autonomy who produce technologic interfaces for street protest and enhancing personal autonomy. However, there werenít many web sites, and net-based work. They are difficult to display in galleries and my experience is, they don't benefit from gallery presentation: they are often broken and people can always check from home.
EC: Greg - one of the questions in the Interventionist Manual was: How does technology function in your work and what is your relationship to technology?
GS: It has been on my mind a lot, because when I arrived in the UK my computer crashed! I do a lot of work by email and hardly use the phone any more. Iíve just set up a website which has a lot of resources on it. I also use movie making equipment and Photoshop in my artwork - so I would say that Iím very dependent on digital technology. And clearly thatís the case for a lot of artists - but not all of them. For example Critical Art Ensemble has said in the past that they didnít see any point in demonstrating in the street, and that they were working within the electronic frontier. But there was a very funny comment that someone from the Chicago-based artistsí group known as Temporary Services made when the incident happened with the CAE and FBI: there was a call for a demonstration in front of the court house, and TS found it was ironic that CAE needed people out in the street. You know it is complicated.
EC: Are you involved with open source at all in New York?
GS: Iím not directly involved, but I do have Creative Commons copyright on my articles on my website.
EC: Do you know of any relationships between open source and more performative activist groups in New York?
GS: Iím not sure. The Institute for Applied Autonomy and the Bureau for Inverse Technology (BIT) are both involved in developing software in an activist mode. I will say that the ethics of open source, if not the specific practice, is very common to most of the artists that Nato and I describe as Ďinterventionistsí in our book.
EC: Thereís been a lot of debate in England about the relationship between artists and activists using independent media and open source and free software, and how those dialogues and patterns work. Obviously theoretically there is a close understanding, but in a practical sense activism comes from a Luddite history of anti-technology, and a fear of technology being used to control. This is combined with a suspicion of the arts as a bourgeois recreational activity, so thereís a history of a lot of conflict. The collectives that see the potential for collaboration are quite small, but very passionate and visionary, and are driving projects forward. But they are quite difficult to find out about, especially at an experimental stage. I donít know if you know of any similar projects in the US?
GS: Iím probably not the right person to ask; whilst I do have an interest in this, itís not what Iíve been pursuing in my research. But historically you put your finger on it - and itís worth noting that the generation that I come from, the 70ís and 80ís, were, generally speaking, very suspicious of technology, to the point where the emphasis was on public populist forms of intervention, posters, graffiti etc. Using mainstream technology and mass media seemed to be fatally tainted to many of us, because the form itself was part of the problem. With a couple of exceptions, younger artists have steered directly into the Society of the Spectacle, finding ways of piggy-backing off the networks mass media has created, instead of outright rejecting them. (One historical exception to this generational reading in the States has been Paper Tiger TV, and Deep Dish TV, both of which got into using guerrilla media of various kinds as far back as 1980.)
EC: Do you think that these practices have influenced interventionist practices?
GS: Which practices?
EC: Projects like BIT and the Centre for Applied Autonomy, and how they think about the potential of technology, such as how to subvert or hack into technology for tactical means. Or the way in which technology changes the way in which we think about communication (if it does?). I wondered if there is an influence of this work on interventionism?
GS: Absolutely. A lot of Interventionists are committed to making work through the Internet or through other kinds of digital and analogue technology in the same spirit. But maybe thereís more caution these days, the enthusiasm for the Internet and new technology has died down, and thereís caution about the limitations of its initial promise as a new, electronic form of the public sphere. Geert Lovink, a co-founder of Nettime, has written about that reality adjustment in a particularly inspired way I think.
EC: I think thereís a shift in the UK, where people involved in new media and open source programming are adopting 60ís and 70ís ideology about working collectively, communally and collaboratively, where everything is Ďopení and Ďgift economyí. Coming to these ideas through technological structures, and taking them back into physical public space. So people like Heath Bunting and Kate Rich, who were once perceived as at the forefront of Ďcomputerí based new media art in the UK, are now working in parallel economies. Heath Bunting is making a recipe book of free food that you can find around the city of Bristol. Kate Richís Feral Trade project distributes coffee from a collective in El Salvador and sweets from Iran through friendship networks. They are articulating the same ethics but in a more pragmatic way, going back into a social sphere. And a lot of this kind of work seems to be about survival.
GS: It is interesting to see how artists are taking on the role of re-creating social structures that are now gone or under extreme pressure from the forces of privatization.
EC: I like your reference to Tatlinís quote about not Ďold, not Ďnewí but Ďnecessaryí art, and Iíd like to apply that to technology: to describe Ďnecessaryí technology.
The open source movement has a lot of rhetoric and utopianism. Iíve just done a Mute Open Source workshop and I now feel quite cynical about it! Itís not Ďopení at all, unless you are a high level programmer. But open source ethics are enabling different creative business and trade models to develop to the point where the practice is only marginally described as art.
Do you have any examples of interventionist practice that have transferred entirely to the public realm? Where artists have given up the art context, or perhaps an art context is no longer relevant in defining their work?
GS: I donít know if they have left the art context to be in a non-art context, they might never have really tried to become part of the art world in an indirect way. The Centre for Urban Pedagogy, based in Brooklyn in New York, are a good example of what you are after. They are primarily architects and urban design people with a few artists involved. They do make exhibitions, but they also develop workshops with younger people about re-envisioning urban space. I donít think that the art world has any interest or knowledge of this group. In the UK there is Lorraine Leeson, still unknown in an art context dominated by the yBa. In Austria Wolfgang Zinggl of the group WochenKlauser is now in the Austrian parliament.
Some of this same disconnection with the Art context was also true of REPOhistory (1989-2000). REPO never really got much art world press, instead most of the press was from the mass media, such as The New York Times, The Village Voice, or Time Out NY and so forth. The few things that were written in art journals were by people involved in the group, including myself.
EC: Do you feel that you have to write your own history?
GS: Yeah, absolutely. I think you have to write your own history to some degree. Obviously there are disadvantages in that you have certain blinders on, but I do think that, under the circumstances, these histories will have to be written by people who are involved in making them. They are the ones with the knowledge of events for better or worse. Still, these alternative art histories are gradually becoming an area of interest for some younger scholars.
EC: In the UK increasing numbers of artists and curators are moving into academia, doing PhDís as a way to write about and archive non-gallery, based practice, including new media and activist performance, sound art, in fact any non-object based practice. At the same time, socially engaged art practices have now become orthodox. If not at the activist end of the spectrum, but the need for public engagement of artwork within a wider public space, intervening with other discourse or popular forms, even if they are Ďrelational aestheticsí situated in the gallery. I wondered if you had a sense of where things are goingÖwhat you see as the new radicalismÖ?
GS: I donít think that artists lead the charge when it comes to political change. Given the lack of any broad-based political movement at the moment, artists are not going to change anything by themselves. The art world though has always picked bits and pieces of things that it wants, to represent certain kinds of concerns, to show that itís not out of touch with what is going on. At the end of the 70ís no one was interested in social or political issues, but by the end of the 80ís everybody was making political art. You could see art that looked like a formalist minimalist installation, and you would read the description and it would be something politicalÖ the mind boggles. What we are going through now is a cyclical process. Itís bubbled up from below and the art world eventually must take notice. Now I think itís becoming more centred within the institutional art world because the art world doesnít produce anything - it has to capture it. And when it does, it tends to reify or ossify these activities. For example take Temporary Services gift economies in out-of-the-way places in Chicago and elsewhere. They are little known interventions not flashy or oriented towards the art scene. But inside the art world you have something that resembles relational aesthetics referred to as radical. But itís not - it is an artwork, and itís an interesting artwork, but limited to that world.
EC: I agree that relational aesthetics operates first and foremost within an art economy.
GS: What Temporary Services and other groups do is pretty much outside the art economy, and I donít think that the art world can completely take over those functions without dismantling itself. Once you really take seriously the idea that creative activity also takes place outside strictly professional legitimisation in museums and galleries, then you begin to undermine the whole logic of the commercial art world. (And that is really the only art world that matters today in the neo-liberal era. So, although I think that you are right - that it is becoming more orthodox, and will become more orthodox, or as Tom Franks has labelled it: an anti-orthodox capitalist orthodoxy. And it reaches back into the 60ís as advertising agencies were already looking at the counter-culture to stimulate sales. Think of the way the VW Beetle was sold as a revolutionary hip means of transportation. Capitalism always recovers this stuff very quickly, but some things are difficult to absorb.
EC: Thinking about the long term - what do you hope will be the political and social legacy of your work?
GS: Personally my work aims to give this type of interventionist and activist art some degree of historical resonance as well as a way to read it that makes sense in a larger social and historical framework. But it is also a reading that critiques these practices, and is, in its own way, an intervention into the established notions of art history, which tends to reinforce the value structure of the commercial art market by guaranteeing certain names rise to the top like cream. Challenging that process is my ideal. Obviously, if I wish, I would like to see a very different kind of world, where people arenít exploited, arenít hungry, where people donít have incredibly meaningless jobs, walking around like zombies in shopping malls starring at things because thatís all they really have in their lives etc. I donít know if you can lay all the blame on capitalism per se, but certainly questioning the way that operates has to be part of it.
EC: Everyone agrees that they want some level of change?
GS: Not everyone.
EC: OK some people are quite happy with the way things are. But I think a lot of people would like change but they donít think itís possible so they give up. They donít feel that they have any political voice or rights, or capacity, so they canít engage, and devoid any responsibility for change. Itís a mass condition.
Talking about revolution, another of the questions in the Interventionist Manual was: Can there be radical art without revolution?
GS: That was taken from my essay.
EC: Thatís right - and you said yes there could be radical art without revolution because art wont lead a political movement.
GS: I think we can call it Ďradical artí in its intentions, even if its actual ability to be radical is probably very limited. I think I ended my answer by saying that you canít really expect a revolution but you have to keep trying.
EC: But Iíd like to turn that around and ask you: Can there be revolution without radical art?
GS: Yes, I think there could be.
EC: Well, Iíd like to disagree, because art can change the way in which we perceive culture and cultural values, and that transformation is essential, and needs to take place at the same time, or before, revolution can take place. The problem with radical politics is that it falls into party politics and is instantly polarised, whereas art can deal with cultural complexity. Of course issues of sustainability are economic but they are also cultural.
GS: But the question you asked me was: can there be a revolutionary situation without radical art? - Not whether the kind of revolution that we would like to have happen, could take place without revolutionary art. That is a different question.
EC: Maybe radical art is not a condition of revolution, but part of the process?
GS: Maybe, but Iím not sure that art needs to be there, even if of course I hope it would be there. Lets not forget that radical art has played roles in revolutions that we donít particularly care for. Mussoliniís Fascism had a very radical art movement associated with it, as did the Bolsheviks . At least some of the art was connected to that cultural violence. The Serbs Epic Poetry is lovely to listen to, until you realize that itís about slaughtering Muslums. Even the Bolshevik revolution had lots of problems some of it amplified by the artists. The relationship of art to politics is just a lot more complicated than saying culture is always a good thing, and that its absence is unforgivable.
EC: This is where preventing art from becoming simply a tool, or a representation of a political movement is really important. And these things have been heavily resisted by contemporary artists getting involved in activism, because traditionally the activist movement uses art as an illustration, or simply as a tool, without engagingÖ
GS: I donít know how many times I have been involved in political organisations and when I said ĎI am an artist what can I do?í they would say Ďmake some flyers for usí. As soon as anything more interesting was proposed the activists just didnít get it. Still, I think itís much better now in the era of counter-globalization politics. And, as you say there are many activists who recognise the political value of cultural tactics.
EC: And you can say the same things about technology.
EC: Nato Thompson described artists as tool providers. Are you aware of any artists open source tools or projects in the Interventionist exhibition?
GS: The Interventionist Manual enabled us to promote the idea that Ďyou can do this tooí. And the interest in the amateur, DIY, and tactical media, runs through a lot of the work. The whole thing about tools is complicated, because of the art world and the notion of aesthetics that comes to us through German Philosophy. Thereís one idea where any functionality or usefulness in art is considered a lesser aesthetic: Kant for example considered architecture a minor art because it was always in the last instance functional and therefore not capable of producing a transcendent aesthetic experience, so there was traditionally an artistic hierarchy. (We still see this hierarchy expressed in the way larger survey museums such as the Metropolitan Museum are organized.) So today the battle line today is over this question of artistic purpose in society: 1. Is the art object autonomous because it has no function, or 2. Because it seeks to be reintegrated with the life world and no longer perceived as art? Whatís ironic of course is that those kind of function-less art works - Modernist artworksóhave become utilitarian objects for capitalism in a very overt way. Seemingly neutral Modernism became the culture of post-war western expansion. So this whole notion of instrumentalism is a tricky one. There is something to be said for the notion of autonomy both in its political sense in that you can separate yourself, and say ok - I can function without command from above, I can determine my own future, and also some notion of aesthetic autonomy, which should be looked at carefully now that it is largely disappeared and not simply disposed of.
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Three teachers, one each from elementary, middle and high school levels, were selected last week as the Gloucester County Public School System "Teacher of the Year."
Bethel Elementary 4th-grade teacher Roberta Shifflett was recognized in the elementary division. Michael Cole, a 7th-grade math teacher at Peasley Middle School, was honored in the middle school division. Deborah Riley, an English and journalism teacher at Gloucester High School, was honored in the high school division.
The teachers were recognized at a dinner Thursday night that was catered by the Gloucester High School Culinary Arts Department. The event was sponsored by the Gloucester County Public Schools Educational Foundation.
The three winners were among 10 selected from each school as "Teacher of the Year." The others were:
--Greta Reed, a music and chorus teacher at Gloucester High School;
--Nancy Spicer, an assistant to the principal at T.C. Walker Elementary School;
--Kim Pickett, an algebra and geometry teacher at Page Middle School;
--Christy Phillips, an intervention specialist at Achilles Elementary School;
--Pamela Cheresnowsky, an intervention specialist at Botetourt Elementary School;
--Tracy Shaw, a special education teacher at Abingdon Elementary School;
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Sierra was recently on a Hawaiian vacation with Dakine. While Angel finally made it back to Denver to follow up on getting his I.D. card renewed. David the writer/cover boy has been seen with the Skateboarder photographer Bradford in and around Long Beach, CA. Abdias and Nuge are heading to Texas for a Make a Wish based skate trip. I wonder if Nuge knows if Shad got his first photo flow Pig promo box yet. It's a nice new addition to the team. Wonder who else will make the cut. Bart? Check out the Dekline site to find out what Gareth's been up too. Or maybe the Osiris site to check out a Corey interview. Alex Gordouros has the latest Foundation ad so be on the lookout for that jaw dropper. If you want to catch all these guys in one place at one time maybe you should stop by the Boarders signing on November 1st. Or check out some old but new photos that you haven't seen from Foundations recent Australian tour. Thanks Peter!
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where in texas are the nuge and abdias going?
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is that lizard? (in the background)
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they are going to be in houston for the texas skat jam. at southside skate park. where i live but my gay ass doesnt have money for a $40 ticket!!!!!!
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Summary: Italy is once again at the mercy of Cesare Borgia's ambitious scheming. But Cesare's soul is being tortured by an unholy apparition that has returned from the dead to haunt him. Will he be too deep in torment to notice the dangerous turn his innocent sister's marriage has taken -- or will Lucrezia be left defenseless against a husband set on raping every last fiber of her soul?
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Solid progress, but ‘further to go’
Durham Public Schools have, despite considerable challenges, unmistakably made progress in recent years in some key areas.
That’s not to say – and we have been among those who often say it – that there is not still much ground to cover to ensure that all Durham public school students are getting the best education possible and graduating from high school fully prepared to enter higher education or the workforce.
But many indicators point to improving schools, and Wednesday school leaders invited in the community for a celebration of what has been accomplished.
“Although we have a lot of work to do, our schools are moving in the right direction,” Heidi Carter, chair of the DPS Board of Education, told the audience at the Carolina Theatre.
School officials cited several areas in which the system is making significant progress toward meeting, on or ahead of schedule, goals in its strategic plan. In two, academic acceleration and talent development, the finish line is quite close, with the system judging work 93 percent complete on those goals.
In the weakest area, technology alignment and an energy master plan, the system is less than half-way to meeting its stated goals, but in those areas, too, officials have recognized that more funding will need to be found to fully implement the plan. In energy efficiency, especially, the schools face a challenge familiar to businesses and individuals. Retrofitting older buildings and systems to meet today’s energy efficiency expectations will cost a chunk of money up front to save money – and be kinder to the environment – in years ahead.
By next year, the system wants 80 percent of students who entered high school to graduate, and officials think last year’s 77 percent graduation rate is on pace to meet that goal. Still, 363 students dropped out of Durham schools last year and our dropout rate is one of the highest in the state.
On the “needs improvement” side, Superintendent Eric Becoats noted that the system is “still a little off the trajectory” to hit its goals in some important academic areas such as reading to learn and reading with comprehension. And there is a persistent gap in the performance between African-American and Hispanic students on the one hand and white students on the other.
Becoats summed up the results as showing a lot of progress but also indicating “we have much further to go.”
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Ramesh Sippy, the man behind cult film "Sholay", has been named for the Padma Shri award on the eve of 64th Republic Day.
Son of veteran film producer GP Sippy, the 66-year-old made his directorial debut with 1971 romantic-drama "Andaz", after working as assistant director for seven years. The film starring Shammi Kapoor and Hema Malini as the lead and Rajesh Khanna in the guest role, went on to become a super hit.
However, it was his 1975 film "Sholay" that catapulted him into the big league. The Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra starrer not only was a blockbuster, the golden jubliee film ran for more than five years in a theatre in Mumbai.
Sippy's body of work as a director also includes "Saagar", "Shakti", "Shaan" and "Seeta Aur Geeta".
He also directed super hit television series, "Buniyaad", that showed the ups and downs of an Indian family in pre and post partition India.
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CCI sponsoring immigration, faith conference Nov. 2
Catholic scholars, law enforcement officials and national immigration experts will gather next month for a day-long conference stressing the importance of faith in mending the country’s broken immigration system.
Rev. William R. O’Neill, SJ of the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and Graduate Theological Union will give the keynote address at “An Ethical Perspective on the Accompaniment of Immigrants: A Faith Response” on Fri., Nov. 2 at Catholic Theological Union. O’Neill will draw from his pastoral experiences on the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as his current post as Catholic chaplain at the federal women’s prison in Dublin, Calif., which houses many migrant women.
Rev. vanThanh Nguyen, SVD of Catholic Theological Union will also speak on the sympathetic teachings of Old Testament laws toward strangers and immigrants. Various panels will feature experts from the National Immigrant Justice Center, Lake County Sheriff’s office, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Archdiocese of Chicago.
The Office for Immigrant Affairs & Immigration Education of the Archdiocese of Chicago and Catholic Theological Union are organizing the conference. Registration is $35 for individuals or $20 for students, and is due by Fri., Oct. 26.
To learn more about the conference or to register online, go to www.archchicago.org/immigration, or call (312) 534-8383 or fax (312) 534-3459.
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Leg Breaking Extreme Shelling Caught On National TVBy
Shelling on Sanibel was featured on CBS Sunday Morning today! And I made the cut along with Leroy!!! Waaahoooo! After you see the segment, I’m sure you will have questions about that crazy woman pictured above. I promise I will explain but first you have to watch CBS correspondent Bill Geist “shell out” this fantastic piece on our beloved island of Sanibel and her seashell treasures. (Click on the video to get it to show up -sorry I’ll try to fix it- but come back here to read the rest of the story.) Still can’t see it? CLICK HERE
Wasn’t that fabulous? Okay, yes, that crazy lady who talked about breaking her husband’s leg was…. ahem….. me. Bill Geist had asked me if I was an extreme sheller. Hmmm. Me? Where do I start? Then the leg-breaking incident popped into my head. Before we lived on Sanibel, Clark and I came for vacation to shell the beaches just like most of y’all. The first morning out on the beach, we had a little fun competition finding shells. At one point when I was doing the Sanibel Stoop, Clark gave me a little push so I lost my balance and fell in the sand. We laughed and laughed at being silly shellers but then I planned my attack. He was wading in the shallow water, when I decided to take my “shell revenge” . I guess I was too obvious since he dug his feet into the sand to keep his balance when he saw me make my move for his shell. Unfortunately, he dug his feet in too deep (See? It wasn’t completely my fault! LOL) and I caught him at the wrong angle to push him out of the way. His body spun side ways but his leg didn’t. His shin bone snapped in a spiral break that sounded like a gun shot. I know… awful, right? I felt so badly! That was probably 17 years ago and as most of you know, he healed just fine and it didn’t slow Super Sheller Clark down when it comes to finding shells. So now you know the rest of the story. | <urn:uuid:0d1b7233-9573-4f55-ab35-4b1daf3662c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.iloveshelling.com/blog/2012/04/22/leg-breaking-extreme-shelling-caught-on-national-tv/ | 2013-05-24T01:51:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972473 | 477 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Some of the world's leading research universities plan a new cooperative venture in which they will share faculty members and students and build what its leaders call a "global partnership."
Details about the arrangement are vague -- so vague, in fact, that officials at the two American institutions planning to be involved, Yale and the University of California at Berkeley, aren't ready to talk about it yet.
"This is a work in progress, and we're not going to be ready for quite a while to say what our level of involvement in it is," said Gila Reinstein, a spokeswoman for Yale. She noted that the formal alliance is not scheduled to begin until next January. A spokeswoman for Berkeley said she was still gatheringinformation about the project.
The announcement of the alliance was made Monday by the Australian National University, whose vice chancellor and president, Ian Chubb, is chairman of the partnership, which he said involved the National University of Singapore, Peking University, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, and the Universities of Copenhagen and Tokyo, in addition to his institution, Yale and Berkeley. (The announcement said that the University of Oxford and "one other leading university" have also been approached about participating.)
“The partnership comprises a selected group of research-intensive universities that share similar values, a global vision and a commitment to educating future world leaders," Chubb said in a statement.
The statement offered few details about how the arrangements between the institutions would work, saying only that the partnership would "bring new opportunities for research, teaching and learning that is truly global in scope, through some combination of faculty collaboration and exchange, research training cooperation, undergraduate and postgraduate student exchange, joint/double degree programs, exchange of best practices and protocols, and benchmarking."
Chubb added: "The partnership will be broad: a wide range of teaching and research possibilities are now open to us that will be better than any single one of us could provide on our own." | <urn:uuid:e1df2450-e90c-4e1d-a87a-ec6eecee2eb4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/07/12/partnership | 2013-05-24T01:59:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967105 | 398 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Mon February 6, 2012
In Indianapolis, Super Bowl Leftovers Are All Gone (To The Hungry)
The Super Bowl party is over, and that means refrigerators around the country today are jammed with uneaten Frito pies, fried chicken, and seven-layer dips – remnants of one of the most gluttonous days of the year.
Raccoons and Dumpster divers can find glistening troves of leftover food if they know where to look. But in downtown Indianapolis, they'll be mostly out of luck. That's because most of the 30,000 pounds of leftovers generated from the multitude of Super Bowl events has already been served to the hungry by a group called Second Helpings.
Increasingly, food rescue groups in urban areas are capturing the food that never hits the table from large venues, retail outlets and wholesalers. It's one of the ways communities are turning perishable food that would otherwise end up in a landfill into a resource for people in need. According to Second Helpings, 11 percent of households in Indiana are hungry or at risk of being hungry.
It helps that the NFL has made reducing food waste one of its environmental priorities for the Super Bowl. In recent years, it has set up its own food recovery operation to redistribute food to the needy in each Super Bowl city. In Indianapolis, it turned to Second Helpings, which already uses leftovers from the stadiums, convention centers and other venues in town in some of the 3,000 meals it serves every day.
Second Helpings executive director Jennifer Vigran says the NFL first told her to expect up to 90,000 pounds of leftover food in early February. "But the weather was so wonderful and the attendance was so high, I think we didn't have as much food go to waste," says Vigran.
Still, her group has already received 20,000 pounds, and expects at least another 10,000 pounds today. "We are getting some items we don't normally get," Vigran tells The Salt. "Somewhere in there we have some caviar, and prosciutto. So we have to figure out what to do with it."
The prosciutto is headed into a pasta dish with artichokes. And the caviar? Vigran says she's not sure yet, but rest assured, it will be eaten.
The Super Bowl leftovers started rolling into her office last week, as the parties started ramping up. The food is transported in refrigerated vans to keep it safe.
After pick up, the food usually heads to the Second Helpings kitchen, where it gets reassembled into hot or cold meals. From there, it goes out to one of 60 partner agencies in the area – from senior centers to homeless shelters to day care centers.
As with all prepared food, time and temperature are of the essence. "Our biggest challenge is turning the food over quickly enough so it's either frozen or stored safely, and then dispatching it to the community," she says. | <urn:uuid:bfc07dce-2d09-4a14-8762-a12cf939cdc8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kccu.org/post/indianapolis-super-bowl-leftovers-are-all-gone-hungry | 2013-05-24T01:58:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973168 | 625 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Kardashians face off with makeup shops over name
Chroma, Kroma want to stop sisters from selling makeup under Khroma
Business owners, be careful what brand name you choose. It could come back to haunt you.
Just ask the entrepreneurs behind Chroma and Kroma.
These two tiny and unrelated makeup companies are on opposite sides of the country. But they're now both engaged in a legal battle to stop the Kardashian sisters from selling makeup under a similar name: Khroma.
Spell it however you want -- Kroma, Chroma, Khr?ma -- it simply means "color" in Greek. That naturally makes it a go-to name for any company in the makeup business, yet both small businesses are fighting to keep the Kardashians away from it.
Their worry? That the Kardashian line will quickly gain popularity and confuse customers. If it waters down their exclusive brands, it will cost them potential clients.
The owners of Chroma Makeup Studio in Beverly Hills also fear that their plans to expand and develop a major retail line have been destroyed.
"It kills any possibility of ever going into a department store," said co-owner Michael Rey III. "The global reach of the Kardashians and their ability to flood the market took the name. Our Chroma is lost. Anytime a client mentions Chroma, they'll say, 'Kardashian Khroma?'"
Indeed, the Kardashian line is already being sold at CVS, K-Mart, Sears and Ulta stores, offering Kim Kardashian's "legendary nude lip look" with a $14.99 lip pencil. Her long eyelashes are only a stroke of $9.99 mascara away.
The idea of renaming their business after 12 years -- and building another brand from scratch -- was too much to bear for Rey and his business partner, Lisa Casino. They chose to fight in court instead, suing the Kardashians' licensing company on Nov. 19 and claiming trademark infringement.
The Beverly Hills studio hopes to enforce common law trademark rights, which protect a product that's already been sold under a given name. The Kardashians' licensing company, Boldface, is fighting back for the right to use the name Khroma Beauty.
When asked about the legal dispute, Boldface CEO Nicole Ostoya said in a statement, "We do not believe that there is any likelihood of confusion between Khroma Beauty... and any other entity."
It's a similar issue for Lee Tillett, a makeup artist who runs her Kroma cosmetics line just outside Orlando, Fla. She's had her line of "all-natural botanical formulas" since 2004 and said the confusion with the Kardashian brand "could be potentially catastrophic" for her business.
Tillett took legal steps to protect her brand name long before the Kardashians ever developed theirs. In 2010, she applied to register Kroma with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The trademark was granted early last year.
That came to play a major role last year, when the Kardashians' licensing company tried to trademark their version, Khroma. Federal officials refused their application in September, citing "a likelihood of confusion" with Tillett's Kroma.
But that wasn't enough to stop the Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian from launching their product line late last year.
"I had taken all the proper steps and legally registered the Kroma name," Tillett said by email. "I was shocked that after all that, someone would just try to grab it away from me."
Talks between Tillett and the Kardashians' licensing company, Boldface, went nowhere. On Nov. 30, Boldface sued Tillett's company, asking for a judge to let them use the name Khroma.
Just last week, Tillett sued the Kardashians back, demanding $10 million in damages.
Now all three are in federal court fighting for a name that, at least phonetically, is used by 205 businesses listed in the online small business community Manta.
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I'd like to add some custom info (like the adress of the view) to the panoramas and export them to the KRPano xml conf file. Is it possible to develop my own plugin for PTP that will enable my users to enter the adress of a view and export it in a $(ADDRESS) variable in a temple for KRPano ?
Actually, i'd like a plugin for Panotour Pro, so that I can embed some extra info in the data.xml file exported for krpano. This could be a new element in the project properties panel, as you can see in the screen shot I've made.
The most wonderfull would be to be able specify some fields that could be added to the exported file : city, way, number, even a specific id for managing lot of panoramas with industrial procedures.
By the way, I've checked and you seem to be a french company. Could we toogle to french ? Ce serait plus facile.. | <urn:uuid:7173025c-92ba-49fa-acd5-efa4f2f47c01> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kolor.com/forum/p93035-2012-01-05-22-28-24 | 2013-05-24T01:37:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913439 | 210 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A recently restored apartment on the 4th floor of a splendid 16th century building lies in Via dei Coronari. It is one of our best holiday apartments suitable for a family or any large group. It is located near the Piazza Navona and Campo de Fiori and offers a great view of the domes of Rome. Even with no elevator service, the apartment however is fully air conditioned, has two bedrooms, one with two twin size bed and one with a queen size bed, one full bath, a living room, and a kitchen. It is furnished with a couch, dining corner, and a television. Its valuable and high quality furnishings make it a great choice for a great stay while in Rome.
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I go to the link but I can't find a truck or aluma reels. Jef
don't know if you got threw to the pic's yet or not but here they are encase you didn't.
welcome to the site, always good to have new input. great looking setup.
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summer is here, plant a tree. if you don't have space or time to plant one sponsor some one else to plant one for you. a tree is an investment in our planet, help it out. | <urn:uuid:2f2dac89-4c2f-4b76-b6c4-1df5ed627112> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/communities/mboard/showthread.php?10613-Aluma-Reels&p=129363&mode=threaded | 2013-05-24T01:58:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930617 | 170 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS) is an autonomous African institution dedicated to strengthening the capacities of organizations and individuals working in the field of health, HIV & AIDS, population and development in order to contribute to improving the quality of life of families in sub-Saharan Africa.
CAFS mission is to improve the lives of African families through skills development, knowledge management, and technical assistance in health and development
The purpose of this position which is to provide timely and accurate accounting services. Under the guidance and supervision of the Finance & Support Services Manager, the Accounts Assistant ensures effective execution of financial Services and processes in the corporate headquarters within the Finance and Support Services Department and transparent utilization of financial resources.
The Accounts Assistant promotes a client-oriented approach consistent with CAFS rules and regulations. The accounts assistant works in close collaboration with the program and projects’ staff CAFS HQ office in Nairobi in resolving finance-related issues and information exchange.
Main Tasks, Duties, and Responsibilities
* Verifying accuracy of invoices and ensuring that all expenditure is duly authorized through an LPO, purchase requisition, contracts and/or other documentation and Invoices certified by the budget holders before payment.
* Preparation of Payment vouchers, in the accounting system while ensuring proper coding account allocation and ensuring all supporting documents are attached to the payment vouchers.
* Preparation of journal vouchers to record items of income and expenditure.
* Processing VAT exemption applications and ensuring that all invoices are VAT stamped on application of exemption and before payment.
* Preparing cheques or bank transfer request letters against the local currency bank account in accordance with the corresponding Payment Vouchers and records them into the SUN accounting system. Seeking signatures of the designated bank signatories.
* Assisting the FSS team in providing documentation during the statutory audit and responding to queries raised.
* Operate and maintain custody of the petty cash including making cash counts on a regular basis and on ad hoc requests. Reconciling the ledger balances in the SUN accounting system to the float balances.
* Ensuring proper filing of all accounting documentation.
* Analyzing basic financial information in response to queries from program staff, management , and suppliers.
* Deposit cash recovered from staff against travel advance paid to them or other charges to the bank account after proper approval from the certifying and approving officers. Acknowledge receipt of these funds by issuing Cash Receipt Voucher
* Deposit cash recovered from staff against travel advance paid to them or other charges to the bank account after proper approval from the certifying and approving officers. Acknowledge receipt of these funds by issuing Cash Receipt Voucher.
* Assist the FSSM in the preparation of project reports, budgets, Management accounts
* Preparation of monthly payroll movement schedule.
* Carrying out any other duties as required.
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* Strong understanding of accounting processes and procedures, Financial Reporting, Costing, Project accounting, the Fund accounting systems and Donor reporting requirements, and International Financial reporting standards.
* Knowledge of accounting principles, statutory regulations related to staff pay and taxation.
* Practical knowledge of basic accounting packages, especially Sun-System Accounting software.
* High level of competence in basic Excel, Word, Power point and Outlook
* Good data entry skills
* Good communication and listening skills
* Excellent organizational skills used in planning own work.
* Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.
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Remember I put together a DIY video for my Spring Wreath. That was months ago, so I thought it was about time I tried another. I'm a visual learner, so reading instruction sometimes just doesn't work for me. So hopefully some of you will find this method helpful.
I'd love your feedback. Please let me know if this is helpful and whether or not my instructions are clear and easy to follow. Happy painting friends. | <urn:uuid:82d9421a-58c6-43dd-b55c-51061c28afa8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.oleanderandpalm.com/2012/08/diy-ikat-you-tube-video.html | 2013-05-24T01:31:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972363 | 90 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Michael Muller is responsible for shooting some the biggest names in Hollywood. But in this video, Michael also shares his stories from shooting a very different type of subject: great white sharks. He gets up close and personal with these wild animals using a newly patented underwater strobe system that's said to be the most powerful waterproof lighting system in the world.
Michael Muller has been taking photographs and documenting pop culture for over 25 years. From the birth of snowboarding in the 80's, to outlaw motorcycle clubs, to some of the biggest movie posters of all time, Michael has used his "hyper realistic" style to document and capture the experience and bring it to people in his own unique way. He just recieved a patent on his underwater strobe system that is the most powerful waterproof lighting system in the World. | <urn:uuid:aa355237-0946-40b7-bd20-fdb995317b80> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.photoshelter.com/luminance/videos/muller | 2013-05-24T01:59:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967991 | 162 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Two trapped miners rescued in Ohio
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Two miners trapped all day after a roof of an Ohio mine collapsed have been rescued this evening.
Amy Louviere, a spokeswoman for the Mine Safety and Health Administration, said the two people became trapped about 9:30 a.m., when the roof of the Hopedale Mining Co. in Hopedale collapsed. Rescue workers were able to communicate with the miners, who said they were uninjured. Rescue crews tonight focused on removing rocks from the mine floor to clear a path to the trapped workers.
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Our Dog Breed Decals are available in several color and size options. Some Dog Breed Stickers are Die Cut from Premimun Exterior Vinyl (no background). Please select your choices from drop down menus. All of our Vinyl Decals are Car Wash Safe and will not fade or peel. Also very popular on Bean Bag Game Boards, Bedroom Wall, Mirrors, Automobile Windows, Boats or any smooth surface. To have your decal "REVERSE CUT", please add it to the comment section during checkout. Orders are shipped the next business day, installation instructions included with every order.
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Encinitas, CA (PRWEB) July 05, 2012
FreedomVoice, Front Range Internet Inc. (FRII),& PCG Telecom announced their collective donation of a communications system at the Disaster Response Donation and Collection Center in Larimer County. The system consisting of Internet service, telephones, telephone service - including full installation, will aid in the recovery efforts of the wildfires impacting much of Colorado.
FRII is providing the Internet connectivity as well as labor and materials to set up the system in an empty retail space at the Foothills Fashion Mall located at 215 E. Foothills Parkway in Fort Collins. FreedomVoice donated the Voice over IP (VoIP) services and Braun Mincher of PCG Telecom donated VoIP phones. FreedomVoice and PCG Telecom are strategic partners with FRII.
“We offered to help because this is our community, our family and friends,” explained the FRII team spearheading the communications technology. “We know the people who are affected; we are very connected to this community. Larimer County called us because they knew we could get it done,” states John Stark, Business Development, and Tammy Eastman, Corporate Accounts Manager. For FreedomVoice, “These are our friends, and as soon as they asked, we said yes. Helping others and giving back is at the core of our organization,” said Eric Thomas, CEO.
Adventist Community Services Disaster Response (ACS-DR), the lead agency for donations management in Colorado, is coordinating the multi-agency donation and distribution center. Michael Bright, Assistant Facilities Manager at the donation center, expressed his appreciation for the collaborative efforts. "FRII, the local contact here in Fort Collins, has been exceptional to work with. They have anticipated our needs and crafted a great Internet solution. We really appreciate them stepping up to help their community like they have."
ACS coordinates donations management for disaster response for 40 states and territories in the United States. To make a financial contribution to ACS, please go to http://www.acslift.org.
How you can help? For information on volunteering your services as well as donating to support those impacted by the Colorado wildfires, please go to: http://www.HelpColoradoNow.org. Be it time, goods, or money, your donation is making a difference in the lives of those affected by these devastating fires. | <urn:uuid:0cf19d4f-037f-4c33-a9b5-066950be1d35> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/7/prweb9668274.htm | 2013-05-24T01:53:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947413 | 493 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
205w ago - Recently SKFU shared some details on a PC / PS3 Messenger project in development, and over the weekend he has also theorized on some other untapped potential via the PS3's XMB (Cross Media Bar) interface.
To quote: The XMB is a nice core for a lot of features but why are they not unlocked yet? To mention a few examples:
Selfmade Widgets The PS3 uses a widget engine based on open source for the information board. So why not give us the ability to load our own homebrew widget's from external mediums or install them like themes? As they mostly use XML and flash files it wouldn't even compromise PS3's security.
Music Visualizations The PSP has a lot of them, the PS3 only three. Next-Gen multimedia entertainment? Not really, yet.
Universal Messenger The PSP can use Skype, why not the PS3? The PS3's messaging system is based on Jabber. It would be very simple to allow the PS3 to communicate with iCQ, Google Talk and other instant messenger protocols.
Open File Transfer Why can we only send pictures with size limitation via the PSN while we would more like to send music files or savegames. If that uses to much ressources like traffic, then P2P would be a solution.
Session Video/Audio Streaming We have an audio/video and textchat there. Where's the ability to stream videos or music to watch/listen them with friends over the PSN? If it's the traffic problem again, one PS3 can host a server and invite friends.
Ingame Invites Change the game unique invitation system and do it like for example Resident Evil 5 does. Invitations via XMB, we don't need another invitation way for every game. Keep it easy.
Trophy Sync. & Compare Every time we want to compare our trophies with friends account we need to sync them again with the server. Why not local check which trophy file changed, than comparing every file online which takes the user a lot of painful time and patience. Do a simple hash and if the hash didnt change since last sync, let it be.
XMB Music Click the wrong option and the music stops. Why? There's no need to stop the music while changing some settings or load a friends profile.
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The three most exciting features in that list (for me) would be the homebrew widgets, enabling personalised feeds (rss maybe??) and features; the open file transfer system, it could be a new means to save file transfers and other media on the user's hdd
and the xmb music system - listen to music from the hdd while using the browser! i would like someone to explain the reason behind not being able to keep a track playing while performing another task (such as web browsing or testing the internet connection or woteva you wana do)
something else caught my attention too - a system hosting a service if traffic is an issue to allow video/audio streaming over a network
just seems like such an interesting idea
Also, I think a PS3 Ad-Hoc play should be integrated into the architecture.
It'd be great for next-door neighbors that would like to play multiplayer on a game if their next door, or they bring their system over.
PSP Has it.
DS Has it (sucks though, sorry. heh).
Future PSP Firmware should also be allowed to load the friends list and chat with friends.
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The Psychology Faculty. Psychology faculty are accomplished researchers and scholars who share a special dedication to working with undergraduate students. Our areas of specialty include child development, cognition, language, personality, social processes, gender, neuropsychology, and perception.
Excellent Preparation. The Purchase College psychology program provides a strong foundation for students who plan to continue their studies at graduate and professional schools. Our graduates are equipped to enter advanced degree programs in all areas of psychology as well as programs in education, medicine, social work and law. Some students move directly into careers in mental health services, research, teaching, and early childhood education.
Facilities. Our facilities for instruction and student/faculty research include computerized cognitive/experimental laboratories, a child study center, and facilities for observational and social psychological research. Where appropriate, our courses are taught in the Natural Science Building’s modern computer classroom.
Hands-on Experience. Students have the opportunity to participate in a variety of internships that provide experience in childcare, clinical services, and research. These include an on-campus placement at the Purchase College Children’s Center and off-campus placement at such institutions as New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Mentoring. Unique features of the psychology program include the junior seminar and the senior project. The former is a library project on an issue of theoretical importance in contemporary psychology, and the latter is a research project based on work done in an on-campus laboratory or field placement. In both cases, students work in a one-to-one relationship with a faculty mentor. This apprenticeship relationship is a cornerstone of the educational program at Purchase. Many of our seniors present their research at regional and national professional meetings, and some are co-authors of published papers with their faculty sponsors.
Special Concentrations and Certificates. For students who are especially interested in how psychological/cognitive functions are produced by the brain, we offer an optional concentration in cognitive neuroscience. For students who are especially interested in education, we offer certificate programs in childcare and early child development.
Liberal Arts. The study of psychology is carried out in the context of the strong liberal arts emphasis of Purchase College. We prepare students for life, as well as for a career. Our extensive yet flexible core curriculum provides a solid grounding in the liberal and fine arts.
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Route 7L - Carolina Pines
Capital Area Transit
Route 7L serves the following areas: Trailwood Hills, Carolina Pines Community Center - Park & Ride, Southgate Plaza and Southeast Raleigh High School.
Hours of Operation
5:45 AM to 11:00 PM | Monday - Friday
6:45 AM to 9:00 PM | Saturday
Eastbound to Southgate Plaza
Start: Trailwood Hills | End: Southgate Plaza
Westbound to Tryon Road
Start: Southgate Plaza | End: Trailwood Hills
Route 7L Carolina Pines and Route 7 - South Saunders connect at the transfer point located at Pecan and Wilmington.
Park and Ride Locations
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…Lindsay Lohan playing Elizabeth Taylor, that is.
I would have preferred Anne Hathaway, but Lohan can act, when she’s sober and not in jail, and she’s very pretty, and with the wonders that Hollywood can do – I mean just look at Meryl – she WILL look like Taylor.
The Lifetime movie, called “Liz and Dick”, will cover the greatest Hollywood love affair of all time, that of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
I’ve mentioned them from time to time, you may have noticed.
When you think about it, the similarities between the two stars are there.
Both had addiction problems, both had romance problems, and both could act.
Of course, Elizabeth never went to jail…and hopefully, Lindsay can work her filming around her community service, court dates, and court ordered counselling.
I do think the title should be changed, Elizabeth Taylor hated the nickname Liz, and NO ONE called him Dick!
Also, Lohan is the right age for the Suddenly Last Summer Elizabeth, but she’s a tad young for the Richard Burton years…but then again…Hollywood magic.
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Complaint Review: HomeEq Servicing Corp
HomeEq Servicing CorpDont Have The Street Sacramento, California U.S.A.
HomeEq Servicing Corp Will not listen to reason Sacramento California
It was the third week of June when my broker told me that my refinancing would be delayed a week due to some paperwork issues. Bottom line my closing did not happen until he end of June and Homeq was not paid for June until the second week of July. I am not disagreeing that they got paid off two weeks late. My issue is that they reported a late payment to all the credit agencies thus killing my credit rating.
I am trying to borrow some money for my daughters college education and my credit score is ruined by HomEq. I've spoken to numerous people with their credit reporting groups and they all tell me the same. "sorry but there is nothing they can do about this". I know first hand that they can remove the negative reporting if they wished to do so. They have basically told me to deal with it.
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For two bikers, a critical mass ride over the Hoan Bridge last week ended in the booking room of the Milwaukee County Jail.
Based on the sheriff's reports, anywhere from 50 to 150 bikers participated in the ride over the two-mile bridge, which is off limits to pedestrians and nonmotorized traffic. The outing was billed as a ride to protest "Gov. Scott Walker's Anti-Bicycling Agenda," and blocked traffic in both southbound lanes of I-794 about 6 p.m. on May 5.
Responding to a host of 9-1-1 calls, deputies caught and ticketed four of the participants. They booked one of them in the jail for resisting, and another to confirm his identity.
That was Juan Serrano, 23, from Covina Calif., who reportedly told the deputy: "I was supporting my friends who were protesting Luke Skywalker or something."
The others who were ticketed include: Samarah Hagagi, 19, of Kansas City, Mo., Caitlin Hamer, 21, of Milwaukee, and Donald Sanborn, 22, of Wauwatosa.
Their tickets carry fines of $178.
Hagagi also picked up the citation for resisting because she wouldn't stop for the deputy, according to the sheriff's report.
The ride was organized through the Milwaukee Bicycle Community, an informal advocacy group that shares information about group rides on the website www.mkebke.com.
Steve Roche helps run the site, and joined the group on the Hoan.
Their purpose was to generate attention and a spark a discussion about the merits of installing a lane for bicycles and pedestrians on the Hoan, he said.
In the decades since it opened, a number of cycling advocates and public officials have argued that the Hoan should be opened to non-motorists as a connection between Downtown Milwaukee and the south side neighborhoods and suburbs. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation rejected the idea, and proposed an alternate route using surface streets. | <urn:uuid:463111b7-b92b-49e6-b291-ffdbd3fab156> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.silentsports.net/blogs/121716789.html?page=2&page=2&action=quotecomment&cid=66938201 | 2013-05-24T01:44:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970747 | 411 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Because of his innovative, multi-functional treatments, the services of dermatologist Dr. Howard Sobel are in high demand and have been for more than two decades. His experiences with treating patients at his office in New York City have given Sobel a wealth of knowledge about the best ways to treat common skin care problems and how to minimize the risk for side effects that are associated with strong, effective clinical treatments. In 1991, Sobel created Doctor's Dermatologic Formula or DDF. This skin care collection contains some of Sobel's signature ingredient blends and is designed to help people everywhere benefit from the doctor's treatments.
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Anti-aging. DDF Skin Care (Doctor's Dermatologic Formula) is your dermatologist-created solution to difficult skin concerns, such as fine lines, discoloration and sun damage. With the belief that aging and skin damage are present at the cellular level, the DDF Skin Care product line contains active ingredients designed to penetrate into the deeper levels of the skin, repairing the way skin functions for ultimate renewal. Those concerned with slowing the aging process should begin with the DDF Skin Care Anti-Aging Preventative product line. These diverse cleansers, serums and moisturizers protect and pamper the skin on a daily basis, leaving you with a fresh, clear complexion. For advanced aging concerns, the DDF Skin Care Anti-Aging Restorative line offers products that correct prior damage by tightening, nourishing and renewing your skin. Products like DDF Revolve 400X Micro-Polishing System, DDF DDF Glycolic 10% Toning Complex and DDF Wrinkle Resist Plus Pore Minimizer work to restore a firm texture, smooth surface and radiant glow. Since the eyes can show aging first, DDF Advanced Eye Firming Concentrate provides a powerful anti-aging treatment that lifts and firms.
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Sun sense. Since sunscreen should be a daily affair, DDF Skin Care Sun products are designed so you’ll actually want to use them every morning, rain or shine. Whether you’re looking for an oil-free, hydrating or matte-finish sunblock, these products provide excellent protection from damaging UV rays. If sun damage is already an issue, try the DDF Skin Care Hyperpigmentation line. These cleansers, creams and gels are designed to brighten skin and fade discoloration. Individuals with concerns like acne scars, melasma and age spots will find that these proven lightening formulas are highly effective topical treatments. | <urn:uuid:b89569e6-9b11-443e-9f08-12dd2db1fbe0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.skinstore.com/ddf.aspx?avs=Sun+Care%7CSPF+15-29&avs=Brand%7CDDF | 2013-05-24T02:00:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917255 | 825 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I don’t have any curtains at the moment so every morning the light brings me kicking and screaming back into waking life. It’s still strange having no-one to share my bed with. Those first few moments are the most difficult. The tangled veil of opaque, obscure dreams falls away, leaving behind a weird psychic aftertaste of whatever goes on in our unconscious.I lie there, letting my thoughts gather velocity. The Enghavevej traffic flows past below at its sedate Copenhagen pace. I think about the past, and how easy it is to slip between that world and the world revealing itself to us now. One day, maybe, I will understand things more.
There was a moment yesterday when I thought I got it. But then that moment passed too and the world moved on. Maybe that’s all there is. Brief moments where we’re all in alignment and harmony reigns. Then something somewhere falls out of kilter and we’re all pitched back into the murk.
Now, it’s time for a shower. I can already feel the warmth of the sun through my window.
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What's a Markup? Answers to That and Other Legislative Mysteries. A SpacePolicyOnline.com Fact Sheet
Ever wonder what a congressional "markup" is and why you should be interested when one is being held? Our new fact sheet, "What's a Markup?: Answers to That and Other Legislative Mysteries ," is an easy to read introduction to the lexicon of Congress and the making of legislation. It offers a general overview of the typical path that legislation follows, but is not a comprehensive guide. The Senate and the House of Representatives have links on their home pages to scholarly reports on how our laws are made for those who require a detailed understanding. Ours is for those who just need the basics. A fresh coat of paint was put on this fact sheet in February 2011.
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Colorado Gives Day is Tuesday. The fundraising event is designed to encourage people to donate to nonprofits in their hometowns. Routt County groups participating in the event include the Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest Colorado, Colorado West Regional Mental Health Inc., Family Development Center (Discovery Learning Center, Newborn and Child Care Networks), Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association, Northwest Rocky Mountain CASA, Rocky Mountain Youth Corps and Yampatika.
Donate to these organizations by visiting www.givingfirst.org, clicking on “Donate to your favorite nonprofit” and selecting the organization from an alphabetical list. For more information, contact Northwest Colorado VNA Director of Development Dervla Lacy at 970-871-7603 or email@example.com.
VNA offering free HIV tests in honor of World Aids Day
In honor of World Aids Day on Saturday, the Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association will offer free HIV tests throughout December. For more information or to make an appointment, call 970-879-1632 in Steamboat Springs or 970-824-8233 in Craig.
Habitat seeking volunteers for ReStore, project work
Steamboat’s newly expanded Habitat ReStore is open in Riverside Plaza next to Pisa’s and needs volunteers to help price and sell donated furniture, lighting and building supplies. Shifts are available from noon to 2 p.m. or 2 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 970-367-8001 and ask for Jody.
Habitat also is in need groups of skilled and unskilled volunteers to help finish its Riverside duplex. Remaining projects include mulching and seeding, building a fence and deck, laying flooring, cleaning and painting. Volunteers are needed today and Monday through Friday. Those interested in helping are asked to call 970-871-6101, email H4HRouttHelp@gmail.com or visit www.routtcohabitat.org.
Mainstreet’s Gingerbread House Tour begins Saturday
As part of the annual Merry Mainstreet Downtown Holiday Celebration on Dec. 8, Mainstreet Steamboat is holding its annual Gingerbread House Tour for professionals and amateur gingerbread house constructors. Houses will be on display in downtown businesses through Jan. 1. Through Dec. 8, the public will be able to vote on their favorite house using ballots available in each display location. The winners will be announced Dec. 10. The winner of each category will receive $100 in Downtown Dollars to be used at any shop and restaurant in downtown Steamboat. To enter, call Tracy Barnett at 970-846-1800 or email firstname.lastname@example.org.
Donate gifts for United Way Holiday Wishes Program
Steamboat Springs Fire Rescue volunteers will be in front Walmart today and Dec. 8 with gift ideas for the Routt County United Way Holiday Wishes Program. Those interested in donating a gift also can find a gift registry by visiting www.communityholidaywishes.com and clicking on “Local Benefit.”
Gifts should be dropped off at the Community Holiday Wishes Party from 4 to 7 p.m. Dec. 16 at Olympian Hall at Howelsen Hill Lodge. If your gift is wrapped, make sure to include a description of the item and who it is for. The community party is free and includes sleigh rides, tubing, cookies and hot chocolate, and visits with Santa.
Annual Hayden Christmas Tree Auction set for Sunday
The annual Hayden Christmas Tree Auction is at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Routt County Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall. The auction will feature decorated wreaths, trees and centerpieces created by local youth groups and service organizations, including the Girl Scouts, various school groups, 4-H groups, Love Inc. and the Routt County CattleWomen. All proceeds go to the youth and service organizations that created the purchased items. Call Lori Laird at 970-846-0782 for more information. Those who cannot attend can arrange an absentee bid. | <urn:uuid:8efa4e50-f457-4c7f-9103-35308e7fe998> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2012/nov/30/steamboat-briefs-donate-local-nonprofits-colorado-/ | 2013-05-24T01:58:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908224 | 854 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I do remember one rule that came from a supplement to the little white bible that pertained to conduct at the Missionary Training Center (MTC) in Provo, Utah. “Always pass the pepper with the salt.” I must have been about 4 weeks in to my stay at the MTC when I stumbled across this commandment. Always pass the pepper with the salt. This here, this is divine inspiration.
The funny thing is, the reason for this rule was probably just so that the MTC cafeteria folks could keep the salt and pepper together, so that the shakers wouldn't get separated or something. I can imagine someone in charge of cafeteria requisition complaining to the MTC president that they keep losing individual shakers and having to replace them. So, to cut costs, the powers-that-be invent the rule, which conveniently in Mormonism translates a random need of the church into a Commandment of God.
Or maybe someone higher up just thought it was bad manners for missionaries to pass one without the others, and he complained about it to the MTC president. Who knows? It could have been any one of a number of burrs-up-the-ass that Mormon leaders get lodged in there from time to time. | <urn:uuid:e94244e1-622a-40e8-b27b-82d9895f5416> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thefoyer.org/viewtopic.php?p=138614 | 2013-05-24T01:51:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973627 | 256 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Can't Keep A Good Dog Down
DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER RETURNS TO A&E FOR SEASON 4 OF THE HIT REAL-LIFE SERIES
PREMIERES TUESDAY, APRIL 10th AT 9:00 PM ET/PT
New York, NY, April 2, 2007 � Last year was the Chinese calendar's Year of the Dog � and Duane "Dog" Chapman � the world's most famous bounty hunter - had enough drama to last him two lifetimes. Now, staring adversity in the face with his own freedom hanging in the balance, Dog is coming back with a vengeance to hunt down fugitives with his wife Beth and fearless posse in Season 4 of DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER � A&E's highest-rated original series premiering Tuesday, April 10th at 9:00 PM ET/PT.
Last season a record number of loyal fans tuned in to see Dog and his posse hunt down fugitives in heart-pounding captures week after week. However, with one of Dog's most tumultuous years to date, viewers got more than they bargained for when they got an insider's look as the Chapman's personal life unfolded in front of the cameras. The nation saw dramatic events happen one after another to the Chapman family including: the passing of Beth's father, Dog and Beth's wedding, the tragic death of Dog's daughter Barbara, and the sudden arrest of Dog, Tim, and Leland on Mexican charges related to their apprehension of convicted serial rapist Andrew Luster.
Season 4 is shaping up to be just as captivating as Dog risks his life on two fronts: fighting the Mexican legal system for his freedom, and bringing dangerous criminals to justice. But as Dog says, "What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger."
Dog the Bounty Hunter is the crowned jewel of the A&E Real-Life series brand. Dog The Bounty Hunter Season 3 averaged 2.2 million total viewers per premiere episode, making it one of the greatest successes on cable. The two Dog the Bounty Hunter specials that premiered in 2006 delivered record setting numbers for the network. Dog & Beth's 2-hour wedding event "To Love and Cherish" as well as the one-hour "Dog: The Family Speaks" both delivered 4.5 million viewers each.
Dog the Bounty Hunter is produced by Hybrid Films for A&E Network. Lucas Platt and Rick Smigelski are the Series Producers. David Houts and Daniel Elias serve as the executive producers for Hybrid Films. Robert Sharenow and Neil Cohen serve as the A&E executive producers.
About Dog's Legal Case
Dog, Leland and Tim Chapman were taken into custody by U.S. Marshals in mid-September 2006 on an extradition request from Mexico due to charges stemming from their 2003 capture of serial rapist, Andrew Luster. Luster, the famed heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune, was convicted of drugging and raping three women over a four year span. During his trial in 2003, Luster fled the country, leading to an international manhunt. In June 2003, Dog and his team tracked the fugitive Luster in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where he was living under an alias, and seized him. Bounty hunting does not exist in Mexico, and Dog, Tim and Leland were arrested by the Mexican authorities, and released on bail. Charges are still pending against them in Mexico. Luster was handed over to the United States government by Mexican officials. He was subsequently found guilty and is currently serving a 124 year prison sentence. Dog, Leland and Tim are awaiting their extradition hearing and working to resolve their case in Mexico.
About A&E Network
Now reaching more than 92 million homes, A&E Network offers a diverse mix of high quality entertainment; ranging from the network's signature Real-Life Series franchise, including the hit series �Dog the Bounty Hunter,' �Intervention,' �Gene Simmons Family Jewels,' �King of Cars' and �Criss Angel Mindfreak,' to critically acclaimed original movies, dramatic series and the most successful justice shows on cable. A&E is the official basic cable home to the high-profile series �The Sopranos,' �CSI: Miami' and �24.' The A&E Network website is located at www.aetv.com. The A&E Insider is located at www.aetv.com/insider. For more information and photography please visit us on the web at www.aetvpress.com. | <urn:uuid:20e6e5ef-43b4-4a8b-a4c9-7e9c74c8665d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2007/04/02/dog-the-bounty-hunter-returns-to-a-and-e-for-season-4-of-the-hit-real-life-series--24053/20070402aande01/ | 2013-05-24T01:52:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963299 | 933 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Earlier this week, High Line Photographer Beverly Israely captured this interesting shot of the hollow stems of the Equisetum hyemale, or giant horsetail. This wetland species grows along the water feature on the Diller – von Furstenberg Sundeck, between West 14th and West 15th Streets.
As one of the park’s neighbors and a member of Friends of the High Line, Beverly has been working to build a portfolio of photographs that celebrate the High Line’s myriad textures and changes in the landscape's color and form over the four seasons.
With Spring Cutback nearly complete, you will find unusual textures along the High Line’s landscape. The High Line’s wild grasses, shrubs, and flowering perennials have been trimmed back to make way for the new growing season, and that means over the next couple of weeks, you’ll see the landscape transform itself, as fresh green growth pops up all along the park.
Learn more about the High Line’s planting design.
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Rural riders forge cycle links across English channel
French tourism chiefs have been in Devon to see how the county is successfully promoting cycling tourism.
The group of 32 business people were given a tour of some of the county's cycle trails in a visit arranged through the Cycle West project, which has helped connect cycle routes in Devon and South West England with Brittany and Normandy.
The visit was an opportunity to highlight how Devon County Council is establishing a county-wide network and how it is working with Brittany and Normandy on the Cycle West project's cross-Channel Velodyssey Devon-Bretagne route, which stretches from Ilfracombe to Plymouth and onto Redon in France.
The final section of this route was opened last month with the opening of Drake's Trail between Tavistock and Plymouth, which includes the route's centrepiece, Gem Bridge.
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The visitors viewed the £2.1 million bridge and the nearby Grenofen Tunnel as part of their fact-finding trip.
The visit follows Devon County Council's recent success in winning the award for Best All Round Scheme for Tourism from the Devon Federation of Small Businesses, in recognition of its £13 million investment in cycle trails in the county over the past three years. Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council Cabinet Member for Highways and Transportation, said: "I don't think anyone would have thought ten years ago that the French would be visiting us to see how we promote cycling in Devon, but we have earned a reputation as a premier destination for cycling tourism. It shows just how far we've come and the strides we have made.
"We've made a commitment to improve our network of cycle trails across the county and it is enabling hundreds of thousands of cyclists and walkers to explore Devon. Cycling in Britain is booming due to success at the Olympics and Bradley Wiggins winning the Tour de France. The Devon stage of The Tour of Britain also clearly demonstrated the support for cycling in the county."
Councillor Will Mumford, Devon County Council Cabinet Member for Economy, Enterprise, Employment and European issues, said: "The popularity of some of our cycle trails in Devon has helped establish a number of new businesses, such as cycle hire, and food and accommodation businesses have also benefited. Cycling is big business and our economy is starting to reap the rewards of the County Council's investment. That can only grow as we develop and complete more trails. The fact we have this business contingent from Europe shows the potential."
The French visitors were taken to Okehampton Station where local business Okehampton Adventure is planning to make the town a centre of excellence for cycling. They also cycled part of The Granite Way, to see the impact of the route on developing local businesses, enjoyed a Red Coat Tour in Exeter, and met with the Heart of Devon Tourism Partnership, who highlighted the positive effect the increased cycle infrastructure in Devon has had on the tourism economy.
Isabelle Parfitt, CYCLE WEST Project Manager, said: "The visit was a great opportunity to show French business owners the tourist offer in Devon and demonstrate the continuity of the network of CYCLE WEST routes on the other side of the channel; they were very impressed by what they saw here. A further visit taking professional service providers from the South West to France will be organised in 2013." | <urn:uuid:4291988a-a84d-4fc7-a158-19c2eebb03a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/Rural-riders-forge-cycle-links-English-channel/story-17122723-detail/story.html | 2013-05-24T02:04:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955888 | 794 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Well, it had to happen eventually. The out-of-this-world salmon action we've enjoyed since May has finally started to taper off. There are still plenty of boats getting limits, but it's gone from a no-brainer fishery to having to hunt for the schools.
I doubt if you'll hear anyone complaining as the season has been every bit as good as predicted, and then some. Phil Glenn, who runs Shellback Sportfishing, put it best when he said, “We're back to regular fishing now.” But as the ocean salmon season slowly winds down, the Klamath River will see big numbers of kings moving in.
According to Sara Borok, an Environmental Scientist on the Klamath River, the big push has started with 387 adult Chinook salmon already caught by anglers on the lower river compared to 108 at this time last year. “We're not seeing the big numbers of jacks like last year, but there's still quite a few in the river. I'd say the season is off to a really good start,” Borok added.
The north wind has returned, and is predicted to blow through Saturday afternoon, with a small craft advisory going into affect on Wednesday. Friday's forecast is calling for winds to 12 knots with five-foot swells and wind waves to two-feet. The forecast for Saturday is calling for winds to 11 knots, with swells to four feet and one-to-two-foot wind waves. The wind and seas will start to decrease on Sunday. Swells are predicted at three feet
Trinity River notes
On September 1, the main stem of the Trinity downstream of the Lewiston Bridge to the confluence with Klamath River will open and run through Dec. 31. The exception to this is the Burnt Ranch Gorge area (downstream of the Highway 299 West bridge at Cedar Flat to the Denny Road Bridge at Hawkins Bar), which closes to all fishing on Sept. 1. The daily bag limit is four Chinook salmon, up to four adults over 22 inches (Note: Fish less than 22 inches may be kept and count toward the 4 fish daily bag).
The possession limit is eight Chinook salmon, up to eight adults over 22 inches (Note: Fish less than 22 inches may be kept and count toward the eight fish possession limit) five brown trout, and two hatchery trout or hatchery steelhead.
Free Fishing Day coming up
Saturday, Sept. 8 is the second of California's two 2012 Free Fishing Days, when people can try their hand at fishing without having to buy a sport fishing license. All fishing regulations, such as bag and size limits, gear restrictions, report card requirements, fishing hours and stream closures remain in effect. For more information on Free Fishing Days, please visit www.dfg.ca.gov/licensing/fishing/freefishdays.html
Spotty fishing best described the salmon action out of Eureka this week. The weekend found a few boats shooting north to Trinidad looking for schools of salmon as the bite slowed out front. Phil Glenn of Shellback Sport Fishing made the run north on Saturday and Sunday for limits of kings, but has moved back down to the 47-line the past few days. “The fishing has slowed down, but it's still really good. We've kind of come back to reality, but it could pick right back up at any time. The fish seem to be scattered, if you find some good water, you can put it in limits pretty quickly,” Glenn added. Captain Tim Klassen on the Reel Steel has been fishing near the 47-line in 120 to 140 feet of water and like Glenn, is finding limits a little harder to come by. “It's definitely tougher now, there's little schools of fish roaming around and if you find one, you'll get them,” Klassen added. Captain Gary Blasi of Full Throttle Sportfishing has been looking for fish around the whistler buoy the past few days and has been getting limits or close to it each trip. “It's definitely gotten tougher, but there's still fish around, you just have to find them. There's lots of blue water around, so the key is to find the dirty water, birds and bait. If you find the signs, you'll find the fish,” Blasi added.
The salmon bite has slowed the last couple days for most reports Curt Wilson, who runs the Wind Rose Charter out of Trinidad. “There's still quite a few fish around, and some boats are really doing well and some are fishing all day for no bites. I've had most of my success lately fishing in 100 feet of water just south of the Head. There's some real dirty water in close, and that's where the fish seem to be now. The halibut bite continues to be really good, with most of the action coming in 300 feet of water.”
The fishing has slowed, reports Russ Thomas of Mario's Marina in Shelter Cove. “With rockfish season closed, not a lot of boats are launching -- maybe six to eight per day. A few salmon are being caught as well as some halibut, but neither is red-hot right now. A few tuna were caught over the weekend, but there weren't many boats leaving from here.” According to Thomas, the launch will not be in operation on Mondays and Tuesdays beginning Aug. 27. They will however be launching for the Labor Day holiday on Monday, Sept. 3.
Leonard Carter of Crescent City's Englund Marine reports the salmon bite is once again wide-open, with just about all the boats limiting out daily. “As soon as we got some nice weather, the boats were right back on the fish, and there's lots of them out there. Most of the boats are going out three to five miles, with the Sisters and Castle Rock being the hot spots. The majority of the boats are fishing in 130 to 200 feet of water, with the bite coming in 20 to 50 feet. I've seen some nice fish caught, with quite a few over 30 pounds, with the average running from 12 to 18 pounds.”
The water temperature has cooled slightly with the influx of water coming from the Trinity and the salmon are starting to show in better numbers now. Guide Mike Coopman reports the river is full of fish from above Blue Creek all the way down to the mouth. “The fishing is pretty darn good and we're getting lots of chances at some big adults as well as some jacks each day. There's also quite few steelhead in the river with some hatchery fish in the mix as well.” Side-drifting and boondogging red or natural-colored roe has been the most productive.
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“This stage forms a turning point from the stage of preparation and development to the stage of defending and liberating the land and Jerusalem,” he told Today's Zaman in an interview. He emphasized that with this new phase of the conflict with Israel, which started with the onset of the eight-day offensive, Hamas proved its prowess and commitment against Israel. “They [Israel] attacked Gaza to bring us into line, but it was the resistance that put them into line. We all know how many times [US President Barack] Obama called [Egyptian President Mohamed] Morsi to convey Israel's appeal for a truce. Our victory manifested with the desperate calls of Israel for a cease-fire and the resignation of the tyrant,” he said, referring to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak's recent decision to quit politics.
Regarding the cease-fire, Haniyeh stated that it may last “for days or years” and implied that the cease-fire process serves as part of the “preparation” stage, while the movement gets ready for the next attack through preparing their “bodies” and “army.” He further made it clear that Hamas's strategy is and will be based on an armed struggle. “When we say that things will calm down for days or years, this is part of a broader vision. Our strategy will and shall remain on both armed resistance and politics,” he said.
He pointed out that the Palestinian people consider resistance as the only strategic and viable way to liberate the land. “Once again the Palestinian people proved that their will and ability to challenge Zionism has been much greater than all the occupation's expectations,” said Haniyeh.
Urging the Palestinian movement to unite, Haniyeh called on all the Palestinian factions to maintain trust in each other, to put aside their differences and support the resistance by developing a unified strategy, saying, “We should all fight against the enemy, rather than being preoccupied with intra fighting and debates.” He said Palestinians in Jordan, Lebanon and elsewhere are also calling on the resistance to unite, while celebrating the latest victory. Haniyeh pointed out the latest “victory” constituted a starting base and golden opportunity for unification and a new intifada to “defeat the occupier and liberate all Palestine, including Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem.” He further defined the Palestinian borders as “Palestine as we know it, whose borders were drawn by our heroes from Ras Al-Naqoura to Rafah and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River.”
“With every attack we grow stronger,” said Haniyeh and welcomed the support of the Revolutionary Council of the Fatah movement from the West Bank for Hamas. He pointed out the strategic importance of the West Bank for the resistance movement due to “its history, geography and closeness to the occupied cities by the enemy,” and stated, “The West Bank will form the center of the decisive battle against the occupation. Every stone thrown from the West Bank at Israel brings us closer to victory.”
Haniyeh emphasized that the Palestinian struggle is the most important cause in the Muslim World and should be central for any party in the region. “Palestine is a trial for the Muslim world, which will demonstrate whether we are strong or weak.” Accordingly, Haniyeh stressed that all Muslim countries should act in unison despite their differences on the issue. “Arab revolutions proved the Islamic awakening,” he said, praising the role of Arab Spring countries, particularly Egypt and its President Morsi, in supporting Gaza and confronting the Israeli aggression. “We are thankful to Egypt, Turkey, Qatar and all other countries that demonstrated that the Middle East is no longer a comfort zone for Israel,” he said. | <urn:uuid:0396bf8c-cb85-45f3-9d99-1d2c9d975c96> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.todayszaman.com/news-299551-haniyeh-cease-fire-marks-new-phase-for-palestinian-resistance.html | 2013-05-24T01:59:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961921 | 805 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
GS: Where are you from?
ST: I am from Hayden, Alabama.
GS: What degree will you receive and when?
ST: I received my undergraduate degree in Accountingfrom Auburn University in August 2008.I will receive my Master of Accountancy degree from UAB in August 2009.
GS: How long have you been at UAB?
ST: I am just now starting my second semester at UAB.
GS: What is your research?
ST: I am very interested in the audit field of accounting; therefore, I’m focusing my research efforts on the audit process of internal controls within organizations to better reduce audit risk.
GS: What made you choose UAB for your graduate studies?
ST: UAB has an excellent M.Ac. Program, outstanding faculty, and I desired to be close to home.
GS: Have you received any awards or honors?
ST: I am currently a member of Phi Kappa Phi, a national honor society, and Beta Alpha Phi, an accounting honor society.
GS: What has been your most rewarding experience at UAB?
ST: The most rewarding experience I've had at UAB has been working with such a diverse group of peers. I love working with such diverse people, because everyone brings something different to the table.
GS: Who was your greatest influence here at UAB and why?
ST: I don't know if I can name one specific person who has influenced me. The faculty and students at UAB have challenged the way I think, and I love that.
GS: What is your motivation in your academics/research?
ST: I believe if we can better audit internal controls within organizations we can better the organizations as a whole, improving stakeholder decision making.
GS: What are your plans after graduating and for the future?
ST: Upon graduation from UAB, I plan to work in public accounting with a concentration in the audit field, and obtain my CPA certification.
GS: Is there anything else you would like to say?
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The Union City Middle School football team put an exclamation point on an unbeaten regular season with a 60-20 rout of Halls Tuesday night.
The Tornadoes have won all seven of their games, including a perfect 4-0 run through the West Tennessee Athletic Conference.
In other middle school results from Tuesday, Hillcrest topped South Fulton 9-2 in softball, while Union City beat Lake Road 14-4 on the diamond.
The following is a recap.
UC 60, Halls 20
The junior Golden Tornadoes were good on the ground, through the air and on special teams.
Union City scored five rushing touchdowns, two more on passes and one on a kickoff return while also notching six two-point conversions to pile up the high point total in its regular season finale.
Both UC, as WTAC champion, and runner-up Northview will await the outcome of next week’s Martin-Paris Inman game to determine their postseason openers.
Union City will host the loser of the game 6:30 p.m. Oct. 16, while the winner will host Northview. Those two winning teams will then meet in the next round of the conference playoffs.
In Tuesday’s season rout, Jeremy Bumpus scored four times, rushing for scores of one, 30, six and 22 yards, while Taeshawn Allen had a 35-yard TD run.
Kalab Dowell caught TD passes of 15 and 12 yards from Cooper Hurt.
The Twisters started their assault on the scoreboard on the opening kickoff as Allen went 74 yards for a touchdown.
Allen added a pair of two-point conversions, while Hurt, Dowell, Austin Meadows and Jaylen Crumble had one each.
Hillcrest 9, SF 2
McClain Bell had a single, double and triple and the Lady Cougars took advantage of eight SF errors to improve to 11-6.
Mollie Johnson had two hits and two runs batted in for the victors, while Audrey Myers had two hits.
Macey Cox shined in both the pitching circle and at the plate, whiffing 13 Devilette batters, while collecting two hits and two RBIs.
Emma Glisson, Abby Fulcher and Brittney Proctor each had two hits for South Fulton, which dropped to 8-5.
Katie Clapper was the losing pitcher, though just three of the runs charged to her were earned.
Hillcrest plays again Monday, at Union City, while SF is back in action today against those same Lady Tornadoes at Graham Park with a 4:30 first-pitch in the makeup game.
UC 14, Lake Rd. 4
Caroline Martinek went 3-for-4 with four RBI and two runs scored and Ashley Brown also had three hits in four at-bats with three ribbies to lead the Lady Tornadoes to a convincing triumph.
Taylor Whitby had a 3-for-3 day at the plate, while teammate Kate Terrell went 2-for-2 with two runs scored.
Winning pitcher Taylor Crittendon struck out eight and aided her own cause with two singles.
UC played flawless defense behind Crittendon with Brown recording three putouts at second base.
For Lake Road, Kaitlyn Reeves, Brianna Johnson, Avery Johnson and Gracie Laster all had hits.
Brianna Johnson and Ali Whaley were singled out by head coach Emily McGee for good defensive play.
Union City is back in action again today, hosting South Fulton in a makeup game at 4:30 p.m.
Lake Road’s next action will be Oct. 13 in the Obion County Tournament.
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New Student Registration
The 2012-13 school year school starts Aug. 16, and we'd love to add new families to the district. Starting this year, children registering for kindergarten must be age 5 by Nov. 1 of 2012, a full month earlier than in the past.
Senate Bill 1381, known as the Kindergarten Readiness Act, gradually moves up the age at which students can enroll in kindergarten. For the following school year, 2013-14, children must be 5 by Oct. 1; for 2014-15 (and each year thereafter) they must turn 5 by Sept. 1. Students who miss the cutoff due to the age requirement may attend Transitional Kindergarten. (See below.)
Registration forms are available at the ESC office at 401 Nut Tree Road, or parents may print the ones provided here in English or Spanish. Please print on white paper only. Take completed forms to your school of residence. See our Attendance Boundary Locator for school locations and boundaries.
When presenting enrollment forms, please bring the following:
- birth certificate (your child must be five years old on or before November 1, 2012)
- immunization record
- proof of a physical exam after your child was 4 years, 3 months old or written proof of an appointment for an exam
- proof of residence such as a PG&E bill or cable bill
- proof of a dental exam done within the year prior to registration. Proof of a dental exam must be supplied to the school by May 31, 2013.
See our information about helping prepare your child for kindergarten.
Transitional Kindergarten (TK) will be offered at Fairmont and Hemlock schools for the coming year.
TK is a new program designed for children who will be turning 5 between November 2 and December 2 this year. Children must now be 5 by November 1 to enroll in traditional kindergarten. TK would make kindergarten a 2-year experience for those who qualify based on age.
What is Transitional Kindergarten?
Senate Bill 1381, known as the Kindergarten Readiness Act of 2010, gradually moves up the age at which students can enroll in traditional kindergarten. For 2012-13, students must be 5 by Nov. 1; for the following school year, 2013-14, children must be 5 by Oct. 1; for 2014-15 (and each year thereafter) they must turn 5 by Sept. 1.
Originally, the Readiness Act also required districts to develop transitional kindergarten programs for children who are too young to attend kindergarten due to the new age requirements each year. TK would use a modified curriculum that is age-appropriate. As the deadline moves up each year, the number of children eligible for TK would expand. A child would be eligible for TK if he or she will have their fifth birthday between the following dates:
- For the 2012–13 school year: Nov. 2 and Dec. 2
- For the 2013–14 school year: Oct. 2 and Dec. 2
- For the 2014–15 school year and each school year thereafter: Sept. 2 and Dec. 2. If funded, the TK program would continue past 2015.
TK is part of the public school system and is free to participating students; registration in the TK program is optional.
The 2012-13 TK class would be the first year of a two-year kindergarten experience. Students who enroll will attend the program for the full 2012-2013 academic year and then attend kindergarten at their school of assignment for the following 2013-2014 school year. Because TK classes would not be offered at all schools, most students will not attend TK at their school of assignment. Classes will be a minimum of three-hours and twenty minutes daily and will be held at one of our elementary school schools.
TK will be taught by credentialed teachers and is intended to give young learners a head start and provide them with an opportunity to learn and grow in an environment that is tailored to meet their academic and social needs. Teachers will help children develop social and communication skills through activities that build confidence while supporting the TK curriculum of math, literacy, and language development taught in interactive ways.
Please see the California Department of Education Website for more information on TK.
Registration for the TK program is the same process as traditional kindergarten. With schools closed for the summer parents should register at the district's Educational Services Center, 401 Nut Tree Rd.
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TAKOMA PARK, MD — The execution in Texas of a man alleged to have been mentally disabled has once again brought attention to the issue of capital punishment in the United States.
Nearly 1,300 people have been executed in the U.S. over the past 36 years. But during that same time period, more than 130 have been exonerated, freed because of lack of evidence, or found innocent after being re-tried.
One man still bears the psychological scars of life on Death Row: Shujaa Graham. He lives an ordinary life. His favorite Sunday activity is to take his grandsons to the creek where he took his own children.
Circle of violence
But Graham has struggled for most of his 62 years. He spent the first eleven years of his life in Louisiana’s cotton fields. The next seven he spent in and out of juvenile detention facilities.
Then, a robbery conviction at age 18 put him in adult prison - for life. He learned to read and write in prison, and denounced his earlier criminal activities. But it was a time of vast prison overcrowding and rioting. Things went terribly wrong.
"They opened up a new exercise yard in Soledad state prison," he said. "W.L. Nolan and two other blacks were killed - murdered… pow pow pow. And that’s what started the movement. People looked at the situation and said 'We dying.' They said, ‘Let’s organize ourselves and die together.'"
Graham was later blamed for the murder of a prison guard. He tried to prove his innocence for the next eight years. But after the third trial on the charge, he was sentenced to die.
"Did I want to go to death row? No. But if I had to go to death row for my conviction, you damn right I’m going. All I wanted to do was to be political and expose what was going on in prison," he said.
Finally, after a fourth trial, he was acquitted of the murder - and his robbery conviction was also overturned. Since then - for 35 years - his mission in life has been to raise awareness about wrongful conviction.
"What has happened to me is over with and done," he said. "No one can bring those years back and no one can bring the psychological scars. No one can remove the physical scars. But Shujaa Graham can go on and make sure what happened to him never happens to anyone else."
Today, he does not look like a man who has faced execution. But his wife Phyllis says the experience still weighs on him.
"It’s been a long time now that we’ve been together and he still suffers and I think there’s still really ways that he holds on to what that formative years of your 20s, is your life, of how you look at the world. His were in prison and death row and being tortured," she said.
"Each and every day that I wake up, death row is the first thing on my mind. I can look at my children and look at my wife and say what if California would’ve had their way, I wouldn’t be here today,” said Shujaa Graham.
Graham is an active member of “Witness to Innocence,” an organization that fights for total abolition of the death penalty.
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Clashes between government forces and Tuareg separatists in northern Mali have caused over 300,000 people to flee their homes for safety since the beginning of this year. The Norwegian Refugee Council, NRC, says many people are living with host families while others are out in the open in makeshift shelters. The group says families have lost their livelihoods and children are not attending school as they should.
Arne Bangstad, the head of NRC's rapid response section, has just returned from a trip to Burkina Faso, home to thousands of Malian refugees.
“They are staying in camps. Some of them are planned. There are so-called spontaneous camps where they receive food, water and shelter, but, they are not receiving any livelihood assistance, very little education, or activities that need a mid-term perspective,” said Bangstad.
The NRC official says enabling the refugees to return home would be the most sustainable and durable solution.
“If that is not possible, Burkinabe authorities and the international community need to look at how we provide livelihood and education for the refugees, so they can at least gain skills and educate their children. In addition they need to know how to generate income while they are in the camps,” explained Bangstad.
While humanitarian agencies such as the Norwegian Refugee Council are able to assist refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are very hard to reach.
“We have very little access to the displaced in northern Mali. The international community is delivering health and nutritional assistance to some of the locations in larger towns. The majority of the displaced we are not reaching and we don’t know their situation,” said Bangstad.
Bangstad said they are concerned with the health and nutritional situation of these people because their situation is much worse than the people who escaped northern Mali.
To listen to the entire interview between Kim Lewis and Arne Bangstad, click on audio.
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WASHINGTON-Certainly the White House hoped opposition to its contraceptive mandate would fade as the months passed and as it issued "compromises" (see "Standing firm," March 17, and "No details," Feb. 10), but religious groups have not let up. Organizations have been filing lawsuits in a steady drip, so every few weeks the healthcare law's mandate comes into the news again.
Forty-three Catholic groups filed 12 lawsuits against the federal government on Monday, the largest number of coordinated actions against the contraceptive mandate so far. That Catholic leadership opposes the mandate is no secret, but the breadth of the lawsuits drew attention. Not only did the prominent Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., headed by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, file a lawsuit, but so did social arms like Catholic Charities, which has sided with the Obama administration on past issues related to the budget (cutting defense, preserving social programs).
The University of Notre Dame, which in 2009 controversially invited President Obama to receive an honorary degree and speak at commencement, also filed a lawsuit against the administration. Separately, two colleges announced in May that they would be ending their student health plans because of the mandate.
The federal government now faces 23 lawsuits in 15 states over the contraceptive mandate. Many of the plaintiffs are Catholic, but three of the plaintiffs are devout business owners. Three are evangelical groups, including colleges like Colorado Christian University. Seven states-Nebraska, South Carolina, Michigan, Texas, Florida, Ohio, and Oklahoma-have also filed suit. (The Becket Fund, representing several of the plaintiffs, has compiled a list of the lawsuits and links to the court documents.)
Lawyers for these plaintiffs told WORLD in February that they were strategizing by filing lawsuits in different districts across the country, so as not to "put all of your eggs in one basket" (see "Spread attack," by Leigh Jones, Feb. 22). But none of the suits have been filed in the states under the jurisdiction of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a circuit that would most likely take the administration's side.
"Nothing is a sure thing, but the most likely way to get an issue before the Supreme Court is to have a lot of high-profile cases coming down in the different circuits with different results," said Brad Jacob, a professor at Regent University School of Law, in Virginia Beach, Va. If regional courts ruled against the contraceptive mandate, that would not change the law for the rest of the country, which is the reason for the push for it to go before the U.S. Supreme Court.
All of these plaintiffs are waiting for the Supreme Court to issue its ruling on the broader healthcare law, an opinion the justices will likely publish at the end of June. If the high court decides that the individual mandate is unconstitutional, that would make the lawsuits moot since the contraceptive mandate is part of that larger mandate.
Wheels are turning outside the courts, too, in civil society. On Thursday, prominent Catholic, Jewish, and evangelical leaders met in Washington, D.C., at the American Religious Freedom Program's conference. The conference included people like Robert George, the Catholic professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University; Hannah Smith, senior counsel at the Becket Fund; former Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt; Donald Landry of New York Presbyterian Hospital; and Timothy George, dean of Beeson Divinity School.
The contraceptive mandate came up again and again at the conference. One session was titled "Unprecedented Threats to American Religious Freedom and Rights of Conscience," while another was called "Legislative Action to Constrain Overreaching Officials."
State legislators were in the audience and taking notes as they try to carve religious exemptions in their own health insurance laws. One Arizona legislator asked about forming a network for state legislators on the issue, which organizers said was part of the design of the conference. If the mandate moves forward without delay, it goes into effect for most religious groups in August 2013. | <urn:uuid:5a850bec-cebe-47ea-b4a4-4be5e2cc7262> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.worldmag.com/2012/05/coordinated_effort | 2013-05-24T01:30:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970583 | 822 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Nowadays dinner time gives me a headache thinking about which curry I have to make. Due to diabetic scare we are mainly planning to make chapathi/whole wheat bread whenever possible. Making chapathi is not a big deal, but finds a suitable companion to go with is difficult task for me. I don’t like to repeat same curry every other day. Poor hubby won’t complain he enjoys everything at same pace. Even if it is not as good as planned he will eat it with a compliment not to make it second time.
Due to this chapathi dinner I started researching pristine dishes according to me. Amma usually make a potato onion curry, where as my mother-in-law has a universal sauce recipe which mingles with almost everything. My sister has dal or sabji recipe contributed by her domestic help. I have an own hard rule of not repeating my recipes within a couple of weeks, and thus search for new dishes? As Indian cuisine is vast, I am not going get tired of curry dishes in my life time.
When I opened the refrigerator to get some potato for my mom’s potato onion curry, I found a bag of okra. Now since I found the bag of okra, I wanted to use it as a major ingredient. After thinking a lot decide to make achaari dahi bhindi, which I read about. I know okra goes really well with yogurt from our own vendakka kichadi. I tried okra with other spices to make Rajasthani Bhindi. When I looked at the recipe for achaari dahi bhindi, it has most pungent spices mixed with yogurt and it came from favorite Punjabi cuisine.
While googling, I found this recipe by Tarla Dalal . I liked the recipe however the spice amount she used in not suitable to our palate. If I used 2 teaspoon of coriander powder, my hubby will be run away from the spot itself, he has aversion towards coriander powder and certain spices.
I reduced the amount of coriander powder to ¾ teaspoon, chili powder to ½ teaspoon, mustard seeds to ½ teaspoon and fennel seeds to 1 teaspoon , oil to 3 tablespoon and adding extra small green chili. I made this tasty dish which goes well with any bread. Main star of this curry is its pickle spices like, fennel seeds, mustard seeds, nigella seeds/kalonji, fenugreek seeds and asafetodia. If you want to try something new with your favorite okra try this dish. It is unique in its flavor and taste. Here goes the recipe.
One year ago: Cauliflower Carrot stir fry
Print recipe from here
What you need
Recipe adapted from Tarla Dalal's website
Okra/ladies finger/ Bhindi/vendakka: 1.1 lb/500g (approximately 29 no)
Chopped ginger: 2 teaspoon
Chopped green chili: 1no
Chopped green chili: 1no
Chopped tomatoes: 1 cup (about 2 no)
Yogurt: ¼ cup
Turmeric powder: ¼ teaspoon
Chili powder: ½ teaspoon
Coriander powder: ¾ teaspoon
Olive oil: 3 tablespoon
Salt: 1 teaspoon or to taste
Water: ¼ cup
For Achaari masala
Fennel seeds/Saunf: 1 teaspoon
Mustard seeds/ Rai/ Sarson: 1 teaspoon
Nigella seeds/Kalonji:1/2 teaspoon
Fenugreek seeds/ Methi seeds: 1/4 teaspoon
Asafoetida/hing: 1/8 teaspoon
How I made
Wash, wipe dry and cut the ladies finger into1" diagonal pieces and set aside.
Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a skillet and saute the ladies finger in it for 10 minutes or until the sides becomes slightly brown. Set aside.
Heat 2 tablespoons of oil another pan and add the achaari masala to it. When the seeds crackle, add the ginger ,chopped green chili. Fry ginger and green chili for 2 minutes then add tomato and cook for 5 minutes or until tomato becomes soft and the mixture starts to leaves oil.
In the mean time, in a small bowl whisk together the yogurt, turmeric powder, water, chili powder, coriander powder and salt and set aside.
Add this yogurt spice mixture to the pan, mix well with tomato ginger spices and cook for 2 minutes.
Add the ladies finger and simmer for 2 minutes so that spice mixture gets incorporated into each pieces.
Serve hot with chapathi or any other bread.
Preparation time: 25 minutes
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I know they are very trendy right now, but you really can't get anymore classic than a pair of original Ray Ban Wayfarers! But here's the thing, I try them on every time I'm at the mall and they're never quite the right pair. It seems as though they are all slightly different. Or maybe it's just me! In all seriousness though, the two pair of folded Wayfarers in the picture above are listed as the same style and size online. Those are not the same shape. Do you see what I see or am I crazy?
Erika Powell at Urban Grace Interiors (you can also see her in the newest issue of Southern Living) posted about her wayfarer-style sunglasses by Sama Eyewear and I have to say I'm a little obsessed with them. I love the black with tortoise and the brown-blue color also shown above. But the Club 54s have a pretty heavy price tag that makes them a little less desirable.
If I could find the lower right pair of Ray Bans (exactly that shape, size and color) I would buy them in a heart beat.
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Trim fit, Below knee Length
Harness compatible pant in durable stretch knit fabric that is soft on the skin. Designed with a belowed cut through the upper leg, a snug, fitted contour around the knee and a wide, comfortable waistband that folds up to fit under a climbing harness.
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- Resilient stretchy fabric—garment retains shape and form
- Stretchy fabric construction provides freedom of movement
- Flatlocked seams lie flat for added comfort
- Four-way stretch textile
- Women's specific design and fit
- Comfortable under a climbing harness
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- Wide, fold-over waistband
- Rear hip stash pocket
- 49 cm inseam
- Extenda™—91% nylon, 9% lycra 156 g/m². Very stretchy, yet durable textile constructed with a combination of nylon and lycra.
- Machine wash in cold water.
- Hang to dry.
- Do not use fabric softener.
- Do not iron.
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