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Officially announced by Sports Information Director Jeff Nelson in a late night tweet on Friday night and confirmed by this morning's introductory press conference, Massachusetts-born Bill O'Brien is the newest head coach at Penn State University. O'Brien has signed a five-year deal with Penn State, the terms of which are as-of-yet undisclosed.
O'Brien landed in State College yesterday evening aboard a University aircraft, and headed straight for the Bryce Jordan Center with his wife, Colleen, and son. He met with Nelson and other members of the administration before holding a conference call with the current players.
This morning's press conference is the first we've actually heard from O'Brien and acting athletic director Dave Joyner. But now that it's official, what do we know about Bill O'Brien?
As stated, O'Brien is a New Englander by birth, attended Brown in the early 1990's, and immediately went into coaching. He stayed at his alma mater for a couple of years, coaching tight ends and linebackers, before moving to a lengthy run in the ACC with three different teams.
From 1995 to 2002, O'Brien was on staff at Georgia Tech, starting as a graduate assistant and rising all the way to offensive coordinator and assistant head coach. Over that span, the Yellow Jackets went 60-36, with a 3-3 mark in bowl games, which included a 35-28 victory over Notre Dame in the 1999 Gator Bowl. O'Brien also spent two years as recruiting coordinator for the Yellow Jacks (unfortunately, the major recruiting services only track data to 2002, so it's difficult to judge O'Brien's success as a recruiting coordinator).
After his eight seasons with Georgia Tech, O'Brien moved on to become the running backs coach at Maryland for two seasons, joining Ralph Friedgen's staff two years after Ron Vanderlinden was fired as head coach. The Terps went 15-9 in the two years O'Brien was on staff, and also included a 41-7 beatdown of West Virginia in the 2004 Gator Bowl.
O'Brien's next stop was an offensive coordinator position at Duke which also included coaching the quarterbacks. He held this spot for two rough years, as the Blue Devils went 1-22 over the two year span, which fell in the middle of a rough four year run for Duke under Ted Roof (no pun intended).
Sensing a change was in order, O'Brien left Duke and headed home, taking a job in the NFL with the New England Patriots as an offensive assistant. He occupied this spot, which had no real position group oversight, for a year before taking control of the wide receivers in 2008. In a year that saw Tom Brady go down with a season-ending injury, the Patriots were still able to notch two 1000-yard receivers in Wes Welker and Randy Moss.
A year later, following the departure of Josh McDaniels to Denver (who is rumored to be returning to New England to fill the eventually-vacant offensive coordinator spot), O'Brien took over the quarterback coaching duties for two years, before being named offensive coordinator in 2011. Over these three years the Patriots went 37-11, including three playoff berths, at least two Tom Brady awards (2009 Comeback Player of the Year, 2010 NFL MVP), and an offense that is dynamically potent, scoring over 500 points twice in three years.
Now O'Brien finds him self employed in not one envious coaching position, but two. The 2011 Patriots are knee-deep in a run at the Super Bowl, earning a first round bye and set to play Saturday, January 14th. Additionally, O'Brien will head the new regime at Penn State, one that will be looked upon to act quickly in certain aspects, namely recruiting.
What the makeup of the new staff will look like, as well as any carryover from the Joe Paterno era, remains to be seen. O'Brien mentioned retaining Larry Johnson, which is the second best thing he could have done (outside of leaving the Patriots and starting immediately). Having spent a number of years in college and the pros, O'Brien has built quite a coaching circle, so his options at staffing are myriad. However, until more is known, all we can do is welcome Coach O'Brien to Penn State, and wish him nothing but unbridled success in his time here. | <urn:uuid:c088d6d7-3abc-4913-a643-53c0458e6e28> | 2013-05-24T01:46:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I have a 1968 raised ranch. The lower level is very cold. The walls are completely finished. There is only 1" between the cinder blocks and the drywall.
Q1: Is there any insulation that I can blow-in that is waterproof?
Q2: Can I blow it into the holes in the blocks? And will that help?
Q3: If not, is there a 1" thick insulation board that I can slide in between the blocks and drywall that is appropriate?
If I am totally off track, please let me know what I should be doing.
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The “Garden of Manitoba” is the term that has often been used to describe the region between the Souris River and the Turtle Mountains in which Boissevain and Morton municipality are located. Eons ago, as the Lake Souris glacier retreated northward it left behind a sand loam which is well suited to dry land type farming.
Sometime in the late 1500s, long after the glacier had receded, the first inhabitants of the area were the Assiniboine First Nation tribe. Their habitation has been documented by the many artifacts discovered in this area in recent years. The first white explorers arrived in 1738 and Alexander Henry (1806). The arrival of these explorers ultimately led to the further exploration and investigation of this region.
Between 1873 and 1875 the Boundary Commission marked the international boundary. The trail they made was followed by a trickle of settlers coming west from Ontario who were looking for good land, good water and wood. In 1881 the first of several parties from Britain arrived in the area, not waiting for the railroad which was slowly extended to Boissevain by 1885.
Originally called Cherry Creek, the name was changed in 1889 to Boissevain in honour of the Dutch financier Adolphe Boissevain whose banking firm introduced CPR shares for sale in Europe to increase the speed of the building of the railway. The motto on the Boissevain family crest now adopted by the town reads “No fear of the future nor regrets of the past”. Boissevain was incorparted as a town in 1906.
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Quiz: First Marking Period (through page 14)
|Name: _____________________________||Period: ___________________________|
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
Directions: Circle the correct answer.
1. Why does Melinda buy her lunch on her first day of school?
a) She has plenty of money.
b) So she can first see what is fashionable in what one brings for lunch.
c) Because she wants to stand in line next to a boy.
d) Her mother had not gone to the grocery store the day before.
2. How does Melinda get her potatoes and gravy on her blouse?
a) A basketball player bumps into her.
b) She trips on a girl's backpack.
c) The person next to her in line flips her plate onto her.
d) She trips over a blind boy's cane.
3. To what does the art teacher welcome...
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Lang Oil picked up two wins in Little League action last Friday in New Franklin by beating Shelter Insurance 6-3 in the first game and Exchange Bank 11-3 in the second game.
After playing to a 1-1 tie in the first inning, Shelter Insurance came back and took a brief lead in the top-half of the third by pushing across two runs to go up by a score of 3-1. However, in the bottom-half of the same inning, Lang Oil came back and exploded for five runs for the victory.
Tysen Dowell led the hitting attack in the game for Lang Oil with a single, home run and one RBI. Tyler Perkins also homered and drove in three runs while Brett Triebsch finished the game with one triple and Jackson Dorson, Hayden Wiseman, Thadius Malone and Max Hall each with one single.
For Shelter Insurance, who dropped to 1-5-2 on the season, Andy Neal went 2-for-2 with a single, home run and two RBIs while Dakota Lawson added one single.
In the second game, Exchange Bank jumped out on top with two runs in the top-half of the first only to have Lang Oil rally back with six in the bottom-half of the inning, two again in the second and three in the third.
Jackson Dorson again led Lang Oil, who improved to 4-4 on the season, with a single, home run and three RBIs.
Tysen Dowell was 2-for-3 with a single and a triple while Tanner Hoover and Joe Monnig added two singles each and Hayden Wiseman and Thadius Malone with one single apiece.
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Thursday, December 28, 2006
With the recent death of former President Gerald Ford, people nationwide are fondly recalling his short time as president.
Lisa Sheehan remembers meeting the former president when she was 10 years old during a visit he made to Springfield.
Sheehan, who now lives in Sudbury, was Little Miss Massachusetts at the time, and handed him a bouquet of roses.
"I remember saying, 'These are for you Mr. President'," she said. "'He said, 'Thank you,' and he gave me a kiss on the cheek and a little hug. I just remember him being very warm," she told The Republican of Springfield.
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stubby wrote: my floppy penis gets first dibs on it for tradition's sake, but it doesn't seem likely that he'll want to stick around long enough to play.
piltogg wrote:Talk of raving penis hordes frighten space-sailors everywhere, causing entire civilizations to become peaceful and friendly.
Kalvinator wrote:...there's a galaxy map?
mgb519 wrote:Seriously, you are now the first ever forum superhero.
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'How do you know I'm not a radio station?': Charles jokes about prank call
Prince Charles is thrilled by the prospect of becoming a grandfather.
The future king commented for the first time on Thursday about this week's news that his daughter-in-law is pregnant.
"I'm thrilled, marvellous. It's a very nice thought to become a grandfather in my old age, if I can say so," Charles, 64, told reporters in London.
Prince Charles ... thrilled at being a grandfather. Photo: AFP
Earlier on Thursday, Catherine, 30, was discharged from an exclusive London hospital where she had spent three nights being treated for acute morning sickness.
"I'm very glad my daughter-in-law is getting better, thank goodness," Charles added.
During Catherine's stay, two Australian radio announcers made a prank call to the hospital pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge leave the King Edward VII hospital in central London. Photo: AFP
The 2Day FM jocks were provided with private details of the duchess's condition by a nurse who referred to DJ Michelle Grieg as "ma'am".
In response to the hoax call, Charles at first answered reporters' questions with: "How do you know I'm not a radio station?"
The broadcaster has since apologised for the prank, while the hospital considers legal action.
Catherine is now resting at her London home, Kensington Palace. | <urn:uuid:5a8e10e0-51d0-4b3e-8014-0de2460cb6a2> | 2013-05-24T01:30:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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My grandmother, Hariett Taylor married a John Miller on 13th May 1915 at Worcester Register Office. He was 25, batchelor and gave his address as 8 Southfield St.Worcs. His father was John Miller, deceased, a cloth weaver. His occupation was professional gymnast, probably circus, so I don't think he came from Worcester and he died 1919ish, don't know where, maybe from the flu pandemic sweeping Europe at that time. Can anyone suggest how to find out more about him, please? | <urn:uuid:dab7a8f4-466b-4633-83c4-9bb804041592> | 2013-05-24T01:31:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Location Unknown / Unclear.
Long shot of a ship in unknown harbour. Various shots of Japanese prisoners walking down gangplank with large sacks on their back, leaving the ship - probably with their kits. Various shots of the Japanese prisoners walking around the deck onboard the ship, American...
Japanese Foreign Minister Kurusu claims he knew nothing about Perl Harbour.
Men work with bulldozers to clear land for the building of a new seaport.
Shots of harbour scenes from Indonesia, a cargo of pigs are loaded onto a boat.
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British Ambassador arriving to Holland.
Various shots of the massive Sydney Harbour Bridge from various angles.
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An Outline for the Research of Specific Archaeological Sites
Formulated by Professor Martha Sharp Joukowsky
Center for Old World Archaeology and Art
This is a guide that students in Professor Joukowsky's classes use when completing site abstract-term papers.
Site Abstract-Term Paper
Select a site or wait for the site lottery and research it using the original excavation report(s), and write a site abstract-term paper that includes a paragraph on each section below represented with capital letters (these should provide you with a guide for the logical development of the report). This is to be a typewritten paper; the body is to be 4-9 pages in length. The "Harvard system" of in-text references is to be used, i.e., "Joukowsky (196245) states that there was ..."; footnotes are to be descriptive.
The purpose of this research is to allow you to choose a specific site of interest and explore it in depth, using original archaeological site reports as part of your analysis. Be sure you cover the earliest report on the site, the most important work on it, and the latest book or article on it. An indispensable technique in archaeology is to be able to analyze sometimes verbose and confused reports, to extract the facts and to be able to organize them succinctly. Write up the results of your research using the form below as a guide. If you have any questions call Martha Joukowsky
- Site name and location
- Name of country, nearest modern township and local name of the site
- Environmental description
- Historical background
- Discovery (who discovered the site and when)
- Excavation aims and purposes
- Reasons for excavation - goals of the project
- Statement of archaeological problems resolved through excavation
- Sponsoring institution(s) and name of the director(s)
- Dates when work was carried out
- Area and extent of work
- Specialist studies and analysis
- Artifact Studies
- What was found (synopsis of strata)
- Summary and synthesis of stratified cultural levels and assemblages; occupation levels and/or structures that relate to each; dates and periods of cultural levels, if possible. Mention how the dating of various levels was confirmed.
- Artifact range and variations
- Interpretation and conclusions
- Cultural connections with other sites (parallels with similar or dissimilar cultures). What does the site bring to our knowledge of the area?
- Cultural context and ideas the site represents, i.e., your subjective analysis of the remains--this is to give the site its meaning!
- Bibliography--An annotated bibliography is to be included; it should list the books and articles you have read with a brief comment on each, such as, "up-to-date article but terrible pictures." Thus the bibliography should include the list of works you found useful with a critical comment about each.
- Illustrations--The paper is to be amply illustrated with photocopies or your own original works. Don't forget to cross-reference the illustrations with the text. The sources for illustrations should be given on either the illustration itself, or in a listing. The selection of meaningful illustrations is important. | <urn:uuid:846916da-d7a6-46cd-9cd7-bfa4d18a9783> | 2013-05-24T01:38:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Oscar Pistorius was one of the biggest stars of this past summer's Olympic games in London.
The double-amputee sprinter from South Africa performed far better than anyone had expected, overcoming incredible adversity.
Now everything has been turned upside down.
The shocking news today is that he has been arrested for allegedly murdering his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, at his home in South Africa.
The circumstances are unclear and disputed. There were initial reports that he may have mistaken Steenkamp for a burglar. And according to one report, this may have been the result of a Valentine's Day surprise.
Just yesterday, Steenkamp tweeted about having something up her sleeve:
However, other reports, and the police dispute the idea of a "surprise." He is being held without bail and there may have been previous domestic incidents.
Still, the story remains a mystery. In an interview with the NYT last year, Pistorius expressed his enthusiasm for guns, and even talked about tiptoeing downstairs at his home, thinking his house was being invaded by an intruder.
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Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan told Cincinnati's WCPO today that he "never" requested stimulus funds for his Wisconsin district in 2009.
"I never asked for stimulus money," Ryan said today, somewhat taken aback by the question. "I don't recall. I haven't seen this report, so I really can't comment on it."
The Globe detailed one of them, dated December 18, 2009, that advocated allocating funds to the Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation.
“I was pleased that the primary objectives of their project will allow residents and businesses in the partner cities to reduce their energy costs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and stimulate the local economy by creating new jobs."
Both of the conservation groups were awarded funding in President Barack Obama's $787 billion 2009 stimulus, which Ryan frequently charges as a "wasteful spending spree."
"I oppose the stimulus because it doesn't work. It didn't work," Ryan said today.
Ryan has come under renewed scrutiny for the requests since presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney nominated him last Saturday to be his vice president. In 2010, The Wall Street Journal noted that Ryan was among Republicans who had opposed the stimulus while pushing funding in their districts. At the time, a Ryan spokeswoman said "the basic constituent service of lending his assistance for federal grant requests." | <urn:uuid:1f95bde4-779d-4ac4-920d-13bfb799c555> | 2013-05-24T01:45:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Cashier : That will be 70 euros.
mgion: 70 euros! Are you sure? This book costs 30 euros and this one 20 euros. The total should be 50!
Cashier : There is no 50 percent discount on the second book.
mgion: How much is it then?
Cashier : It costs 40 euros.
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Leading you to an educated decision.
A type of dry coating, which is applied as a free-flowing, dry powder. The main difference between a conventional liquid paint and a powder coating is that the powder coating does not require a solvent to keep the binder and filler parts in a liquid suspension form. The coating is typically applied electrostatically and is then cured under heat to allow it to flow and form a "skin." The powder may be a thermoplastic or a thermoset polymer. It is usually used to create a hard finish that is tougher than conventional paint. Powder coating is mainly used for coating of metals, such as "white goods", aluminum extrusions, and automobile and motorcycle parts. Newer technologies allow other materials, such as MDF (medium-density fiberboard), to be powder coated using different methods. | <urn:uuid:cfde08a3-466d-4e4a-9644-038c04141af3> | 2013-05-24T02:05:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Fast food is not usually the best option. It's almost always high in calories, fat and sodium, and lacks important vitamins and minerals. But sometimes we're caught unprepared.
If a fast food restaurant is your only option, slim down your meal with intelligent choices and portion control -- just the opposite of super-sizing. Ask for mustard or even ketchup, but skip the mayonnaise, cheese and bacon. If available, grilled chicken is usually lower in calories than hamburger, and avoid anything that's deep fried. Also choose water or low fat milk instead of soda.
Even better options can be found in a supermarket deli. You can order a sandwich on whole-grain bread (again, hold the mayo!) and pick up a piece of fruit or some pre-washed veggies and water or a low calorie drink. You should be able to create an even healthier, lower calorie meal than offered by the typical fast food restaurant, and it can be just as fast.
With a bit of creativity, fast food doesn't have to derail your dietary goals. Both options can result in a quick, low calorie meal that will help keep your weight on track.
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We have seen that the grand disparity that was believed to exist between the way Nature works here on earth and in the heavens is not valid. The question remains, however, can we learn everything we need to know by investigating phenomena here on earth and extending that result to the Universe at large?
The answer must be no for the following reasons:
1) Who would have thought to look for a law of Universal gravitation without the precise measurements and detailed analysis of Brahe and Kepler? Cavendish's laboratory measurement of G was done in response to interpret results obtained for the solar system.
2) Even if someone would have used the Cavendish apparatus to map out the gravitational force between two bodies, independently of knowing Kepler's results, would we be able to infer a complete understanding of celestial motion?
No. We know Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation is
For example, there are certain aspects of Mercury's motion that can not be explained using the Newtonian form. The correct explanation of Mercury's orbital motion requires General Relativity. In fact, General Relativity predicts that the path of a beam of light will be bent in a gravitational field. This effect is too feeble to see in a lab on earth. It was first observed by starlight being bent near the disk of the sun in a solar eclipse.
3) If we consider then the solar system to be our laboratory, is that a big enough laboratory to establish all that could be known?
The answer to this must be no too. In the 20th century,
since Zwicky in the 1930's,
it is known that either the gravitational force deviates from Newtonian gravity at large distances, or that there is substantial dark matter in and between galaxies. The density of dark matter is so low that it has an imperceptible effect on small scale motions, like that in the solar system. The data seem to favor the existence of some very large amount of unknown, maybe even exotic ( Is this the new celestial matter ?) type of matter.
4) Is the galaxy large enough as a laboratory to pin down all the Laws of Nature?
This seems to require a negative answer as well. There are structures that encompass groups of galaxies, and the non isotropy of the cosmic background radiation is a pattern on an extremely large scale. We have also seen that the luminosity vs distance plot for supernovae (SNe1A) suggest that the universe is accelerating in its expansion. This was the discussion about "dark energy" or the cosmological constant. This effect is not seen until we look out to red shifts > 1, or about 6 billion light years.
Sometimes features of the world are not visible unless
we look on the large scale.
In fact, the most recent analysis from WMAP, using the angular spot size of the CMBR temperature fluctuations, fits a flat space scenario. Hence, ignoring local gravitational distortions of space-time the sum of angles in a triangle that covers most of the universe is 180 degrees!
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This is the final piece in the The Calyptorhynchus Blog. I began the series in February 2010 and soon decided to write one piece a week for year and then stop.
There are quite a lot of arguments in these pieces, but probably only one important one: that because globally we are living beyond our ecological means we cannot have a normal or peaceful existence, nor do we deserve to. And because we are living beyond our ecological means our way of life will soon end, leaving us to face the consequences. We can either start facing these consequences now, and perhaps have an orderly transition to a praeter-modern world, or continue to ignore them and face disaster.
The most important corollary from this recognition that the best thing we can do to try to bring our society back within reasonable ecological bounds is to begin advocating for a lower global population. If this transition is achieved it would enable humanity to survive at lower levels of population for hundreds of thousands of years into the future, rather than a high-population global society facing disaster in the next century or so, and humanity possibly not surviving.
In his 1904 novel Nostromo Joseph Conrad has one of his characters say:
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is unhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can found only in moral principle.
And this is an excellent voicing of the Romantic/socialist view of capitalism. This view has, of course, since the 1960s been supplemented by the ecologically-informed view that whatever capitalism’s achievements, the assessment of them must be modified by the knowledge of the essential unsustainability of the modernistic enterprise after a certain point.
The fact that the Romantic view of capital arose so soon after the beginnings of modernity in the late C18 (amongst the German Romantics, Blake, Wordsworth &c) is, I believe an unconscious recognition on the part of artists and thinkers that the modernistic project was unsustainable in the long-term, although, because the necessary scientific work had not been done, this knowledge was not explicit and a critique of capitalism had to be couched in moralistic terms. This is my Daoist-inspired view that people, as part of the natural world, the Dao, have an instinctive feeling for how their lives should run, and it is only a very specious ideology that can divert them from this.
This is my hope—that as soon as a general recognition of the ecological dire straits we are in happens, then the necessary societal changes that this entails will become obvious and perhaps even welcome, and then begin. ‘The Dao does nothing, yet there is nothing that is not done.’ (Daode jing 37)
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Choose your store location wisely as it can have an effect on your store's profitability. Consider these five factors when choosing a location:
- Zoning: Ensure the area is zoned for retail businesses.
- Demographics: Determine if the demographics of the local population are a good fit with your business (age of the population, income, family size, and so on).
- Traffic analysis: Ensure that you are in a high traffic area and that the store is easily accessible (public transit, parking, and so forth).
- Competition: Make sure that nearby stores are complementary and not in direct competition with your business.
- Future development: Find out if zoning or road changes are expected in the near future or if new development is planned. Such activities could help or harm your operation.
Consider the best scenario for your type of store:
- Convenience stores (supermarkets, hardware, bakeries, drug stores, and so on): Your business may benefit from being in a busy mall or other high traffic area that offers easy access for quick purchases. Since many people enjoy one-stop shopping, you can attract customers from co-located complementary stores.
- Specialty stores (selling unique, hard-to-find products): If you have a specialty store, your products are more unique and often customers do not mind travelling out of the way to purchase your specific products. You could take advantage of lower rent, free parking, and larger warehouse and display space.
- Shoppers' stores (clothing, major appliances, and so on): With a shoppers-type store, you may actually benefit from being near your own competition. You could sell your goods in a shopping centre or mall where consumers can easily compare quality, price, and service offered by a few competing stores.
Consider these issues before signing a long-term lease:
- Do you plan to operate your business indefinitely or for a set number of years?
- Will you be able to expand your business at this location?
- Is the lease flexible? Can you opt to renew or seek another location if need be?
- Is the rent fixed or is it pegged to sales volume?
- Make sure any promises the property owner has made to you are in writing (repairs, construction, alterations and maintenance).
Help in choosing a location
You may wish to hire a consultant to analyze two or three tentative locations. Considering the importance of a store's location, it pays to invest in the best spot. If you haven't found a suitable location, don't open your store until you are sure you have what you want.
Get data that sheds light on population characteristics such as location, age, income, education level, and more.
- Choosing a commercial building
Find out how to choose the right commercial building for your business.
- Site selection
Find site selection tools that can help you decide where to establish or grow your business.
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So, thank you so much for your answers and very instructive discussion. I didn´t expected to induce sucha a technical debate.
I ordered the Canon 85mm 1.8 and I will give it a try. Even if I am a bit sceptical about the CA´s.
The Bokeh of the sigma looks nice, but since it is a bit of an investment and I already have the sigma 17 50 2.8 I would like to try another focal length. | <urn:uuid:8c49679f-7a38-4d12-b9ad-b64c490d257a> | 2013-05-24T01:57:51Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Dressing and Grooming (Dementia)
- Simplify clothing choices by putting out an outfit for the care receiver to wear, or give an option of two outfits. Do not ask open-ended questions like, "What do you want to wear?"this kind of question can overwhelm someone with dementia.
- Buy clothes that are simple to put on/take off and are soft and stretchable i.e. pants with elastic waist bands, shoes that close with Velcro or slip on shoes, or a camisole instead of a bra. A skirt or loose fitting dress can be easier for a woman to put on and pull up when using the bathroom. Clothing that fastens in the front is easier to put on than clothing that goes over the head.
- Put clothes out on the bed in the order in which they should be put on. Thus, underwear would be on top and pants/shirts would be on the bottom. If necessary, cue the person by telling him/her what piece of clothing to put on next.
- Empty the closet of clothes that are no longer appropriate or too frustrating to put on and take off. This will make it easier to choose an outfit without being distracted by too many choices.
- A person with dementia will often wear the same outfit for many days. Buying duplicate outfits can help the care receiver change clothes without a fight. When taking clothes off at night, put the dirty clothes in the laundry, so they are not seen in the morning when the person is dressing.
- People with dementia do not self-regulate their body temperature often, so you might need to monitor if their clothing is appropriate for the weather.
- Allow the person to do as much as possible by himself/herself, but intervene if he/she is getting frustrated. Have a routine for dressing, including doing so at the same time each day as well as putting clothes on in the same order each day.
- Combing hair, shaving, cleaning finger nails, using hand cream and washing the face may all become problematic. Have a routine for doing these things. They don't necessarily have to be done every day.
- An electric razor will make shaving easier. Shaving does not necessarily need to be done in the bathroom. By choosing a time during the day when the care receiver is sitting in a comfortable chair can make this task easier.
- Some people prefer a comb, others may prefer a hairbrush. Use whichever is easiest for the care receiver as well as for you. Sometimes a person will be able to do this independently by watching what you are doing on yourself or by having your hand on top of his/hers while making the brushing movement.
- Regular visits to the hairdresser or barber will reduce the need to wash hair at home. Manicures and pedicures can be calming and can often be done at the same time.
This Tips for Caregivers sheet was prepared by Family Caregiver Alliance. Funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. © Family Caregiver Alliance. All rights reserved 2012
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1. Because an understanding of the biosphere requires scientific analysis of biological and physical processes, graduates will demonstrate:
a. An understanding of the basic principles of biology, chemistry and the earth sciences.
b. An ability to evaluate and interpret scientific data.
c. A working knowledge of fundamental laboratory techniques.
2.Because sustainable human activities require an integration of scientific, economic, and social information, graduates will demonstrate:
a. An understanding of basic political processes at the local, national and global levels.
b. An evolving knowledge of sustainable economic practices.
c. An ability to integrate and communicate science and social science data with integrity and reason.
3. Because solutions to environmental challenges must incorporate human values and a deep respect for social equity, graduates will be able to articulate common rights and the dignity shared by all humanity.
4. Because environmental challenges do not acknowledge political or cultural boundaries, graduates will be able to recognize the major physical and cultural gradients around the globe.
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| American seismologist
in Hamilton, Ohio, Richter was educated at the University of Southern
California, Stanford, and the California Institute of Technology, where
he obtained his PhD in 1928. He worked for the Carnegie Institute (1927-36)
before being appointed to the staff of the California Institute of Technology.
He became professor of seismology there in 1952.
developed his scale to measure the strength of earthquakes in 1935.
Earlier scales had been developed by de Rossi in the 1880s and by Giuseppe Mercalli in 1902 but both used a descriptive scale defined in terms
of damage to buildings and the behavior and response of the population.
This restricted their use to the measurement of earthquakes in populated
areas and made the scales relative to the type of building techniques
and materials used.
scale is an absolute one, based on the amplitude of the waves produced
by the earthquake. He defined the magnitude of an earthquake as the
logarithm to the base 10 of the maximum amplitude of the waves, measured
in microns. This means that waves whose amplitudes differ by a factor
of 100 will differ by 2 points on the Richter scale. With Beno Gutenberg
he tried to convert the points on his scale into energy released. In
1956 they showed that magnitude 0 corresponds to about 1011 ergs (104
joules), while magnitude 9 equals 1024 ergs (1017 joules). A one unit
increase will mean about 30 times more energy being released. The strongest
earthquake so far recorded had a Richter-scale value of 8.6. In 1954
Richter and Gutenberg produced one of the basic textbooks on seismology,
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A Song of Ascents.1
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord.2
Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my supplications!
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
Lord, who could stand?4
But there is forgiveness with you,
so that you may be revered.
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope;6
my soul waits for the Lord
more than those who watch for the morning,
more than those who watch for the morning.
O Israel, hope in the Lord!
For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with him is great power to redeem.8
It is he who will redeem Israel
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The Pentagon says it's "very confident" the U.S. could intercept a ballistic missile strike from Iran. This statement comes after a recent Defense Department report warning that Iran could have a missile capable of hitting the U.S. by 2015.
"We are confident that the system we have in place right now, the (ground-based interceptors) that are based in Alaska and California, are sufficient to protect us from such a threat coming in from Iran and North Korea," Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said.
Iran has about 1,000 missiles. Each could hit targets as far as 1,200 miles away.
Officials worry that Iran could retaliate against any attack by the U.S. by firing its missiles at American troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The U.S. has 25 long range interceptor missiles in Alaska and California and continues to build up weapons shields in Europe and the Persian Gulf to protect its allies.
The Pentagon is pushing for tougher sanctions against Iran. | <urn:uuid:d8e84352-2337-49a0-87dc-201f930e0230> | 2013-05-24T01:58:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The 2007–2009 financial crisis and recession were triggered in part by a near collapse of some large financial institutions, a sharp contraction in the availability of credit, and a large drop in house prices. In response, federal support for financial institutions and credit markets substantially increased. CBO quantifies the costs and risks of policy proposals related to federal credit and insurance programs, banking and capital markets, government-sponsored enterprises such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and other federal financial activities.
Use this menu to filter CBO's publications by topic. From January 2011 forward, all the agency's products are categorized by topic. Cost estimates released prior to the 112th Congress are not categorized by topic. | <urn:uuid:6a660994-4740-4e12-92eb-dc7c031af90d> | 2013-05-24T01:52:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Corsair is a traditional power cruiser designed to ply the waters of the Pacific Northwest in style. Her fine lines, varnished woodwork and solid brass appointments will make you feel as if you stepped back in time. Classically restored with antique fixtures and period lighting, the Corsair features a very comfortable salon with ample visibility to see the sights. A raised wheelhouse and covered aft deck provides additional space for guests to congregate and enjoy the view. With an extensive renovation completed in 2010 the cozy and romantic interior brings a sense of warmth and comfort in all weather conditions.
Length: 33 ft.
Beam: 9.5 ft.
Draft: 3 ft.
Year Launched: 1939
Builder: Blanchard Boat Company (Seattle)
Designer: Ed Monk Sr.
Propulsion: 85 hp John Deere Diesel
Speed: 10 knots
Passengers: 6 + crew
History of the Corsair
The Corsair was built in 1939 at Blanchard Boat Company in Seattle, Washington. Originally designed by Ed Monk Sr. as a sports fishing utility boat, she sailed under the name "Ocean Pirate" in the 1950's, and in the 1960's was renamed "Salt Shaker". Upon her recent refit, she was once again renamed "Corsair" after the original legendary pirates of the West African Coast.
Blanchard Boat Company was famous for their recreational boats (both power and sail) which were constructed from the 1920's through the 1950's on Lake Union. Builder Norm Blanchard was an icon in the boat building world and later authored the book "Knee Deep in Shavings" which memorialized the history of yachting in the Pacific Northwest.
The Corsair is a fine example of the frequent collaboration between Norm Blanchard and Ed Monk. | <urn:uuid:04e5502f-e899-4cbb-9d1b-6cfe883eebe7> | 2013-05-24T01:38:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Jeremy Renner was born January 7, 1971, in Modesto, California. He was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his work in the Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker. He has appeared on many television shows, including House and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He has starred in a number of films, including S.W.A.T., North Country, 28 Weeks Later and The Town, and will appear in Mission Impossible IV and The Avengers. He has been romantically linked to both Charlize Theron and Jessica Simpson.
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I agree, she's very pretty and has a great body but AGAIN (as with the picture they chose for Emma Watson) whattttt is with some of the pictures they are using for some of these women?? Especially using them in a promotion and representation of being on Maxim's hot 100?? I mean, they take these gorgeous actresses/entertainers and choose the like 1 of 2 unflattering pictures out there of them! lol
lol Malin is hot, she has a good body, a great personality, shes a good actress and dresses amazing.ybjelly? | <urn:uuid:ec8c4eaa-61c3-418a-b8e2-04a18bd4d4e0> | 2013-05-24T01:47:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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339914 Costume Jewelry and Novelty Manufacturing
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[Note: A transcript of this meeting is unavailable. The discussion is summarized below.]
What we know:
The previous roundtable discussion on the repatriation of Angolan refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) (November 19, 2002) covered much of what is known about the economic, social and political context relating to human displacement in and from Angola, and the prospects for repatriation.
One of the legacies of the 27-year civil war in Angola is the high number of internal exiles and refugees that exist. It is estimated that there are 4.2 million internal exiles (IDPs) and over 450,000 refugees outside of the country. Out of this population, around 1 million internal exiles have already returned to their places of origin. There has also been a spontaneous return to Angola of approximately 20 percent of externally displaced refugees.
The United Nations Mission in Angola (UNMA), established August 2002 by the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1433, is scheduled to end on February 15, 2003. The peace process has thus far been promising. It is, however, still very fragile and requires continued commitment by the Angolan government and international community (other governments, international organizations, NGOs, business, etc.). Moreover, international donor resources are increasingly scarce, and coordinated, efforts by international organizations and donors will be crucial.
What we dont know:
There are many problems confronting returnees for which answers remain to be found. These include the fact that Angola is one of the most landmined countries in the world. Also, the demobilization of former combatants, which will be funded by the World Bank over the next three years, will be a critical component of a sustainable peace.
The humanitarian situation remains problematic. The nutritional status of Angola has stabilized over the last nine months, but is still fragile. There is weak public health infrastructure in rural provinces. There are 18 provinces in Angola, but only 16 UN human rights officers have been deployed to monitor the protection of IDP returnees. The Angolan government recently promulgated a code of conduct for the estimated 100 NGOs currently working in Angola, but consultation with NGOs was limited, and some NGOs asserted that the code could inhibit their operations.
A variety of challenges remain to be resolved in order to integrate successfully Angolas returnees. Experience from the past decade, including from operations in Cambodia and Mozambique, has shown that thorough knowledge of the conditions of regions for returnees can lead to an enhanced ability to build local capacities to provide the services necessary to assist returnees, ranging from providing seeds and tools in a timely fashion to establishing adequate health posts and building shelters. At the outset, for planning purposes, realistic numbers of returnees are needed. Extensive planning will be needed to deal with the re-establishment of refugees and IDPs. Attention to the issue of equitable treatment between returnees and those who stayed during the war will be important. People in receiving communities should feel that they have a stake in supporting returnees. Also, local authorities should become involved in the repatriation process as soon as possible. Strong information campaigns will be needed to educate and inform affected populations in relation to issues such as HIV/AIDS prevention.
Post-conflict rehabilitation experiences over the past decade show that development must be linked to strengthening local administration and indigenous NGOs in order to promote political stability. Municipal-level development strategies will be particularly crucial. Angolans desire the re-establishment of government structures with open and inclusive local administrations, as well as title to land, which is crucial to economic survival. The efforts of NGOs must be linked with capable local authorities; reinforcing local government should help to secure the protection of returnees.
The Angolan government has committed $73 million to a Plan of Action, which will be but a small fraction of the capital necessary to rebuild society and consolidate the peace. In 2002, 22 percent of the national budget was spent on social services and development, representing a significant increase from previous years. This figure should continue to rise in the coming years as the need for military spending decreases. Fiscal transparency by the government is a key issue for international donors to the recovery effort. Without an assurance of accountability, funding will be limited. As a first step to fiscal reform, the Angolan government has established a website which lists resource allocations (www.minfin.gv.ao). Whether this reform effort continues will be a key determinant of international involvement in rehabilitation.
A UN recovery strategy will be needed after UNMA ends its work on February 15, 2003, leaving the UN country team to address a wide variety of transitional issues ranging from human rights to land reform and elections. Attention to human rights could help build confidence among returning refugees and internal exiles. The issue of child soldiers will have to be dealt with; psychological trauma could come back and haunt the countrys development in the future.
What are the next steps; what should be done and by whom?
There is a need for strengthened cooperation, coordination, and genuine partnership between state and non-state actors in the future relief and development work in Angola. The consolidation of peace in Angola will require the continued support of the international organizations.
Internationally assisted recovery operations have occurred in many places around the world, but the application of these experiences in Angola has been limited. An effort will be made in this CFR meeting series to identify expertise for the use of stakeholders on such crucial issues as developing a sound strategy to strengthen local administrative and political structures; promoting coordination in recovery operations between national and local government structures, international agencies, NGOs, and donors; and addressing emerging spoilers such as preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS infection, as well as promoting justice, the rule of law, national reconciliation, and remedying problems in human security. The quality of peace in Angola will be affected deeply by how these issues are addressed, including the context of future international recovery operations. This international institutional question is the subject for the last in the series of CFR meetings on Angola. | <urn:uuid:ded2ddb9-3a96-4ef8-8e6d-5d31a8cffc01> | 2013-05-24T01:44:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Ishar 2 Solution Tips & Tricks|
Tags: Ishar 2 Solution Game Guides, Ishar 2 Solution Hints, Ishar 2 Solution Walkthrough
Ishar 2 - Solution
Go west, then north, and avoid the fight. Enter the village,
and play with the pump handle. Recruit Kudseac, pick up his
possessions, then kill him.
Visit the two inns to recruit four characters (preferable :
Eliandr, Zeloran, Fandhir and any warrior). Buy a sword, a
bow and some arrows from the armourer and some food from the
shopkeeper so you can recover your physical strength after
Go to the harbour (S-SW), and force a passage: take prisoner
and hand over to the village chief who then tells you what
your mission is. Return to the starting point. Kill the three
thieves, find the woman, and pick up the pendant. If your
strength is a bit low, eat some food, then return to the
village to recruit and to buy helmets and shields.
Go as far east into the forest as you can, then go north to
pick up the black and white mushrooms. Go to the extreme
north, pick up the dandelions, then fight the wasps. Enter
the forest clearing on the south side, and kill the orcs. For
the chief orc, you need to use as many arrows as possible.
Pick up the necklace.
Return to the village, hand the necklace to the chief, then
recover the boat. Eat, sleep, buy arrows, arms and food. Go
to the harbour, select the town landing-stage.
Tip: When you travel trough the town, write down every shop
you encounter and all the prices for every armour, helmets,
weapons, shields... Don't buy anything. When you've got the
whole city on paper, and enough money, then buy the most
expensive helm, shield, weapon, armour... for everybody of
your team. So you avoid wasting your money when you discover
a better item than the previous shop got for you.
Tip: After fighting, always share the money that you pickup,
between your team members. Each member will be happy!
Go right through the town to the library at the extreme
northeast. Pick up the fortress parchment, and kill as many
enemies as possible (to gain money and experience). Buy food
and recruit if necessary. Eat and sleep to recover strength.
return to the harbour towards the fortress.
Follow the wall on the right, trying to keep moving east all
the time. Fight with skeletons, then go through the south
passage. Pick up the treasure in the cul-de-sac at the south
end, and the skull in the cul-de-sac to the east. Leave the
passage, continue east, then go south. In the large room, go
to the extreme south-east, then south, east, and then into
the corridor to the north. Activate the two handles on the
right and left walls. Continue north into the passage, and
follow the corridor into the large room. Activate the handle
on the wall to the north. Leave the passage again, go to the
extreme south-east, follow the corridor and pick up a skull
in the cul-de-sac. Go back into the corridor with the two
handles. Walk around the west wall, then on the other side
enter the room, pick up the treasure, skull and arms. Return
to the landing-stage, then go back to the town.
Buy fighting gear, arrows and as much food as possible,
because big scraps are coming. Buy two monk's habits and five
fur coats from the clothes shop (not far from the harbour, in
the road leading to a small square to the north).
Go to the library, examine the parchment on potions, then go
west to the bank. Enter the street, and kill all of the
guards in one go(!) using the arrows and spells. Take the
door opposite, pick up(steal!!) 100,000 po. and deposit
10,000 of them in the bank on the opposite.
Go shopping: buy a magpie, a monkey, an eagle and a parrot
from the pet shop on the extreme south-east of the town.
Opposite is a super-armourer if you got the money... Go to
the south, then buy five ropes from the shopkeeper. Move
west, buy potions for the "troublesome priest" HUMBOLG spell
and "ent reviver" JABLOU spell. Continue to the west, and at
the next three crossroads go north, then west, then first
east. Kill the giant guard, which is a difficult task, then
regain strength because there are more fights to come.
Enter the "Blue Velvet" nightclub (only open at night), and
you are thrown in prison. Release the magpie through the
bars, pick up the key and open the cell. Put on five monk's
habits. In the fortress enter the passage between midnight
and 4am., pass the monk, and enter the sacrifice.
Recover the prison key from the monk's belt, then leave the
passage again. Find the invisible wall (where one of the
characters should notice a draught) and cross it. Leave the
prison, fight with the guards. For the next step you need at
least 10.000po. and an iron shield, if you have them, take
the boat for the island where you originally started (IRVAN)
Go as far east as you can, then follow the east coast. Find a
magician, give him 10,000po. then send out the eagle. Pick up
the mountain parchment. Return to the extreme west along the
coast, and when you find the standing stones continue to the
west end. Pick up the relic at the foot of the standing
stone. When Golem wakes up, kill him - remember though, most
spells won't work on him - then turn round and fight Golem a
second time. Return to the harbour. Select the mountains,
take the landing stage to the south.
In the mountains you must put on the fur coats. Take off the
armour, and attach the ropes to avoid falling. Move east,
pick up the cauldron from the snow, then set off in the
opposite direction following the mountain road along the
precipice. Go into the mountains, find a Rhinoceros, kill it
and take its horn. Return to the landing stage. Select the
mountains landings stage to the north-west. If necessary make
a return trip to the town for repairs. On leaving the
harbour, travel east. Follow the coast then take the passage
to the west. Fight with two giants, pick up the living sword
in a mountain hollow, then leave the passage again. Continue
northwards, and look for the priest at the end in a cul-de-
sac. Prepare the HUMBOLG potion and give it to him, then pick
up the tree island parchment. Return to the harbour and
select the tree island. If necessary, go repair your team to
Put on the pendant recovered from the dead woman. Take the
crossroads to the left, then to the north, and second on the
right. At the end, find an ent. Prepare the JABLOU potion and
give it to him to drink, then pick up the pendant. Go down to
the south again, go west and enter the village. Visit the
huts (two open huts give various information). Return to the
harbour, take the extreme east then fight with the ewoks. At
the end, pick up the relic then return towards the harbour.
Go north, east, north then east, follow the road and find the
stone druid at the end. Place the horn on it, and give it the
iron shield when it wakes up. Pick up the magic shield
(protects against fire), turn round then at the crossing go
north, east then first north. Fight with the monster, then
take the first west. Negotiate the labyrinth, avoiding false
trails and aggressive eagles, to arrive close to the dead
woman at the end to the west. Collect the key to the town
hall from around her neck, then hurry back to the harbour.
Go to the town hall (extreme north-west). Enter the town hall
and pick up the idol then go to the temple (west of the
bank), and give the idol back to the monk. Pick up the air
elemental pendant, then go on to the bank and draw out some
money. Buy arms and food if necessary ,eat and sleep but keep
7,100po. Return to the harbour, then go to the fortress.
Follow the left-hand wall always moving north as far as the
passage. In the circular corridor take the invisible passage
to the north. Follow the corridors and enter the flooded
area. In the maze keep taking the corridors to the north
until you leave the catacombs. Find three weighing scales and
put exactly 3,350po. on the first two scales. Return to the
catacombs, and hopefully the water has disappeared. Take the
second to the south-east, then at the end follow the small
underground passage. In the large room, activate the handle
at the south-east end. Take the treasure at the north-west
end, then put on the air elemental pendant. Continue to the
north-east end, take the first turning on the right, then
fight with the mummies (fire cloud and lightning are
effective). At the very end, go to the south and pick up a
Return to the north, then take the access to the east. Stop in
front of the wall, take the invisible passage to the south,
pick up the treasure and the skull. Return to your initial
position in front of the wall, then cross the invisible still
moving east. If blocked, sidestep to the south, then continue
east. Enter the prison. Remember you can find other treasures
if you pass other invisible passages at the end of the maze.
Follow the corridor. In the east kill the lion-guard. At the
eastern end, click the prison key in the lock and all the
cells open. Turn around and in the first cell to the right
you can find treasures behind an invisible wall. In one of
the cells is a blind girl who you must recruit, so you must
dismiss either the archer or warrior (dont forget to take his
possession). In the second cell to the south, starting from
the west, is a secret passage through an invisible wall.
Follow the corridor and enter a vast room. This area is
cursed!!! some characters are inverted. To un-invert them,
cast the lifting spell.
Go to the middle of the columns and pick up the living sword.
>From the center make the return: go north, return to the
centre, go south, return to the centre, go west and return to
the centre before continuing. At the end you find either
invisible walls with treasures or a secret passage with a
handle to be activated. Now take the passage to the south-
east, pass the door, following the corridor to the south. In
front of the grille, release the monkey then open the passage.
Reach the landing stage and select the entrance to the
Return south-east to the corridor with handles. Go due north
into the passage and follow the corridors to the west. Beware
of the destroying wizard of chaos by preparing psychic
protection, then kill him. Pick up the treasures and the
skull. Return to the passage entrance and take the corridor
to the south-east. Watch out for the magician, kill him, then
click on the button which is underneath the eagle-heads,
revealing a secret passage. Continue along the corridor to
the north, place the six skulls on the six scales. Continue
along, kill the guard and pick up the relic. Return to the
landing stage, and re-enter the town.
Buy five evening tunics from the clothes shop. Put on the
tunics and ent pendant, and enter the night club BLUE VELVET.
Pick up the end of fortress parchment. With 20,000po. go to
the cul-de-sac of the four towers at between one and two
o'clock in the morning. Give 20,000po. to the dodgy-looking
character, then pick up a relic.
Buy the ingredients for five anti-vertigo potions (MILDONG)
then eat and sleep. At the harbour, select the mountains and
the north-east landing stage.
Find a passage to the west. Follow the road, kill the
dwarves, then enter the mountains to the north. Pick up two
edelweiss plants - one in a cul-de-sac to the west, the other
in a cul-de-sac to the east. Return to the passage entrance.
Continue east, kill the vultures, then enter the mountains to
the north. Pick up one edelweiss plant, return to the passage
entrance, then go east followed by north. Take the passage to
the east and pick up two edelweiss plants. The place is
cursed, so cast a curse-lifting spell. To continue, each
character has to drink an anti-vertigo potion. Follow the
road, pick up a relic, then return to the harbour. Select the
mountains, then the north-west landing stage.
Travel west along the coast. Fight all the guards, then get
rid of one off the characters (dismiss or cast into the
void). Enter the mountains to the east, then kill the guards.
At the end, leave five relics on five pillars, and the druid
revives. Recruit the druid, who is essential for his fire-
protection spell. Return to the landing stage and select the
end of fortress. Return to the town if you need to replenish
Fight against the Fire Elemental: put the magic shield on one
of the characters, activate the fire-protection spell,
approach the elemental then strike. At the first crossroads,
turn right and travel right around the block. Take the access
open to the north, then at the next crossroads go to the west
(not essential). In the maze fight against the orcs, pick up
arms and treasures, then to the north pick a fight with the
dragon. To kill the dragon, use the same principle as with
the fire elemental - the protection spell must always be
validated, otherwise you've had it. Use the healing spell as
often as necessary, and you can have several goes at killing
Continue to the north, pick up the treasures in the crannies.
At the next crossroads go north, then through the secret
passage in the north wall. Continue, and fight against the
wizard and the skeletons. At the end of the maze with
invisible walls, activate the handle. Return to the
crossroads, go down to the south. You must slalom into the
room because there are spikes in the walls. Reach Shandar's
fortress. In the large room, move along the edges because
there are missiles in the ceiling. At the south-east end,
pick up the treasure, then at the north-west end fight the
knight and take the access to the north, follow the corridor,
and there's a mechanism to be activated in a small room to
the west. At the end, fight against the Gorgon (beware she
inverts !), then go into the large room with a fountain which
raises life points. Return to the room. The diversion to the
north is not necessary. You can move directly south when you
enter the room, you should reach the labyrinth with the
mummies and the witch. Take the passage to the south, then to
the east. There's a mechanism to be activated in the small
room to the west. Carry on and fight the lion guards. The
trapdoor can be activated to open the closed grille. At the
next crossroads head north, then at the end get the treasures
and activate the mechanism. return to the crossroads, then go
down to the south.
Follow the corridors to the end, then find a small room with
a magician. Listen to what he says (don't hit him !), then
take the north access in the previous corridor. Put the
parrot in front of the ear and the passage opens. In the next
room, slalom otherwise you bash your head, then in the next
room move along the edges. Prepare psychic shelter, then
fight against Shandar in the north access. Kill him, go back
to the country - and that's it, you've finished .... look out
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Paulo arrived at Stamford Bridge in 2004 when Jose Mourinho paid a then British record £13.2 million fee for a full-back to purchase the defender who had walked the road to Champions League glory with him at Porto.
Both player and manager had also won league titles in Portugal and were immediately into the winning groove in England, Paulo one of the major reasons why the Chelsea defence suffocated so many attacks in that first campaign.
A broken foot in March 2005 removed him from the action but by then he had already won the Carling Cup and played his part on Chelsea's route to a first championship in 50 years and a record-breaking defensive season.
In his second season, he was a less regular choice with William Gallas and later Gérémi often preferred at right-back, though he remained number one choice in the Champions League.
That season Paulo at last scored his first goal since moving to a top-level club, in the FA Cup v Colchester.
In August 2006, Gallas departed with new competition arriving in the shape of Khalid Boulahrouz. Paulo was just as likely to be found at stand-in centre-back as right-back in the early part of 2006/07 but he came back strongly.
In the second half of the campaign he regained the right-back shirt regularly and capped a return to his best form by playing a big part in subduing the celebrated Cristiano Ronaldo in the FA Cup Final. Chelsea won the trophy in the first final played at the new Wembley.
The next season followed a familiar pattern of sporadic activity. Avram Grant selected Paulo in his first side when he took over in September 2007 and the player then shared duties with recently-arrived Juliano Belletti, filling in on the left too when Ashley Cole and Wayne Bridge were both out. That was until an injury in Carling Cup action in October led to five weeks on the treatment table himself.
In the closing months of the season, he was increasingly preferred to the more attacking nature of Belletti, however Michael Essien was the right-back selected for the 2008 Champions League Final in Moscow, the Portuguese not even making the bench.
Having signed a new five-year contract in February 2008, Paulo might have been looking forward to working under his former international coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, but a sign of things to come came on the opening day of the campaign, as he played just seven minutes as a substitute for new arrival José Bosingwa.
It wasn't until Guus Hiddink's arrival in February 2009 that Ferreira started a Premier League game, covering for Ashley Cole at left-back after Wayne Bridge's departure had made him the main back-up on that side of the defence.
Paulo had fallen behind both Bosingwa and the versatile Branislav Ivanovic in the queue for his preferred right-back role, Bosingwa also taking over his starting place on the right of the national team defence. In total there were 3 starts and 9 sub appearances in the 2008/09 season which ended three months early due to a cruciate ligament injury.
To return in a little over six months, as he did when he played 90 minutes against QPR in the Carling Cup in September 2009, showed tremendous commitment to a professional career that had slowed.
He continued to figure in the Carling Cup, and even found the net from close range at Blackburn, only his second goal in a Chelsea shirt and the third of his career.
Had he been registered for the Champions League, where the squad was limited to 25 and had to include a quota of home-grown players, Paulo would surely have seen further action in the San Siro, where Florent Malouda played at left-back in a 2-1 defeat to Inter.
As Chelsea headed towards an historic Double under Carlo Ancelotti and with Ivanovic and Bosingwa both injured, Paulo played a crucially disciplined defensive role in the win at Old Trafford that took the team back to the top of the table. He played the FA Cup semi-final win over Villa too and 10 straight starts in domestic games saw him let nobody down, and although he played no part after the 7-0 thrashing of Stoke in late April, he had done enough to earn his two winners' medals from the season.
He began 2010/11 in the team but soon Ivanovic, and later in the season when fit-again, Bosingwa, were preferred choices although Paulo was controversially selected by Ancelotti in central defence rather than young Jeffrey Bruma for what proved to be a heavy home defeat by Sunderland.
Starts were infrequent in the second half of the campaign but among the 29 appearances he made the season came his 200th for the club.
The veteran defender's appearances in 2011/12 were both limited and sporadic, with competition for the right-back berth tough, although Paulo remained a dependable member of the squad for both Andre Villas-Boas and Roberto Di Matteo. He was called upon after half an hour at White Hart Lane in December and, much to the Tottenham fans' surprise, kept the hosts at bay with a fine man-marking display that reminded many of his reliable input to our past title-winning campaigns.
He was also involved from the start in our Champions League quarter-final first leg against Benfica in Lisbon, once again putting in a solid performance as the Blues defence kept the Portuguese side at bay, eventually succumbing to cramp after about 80 minutes.
Ferreira was handed his first start of the current campaign in the 2-0 win over Middlesbrough in the FA Cup in February, while also filling in at left-back in the 3-2 defeat against Rubin Kazan in in the Europa League quarter-final second leg.
Paulo began his career at Estoril-Praia close to his birthplace, before moving on to Vitoria Setubal in 2000. Following impressive performances in the Portuguese first division, he secured a move to Porto where his global reputation started to grow. He won the league, cup and finally the Uefa Cup to cap a remarkable first season at the club, before going on to feature in every minute of Porto's Champions League-winning campaign in his second year.
With consistent and solid defending, the young Paulo had become an international within six months of signing for Porto from lower table side Vitória Setubal, his debut in 2002 coming in a friendly against England at Villa Park.
However his nation's big party in the summer of Euro 2004 fell flat for him. He was dropped by the host nation's manager, Luiz Felipe Scolari, after a mistake in the opening game, only returning midway through Portugal's defeat by Greece in the tournament's final.
However he had been voted the best right-back in Europe the previous season and immediately became first choice for Portugal again on arriving at Chelsea.
Later he had to adapt at international level to become Portugal's first choice at left-back, a position he filled throughout Euro 2008 until the quarter-final defeat by Germany, and with some justification, he could point to a push by club-mate Michael Ballack when attempting to defend the winning goal.
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Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Champion, reigning from 1927 to 1935, and from 1937 until his death in 1946. He is the founding inspiration for the Soviet School of Chess that came to dominate world chess after World War II.
Alekhine was born in Moscow, on 31 October 1892 (October 19th on the Russian calendar). Circa 1898, he was taught the game of chess by his older brother, Alexei Alexandrovich Alekhine (1888-1939). His life and chess career were highly eventful and controversial, spiced with two World Wars, including internments by the Germans and the Soviet Cheka (by whom he was marked for execution as a spy) at either end of WWI; subjection to suasion by, and suspicions of collaboration with, the Nazis in WWII; the deaths of his brother, Alexei, in 1939 and his sister, Varvara, in 1944; four marriages; five world championship matches; alcoholism; poor health during WWII and conspicuously failed World Championship negotiations with Capablanca. His eventful life and career terminated in strange circumstances in Portugal just hours after the details of the Alekhine-Botvinnik World Championship match were finalised.
Despite – or perhaps because of this - Alekhine played some of the finest games the world has ever seen. His meticulous preparation, work ethic and dynamic style of play provided the founding inspiration for the Soviet School of Chess despite the fact that soon after he won the world title, his anti-Bolshevik commentaries marked him as an enemy of the Soviet Union until after his death.
1900-1910 By 1902, at the age of 10, young Alekhine was playing correspondence chess sponsored by Shakhmatnoe Obozrenie, Russia's only chess magazine at the time, and won the 16th and 17th Shakhmatnoe Obozrenie Correspondence Chess Tournaments in 1906 and 1910. In 1908, his win at the Moscow Chess Club's Spring Tournament, at the age of fifteen was followed by winning the Autumn Tournament a few months later, a feat which earned him the right to play in the All-Russian Amateur Tournament in 1909. The youngest player in the tournament at the age of sixteen, he won the All-Russian Amateur Tournament in St. Petersburg (+12 -2 =2), thereby earning the Russian Master title and becoming acknowledged as one of Russia’s top players; his prize was a cut glass Sevres vase that was donated by Czar Nicholas II, and which became his most prized and life-long possession. The year 1910 saw Alekhine win the Moscow Chess Club Autumn and Winter Tournaments, give his first simultaneous exhibition (+15 -1 =6) and participate in the master section of the 17th German Chess Congress in Hamburg, coming equal 7th with Fyodor Ivanovich Dus Chotimirsky. Upon graduating from Polivanov Grammar School in July 1910, he enrolled in started studying law at Moscow's Imperial University, but after a few months he transferred to the St. Petersburg School of Jurisprudence (where he eventually graduated in 1914).
1911-1920 In 1911, his success at winning some events at the Moscow Chess Club earned him the right to play Board 1 for the Moscow Chess Club in a match against the St. Petersburg Chess Club, during which he drew his game with Eugene Aleksandrovich Znosko-Borovsky. Late in 1911, he played in the 2nd International Tournament in Carlsbad and placed equal 8th, behind Richard Teichmann, Akiba Rubinstein, Carl Schlechter, Georg Rotlewi, Frank James Marshall, Aron Nimzowitsch, and Milan Vidmar. By 1912, Alekhine was the strongest chess player in the St. Petersburg Chess Society, winning the St. Petersburg Chess Club Winter Tournament in March and the 1st Category Tournament of the St. Petersburg Chess Club in April. His international successes began in 1912 when he won the 8th Nordic championship held in Stockholm with 8.5/10, 1.5 points clear of Erich Cohn, but then recorded his only minus score of his career later in 1912, when he won 7 and lost 8 games in the All Russian Masters Tournament in Vilna, placing equal 6th behind Rubinstein, Ossip Bernstein, Stefan Levitsky, Nimzovich, and Alexander Flamberg. In 1913, he tied for 1st with Grigory Levenfish in the St. Petersburg Masters Quadrangular Tournament, and then won the 40th Anniversary of the Nederlandschen Schaakbond Commemorative Tournament in Scheveningen with a score of 11.5 out of 13 ahead of a field that included David Janowski, Gyula Breyer, Frederick D Yates, Edward Lasker and Jacques Mieses.
Alekhine's first major success in a Russian tournament came when placed equal first with Aron Nimzowitsch in the All-Russian Masters Tournament at St. Petersburg in early 1914; the playoff was drawn with one win each and they were declared co-winners enabling both to qualify for the 'tournament of champions' in St. Petersburg which was held a few months later. At St. Petersburg he placed 3rd behind Emanuel Lasker and Jose Raul Capablanca. This was the tournament at which Czar Nicholas II was reputed to have awarded the title of Grandmaster of Chess to the top five place getters: Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Siegbert Tarrasch and Marshall. He graduated from the Emperor's College of Jurisprudence on May 16, 1914, finishing 9th in a graduating class of 46 and in July 1914, Alekhine tied for 1st with Marshall at the International Tournament in the Cafe Continental in Paris.
A few weeks later, he was leading at Mannheim in Germany with nine wins, one draw and one loss, when World War I broke out and the tournament was stopped with six rounds left to play. However this did not prevent Alekhine from receiving the prize money for first place, some 1100 marks. After the declaration of war against Russia, Alekhine and other Russian players, including Efim Bogoljubov, were interned in Rastatt, Germany. After some drama, he was released several weeks later and made his way back to Russia, where he helped raise money to aid the Russian chess players who remained interned in Germany by giving simultaneous exhibitions. Soon after he won the Moscow Chess Club Championship in December 1915, his mother died after which he was posted to the Austrian front where he served in the Union of Cities (Red Cross) on as an attaché in charge of a mobile dressing station. In September, while hospitalised at the Cloisters military hospital at Tarnopol, he played five people in a blindfold display, winning all games. After leaving hospital, Alekhine returned to Moscow, where he was decorated for valour. In 1918, chess activity which had been briefly banned under the new Bolshevik regime picked up under Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky, the Chief Government Commissar for General Military Organization, who encouraged and organized chess activities in Russia as part of the campaign to promote culture and education in the Red Army. In 1918, Alekhine worked at the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department as an examining magistrate. In June 1919, while in Odessa, Alekhine was briefly imprisoned and marked for execution by the Cheka, as they suspected him of being a spy due to some documents that were left in his hotel room by a previous occupant. He was released, apparently because of an intercession of a Jewish chess player Yakov S Vilner, who was also the 1918 Odessa chess champion (see paragraph below concerning Alekhine’s purported anti-semitism).** A few months later in Moscow in January 1920, he made a clean sweep of the Moscow City Chess Championship with a score of 11/11, and in October 1920, he won the first USSR Championship, his last tournament in Russia.
1921-30 Alekhine’s permanent departure from Russia in 1921 began a period of chess dominance matched only by Capablanca. Between leaving Russia in 1921 and winning the World Championship in 1927, Alekhine won or shared first prize in most of the tournaments in which he competed, including Budapest, L’Aia (in Italy), Triberg, and The Hague in 1921, Hastings and Karlsbad in 1922, the 16th British Chess Federation Congress at Portsmouth in 1923, Baden-Baden and the Five Masters Tournament in Paris in 1925, Hastings (1925-26), Birmingham, Scarborough and Buenos Aires in 1926, and Kecskemét 1927. Alekhine was 2nd or equal 2nd in the Breyer Memorial Tournament in Pistyan and at the 15th British Chess Federation Congress (known as the London victory tournament) in 1922, at Margate, Semmering, and the Dresden Chess Club 50th Year Jubilee Congress in 1926, and at New York in early 1927.
1931-38 Alekhine dominated chess for almost a decade after his title win. Tournament victories were at San Remo 1930 (+13 =2, 3½ points ahead of Nimzowitsch) and Bled 1931 (+15 =11, 5½ points ahead of Bogoljubov), London 1932, Swiss Championship in Berne in 1932, Pasadena 1932, Mexico City (=1st with Isaac Kashdan), Paris 1933, Rotterdam 1934, Swiss Championship in Zurich in 1934, and Orebro in 1935. In the eighteen months after losing the title to Max Euwe in 1935, Alekhine played in ten tournaments. His results were equal first with Paul Keres at Bad Nauheim in May 1936, first at Dresden in June 1936, second to Salomon Flohr at Poděbrady in July 1936, sixth behind Capablanca, Mikhail Botvinnik, Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky, and Euwe at Nottingham in August 1936 (including his first game – which he lost - against Capablanca since the title match), third behind Euwe and Fine at Amsterdam in October 1936, equal first with Salo Landau at the Amsterdam Quadrangular, also in October 1936, first at the Hastings New Year tournament of 1936/37 ahead of Fine and Erich Eliskases, first at the Nice Quadrangular in March 1937, third behind Keres and Fine at Margate in April 1937; equal fourth with Keres, behind Flohr, Reshevsky and Vladimir Petrov, at Kemeri in June–July 1937 and equal second with Bogoljubow behind Euwe at the Bad Nauheim Quadrangular in July 1937. After regaining his title from Euwe, 1938 saw Alekhine win or come equal first at Montevideo, Margate, and Plymouth before placing =4th with Euwe and Samuel Reshevsky behind Paul Keres, Reuben Fine, and Mikhail Botvinnik, ahead of Capablanca and Flohr, at the historic might-have-been Candidates-style AVRO tournament in the Netherlands. The AVRO (meaning Algemene Verenigde Radio Omroep or General United Radio Broadcasting) tournament, the strongest tournament ever until that time, was held in Holland on November 2-27, with the top eight players in the world participating in a double-round affair. Alekhine finished ahead of Capablanca for the first time, defeating him in their second encounter. Flohr, the official FIDE-endorsed challenger to Alekhine in the next world championship match came in last place without a single win in 14 rounds.
1939-1946 Alekhine was playing first board for France in the 8th Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939 when World War II broke out in Europe and as team captain of the French team, he refused to allow his team to play Germany. Shortly after the 1939 Olympiad, Alekhine won all his games at the tournaments in Montevideo (7/7) and Caracas (10/10). Alekhine returned to Europe in January 1940 and after a short stay in Portugal, he enlisted in the French army as a sanitation officer. After the fall of France in June 1940, he fled to Marseille and tried to emigrate to America but his visa request was denied. He returned to France to protect his wife, Grace Alekhine, an American Jewess, whom the Nazis had refused an exit visa, and her French assets, a castle at Saint Aubin-le-Cauf, near Dieppe, but at the cost of agreeing to cooperate with the Nazis.
He played in no tournaments in 1940.
During World War II, Alekhine played in 16 tournaments, winning 9 and sharing 1st place in four more. In 1941, he tied for second with Erik Ruben Lundin in the Munich 1941 chess tournament, won by Gosta Stoltz; the reception at this event was attended by Josef Goebbels and Dr. Hans Frank. Also in 1941, he tied for first with Paul Felix Schmidt at Cracow/Warsaw, and won at Madrid. In 1942, Alekhine won at Salzburg, Munich, Warsaw/Lublin/Cracow and tied for 1st with Klaus Junge at Prague, the latter having been sponsored by Germany’s Nazi Youth Association; these tournaments were organised by Alfred Ehrhardt Post, the Chief Executive of the Nazi-controlled Grossdeutscher Schachbund ("Greater Germany Chess Federation") - Keres, Bogoljubov, Gösta Stoltz, and several other strong masters in Nazi-occupied Europe also played in such events. In 1943, he drew a mini-match (+1 -1) with Bogoljubov in Warsaw, won in Prague and was equal first with Keres in Salzburg. By 1943 Alekhine was spending all his time in Spain and Portugal as the German representative to chess events. In 1944, he won a match against Ramon Rey Ardid in Zaragoza (+1 -0 =3; April 1944) and later won at Gijon when prodigy Arturo Pomar-Salamanca, aged thirteen, achieved a draw, the youngest person ever to do so with a world champion in a full tournament setting, a record that stands as of 2013. After the event, Alekhine took an interest in the development of Pomar and devoted a section of his last book to him. In 1945, he won at Madrid, tied for second place with Antonio Angel Medina Garcia at Gijón behind Antonio Rico Gonzalez, won at Sabadell, tied for first with Lopez Nunez in Almeria, won in Melilla and took second in Caceres behind Francisco Lupi. Alekhine's last match was with Lupi at Estoril near Lisbon, Portugal, in January 1946 which he won (+2 -1 =1).
In the autumn of 1945, Alekhine moved to Estoril, Portugal. In September, the British Chess Federation sent Alekhine an invitation to tournaments in London and Hastings. Alekhine accepted the invitations by cable from Madrid. In October, the United States Chess Federation (USCF) protested the invitation of Alekhine to the victory tournament in London. The USCF refused to take part in any projects or tournaments involving Alekhine. Protesters included Reuben Fine and Arnold Denker. In November, Alekhine was in the Canary Islands giving chess exhibitions and giving lessons to Arturo Pomar. Also in November 1945, a telegram arrived, signed by W. Hatton-Ward of the Sunday Chronicle, the paper that was organizing the victory tournament in London that, due to a protest from the United States Chess Federation, the invitations to tournaments in England had been cancelled. Shortly after, Alekhine had a heart attack. In December, Alekhine played his last tournament at Caceres, Spain.
In November 1921, Alekhine challenged Jose Capablanca to a world championship match. A match was suggested for the United States in 1922, but neither this nor a candidate match between Alekhine and Rubinstein in March 1922 to determine a challenger took place. In August 1922, Alekhine played in the 15th British Chess Federation Congress (known as the London victory tournament). The participants of the tournament signed the so-called London agreement on August 9, 1922, which were the regulations for world championship matches, first proposed by Capablanca. Signatories included Alekhine, Capablanca, Bogoljubow, Geza Maroczy, Reti, Rubinstein, Savielly Tartakower and Vidmar. Clause one of the London Rules stated that the match to be one of six games up, drawn games not to count.
After Alekhine won a tournament at Buenos Aires in October 1926, he again challenged Capablanca. The Argentine government undertook to guarantee the finances of the match and in New York Capablanca, Alekhine, and the Argentine organizers finally reached an agreement about the world championship match. The winner would be the first person with six wins, draws not counting. Capablanca accepted the challenge and began the Capablanca-Alekhine World Championship Match (1927) in Buenos Aires on September 16, 1927. All the games in Buenos Aires took place behind closed doors, with no spectators or photographs. Assisted by superior physical and theoretical preparations for the match – including a thorough study of Capablanca’s games - Alekhine became the 4th World Chess Champion after defeating Capablanca by +6 -3 =25 in the longest title match ever played till that time. The only longer title match since then was the Karpov-Kasparov World Championship Match (1984).
On July 29, 1929, Alekhine and Bogoljubow signed an agreement in Wiesbaden for a match. The rules differed from the London Rules (6 wins, draws not counting) with the number of maximum games limited to 30 games, but the winner still had to score at least 6 wins. The match was not played under the auspices of FIDE or the London Rules. He and Bogoljubow played the Alekhine-Bogoljubov World Championship Match (1929) at Wiesbaden (first 8 games), Heidelberg (3 games), Berlin (6 games), The Hague, and Amsterdam from September 6 through November 12, 1929. Alekhine won with 11 wins, 9 draws, and 5 losses. In April-June, 1934 Alekhine again played and defeated Bogoljubow in the Alekhine-Bogoljubov World Championship Rematch (1934) in Germany with the score of 8 wins, 15 draws and 3 losses. He then accepted a challenge from Max Euwe.
On October 3, 1935 the Alekhine-Euwe World Championship Match (1935) began in Zandvoort, with $10,000 to go to the winner. On December 15, 1935 Euwe had won with 9 wins, 13 draws, and 8 losses. This was the first world championship match to officially have seconds to help in analysis during adjournments. Salo Landau, a Dutch Jew, was Alekhine's second and Geza Maroczy was Euwe's second. From October 5 to December 7, 1937, Alekhine played Euwe for the world championship match in various Dutch cities (The Hague, Rotterdam, Haarlem, Groningen, and Amsterdam). Alekhine won the Euwe-Alekhine World Championship Rematch (1937), becoming the first world champion to regain the world title in a return match, winning 10 games, drawing 11, and losing 4.
Unfinished Championship negotiations
There were two sets of unfinished negotiations that featured prominently during Alekhine’s reign: the long awaited rematch with Capablanca and the extended negotiations for a match with Botvinnik.
On December 12, 1927, in Buenos Aires after their match finished, Alekhine and Capablanca discussed the conditions for a new match. Capablanca suggested limiting the number of games, but Alekhine liked the rules as they were. In 1929, after winning at Bradley Beach, New Jersey, Bradley Beach offered to host a Capablanca-Alekhine return match, but Alekhine refused and instead accepted the challenge from Efim Bogoljubow. Subsequently, Alekhine not only avoided a return match with Capablanca, but refused to play in any event that included the ex-champion.*** Capablanca was not invited to San Remo 1930 and Bled 1931 for this reason, a situation which continued until the Nottingham tournament of 1936, after Alekhine had lost the title to Max Euwe. During this tournament, Capablanca defeated Alekhine in their individual encounter. Negotiations continued in various forms until 1940, but the rematch never occurred, despite four title matches being played in 1929, 1934, 1935 and 1937, generating bitter denunciations from Capablanca.
FIDE had tried exercising its limited power by short listing Flohr and Capablanca respectively to challenge Alekhine, but Alekhine declared that he would not be bound by FIDE’s plans. After the AVRO tournament of 1938, which had originally been intended by FIDE as a Candidate-style tournament to produce a challenger for the title, both Botvinnik and Keres issued Alekhine with challenges with Flohr's challenge probably lapsing because of his last placing at AVRO. All three negotiations were stalled or derailed by World War II. The Soviet annexation of Estonia forced Keres’ withdrawal from negotiations in favour of Botvinnik, while Capablanca died in 1942. In 1946 within hours of the Alekhine-Botvinnik match arrangements having been completed, and a venue (in Britain) for the match finally agreed to, Alekhine was found dead in Room 43 of the Estoril Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal under unsettling circumstances.
Alekhine once reminisced: "I was only 9-years old, just after the turn of the century, when I saw the great American Pillsbury play 22 boards blindfolded in Moscow.", an experience that left a very deep impression on the budding chess player.
Alekhine played many simuls during the six years leading up to his world championship match in 1927, using them as fundraisers to meet the stiff conditions Capablanca had set for the challenge. He continued to play simuls, including blindfold and match simuls throughout the 30s. In New York on April 27, 1924, Alekhine broke the world record for blindfold play when he played 26 opponents, winning 16, losing 5, and drawing 5 after twelve hours of play. He broke his own record on in early 1925 by playing 28 games blindfold simultaneously in Paris, winning 22, drawing 3, and losing 3. In the early 1930s, Alekhine travelled the world giving simultaneous exhibitions, including Hawaii, Tokyo, Manila, Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in what subsequently became known as Alekhine's Magical Mystery Tour. In 1932, Alekhine played against 300 opponents in Paris grouped in 60 teams of 5 players each, winning 37, losing 6, and drawing 17. In July 1933, Alekhine played 32 people blindfold simultaneously (again breaking his own world record) at the Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago (World's Fair), winning 19, drawing 9, and losing 4 games in 14 hours.
Alekhine played first board for France in five Olympiads: Hamburg 1930, Prague 1931, Folkestone 1933, Warsaw 1935, and Buenos Aires 1939. He won the gold medal for first board in 1931 and 1933, and silver medals for first board in 1935 (Flohr winning gold) and 1939 (Capablanca winning gold). Although he didn’t win a medal in Hamburg because of insufficient games played, he won 9/9 and the brilliancy prize for the game Stahlberg vs Alekhine, 1930. His overall game score for the five Olympiads was +43 =27 -2. It was apparently during his journey to play for France in the 1935 Olympiad that Alekhine arrived at the Polish border with no documents or passport. Alekhine allegedly told the border guard, “I am Alekhine, chess champion of the world. This is my cat. Her name is Chess. I need no passport.”
Several openings and opening variations are named after Alekhine, including Alekhine's Defence. Alekhine is known for his fierce and imaginative attacking style, combined with great positional and endgame skill. He also composed some endgame studies. Alekhine wrote over twenty books on chess, mostly annotated editions of the games in a major match or tournament, plus collections of his best games between 1908 and 1937.
Alekhine was married four times, first to Russian baroness Anna von Sewergin in 1920 to legitimise their daughter Valentina, and divorced her some months later. Valentina died circa 1985 in Vienna. In 1921, he married Anneliese Ruegg, Swiss journalist, Red Cross nurse and Comintern delegate and they had a son in 1922, named after him. Young Alex Aljechin, as he came to be known, was under the guardianship of Dr. Erwin Voellmy for some years and in later years, he made regular appearances as a spectator in Dortmund until about 2005. Alekhine divorced Ruegg in 1924. In 1924, Alekhine met Nadezhda Semyenovna Fabritskaya Vasiliev, widow of the Russian General V. Vasiliev, and married her in 1925, divorcing her in 1934. In 1934, he met and married his fourth and final wife, Grace Wishaar, a wealthy US-born British citizen. Alexander and Grace Alekhine – for whom this was also her fourth marriage - remained married until he died.
Accusations of Anti-Semitism
Alekhine was accused of anti-Semitism following a series of articles that was published in 1941 within Nazi-occupied France in the Pariser Zeitung and in the Deutsche Schachzeitung under his by-line. In April, 1941, he tried to go to America via Lisbon, but was denied a visa apparently because of these articles. Controversy over whether they were a result of genuine collaboration, or whether he was forced to write these articles under Nazi coercion, or whether articles written by him were changed by Nazi editing for publication continues to this day. The evidence against him includes a series of articles written in his own hand that were found after his death, although the extent to which they may have been coerced is unclear. The evidence that he was not anti-semitic includes a lifetime of friendly dealings with Jewish chess players (including his second at the 1935 world championship, Salo Landau); friends, and possibly his fourth wife, Grace Alekhine to whom he was married for 14 years until his death; and Yakov Vilner who interceded on his behalf to save him from execution by the Soviet Cheka in 1918. Grace defended her late husband, asserting that he refused privileges offered by the Nazis.
“He played gigantic conceptions, full of outrageous and unprecedented ideas. ... he had great imagination; he could see more deeply into a situation than any other player in chess history. ... It was in the most complicated positions that Alekhine found his grandest concepts.” - <Bobby Fischer>
“Alexander Alekhine is the first luminary among the others who are still having the greatest influence on me. I like his universality, his approach to the game, his chess ideas. I am sure that the future belongs to Alekhine chess.” - <Garry Kasparov>
"He is a poet who creates a work of art out of something which would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture postcard." - <Max Euwe>
"Firstly, self-knowledge; secondly, a firm comprehension of my opponent's strength and weakness; thirdly, a higher aim – ... artistic and scientific accomplishments which accord our chess equal rank with other arts." - <Alexander Alekhine>
Alekhine also played at least 40 recorded consultation chess games including the following partnerships: Alekhine / Amateur, Alekhine / B Reilly, Alekhine/Trompowski, Alekhine/Esser G, Alexander Alekhine / Leon Monosson, Alexander Alekhine / Efim Bogoljubov, Alexander Alekhine / Walter Oswaldo Cruz, Alekhine/Cruz O, Alekhine / Blumenfeld, Alekhine / Bernstein, Alekhine / Znosko-Borovsky, Alekhine/Frank, Alekhine / V Rozanov, Alekhine / D N Pavlov, Alekhine/Nenarokov, Alekhine/Tselikov, Alekhine / Tereshchenk, Alekhine / Zimmerman, Alexander Alekhine / Victor Kahn, Alekhine / E Barron, Alexander Alekhine / Johannes van den Bosch, Alekhine/Wahrburg R, [bad chessgames.com link, Alekhine / Dr. Fisher, Alekhine/Budovsky, Alekhine / Allies, & Alekhine / Koltanowski Blindfold Team ].
*1912-14 results: http://storiascacchi.altervista.org... ** Wikipedia article: Yakov Vilner *** There is correspondence between Alekhine and Capablanca that suggests that Alekhine was open to a rematch and actually accepted a challenge from Capablanca in 1930, but that it fell through because of difficulties on Capablanca's side: Max Euwe.
- Kevin Spraggett ’s theory about Alekhine’s death: http://kevinspraggett.blogspot.com/... and http://kevinspraggett.blogspot.com/...;
- 2006 Chessbase article about Alekhine's death: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...;
- two Russian articles that include commentary on Alekhine's death: <1>: http://www.gambiter.ru/chess/item/1... (Russian language) - Google translation is as follows: http://translate.google.com.au/tran... and <2> http://www.kastornoe.newmail.ru/ale... (Russian language) - Google translation as follows: http://translate.google.com.au/tran...;
- YouTube documentary by <jessicafischerqueen> about Alekhine based on information from the websites of <Edward Winter>, <Bill Wall>, and <Kevin Spraggett>: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...;
- Bill Wall on Alekhine: http://www.geocities.com/siliconval...;
- Playlist of 29 games analysed by <Kingscrusher>: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- Discussion about literature about Alekhine: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... and a list of books about Alekhine http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...
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But as a union leader, it was Miller who took on baseball's establishment in the late 1960s, eventually guiding players to an era of mega-salaries and free agency, thereby changing the landscape of American sports.
PHOTOS: Notable deaths of 2012
Miller died Tuesday at his home in Manhattan, several months after being diagnosed with liver cancer, his family announced. He was 95.
Historian Studs Terkel characterized him as "the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis," the legendary mine workers leader. Hank Aaron, one of the game's most-prolific home run hitters, wrote that he "should be in the Hall of Fame [even] if the players have to break down the doors to get him in."
During Miller's tenure as head of the Major League Baseball Players Assn. from 1966 to 1982, average salaries rose from $19,000 to $241,000, in large part because he fought baseball's antitrust exemption and gave players the right to move from team to team.
"Marvin possessed a combination of integrity, intelligence, eloquence, courage and grace that is simply unmatched in my experience," said Donald Fehr, who later headed the players union. "Without question, Marvin had more positive influence over Major League Baseball than any other person in the last half of the 20th century."
But not everyone appreciated Miller. As basketball and football subsequently adopted free agency, fans saw higher ticket prices, work stoppages and a new order in which favorite players often switched teams.
"You may not like what he did," said David Carter, executive director of USC's Sports Business Institute, "but you can't argue with how he did it."
Before Miller's arrival on the scene, owners dominated the sport. It came as a shock when Dodgers stars Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale held out for more money in 1966, the team eventually signing them for $125,000 and $110,000, respectively.
That same spring, the ineffective players union went looking for a leader and was referred to Miller.
Born April 14, 1917, he had grown up in Brooklyn, and his fondest childhood memories included Dodgers games at Ebbets Field, a short subway ride from home.
Miller received an early education in trade unionism from his father, a garment district salesman who organized fellow workers. After graduating from New York University, he worked for the New York City welfare department before taking jobs as an economist with the War Production Board and the War Labor Board during World War II.
"It was kind of like a utopian dream," he said of the latter board, created to handle disputes between management and workers. "And it worked remarkably well."
Miller subsequently moved to the United Steelworkers, where he spent 16 years as a research economist and, later, assistant to the president. In 1963, President Kennedy appointed him to a national labor management panel.
After the players union approached him, Miller made the rounds at spring training, facing opposition from wary players.
"The club owners are saying that you're one bad guy; they're saying terrible things about you," he recalled hearing.
Miller told them: "If I represent you and, at some point down the road, you begin to hear management people praising me, it's time to fire me." | <urn:uuid:42b363b1-c021-4079-a654-2cbad6dc10c5> | 2013-05-24T01:45:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Child Honouring is a philosophy—a vision, an organizing principle, and a way of life—the children-first way of sustainability.
It starts with three givens:
The primacy of early years—early childhood is the gateway to humane being.
We face planetary degradation that is unprecedented in scope and scale—a state of emergency that most endangers the very young, and that requires a remedy of equal scale.
This crisis calls for a systemic response in detoxifying the environments that make up the world of the child.
Child Honouring is a children-first approach to healing communities and restoring ecosystems. It views how we regard and treat our young as the key to building a humane and sustainable world. It is a novel idea—organizing society around the priority needs of its youngest members.
The essence of the vision is expressed in A Covenant for Honouring Children and its underlying principles.
Its spirit is invitational—a call to imagine and create a diversity of child-friendly cultures. A child-honouring society would show love for its children, and thus for all of us, in every facet of its design and organization. | <urn:uuid:77bc4633-2d48-4f6c-9ae3-4bebc30946c5> | 2013-05-24T01:58:33Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Glass, debris and overturned furniture are strewn inside a room in the gutted U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 12, 2012. / Ibrahim Alaguri, AP
On the night that the U.S. consulate was attacked in Libya, the U.S.military had a rapid reaction force of Marines in Spain, two Navy destroyers off the Libyan coast, and U.S. fighter jets parked on the nearby Mediterranean island of Crete.
But Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey on Thursday told the Senate Armed Services Committee that none of it could've stopped the attack. The "rapid reaction force" would've taken at least 12 hours to get to the scene, they said.
Furthermore, when asked who was in charge of making decisions and ordering up assistance, Panetta said no one in particular.
"It's not that simple," Panetta said. Asked again, he said: "We all were."
The testimony of the top Pentagon leaders answered some of the questions surrounding the Sept. 11 attack but not all. One question above all others that was answered is sure to generate controversy.
The engagement of President Obama during the evening of the attack has been a question for months. In the hearing room, Panetta testified that he was up all night monitoring the situation and that he never heard from the president, nor the president from him.
Panetta said he and Dempsey briefed Obama in the White House for 15 to 20 minutes shortly after the outset of the attack on Benghazi and also discussed unrest outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo.
"Do whatever you have to do to protect our people out there," Panetta said he was told by the president.
He and Dempsey also said they did not confer directly with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was in charge of the embassy and its staff and responsible for their safety. They did participate in at least one meeting that included people from the White House and State Department.
"Obviously, the president didn't view this as a priority that required him to stay in touch with his secdef (secretary of defense) or the chairman of his Joint Chiefs of Staff," said Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. "You'd think that an act of terrorism would have been something he'd want to be engaged in."
Dempsey's rationale for why no military assets in Crete, Italy, Spain and elsewhere across the Mediterranean could arrive in Benghazi in time "seems not credible" and "almost ridiculous," Pletka said.
"The truth is these are ex post facto excuses. The reality is they had no intention of scrambling any forces because they weren't taking this seriously enough."
Invaders armed with rifles and rocket propelled grenades attacked the consulate in Benghazi and a safe house nearby that night. Video of the event was being provided in real-time by a drone that had been dispatched to the scene. U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and State Department information management officer Sean Smith died in a fire at the consulate.
According to testimony and a report by the State Department's Accountability Review Board, the attacks started with explosions, rockets and gunfire launched out of the quiet night at the consulate compound. Attackers set buildings on fire, and then pursued consulate personnel evacuating to a second compound in the city.
A second attack occurred at the second compound, where mortar fire killed two former Navy SEALs, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, and severely injured a diplomatic security worker.
The Obama administration has provided various explanations and timelines for what happened, some of which appear contradictory. Americans have yet to be told exactly who was behind the attack, and why no one has been made to pay for it.
In the weeks after the attack, U.S.officials told media outlets that Panetta moved assets all over the region as a response. At some point he ordered an elite Marine "Fleet Anti-terrorism Support Team" (FAST) platoon from Rota, Spain. It arrived in Libya the next day, 23 hours after the attack began.
Also, a special operations team from Central Europe was moved to the Sigonella Air Base in Sicily and two Navy destroyers in the Mediterranean were sent to the Libyan coast. Neither appeared to have been used.
Dempsey said AC-130 gunships, which have been used so effectively in Iraq and Afghanistan to suppress enemy fighters on the ground, were not available because the nearest ones were more than 1,000 miles away and there were no armaments nor fuel facilities to support them.
F-16 fighter jets were at Aviano Air Base, Italy, and some critics say they could have at least been sent to fly in low over the area and perhaps scatter attackers.
No strike aircraft or other Department of Defense assets were deployed to interrupt the attack before it was over, "because the attack ended before we could get anyone off the ground," Panetta said.
Even if they could have scrambled aircraft, they didn't have good enough information on who to hit, Panetta said.
"We have taken several steps since this happened," Panetta said. "Some of these fast teams did not have airlift. They now have airlift."
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., asked if any U.S. military assets were ever deployed before the attack was over. It was several hours from the time the first attack began until the final one concluded.
"No," Panetta said. "Because the attack ended before we could get anyone off the ground."
"Did Gen. (Carter) Ham (commander of U.S. Africa Command) order a military asset in motion and someone told him to stand down?"
"No," Dempsey said.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., said there was plenty of intelligence to suggest that Americans were in grave danger from well-armed attackers. Not only was there live video, but the Americans themselves conveyed the urgency of their plight to their superiors in Libya and Washington.
Dempsey told CNN that it was impractical for the military to be "every place" in the world, and appeared to suggest that the manner in which the attack played out may be why the military held off. The attack began on the consulate in Benghazi, then shifted to a nearby safe house where some of the Americans had fled.
"You know, it wasn't a seven-hour battle," he said. "It was two 20-minute battles separated by about six hours.
According to a State Department report and others, diplomatic security personnel issued repeated requests for air support, and requests for unmanned drones to suppress the attackers, but none arrived.
The White House says there were no assets available to assist those in the annex.
"Certainly those in the annex felt there were military options," Pletka said. If the USA has strike capability in North Africa, "Why after many hours were our forces and Centcom not able to do anything at all?"
Then there is the question of who did it. The White House initially said for days that the attackers were a spontaneous mob angry over an anti-Islam video produced in the USA. That story was incorrect, as the administration later acknowledged.
Ham, was quoted recently as saying that some of the attackers may have been members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb -- al-Qaeda's North African wing -- but he could not say if it was directed by the terror group.
Copyright 2013 USATODAY.com
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It was Admiral Shi Lang (施琅) who conquered Taiwan for Qing China. His armada of war junks fought a decisive sea battle off the Pescadores on July 7, 1683.
Koxinga or Zheng Chengkong drove the Dutch out of Taiwan in 1662 and founded the house of Zheng that ruled the island and the Pescadores for closely to 20 years. But he and his son Zheng Jing (鄭經) did so not as Ming emperor.
The father finally had time to ask his daughter what was all about. “What did you made the horse to come seek me out and get me back home for?” he questioned her.
Serikos is the Greek word, which means silken in English. The adjective means “pertaining to the Seres,” the Asian people from whom the Greeks first obtained the soft texture.
Of the Hoklo population in Taiwan those hailing from Quanzhou (泉州) form the preponderant majority. In the county of Tongan (同安) under the jurisdiction of the prefecture of Quanzhou, a boy was born on the twenty-second day of the eighth moon on the Chinese lunar calendar while China had yet to be reunified by the Emperor Taizhu of the Song (宋太祖) Dynasty who reigned from 960 to 976 A.D.
There are usually three Buddha images in the main hall of a Buddhist temple in Taiwan. They include Sakyamuni or Gautama Siddhartha, Dipankara (Dipamkara in Pali) or Randeng fo (燃燈佛) in Chinese, and Maitreya (彌勒佛).
Gods of thunder in China's Taoist pantheon had to work together with Feng Shi (風師) or Feng Shen (風神), Gods or Goddesses of Wind.
The imperial orders of Xuanzhong (玄宗) were obeyed to the letter. Everybody at his court and palaces searched for anything that had an image of the dragon.
One of the dragons is said to have caused storm and flood by mistake. Legend has it that during the reign (627-650 A.D.) of the emperor Taizhong of the Tang Dynasty (唐太宗), a dragon king came from his undersea palace to visit Zhangan, the capital city, where he met a Taoist diviner who knew what he was and told him to go back to carry out the Jade Emperor's rainmaking order.
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The History of Chrismons
In 1940, Reverend George Pass, an elderly minister who visited her home during the Christmas season, influenced Frances Kipps Spencer. Reverend Pass was from a poor church and, in order to acquire the materials to make decorations, asked Mrs. Spencer for her discarded wrappings. His creations from these meager materials were then shared with his congregation.
Reverend Pass' great devotion moved Mrs. Spencer and her husband, Harry, to continue the tradition and make their own ornaments for decoration of their tree.
In 1957, Mrs. Spencer volunteered to be in charge of the decorations for her church, The Ascension Lutheran Church of Danville, Va. She decided instead of traditional balls and colored lights, that handmade ornaments would be more appropriate.
Mrs. Spencer began to study the monograms of Christ and, after discovering the Latin word chrisma, the name Chrismon was born. Four instructional books were written by Mrs. Spencer with the help of her congregation so that this "ministry" might be shared throughout the United States and the world.
As the popularity of Chrismon making grew, it became increasingly difficult to get supplies. In 1964, Rufty's Garden Shop in Salisbury, NC became the chief supplier of Chrismon components. Harold and Barbara Rufty searched and found manufactures in New York and Japan who could supply the necessary materials for making Chrismons.
One should not underestimate the contributions of Harold Rufty to the growth of Mrs. Spencer's Ministry. He was willing to satisfy this small market ignored by the established crafts industry
"Early Christians used symbols of the early church to transmit the faith and beliefs of the artist/teacher to the viewer. Thus the inspiration was shared and passed on."
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Four months after his May 27 death, the autopsy of Jeff Conway, 60, star of "Grease" and "Taxi," has finally been released, revealing a major internal infection as the cause of death.
The death was ruled accidental by the Los Angeles County coroner with several complications listed – septic emboli, encephalopathy, pneumonia, artery disease, and coronary artery disease.
Having a long history of drug addiction, Conway was last hospitalized for his addiction on May 10 after being found unconscious in his home.
At that time he was also struggling with a bout of pneumonia and sepsis as well as recovering from back surgery.
Conway never regained consciousness and was in a coma until his family took him off life support on May 27.
Aside from roles in various movies and TV shows, Conaway was on the first season of "Celebrity Rehab," where his addiction was heavily chronicled.
Dr. Drew Pinsky, who is the host and doctor on "Celebrity Rehab," told the public that he doesn't believe drugs were the final cause of Conaway's death saying "aspiration with overwhelming pneumonia and sepsis" is what he believed killed the actor.
Conaway got started in show business when he appeared in a number of commercials while still in college. His first movie role was in "Jennifer on My Mind." But he received his most success when cast as a character in the "Grease" play which later became the hit movie.
Before acting Conaway was in a 60s rock band as a guitarist and lead singer for the band 3 1/2, signed to Cameo Records releasing four singles from 1966-67.
Conaway's last musical venture was with his wife Vikki Spinoza, when in 2008 they released "Saints & Sinners," which featured Conaway doing singing vocals and rapping. | <urn:uuid:af5c525b-eefd-49db-b363-679d5e43c50d> | 2013-05-24T02:05:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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" Pretty cool era for mounted archery, excepting 1750 and earlier! What a cool Olympic sport that would be, too..."
Where I live, mounted shooting is becoming very popular, perhaps mounted archery will be next. A very fun spectator sport as well.
"I don't think PNW Natives had much use for hunting on horseback, the horse was late to come to the area, because they weren't as big on hunting big game and had no real need for horses."
Uh, how about the Nez Perce? (PNW Indians that traveled on their well bred Appaloosa horses) to search out and hunt the buffalo, read the logs of Lewis and Clark,...... the Shoshones were horse people of Montana and were driven into the mountains but traveled by HORSEBACK to hunt on the plains of Montana.
Have you ever ridden out in the woods amongst the deer? You cannot walk amongst the deer but you sure can ride amongst them because they let down their guard when you are on a horse and you can get closer. Would you consider a mule deer small game? | <urn:uuid:d75655e4-2ee7-4680-871f-223fbd1ab452> | 2013-05-24T02:06:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Haiti’s 1804 slave revolt freed it from French Imperial domination, so we forced them to pay reparations to French slave traffickers for most of the 19th century. President Thomas Jefferson refused to recognize Haiti as an independent nation, and this continued until the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1864.
In the early 20th century, America invaded Haiti and occupied it until 1934, making it a safe haven for U.S. corporate powers to exploit the population and siphon its wealth into their bank accounts. After troops withdrew, a series of brutal U.S. sponsored dictatorships oppressed the people, the most notable being the Duvalier father-and-son regime, and its murderous and ruthless Tonton Macoutes.
The only freely elected leader of Haiti was the former priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide, elected in 1990 and removed in a U.S.-created coup in 1991, and reinstalled in 1994 by Clinton—serving two years but burdened with International Monetary Fund “structural agreements,” designed to destroy the public sector, typical of “free (forced) trade” requirements of the neo-liberal/Chicago School ideology. A former food-exporting country soon became 100 percent dependent on imported food as U.S. imports collapsed its agricultural class.
Aristide was re-elected in 2001, amid much intimidation and violence directed at his supporters by opposition groups and former Tonton Macoutes secret-police members, and he was again removed by Bush in 2004.
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Here's to adversity. This album was recorded after a difficult divorce and shows Belew
in a moment of self-actualization -- taking positive steps to overcome pain and hardship. And this is one of the strongest critiques of this record..."God Adrian, do you have to be so upbeat about everything?!" This is a misconception, however; the transcendental pinings are so strong in places that the darker ins and outs of this recording are often overshadowed. Nearly all instruments are played by Belew
. Probably the strongest track here is "This Is What I Believe In" (once described by Linford Detweiler
as "having more time changes than a cheap wristwatch"). Music is intense and yearning -- and Belew
sings as though his life depends on getting the words out. His guitar solo on this track sounds like a saxophone, and other diverse experimentation with the guitar litters this record at every turn. The signature lick on the first single, "Standing in the Shadows," is created by scratching the strings vertically with a guitar pick. Other transcendental songs, such as "Birds," "I'd Rather Be Right Here," or "Member of the Tribe," are uplifting exhortations -- this is the first time Adrian
has sung about this kind of thing. He sings about the dissolution of his previous marriage in the unfortunately titled "War In the Gulf Between Us" -- with a mood akin to exhaustion and resignation. From beginning to end, this is a fun romp and a fine example of Belew
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Sir Dano wrote:^I'd say Eurobricks would be another good place to add it.
Karalora wrote:If the sharp points were the problem, apparently they aren't anymore, because they're producing tridents for the Atlantis theme.
Ye Olde Republic wrote:This is a good point but aren't the tridents made from the softer, rubbery plastic? I would not want my pitchforks made from anything other than abs. Maybe a better example would be some of the tooth or horn elelments?
What about this though....
TLG may not want to, or be able to financially justify production of two elements that are so similar yet so different, re: trident vs. pitchfork.
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Partita No. 1 : Work information
- Work name
- Partita No. 1
- Work number
- BWV 1002
- B minor
- 1720-01-01 02:00:00
- Adam Abeshouse
- Adam Abeshouse
- Recording date
- 1994-09-29 00:00:00
Johann Sebastian Bach
One of the greatest composers in history, Johann Sebastian Bach (father of C.P.E, J. C. and W. F. Bach) was by far the most significant member of the Bach dynasty of musicians.
He outshone his forebears and contemporaries, but did not always receive the respect he deserved in his own lifetime. After a brief engagement as a violinist in the court of Weimar, Bach became organist at the Neukirche in Arnstadt. In June 1707 he moved to St. Blasius, Mühlhausen, and married his cousin Maria Barbara Bach. In 1708 he was appointed court organist in Weimar where he composed most of his works for organ. In 1717, he was appointed Court Kapellmeister to the young Prince Leopold at Cöthen, but was refused permission to leave Weimar. The Duke only allowed Bach to go after holding him prisoner for nearly a month.
While at Weimar, Bach wrote his violin concertos and the six Brandenburg Concertos, as well as several suites, sonatas and keyboard works, including several, such as the Inventions and Book I of the 48 Preludes and Fugues (The Well-tempered Clavier). In 1720 Maria Barbara died, and the next year Bach married Anna Magdalena Wilcke. Bach resigned the post in Weimar in 1723 to become cantor at St. Thomas’ School in Leipzig where he was responsible for music in the four main churches of the city. Here he wrote the Magnificat and the St. John and St. Matthew Passions, as well as a large quantity of other church music. In Leipzig he eventually took charge of the University “Collegium Musicum” and occupied himself with the collection and publication of many of his earlier compositions.
Over the years that followed, Bach’s interest in composing church music declined somewhat, and he took to writing more keyboard music and cantatas. As his eyesight began to fail, he underwent operations to try and correct the problem, and these may have weakened him in his old age. He died at age 65, having fathered a total of 20 children with his two wives. Despite widespread neglect for almost a century after his death, Bach is now regarded as one of the greatest of all composers and is still an inexhaustible source of inspiration for musicians. Bach’s compositions are catalogued by means of the prefix BWV (Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis) and a numbering system which is generally accepted for convenience of reference.
The crowning achievement of J S Bach's instrumental writing, the set of solo Sonatas and Partitas are the ultimate test of musicianship and technique for the violinist. Composed in 1720 at Cothen, the set alternates Italian sonatas and French suites or partitas.
Bach's complete knowledge and mastery of the instrument allowed him to make full use of the violin's expressive range. For example, by asking the violinist to play on multiple strings at once, or play arpeggiated chords rapidly, Bach creates such complex harmonies that it's sometimes difficult to believe only one instrument is playing!
Although the sonatas follow the same formal pattern, all three partitas are constructed differently, though all are suites of dance movements. Partita No. 1 consists of four pairs of movements, the second of each pair varying the first. Displaying some virtuosic passagework, especially in the Doubles, the movements retain their dance characteristics and exhibit a bewitching formal beauty. | <urn:uuid:843c9cf6-11a8-45f3-9e5c-2ead998dc9f6> | 2013-05-24T01:44:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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If you are thinking about refinancing your mortgage, you should be aware of the variable and factors that may effect your new rate. Home mortgage refinance rate change depending on the housing market and economy.
At the time that you purchased your home, the housing market determined your interest rates as well as your credit score and your down payment. If your original loan was set at a fixed rate mortgage which for any number of reasons has decreased, then you may want to refinance to get a better rate. This is the perfect time to refinance your mortgage. You have the option of exchanging your low interest rate for a much higher one.
This will give you a lower monthly payment as well. It is so important to wait until you really need to refinance you mortgage. With that being said, there will come times when you would like to pull some of the equity out of your home for many different reasons, but it is important to refinance at the right time and for the right reasons.
When you refinance your home mortgage rate, you will also shorten your repayment term. For instance, if you have been paying on your mortgage for 10 years and you have a 30 year mortgage, by refinancing you can now choose a shorter term. Not only can you save yourself thousands of dollars in interests, but you will also be able to build the equity of your home. | <urn:uuid:bb13488b-7167-4cdd-8f73-a1512e70d7fd> | 2013-05-24T01:50:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Contemporary superstar George Strait, '60s and '70s hitmaker Sonny James and legendary studio musician Harold Bradley have been selected as the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame. The formal inductions will take place during the 40th annual CMA Awards on Nov. 6 in Nashville.
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Strait will become the second artist inducted in a category for artists who achieved national prominence between 1975 and the present. James will be inducted in a separate category for those who achieved career prominence between World War II and 1975. Bradley will be inducted in a category honoring recording and/or touring musicians active prior to 1980.
Strait, James and Bradley will increase membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame from 95 to 98 inductees. All Hall of Fame inductees are selected by a panel of more than 300 anonymous voters appointed by the board of directors of the Country Music Association.
George Strait remains one of the most successful and influential country artists of the past 25 years. Born May 18, 1952, in Poteet, Texas, and raised in nearby Pearsall, Strait was the son of a junior high school teacher who owned and operated a ranch that had been in his family for nearly 100 years. After graduating from high school and briefly attending college, Strait married his high school sweetheart, Norma, before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1971. While stationed in Hawaii, he began playing country music with an Army-sponsored group.
Discharged from the Army in 1975, Strait returned to Texas and enrolled in Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos. He graduated in 1979 with a degree in agriculture, but he also formed the Ace in the Hole band and recorded a few albums for a Dallas-based independent record company. In 1979, Strait became friends with Erv Woolsey, a Texas club owner and former MCA Records employee. A year later, Strait was signed to MCA Records with Woolsey as his manager.
Strait's debut single, "Unwound," hit No. 6 on the country chart in 1981 and became a Top 10 hit. Ever since, he has had at least one single hit the Top 10. He landed his first No. 1 single, "Fool Hearted Memory," in 1982, and his long string of Billboard No. 1 hits include "You Look So Good in Love," "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind," "The Chair," "Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her," "All My Ex's Live in Texas," "Blue Clear Sky," "Carrying Your Love With Me," "Write This Down" and "She'll Leave You With a Smile."
From 1997 until 2001, he headlined the George Strait Country Music Festival. The day-long concerts at stadiums throughout the U.S. featured Kenny Chesney, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw and several others.
Strait has sold more than 62 million albums, and his certifications from the RIAA include 13 multi-platinum, 30 platinum and 33 gold albums. According to the RIAA, he has received more Gold albums than any other country artist, and he is currently tied with Frank Sinatra in eighth place for the most gold albums of any artist in any musical genre. Strait has received 16 CMA Awards, including consecutive entertainer of the year honors in 1989 and 1990.
He will release his 34th MCA Nashville album, It Just Comes Natural, on Oct. 3.
Born James Hugh Loden on May 1, 1929, in Hackleburg, Ala., Sonny James was one of the most successful country artists of the '60s and '70s. Known as the Southern Gentleman, James recorded a string of singles that spent a total of 57 weeks in the No. 1 spot on the country chart between 1960 and 1979.
By the time he was 3, James was performing with his family at friends' houses. In 1933, the family band began performing regularly on radio station WMSD in Muscle Shoals, Ala. After winning a regional talent competition, the group performed for two weeks on WAPI in Birmingham, Ala., where vocalist Kate Smith gave the child a silver dollar and predicted he would have a bright future as a musician. The Loden Family performed on radio stations in Arkansas and Mississippi before heading to WNOX in Knoxville, Tenn., in the mid-'40s. At the Knoxville station, James first came into contact with several notable musicians, including Chet Atkins and Earl Scruggs.
After finishing high school and serving a tour of duty in the National Guard during the Korean Conflict, James moved to Nashville and renewed his friendship with Atkins, who had become a successful recording artist and studio musician. Atkins arranged an audition with Capitol Records' producer Ken Nelson. He changed his name to Sonny James before releasing his first Capitol single, "That's Me Without You," in 1953. He scored his first No. 1 in 1956 with "Young Love," a single that spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the country chart and also topped the pop chart.
With a smooth vocal delivery and a sophisticated acoustic guitar style, James began hitting his stride in 1964 with the No. 1 single, "You're the Only World I Know." With a total of 23 No. 1 singles, James was never hesitant to put a country spin on songs that had been pop hits for others. His biggest hits include "Take Good Care of Her," "I'll Never Find Another You," "A World of Our Own," "Born to Be With You," "Bright Lights, Big City," "My Love," "Running Bear," "It's the Little Things" and "Only the Lonely." Backed by his band and vocal group, the Southern Gentlemen, James toured the U.S. and overseas and made frequent TV appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Bob Hope Show and The Andy Williams Show.
In 1961, James became the first country artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1967, he and Bobbie Gentry co-hosted the first-ever CMA Awards show. James moved to Columbia Records in 1972 and scored a string of Top 10 singles, including two that reached No. 1. He became involved in music publishing and producing other artists during the early '70s. His production work with Marie Osmond includes three albums and her first No. 1 single, "Paper Roses," in 1973. James retired from performing in 1983 to raise cattle in Alabama. He currently lives in Nashville.
One of the most prolific session musicians in the history of recorded music, Harold Bradley is a founding father of Nashville's recording industry. Born Jan. 26, 1926, in Nashville, he is the brother of legendary record producer Owen Bradley, who himself was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1974.
Harold Bradley's first instrument was a tenor banjo, but he soon began playing guitar and was touring as a member of Ernest Tubb's band, the Texas Troubadours, during the summer between his junior and senior years in high school. After serving in the U.S. Navy, Bradley studied music at George Peabody College in Nashville while playing guitar for artists on the Grand Ole Opry. His first country music recording session took place in Chicago in 1946 with Pee Wee King & the Golden West Cowboys. When Nashville's recording industry began to flourish in the late '40s and early '50s, he became in great demand as a guitarist and banjo player. Adept at rhythm, lead and bass guitar, he is credited with creating the "tic-tac" style of muting notes on the bass guitar.
Bradley and his brother built Castle Recording Studio, Nashville's first recording facility, in the late '40s. In 1955, they built the Bradley Film and Recording Studios as the first studio to be located in the area near downtown Nashville that became known as Music Row. They sold the studio to Columbia Records in 1962.
With a reputation as the Dean of Nashville Session Guitarists, Bradley was one of the city's original "A Team" studio musicians. His session credits include numerous classics, including "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" (Red Foley); "Ballad of New Orleans" (Johnny Horton); "Jingle Bell Rock" (Bobby Helms); "I'm Sorry" (Brenda Lee); "Crazy" (Patsy Cline); "Only the Lonely" (Roy Orbison); "King of the Road" (Roger Miller); "Big Bad John" (Jimmy Dean); "Make the World Go Away" (Eddy Arnold); "Harper Valley PTA" (Jeannie C. Riley); "Stand by Your Man" (Tammy Wynette); "Coal Miner's Daughter" (Loretta Lynn); and "Swingin'" (John Anderson). He also played on recordings by Joan Baez, Perry Como, Buddy Holly, Burl Ives, George Morgan, Elvis Presley, Charley Pride, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Hank Snow, Conway Twitty, Gene Watson, Hank Williams and many others. As a solo artist, he recorded three albums of guitar instrumentals.
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TIMELINE-Flowers Foods' history through acquisitions
Feb 21 (Reuters) - Here are some key events in the history of Flowers Foods, a company that has grown through acquisitions to become the second-largest baking company in the United States.
* 1919 - Flowers Baking Co founded by brothers William Howard Flowers and Joseph Hampton Flowers in Thomasville, Georgia. The bakery produces 30,000 loaves of bread every day.
*1937 - Flowers Baking acquires small bakery in Tallahassee, Florida, marking the start of its growth through acquisitions.
*Mid 1960s - Purchases bakeries in Panama City, Florida, and Opelika, Alabama. Opens a new bakery in Jacksonville, Florida.
*1967 - Acquires the Atlanta Baking Company in Atlanta, Georgia, its biggest acquisition so far.
*1968 - Initial public offering (IPO) on the Over-the-Counter (OTC) Exchange. Flowers Bakery becomes Flowers Industries.
*1969 - Company lists on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol 'FLO'.
*1976 - Enters the frozen food business by acquiring Stilwell Foods of Stilwell, Oklahoma, along with its Rio Grande Foods unit of McAllen, Texas.
*1977 - Introduces a new line of breads called Nature's Own, which becomes one of the fastest selling varieties of breads in the southeastern United States.
1991 - Acquires Pies, Inc., marking its entrance to the frozen food service dessert market.
*1996 - Forms a joint venture with Artal Luxembourg Corporation SA's U.S. subsidiary, Invus Group Ltd., and through the joint venture acquires Keebler Corp for about $487 million.
Acquires Mrs. Smiths Inc to strengthen its position in the frozen dessert market.
*1997 - Acquires Allied Bakery Products, a maker of frozen breads for the foodservice industry in the northeastern United States.
*1998 - Spins off Keebler Foods in an IPO and increases ownership in the company to 55 percent.
*2001 - Kellogg Inc acquires Keebler Corp. Remaining business units - Flowers bakeries and Mrs. Smith bakeries - spun off into a new company called Flowers Foods Inc.
*2002 - Flowers Foods restructures its company into three business units: Flowers Bakeries, Flowers Snack and Mrs. Smith's bakeries.
*2003 - Sells Mrs. Smith's frozen dessert business to the Schwan Food Co. Restructures into two operating groups: Bakeries and Specialty.
*2004 - Buys assets of a closed bread and bun bakery in Houston, Texas from the Sara Lee Bakery group.
*2005 - Acquires Royal Cake Co, a balery which makes cookies, cereal bars and creme-filled cakes in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
*2006 - Acquires Derst Baking Co in Savannah, Georgia.
*2007 - Purchases Key Mix Corp in Sykesville, Maryland which produces mixes used in the baking industry.
*2008 - Acquires fresh bread and rolls-maker ButterKrust in Lakeland, Florida; merges with Holsum, which operates 2 bakeries in Phoenix, Arizona.
*2009 - Purchases bakery mix operation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; expands presence in the tortilla market by acquiring Leo's foods in Fort Worth, Texas.
*2011 - Acquires cake maker Tastykake to grow beyond the South and into the mid-Atlantic states, where Tasktykake had its largest market.
*2012 - Acquires Maine-based Lepage Bakeries for $370 million. Announces it will buy some assets and licenses from Bimbo Bakeries, a part of Grupo Bimbo SAB de CV, for $50 million, giving it access to the Sara Lee and Earthgrains brands in California.
*Jan. 11, 2013 - Hostess Brands selects Flowers Foods as "stalking horse" bidder for its bread business. Flowers agrees to set a floor price of $390 million for the assets.
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Already a superstar in China after winning the country’s first track and field gold medal in Athens in 2004, Liu Xiang has more than 10 companies backing him, including Nike, Coca-Cola, GM's Cadillac, Visa and China Mobile.
He faced resentment and criticism when he failed to make it past the first round on his home turf of Beijing in 2008 due to an Achilles tendon injury. Liu suffered the same fate in London, again injuring himself on the first hurdle of the first round. But he picked himself up and, hopping on one foot, he finished the race, only stopping to kiss the last hurdle.
For Liu, the reaction at home has been remarkably different this time as he became the subject of sympathetic headlines. He may never see another Olympics, diminishing his marketability going forward, but his poignant farewell will ensure opportunities in his native land in the near future. | <urn:uuid:f3b2e1a3-5eb3-4b2f-b9a6-84c96f8db482> | 2013-05-24T02:06:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Editor's note: Tamim Ansary, an Afghan-born American writer, is the author of "Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes" and "The Widow's Husband."
"Re-integrating the Taliban."
Could that be a way to end the war in Afghanistan? Representatives of 70 nations met in London, England, this week to discuss that very idea. The plan was first floated several weeks ago by a key adviser to Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, Masoom Stanekzai, and it has two parts: One, lure low-level Taliban fighters out of the insurgency with economic incentives and two, co-opt Taliban leaders by offering them a role in governing Afghanistan.
Part one of the Stanekzai program makes sense because it might split rank-and-file fighters away from instigators of the insurgency (I prefer the word "instigators" to "leaders.") Part two, however, will only end up delivering the government of Afghanistan to a new Talibanist group and betray the millions of urban modernist Afghans who have sided with the West over the last decade.
So let's look at part one. Can the Taliban be "reintegrated" into Afghan society? Should they be? And most of all, who do we mean by "Taliban?"
The term used to mean an organization that ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, but that Taliban fragmented out of meaningful existence after U.S. bombing drove them from Kabul. Their cadre melted into the hills, their leaders fled back to Pakistan. "The Taliban" then metastasized into "Talibanism," which is an ideology and an attitude -- a vague mixture of Islamic ideas, apocalyptic jihadism, Afghan nationalism, xenophobic localism and resentment.
Jihadists from Pakistan and the Arab world have used Talibanism to stir the embers of xenophobic localism in Afghanistan, and that's the insurgency we're talking about now. And the predatory venality of the Kabul government has certainly fed the blaze.
Those who secured positions with the government saw it as a license to squeeze the locals, and those same officials were best situated to suck up foreign funds coming in for Afghan reconstruction, so they got rich, while reconstruction foundered.
Ordinary shopkeepers, farmers, traders, artisans and whatnot had no civil society to join and no neutral place to stand. Radical activists seeping across the border from Pakistan burned schools, firebombed mosques if the imams gave pro-government sermons and killed farmers who accepted Western development aid. Trapped between a hard place and harder places, many young men joined the anti-government insurgency. At least there was money in it.
The lower ranks of the Afghan insurgency are undoubtedly swelled by men such as these: Disaffected locals who have little to lose and no source of meaning in their lives, except Talibanism. Would they be open to setting down their guns if any good-looking alternatives opened up? Plenty might.
The leaders of the insurgency -- the instigators -- are another matter. Mullah Omar? The sinister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar? These guys think they have the West on the run. Conciliatory offers will only persuade them to dig in. Why accept a piece of a pie when you can have the whole thing?
Of course there are formidable problems with luring low-level fighters back into Afghan civil society. First of all, what civil society? Second, who will administer the program? Karzai's officials? Money is like DMSO to those guys. The moment it gets into their hands, it sinks into their palms. Third, donors are envisioning spending $500 million over five years to drain 30,000 fighters out of the insurgency. That comes to about $17,000 per man or about $3,300 a year. Those men could make more than that from drug-thuggery and Talibanist protection rackets.
Besides, a billion dollars distributed across southern Afghanistan thins out pretty quickly. What happens when some fighter joins the program, gets a bit of money and starts an auto repair shop, but his 25 first cousins don't? Will they not tar the one guy who profited from the program as a traitor who took foreign money to betray his own?
That said, part one of the Stanekzai program is worth a try. When you ain't got nothing, you got nothin' to lose, as the song says; and that's where Afghanistan stands. Half a billion dollars may sound like a lot to spend on an initiative that will probably achieve, at best, only a little. But compare that to the $30 billion it could cost to sustain an additional 30,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan for one year.
If those troops' mission is not linked to some plan for restoring civil society, they will actually inflame the insurgency (as they have been doing). So it's $30 billion to achieve negative results versus another half-billion to achieve something. A little. Maybe.
And maybe a great deal more. Over the last three years, "Talibanist" attacks have tripled, and most see this as a sign of growing "Taliban" strength. But there may be some tipping point to people's patience for violence.
If ordinary Afghans see a glimmer of a way to escape the endless violence and restore a normal life on their own terms, and if Talibanists continue to sabotage those options, and if the United States stops dispatching drones to bomb homes supposedly harboring terrorists, and if the Kabul government stops predatory intrusions into rural life... then a moment may come when the insurgency actually turns against the jihadists themselves as the outsiders (which many of them actually are).
There was, after all, a moment in 2001 when the rhetoric on the street spontaneously painted the Taliban that way. People referred to them routinely as "the Arabs and the Punjabis" (meaning Pakistanis). A rumor made the rounds that in the heart of Taliban headquarters, above the door to the Mullah Omar's office, hung a sign, which read: "Inside this room, there is no God, there is no Quran, there is no Islam."
Such a sentiment might emerge again. It's not probable but it's not impossible, and any initiative that might make it happen is worth a try.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Tamim Ansary. | <urn:uuid:fa517c72-6a66-4444-b372-4318523d209f> | 2013-05-24T01:39:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Washington (CNN) -- Does giving a second chance create a double standard?
Officials at the Richmond International Airport in Virginia think so.
They say the Transportation Security Administration has compromised airport security by giving a high-level security badge to a felon.
The TSA says it is just following the law.
The screener, whose name has not been made public, committed armed robbery at the age of 17 and entered a guilty plea a year later, according to Richmond airport officials. Because he was a juvenile at the time of the crime, the felony did not disqualify him from later being hired and credentialed by the TSA.
It wasn't until last year, when the screener applied to the airport for an upgraded security badge, that airport authorities learned of his criminal history and turned him down. The officials say their TSA-approved security plan requires that anyone convicted of armed robbery within the past 10 years be denied a badge.
But airport officials say after being "threatened with unspecified consequences" by the TSA, they gave the screener the credential.
The TSA maintains it is doing what the law requires.
In a letter to airport officials, a TSA lawyer wrote that "juvenile offender adjudications are not felony convictions" and do not disqualify an individual from employment. She says the purpose is to allow juveniles "to avoid the stigma of a prior criminal conviction and encourage treatment and rehabilitation."
Jon Mathiasen, the president and chief executive officer of Richmond International Airport, says he believes in second chances but was "blown away" by the decision to allow someone with such a criminal history into the most secure areas of his airport, including the airfield, airline ramps and the baggage area.
"I am taken aback," he said, "I am not sure that this is the appropriate place for him to work."
Mathiasen says airport security should be consistent. "We do not hire people who have this type of record. Neither do airlines or air cargo companies. So to a certain extent, there is a double standard," he said.
"The TSA has to maintain the same high level of employment practice that they are asking everyone else to."
TSA spokeswoman Sterling Payne responded, "There is no double standard."
But Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, wrote TSA Acting Administrator Gail Rossides saying her agency has undermined the airport's efforts to ensure traveler safety.
Cantor wrote, "These actions defy common sense. This is a matter of national security and our citizens deserve better." | <urn:uuid:056d5b22-416f-4376-95a3-d760cdf68111> | 2013-05-24T01:58:29Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Fierce battles raged Tuesday for control of key Libyan cities in the east and west as Libya entered its fourth week of fighting and continued its descent into civil war.
In the eastern oil city of Ras Lanuf, rebels fired antiaircraft guns after Libya's air force carried out fresh raids.
Video shot by Sky News showed that fighting was continuing in Zawiya, despite government assertions that forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi controlled the oil-refining city. Hundreds of anti-government demonstrators could be seen marching in the street, many of them pumping their fists in the air. As the crackle of gunfire could be heard, the demonstrators ran toward the camera. Four men could be seen carrying a fifth, then putting him into an ambulance.
A doctor who left the city in the morning told CNN that Gadhafi forces had fatally shot two fellow doctors in the main square and were shooting wounded civilians rather than allowing them to be treated. The city's two medical clinics were closed, he said.
Military casualties were being taken from the city by ambulance, he said.
CNN was not able to witness the fighting and could not independently confirm reports of what was happening there on Tuesday.
Opposition officials accused Gadhafi of bombing water reserves in Ras Lanuf, the site of intense fighting in recent days.
Rebels have seized several cities and the army has fought fiercely to reclaim some of them.
On Tuesday, Gadhafi addressed a tribal group of youthful supporters in a talk broadcast on television and repeated his assertions that the nation's youths have been misled and drugged by al Qaeda.
"For them, everybody's their enemy," he said. "They know nothing other than killing."
He praised the Libyan standard of living as one that others in the world envy and called on his countrymen to defend it. "They want to take your petrol," he said. "This is what America, this is what the French, those colonialists, want."
He cited people from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Algeria as among those who have joined the rebel forces -- "hunting children who are not mature, who have certain deficiencies; they offer them pills. This is what we understood so far."
He called anti-government forces in Benghazi, a rebel-held town in the east, "traitors" and predicted that the pro-Gadhafi residents "are going to throw them out."
In Gadhafi's stronghold, the capital city of Tripoli, about 100 journalists assembled during the evening in the lobby of a hotel after being told that Gadhafi would arrive. Nine hours later, just before midnight, his convoy of SUVs pulled up to the hotel.
Shortly afterward, surrounded by his security detail, he strode into the lobby, waved at the throng of reporters, pumped his right fist several times into the air, retreated to a private room for an interview with a Turkish journalist, then left via a back door without addressing the reporters. The interview was to air Wednesday morning.
The incident occurred hours after opposition members denied Tuesday that they have been negotiating an exit deal with Gadhafi, rejecting an assertion made earlier in the day by an opposition official.
Gadhafi's regime, too, denied having entered into negotiations with the rebels. Musa Ibrahim, a government spokesman, called reports of such negotiations "lies."
The Libyan opposition is composed not of a single monolithic group, but of various groups and individuals around the country whose shared goal is to see the 68-year-old ruler ousted.
But their military skills tend to be rudimentary, at best, when compared with the relatively disciplined, well-armed pro-Gadhafi forces. "There is no one here with military experience, but have a strong heart," said medical student Yahya Ali, who was manning an antiaircraft battery in the eastern Libyan town of Al-Brega after four hours of training.
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said any departure from Libya of Gadhafi would not exempt him, his family or others from responsibility for their actions. "We are going to hold him accountable," Crowley said.
U.S. President Barack Obama discussed Libya on Tuesday with British Prime Minister David Cameron, the White House said in a statement.
"They agreed that the common objective in Libya must be an immediate end to brutality and violence; the departure of Gadhafi from power as quickly as possible; and a transition that meets the Libyan peoples' aspirations for freedom, dignity, and a representative government," it said.
Both leaders agreed to go ahead with planning responses, "including surveillance, humanitarian assistance, enforcement of the arms embargo, and a no-fly zone."
Death toll estimates have ranged from more than 1,000 to as many as 2,000.
"Both the Libyan government and opposition forces need to allow unhindered access for aid organizations to assist civilians," Bill Frelick, refugee program director at Human Rights Watch, said Tuesday. "People living in areas of heavy fighting in western Libya are now in dire need of medical aid and other assistance."
The U.N. World Food Programme said Tuesday a convoy of trucks entered Libya headed for Benghazi, the rebel stronghold in eastern Libya. "A convoy of trucks carrying 70 metric tons of high-energy, fortified date bars crossed the Egyptian border last night on its way to Benghazi. This would be the first delivery of food assistance from a U.N. agency to enter the country," the organization said in a statement.
Plans for more food deliveries are being made, and tons of food have been delivered to the Egyptian border to help feed refugees, the organization said.
This is part of a $39.2 million emergency operation designed to help feed more than 1 million people in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia over three months, the group said.
Late Monday, the Gulf Cooperation Council said Libya had rejected its offer of humanitarian aid. The council is composed of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
As reports continue to emerge of the government's use of force against civilians, the international community has been left pondering strategies on how to end the violence.
Three members of the U.N. Security Council -- France, Britain and the United States -- were working Monday on a possible resolution that would include language on a no-fly zone over Libya, diplomatic sources at the United Nations said. And the Gulf Cooperation Council said Monday night they supported such an action.
The Organization of the Islamic Conference, which represents 56 member states, said Tuesday that it wants the United Nations to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya.
But any kind of military intervention could face sharp criticism from Russia and China, two permanent members of the council that wield veto power.
Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid Karim told CNN on Tuesday that Libya is not misusing its air force and that any no-fly zone would be tantamount to an act of war. He said the Libyan government has asked for international monitors to verify that assertion. He said the military "are taking purely defensive positions; they are not taking offensive ones" except in self-defense.
The U.S. administration remains reluctant to move forward on a no-fly zone alone. "Well, we want to see the international community support it," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Sky News on Tuesday.
And the United States has also been reluctant to consider using force alone. "We'd like to see this resolved peacefully," Clinton said. "We'd like to see him go peacefully. We would like to see a new government come peacefully. But if that's not possible, then we're going to work with the international community."
Asked if the United States was considering lifting the arms embargo, she said, "Well, I think everything is being looked at, but it is difficult in the midst of this civil conflict that is going on now to even know how you would do that, because right now, it's not clear what part of the country is actually under rebel control."
The U.S. ambassador to Libya, Gene Cretz, has met in Rome and Cairo with Libyan opposition figures to get a sense of what is happening in the country, Crowley of the State Department said. He did not give names. Crowley said there have been meetings and phone conversations with members of the National Transitional Council and others.
The State Department also spoke Friday with Libyan Foreign Minister Musa Kusa in a brief conversation in which each side gave its view, Crowley said.
NATO said it has begun round-the-clock surveillance flights near Libya.
With no clear end to the clashes in sight, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed a new special envoy to Libya to discuss the crisis with officials in Tripoli.
The fighting has sparked the flight of Libyans and foreigners out of Libya, with nations across the globe scrambling to help people leave.
About 200,000 people have fled Libya with nearly equal numbers going to Tunisia and Egypt, the U.N. refugee agency has said.
But 15,000 to 17,000 people are still at a refugee camp near the Libya-Tunisia border. Most of them are from Bangladesh, the U.N. refugee agency said.
A man who said he was trapped in Misrata, a city east of Tripoli that has seen heavy clashes, said the rebels were running out of weapons -- but will continue to fight.
"Maybe tomorrow I'll still be alive, I don't know. I have nothing to lose," the man said. "Nobody believes he will be alive tomorrow. Nobody knows. We need support."
CNN's Ben Wedeman, Chris Lawrence, Arwa Damon, Salma Abdelaziz, Jomana Karadsheh and Caroline Faraj contributed to this report | <urn:uuid:2cde5dd2-d857-4175-9b47-299cfe69ca29> | 2013-05-24T01:46:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Moscow (CNN) -- The Russian space agency on Monday postponed the launch of a new manned mission to the International Space Station due to last week's accident in which an unmanned cargo craft was lost, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
Alexei Krasnov of the space agency, Roscosmos, said the next manned mission, originally planned to launch on September 22, now would occur in late October or early November, according to the RIA Novosti report.
In the United States, NASA's space station program manager told reporters Monday that the timing of the rescheduled mission could force the temporary de-manning of the space station later this year.
However, the NASA official, Mike Suffredini, said no decisions can be made until a commission appointed by Russia completes its investigation of the August 24 crash involving a Soyuz rocket -- the same kind used to power the flights of crew members to the space station.
With a planned rotation of the six crew members aboard the space station scheduled to begin next month, a delay in using the Soyuz could prevent the ability to bring replacements, Suffredini said.
"If we don't have Soyuz flying by the middle of November -- the 16th or so, the normal landing time for the last crew -- we would have to de-man ISS at that point," Suffredini said.
The six astronauts at the space station are three from Russia, two from the United States and one from Japan.
Due to the schedule change announced Monday, the three Russian astronauts on board will return to Earth eight days later than originally planned, on September 16 instead of September 8, Krasnov said. They will fly a Soyuz vehicle already at the space station.
Suffredini said another Soyuz vehicle at the space station, which is set to fly back the other three crew members, will have its certification for the return mission expire by mid-November.
If there can't be a new manned mission from Earth by then, administrators will have to decide whether to take extensive steps to extend the vehicle's certification for the return flight, proceed on a return flight without certification, or de-man the space station by flying back the remaining crew members within the certification period, he said.
"We're going to do what's safest for the crew and for the space station," Suffredini said.
He acknowledged that leaving the space station without any crew members increased the risk for trouble.
"There is a greater risk of losing the ISS when it's unmanned than if it were manned," Suffredini said, adding that the risk increase "is not insignificant."
The commission in Russia investigating last week's accident will determine the new launch date for the next manned mission, Krasnov said, according to the RIA Novosti report. Prior to that mission, Roscosmos will make two unmanned Soyuz launches, "either an automated one or a freighter or both," he said.
On August 24, a Progress M-12M space freighter carrying food and other items to the space station broke up over southern Siberia after failing to separate from its Soyuz-U carrier rocket, RIA Novosti reported.
It was the first loss of a Progress freighter in more than 30 years of operation, according to the report, which said the cause was believed to be a rocket engine failure.
However, it was the second failed space launch in Russia in less than 10 days. On August 18, Russia lost a sophisticated Express-AM4 telecommunications satellite when the launch vehicle put it into the wrong orbit.
The Progress M-12M that went down last week was to deliver more than 3.8 tons of cargo to the space station crew, including food supplies, medical equipment, personal hygiene items and scientific equipment needed for experiments, according to Roscosmos and space officials.
Suffredini said Monday that space station crew is well-supplied due to the delivery of goods by the final U.S. shuttle mission carried out by Atlantis last month.
NASA is now reliant on the Russian space agency to ferry U.S. astronauts to orbit, since the grounding of the U.S. shuttle fleet has left the United States with no way to lift humans into space.
Plans are in the works for private companies to begin shipping cargo to the station, and eventually to carry astronauts as well.
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Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Tropical Storm Bolaven, once a massive typhoon, left at least 16 people dead in South Korea after pummeling the country with heavy wind and rain as it moved along its coast, the authorities said Wednesday.
The storm had weakened as it traveled north over the cooler waters of the Yellow Sea before making landfall in North Korea and China on Tuesday.
Six Chinese fishermen died and nine remained missing after two boats capsized in stormy waters near Jeju Island, off the southern tip of the South Korean mainland, the maritime police said. The search for those still unaccounted for continued Wednesday.
The South Korean Central Disaster Relief Headquarters said that another 10 people had been killed in other accidents caused by the storm and that two people had been injured.
Forecasters predicted Bolaven would move north-northeast through North Korea and decrease in strength over land Wednesday.
The powerful storm disrupted transport, cut off power and damaged property in South Korea. Hundreds of thousands of households lost power during the storm's passage, the disaster agency said. By Wednesday, 34,000 remained without electricity.
The storm prompted the cancellation of scores of flights, the suspension of nearly 100 ferry routes and the temporary closure of 27 roads, according to the agency. Sixteen roads were still closed on Wednesday morning.
Bolaven lashed North Korea with heavy wind and rain, the reclusive state's official Korean Central News Agency said in a report early Wednesday. It gave detailed data on wind strength, rainfall and storm surges but didn't provide information on the damage caused.
Okinawa, meanwhile, emerged relatively unscathed Monday after the typhoon buffeted it with maximum sustained winds near its center of 185 kph (115 mph), according to the Hong Kong Observatory, which monitors storms in the region.
That wind strength put Bolaven in the "super typhoon" category at the time. And with a cloud field of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles), it was 20 times larger than Okinawa's length.
Okinawa, which is in an area of the western Pacific Ocean where typhoons are frequent, avoided the kind of destruction that some other storms have caused in East Asia this summer.
Five people were injured on the island, the local authorities said, and 549 residents took shelter in public buildings to avoid potential damage to their homes. About 17,500 households lost electricity as the storm damaged power lines.
Storm chaser James Reynolds was on the northwestern coast of the island during the worst of the typhoon.
"Like the rest of the population we all just kind of holed up in the strong and sturdy buildings which make up Okinawa," he said Monday.
The infrastructure on Okinawa is designed to withstand violent storms. "Everything's made of solid concrete," Reynolds said.
The damage was also limited because Bolaven didn't bring winds as powerful as initially feared, said Morichiyo Ohshiro, an official from the Okinawa Prefecture Disaster Prevention and Crisis Management Division.
Typhoon Tembin, which made landfall in southern Taiwan a few days ago, has circled back around and is now also on a path taking it toward the Koreas. Smaller than Bolaven, it is expected to bring more rain to the Korean Peninsula starting Wednesday evening.
CNN's Paula Hancocks, Yoko Wakatsuki and Ralitsa Vassileva; CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri; and journalist Yoonjung Seo contributed to this report. | <urn:uuid:f789cc61-d5f6-448c-b76d-83ec4bd12ff2> | 2013-05-24T01:44:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I need to parse three or four HTML pages to extract data from them.
An example of the pages is:
In this case what I can be doing is:
Then by reading each line I can check the string for the classes 'value' and 'symbol'.
What I want to know is that whether there is a more efficient way to do this? Tomorrow it may happen that the class names can change. So I don't want my application to be tightly coupled to the HTML page. | <urn:uuid:86c916ae-7173-4fec-a0cc-80b634381718> | 2013-05-24T01:51:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Hi I'm a real beginner at PHP, and we were asked to create our own classified ads website, just a simple marketplace website. So I was looking for code references on how to do the category management, how to display the listings, user control panels and such I found a simple marketplace script here but I seem to be having trouble installing it...
And this is how the marketplace website should look like: http://www.phpmarketplace.com/demo/
So I followed all the steps, I imported their database and made the corrections to the config.php but I keep getting these errors.. if you could get it to work please do tell, it will be much appreciated. Or if you could tell me some other good code references for marketplaces (I found some others like WeBid, webauction, osclass but it's all still too complex for me)
Undefined variable: q in C:\xampp\htdocs\phpmarketplace\index.php on line 11
Undefined variable: q in C:\xampp\htdocs\phpmarketplace\index.php on line 13
mysql_close(): no MySQL-Link resource supplied in C:\xampp\htdocs\phpmarketplace\index.php on line 40
Undefined variable: record in C:\xampp\htdocs\phpmarketplace\pages\home.php on line 64
Trying to get property of non-object in C:\xampp\htdocs\phpmarketplace\pages\home.php on line 64 | <urn:uuid:73aaf5f1-7a38-49fe-9054-02b56cb20976> | 2013-05-24T01:51:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"We live in a boring Texas town and down the street is Deepwood Elementary School. What else were we to do?"
"How many people do you know that can read, but cannot operate a cheese slice without instructions?"
This is how the Easter Bunny is chosen every year. The one surviving delivers the eggs. (This is also where Monty Python got the idea for the killer rabbit in "Holy Grail") | <urn:uuid:e3c77a5d-132e-4de9-b4c0-d38ded63de6b> | 2013-05-24T02:08:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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While the mysterious bombings continue (see Invincible #1), it's just another day for Mark trying to work out what's normal while still being a superhero - an invincible superhero. First of all he quits his job, after all, what self-respecting superhero flips burgers in his spare time?
Omni Man - aka Mark's father - asks him whether he's interested in teaming up. "Yes, that would be great!" And so they're off, and it's pretty cool, and it's something Mark's always wondered about. Omni Man's pretty good. To be honest, he's really good. Just while they're flying he zips off to take care of a handful of disasters, and pretty much wipes out an alien invasion with only moderate help from Invincible.
Before heading home for the day, father and son take a look at something that's going on in Lakeside Mall: a bomb attached to a stranger. There's no time to save him; no time to decipher its source. The human bomb is thrown up and away. The mall is saved, but a green arm reaches around and grabs Omni Man away into another dimension. It's the one of the Flaxans they had been fighting earlier!
When Mark returns home - alone - he finally understands what it is his mother does: she keeps a home for her husband, believing with just the smallest glimmer of doubt that he'll come home, safe. | <urn:uuid:5e1c2bbc-7148-499e-bfeb-e51f650693a5> | 2013-05-24T01:34:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds was a big hit three years ago, earning $321 million worldwide, and now it looks like Django Unchained is also doing very well at the box office. So what might the filmmaker be looking to do next? Something that is actually related to both of the above films.
Speaking to The Root, Tarantino said that "there's something about this that would suggest a trilogy. My original idea for Inglourious Basterds way back when was that this [would be] a huge story that included the [smaller] story that you saw in the film, but also followed a bunch of black troops, and they had been f--ked over by the American military and kind of go apes--t. They basically -- the way Lt. Aldo Raines (Brad Pitt) and the Basterds are having an "Apache resistance" -- [the] black troops go on an Apache warpath and kill a bunch of white soldiers and white officers on a military base and are just making a warpath to Switzerland."
He added: "So that was always going to be part of it. And I was going to do it as a miniseries, and that was going to be one of the big storylines. When I decided to try to turn it into a movie, that was a section I had to take out to help tame my material. I have most of that written. It's ready to go; I just have to write the second half of it.
"That would be the third of the trilogy. It would be [connected to] Inglourious Basterds, too, because Inglourious Basterds are in it, but it is about the soldiers. It would be called Killer Crow or something like that."
When asked when the film would be set, Tarantino said in 1944, after Normandy. | <urn:uuid:e38204c6-2f02-4045-8636-a1c0d6093025> | 2013-05-24T01:30:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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George Nolfi, the director behind The Adjustment Bureau, has made plans for another science fiction project at Universal Pictures, says a story at The Hollywood Reporter. He'll work from an original concept by The Last Stand screenwriter Andrew Knauer.
Details on the film's plot are currently unknown but Nolfi and Knauer are expected to collaborate on the screenplay. Nolfi will also produce alongside Michael Hackett.
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Debate: Can there be price controls without shortages?
I think the answer is yes with subsidy. The congress could give welfare to businesses. It could afford to do that by making a high denomination coin and depositing it in its bank account. U.S. coins are real money and therefore government doesn’t need to borrow pounds. Safety 16:21, 14 November 2009 (EST)
- This is not a debate topic, this is a question that should be able to be answered by any introductory economics student, including Conservapedia's own, correctly. Your answer is incorrect. The answer is yes, but it has nothing to do with subsidies. If a price control is non-effective, that is the price control is higher than the market price, than there would be no shortages. However, your proposal is very dangerous if taken literally and would bankrupt a nation instantly because of the concept of arbitrage. Essentially, what you are saying is that regardless of the market price, the government will pick up the tab over a certain price. Well, what would I do then if I were a seller? I would jack up my price, in theory, to infinity, to reap the maximum profit possible. Brown25 13:33, 16 November 2009 (EST) | <urn:uuid:7d54c4ad-a1cf-4cd3-a049-dcdef78e4152> | 2013-05-24T01:43:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Three Things To Ponder
March 3, 2008
By Email of the Week
Contributed by an American Citizen
Three Things to Ponder: They've been around before, but maybe we need to go through them again.
2. The Constitution?
3. The Ten Commandments?
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic, our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington. And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow?
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we are not using it anymore.
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we cannot have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this: You cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery," and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment. | <urn:uuid:6aa40c73-3615-47fa-873d-4b4718e0881c> | 2013-05-24T01:58:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I saw my cousin's daughter has a boyfriend. I looked at his facebook page.
He's a jackass. A fat, miserable jackass who is gonna undo all her hard work in the gym.
My cousin is a 6'4" man mountain with about 6 years in the US Army in him. He is armed most times and a DAMN good shot. :)
I see my cousin online:
Me: Is it bad for me to have looked at [your child's] boyfriend's page just to make sure he's cool?
Him: He's a jackass.
Me:I thought so. Want me to come up and be spotter to your sniper?
Him: That's OK. She will have to learn on her own.
Me:Lol. [my oldest brother]'s closer and he'll be a better spotter anyhow.
Him: Tee Hee (yeah, he says that instead of LOL.)
I know him well enough. He'll probably call my brother and they'll get matching ghilley suits and everything.
Christ, I'm old. | <urn:uuid:d7fe5405-e98f-4c73-80ca-201339306195> | 2013-05-24T01:37:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The up-to-date criteria in the newly revised 2009 NFPA 90A: Standard for Installation of Air Conditioning and Ventilating Systems cover every aspect of the construction, operation, and maintenance of air conditioning and ventilating systems, including filters, ducts, and related equipment to protect life and property from fire, smoke, and gases resulting from fire or conditions having manifestations similar to fire.
Maximize safety by applying requirements in the 2009 NFPA 90A to:
- Restrict the spread of smoke and fire through air duct systems
- Maintain the fire-resistive integrity of building components
- Minimize ignition sources and combustibility of system elements
- Permit air duct systems in a building to be used for the additional purpose of emergency smoke control
The 2009 edition has been updated to refine and recognize new criteria in a number of areas, most notably those dealing with the types, quantities, and permitted use of various materials in plenum spaces. These changes have helped to define the areas of responsibility between NFPA 90A and the National Electrical Code®, with regard to this issue.
In addition, the requirements for the maintenance of fire dampers have been removed and replaced with a reference to NFPA 80: Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives, where such requirements now reside. A reference to NFPA 105: Standard for the Installation of Smoke Door Assemblies and Other Opening Protectives, for the maintenance of smoke dampers was also added. (Softbound, 25 pp., 2009) | <urn:uuid:ac73c293-f46f-41bb-978a-84dc26e142fb> | 2013-05-24T01:30:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Gene Simmons - Gene Simmons Blasts Madonna08 December 2011
KISS rocker Gene Simmons has blasted Madonna as a ''karaoke singer,'' and doesn't think she is a godo choice to perform at the Super Bowl Half Time Show.
Gene Simmons Blasts Madonna
The 'Rock And Roll All Nite' bass player does not think the 'Vogue' hitmaker is a good choice for the Super Bowl Half Time Show at the NFL final in the US next year, because he claims she doesn't perform with a live backing band.
He told TMZ.com: "I don't think it's appropriate. I love all karaoke singers.
"You gotta have some integrity. I don't care what your music is. Have some integrity. Be real. Or, full disclosure before the fact: hold up a sign and say, '70 percent of what you hear is fake. It's a tape. I'm a karaoke singer'."
Whether she sings live or not, Madonna has promised to bring a spectacle to the Super Bowl XLVI Half Time Show next February, working on a special stage show with the team behind the Cirque Du Soleil circus shows.
A statement on her website reads: "The Material Girl has partnered with a creative team from Cirque du Soleil, Jamie King, and multimedia artists from Moment Factory, to create a signature performance for the Super Bowl's Half Time Show, which will be broadcast worldwide."
The show is expected to mark the comeback of the 'Frozen' singer, after she has spent most of 2011 working on a new album with producers including DJ Martin Solveig and William Orbit, which is expected to be released early in the New Year. | <urn:uuid:ecc46a40-8e17-44aa-9ff9-f680ac1d9011> | 2013-05-24T02:08:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Hollywood has responded to the rampage at a Connecticut elementary school by pulling back on its offerings, and one star says the entertainment industry should take some responsibility for such violence.
Jamie Foxx, one of the industry's biggest stars, said Saturday as he promoted Quentin Tarantino's upcoming ultra-violent spaghetti Western-style film about slavery, "Django Unchained," that actors can't ignore the fact that movie violence can influence people.
"We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence," Foxx said in an interview on Saturday. "It does."
In true Tarantino form, buckets of blood explode from characters as they are shot or shredded to pieces by rabid dogs in "Django Unchained."
Despite Friday's mass shooting, the press junket for the movie, which opens in theaters Christmas Day, continued in New York as scheduled on Saturday.
Tarantino, whose credits include "Pulp Fiction" and the "Kill Bill" volumes, said he was tired of defending his films each time the nation is shocked by gun violence. He said "tragedies happen" and blame should fall on those guilty of the crimes.
Foxx's co-star Kerry Washington said she believes the film's explicit brutality serves an important purpose in educating audiences about the atrocities of slavery.
"I do think that it's important when we have the opportunity to talk about
In the Newtown, Conn., massacre on Friday, a gunman killed his mother and then went to an elementary school, where he killed six adults and 20 children before committing suicide.
In response, premieres for Tom Cruise's new action movie, "Jack Reacher," in Pittsburgh and the family comedy "Parental Guidance" in Los Angeles were postponed.
Also, Fox pulled new episodes of "Family Guy" and "American Dad" that were to air Sunday to avoid potentially sensitive content. The originally scheduled episode of "Family Guy" had Peter telling his own version of the nativity story. The "American Dad" episode told the story of a demon that punished naughty children at Christmas. Both series plan to substitute reruns.
Fox also confirmed that a scheduled repeat of "The Cleveland Show" for Sunday was swapped for another rerun of that series out of the same concern.
"Django Unchained": http://www.unchainedmovie.com
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Applebee’s Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad has to be one of my most requested recipes. Honestly I can’t think of a recipe that has been more requested than the Applebee’s Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad. Applebee’s has been serving the Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad for years now, and this is a restaurant that is known for swapping out their menu on a fairly regular basis. What makes this salad so special? Crisp rice noodles, toasted almonds, fresh lettuce are served with an oriental dressing.
Applebee’s Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad
Applebee's Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad
You can make your own Applebee's Grilled Chicken Oriental salad at home; it is so tasty, and so easy to do. Best of all if you can customize this salad and put in the ingredients that you enjoy the most.
- 6-8 cups romaine lettuce
- 2 chicken breasts
- 1/2 cup crispy rice noodles
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- 2 tablespoons shredded carrots
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Salt and pepper
- Applebee's Oriental Salad Dressing
Grill chicken breasts, by first placing into plastic wrap, and gently pounding them to about 3/8 of an inch thick. If you have a grill you can use a grill to cook your chicken breasts. You can also cook the chicken breasts in a skillet, add olive oil to a skillet and heat on medium heat. Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper, and cook for approximately 5 to 7 minutes on each side. Place fully cooked chicken breasts onto a plate, and allow it to rest for 4 to 5 minutes before slicing.
Toast almonds by placing in a small skillet over medium heat, watch almonds carefully, there is a fine line between toasted almonds and burnt almonds. Shake pan gently and when you begin to smell the almonds they are toasting, allow them to toast for a few seconds more and immediately place almonds onto a paper towel and allow them to cool for a moment or two.
Assemble salads by first putting down the lettuce, I use about 3 to 4 cups of lettuce, add the shredded carrot, 1/4 cup crispy rice noodles, 1/4 cup toasted almonds, and then place on sliced chicken. Serve with plenty of the Applebee's Oriental Salad Dressing.
Now, Applebee's Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad is a delicious salad, but there are a few variations that I like to make, I like to change out the type of lettuce, and use a mesculan mix. I also like to add a few mandarin oranges, and some finely sliced green onion to go on top, of my personal version of the Applebee's Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad. What changes do you like to make when you make a salad? Do you like any unusual ingredients on your salads?
You can find many more copycat restaurant recipes that taste just like Applebee's Restaurant Recipes here at CopyKat.com.Print Recipe | <urn:uuid:5d229eba-90e0-4b20-98fd-8b53983becc9> | 2013-05-24T01:45:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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General principles were put before an informal meeting in Brussels back in June where experts from 17 Member States met to discuss a common approach on advising industries about the flexibility of wording for health claims, which was finally agreed on and put to paper in December.
Taking into account Recital (9) of EU Regulation 432/2012; “to ensure health claims are truthful, clear, reliable and useful to the consumer, the wording and presentation of such claims are high priority," the document outlines general principles that can help to avoid confusion for consumers but also notes that authorities in some Member States may have developed more detailed national recommendations.
“The aim of this document is to set out the principles that should be respected when authorised health claims are used but the wording used is not exactly as authorised.”
The document features the recommendation that manufacturers stick as close as possible to the authorised wording of health claims to ensure that consumers are provided with the appropriate information, which in return should help enforcement officers to judge whether claims are being used in compliance with the law.
“If the wording of a health claim is adjusted, the first principle to be respected is that the adapted wording must mean the same to a consumer as the authorised claim in the Register since this has been substantiated by scientific evidence.”
Thus, the document strongly highlights that a claim must not be made ‘stronger’ than the authorised claim.
What may be justifiable, according to the Member States, is in an instance where an authorised claim such as; “X contributes to the maintenance of normal skin” can be permitted to be worded as “X contributes to maintaining normal skin” or “X contributes to supporting the maintenance of normal skin”.
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It's one of those cases that could have ended badly, but ended as a relatively minor police incident.
During the Super Bowl on Sunday, a domestic dispute turned violent and police were dispatched to the 900 block of Cedar Crest Court in Edgewood where a man with a shotgun had barricaded himself in his home.
The circumstances could have been regarded as ominous. After an initial confrontation – during which a shot was fired - the suspect, armed with a shotgun and wearing a tactical vest and military fatigues, confronted his girlfriend,.
Police evacuated nearby homes and surrounded the apartment. Within about an hour, the man walked out and was taken into custody.
The man faces serious charges and the neighborhood was subjected to what many probably regarded as an unpleasant interruption of a much-anticipated game. Still, in the grand scheme of things, the conclusion was peaceful and relatively uneventful.
It's worth calling attention to the incident because such things don't always end so peacefully, and Harford County has seen barricade situations end in tragedy. In this case, clearing the area to ensure general public safety and waiting it out paid off.
It would have been easy to try to force the issue, but cooler heads prevailed and the situation was diffused, which served the public good for the neighborhood. | <urn:uuid:48cfdcce-8a1e-4f72-ab3f-c484fe294f49> | 2013-05-24T01:38:33Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Race director Gina Pharis said the man was participating in the half-marathon, a 13.1-mile event, when he collapsed about 11:30 a.m. Sunday at Mile 11. Pharis says paramedics arrived at the scene about three minutes after they were notified and treated the man before transporting him to a local hospital.
She says officials were notified about an hour later that the man had died.
Pharis said she couldn't release his name or any other details.
About 8,000 people participated in Sunday's marathon and Pharis said around 11,000 were on hand for the entire three-day event.
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RULE 6.13 TESTIMONY IN LIEU OF WITNESSES (a) Deposition. Upon a determination that the testimony of a witness is material, and that it appears probable that the witness will not voluntarily appear at the trial, the court may order the taking of his or her deposition. Pending the taking of the deposition the provisions of CrR 3.2 shall apply. (b) Test Report by Expert. (1) Certification Required. Subject to subsection (b)(3) of this rule, the official written report of an expert witness which contains the results of any test of a substance or object which are relevant to an issue in a trial shall be admitted in evidence without further proof or foundation as prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the report if the report bears or has attached a certification stating that the certifier has performed a test on the substance or object in question, the name of the person from whom the substance or object was received, the certificate is attached to a true and complete copy of the certifiers official report, the report was made by the certifier, and the qualifications of the certifier to make such tests. The certificate shall be signed by the certifier with the title of his office and his business address and telephone number. (2) Form. The certificate shall be in substantially the following form: The undersigned certifies under penalty of perjury that: 1. He performed a test on the (substance) (object) in question; 2. The person from whom he received the (substance) (object) in question is ______________; 3. The document on which this certificate appears or to which it is attached is a true and complete copy of my official report; and 4. Such document is a report of the results of a test which report and test were made by the undersigned who has the following qualifications and experience: ___________________________________________________________. ___________________________________________________________. ___________________________________ Signature ___________________________________ Title ___________________________________ Business Address and Telephone (3) Notice Requirements. The court shall exclude such report if: (i) a copy of the report and certificate has not been served on the defendant or the defendant's attorney at least 15 days prior to the trial date or, upon a showing of cause, such lesser time as the court deems proper; or (ii) in the case of an unrepresented defendant, a copy of this rule in addition to a copy of the report and certificate has not been served on the defendant at least 15 days prior to the trial date or, upon a showing of cause, such lesser time as the court deems proper; or (iii) at least 7 days prior to the trial date or, upon a showing of cause, such lesser time as the court deems proper, the defendant has served a written demand upon the prosecutor to produce the expert witness at the trial. Amended Effective December 26, 2000
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Yesterday's historic 100th running of the Dipsea race gave us a record breaker as 8 year old Reilly Johnson (pictured to the left courtesy of the Dipsea official site-http://www.dipsea.org/2010/index.html) won her first individual title as well as the coveted black shirt.
You can find preliminary results of the race at the following link:http://www.dipsea.org/2010/2010results_prelim.html
You can find lots of familiar names in the results including current high school runners as well as their parents.
The top high school runner was John Lawson of Drake who finished 9th overall. The top high school girl was Jacque Taylor of Casa Grande who finished 31st overall.
For more coverage of the race, go to the Marin Independent Journal's coverage of the race at the following link:
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Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask
- Monday, October 18, 2010
We can summarize this cosmological evidence into a concise series of statements:
1. Whatever begins to exist must have a cause for its existence.
2. The universe began to exist.
3. Therefore, the universe must have a cause for its existence.
4. The attributes of the cause of the universe (being timeless, existing outside of space, and so on) are the attributes of God.
5. Therefore, the cause of the universe must be God.
This is precisely what Christians have always believed. The very first words of the Bible, in the book of Genesis, declare, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." In spite of what many people have heard, science is not at odds with belief in God. To the contrary, science actually provides compelling evidence for God's existence!
Evidence #2: Our "Just So" Universe
The more I watch the Discovery Channel and read about the amazing intricacies of our world, the more amazed I am at the beauty and complexity of it all. I often ride my mountain bike along the trails near where I live. Sometimes I stop and admire the unique plants growing along the hillsides or down in the ravines; other times I'll enjoy the surprise of an unexpected deer, coyote, or fox as it runs out in front of me. Often I'll reflect on a sunset showering down brilliant colors of red, yellow, and orange. I'm regularly taken aback by what I see. I think often about how much I relate to the psalmist when he says, "The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship" (Ps. 19:1).
But here's what is amazing: this incredible array of life and beauty and complexity did not spring into existence unaided. Rather, what cutting-edge science is now telling us is that the building blocks of our world—the laws and physical constants that govern all the matter in the universe—appear to be precisely balanced and finely tuned for life to occur and flourish.
These laws and constants were set at the singularity event mentioned earlier. In other words, when the universe exploded into being—the Big Bang—there were a number of variables within the very structure of the universe itself that had to be set exactly as they are in order for life to exist. Scientists have so far discovered about fifty of these parameters and constants that must be "just so" in order for life to be possible anywhere in the universe.
Let's hone in on one particular example of this "fine-tuning." Physicists have discovered four forces in nature, and one of them is the force of gravity. Physicists have calculated that the strength of each of these forces must fall within a very specific range or there would be no conscious life possible. If the force of gravity, for example, were to change by one part in ten thousand billion billion billion relative to the total range of the strengths of the four forces in nature, conscious life would be virtually impossible anywhere in the universe.
There are many other parameters and constants that are also finely tuned and that, if changed even slightly, would have disastrous consequences for life in our universe. For example, if the neutron were not exactly as it is—about 1.001 times the mass of the proton—then all protons would have decayed into neutrons or all neutrons would have decayed into protons, and life would not be possible. If the explosion of the Big Bang had differed in strength by as little as one part in 1060 (one part in a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion), the universe would have either quickly collapsed back on itself or expanded too swiftly for stars to form. Either way, life would be impossible. The list goes on and on.
What makes all this even more fascinating is that these finely tuned parameters and constants are independent of one another. In other words, they could all be just right for life except for one, which is off to the smallest degree—and that alone would have precluded me from existing to write this and you from existing to read it. This makes it yet more unlikely that they all came to be just so by chance. In fact, because of this evidence Paul Davies, one of the leading physicists and cosmologists of our day, makes this audacious claim: "I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate. . . . We are truly meant to be here."9 That's quite a statement for one who doesn't even claim to believe in a personal God!
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"Please remove your tampon, I have a job to do."
I have heard some weird and outrageous cruise ship stories over the years, but if this one is true it takes the cake.
A lawsuit filed last month alleges that Carnival cruise employees suspected that a 17 year old girl on the Carnival Sensation possessed marijuana after she returned to the cruise ship after going ashore in Nassau. The lawsuit alleges that the girl had returned with her mother and a friend when a Carnival security officer found a bag of pot on the floor of the elevator that the group was riding on.
Accompanied by a female crew member and a male assistant housekeeping manager, the security officer entered the cabin of the girl and her friend, also a minor. The security officer allegedly made no effort to locate the child's mother or advise the children of their rights, and then threatened and intimidated the girl into a confession that the weed in the bag was hers.
The three crew members then searched the girls' cabin, and found no contraband or illegal substances. Undaunted, the three crew members alleged "threatened, coerced, and required J.G. to remove her panties, lift her dress to her waist and expose her nakedness to all agents in the cabin." Then things got especially weird. The lawsuit alleges:
- 41. J.G. was forcefully escorted to the restroom wherein all Defendant Agents were permitted to watch her urinate before returning her to the main area of the cabin.
- 42. Without cause, the DEFENDANT AGENTS threatened, coerced and required J.G. to remove a tampon and her genital cavity was inspected visually by the female currently known only as LETICIA.
- 43. This strip and cavity search took place in the plain view of male Security Officer TRAPA and male assistant housekeeping manager YUZON . . .
No additional pot was found, but the girl and her mother were reportedly escorted off of the ship where the Bahamian police placed the girl in a cell with adults where the child was allegedly assaulted. The lawsuit alleges that after the girl was released, she and her mom had to locate their own accommodations and travel arrangements home.
Courthouse News Services uploaded a copy of the lawsuit papers here.
The girl's lawyer sued on grounds of negligence, fraud, intentional infliction of severe emotional distress and is seeking compensatory and punitive damages.
This type of lawsuit comes at the wrong time for Carnival which is still suffering from the fall-out of the Costa Concordia disaster and the Costa Allegra cruise ship fire.
There are two sides of every story, and I can't wait to hear Carnival's side. I hope it's not "we can't comment on matters in litigation but rest assured the safety and security of our guests are our highest priorities."
I asked Carnival for a comment and will publish it as soon as I receive it.
April 4, 2012 Update: Here's Carnival's response in its entirety:
Carnival does not typically comment on pending litigation, but feels compelled to do so given the far-fetched claims made in this lawsuit. The claim that the plaintiff was strip searched is patently false, and obviously made in retaliation for the cruise line having disembarked the plaintiff and her mother part-way through the voyage in Nassau where the plaintiff was taken into custody by the Bahamian police.
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 20th, 2008
The goverment of Ukraine intends to introduce a threatened species, the European bison or wisent (Bison bonasus), into the exclusion zone around the stricken Chernobyl nuclear reactor.
The plan is to create a nature reserve where the bison can thrive in the absence of humans.
The minister in charge of Chernobyl, Volodomir Shandra, says there are clean areas within the 30-kilometre radius where the pilot scheme could work.
The wisent is the heaviest surviving land animal in Europe, a relic of the Pleistocene megafauna of Eurasia. A forest dwelling species, wisent were first scientifically described by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758.
The last wild wisent in Poland was killed in 1919 and the last wild wisent in the world was killed by poachers in 1927 in the Western Caucasus. By that year fewer than 50 remained, all in zoos.
Schleich wisent replica.
Wisent were reintroduced successfully into the wild, beginning in 1951. They are found living free-ranging in forest preserves such as the Western Caucasus in Russia and the Białowieża Forest in Poland and Belarus.
Zoos in 30 countries house about 3000 wisents (as of 2000), all descended from only 12 individuals.
If the Chernobyl scheme is successful, tourists could be invited inside the exclusion zone to view these remarkable animals.
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This homework is due 2011-11-24, at 17.15. Drop it off by Mikael Goldmann's mailbox at Lindstedtsvägen 3.
The solutions must be printed, not handwritten. Solutions handed in late are not accepted and will not be graded.
It may be possible to Google solutions for some of these problems. Please do not do that.
Please remember that solutions need to be in English.
Problem 1 (5 pts)
Mulitply the following two polynomials using FFT.
x3 + 3x2 + x - 1 andIf you use a recursive version of FFT, you only need to show the top-most call to FFT (and FFT inverse), what recursive calls are made from the top-most level, what those calls return and how the final result is computed.
Problem 2 (5 pts)
Let A = (ai,j) be a matrix such that ai,j = ai-1,j-1 and ai,1 = ai-1,n for i = 2, 3,...,n and j = 2, 3,...,n. Give an O(n log n)-time algorithm for computing Ax where x is a vector of length n
Problem 3 (5 pts)
Recall that integer linear programming is linear programming with the additional contraint that the variables are only allowed to take on integer values. In class we have seen how to formulate 3SAT as well as TSP as integer linear programs (with an exponential number of constraints in the case of TSP). Show how to formulate the Vertex Cover problem as an integer linear program (with a polynomial number of constraints).
Problem 4 (5 pts)
Give an example of Euclidian TSP where the nearest neighbor heuristic fails to find the optimal solution.
Problem 5 (5 (+2) pts)
Generalize the result for nearest neighbor (NN) as follows. Find a constant K > 1 and an increasing function f(n) such that, for each n there is a Euclidian TSP instance with f(n) cities for which NN, starting in city 1 will yield a solution that is at least K times larger than the optimum solution. You get 2 bonus points if K is such that Christofides' algorithm is guaranteed to do better on these instances.
Note. The purpose of the function f above is to give you a bit of freedom so that you do not need to provide a
construction with n cities for every n. Rather, it is suffucient to provide a construction with, for example,
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Even in crowded conditions, cyclists are perfectly able to mix harmoniously with pedestrians and, contrary to popular belief, they are not a major danger to them.
CTC View (formal statement of CTC's policy):
- Cyclists should behave responsibly and within the law.
- Cyclists do very little harm to other road users, including pedestrians.
- Unlike driving, most cycling takes place in areas of high pedestrian activity, but it poses far less risk to pedestrians than motor vehicles. This is the case even for pavement cycling and red light jumping, neither of which CTC condones.
- Cyclists and pedestrians are able to interact far more harmoniously, even in crowded conditions, than is often thought.
- People who are frail or who suffer sensory or mobility impairments are often understandably reluctant to share space with cyclists. Trials, however, usually prove that cyclists very rarely put any pedestrian in a hazardous situation. Codes of practice - backed up as required by policing - are preferable solutions, rather than undermining the promotion of safe cycling for fear of the actions of a minority. | <urn:uuid:17ff8c53-0fa8-45e7-8f80-ec9b0c553f6d> | 2013-05-24T01:37:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Between Orient and Occident
Kudsi Erguner, born in the fifties in Istanbul, is considered a master of traditional Mevlevi Sufi and is one of the best-known players of the Turkish ney flute. For several years this musician, who now lives in Paris, has successfully opened up his country´s classical music to the ideas of jazz.
Kudsi Erguner comes from a family of Turkish musicians rich in tradition. From generation to generation they have passed on the art of playing the ney flute since the 17th century.
As a boy Kudsi and his father Ulvi Erguner performed hypnotic and spiritual dance rituals from the Mevlevi-Sufi tradition at Dervish ceremonies. For several decades now, he has researched into the earliest roots of Ottoman music which he has also taught, performed and recorded.
In the seventies Kudsi Erguner moved to Paris where, at the beginning of the eighties, he founded the "Mevlana" Institute devoted to the study and teaching of classical Sufi music. Together with the "Kudsi Erguner-Ensemble" he developed deep insights into the diversity of his culture: the group conveys both authentic, often improvised forms of expression of classical Ottoman performance culture as well as a comprehensive repertoire of modern and classical pieces that can be traced back to the 13th century.
In addition to this Kudsi Erguner has performed as flautist in several operas, ballets and theatre productions and has been involved in recordings for soundtracks by Peter Brook and Peter Gabriel. At the end of the nineties he broke new musical ground with his group "Ottomania". For the first time he brought together classical Turkish musicians of the Mevlevi-Sufi tradition and European jazz musicians. Up until then encounters between Turkish musicians and jazz interpreters had taken place exclusively in the sphere of Turkish popular music. But in Kudsi´s opinion classical and modern music are by no means exclusive forms: "It´s impossible," he says, "for a classical art form to remain indifferent to the influences that stream in from the whole of the world."
Author: Haus der Kulturen der Welt
4 Feb.1952 Kudsi is born in Istanbul as the eldest son of Ulvi Erguner
1970 works as a radio musician in Istanbul
1975 moves to Paris and studies architecture and music
1981 opens Mevlana, Institute for classical Sufi music in Paris
1988 founds the Fasl Ensembles, later Kudsi Erguner Ensemble
1998 founds the Sufi Jazz-Band "Ottomania"
Music from the Arabian Nights
Airmail Music (Sunnymoon)
Label: Act (edel)
Ottomania: Sufi-Jazz Project N/A
L´Orient de l´Occident
Sufi Music of Turkey
Times Square Records
Fasl: Musique de l´Empire Ottoman
Meditation on the Ney
This artist took part in the following project(s) organized/funded by the culturebase.net partner institutions.
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About the Renminbi (yaun)
The Renminbi is the official currency of the People's Republic of China. However, it is more commonly known by its primary unit, the yuan. Renminbi is a decimalized currency system with subunits in tenths called jiao and subunits in hundredths called fen. Although Hong Kong and Macau are politically parts of China, these two locations use a separate currency. Therefore, the Renminbi is not legal tender in Hong Kong and Macau. The Renminbi is issued and managed by the People's Bank of China, which was established in 1948. It remained the only legal bank in the country until 1978. The renminbi was introduced in the same year the People's Bank was founded. After introduction, the currency maintained its value by being pegged to the US dollar, but as China progressed to a free-market economy, it was devalued on several occasions in an attempt to increase China's industries. Today, many economists and international financial experts claim that the exchange rate of the Renminbi is undervalued compared to its buying power by as much as 37.5 per cent.
As of 2005, the renminbi has been floating on the foreign exchange market in a narrow margin that is determined by a basket of leading world currencies. The basket includes the US dollar, Euro, Japanese yen, South Korean won and several other currencies in a smaller proportion. After being removed from the US dollar peg, the Renminbi immediately increased in value on the foreign exchange by two per cent. In 2008, the peg to the US dollar was reinstituted. In 2010, it was announced by China that the restrictions placed on the renminbi will be relaxed so the renminbi will once again have market flexibility. China is also working to internationalize the Renminbi with the goal of it being used widespread as a foreign reserve currency. Deals have already been struck with Russia, Vietnam and Thailand that allows trade to be settled directly in renminbi.
Although the yuan has been the primary unit of currency in China for decades before, the Renminbiyuan was not introduced until the Communist Party of China gained control of the country. The Renminbi, or "people's currency," was introduced to bring a unified currency system to the nation at the end of its civil war. Currency is circulated through coins and banknotes, which are minted and printed by the China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation, a state-operated entity. | <urn:uuid:a17a7e19-6609-4563-89e4-830f79060925> | 2013-05-24T01:50:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I'm one of the few these days who doesn't possess a college degree. The most recent census data shows that because of this I'll only earn $32,493 annually, as compared to someone with a bachelor's degree who will earn $59,415. Obviously then a college education is a sagacious investment, right? Those with four-year degrees are earning nearly twice as much. Allow me, please, to throw a monkey-wrench into the intricate windings of these your apparent assumptions. Correlation does not imply causation.
It's amazing to me that supposedly educated human-beings don't apply this fundamental scientific paradigm to their own educational achievement vis–à–vis their earnings. Yes it's true that people who have achieved higher levels of education tend to earn a higher salary. That cannot be denied. There is certainly a very strong correlation between the two. However, what can be implied about the relationship? Does a degree cause higher pay, or are the two things merely outcomes of the same underlying cause?
Consider the cargo cults of the pacific islands, post WWII. These primitive aboriginal islanders observed events during the war that left a profound influence upon their culture. During the war, first the Japanese, and later Allied forces, airlifted supplies, built landing strips, temporary control towers, and living quarters on their islands. Because of this the natives experienced a dramatic increase in their own wealth and quality of life. There was a correlation between the activity they witnessed—planes landing on airstrips—and their own well-being. What were they to do once the war was over and the advanced culture abandoned them?
Because the Melanesian islanders failed to understand the difference between correlation and causation, they foolishly engaged in elaborate and pointless construction of mock-ups of landing strips, bamboo airplanes, coconut headphones, rows of signal fires, etc. They believed that these ancillary indicators of an advanced culture—without actually having the advance culture itself—would magically endow them with the wealth and benefits they associated with the advanced culture that had now left them behind. They didn't understand that the landing strips and planes weren't the cause of the wealth these pacific islanders experienced; these landing strips and planes as well as the attendant food and other supplies were merely the outcome of an underlying cause which is that an advanced culture needed to temporarily occupy their tiny island and in doing so airlifted in tons of food, beverages, and all manner of technological marvels that these islanders could only conceive of as somehow magical.
Supply and demand is one of those simple concepts that people proceed to completely ignore after gaining a rudimentary understanding of the concept. Its importance when making life-shaping decisions should never be ignored yet that is precisely what is happening today.
If you're in the commodities market and you find out that California oranges are having a banner year and a bumper crop, you're going to bid lower on those orange futures, and so is everyone else. A vast supply of oranges means that each orange is less valuable. Recently some investors thought it would be a good idea to send a spaceship out to try to find an asteroid made of platinum or gold. Imagine what would happen if they succeeded? If they not only found an asteroid in space with as much as a million tons of gold in it, but then succeeded in bringing it back it would devastate the commodities markets. As the story unfolded, the price of gold would pogo up and down with every success and every setback. Ultimately if that gold landed safely on planet Earth, the price of gold would fall to that of silver, perhaps less. One could expect the same thing were the asteroid comprised of platinum or diamonds. It is the scarcity of these rare minerals rather than their functional utility that causes their innate value to be what it is.
All that I've mentioned is common sense and only someone lacking such, would argue the point. What then can be said about this recent huge push to credential every human being on the planet with at the bare minimum a college diploma? I can easily imagine that there was once a time when a high-school diploma had real value. Think of it...it represented in concrete terms the fulfillment of a course of some twelve years of rigorous study. A graduate had mastered basic understanding of various fundamentally important studies in the maths and sciences as well as language and culture. These days when you check off the box that says high-school diploma, it's merely a formality. They may demand you provide two proofs of American citizenship but everybody knows they're not going to demand a look-see at that high-school diploma. It's a given. As such it has little real worth. If you're looking for a job and you claim a high school diploma on the job application without actually having one, it's the same as having one. It's not something that is normally checked on. It's assumed to be true, therefore for this reason, a lie is as good as the truth.
As progressivism progresses I foresee a day when a bachelor's degree will become the equivalent of yesterday's high school diploma. That is to say that it will be equally universally assumed and equally valueless. Why bother checking to make sure an applicant really does have something that practically everyone actually does have? So do we move up one level with tomorrow's master's degree becoming the equivalent of yesterday's bachelor's degree?
For those who suspect that I'm jumping the gun and who still believe that a four-year college degree is a thing of value, I present for you this study which I will quote in brief:
Nearly half of working Americans with college degrees are in jobs for which they're overqualified, a new study out Monday suggests.In conclusion, the only thing that can be demonstrated—and even this with ever less frequency—is that people with college degrees make more money. This fact fails to examine why they make more money. Is it because their college learning magically allows them to be more productive? Does that diploma somehow mystically confer upon them the ability to more efficiently crank out more widgets than the less credentialed? Does it allow them to sell more blenders or even to have the conceptual understanding of—for instance—the law of supply and demand? This foolish pursuit of credentials in a world increasingly oversupplied with college graduates is to me, as equally foolish as a tribe of savages on some pacific island strapping coconuts to their heads and marching up and down between the rows of signal fires.
The study, released by the non-profit Center for College Affordability and Productivity, says the trend is likely to continue for newly minted college graduates over the next decade.
"It is almost the new normal," says lead author Richard Vedder, an Ohio University economist and founder of the center, based in Washington.
Vedder, whose study is based on 2010 Labor Department data, says the problem is the stock of college graduates in the workforce (41.7 million) in 2010 was larger than the number of jobs requiring a college degree (28.6 million).
That, he says, helps explain why 15% of taxi drivers in 2010 had bachelor's degrees vs. 1% in 1970. Among retail sales clerks, 25% had a bachelor's degree in 2010. Less than 5% did in 1970.
"There are going to be an awful lot of disappointed people because a lot of them are going to end up as janitors," Vedder says. In 2010, 5% of janitors, 115,520 workers, had bachelor's degrees, his data show. | <urn:uuid:b44c4d33-9054-4b31-ad42-1f00e82005d1> | 2013-05-24T01:36:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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It happened 14 years ago when Caroline Thompson was packing to move from one house to another. Her hands became red and swollen, and they hurt. A lot.
"The pain was like a deep, severe toothache that wouldn't go away," she says.
She had to get her husband to unpack.
"The pain was so severe I couldn't unwrap a teacup," she says.
The condition led her on a odyssey of medical treatment. She received cortisone shots. Doctors ruled out rheumatoid arthritis; the condition was more characteristic of osteoarthritis. One doctor put her hands in casts, hoping that keeping them immobile would help to stabilize her condition. But nothing worked.
Then, a friend who had worked as a physical therapist came over one day.
"She said, 'Have you ever heard of nightshades?' Thompson says.
She explained that tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and potatoes were in the same family of vegetables -- the nightshade family -- and that she had arthritis herself and had gotten a lot of relief by eliminating nightshades from her diet.
No peer-reviewed studies have shown an effect from eliminating nightshades. It's not clear if any controlled studies have ever been conducted. Anecdotal and sometimes circular claims abound on the Internet.
"I thought, 'I'm worn out,'" Thompson says. "The next morning I got up and thought, 'what have I got to lose?"
That's a point people often reach when they decide to try an elimination diet.
While dietitians don't suggest eliminating foods when there's no research showing effectiveness, it's also true that some elimination diets are harmless, so there's no particular reason not to try them.
"My test for an elimination diet ... is I like to see if there's any data to support efficacy," says Bonnie Jortberg, a senior instructor for the Department of Family Medicine with the University of Colorado's School of Medicine. "The other thing I think about is if eliminating a food or grood group is going to be something nutritionally detrimental. Nightshades are not a group you have to consume every day. You can get (similar nutrients) from other sources of vegetables."
Her biggest concern is when people eliminate multiple food groups, potentially compromising the nutritional quality of their diets.
"That could put them in a compromised position in terms of nutrient intake," she says.
Jortberg says the most common elimination diet she recommends is dairy for people who are having intestinal issues. She says a link between dairy consumption and phlegm and mucus has not been proven, although many people eliminate dairy products for that reason.
She adds that two weeks is the typical amount of time needed to test an elimination diet. If the person finds relief, the food can then be re-introduced slowly to see if it causes a problem. If it does, the person should not consume the problematic food, says Jortberg, a registered dietitian, who also holds a Ph.D in human nutrition.
Thompson decided to try a nightshade-free diet. She thought about what she typically ate: a lot of tomatoes, dishes made with spicy peppers and potatoes. Some eggplant.
When she eliminated those she noticed a big difference, she says.
"In a very few days, the pain was gone, the red was gone, the heat was gone," she says, although the disfiguration was still there. "I could do things with my hands that I hadn't been able to do for three years. I could sleep. I thought, 'I can do this.'"
She stayed nightshade free for four to five years and didn't have a recurrence of the problem. Then she began to slip a little.
"I started dabbling," she says. "At a Sunday brunch, I would have a bloody Mary."
That would cause her hands to hurt a little, but it wouldn't last very long. She continued to eat nightshades occasionally, and she realized the pain was there all the time.
"It wouldn't go away," she says. "I had to commit to give it up again."
That commitment gave her an idea: She would create a cookbook that allowed her to make certain dishes that traditionally have nightshades. The self-published book, "Caroline's No Nightshade Kitchen Arthritis Diet," is available at the Boulder Book Store, Alfalfa's and Peppercorn in Boulder, as well as at amazon.com.
The potato substitute was relatively easy. Sweet potatoes provided the starchy goodness she was looking for. Tomatoes and peppers were more difficult. With tomatoes, what worked best was finding an acidic ingredient to substitute. . In a recent paella, inspired by a Camera story with the dish made by Café's Aion's Dakota Soifer, she used preserve lemons instead of tomatoes. Getting the heat that often comes from peppers was more complicated. Since black pepper (and white pepper) come from a different plant, they can be used. She also relies on dried and prepared mustard and wasabi.
Now, if she accidentally consumes a nightshade, at a restaurant, for example, Thompson feels immediate pain. That keeps her motivated to stay nightshade free; she is now working on a second cookbook.
"One of my hopes is that maybe my book will not only help people who are frustrated with their own health issues, but also stir up serious study," she says.
Chicken Breasts with Apples and Cider
2 boneless/skinless chicken breasts
Kosher salt and pepper, to taste
2 tablespoons butter (and 1/2 cup butter for later use)
2 crisp apples, sliced with skin
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1-2 tablespoon vegetable oil
1/2 cup onion, minced (or 1/3 cup shallots)
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup apple cider
1 quart chicken broth
1/2 cup flour or gluten free flour
2 tablespoons crème fraiche or Greek yogurt
Fresh parsley, for garnish
Directions: Preheat oven to 375. Season chicken with salt and pepper, set aside. Add 2 tablespoons butter in a medium skillet, with the apples and brown sugar. Gently toss to coat and slightly cook. Be careful not to overcook the apples as they will finish in the oven; set aside.
In a separate small skillet, sauté the onion and garlic in oil. Place onion and garlic in bottom of a casserole dish. In the same skillet, brown chicken breast until golden; place in casserole dish.
Cover chicken with apple mixture. Pour apple cider over chicken, followed by enough chicken stock to cover ingredients. Place casserole in oven, cooking for approximately 35-40 minutes (depending on size), or until done. Remove from oven when tender and moist; drain cooking liquid for sauce. Cover chicken and apples to keep warm.
For the roux, place 1/2 cup butter in skillet, melt, follow with flour. Stir constantly to form paste until roux is slightly golden. Slowly add the cooking liquid from the casserole 1 cup at a time, using a whisk to smooth. When sauce is luscious and slightly thickened, add crème fraiche or yogurt.
Mix well. If needed, thin sauce with additional apple cider. Adjust salt and pepper. For presentation, place each chicken breast on serving plate with serving of apples and an ample portion of the sauce. Garnish with fresh parsley sprigs. Pass additional sauce at table. As an alternative, herbs can be added as a finish for the sauce.
Source: Caroline Thompson
Paella for a Festive Evening
Olive oil to cover bottom of pan
1/2 cup leek, minced
6-8 garlic cloves, minced
5-8 mushrooms, thinly sliced
1 cup Spanish rice or similar other small grain rice
1/2 cup preserved lemons, minced
Large pinch saffron
Large splash white wine
11/2 quarts chicken broth
White pepper and salt, to taste
8-12 large tiger shrimp, or 4 per person
Fresh Italian parsley
Drizzle olive oil
Directions: In a large flat skillet or paella pan, add olive oil 1/4 inch deep. Raise temperature to medium high, add leek, garlic, and mushrooms. Cook until garlic caramelizes and leek and mushrooms become tender.
Layer rice over vegetable mixture, tossing until rice becomes a beautiful golden brown, about 5-8 minutes (this is a magical moment.). Add preserved lemon and saffron, mixing well. If needed raise heat, then splash white wine in pan; combine ingredients.
Distribute rice mixture, shaking pan. After this action, please do not move the rice until finished. Begin to ladle chicken broth around the edges of the rice, slowly and carefully not to disturb the rice.
This process may take up to 30-40 minutes for the rice to absorb necessary liquid. (When done, the rice should be al dente, tender, but not sticky.) Season paella with white pepper and salt, as needed. At this point, the contents of the skillet should be moist enough to steam the shrimp to a bright pink. If needed, add more chicken broth at the edges. Place shrimp on top of paella, then bury into the rice.
After about 2 minutes, turn shrimp over, bury again, cooking about 1-2 minutes, or until very pink and done. If needed, drizzle olive oil over paella; sprinkle fresh parsley over top and serve.
Source: Caroline Thompson, inspired by a recipe from Dakota Soifer of Café Aion, published in the Daily Camera
1 1/2-2 pounds stew meat
Kosher salt and pepper, to taste
Flour (or gluten free flour)
2 quarts beef stock
1-2 cups old red wine
2 tablespoons instant coffee
6-8 garlic cloves
1/2 onion, coarsely sliced
8-10 mushrooms, quartered
1 stalk celery, sliced in 1 inch pieces
2-3 tablespoons oregano
2-4 teaspoons turmeric
2-3 teaspoons cumin
Black and white pepper, to taste
3 cans white kidney beans, drained
3 cans black beans, drained
Directions: Generously salt and pepper meat, then dredge in flour. Add 4 tablespoons olive oil to a large pan with lid. Add meat, brown well, and do not crowd. Brown in batches if necessary. Add additional oil as needed. When this process is complete and meat is removed to a side bowl, carefully spoon excess oil from bottom of pan, leaving browned sediment. Return meat to pot, add stock, wine (wonderful use for old wine), and coffee. In batches, put minced garlic, onion, mushrooms, and celery in a food processor; add to pot.
Season with oregano, turmeric, cumin, and with abundant black and white peppers. Cook for approximately 2 hours on high simmer, slightly covered, or until meat is very tender. Check seasonings and salt. Place beans in chili and cook on simmer for an additional 45 minutes.
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The Real Hell's Kitchen: The shocking truth about flamboyant TV chef Fanny Cradock
By DAVID LEAFE
Last updated at 12:16 08 October 2007
Johnnie Cradock had little to comfort him in his final hours except a half-drunk bottle of claret beside his hospital bed.
It was a poor substitute for the company of his partner, Fanny, but she was nowhere to be seen as he slipped slowly towards his death from lung cancer at the age of 82.
Declaring that she was too frightened of illness to face Johnnie's demise, she refused to visit him.
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Cooking up a storm: Fanny Cradock and her husband and sidekick Johnnie
"It was so sad," recalls family friend Yvonne Norris, interviewed in a fascinating new biography of Britain's first and most flamboyant domestic goddess.
"I walked in one day and Johnnie said: 'Thank God you've come. She's abandoned me, hasn't she?' I didn't know what to say."
When Johnnie's surgeon eventually rang Fanny to warn her that she might never see him alive again, she finally turned up at the hospital, but not for long.
"I offered to leave the room," said Yvonne Norris, "but Fanny said: 'Don't go. I'm only going to be five minutes.'"
True to her word, she stayed only long enough to take Johnnie's signet ring away with her. Later, she refused to attend his funeral.
Johnnie Cradock's death in 1987 brought an extraordinary end to one of the most popular double acts in showbusiness.
From 1955 to the late Sixties, they were the pioneers of TV cookery and dominated the schedules.
Fans of their programmes loved watching Johnnie playing the hen-pecked husband to Fanny's domineering wife, never imagining for a moment that the couple weren't married.
It was not until many years after they had disappeared from public view that they were able to wed, having been delayed by legal complications arising from Fanny's colourful past.
Married four times, two of them bigamously, and abandoning her two little boys when one was four and the other a baby, Fanny Cradock appears to have spent much of her life unconsciously aping the utterly self-indulgent and hedonistic behaviour of her mother, Bijou.
A talented but impossibly lazy singer, who had been spoilt by her parents, Bijou's ideal start to the day was an 11am breakfast of a dozen oysters and half a pint of champagne.
Her marriage to playwright Archibald Pechey helped fund her extravagant lifestyle although, as Fanny later said, her parents had only one thing in common.
"They both adored my mother."
The arrival of Fanny in 1909 clearly interrupted Bijou's plans for an easy life, for when her daughter was only a year old, she handed her to her own mother to look after.
From then on, Bijou's main contribution to her daughter's education - an important one, as it turned out - was to take her on holidays to the South of France, where Fanny developed a love of French cooking while her parents squandered money in the casinos of the Riviera.
Back home, her gourmet palate was further encouraged by her grandmother who introduced her to the joys of cooking and of bottling, pickling and preserving.
Less helpfully, her grandfather Charles gave her a taste for tobacco - allowing her a weekly puff after she had filled his pipe - and he also fostered her early appreciation of wine, diluted at first in token recognition of her tender years.
"My wine was pale pink at five, deep pink by eight and often straight from the bottle by the time I went to school," she said.
A lonely child who believed she was psychic from an early age, Fanny was convinced she had a hotline to the court of Louis XIV of France and she was subsequently expelled from boarding school for holding a seance in the school library.
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From 1955 to the late Sixties, Fanny and Johnnie were the pioneers of TV cookery and dominated the schedules
Catapulted into the adult world at 15, she was far from a classic beauty and had a complex about her prominent nose, but she had no shortage of would-be suitors.
The same year she was thrown out of school, she met a handsome RAF pilot named Sidney Evans and married him when she was 17, despite maintaining later that she had feelings of foreboding from the start.
These proved justified when three months later, in February 1927, he crashed into a farmer's field, leaving Fanny widowed and pregnant only three weeks after her 18th birthday.
Her son, Peter, was barely six months old when in 1928 she met civil engineer Arthur Chapman, a seemingly wild character who was drinking heavily to dull the pain of a leg injury he had sustained in a serious motorcycle accident.
Discovering that she was pregnant by him that summer, Fanny was forced into a face-saving wedding, after which he revealed himself to be ready for a life of quiet simplicity.
This held no appeal for his new wife and within a year she had asked for a divorce but Chapman, perhaps spiritually battered by his brief time with the eccentric Fanny, had become a convert to Catholicism, and refused to grant her one.
Her response was to walk out anyway - leaving him to bring up their baby son, Christopher, as she moved to London with two-year-old Peter in tow.
With her parents separated and bankrupt thanks to their penchant for gambling, she was reduced to living in a squalid bedsit in Kensington.
Down to her last pennies and her last bottle of milk for Peter, she resorted to locking the little boy in the room each day while she went out to work, washing-up in a canteen and selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door.
Eventually he was rescued by his paternal grandparents who agreed to adopt him on condition that Fanny had no contact with him until he was 21.
Finally free to resume her social life, she met a rich young playboy named Greg Holden-Dye who was two years her junior and soon they were engaged.
She had long lost contact with Arthur Chapman but, after placing newspaper adverts announcing her betrothal and hearing nothing from him, it seems that she persuaded herself and her fiancÈ that he was probably dead and she and Holden-Dye married shortly after the outbreak of war in September 1939.
Soon afterwards it became clear that Arthur Chapman was very far from dead when she bumped into him by chance in London.
However, the fact that her new marriage was bigamous was academic by then since she had already left Greg Holden-Dye.
Later, she claimed that he was gay and that she had consented to the match only as a favour to help him conceal this fact from his family but this was most likely an excuse for her appalling behaviour towards him.
Within six weeks of their wedding, she told Holden-Dye she was leaving him for Major Johnnie Cradock, a married man she had met in a dash for the bar after a concert in East London.
At 35, Johnnie was five years older than Fanny, a public school-boy who had drifted unthinkingly into his father's wool merchant business after leaving Harrow and had then joined the Royal Artillery at the start of the war.
He was married with four children aged between six and ten but, according to Fanny, he found in her a hedonism and spontaneity which he had been looking for all his respectable middle-class life.
She was particularly fond of recounting the first time he came to dinner and enthusiastically licked out the saucepan in which she had been making a chocolate sauce: "Johnnie," I demanded, fairly disconcerted at the sight of a large, fair, balding man, licking with such excessive rapture.
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Johnnie Cradock was married with four children when he met Fanny
"Don't you eat at home?"
He shook his head. "Not allowed in the kitchen," he said between licks.
In Fanny's view, denying a man such treats was just asking for trouble.
Since Arthur Chapman still refused to divorce her, Fanny changed her name to Cradock by deed poll and she and Johnnie set up home together in a rundown rented cottage near Stratford-upon-Avon.
Left virtually penniless by his divorce settlement, he had been invalided out of the army with an eye condition which required him to wear a powerful monocle, so in an attempt to bring in some money, Fanny began writing children's books. In this she seemed undaunted by her complete lack of a maternal gene or knowledge of what material was appropriate for a young audience.
"Personally I like the idea of James the young buck-rabbit 'dancing intimately' with a lady chinchilla but perhaps this is slightly sophisticated for very young readers," said one editor.
Realising she would never make her fortune this way, Fanny had the inspiration of drawing on her love of food and wrote a recipe book called The Practical Cook.
Published in 1949 when food rationing was still in force, and offering such tempting delicacies as rose petal jam and baked hedgehog, it was a great hit.
Soon the cookery demonstrations she was asked to give at luncheon clubs became sell-out shows at theatres across the country with Fanny resplendent in ball-gown and tiara and Johnnie, in top hat and tails, appearing as her hapless sidekick.
Her exotic menus - featuring greendyed Duchess potatoes among other items - appealed to a Britain recovering from the austerity of the war and by the mid-1950s, she was being auditioned for her own TV series.
Conscious that her large nose might look even bigger on the nation's television sets, she underwent plastic surgery at the hands of Sir Archibald McIndoe whose experimental grafting techniques had transformed the lives of disfigured RAF pilots in the famous Guinea Pig Club.
With her re-modelled nose, based on that of a model she had seen in a French magazine, Fanny went on to dominate TV cookery for the next 15 years - a success she attributed partly to her ability to prepare dishes off the top of her head, without having to learn the recipe first, because she had been a chef in a past life.
By the late 1960s, the Cradocks were travelling around in a Rolls-Royce and living in the Dower House, an imposing mini-mansion just north of London, the kitchen of which they equipped with nine gas cookers, while the dining room boasted a marble table and a gold ceiling frieze adorned by cherubs.
It was a remarkable turnaround in their fortunes but, as Johnnie discovered, it came at a price.
As she became more successful, Fanny grew ever more diva-like and if Johnnie wasn't actively scared of her then he made a poor job of concealing it from friends and employees.
Their tour manager, Wendy Colvin, frequently witnessed his willingness to divert blame to others rather than field Fanny's fury.
Once, she saw him drop some drycleaning as he got out of the couple's Rolls.
Rather than own up to dirtying it, he pinned the offence on the cleaners, who were treated to a ferocious phone call from an outraged Fanny.
On another occasion, Colvin was in the car with the Cradocks when Fanny was nagging Johnnie incessantly about the route they were taking. He was usually patient but for once he dared to tell her to shut up.
"She blew her top," recalled Colvin.
"Don't you ever speak to me like that again," she said. "You'll be back where you came from so fast you won't know what's hit you. I am Fanny Cradock and don't you forget that."
For all Fanny's egotism and grand manner, the reality of life with the Cradocks was often less glamorous than their fans might have imagined.
The food presented at their lavish dinner parties included tomatoes that had been fertilised with buckets of Fanny's own urine - or "Madam's Tonic" as it was known - while the Cradocks' attention to basic kitchen hygiene was scant to say the least.
"They were two of the dirtiest people I've ever met," remembered their former assistant Alison Leach.
She became used to finding cutlery in their kitchen drawers which was supposed to have been washed up but was still sticky with the residue of the dog food they had served their pets.
As Fanny grew older, she struggled to maintain her genteel facade in public.
In 1971, viewers of the BBC's Nationwide programme were shocked to see her wiping her nose on the back of her hand during a cooking demonstration but it was her dreadful behaviour on Esther Rantzen's show The Big Time, in 1976, that would bring about her downfall.
Giving amateurs the chance to take on tasks normally performed by professionals, Rantzen had invited a Devon housewife named Gwen Troake to prepare a banquet for the former Prime Minister Edward Heath.
Openly sneering at Mrs Troake and pretending to retch as she described her menu, Fanny could hardly have been any more condescending.
Esther Rantzen later described it as "like Cruella de Vil meets Bambi" and the public agreed.
Fanny's career as a TV chef was effectively over.
There was one consolation. In 1977, spotting a death notice for Arthur Chapman in the newspaper, Johnnie proposed to Fanny and they were married at Guildford Register Office in May that year - or so they thought.
Unwittingly, Johnnie had landed Fanny in a bigamous state for the second time, as the Arthur Chapman who had died was not her husband.
It was a measure of the Cradocks' declining popularity that there was barely a paragraph of recognition in the newspapers when Johnnie died in 1987 but, for all her neglect of him at the time of his final illness, Fanny felt the loss acutely, retreating into seclusion.
By now, she had managed to alienate just about everyone who might have cared for her in her old age.
Back in 1948, she had been reunited with her eldest son Peter, then 21, and helped him find a job as a sous-chef at the Dorchester hotel but they became permanently estranged after she took a dislike to his fiancee, Pam, and told him that she never wanted to see him again.
He quickly discovered the sinister side of her anger when the doors to catering jobs in London shut en masse and he moved to Kenya to join the police force there not long afterwards.
As for Christopher, he had contacted his mother in 1957 when he was 28.
That reunion too had been short-lived with Fanny accusing Christopher's girlfriend of trying to seduce Johnnie after she gave him an innocent peck on the cheek.
The rift between mother and son was never repaired.
By 1991, Fanny was living alone in a nondescript flat in Chichester in West Sussex, where Phil Bradford, a longtime friend of the Cradocks, visited her one day and found her dirty, disoriented and desperate.
A batch of pills beside her left him in no doubt that she was contemplating suicide.
He sought power of attorney and had her moved to a nursing home where she reacquired her dignity, passed on the odd culinary tip to kitchen staff and died of a stroke in December 1994, a teddy bear given to her by Johnnie on her bedside table.
FABULOUS Fanny Cradock by Clive Ellis (Sutton, £16.99).
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U.S. women win gold in 4x100 and SMASH world record set by East Germany in the 80s
The United States smashed one of the oldest world records on Friday when they won the women's Olympic 4x100m relay title in 40.82sec.
The quartet took more than half a second off the 27-year-old record of 41.37sec set by the former East Germany in 1985, beating home arch-rivals Jamaica (41.41sec) while Ukraine took bronze (42.04sec).
The Americans' 100 metres silver medalist and 200 metres bronze medalist Carmelita Jeter anchored the team to gold with a devastating burst down the final stretch and screamed for joy after she crossed the line.
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Victory face: United States's Carmelita Jeter celebrates breaking the world record in the women's 4x100m relay at the Olympic Stadium in London
From left: Allyson Felix, Carmelita Jeter, Tianna Madison and Bianca Knight of the US celebrate after winning the women's 4x100m relay at the Olympic Stadium
Winning: United States' Carmelita Jeter leads the field in the women's 4 x 100-meter relay during the athletics as the team set a new world record with a time of 40.82 seconds
Former record: The quartet took more than half a second off the 27-year-old record of 41.37sec set by the former East Germany in 1985
With Knight approaching for the final handoff, Jeter took nine strides, reached her hand back and took a perfect exchange.
Jeter was staring at the clock as she covered the final ten meters and used the stick in her left hand to make sure everyone else also had their eyes trained on the bright orange numbers on the trackside clock.
It was a second gold for 200m champion Allyson Felix while Tianna Madison and Bianca Knight completed the quartet.
It was the United States' first Olympic gold in the event since the 1996 Atlanta Games and only their first medal since the 2000 Sydney Games, where they took bronze.
Jamaica won the silver medal on Friday in a national record of 41.41 seconds, with 100 champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Sherone Simpson, Veronica Campbell-Brown and Kerron Stewart bringing the baton around.
All smiles: USA's Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jeter celebrate their gold medal win and new world record
Celebration: It was a proud moment for the team as they not only got another gold for the U.S. but also broke East Germany's record
Focus: Carmelita Jeter of the U.S. runs the anchor leg to win gold ahead of Jamaica's Kerron Stewart, right, in the women's 4x100m relay final
By a country mile: Carmelita Jeter crosses the finish line winning the women's 4x100m relay final ahead of Jamaica's Kerron Stewart as seen in this official photo finish
Afterward, the quartet of champions paused to watch a replay of their record performance on the scoreboard at 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium.
When Jeter was shown crossing the finish line, Knight punched the air.
The perfect trip around the track ended a string of disappointments for the U.S. in the event.
At Beijing four years ago, the Americans didn't even reach the final because Torri Edwards and Lauryn Williams bobbled the last exchange in the semifinals.
That marked the first time since 1948 that the U.S. wasn't involved in the women's 4x100 medal race at the Summer Games.
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Nazis secretly developed plot to drop radioactive bomb on New York from supersonic space rocket
- Hermann Goering was tasked with overcoming long-range bombing problem
- Much of the research would later pave the way for modern space travel
Nazi chief Hermann Goering plotted to attack New York in a bizarre plot involving a manned space rocket dropping a dirty bomb over the Manhattan skyline.
Vying for Hitler's attention, the head of the German air-force, Hermann Goering, set up a lab and a team of leading scientists to explore the possibility of the radioactive attack on American soil.
Goering read the work of maverick Austrian engineer, Eugen Saenger and particularly his belief that a space plane could be built.
New York: The Nazis wanted to attack the U.S. but they lacked long-range bombers capable of covering the distance. They explored a rocked-propelled spacecraft as a way to reach and bomb New York (pictured)
The head of the Luftwaffe commissioned him and other leading physicists to explore the plane, which he then wanted to arm with a radioactive bomb capable of doing untold damage to America's most populous city.
Leading historians told the Daily Express that Goering may have been gullible for believing the far-fetched plan would work, but much of the research which went into the project paved the way for modern space travel research and the space shuttle program.
'Saenger would greatly influence post-war thinking about space travel in the United States,' Dr David Baker, a space historian, told the British newspaper.
'A whole series of highly classified space-plane concepts were developed based on his theories.'
Silverbird: Eugen Saenger (left) devised plans for the aircraft known as the Silverbird (right) that could reach America via space. Goering wanted the craft to be capable of dropping a 'dirty bomb' on New York
'His work certainly had an influence on aspects of the Space Shuttle programme.'
Goering believed the rocket plan would enable the Third Reich to overcome the issue of flying across the Atlantic and ultimately avenge America's entry into the war.
Saenger completed a 900-page plan and called the craft the Silverbird.
He believed it would be able to clear the lower reaches of space after being fired with rocket engines.
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It was expected to reach 13,000 miles per hour, would have a 100-tonne thrust motor and would reach more than 80 miles above earth.
'The plan was to wrap the bomb with radioactive sand and have it explode
high above New York casting a radioactive cloud over the city,” aviation historian David Myhra
'It was a kind of prototype dirty bomb.'
Losing control: Goering was particularly keen to promote his airforce and saw the plot to bomb New York as an ideal way to win Hitler's favor
'The standard aircraft of the day could not fly from Europe to the US
because they could not carry enough fuel.'
'But by reaching sub-orbital altitude the Silverbird’s fuel life would be extended allowing it to bomb anywhere in the world.'
'It was wild science fiction'
'But Saenger had worked out all the mathematics. He was certain it would work.'
'Post-war analysis indicated that the space-plane would have burnt up during re-entry but this could have been overcome with thermal shielding.
'The underlying concept was sound but it was many years ahead of its time.'
Goering finally dismissed the plan and the Nazis looked at other ways to bomb the U.S. but never succeeded.
Saenger fled to France and was later sent for by Josef Stalin who was also interested in the Silverbird concept.
He was never found by the Soviet Union and died in 1964.
Dr Asif Siddiqi, an
assistant professor in space history at Fordham University said: 'Saenger was the first to look into the technicalities of building a
winged, reusable sub-orbital vehicle.'
'His work was extremely far-sighted.'
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Mo in mighty fine shape ahead of the Olympics as he eases to glory in final warm-up
Mo Farah delivered exactly the performance he needed to as he geared up for London 2012 in comfortable style.
The Britain won his 5,000m event at the Diamond League meeting in Crystal Palace, two weeks before the opening ceremony in Stratford.
Loving it: Britain's Mo Farah won the 5,000m at Crystal Palace with relative ease
Farah waited until the last two laps of his final race before the Olympics to hit the front and gradually wind up the pace, eventually winning by almost four seconds in a time of 13:06.04.
'I'm in great shape,' the 29-year-old said. 'It was important to work on my speed a bit. Conditions were not great but I love this track and this crowd and I'm looking forward to the Olympics. It's not long to go.
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DESPITE winning 31 less gold medals than Sydney in 2000, Paralympic officials have described the London Games as Australia's greatest performance.
The 161-strong team won a total of 85 medals, made up of 32 gold, 23 silver and 30 bronze to finish fifth on the overall medal tally behind China, Russia, Great Britain and Ukraine.
That compared to the 63 gold medals won in Sydney, but Australian Paralympic Committee chief executive Jason Hellwig said the fact almost 50% of team members in London were attending their first Games underlined the outstanding results.
"Sydney was a different time and there's a lot of evolution that's happened since then," Hellwig said. "It will always be special for what it did just in the quantum of medals won, but in terms of the quality of athletes, the preparation and the focus, this is the best Paralympic team we've put together.
"Athletically this a far superior team than in 2000 and that's meant as no disrespect to Sydney. It's just the evolution of the Paralympic Games and the Paralympic movement."
Australia won its last gold on the final day when the wheelchair rugby team defeated Canada 66-51.
Veteran player Nazim Erdem, who became a quadriplegic when he was 20 after diving off a pier into shallow water in an effort to impress some watching girls, said the thrill of winning a gold medal was something he was keen to experience again in Rio in 2016.
"I want to keep going for sure," the 42-year-old said. "I'm really happy with the way I performed. As long as I can keep a spot in the team, I'm there."
Australia entered 13 of the 20 sports on the London program, and its medals came from nine different sports: athletics, cycling, equestrian, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby.
Swimming was the standout, providing 18 gold, 7 silver and 12 bronze.
But Hellwig said he believed the bronze medal won by shooter Natalie Smith on day one had set the tone for the team's success.
"We've really tried to focus on getting the small things right as well as the big things. After nine shots in the final she was in fifth spot. It was her 10th shot that got her into the bronze medal position by 0.1 of a point," he said. "It just represented everything we've tried to get this team and this campaign to be about. For a sport that doesn't get a lot of coverage and for Nat, at her first Games, I just thought it was a great achievement and it got us all going."
MEDAL TABLE (Country: gold-silver-bronze):
China 95 71 65
Russia 35 38 28
Team GB 34 43 43
Ukraine 32 24 28
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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;
--Rebecca Slater, a 1st-grade teacher at Petsworth Elementary School. | <urn:uuid:50d7b67d-215b-4c0f-a82f-0f10b6a665d2> | 2013-05-24T01:52:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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2 Flight zone. Cattle are herd animals and are classified as a prey species. They have natural defenses against predators, such as escape or flight behaviors. The flight or escape zone is generally referred to as the area around them that, when invaded by the unwelcome, will cause them to move away. As cattle interact more with their handlers and regular surroundings, the flight zone can become smaller and they can be approached more readily.
3 Stimulus area. This is the buffer area outside the flight zone in which controlled stimulus, when applied efficiently, will cause the cow to move as intended by the handler. “Stimulus” here refers to human presence and action only, not prods, whips or any other physical tools. It is also more successful when only one person applies stimulus at a time.
4 Depth perception. Cows have limited close-up depth perception, making stepping over a curb, onto a shadow, or walking off the edge of a bedded pack potentially new to them. If those conditions are present in their environment, they will need to be handled repeatedly in order for them to learn not to over-react.
5 Hearing. Cattle have a broader hearing range than humans in frequency of kilohertz and will respond to quieter noises and higher pitches that humans cannot hear. Reducing or eliminating loud noises, including shouting, whistling and clanging gates, will help reduce stress and adrenaline production.
6 Stage of life. Regular, calm interaction with humans should begin with newborn calves. Young animals of all species (including humans) have “brain plasticity,” which means they have a tremendous ability to absorb and retain knowledge when they are very young. The transition period between hutches and group housing is a critical time to practice stockmanship to help them interact more calmly with humans, find out where their feed and water are, and become acclimated to having pen mates. Calving time is another period that requires careful stockmanship, because maternal instincts can cause cows to become more aggressive and more easily startled. As a stockman, always leave yourself an escape route when handling close-up animals.
7 Flow of movement. Once a cow is moving in the intended direction, it is ideal to keep her moving and not interrupt that positive flow. Facility design plays an important role here. Placing cows in holding areas before they enter the parlor is not ideal, and crowd gates and “cow pushers” can cause severe stress. An example of constant, positive flow is the rotary parlor, which promotes positive flow and provides a very calming, regular routine to the cow. | <urn:uuid:705549a6-386b-440f-9ffe-e16f2c31490a> | 2013-05-24T01:51:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I was tired. Joe looked determined as he made his way through the auditorium towards where I sat at the podium. We had a drive ahead of us and wanted to get going. I saw him coming. Just before he arrived, I felt, more than heard, a gentle voice calling my attention. I turned to look into worried eyes. "I wonder if I could ask you a question about a very personal matter." I felt time pull with the force of gravity. I wanted to be on my way. I'm not good with questions at the end of a lecture day, I'm tired from expending energy all day, my mind has trouble focusing on anything but getting out the door and on the road.
But there was worry at the back of her eyes.
When she realized we were about to rush off, she apologized and stepped away. I felt the moment grab me by my shoulders and hold me in place. I arranged for Joe to take the stuff off the podium, briefcase, notes, Thermos and cup out to the car. I asked her what was on her mind.
She told me that all day she had thought about something that she had done very recently. One of her children has a friend who she is close to. "He calls me 'Mom'," she said with real warmth and pride. Then she told me that this fellow came to her, confused about his sexuality, needing to talk to someone, thinking he was probably gay. She knew that what had happened was an act of trust and a testament to the relationship he had with her.
Since speaking to him, her reaction has weighed on her. She had been taken by surprise and spoke to him about his sexuality in the context of sinfulness. She knew she hurt him deeply. But she didn't know what else to say, she didn't know how better to react. She was confused herself.
That moment sent her on a personal journey. She read about how gay kids kill themselves when they find rejection in the world. She read about how one person showing love and support and acceptance can make the difference between life and death. She began to dig deep into her faith asking herself what she really believed. In her own heart, in her own mind, in her own relationship with God - she knew what she had been told to believe, but what did she believe? Her faith, she found, could withstand questioning. Her faith, she discovered, was mature enough to embrace, fully embrace, the idea of love.
She didn't want him to die.
She wanted him to feel her love, a deep love, that accepted him as made.
"What can I do now?" she asked.
"I don't know what to say to him," her voice was filled with worry, her eyes with pain.
I suggested she start with two words, "I'm sorry ..."
And that the rest would follow.
I laid my hand on her arm before she left and told her that I was so glad that we had spoken. That she had given me such hope. I love speaking to people who have the desire to be self-reflective, who have the desire to question themselves, who believe in a belief that wants to be and needs to be questioned. I told her that I was proud to have met her.
What I didn't tell her, is how much I needed, deeply needed, to meet her when I was a boy.
But that meeting her now, oddly, ministered to the part of me, that still needed to hear the love in her voice. | <urn:uuid:9e5341c1-a84a-476e-afd8-5241a5bbe55b> | 2013-05-24T01:44:27Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Whatever cuts ya got-backstrap, stew meat,etc.
Brown it but don't cook it all the way through, in some butter, garlic powder and Franks(or your own favorite) hotsauce. Don't drain it. Add a can of regular old Campbells or similiar mushroom soup with a little less water than normal. Throw in a few shots of worchestershire sauce and simmer for a half hour or so.
Serve it over some egg noodles or pasta of your choice.
Optional- add some cut up veggies if you're a fan. | <urn:uuid:00d1c6b7-4675-48e7-893a-315e1a41b831> | 2013-05-24T01:58:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Central Asia Crucial to War on Terror
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2002 The Central Asian countries have been dependable allies in the war against global terrorism, said J.D. Crouch II, assistant defense secretary for international security policy.
Crouch testified June 27 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He said that following Sept. 11, the United States was able to get troops and military materiel into Central Asia quickly by capitalizing on previous military-to-military contacts.
In a prepared statement for the committee, Crouch said U.S. interaction with the countries of Central Asia laid "the groundwork both politically and militarily for coalition operations."
U.S. ties to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan date back to the fall of the Soviet Union. The United States was interested in eliminating the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, promoting membership in NATO's Partnership for Peace program, helping regional peacekeeping efforts and fostering greater regional cooperation, Crouch said.
While those goals remain, other factors have pushed to the fore. "The events of Sept. 11 clearly highlighted that the United States and the countries of Central Asia have significant mutual security interests," Crouch stated. "The continued stability and security of this region will remain an important U.S. interest."
He said Central Asian governments see the presence of U.S. and coalition troops as enhancing their security. "All of the Central Asian countries have told us that (Operation Enduring Freedom) directly addresses their security concerns," he said.
These concerns, Crouch said, include homegrown and imported terrorism and religious extremism; drug trafficking and traffickers' connections with violent groups; and the threat of weapons of mass destruction materials crossing their borders.
The nations of the region offered their assistance immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes. Uzbekistan provided bases for U.S. and coalition troops, Crouch said. The country also provided links for humanitarian aid to reach starving Afghan refugees.
Kyrgyzstan hosts coalition forces at Manas Air Base. Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have provided unlimited overflight permission and allowed their territory to be used for supply purposes. Tajikistan has allowed coalition aircraft to refuel at the Dushanbe International Airport.
All this assistance is being given even as the area faces terrorist threats, Crouch continued in his statement. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is a threat not only to the Uzbek government, but to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan as well. The group wants to institute a Taliban-like "pure" religious government in the region, he said.
While the primary U.S. focus will remain the war on terror, other regional problems demand attention. He said the United States will continue to work with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to demilitarize former Soviet facilities.
All the countries need the example of the U.S. armed forces. "It is our intent to provide them a democratic model, sound military advice and tailored assistance," Crouch said. "Extremist violence, fueled by narcotics and overlaid on a population struggling with poverty, are real obstacles to stability and security." | <urn:uuid:223d318e-0bec-4980-ad4c-512efc0b4366> | 2013-05-24T01:31:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Definitions for water mill
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a mill with machinery driven by water.
Origin of water mill:
a mill powered by a water wheel
a mill whose machinery is moved by water; -- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill | <urn:uuid:308599b6-f7c9-450f-b4cd-27d1271cd7c5> | 2013-05-24T01:30:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Engineering & Construction Degrees and Programs Offered in California (CA)
Engineering and construction careers require you to have a high level of technical knowledge and formal training. A bachelor's degree plus a license from the California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists is required for most engineers, while construction managers typically have a bachelor's degree plus certification and work experience. An associate's degree in engineering can prepare you for entry level technician jobs.
Earning engineering and construction degrees in California
Train to work in engineering and construction and you could enjoy a healthy salary for a career that fascinates you. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the following 2009 mean annual wages for popular construction and engineering jobs in California:
- Aerospace Engineers: $107,710
- Civil Engineers: $91,910
- Industrial Engineers: $86,200
- Managers of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers: $74,500
- Electricians: $56,840
Engineering and construction degrees in California can lead to a growth career in the state. The California Employment Development Department projects an 8.9 percent growth in job opportunities for construction managers between 2008 and 2018, a 7 percent growth for engineering managers, an 80.6 percent growth for biomedical engineers, and a 21.4 percent growth for environmental engineers. Learn more about your degree options and start your commitment to training in California today. | <urn:uuid:3bd4cefc-e19e-4a07-a385-416a4b91feef> | 2013-05-24T01:31:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Mission of the Delta Humane Society & S.P.C.A. is
to promote the humane treatment of animals and to promote
the bond of caring between humans and animals. We do not
destroy our animals. We accomplish our mission by providing
shelter, care and adoption services for misplaced pets.
We seek to educate and make the county's citizens aware
of their responsibilities in the crisis of pet overpopulation.
We promote public awareness for the care of all animals
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Re: Did I give up on telnet too easily?
From: Marcus Lauer (reply_at_via.newsgroup)
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 22:54:32 GMT
Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>> next time, if you must reply to a dumb post, reply with facts, not
> I found that you were being insulting towards the truth, and did reply
> with facts. I pointed out that you were wrong (a fact) and told you
> that I would tell you how you could avoid the hole you set out if you
> didn't get it (another fact, which I didn't have to potentiate, since
> you got it).
You don't get to be insulted by my posts unless you actually know better,
and when you don't say what you know, you haven't proved to anyone else
that you know any better. Any six year old can throw around insults and
pretend that they know the answer. So if you are insulted, you don't get
to say anything unless you're willing to back your anger up with facts.
You've got to prove yourself. Otherwise, you're just going around bitching
at people, and nobody respects that kind of person. They contribute
nothing to the discussion but background noise.
Incidentally, using a command line password switcher gives a quick attacker
plenty of time to login. Your system isn't half as good as the ones Nico
Kadel-Garcia talked about. So much for your "expertise".
-- Marcus -- | <urn:uuid:ac8b98e2-21a1-4414-bd95-4cd9fca1473c> | 2013-05-24T01:50:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Detroit -- Drayton Florence had it in his hands — an errant pass from Colts rookie Andrew Luck near midfield — and he dropped it. Then he dropped to the ground and did a few push-ups as punishment.
Two plays later, the penalty was more severe, after Florence, the Lions' veteran cornerback, let another Colts rookie, receiver LaVon Brazill, get behind him in the end zone to haul in a 42-yard touchdown. That defensive lapse — "Inexcusable," coach Jim Schwartz fumed in his postgame press conference — allowed the Colts to pull within 33-28 with 2:39 left, and it set the stage for another fourth-quarter collapse Sunday at Ford Field.
The Lions became the first NFL team since the 2000 San Diego Chargers to lose three consecutive games they led with 2 minutes remaining in regulation, according to STATS LLC. They're only the third team in NFL history to lose three straight home games by blowing fourth-quarter leads, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
A year after setting records for their late-game heroics, the Lions are back to setting records for futility.
So what gives?
"We're not making the plays when they count," Florence said, when asked to sum up the chain of events that led to Sunday's 35-33 loss to Indianapolis. "If I make the interception, the game's probably over. If I don't let the guy get behind me in Cover-4 (defense), the game's probably over. But this league isn't, 'If you do or if you don't.'"
No, there is no "if" allowed in the bottom-line business of the NFL.
"Either you make the play," Florence agreed, "or you don't."
And once again Sunday, the Lions didn't, particularly on defense, which left everyone — the players included — repeating the same questions after Luck flipped a pass to Donnie Avery, who scooted into the end zone as time expired, and helmets and headsets started flying in disgust.
"How?" cornerback Chris Houston asked, shaking his head. "How and why? That's the only two things that were in my mind. How and why that happened? How? I'm still puzzled."
Not so fast
Puzzled is one way to put it, as the Lions tried to piece together another mind-blowing loss Sunday.
And while there was plenty of blame to go around — another third-down run call on a potential clinching drive? — in the end it was the defense that was on the field, unable to stop Luck or fate or destiny or whatever it is the Colts have working for them right now.
Indianapolis, held without a first down on eight possessions in three-plus quarters Sunday, somehow managed to put together eight- and 11-play drives that went 85 and 75 yards, respectively, to win the game in the final 4 minutes.
How? A personal foul, a dropped interception, blown coverages in a patchwork secondary — you name it, they did it.
"I think we get too relaxed," Houston said. "Guys get too relaxed instead of going out there (and) staying focused."
Too relaxed? Meaning …
"Guys think the game is over," Houston said. "And that's what happened."
I don't know if that's really what happened Sunday, but I do know this: The Lions' defense, for all the good it has done this season — surprisingly so, at times, given some of the personnel issues — hasn't made the kind of game-changing plays it made a year ago. At least not with the same frequency, and certainly not in the clutch, outside of that long-ago overtime win at Philadelphia.
The contrasts between 2011 and '12 are easy to draw at this point, with the Lions falling to 4-8 on the season and completely out of the playoff picture.
But here's one that's been largely overlooked: The Lions are one of a half-dozen teams in the NFL without a scoring play from their defense this season. They're one of only four without one from their defense or their special-teams units. And the other three at the bottom of the heap aren't exactly the company you'd like to keep: Jacksonville, Oakland and Philadelphia.
Last year, the Lions were among the best in the league at creating havoc and capitalizing on it, tied with the Bears for the league lead with seven defensive touchdowns. They were ranked in the top five in both fumble recoveries (12) and interceptions (21) in 2011. But for whatever reason, those turnovers — five fumble recoveries and 10 interceptions in 12 games — simply aren't happening.
Sunday, they actually won the turnover battle with the Colts, picking off Luck three times. But they should've had a handful, at least. And even when they did make a play, they still found a way to muck it up.
Take Florence's second-quarter interception that he returned for what initially appeared to be a touchdown. Turns out he stepped out of bounds at the 10-yard line. Oh, and Jacob Lacey got flagged for an illegal block in the back — trailing the play — to push the Lions back to the 20. After a three-and-out from the offense, the Lions had to settle for another Jason Hanson field goal.
And take the final two drives, when the pressure flushed Luck from the pocket but no one in that front four managed to bring him down. Not before he'd run for a first down or found another open receiver.
"It's just frustrating," linebacker DeAndre Levy said. "It's hard to put into words, losing three games like we did — last play, last drive. Having chances and just not executing? It's just draining."
And yet that's exactly why this season has gone down the drain.
(Team) ... (TDs)
1. Lions ... 7
1. Bears ... 7
3. Bills ... 6
4. Packers ... 5
4. Seahawks ... 5
(Team) ... (TDs)
27. Lions ... 0
27. Raiders ... 0
27. Jaguars ... 0
27. Eagles ... 0
27. Bengals ... 0
27. Bills ... 0
LaVon Brazill pulled the Colts within 33-28 with this touchdown catch with 2:39 to play. / Daniel Mears/Detroit News
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Prepare for spring by diving into late-winter chores in the garden.
Remove leaf litter from a pond, especially if you have fish. Decomposing leaves can have an adverse effect on water quality. Turn off the pump to make it easier to collect the leaves. While removing the leaves, you can also scoop out algae that may have formed. When you're finished removing the leaves, turn the pump back on.
If weeds have sprouted in the path that surrounds the water feature, remove them by hoeing or pulling. Never use herbicides near a pond, especially if it contains fish, because nearly all herbicides are toxic to fish. They may also destroy aquatic plants in and around the pond.
Wait to remove or transplant overgrown or misplaced plants in or around the pond until the temperatures are warmer. Late winter is not an ideal time to transplant herbaceous plants, and the water may be too cold or even frozen to work in.
Late winter is the ideal time to cut back ornamental grasses. Although it can be fairly easy to cut back grasses with a pair of pruners, loppers or shears, you can also secure the top growth with a bungee cord or piece of twine and cut grasses back with electric or gas powered hedge trimmers. This method can be particularly useful on cutting back large sized grasses.
Late winter is a good time to prune runaway vines because you can visibly see where the vines are growing and remove them from nearby plants. If you wait until spring has sprung and the leaves are already on the trees and shrubs, you may miss an overgrown vine that could potentially be choking nearby plants.
Did You Know...
Using a clothes line instead of a dryer will save a lot of energy. It's difficult to find hard numbers, but the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star website indicates the average family does about 300 loads of laundry per year. Pacific Gas and Electric's website estimates that it costs about $.33-$.56 per load for gas dryers and about $.12-$.15 per load for electric dryers. Based on these numbers, hanging clothes on a clothes line will save you about $40-$45 per year if you own an electric dryer and about $100-$170 per year if you own a gas dryer.
-- Rebecca Matulka, Energy.gov
Home Selling Tip
When preparing for a showing, pay attention to details! Little things mean a lot in the big picture because they pull the house's look together. Things like small, colorful ceramic tiles placed into brick steps to carry through a color scheme. Edging the lawn. Large planters. Finally, don't forget to tidy up. Curb appeal also means a place that looks neat and clean, the kind of place you'd like to live.
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