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Monday, September 19, 2016
Review: Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
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I don't like this book so much, I hate Arsinoe with all my guts lol. Have a nice week.ReplyDeleteReplies
So we are on the same page, at least about the book overall. :D Thank you, Carine!Delete
Oh this sucks, you are the second review I have seen that did not care much for this book. Now I am worried and not sure I want to try it though I have a copy. :(ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm sorry! Since you have the copy, it's probably worth the shot? A lot of reviewers on Goodreads loved it.Delete
Happy reading!
I didn't know there was a love triangle. I have been looking forward to this for months now. Isn't it interesting enough to have a premise like this, without all the romance? Triplets in training to kill each other for the crown, sounds damn good to me. Why must romance come in and taint such a good thing? Darn it! I don't do well with love triangles anymore. Someone needs to point out that this trope is played-out in the YA genre.ReplyDeleteReplies
I read a review just a day or two before reading this one, and I was crushed. But I thought, maybe I'll handle it better than this reviewer? WRONG. I was so wrong.Delete
The premise of the book is so amazing, right? Execution... meh. Especially with the messy romance. I definitely agree that love triangles seriously need to GO. Gtfo, love triangles!
Wow. And any chance I had of picking this up just died. Why...? Just no. No. Thanks for suffering through it and giving us the heads up. :(ReplyDeleteReplies
Honestly I wish I had known before requesting the ARC! I would have passed this book straight. :/ You're welcome!Delete
True Mirabella and Joseph really brought it down.ReplyDelete
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Oofda. I have been seeing more and more less positive reviews of this book lately. I ordered the September Owlcrate because I was pretty sure that it was going to be the book (spoiler alert, I was right). I am still kind of excited to read it because I have seen some more positive reviews, but seeing negative reviews from you for books I'm excited for always strikes a little bit of fear into my heart. Haha! So I didn't really read much of your review, but I'm disappointed to see that there's an annoying love triangle. Great review as always, at least what I read of it was! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Awwwwww! On a side note, I really should have ordered the Uppercase box for September because it had The Forgetting... I really wanted The Forgetting. *sigh* Oh well.Delete
Hopefully you like the book more than I did, Cyra!
I haven't read your review yet. I checked the rating and literally gasped out loud because I thought this would be a good book. Okay cue reading.ReplyDelete
Gosh, nope. Not reading this. I hate love triangles so much! And cheating even more. The two combined? Hell no! Ugh, I'm sorry this was such a waste of a read. I would totally hate Joseph and probably Mirabella. I'll probably want to kill Jules, but hug her too. I hope she gets her happy ending with someone else.
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Hehehe. Yeah, if you hate love triangles, I really do not recommend going near this one. If I didn't have the ARC, I would have skipped it. Waste of time indeed. :/Delete
No no, Jules was great! I wanted to kill Mirabella! Jules deserved better. She never forgave Joseph (don't blame her), though she could never hate him. This I understand. I seriously want to choke Joseph and Mirabella though. o_o
Oh, Alyssa! Why didn't I read your review before I started reading this one? Now I'm not sure if I want to keep reading because I already like Jules! I hate to DNF books, but I'm not loving it and it seems nothing will fix it. So sad to know this, but I'm glad I read the spoilers!ReplyDeleteReplies
Awww! Are you still reading it? Let me know how it goes! Usually I don't include spoilers, but spoilers helped me, and I know sometimes spoilers are exactly what helps a reader decide a book is not for them. :/Delete
:( I stopped reading it. I tried to keep going, but I wasn't able to. I just hated this Joseph guy!Delete
RIGHT?!?! He is awful! I hope Jules does not forgive him!Delete
Hahahaha NOT FOR ME. This wasn't on my radar anyway because I haven't had good luck with this author's series but now even more NO WAY. Sorry you had to suffer through this one. Hopefully your next book was amazing!ReplyDeleteReplies
NOPE. I do not recommend it at all for you. And now I feel like I'm stuck because I HAVE to know if Joseph gets castrated or killed or something (like he would DEFINITELY deserve). I'm reaaaally hoping Mirabella dies too. :DDelete
Thank you, Lauren!
This makes me so sad as it's been one of my most anticipated September releases. :( But I'm going to read it anyways because, who knows, I might be different and I'm that kind of reader - I have to just experience it for myself. Setting myself up for disappointment? Maybe! But I'm still going to try.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the review!Replies
You're not different! Everyone does that. I hope you like it though, Di!Delete
I'm reading this one right now, so didn't read too much of your review in fear of spoilers. It is good, but I'm trying to get through it in order for a review tomorrow, not sure that will happen. Will probably have to postpone the review till Saturday. Spend all of Friday night finishing the book. :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
Ooo, I'll check out your Goodreads to see if you finished! I'm curious. :DDelete
I have to be honest. I HATED this book. I'm sorry you didn't care for it either. I'm still really sad about it though because it was one of my most anticipated releases this year.ReplyDeleteReplies
RIGHT?! It was terrible! I'm sorry you didn't like it despite really wanting to read it, Erin! :/Delete
Oh no! That's unfortunate :( The cover looks so cool and the story sounded so good. Boo to the love triangle!! And I'm not a fan of draggy beginnings either. Hmm, putting this one on the backburner.ReplyDelete
Lovely review, Alyssa! Hope your next read is better!Replies
The cover is amazing! And the premise is to-die-for, hence the hype. But... the book fell flat (for me). Rather, it fell and got banged up on the way down. *sigh*Delete
Thank you, Cyn!
This review makes me glad I DNFed. I actually enjoy love triangles for the most part but I know this one would have made me ridiculously mad. Not just for the cheating, but because its clearly just for the drama. Its a shame, because I love her anna dressed in blood books. Great review!ReplyDeleteReplies
You were definitely in the right! It wasn't worth finishing (honestly I shouldn't have bothered trying this one at all). The ending was crap. And yup, the author was trying to stir up a bunch of drama for drama's sake... I hate it. Keep your pants on/dress down. How hard is it?!Delete
Thank you, Teresa!
You're not alone here^^ as excited as everyone (myself included) seemed to be about this when it first started getting buzz, it's been getting tons of DNF and/or very low ratings. I'll definitely be passing on this one myself...from what I've read here and elsewhere, I don't think it'd work for me either. Lovely review all the same!ReplyDeleteReplies
Right? I've seen so many DNFs. Honestly it was slow and then when things DID start to happen... they were the wrong things (like Josef and Mirabella). Ugh.Delete
Thank you, Micheline!
I'm curious, did my review mention the love triangle in detail? lol :D I'm unsure, haha. But aaanyway. Gorgeous review Alyssa. <3 As you know, I loved this book. So much. Sigh. But I also haaaated the Joseph/Mirabella thing :( But I still loved the book so much. Sigh. So I'm a bit sad that you had so many issues with it :\ Aw. You are amazing for giving it a try, though. <3 All the hugs.ReplyDeleteReplies
I have no idea if yours did or not! I don't care about how much detail I went into here. I hated the book, the love triangle, the characters (not Jules though)... ugh.Delete
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So I took a little hiatus last week, and I wish I could tell you it was because I went on a really cool exotic vacation, or because I was assisting on a ton of food shoots, but unfortunately it is nothing so glamorous. I was absent last week due to a little camping mishap last weekend.
I was up early on last sunday morning, so I set about making myself a cup of tea on our camp stove, using our little backpacking pot. When the water boiled I took the lid off the pot and went to remove it from the stove, at which point I caught the bottom of the pot on the top of the stove and tipped the entire pot of boiling water straight down the front of my legs. Naturally, I screamed bloody murder, jumped over the picnic table bench I had been standing behind, and ripped off all my clothes from the waist down in the middle of a public camping ground. And then things got really ugly, which is also the right word to describe the current state of my thighs.
Needless to say, I burned the heck out of myself. S sprung into action, pouring all of our remaining drinking water all over my legs, and making me cold compresses from the melting ice water in the cooler. Unfortunately for me, S does not know how to drive, so we were stuck there until I pulled myself together enough to pack my leg with bags of ice and drive back to Manhattan. Consequently I spent most of this last week going to the doctor, buying gauze, trying to figure out how to wrap the gauze so it doesn't all slowly slide back down my thighs, and sitting on the couch trying not to think about my legs and potential scarring.
However, it was also S's birthday on Tuesday, and I wanted to make him something sweet. I had planned on making a matcha cheesecake with black sesame cream on top because S loves loves loves matcha, but my current limp and inability to bend over at the waist made cooking anything too labor intensive out of the question.
Then I remembered I hadn't shared this black sesame cookie recipe with you after serving them at my creative meetup, and I knew they would be lovely paired with some green tea frosting. Sort of like an oreo, only much, much better.
Typically when I make a recipe like this I try to find ways to reduce the amount of sugar, or to replace it with honey or maple syrup or dates, but I'm injured. I want comfort food. I want full fat, full-of-sugar buttercream frosting. This is not one of my healthier, paleo-friendly dishes. There are three sticks of butter in this recipe. Three.
S loved these birthday cookies. I think their deliciousness helped him take in stride the blow of finding out there wasn't going to be a green tea cheesecake. Atleast not this week. There has been very little cooking besides these cookies this week. The cookies are definitely a bit addicting. Every time I walk by the fridge I tend to open it up and grab two, one for me, and one for S.
The cookie base is based on an adapted recipe from Just One Cookbook, and I love them with the icing or even plain on their own. The original recipe calls for whole black sesame seeds, so if you can't find black sesame powder, you could definitely give it a whirl with whole seeds. I buy my black sesame powder at a Chinese grocery store in my neighborhood, but since every grocery store in my neighborhood is Chinese, I'm not sure how easy it is to source outside of this region. Whole black sesame seeds would work just fine though, and those can be bought at most grocery stores, in the spice aisle.
Black Sesame Green Tea Cookie Sandwiches
Black Sesame Cookies:
1 Stick Butter
1/3 C almond meal
1 C flour
2/3 C sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 C black sesame powder
1 tsp almond extract
1 egg yolk
1-2 tbsp milk
Matcha Buttercream:
2 sticks butter
1 1/2 C confectioners sugar
1-2 tbsp milk
2 tbsp matcha powder
1/2 tsp almond extract
Cube the butter, then pop it in the fridge or freezer to stay firm while you prep the other ingredients.
In the bowl of a food processor (or in a medium sized mixing bowl), combine the flour, almond meal, sesame powder, sugar, and salt. Process until thoroughly combined. Add the chilled butter cubes and the almond extract, then process again, until the butter is well worked into the dry ingredients. The result will be a dry , crumbly mixture that will stick together if you mush it.
Add the egg yolk and process one more time to combine. Dump the mixture out into a bowl and mix a bit more to help the dough come together. I find my dough is typically a bit dry (depending on how large my egg yolk was), and usually I need to add some milk. Add milk 1 tbsp at a time, mixing well to combine, until a dough forms that is still pretty dry, but which you can mold into a ball without it crumbling apart. Typically I add 2 tbsp of milk, 1 at a time.
Form the dough into a ball, divide the ball in half, then place a sheet of plastic wrap on your workspace, and on top of it, form 1 half of the dough into a log about 2 inches in diameter. Wrap in plastic wrap and place in fridge, repeat process with the 2nd log. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or overnight.
If you're concerned about keeping your logs totally round to ensure the roundest cookies, take the dough out of the fridge after an hour or two and roll it again, gently, focusing on rolling out the flattened areas, then pop it back in the fridge. The trick is to do this quickly so the dough stays firm and doesn't re-flatten in the fridge.
When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350F, remove 1 log of dough from the fridge at a time, then unwrap and slice dough into about 1/6" - 1/4" slices. Place on a parchment paper lined (or a buttered) cookie sheet, about 1/2" apart and back for 8-10 minutes, until they are just barely turning golden on the edges. Put any leftover dough log back in the fridge until it's time to slice and bake it.
While dough is baking make the buttercream. Place the softened butter into the bowl of your stand mixer, or in a large bowl, add 1/2 sugar and using your stand mixer, or an electric hand mixer, beat the sugar and butter until very creamy and smooth. Add the 2nd half of the sugar and beat again. Add the matcha powder, almond extract, and milk and beat again until totally smooth.
Match up cookies into pairs by size and shape, then spread the bottom of 1 cookie with green tea frosting, and place another cookie (bottom side towards the frosting) on top. Refrigerate 30 minutes to 1 hour to firm up the icing, then serve fresh from the fridge. They are fine at room temp too, but the frosting is a bit softer and messier when not chilled, plus S and I sampled them fresh vs. chilled and agreed we liked them best chilled!


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I have neither the time nor the inclination to differentiate between the incompetent and the merely unfortunate - Curtis E LeMay
Another problem with trying to clear up the disputed claims of the German pilots is the loss/destruction of the entire Generalquartiemeister claims list for 1944.
Without this record not one kill by any Luftwaffe pilot during 1944 cannot be researched or verified other than by word of mouth or the still unverified Jagdgeschwader records.
Thanks Digger for rescuing this topic off the Royal Navy discussion.
I think the problem shouldnt be that much, there is plenty pilots log books to contrast the claim/kills.
The people always focused in the Eastern Front but there was several cases of clear cases overclaim in the West, like the Walther Dahl case.
An example of burocracy:
Here's a nice article on overclaiming by the Luftwaffe.
While I was aware that Luftwaffe claims were as wild as anybody else's, when fighting over disputed territory, I was rather shocked at the amount that was overclaimed during the 8th USAAF long range attacks on Germany, when they could count the amount of shot down aircraft.
mkenny, I value anyone's posts on this subject and let me assure you, your contributions are welcome.
Let me also assure you this thread is not about proving Nazi uber myths, not by any stretch. For a variety of reasons many German claims cannot be proven, particuarly for the year 1944. Perhaps gun camera footage which is quite substantial, is the only sure way to verify kills for that year.
Yes, there were false claims by German pilots. This was no different in any air force. Were some claims deliberate falsifications? Definately. the case of Winck and his wingman and possibly his entire unit caused quite a ruckus in the Jagdwaffe and a further tightening and scrutiny of the claim process.
As already mentioned Dahl was another pilot with rubbery figures and some of Gollob's claims have been called into question. These are but a few. the interesting thing it was the Germans themselves who uncovered the discrepencies.
Goering knew overclaiming was going on, that some pilots suffered from throat ache and he was most scathing in his criticism of some pilots. This led to clashes with Galland in particular and partly led to a falling out between the pair. Galland refused to wear his decorations for a year.
As an interesting stat US losses of these aircraft over Europe are B-17's 4,754, B-24's 2,112, P-47's 1,043, P-38's 451, P-51's 2,201. Obviously the various tactical air forces and support aircraft aren't included, nor are the not insubstantial losses of the RAF. Not for one minute am I suggesting the Jagdwaffe was solely responsible for these losses, they weren't, but even accounting for the losses by flak, someone was sure as heck shooting down large numbers of Allied aircraft.
So to assert all German figures and claims are incorrect and deliberately so is as bad as believing all the German claims are indeed correct.
Somewhere in between there is a balance, but I personally do not believe we will find it.
Regards digger
The overclaim in the bombers thing is explainable in two parts.
a) simply lies, prossible who said didn not
b) Claimed as Herausschuss, this word wich means something like rebound shot o bouncing shot, the HSS victory was awarded for damaging and separating a bomber of his box formation, that allowed the rest of the fighter to chase him and hunting down easily, a lot of HSS vitories were awarded and mixed with the ones wich are definitive bombers destructions. (endultige vernichtung)
However a hss bomber sometimed reached his base even in (poorly state) and that you get the difference.
The thing that annoy's me about the subject of overclaiming by the Luftwaffe is the fact that some posters refuse to accept that Luftwaffe claims can be incorrect, while being quite happy to pour scorn on any Allied claims.
Everything is debatable, but in this past years I saw the other thing in many forums, allied claims are the Bible, and german claims ( in any category) are subject to every kind of suspicious comments.The thing that annoy's me about the subject of overclaiming by the Luftwaffe is the fact that some posters refuse to accept that Luftwaffe claims can be incorrect, while being quite happy to pour scorn on any Allied claims.
An interesting article about Hartman claims and debate about the dates, locations and so.
Really,Major Erich Hartmann claimed, and was credited with, shooting down 352 Allied aircraft, including 348 Soviet and four American. His colleagues in Luftwaffe 52th Fighter Squadron, Gerhard Barkhorn and Gunther Rall , claimed about 301 and 275 victories. These figures contrast sharply with the results of the best Soviet fighter pilots: I. Kozhedub had 62 victories , A. Pokryshkin had 59 and N. Gulayev had 57. But few people realized that there is no validity of comparing the results of combat activities of pilots who fought in different conditions and with different intensity of combat operation. No one tried to assess the value of such a factor as "the biggest number of victories" from the point of view of the system of the Air Force of the whole country. What do these numbers tell us: what is hundreds of downed : girth of a bicep, or body temperature of a patient with fever?
The answer to this question is not as obvious as it may seem at first. As a rule, the party who loses the air war has the highest number of individual pilot's scores. Pay attention to this: not one, two or three fights but the air war as a string of battles. This phenomenon manifested itself already in the First World War. For example, the German pilot Manfred von Rihtgoffen shot down 80 Allied aircraft; it was the highest result among fighter pilots 1914-1918. During the second World War it happen again, not only on the Soviet-German front. At the Pacific Ocean there were also people like Hartmann. Tatsugo Iwamoto ,a Japanese lieutenant of naval aviation, knocked seven fighters «F4F» «Wildcat", four "P-38" "Lightning", forty eight «F4U» «Le Corsaire", two "P-39" "Cobra", one "P-40 ", twenty nine« F6F »« Hellcat ", one" P-47 "" Thunderbolt ", four " Spitfire ", forty eight bombers« SBD »« Dauntless ", eight bombers" B-25 ". Just over Rabaul the ace won 142 victories in air combat; and totally he has 202 (!) Downed aircraft. Another Japanese fighter pilot, Lieutenant Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, shot down 103 (according to other sources - 86) American aircraft. The american pilot with the highest scores in the same battle ground, Richard Ira Bong, shot down 2.5 times less. On Bongs account there are even fewer downed aircraft than I. Kozheduba had: there are 40. We can see an absolutely identical picture if we look at the "low-intensity conflict": Soviet-Japanese border incident in Khalkhin Gol. A Japanese pilot, Hiromichi Shinohara, claimed that he downed 58 Soviet aircraft from May 1939 until his death on August 28 in the same year. The best Soviet pilot inKhalkhin Gol, Sergei Gritsevets, had in his account 12 Japanese planes.
The reason why Luftwaffe aces scored so high lies in the extensive use of the German Air Force (6 missions a day by a single pilot in major operations) and a larger number of targets due to the quantitative superiority of the Allies ( the probability of encountering an enemy aircraft in the sky was higher). The top German ace Erich Hartmann had 1425 missions, Gerhard Barkhorna had 1104 missions, Walter Krupinski (197 victories) had 1100 missions. I.N. Kozhedub had only 330 missions. If you divide the number of missions by the number of downed, then the German top aces and best Soviet fighter pilot had roughly 4-5 missions per victory. It is not difficult to guess that, if Kozhedub had 1425 missions, he could have easily downed three hundred planes. But there was no practical sense in that. If you want to perform 60 missions a day to covering your bombers and ground troops or to intercept enemy bombers, then you can make it with ten aircraft and exhausted pilots having six flights a day; the other option is to make it with sixty aircraft and pilots having one flights a day. Soviet Air Force chose the second option, the command of the Luftwaffe - the first.
High intensity of Luftwaffe aircraft use was the result of the Third Reich commandment strategy ; they tried to cover a huge front with the means clearly insufficient for this task. German pilots fought almost without stop. They had to serve different parts of the front, depending on defensive or offensive operations.
The Luftwaffe strategy allowed the aces to increase scores, but in the long run it was a defeat strategy. One of the participants of the battle on Khalkhyn Gol, a Japanese fighter pilot Ivory Sakai, recalled: "I have done 4-6 missions a day and in the evening I was so tired that I almost did not see anything. Enemy planes flew at us like a huge black cloud, and our losses were very heavy. "The same could be said about the Luftwaffe pilots fought on the Western and the Eastern Front during the World War II.
Now compare fighting efficiency of pilots :
Erich Hartmann,352 victories in 825 battles, efficiency ratio 0,394
Ivan Kozhedub,62 victories in 120 battles,efficiency ratio 0,516
Alexandr Pokryshkin, 59 victories in 165 battles ,efficiency ratio 0,378
Nikolay Gulayev,57 victories in 69 battles,efficiency ratio 0,826
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I made the same claim and response on many of the Youtube films showing and eulogizing german aces.
But I couldn't (spend the time to) back up the thesis with raw data.
Thank you for providing these data and calculation efforts. I keep it as a reference
Another aspect of beefing up the score is realising "where is the honeypot?" Where is the CERTAINTY of target concentration such that a higher incidence of concentrated target planes are to be found:
At begin of war; germany could find the target french, british , Dutch, Polish, Russian planes easily at the designated enemy airfields. Parked,taking off or landing. PLUS little or no antiaircraft defence.
In reverse , the f,b, p, r planes could not hope to raid (in strength) the german known airfields. And if so, the flak was already solid.
Besides flying in a Rudel (14 Me109s?) against 3 allied planes is a CERTAIN 3 kills for the germans..the one allied pilot of the 3 will NEVER be able to outsmart 14 opponents.
And between the germans pilots in a group, it is the "proven" ace that CLAIMS his victory, and doesNOT allow his wingmen to make the kill.
Later in war, with Germans in defence..the german aces KNOW where to find their opponents; from the airfield it is immediately vectored to the allied bombers and their defending fighters. Bigger chance for a kill per plane for the germans than for the allied (who started flying from far away bases...more idle flying time)..
Another "trick" of the germans is to leave the primal "wrestling" of large airbattles to their lower esteemed partners (Italy, Rumania, Hungary) and follow up the endphase with arriving with their "aces" in force to mop up the enemy resistance and claim the kills.
(Really, not at all different from playing War Thunder ).
This canadian commonwealth ace who flew in defence of Malta made this observation.
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Very interesting comments. Frankly, it would seem very difficult, at this stage, to evaluate the kill claims of Luftwaffe fighter pilots, or to compare them with the fighter pilots of other combatants. Apart from destroyed records, there was substantial variation between the protocols operated for the confirmation of kills and shared kills. To take one example - the Soviets appear to have required physical confirmation of kills. This tended to drive down the numbers of confirmed Soviet kills, as kills over enemy-controlled territorys could not be physically confirmed. As regards the Luftwaffe, in the absence of many relevant records, it is difficult to say what their confirmation procedure actually was. Claims seem high - but possible. I hesitate to mention it - but there is also the little matter of the German propaganda machine, and its enthusiasm for promoting propaganda "poster boys" for its own purposes. This went beyond the equivalent tendency in other WW2 combatants by some way, and would have resulted in the legitimation of kill claims that, perhaps, went beyond the probable. We shall, perhaps, never know ... JR.
That's an interesting and simple statistical method of combat effecivenessy, that gives us an unique resault . I would like to compare the soviet top aces scopes with allied ones. Anyone has the simular statistic kills/flyes for the best allied pilot-fighters?
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Each course at the UK Summer Camp starts at 09:30 and finishes at 18:00. We break for lunch at 12:30 and return at 15:00. On some days there may be an opportunity for you to have lunch with Sifu and ask further questions.
Arrive at least 30 minutes early on your first course to sign in and get your name badge. On the courses that follow arrive at least 15 minutes early. A member of the Fully Alive team will meet you in the foyer or in the training room on the ground floor. It will be clearly marked.
Wear comfortable clothing, that is not too revealing. It can get hot in the training room so layers is useful. Training shoes or flat sole shoes are the best footwear for both Chi Kung and Tai Chi Chuan (Taijiquan).
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Adams, MA—The Sage Colleges' men's tennis team visited the Trailblazers of MCLA on Tuesday afternoon. MCLA posted the 9-0 win to improve to 3-5, while Sage drops to 0-9.
Sage's next match is on April 23 when the Gators travel to face St. Joseph's College-LI in a Skyline Conference match on Sunday.
Tennis Match Results
The Sage Colleges vs MCLA
Apr 18, 2017 at North Adams, MA
(Zavattaro Complex)
MCLA 9, The Sage Colleges 0
Singles competition
1. Aaron Goldsmith (MCLA) def. Fitzpatrick, Casey (SAGEMEN) 6-1, 6-0
2. Robert Wabshinak (MCLA) def. Schnaible, Tyler (SAGEMEN) 6-0, 6-1
3. Andrew Nygard (MCLA) def. Miller, Nathaniel (SAGEMEN) 6-2, 6-4
4. Jeffrey Mason (MCLA) def. Rosario, Christian (SAGEMEN) 6-2, 6-1
5. Robert Gair (MCLA) def. Tejada, Melvin (SAGEMEN) 6-0, 6-0
6. Jared Freeman (MCLA) def. Vickers, Sebastian (SAGEMEN) 6-1, 6-0
Doubles competition
1. Aaron Goldsmith/Robert Wabshinak (MCLA) def. Fitzpatrick, Casey/Schnaible, Tyler (SAGEMEN) 8-0
2. Jared Freeman/Andrew Nygard (MCLA) def. Rosario, Christian/Miller, Nathaniel (SAGEMEN) 8-2
3. Robert Gair/Jeffrey Mason (MCLA) def. Tejada, Melvin/Vickers, Sebastian (SAGEMEN) 8-3
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights mean unrestricted physical and emotional wellbeing in relation to all aspects of sexuality and human reproduction. The promotion of this aspect of health and the realisation of pertinent rights are important objectives of German development policy. That is why Germany works in partner countries for comprehensive health care and forward-looking family planning. The commitment of the Federal Republic of Germany to combating gender-based violence – including the still widespread practice of female genital mutilation – and sexually transmissible diseases is also part of this overarching area. more - Background: Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Sexual and reproductive health is closely linked to the entire issue of population growth. It will only be possible to reduce population growth rates while respecting human rights where people are free to decide on all matters relating to sexuality and where they can demand all their rights. Since the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994 Germany has made available a total of more than one billion euros for improving reproductive health in developing countries. more - The German contribution to promoting sexual and reproductive health
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April 7, 2011 Indianapolis Star – [Indy can be pacesetter for style, 2 groups say]
February 18, 2011 The Depauw [No need for New York City, fashion lives (and grew up) in Indianapolis]
February 9, 2011 Examiner. com [Indianapolis Fashion Collective Empowers the Indianapolis Fashion Scene]
December 28, 2010 Metromix [Maybe I'll Stay here after all]
December 27, 2010 Metromix [Working to give Indianapolis a name in fashion one stitch at a time]
Articles about the Fashion Scene in Central Indiana
Indianapolis Business Journal InStyle archive
Indianapolis Star Living Section
Television Appearances by members of Pattern
March 24, 2011 IndyStyle [Cheeky Couture]
March 16, 2011 IndyStyle [Transformations Fashion Show]
March 9, 2011 IndyStyle [Fashion for a Purpose – Midwest Fashion Week]
October 21, 2010 IndyStyle [Behind the Scenes of an Indy Photo Shoot]
September 9, 2010 IndyStyle [Top 5 Fall Fashions]
August 3, 2010 IndyStyle [Swimsuit Fashion]
June 16, 2010 IndyStyle [Men's Fashions with Berny Martin]
April 13, 2010 IndyStyle (House of 5th Fashion Show]


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I don't know how long a story has to be before it's considered a "novel" rather than a "short story," but mine is coming along pretty quickly. I am having so much fun with this. It's been too long since I wrote simply for the joy and pleasure of writing! I have even found a publishing company that caters to first-time authors that is NOT a vanity press and doesn't charge any kind of "author fees", so I am hoping to submit my book to them when it is finished.
Which brings me to my question: I think that I would like to have a few friends read the finished draft before I try to submit it for publication. I need people who can be brutally honest with me and help me to iron out all of the kinks, because I am bound and determined to see my book accepted for publication! If you think that you can fill this role for me and would like to volunteer, please do so! Thanks so much to all of you for your encouragement and support so far!


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Last Monday, in an attempt to cheer me up, my mum took me to The Range and we did some serious damage in the craft section. My mum justified it with a 'well, this can be your graduation present... I couldn't think of anything to buy you!' So now I have a lovely craft box full of all sorts of delights and I couldn't wait to get started with it all. I was spoiled for choice!
I've had so much fun making these cute little button rings over the past week. I've been playing around with different designs and sizes and colours to see what looks best. I'm yet to touch the soldering iron (the time will come but for now I'm reluctant to start experimenting with it). I've been wearing the green one over the weekend and I think it's lovely for this time of year just for a bit of colour and a bit of something different. It took a while to get the hang of it at first but it got easier with time and I was able to do a few fancier details round the edges.
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maxtheape: Do I get bonus points if I can guess other things?
cosettecie: probably, though again, I think I've given you a better basis for making educated guesses
maxtheape: Perhaps. 🙂 It's a common "A" name. Popular, or not, I don't know.
cosettecie: Adam?
maxtheape: Nope. Right number of letters, though. 🙂 See, I'm helping. o:)
cosettecie: yes, thank you ever so kindly 🙂
maxtheape: Any time. Glad to be of assistance. 😉
cosettecie: Alex?
maxtheape: Nope. You're getting colder. You were only two letters off the first time.
cosettecie: hmm…
cosettecie: Alan?
maxtheape: Ding, ding, ding… We have a winner, folks. How about a big round of applause for Caroline? *audience applause ensues*
cosettecie: Why, thank you. 🙂
maxtheape: Oh, but of course.
maxtheape: Let's see what else could I try to guess without freaking you out? Hmm…
maxtheape: Not sure…
maxtheape: The dangers of knowing way more than one should about two to find information…
cosettecie: So you're saying then that you're a stalker? ;-P Or do you prefer "good researcher?" Just kidding 😉
maxtheape: No, not a stalker. I am often called upon to figure out information for people. That leaves me with a lengthy lis of resources to use for finding all kinds of information.
maxtheape: I don't think I could make it as a stalker. It's difficult for guys my size to be sneaky. 😛
cosettecie: okay, shoot…what else can you guess about?
maxtheape: Hmm… are you sure? I could be wrong. It's happened before.
cosettecie: well, if you're wrong, I'll tell you
maxtheape: Does your father's name begin with a "K"?
cosettecie: yes and no 🙂
cosettecie: his first name, no
maxtheape: The name he goes by.
cosettecie: the name he goes by, yes. 🙂
maxtheape: 🙂
cosettecie: that wasn't terribly difficult to find out, though
maxtheape: And the numbers 0299 are familiar?
cosettecie: maybe… hang on a minute 🙂
cosettecie: Yeah, I think so 😀
maxtheape: Okay.
maxtheape: Thought they might be. 😉
cosettecie: well, I tend to forget that number. I rarely use it.
maxtheape: And the name [neighbor's name]?
cosettecie: that one I have no clue about.
maxtheape: Across the street.
cosettecie: [neighbor's name] is their last name? I only know him as [neighbor's name]
maxtheape: 🙂
cosettecie: hehe
maxtheape: See, all sorts of interesting information. 🙂
cosettecie: evidently.
maxtheape: Sorry if that was "freaky." I certainly didn't mean it to be.
cosettecie: So go on– you might be able to tell me more than I know about myself. 🙂 Nope; all public information.
maxtheape: Hmm… Not sure what else I can tell… I might have to look a bit more to find more information.
cosettecie: hehe, it's okay; you don't have to look too much. Might dig up things I'd rather you didn't 😉
maxtheape: Then I shall leave things alone, if you'd prefer. I can't imagine finding anything too incriminating, but those are the things that make for the most interesting stories to be told by the person who experienced them. 🙂
cosettecie: I don't think you'd find anything terribly exciting. No criminal record to speak of 8-|
maxtheape: Just one that you'd prefer NOT to speak of? /:)
cosettecie: Well, I don't think I've broken any laws. Not any civil or criminal laws. Maybe moral ones, but they don't arrest you for those are write them down. Well, I tend to, but you wouldn't find them anywhere. 🙂
maxtheape: 🙂
cosettecie: And, by the way, since you know it, feel free to use the 0299 number any time you wish. Though, there is a much better one to reach me by 🙂
maxtheape: I'm fortunate enough to have a clean slate, as well. Not even a traffic violation. 😀
cosettecie: me too 🙂
cosettecie: well, I did get pulled over in Dekalb County once, because I didn't have my lights on. The street lights were so bright I didn't notice. But I only got a warning. :-S
maxtheape: Thank you for the phone invitation. I will tell you now that I quite dislike phones, but on rare occasion can be caught using one.
maxtheape: Warnings don't count. Though I've never had one of those either. 😀
cosettecie: It's okay, though, because I do too!
cosettecie: Normally my phobia only stretches to COMPLETE strangers, like having to order pizza or things like that, though. 😀
maxtheape: I have a little webcam around somewhere, if I can find it after packing it up for the move. Don't remember whether AIM supports those, or not.
maxtheape: Well, between the two of us, we'd never order a pizza, then. 🙂
maxtheape: I was the kid who would walk a mile and a half to the library to find out if they were open, rather than pick up the phone and call. :">
cosettecie: And I'd never ask you do to do anything you're uncomfortable with. Well, I HAD one, but it was a not-so-good one. Daddy's king of getting things free through rebates, and my webcam was a product of that talent
maxtheape: 😀
maxtheape: Nothing wrong with that.
cosettecie: nope, not in the least 🙂
maxtheape: Mine isn't a great one, but it does the job. My friend up in Ontario and I use it from time to time when we feel like begin able to talk and see one another.
maxtheape: Then again, we usually use NetMeeting.
cosettecie: What did you think of Montreal? Was it a nice place?
maxtheape: It was a nice place to visit, but it was insane to drive there. I was just glad I never got lost. I'm not all that keen on such enormous metropolitan areas.
cosettecie: well, the insane part of driving there was choosing to do it without taking a night off in the middle /:)
maxtheape: Fortunately, I didn't have to drive all that much while I was there.
cosettecie: That's good. I hope you at least stayed 24 hours, to make our visit at least as long as your drive?
maxtheape: I was there for closer to 48, thank you very much. 😛
maxtheape: It had to be a "quick" trip, but I dint want to pass up the chance to visit before my friend headed overseas for the better part of a year.
cosettecie: that's very good to hear. 🙂 It would be absolutely silly to make a long drive just to have to immediately turn around and go back home
maxtheape: Yeah, but I probably would have done it anyway. 🙂
cosettecie: It's 5 o'clock, and I'd wager you haven't gotten much done in the past hour or so
maxtheape: No, not a lot, but more than you might think. I've been writing PHP code in between messages. 🙂
cosettecie: impressive. 🙂 But I was also getting at that it's time for you to go home
maxtheape: Oh, yes. That it is, I suppose. And time for you to be enjoying dinner.
cosettecie: soon, probably. I hope you have an excellent time with your friends tonight 🙂
maxtheape: It says it would take 17 hours, 3 minutes to drive to your address from mine. About the same as Toronto. 🙂
cosettecie: depends on how fast you go 😉
maxtheape: Yes, you enjoy your evening, and take care. I'll look forward to possibly catching up with you a bit tomorrow. 🙂
cosettecie: I never trust Mapquest when it comes to times they give. Okay, thanks for the lovely conversation, Jared. Bye!
maxtheape: As my friend from Ontario says, "You drive like a Nana." She's very fond of calling me that.
cosettecie: hehe
maxtheape: Thank you. Talk to you later. It's been delightful. –Jared 🙂


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This mod adds guards! Guards that are your personal soldiers and you can control.
These guards are not crafted, but they are created. To create guards, you need to put two blocks in vertical fashion of one of the supported materials:
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- Steel
- Copper
- Bronze
- Gold
- Obsidian
- Mese
- Diamond
Once you have placed the blocks, use a finalization staff to bring them to life! After that, they will follow your orders, which you can give using a war horn. You can order the guards to stand ground, regroup and follow you, or follow and attack enemies. You can also tell guards to not attack certain players with a manifesto document.
Download: https://github.com/hkzorman/advanced_guards/archive/master.zip
Browse the code (Github): https://github.com/hkzorman/advanced_guards
License: LGPL v2.1
Dependencies: default
Special thanks to KGM for the original Guards mod. This mod is entirely based on that mod, doing modifications to the original code. However, the largest part of the code is still his, and full credits go to him.
See the original mod here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=17483
Note: This is the first mod I publish (while certainly is not the first I make!) so please, comments, bug-reports, ideas, etc. all are welcome and appreciated!


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The White House is not for sale but the Obama administration is planning a sale. Actually, the government is organizing a huge clear-out - thousands of vacant or underused federal buildings. The transactions will occur gradually over the coming years.
Obviously, arranging such a substantial deal requires plenty of professional help. The administration must determine which office towers and courthouses should be put on the market. If the government does not see a need for a specific property, it could make the real estate listings.
At least 1.2 million federal buildings will have to endure the review process. The reviewers will be an independent commission of public and private sector real estate experts. Although the announcement was not made until March 2, the panel was referred to in President Obama's 2012 fiscal budget request. The panel is modeled on the military's Base Realignment and Closure Commission.
Groups have raised concerns, however, about the review process and availability of information to interested buyers. People note prior cited federal properties in California and Missouri that were declared surplus in 2002 but not sold by 2009. Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.) who is writing a bill to trim the federal real estate portfolio is in favor of the sale.
"Clearly this is an area where the federal government gets better results for less money by reducing the amount of property we own and by better managing the property we keep," said Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.).
According to Jeffrey Zients, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, the decision to sell is a common sense approach.
"The government doesn't need all of these properties," explained Jeffrey Zients, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.
It could make sense for government to sell off a few buildings. The federal government's annual building operation and maintenance budget is more than $20 billion. A 2009 government audit showed that 14,000 of these properties are vacant and another 55,000 are not used to their potential.
The Obama administration hopes to save $3 billion with the sale. Commercial real estate experts, however, do not expect the government to meet that goal. Industry sources expect several properties will not be in prime locations. Even well-located sites might not sell for top price. Last summer, a federal building in Bethesda, Maryland, sold for $1.5 million less than the asking price and the opening bid was only $100.
Real estate veterans suggest that maybe the government should be looking in another direction. Probably the administration could take a long term approach. Industry sources say that the government must focus on maintaining the value of their assets.
It can prove challenging to sell federal buildings. Part of the challenge is the diverse real estate needs of federal agencies. For example, military branches might need only part-time access (for months at a time) to buildings.
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Carmen Mills is a Senior Lecturer in Teaching, Learning and Classroom Pedagogy in the School of Education at The University of Queensland, where she is the Director of Teaching and Learning. Her research interests are informed broadly by the sociology of education and specifically by issues of social justice in education, schooling in disadvantaged communities and teacher education for the development of socially just dispositions. As a critical researcher, informed by the work of Pierre Bourdieu and others, she is concerned to explore questions related to whose interests are served by the social arrangements evident in educational contexts and how these arrangements might be structured more equitably. She is co-convenor of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Special Interest Group on Social Justice. Her current research as a chief investigator on an Australian Research Council project explores social justice dispositions informing teachers' pedagogy in advantaged and disadvantaged secondary schools.


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The van Löben Sels/RembeRock Foundation is a private foundation based in San Francisco whose mission is to promote social justice in Northern California by means of legal services and advocacy. The Foundation views the law as a bridge to justice that can be used to right social wrongs, effect social change, and contribute to reducing human suffering.
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The first Pandora boutique in the Balearics has opened in Palma. Read more about one of the founders of Pandora Jesper Nielsen who spends quite a bit of time on Mallorca.
Betting on the Spanish as a potentially huge market for its customizable jewellery range, the Danish brand has opted for a prime location in Palma close to Plaça d'Espanya; a dreamily feminine space showcasing the company's signature charms and more.
Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora is one of the world's leading jewellery companies. What started as a modest Danish jewellery shop had grown into a household name and a multinational presence, with stores in more than 70 countries.
The Palma boutique echoes the brand's philosophy of offering women hand-finished, modern jewellery products at affordable prices.
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All sessions will be held at the Kansas City InterContinental Hotel located at 401 Ward Parkway | Kansas City, MO 64112.
Private industry attendees can reserve their rooms at by calling the hotel reservation number 1-866-856-9717 or at www.kansascityic.com. Make sure you state you are with State Agriculture and Rural Leaders. Rooms are $ 109.00. To avoid a no-show charge, rooms must be cancelled the day prior to arrival if plans change. The InterContinental will offer rooms three days before and three days after the Summit at the $109 rate, as long as the hotel is not full.
For guests of InterContinental Kansas City arriving by car, self parking is available in the hotel garage. Key access entry from the garage is required between 11 PM – 6 AM. Self parking is $18; valet parking is available for $22 per night. Parking charges include in-and-out privileges.
Wireless internet access is complimentary in all guest rooms booked with the SARL link. To book a room, click on the link below, click on "book now" and enter your preferred dates. When you've entered your arrival and departure dates, click on "search" and the next page will display the group rate of $109 a night. You may also call the hotel's toll free number (866-856-9717) and reference State Ag and Rural Leaders as the group to secure the group rate.


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The paper converting bridge connecting mills, merchants & printers
ViXX was founded to provide paper converting solutions to an ever-changing market. ViXX offers sheeting, slitting & rewinding, guillotine trimming, packaging, warehousing and distribution. We do more than alter the size of paper. We provide full service programs custom fit to our customers needs.
As the domestic printing and packaging community faces increasing challenges such as overseas competition and the increased use of the internet, it becomes even more important to fulfill customers specific requirements on a timely basis. This was the ViXX founding premise and continues to guide our company to this day.


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Call for Articles for the 2016 National Free Flight Society Symposium.
Every year Free Flight modellers receive an invitation to participate in the writing of that year's Sympo. Their response has been excellent, and this high degree of cooperation has continued through the nearly five decades of existence of the Sympo. Free Flighters realize the importance of this volume, a volume that continues to define progress in the corner of aeromodelling that we have made our own.
Our time is a most exciting one, in positive and negative senses. Great technical developments abound, many new and superlative materials have been introduced, the flow of information has never been easier, yet youth participation is low and the confrontation with law and regulatory committees makes our flying more difficult every day.
We would like to reflect this mixed reality in the areas of interest and topics for articles that we suggest below. Throughout its history the Sympo has been a unique tribune for technically minded authors, as it can offer more space, and a larger audience than any other alternative outlet. We encourage contributions in this area.
Areas of interest
1) Technical articles
Lost models, flight logging, energy or altitude limiters, timers, thermal detection, etc
Aerodynamics, Airfoils, Turbulators, Flight Simulation, etc
Combining theory and flight testing
2) Electric Power
Everything, from the ground up ….
3) Materials, Structures and Construction:
New and Novel versus Tried and True
4) Promoting Participation
Social aspects: flying alone, flying buddies, local clubs, special interest groups, national and international organizations
Impact of rules and regulations
Pro Am format participation in contests
Flying fields: fields large and small – where are existing field and how to develop new ones
Synergy: joint efforts with schools, national STEM programs, civic groups, etc
5) History, book and article excerpts
Discussing historic references of value
6) Scale Models
7) Short and Long Range goals for NFFS
As defined by the President's Message at end of volume
In addition to this list, we would like to offer to interested authors a longer list of possible subjects for articles. The list with these themes can be downloaded from the National Free Flight Society website (freeflight.org/), or Free Flight Quarterly's website ( freeflightquarterly.com/wordpress).
You can contact any of the members of the 2016 Sympo Editorial Team (e-mail addresses below) for further information and support. The preferred medium of the article is electronic, text in .doc format and separate images in .jpg or .png formats. The Editorial Team is also requesting photographs of quality to supplement the articles, this is an appeal to the many keen photographers among us.
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One of the things about Twitter that I absolutely love is that it connects you to people that you would never have had the chance to meet. A few weeks ago I out out a blog post about licensing questions, which then got posted onto Twitter...lo and behold a few hours later, someone from one of our Licensing specialist partners Tweeted me back, keen to see how we could help one another out. The result of that being that we will be featuring some of said person's blog posts on this blog.
Welcome to Rich from Bechtle, who has been doing software @ Bechtle for over 7 years now. Pretty much every day he comes across useful bits of info, so he started his blog, Software Ruminations, as a way of making that information available to as many people as he can…and to stop himself from forgetting! If you want to get hold of Rich, you can find him on Twitter @richfrombechtle
A couple of blog posts I wanted to draw your attention to were:
Finally, and not related to Rich, we have put our Microsoft presentation team to work internally, and asked them to deliver a few short sessions on some of the licensing areas we get asked most about:
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Government as the Champion of Justice, Equality, Freedom, and Security
Government is the main promoter of important public values, such as justice, that are essential to a good society. Without a strong public sector, life in America would be less just, less free, more unequal, and more insecure.
Do you believe in justice? That our civil liberties should be protected? That all citizens should all be treated as equals? You would probably answer, "Of course!" But do you also realize that if you are an avid supporter of public values like "justice," "liberty" and "equality," then you should also be an avid supporter of government? Government is often the only institution that can make these kinds of core political values a reality. In fact, without an active and healthy public sector, these kinds of public values would be in very short supply. Take justice, for instance. It is not usually something provided by the marketplace or created by the actions of individuals. More often it is something that can only be provided and sustained in the public sphere by the actions of government organizations like the courts and the legislatures. If we want a just society, we must work through government to get it.
This argument – that government is an essential mechanism for realizing vital public values – is an important one in making the case for government. Government is good not simply because it provides us as individuals with certain services and benefits (such as the ones described in another article on this site, "A Day in Your Life") but also because it is the main way to promote important values that are good for us as a whole – values that are in the public interest. This view of government as the insurer of core democratic values is one that goes back to the very beginning of our national political institutions. Consider, for example, the political sentiments expressed by the founding fathers in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
From the outset, the American government was primarily seen as an indispensable means of establishing and promoting certain universally recognized public values, such as justice, tranquility, and liberty. And today, as citizens, we need to recognize in government what the founding fathers saw in it: that it is the only institution we can rely on to nourish and protect these kinds of values in our society.
Many people actually share this value-oriented vision of government. They get involved in politics and the governing process not because they want something for themselves but because they want to promote certain democratic values – such as equality or freedom – that they feel are important. They have a vision of what the good society is and they try to use government to make that vision a reality. They vote for candidates and lobby the government not simply to line their own pockets but in order to encourage government to do what is right for society as a whole. Many people participate in the democratic process because they want to promote principles and values that they believe are in the public interest. For many people in the National Rifle Association, for example, it is not just about owning their own shotgun, it is about liberty. And for many in the Civil Rights movement it was not about using the same restaurants as whites, it was about equality.
To really appreciate the unique role that government plays in promoting these basic political principles, we need to take a more careful look at some of these key values and see how they can be ensured only by government and how they are embodied in particular policies and programs. Let's start with justice and fairness.
Justice and Fairness
"Life isn't fair" is a favorite saying among conservatives. And the often unspoken corollary is, "So get used to it." But most people do not want to get used to it. In fact, the desire for fairness is as American as apple pie – it is in our blood. We get riled up when people are not treated fairly and we think something should be done about it. And more often than not the place that people turn to try to right these wrongs – to make life fairer for themselves and others – is government. Government is the main provider of justice and fairness in American society. Many government policies and government institutions are explicitly designed to promote these important public values.
The most obvious manifestation of this is the criminal and civil justice system. It is the primary way we as a society ensure that criminals are punished and that wrongs are righted. This kind of legal justice is not something that can be reliably provided by the private sector. We would not want, for instance, for there to be a market in legal justice. We would not want this justice to be something provided to the highest bidder. In fact, those times when our current justice system does take on the characteristics of a market – such as when the rich are able to get off because they can afford to hire the most talented and expensive lawyers – are exactly the times when we think the justice system has broken down. Justice should not be for sale, it must be available to all people equally, and only government can provide that.
Nor can we rely on people acting outside of the law, either individually or in private groups, to provide justice in our society. All too often the result of this kind of approach is the revenge killing, the lynch mob, or the drive-by gang shooting. Justice administered outside of government and outside of the law is almost always arbitrary, inappropriate, violent, and out of control. For justice to be true justice it must be ordered by law and administered by the government.
It is revealing that even libertarians and other anti-government ideologues admit that the criminal and civil justice systems are parts of government that are absolutely necessary and cannot be done away with. They argue that running the police, the courts, and prisons are legitimate public endeavors that must be maintained even in a minimal version of government. But there is hardly anything "minimal" about the extent and costs of this justice system. It is hardly "small" government at all. The caseloads in our courts are enormous. Over 338,000 civil and criminal case filings were made in federal district courts in 2008. State courts handled nearly 28 times as many civil cases and 82 times as many criminal cases as did the federal system – with their case filings totaling over 12 million.1 Of course the vast majority of these cases were settled and did not come to trial, but these numbers give us a good idea of the enormous workload being put on our court system.
The legal justice system is also hardly "minimal" if we look at how many people it employs and how much money it cost the taxpayers. In 2006, 2.4 million people were employed in the justice systems administered at the federal, state, county, and city level. These include the police, prosecutors, judges and other staff in the judicial system, and those working in corrections facilities. And 2006, the nation spent a total of $214 billion on criminal and civil justice services.2 In short, government endeavors to establish and maintain a criminal and civil justice system are neither simple nor cheap, they are massive and very expensive. They require a healthy and adequately funded government.
Consider what happened in 2003 when anti-government activists successfully lead a campaign to stop a desperately needed state tax increase in Alabama. Part of what suffered as a consequence was the administration of justice. Alabama already was spending too little on its justice system, and its state prisons were a disgrace. The state allocated only half of what the rest of the country allocated per prisoner and the prison system housed twice as many prisoners than it should. With the failure of the tax increase, 5,000 inmates had to be let out of the prisons before finishing their sentences. The lack of tax revenue meant that other parts of the criminal justice system were also undermined. Funds for the courts were cut by 10 percent, which meant laying off 400 employees. This included probation officers who were needed to keep track of recently released prisoners. And finally, public safety spending had to be cut by 18 percent, including state troopers. This meant that there were only seven troopers to patrol all of the state roads between midnight and 6 a.m. The lesson here? You get what you pay for in a criminal justice system and if you want to reduce taxes you should be prepared to live in a less safe society.


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The holidays are precious for the time that we spend with family and friends. At this time of the year, we remember what is most important to us — the people who make our lives better by loving and supporting us — and focus on interacting with them for some (but not enough) time.
In 2010, let us the focus on interactive relationships past the holidays and make it our most important work throughout the year. Not only in our personal lives, but in our professional activities as well. If we want Enterprise 2.0 to positively effect the way that business is done and make social business the new norm, it must begin with each of us. As individuals we need to:
- reaffirm existing close relationships, strengthen weak ties, and make connections with new individuals inside and outside of the organizations in which we work
- have more conversations that will build trust in and from our co-workers, business partners, and customers
- listen better and be more aware of others' needs, so we can help fulfill them whenever possible
- be more open to the possibilities offered by working with others to create emergent solutions that meet the needs of the majority and create meaningful change
So here is my wish for next year. That the social interaction inherent in the holiday season becomes the norm for all of us in 2010. That we walk, talk, and breath the principles of community, openness, collaboration, emergence, trust, and mutual respect that embody successful social interaction every day of the new year. It is up to us to be the change in which we so firmly believe. Happy New Year!


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13601 - Bromeliads (Wild) - 2018-02-13
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Locality: Ecuador - S03 15' 46.45" W79 03' 31.19", Elevation 3065 meters. Growing in scrub trees (probably not original vegetation) terrestrially on the ground. Note the enlarge stem formed by offsets. Also growing in the same locale T. stenoura and T. walteri. Plants were approximately 135 to 140cm tall with inflorescence. Note the very colorful new young plant growing out in the open. Too bad they don't keep this attractive a foliage.
Photographer: Jerry Raack
Note: This is an offset pulled from a clump growing on the ground. This was a very inflated stem, and the plants were fully rooted in the ground.
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I can live with that thou..
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I'd like to +1 for a way to reset resources, or set them down to something reasonable (like 10k or something).
I really only wanted enough to, like, finish a project. But now, every time I start the game, I have 200k of everything, including emplacements.
Also heard it effects nukes. I'd prefer not to have any of those.
I'd restart my save to reset it... but this game is huge and takes a large time investment.
Additionally. I can't seem to get more fuel, I collect it in the field with the cheat enabled, per the instructions, but I don't still don't have enough.
Oddly enough that problem was generated by the fact I, wanted to use some of my resources, so I disabled the massive resource cheat and spent a ton of resources :$
I am not sure what I did, but after the game crashed, I activated the trainer, and had enough fuel resources to expand the base. I could also sell things I couldn't sell before, and not sell things I could sell before, and I am not at the 5,000,000 money cap. It simply will not let me sell certain things :$
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Govât begins grant issuance to Civil Society Organizations
MONROVIA, LIBERIA-The Finance and Development Planning Ministry has begun the issuance of the third round of grants to civil society organizations under its Non-State-Actors Secretariat.
The third round of grants is being issued through the Integrated Public Financial Management Reform Program (IPFMRP).
According to a release from the Non-State-Actors Secretariat, the value of the grant portfolio to the 17 civil society organizations from across Liberia is put at over US$500,000.00.
The civil society organizations are monitoring the County and Social Development Funds, being provided the various counties by the Liberian Government.
Four civil society organizations from Sinoe, Maryland and Grand Kru Counties have been included into the program.
"The four civil society organizations' grant interventions are in the areas of Justice and Public Financial Management issues within the Justice Sector," the release said.
It said a Grant Management Training for the new grantees, held recently, targeted the third round of the grant.
The release quotes an official of the Non-State-Actors Secretariat as saying the Finance and Development Planning Ministry has realized results of the Based Management Training taking place in the communities that have received funding.
Madam Carolyn Zodua said several organizations are performing, but are unable to properly document their successes and changes they are making in the communities and counties in which they are working.
The Civil Society Organizations are working on public financial management issues, justice, gender budgeting, among others, the release also noted.
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Cash for Clunkers was presented as an easy way for the government to help the auto industry.
But it didn't. The government is so big and powerful it should be able to help an industry. Even as a conservative, I don't disagree with that statement. I don't approve of it because it can only help an industry by hurting another area of society. I don't believe it is right for the government to sacrifice some for the sake of others. But I don't deny that the government can, in theory, help a group that it wants to help. For example, the government is constantly helping plutocrats at the expense of the rest of us.
But outside a rather narrow zone, inevitably, the government almost always fails to even reach its stated goals. The problem is that governments are run by politicians. And politicians require multiple constituencies. They make "compromises." But these compromises don't really compromise, they simply self-destruct and bring about failure.
Thus, according to the Daily Caller,
The law of unintended consequences is a brutal thing, though, especially for inexperienced, shortsighted policymakers.
According to the findings of three Texas A&M University economics professors, "Cash for Clunkers" ultimately caused auto industry revenue to shrink by about $3 billion in less than a year
The professors issued the results of their research last month in a National Bureau of Economic Research-sponsored working paper entitled "Cash for Corollas: When Stimulus Reduces Spending."
"This highlights how — even over a relatively short period of time — a conflicting policy objective can cause a stimulus program to instead have a contractionary net effect on the targeted industry," the trio of economists wrote, according to The Wall Street Journal's Market Watch.
"By lowering the relative price of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, the program induced households to purchase vehicles that cost between $4,000 and $6,000 less than the vehicles they otherwise would have purchased."
For one month, the nearly-$3 billion program increased the sales of tiny, low-profit-margin vehicles. In the next few months, though, all sales faded rapidly.
Overall, the Obama administrative initiative produced exactly no net increase for the number of automobiles Americans purchased.
So the desire to both induce more car purchases and to direct those purchases in a "green" direction annulled the value of the program. This means that the auto industry's "recovery"—to the extent that it has recovered—has happened despite and not because of the government program.


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Mazda has revealed an all-new revolutionary CX-9 at the Los Angeles motor show with the crossover expected in New Zealand later next year.
The seven-seater has moved away a 'people mover' persona and into the medium SUV segment while gaining an all-new SkyActiv engine.
The CX-9 not only contains many of the Japanese company's Kodo design aspect seen in the CX-3 and CX-5 crossovers but more importantly for the company, an all-new 2.5-litre turbo petrol engine.
The new SkyActiv engine replaces Mazda's 3.7l V6 petrol engine and has a 20 per cent increase in fuel efficiency but produces 420Nm of torque at 2000rpms, as much as a conventional 4-ltire V8 claims Mazda.
The CX-9 goes on sale in the United States, it's largest market in the world, in the first quarter of 2016 but Kiwis won't see a right-hand-drive until at least the middle of the year.
Mazda has focused on the day-to-day use of the CX-9 in the USA, where 80 per cent of its sales for the model are, and realised that its buyers needed low-end revs, not extensive power at high speed.
So the 2.5-litre SkyActiv engine was created to produce power in the lower range of gears for use in stop-start traffic and city driving.
The CX-9's exterior design was also in line with recent successes from Mazda, such as the CX-5 and CX-3, with a new prominent grille, giving it a more aggressive stance on the road.
Mazda's chief engineer for the CX-9, Masahi Otsuka, told journalists at a press event earlier this week that the crossover "must have an 'x factor', you can't explain it but it must appeal to your emotions".
Originally launched in 2006, the second-generation CX-9 is 5065mm long, 30mm shorter than its predecessor but its wheelbase has been increased by 55mm.
The all-wheel-drive was revealed at the Los Angeles motor show today, but four hand-built prototypes were used for press drives earlier this week.
Driven was one of the first in the world to drive the camouflaged vehicle around Los Angeles but details of that have been embargoed until next week.


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step 4 dogwood
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I decided to piece a section that will go behind a heavily flowered section. I think it will keep me from having to make as many applique pieces.
I did strips and then cut them with a 4 1/2" square on angles.
I placed them randomly and then put them all together. I like it.


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