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Eagle River Water & Sanitation District staff members with Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority board members and representatives of the town of Avon, Mountain Star Association, and contractors involved in developing and constructing the 270,000-gallon water storage tank in Mountain Star.
From left: Carter Keller, Jeff Snyder (Mountain Star Association), Matt Wadey (Alpine Engineering), Steve Coyer (Mountain Star board), Debbie Hoffman, Sarah Smith Hymes (Avon mayor pro tem), Norm Sproles (Aslan Construction), Diane Johnson, George Gregory (Water Authority board chair), Doug Crowl (Aslan Construction), Carol Dickman, Brian Tracy, Ben Peternell (Mountain Star board), Bob MacTaggart (Aslan Construction), Virginia Egger (town of Avon), Jason Cowles, Linn Brooks, Mick Woodworth (Water Authority board), Glen Phelps, Jen Wright (Wright and Company)
Collins Cockrel & Cole actively supports Colorado communities, causes, and events throughout the state.
Through our volunteer efforts, sponsorship activities, and donations, we help communities and organizations thrive. Here are a few activities and groups we proudly support:
- National Forest Foundation
- Hayman Fire Restoration on the Pike National Forest
- Camp Hale – Eagle River Collaborative Restoration on the White River National Forest
- Find Your Fourteener – Sustainable Trail Construction on National Forests throughout Colorado
- Western Welcome Week (Littleton)
- Town Hall Arts Center (Littleton)
- Gypsum Daze community celebration and concert
- Colorado Water Trust
- Colorado Foundation for Water Education
- Epworth Foundation
- Walking Mountain Science Center
- Legal Aid Foundation
In addition to our work through the firm, our attorneys and other team members actively support their own communities through a variety of activities such as volunteering, serving on nonprofit boards, and donating to causes important to them. Some examples of our individual community involvements include coaching a high school mountain bike team, volunteering as foster parents with local animal rescue organizations, and raising funds for suicide prevention and leukemia research.


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"Absolutely genuine designer, gave me the best price for the work he did and kept me posted with the progress, constantly sending screenshots of what he was working on and if I was happy with the result. Would have no hesitation in using Cask J. again!"
– Mark Willis
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This document has been drawn up to assist supporter-elected directors to clearly outline their dual mandate from both supporters, who hold them accountable as their representative on the club board, and their fellow club directors. All directors, the supporter-director included, also have a responsibility to shareholders and the wider framework of company law.
Whilst many of the provisions of this Code of conduct relate to a supporter-director's specific dual mandate, the Code also seeks to guide all directors of the club in relationships with the supporters and each other. As ultimately all directors are collectively responsible for the good governance and solvency of the club, this Code is intended to be signed by all directors. The underlying principles of the Code are to make the board of directors an effective mechanism for overseeing the direction, strategy and performance of the club. This is also the board's key function in Law.
1. The person(s) chosen by the Trust's members to serve on the board of directors of the football club ('the supporter director') will :
(i) Be a paid up member of the Trust.
(ii) Be an elected member of the Trust board nominated by its members or directly elected by the members of the Trust in accordance with the electoral procedure adopted by the Trust.
(iii) Abide by the majority vote of the Trust board [or Trust membership] so far as their duties to the club allow.
(iv) Submit to re-election/re-appointment every 3 years in accordance with the policy of the Trust.
(v) Not be obliged to disclose the following information to club directors or officials without the express permission of the Trust board :
a. The Trust's financial position, including individual members' contributions, assets, and levels of income.
b. Matters deemed confidential by the Trust board.
(vi) If required to do so by the Trust, represent the Trust in association with the club board in their dealings with football authorities, local and central government.
2.The club will:
(i) Give adequate notice of all board meetings and ensure that the supporter director is provided with sufficient information to enable him/her to participate on an equal footing with other directors.
(ii) Ensure that the supporter director is entitled to the benefit of any indemnity and/or directors liability insurance enjoyed by other directors through the club.
(iii) Not unreasonably restrict the supporter director in reporting back to the Trust the deliberations and decisions of the board of directors, and the matters to be discussed at forthcoming meetings of the board. This will enable the supporter director to canvass the views of the Trust board, subject to the provisions outlined below, that are incumbent on all directors.
3. All directors undertake to:
(i) Abide by the club's memorandum and articles of association, and to any regulatory code adopted by the club.
(ii) Abide by the responsibilities of directors as laid down in the relevant statutes, and any regulatory code adopted by the club.
(iii) Accept the majority vote of the board and work on a principle of collective responsibility, whereby all decisions of the board properly reached shall be deemed to be club policy. As such, it is incumbent upon all directors to represent that policy faithfully both in respect of their duties and responsibilities within the club and to external parties, unless the board vote to suspend operation of this policy in a particular matter.
(iv) Not disclose any confidential information to any other person without the prior authority of the board of directors.
(v) Devote sufficient time and attention to the club to fulfil their duties as a director.
(vi) Attend meetings of the club board, and not be absent without good reason.
(vii) Not receive remuneration from the club except re-imbursement of reasonable expenses, including travelling expenses, while conducting business for the benefit of the club, other than via an open and published remuneration policy operative at the club.
(viii) Represent the club in their dealings with football authorities, local and central government.
(ix) Declare all personal or material interests where there may be a conflict of interests to the board. For the avoidance of doubt, a director's interest shall be deemed to include interests of members of his/her family, or interests of those with whom a director has an existing interest. (x) Not be subject to a bankruptcy order or have in place a composition with their creditors;
(xi) Not be subject to a disqualification order made under the Company Directors Disqualification Act;
(xii) Not have a conviction for an indictable offence (other than a spent conviction as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974);
(xiii) Not be, on the basis of medical evidence, suffering from mental disorder.
(xiv) Not be subject to a ban from a Sports Governing Body relating to the administration of that sport
(xv) Not have been a director of a club that has been in administration twice during a five-year period or a Director of two different clubs that have each gone into administration in a five-year period. I have read and understood the above code of conduct and agree to abide by these terms throughout my tenure of office.


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This is the second part, of our tips and tricks session, that we presented at our 5 SEU related events in 2018.
Demo 6: Enhanced pattern along curve.
Note: This is demonstrated along with the Duplicate command as part of Tip #10
Demo 7: Part Weldments and the Duplicate command.
Demo 8: Placing Hole counts in Draft.
Demo 9: Using the Drawing View Tracker.
Link to Demo 10: Controlling the center of rotation.
This concludes the 2018 Bakers Dozen of Solid Edge Tips and Tricks. I hope that you have learned something new and can use some of these tips and tricks in your design work. Below is a list of other links where you can find additional Tips and Tricks.
•For more Tips and Tricks visit our blog at:
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The state of Missouri brought in 5 percent more in net revenue last fiscal year compared to the previous year.
Data released by Budget Director Dan Haug show revenue growth exceeded expectations for the state fiscal year that ran from July 2017 through the end of June.
Lawmakers crafted a budget based on an estimated 4.2 percent growth over that time period. Budget leaders later cut back expectations, instead projecting only 1.9 percent growth.
The 5 percent net growth was significantly higher than both projections.
Individual income tax collections grew 5.6 percent for the year, and sales tax collections increased 2.3 percent. Corporate income taxes also grew more than 6 percent.


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Just noticed this:
China reports first three human bird flu cases. I'm not saying this to alarm or because I'm terribly worried at the moment but because I think we've known about this for several days now. It's interesting to see the flow of news from here. I'm not worried about saying this because nobody would have minded had I mentioned it last week. It wasn't hushed here by any means.
Anyway, that's not why I'm writing this. I wanted to comment on the strange reaction to the sudden weather change here. In England as the temperatures plummet most of us are content to sit inside wrapped up warm with a nice cup of tea and some toasted crumpets, feet in front of the fire etc. At the very most we might think it good for the soul to go for a brisk stroll on a frosty day but this is because we know that back home there is the tea, crumpets, fire, tv...etc waiting for us and really it's so that we can appreciate the niceties even more that we do these things. It appears that here, things are different. As the temperature dropped below zero tonight and the fog descends, the Chinese have come out in force. On the road outside my window there is currently a tug-of-war underway. Not in a metaphorical sense. Fifty students and a long rope chanting rythmically and screaming at intervals. People are setting up rollerblade slallom courses and generally everyone seems happy to be outdoors warming themselves up.
I was feeling rather proud of myself, before I saw all these selfless activities, that I've just played pingpong for the first time in years. Frankly the Chinese idea of pingpong just isn't cricket. My tabletennis sabbatical has lasted ten years and they gave me not an inch. I've been smashed at, spun at and generally dizzied for the last hour and a half. It would be a lie to say I gave them a run for their money, perhaps a nice-sit-down-and-a-cup-of-tea for their money would be more apt. Anyway, they seemed relatively amused that the funny English chap knew which end of the bat to hold and I shall return next week at the same time for more punishment.
The last couple of days have been frustrating from a beaurocratic point of view. They didn't mention to me when I arrived that to claim for my travel expenses I would need to retain my boarding pass. This is so that I can claim that I really came here!I have exactly the same information on my baggage tag and my passport that they would need and I'm surprised that I am not sufficient proof that I am here. I think Descartes would have something to say about this. Anyway, after faxes from England were sent, seals of honour stamped and various hood-winks to higher authorities, they agreed that I was really here and paid me half the airfare. They can't pay the return part yet because I haven't used it! Anyway, all sorted eventually but I guess this is the sort of thing I will face regularly. Some people are telling me a bank account is being sorted for me, some people tell me otherwise. I've no idea and I'm too tired to find out right now.
A bit of technical physics now so look away those who may be offended or bored by the following.
I've finally got hold of a copy of Conformal Field Theory by Di Francesco et al. It's a superb book that looks in detail at two-dimensional CFTs with everything from the original formulation of minimal models through many examples from statistical mechanics up to WZW models. This is something I should know a lot more about as it is the building block of string theory. As a one-dimensional piece of string travels through space-time, its path maps out a two-dimensional surface called the world sheet. String theory is formulated in terms of a field theory (I'll explain this some other time) on the world sheet. As I mentioned before, symmetries are part of the tool-kit of the theoretical physicist. They allow complex problems to be simplified greatly and the properties of the system can often be understood from their symmetries alone. It turns out that the symmetries of the theory living on the string worldsheet are vast. In fact the symmetry 'algebra' is said to be infinite-dimensional (for those wanting to know, there are an infinite number of conserved charges) and is known as a two-dimensional conformal field theory. Anyway, when you're trying to understand the fundamentals of string theory, conformal field theory is the cornerstone and is something that I would like to understand in more detail. Because I use a certain limit of string theory in my work, I have never needed to know a lot about these two-dimensional models but it seems that now is a reasonable time to try and learn.
One of the important symmetries of a CFT is scaling invariance. Scaling invariance pops up in many physical systems. There are certain conditions of pressure and temperature under which water will be in a liquid state and gas state simultaneously. This is known as the critical point and at this point the system is said to be scale invariant. This means that you can zoom in and out of the liquid with a microscope and it will appear to look the same whatever scale you're looking at it on. When zoomed right out you will see a liquid full of bubbles of gas. If you were to look inside one of those bubbles of gas you would find many tiny drops of liquid. If you were to look inside one of the drops, you would find bubbles which looked very much like those you saw the first time round, each containing drops of liquid, containing bubbles of gas and on and on and...well not forever because there is a scale in the system given by the size of the water molecules. As you neared this length scale, the system would stop looking the same and indeed as you zoom out, you'll get to a scale where the size of the vessel is important. In between these scales however the system is scale invariant. You find this phenomenon in many systems of interacting objects under just the right conditions.
Sorry about that....it just seemed necessary to speak some physics for once.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
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Do you bruise as easily when hit by a pingpong ball as you do when hit by a slowly-moving, hit-by-a-girl squashball??!!! kate x
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- Jonathan Shock said...
I managed to avoid it this time though I'm sure I won't be given such small mercies next week. Will tell you then.
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Seattle Times: Legalize Marijuana
When Proposition 19 (an initiative proposal that would have legalized marijuana) was being considered and debated last year in California, virtually every newspaper editorialized against it. Now comes the Seattle Times with a strong editorial calling for legalization in Washington state. The reader response has been very favorable. And the Drug Czar reportedly wants to meet with the editorial board--presumably to secure a retraction. That's doubtful, but perhaps the editorial board can secure his endorsement or perhaps his resignation.
For Cato scholarship on drug policy, go here. Our latest publication is this address on how the drug war destroys black families.


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Style and adornment are a way to embolden and announce your interiority to the outside world. So, let's all be authentic. Let's all greet the world with kindness. Embrace who you are and who you strive to be.
Most of the people we work with come to us at a time of engagement, marriage or anniversary: they're affirming and reaffirming their commitment to each other, the value of good Earth citizenship, and the lifecycle of matter.
But there isn't any reason to save that celebration for just a romantic occasion
- Consider, adorning your hand with a reminder of the things you believe.
- Consider, giving your best friend a birthday present that means something special.
- Consider, passing on a talisman of earth to a family member, a tree to the family tree.
We believe that we make objects that mean something, out of materials that are sustainable. By wearing one of our rings, you can make your own meaning. Why wait to have or give that?
Here are two new rings that we love, that work perfectly no matter the purpose.
Dyed birdseye maple with a rosewood interior.
In real life, this beauty shimmers like we imagine a mermaid might. Or, it is the silver of a spring, or the sweet ethereal mist of twilight. Wearing a ring like this inserts some magic dreaminess into the everyday.
Rosewood, using the natural color abnormality of the lumber
This one by design uses contrast and as a result feels uber-contemporary. Like dominoes or like black-and-white cookies, the colors work together strikingly. In it is confidence, a 3″-high newspaper headline, strength and force and elegance all at once.
Let our work be one small step toward matching your insides to your outsides. May you find pleasure therein.
Happy Wednesday!


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World AIDS Day Community Event
In Florida, Broward County ranks within the top 3 of new HIV infections. This World AIDS Day we will come together as a community to raise awareness and remember those we have lost to this still deadly infection. Join us on Dec. 1, 2015 at Dillard High School from 3:30 to 6 p.m. for our World AIDS Day Community Event titled "Getting to Zero, Because You Matter: Creating an AIDS Free Generation" sponsored by AHF, MODCO, and Broward County.
This family friendly event is open to the public and will include guest speakers, youth performances, quilt displays, HIV testing and education, and free food.
Every year, December 1 is commemorated as the World AIDS Day, which began in 1988. People and communities around the world dedicate the day to activities and events to cherish the memories of those who battled with the disease, and to celebrate progress achieved in the global response to HIV. It is also a time to commemorate the millions of lives affected by the AIDS epidemic, with a mission of "Getting to Zero".
This year's national theme is "The Time To Act Is Now." As a community we need to focus on the future together to achieve an AIDS free generation. Our goals include:
- Reduce new infections
- Routinize HIV testing in all clinical and healthcare settings
- Link HIV+ clients to care and treatment
- Continue to educate and raise public awareness about HIV infection
- Eliminate HIV related stigma.
The AIDS epidemic is far from over, but with a sustained commitment to comprehensive treatment, prevention and care services, it is still possible in our lifetime to create an AIDS-Free Generation. By supporting this strategy as a community, we can help reduce stigma and pro-mote HIV testing by putting a face to AIDS for World AIDS Day and beyond.
This event is presented by the Broward World AIDS Day Planning Committee. This committee is comprised of Broward County School Board, Broward County Ryan White Programs, City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida Department of Health in Broward County, and a number of community based organizations and advocates. A list of partners and sponsors as well as additional contact information can be found at www.WorldAIDSDayBroward.com. You can also Like us on Facebook at World AIDS Day Broward and follow us on twitter @WorldAIDSDay954 #HIVin954.


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Why has the 'mainstream media' become such a toxic concept?
This is a rather facile answer to an important question and one that can be easily gleaned from the Op-Ed pages of The Guardian. You fail to mention the ownership structure of the media and how this impacts its editorial decisions, its access to resources and the proliferation of unpaid internships and insecure labour practices that exclude most people but the independently wealthy from entering the profession.
With regards to your third point. Since when has disinformation been the sole purview of government funded media? The ongoing campaign by the Murdoch consortium against peer-reviewed science in the field of climate change is surely the most obvious example of disinformation and a highly successful one at that. Furthermore, with regards to your second point on false balance, you failed to bring up the most salient issue of climate change or international relations. In the latter, for example, it is common practice on TV news to present two "analysts" that agree in principal on a subject but share a difference in methodology. To illustrate, that will be a discussion on what should be the most appropriate approach to dealing with the Syrian civil war with "regime change" in Syria being one position or "just" a no-fly zone the other without the position of those opposed to military solutions (let alone the Syrian government) being presented.
That certain media outlets have found such receptive audiences in the West is because, in addition to instances of disinformation, they cover stories that are excluded from the mainstream media discourses due to the editorial decisions at newspapers and TV news that has much to do with the personal biases of management as it is the influence of a concentrated ownership structure. To return to the example of climate change once more this is an issue that should be front page news in all outlets yet it is consistently regulated to back pages in favour of political gossip of no consequence or fails to be mentioned in articles about the economy. Further, it came as an embarrassment to outlets like MSNBC and NYT that it was RT America that extensively covered the Occupy Movement when it emerged when, for weeks, it was practically ignored thus enabling this government-owned outlet to gain influence and audience share in the US.
There are legitimate concerns about the "Fourth Estate" and I think one should trust the layman's observation that in the West, especially in the English and Spanish speaking worlds, it is utterly dysfunctional in terms of its theoretical role of keeping democracies honest. Your first point about "increasing partisanship" overlooks the rich history of conflict between the "newspaper barons" and the labour movement in the UK and US whereby the newspapers were often seen as crucial areas of political contest, which belies the notion that partisan news is some kind of novel phenomenon. Indeed, this idea that polarisation is an exception and not the norm is merely part of liberal political theory that is true in some circumstances but usually not in most. The decline of the free press in Italy in the 20s and Wiemar Germany are instructive because it was the fascists that argued that partisanship in the media was damaging to the "national ethos" even though their newspapers were no less partisan than those of their opponents.
Perhaps, what we are witnessing in the West is a wising up among Westerners from the fog of Cold War era propaganda that their news media institutions were honest brokers of the Truth untainted by material self-interest or partisanship. To use a quote attributed to Zdeněk Urbánek:
"In dictatorships we are more fortunate than you in the West in one respect. We believe nothing of what we read in newspapers and nothing of what we watch on television, because we know it's propaganda and lies. Unlike you in the West, we've learned to look behind the propaganda and to read between the lines, and unlike you, we know that the real truth is always subversive."
To answer this question, we must first establish whether or not people's trust in the media is actually in decline. Luckily, this is quite easy to do, since polling agencies in many countries keep track of public trust in assorted governmental and non-governmental institutions. What we find is quite interesting: yes, levels of trust in the mainstream media are dropping rapidly, but only in Western democracies (for examples, see the US, the Netherlands, Spain and Australia). In Asia and Latin America, a recent study concludes, people tend to trust their televisions, newspapers and online media more and more as time progresses. A preliminary theory that we can infer from this raw data is that trust in media is declining in places with high levels of press freedom and online media consumption, but stays the same or increases in places where press freedom is increasing, staying constant, or edging downwards from a sub-obtimal level. We can easily get lost trying to find explanations for these trends in economic development, the rise of technology in developing countries, or the effects of new media on authoritarian governments, but it's probably best to explore these questions some other time.
So, if we only look at Western democracies, why are so many people losing trust in an institution that has so long been a hallmark of democratic societies? In my view, there are three main contributing factors, which I will treat individually below.
First, the commercial free market increasingly incentivises partisanship. The media landscape today is dotted with websites, TV programmes and radio shows with an explicitly partisan bent. Much of this can be traced back to the more general issue of political polarisation present in much of the Western world. This pattern is very clear in the US (think of Fox News, MSNBC, Rush Limbaugh or the Daily Show), but similar developments can be seen elsewhere as well. Polarised media consumption habits mean that a consumer is more likely to only trust what they themselves consume, and to draw a clear distinction between 'trusted' and 'biased' media. This leaves less and less demand for outlets that give a voice to both sides of a debate. Combine this with (often justifiable) accusations of false balance being aimed at journalists who try to be non-partisan, and you end up with a media landscape with little room for compromise.
Second, newspaper advertisement revenues are in steep decline. Traditional news outlets, especially newspapers, have moved online in pursuit of the money river. This poses two problems for general levels of trust in the mainstream media; on the one hand, professional media outlets have less resources available to do their work properly, leading to budget cuts and a precarious job market for trained journalists. On the other hand, moving online means competing with people with no formal training in journalism, but with the same access to consumer markets, advertisement revenue and distribution methods as everyone else. This dual development has led to an online media landscape where consumers are subjected to less and less professional journalistic output. In combination with the need for output to go viral (gather up a lot of clicks and likes), this means that fact-checked, well-researched content is disincentivised, leading, again, to increasingly partisan consumer behaviour.
The third factor I want to point out is disinformation. The last decade or so has seen the rise of several media outlets, owned by governments, that put forward 'alternative' viewpoints supposedly ignored by the mainstream media. While there is nothing wrong in principle with establishing an alternative TV channel or website in a country that enjoys freedom of the press (or anywhere, really), it would be a mistake to assume that this is a government's only goal. By consistently putting forward alternative theories to unfolding events, framing issues as being deliberately ignored or wrongly covered by other media, and presenting any given topic in a gloomy (geo)political context, the goal is not to convince audiences that the mainstream media is wrong and alternative media is right. Rather, such outlets seek to sow the seeds of doubt, to create a postmodern consumer base that sees the truth as mostly subjective and assumes the media are usually lying to them. While we can certainly debate the effectiveness of such disinformation efforts, it remains true that governmental efforts to 'influence public opinion abroad' through the media are affecting our trust in the journalistic field.


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Oct 2005 – 11:31 By eGov monitor Newsdesk
The specialist service, SignVideo, has been set up by Significan't, a social enterprise run by sign language users, with a £500,000 grant from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's e-Innovations programme.
Using a converged voice, video and data network from Cisco, the system allows users to connect to a central call centre from a local authority website, using an IP video terminal. They then gain access to a sign language interpreter, via a webcam or their monitor, through which they can do a range of things like apply for a parking permit or make a complaint about services.
The service is the first of its kind within the UK that allows agents to transfer video calls from one agent to another. This is vital as every language has its own form of sign language, so routing technology to makes sure that customers are routed to the most appropriate agent.
The use of a converged voice, video and data network keeps costs lower when compared to using separate voice, data and video isdn networks.
"The contact centre interpreters are able to work from the SignVideo contact centre and also log in remotely to work from their own homes, which allows for the service of these interpreters to be much cheaper than they are at the moment and easier to access," Jeff McWhinney, Significan't director, said.
The system will be rolled out across the UK in the next year.


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Year: 2015
Genre: BDSM, Device, Domination, Canning, Torture, Spanking, Hummulation
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Actresses: Cool girls
Description: Mistress MISSogyny is extremely fond of playing favourites when she has two girls in her device bondage dungeon, and Tori Lux has subbed for Mistress solo on a number of occasions and she falsely assumed that she might be shown a little mercy as teachers pet in this session with Aria Aspen. And that assumption allowed Mistress MISSogyny an opportunity to toy with Tori even more than usual in the dungeon. The sluts are both led to the chamber and they endure hard corporal punishment MISSogyny uses her favourite leather strap to punish their asses and give them a hot glistening shine. The girls are then laid out on the exam table and their legs are frog-tied knees bent, ankles secured to the thigh with a tight leather belt. Then their wrists are chained above their heads and they are gagged. MISSogyny lords over them, whipping their tender helpless pussies, making each of the agonized twats spit out their please of submission and everlasting devotion.
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11th Olive oil festival
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A picturesque place on the southeastern Istrian hills situated on the road between Pula and Labin, which was built in the Middle Ages. Barban is full of cultural attractions as well as of an intangible cultural heritage within which the most famous is the knight's game, Trka na prstenac (an equestrian competition in which various horsemen riding at full gallop aim their lances at a hanging metal ring). Besides its rich history, this area conceals a number of other curiosities.
Olive oil, the alpha and omega of Mediterranean cuisine, got its own festival in Barban in 2009.
Olive growers exclusively from the area of Barban take part in this event and besides the tasting of extra virgin olive oils, workshops on the theme of olive growing are also organised.
The November Festival in Barban is worth a visit not only for the exhibition of souvenirs and the interesting usable items made of olive wood, but also for the works of artists who find the olive an endless source of inspiration.


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Collier-Macmillan | 1991 | ISBN: 0029717205 | ASIN: B0000CMO5D | 132 pages | PDF | 5,7 MB
Collier-Macmillan | 1991 | ISBN: 0029717205 | ASIN: B0000CMO5D | 132 pages | PDF | 5,7 MB
This manual is intended to help the student, either in a class or working alone, to master a troublesome matter in English verb patterning, namely, the combination verb + adverb (or preposition), with or without a following noun object. These combinations are variously called "two-word verbs" (as in this book), "merged verbs," "compound verbs," "verb-adverb combinations," and so forth. We are dealing, of course, with structures like put it on, call up Mr. Smith, take this information down, in which a verb and a function word (adverb) work closely together to express a meaning. In addition, when an object is present, these words may be separated by noun objects and must be separated by unstressed pronoun objects. Such combinations are usually called "separable" two-word verbs. We also have combinations like get on the bus, look for the money, wait on the customers, which are inseparable - we say get on it, look for it, wait on them - but which nevertheless are more intimately connected than a mere intransitive verb followed by a prepositional phrase. In identifying the inseparable two-word verbs, we have relied almost entirely on meaning. There is some overlapping with The Key to English Prepositions 2, since that book treats combinations of verbs and prepositional phrases. Our criterion is this: if the meaning of a combination can be predicted on the basis of the meaning of the individual parts (listen to, insist on), it is called a verb followed by a preposition; if not (look for, call on), it is called a two-word verb. Some students may need to use a bilingual dictionary along with this book, as the vocabulary has not been restricted. The Glossary at the end of the book lists about 400 combinations, with definitions. It is indicative of the productivity of the two-word verb in English that only 120 full verbs occur in the list; differences in meaning are expressed by changing the function word. The Glossary is not exhaustive; new combinations are readily coined, and new meanings of existing combinations are constantly being created. Nevertheless the Glossary contains most of the meanings of most of the combination that the student is likely to encounter in reading and in informal conversation, and if he masters all those presented in this book he should have little difficulty in the future with two-word verbs. It was intended that the material in the book be studied in sequence, since each lesson is based to a degree on preceding material. Nevertheless, individual exercises can be used at any time to teach a point if desired.


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It's been a busy here; lots of baking and studying (my group fitness certification exam is coming up in a few days!).
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600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 5,300 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 9 years to get that many views.
Making slow but steady progress the journal published its third article in October, Learning in Both Worlds, a exemplary piece of journalism by Deakin University scholar Lisa Waller.
And in other good news, Pacific Journalism Review has firmed up it's commitment to supporting the development of practice-based academic journalism with the appointment of well respected investigative journalist Professor Wendy Bacon as editor of its Frontline section.
In taking up the role, Wendy penned an excellent article on the emergence of practice-led academic journalism that is available online here.
We expect to publish a couple more articles by early next year.
Contact me if you'd like to discuss a submission,
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Earlier this year Research Journalism's second article was published. It is an investigation of the politics behind the introduction of Genetically Modified crops into Western Australia and an accompanying exegesis. The work was produced Lisa Roth who won the Sally A. White Prize for Investigative Journalism in the 2011 Ossie Awards for Student Journalism for her series of articles. It is available online here.
We also get regular stats updates from the folks who host the journal and both published articles are ticking away nicely in terms of full text downloads. In June 2012 the Narrogin article had 48 (including several from New York) and the GM article 32, bringing our total to 1371.
We have had a couple of submissions that, after discussion, were rejected because they were studies of journalism, not studies using journalism as a methodology, and we have had a couple of good discussions with people who are working on articles with an eye to submitting them soon.
Other great news in this field is that Pacific Journalism Review is now also publishing articles written using journalism as a methodology in a special section called 'From the Frontline'.
I would recommend that anyone interested in submitting a piece to RJ read these two articles: Blood Money and Sulphate Sunrise to see how the journalism and exegeses work together.
There have also been a few rounds of conversation this year about the problems with university ethics committees and journalism research and there are a couple of research projects underway, at UTS and ECU, that are nudging this old chestnut along. I expect we'll hear more about their findings at the 2012 JEAA Conference.
In the meantime there has never been a better time for journalism academics to tuck into doing some real journalism, and if you would like to have a chat about getting that work academically published through Research Journalism and counted towards ERA then contact me.
On a more somber note, it is necessary to note the sad loss of one of our editorial board members. Associate Professor Anne Dunn broadcaster, scholar, mentor, friend and colleague passed away earlier this month. Her support of this project will always be appreciated.
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Many thanks to Julie Posetti from the University of Canberra for writing this article for MediaShift about Research Journalism.
Please read, comment, share via your professional and social online networks and help spread the discussion – there's quite a bit of interest internationally in the initiative, and that's a good thing as we try to kick the debate along in Australia about the concept of professional journalism AS research.
While I have had many inquiries about articles people have thought of writing for the journal they have mostly been suggestions about articles that are really commentary on media practice, rather than being articles that use journalism as a methodology to explore something other than journalism itself. As this is the feature that distinguishes this journal from other academic journals, such as the Australian Journalism Review and the Pacific Journalism Review, I have declined and am still waiting for more appropriate contributions.
In June 2010 I visited several Australian universities to discuss the journal and found myself discussing confusion about ethics committees and the ERA process. This prompted me to explore the problems associated with getting journalism research through ethics committees, and I have written an article on the topic that will hopefully be published in 2011.
Presenting about the journal at the Journalism Educators Association of Australia Conference in Sydney in November and at the Media, Investigative Journalism and Technology Conference in Auckland in December was rewarding and yielded expressions of interest from a wide range of journalists and journalism academics, so hopefully more will be happening in this space soon.
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The Narrogin article published by Research Journalism and Crikey caught the eye of the producers of SBS's Living Black program and they made this program about the situation in the town. The article is also being used by the Department of Indigenous Affairs' new officer in Narrogin as a talking point for group discussions aimed at healing the rifts in the town's community.
The Narrogin Feuding Families article is now up on the new journal site, with all of its references and its exegesis, so click through to see how the journal presents papers.
The content management system that the new journal is running on is Berkley University's BePress Digital Commons system. It's smooth and elegant and custom built for academic journal publishing. It's cool features include nice mechanisms for managing peer reviews and for keeping track of submissions. The URL of the journal website is http://ro.ecu.edu.au/research_journalism/
Over the next few days we'll be finalising the policies text on the journal site, so in the meantime keep reading the writers' guidelines from this site and ask questions if you see any discrepancies or anything confusing.
Now that the journal site is up, we are able to take submissions. All new Research Journalism writers need to do is go to the journal site and click the Submit Article link from the right hand menu. It will ask you to create an account and then to follow a series of prompts. Once your article is submitted, the sytem will notify the editor and it will roll from there.
If you are hoping parts of your academic article will be published in mainstream media, or if it needs a fast turn-around, please make that clear in the accompanying letter that it will ask you for. Articles can be published on the Research Journalism site as soon as they are clear of the peer review process.


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Friday, August 21, 2015
Animated World of DC Comics: Gulliver's Gigantic Goof (1973)
Green Arrow was one of three 1-shot guest stars (Flash & Plastic Man were the others), and made his only SF appearance in the episode, "Gulliver's Gigantic Goof".
Edit, 2/11/19: The video has been deleted due to a copyright claim from an international rights holder.
The episode was a commentary on the population explosion, riffing at the same time on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, except that in this case, Gulliver (Casey Kasem, doing a Peter Lorre impersonation) is a misguided scientist (and there were a lot of those back then) who thinks shrinking people will stop the expansion of the population.
Rating for the episode: A-.
6 comments:
- magicdog said...
I hated how HB's animated looked during this period. You're correct in that their animation was improving throughout the 60s. Why they farmed it out to Australia I'll never know. The New Scooby Doo Movies was also part of the catalog that got animated there - and it showed!
This era of SF was always about misguided scientists. In theory it was a good idea than going the typical super villian route. I know it was due to the new violence restrictions (thanks Peggy Charren - not!) but if you think about it, aren't the worst situations cause by people with good intentions?
Of course the episode's Malthusian wet dream was later disproven, and it comes across as so alarmist.
- Friday, 21 August, 2015
- hobbyfan said...
Not just scientists, but ordinary folks, too(i.e. Mr. & Mrs. Mole). Also, looking back now, you can tell when the cast members were playing other roles. Casey Kasem was not only Prof. Gulliver, but Prof. Goodfellow, Twisty, and a few others. You can tell it's him, obviously, though, as noted, he did a killer Peter Lorre mimic as Gulliver. They went with a small cast to save money. Not a good idea in hindsight.
- Saturday, 22 August, 2015
- magicdog said...
They couldn't have been saving that much money - a VA can play up to 3 characters in one [episode] before they have to be paid more. Studios to this day use that same set up. Even as a kid I recognized the same VAs doing double or triple duty for some toons - not everyone could make their characters as vocally distinct as Mel Blanc.
- Saturday, 22 August, 2015
- hobbyfan said...
So true. I wonder what other excuses there could be.....
- Saturday, 22 August, 2015
- Lionel Braithwaite said...
I'm sorry, Magicdog, but this episode's villain was crap, and then some. The show's stupid restrictions imposed on it by Peggy Charren makes one long for the straightforward storytelling/scripts of the later Justice League/Justice League Unlimited shows, where they were able to use the real bad people from the comic books (although the later Challenge Of... shows rectified that.)
- Monday, 24 August, 2015
- hobbyfan said...
Crap? Nope. There've been worse.
- Tuesday, 25 August, 2015


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Embiid waves goodbye to Drummond, Pistons in 108-103 win
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Joel Embiid had a chance to fulfill a promise and demanded the ball.
Embiid got it, muscled toward the hoop and drew the sixth foul on Andre Drummond. Then, in typical Embiid fashion, he pointed toward the exit and waved goodbye to his rival.
Through two rounds of this matchup of young, talented and trash-talking big men, it's Embiid 2, Drummond 0.
Embiid had 25 points and 10 rebounds and got the better of Drummond down the stretch to help the Philadelphia 76ers to a 108-103 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Saturday night.
"That was the goal going into this game. I told my teammates that he was going to foul out, and he did," Embiid said. "But it's all fun. At the end of the game we hugged it out."
Embiid drew the fifth and sixth fouls on Drummond in the span of a minute and hit the ensuing four free throws to put Philadelphia ahead 100-95 with 2:35 left.
"I got up into him and tried to make it tough for him," Drummond said. "Obviously, he sold the move better than I played defense, so he got the sixth foul and won the game. Simple as that."
Embiid shot just 7 of 21 from the field and committing six turnovers, but he made 11 of 12 free throws and has two wins in two tries against Drummond this season.
They've been trading playful insults since the Sixers'victory in Detroit on Oct. 23.
"When's the last time you've seen two real big men go at it?" Drummond said. "It's just a great matchup and I look forward to playing him again."
Drummond had 14 points, 11 rebounds, six assists and five steals. Tobias Harris scored 27 points, and Reggie Jackson had 25 points for the Pistons. They trailed by 18 points early in the third quarter and were outrebounded 47-36.
"We don't play two halves of games now," Detroit coach Stan Van Gundy said. "It's not going to get it done."
For a while, it looked like Drummond was going to lead a stunning comeback win.
His dunk with 10:04 left gave Detroit its first lead since the first quarter. He added a tip-in and two free throws before Embiid got the upper hand.
Robert Covington added 25 points, and Dario Saric had 17 points and hit a 3-pointer with 1:40 left to put the Sixers ahead 103-95 in a game where the centers were the story.
Embiid, known to needle opponents, had 30 points and nine rebounds in a 97-86 victory in Detroit to end the Sixers' 0-3 start. Embiid bragged that he dominated Drummond despite the Detroit center's trash talk and said Drummond "doesn't play defense."
Drummond responded with the tweet, "See you Dec. 2nd."
Embiid kept it going at the morning shootaround saying of Drummond, "No disrespect, but he can't shoot."
Drummond wouldn't speak to reporters in the locker room before the game, but told Fox Sports Detroit, "You can't really have a conversation with a man who can't play a back-to-back."
Embiid missed his first two NBA seasons with injuries and played in only 31 games last season before knee surgery. He's yet to be cleared to play on consecutive nights and sat out Thursday's loss at Boston.
Drummond has played in all but three games over the past five seasons.
"We're just having fun," Embiid said. "I love having fun on social media. He does, too. We're just young kids having fun out there."
Pistons: The Pistons were twice called for a 5-second inbounding violation, including while trailing by five with 6 seconds left. … The Pontiac Silverdome, home of the Pistons from 1978-88, will be demolished Sunday morning.
76ers: Covington, who was 4 of 24 from 3-point range in the previous three games, hit 6 of 13 from long range. … Backup PG T.J. McConnell (left shoulder) missed his second straight game. … Fans chanted "MVP!" as former Sixers great Allen Iverson was introduced before tipoff.
The coaches took different stances on the Embiid-Drummond feud. Detroit's Stan Van Gundy called it "a bunch of NBA crap," while Philadelphia's Brett Brown believes it fuels Embiid.
"He's very much drawing a line in the sand. That's his style. That's Joel," Brown said. "I think in a good way his young teammates feed off it."
Pistons: At San Antonio on Monday night.
76ers: Host Phoenix on Monday night.
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• "A Fábrica (The Factory)," Aly Muritiba, director (Grafo Audiovisual)
• "Asad," Bryan Buckley, director, and Mino Jarjoura, producer (Hungry Man)
• "Buzkashi Boys," Sam French, director, and Ariel Nasr, producer (Afghan Film Project)
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Mexico's cinema industry hopes for a new golden age
Mexican actor Demian Bichir may be well known in his own country, but is relatively unknown across the border in Hollywood. Not for much longer.
The Mexican actor goes head-to-head with some of Tinseltown's biggest stars – including George Clooney and Brad Pitt – at the Oscars this year.
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The long-awaited Oscar nominations were finally announced Tuesday morning and while it was no surprise to have heavyweights like Brad Pitt (Moneyball) and George Clooney (The Descendants) nominated in the best actor category, it was the unfamiliar name of Demián Bichir (A Better Life) called out that left many wondering, who exactly is Bichir?
Some may recognize him as Fidel Castro in Steven Soderbergh's Che, or as Esteban from the hit Showtime series Weeds and most recently as Carlos in Chris Weitz's A Better Life. I grew up watching (more…)
Demián Bichir: Mexican Actor Nominated For An Academy Award For Best Actor In 'A Better Life' (Trailer)
Mexican actor Demian Bichir, who was nominated Tuesday morning for an Oscar in the Best Actor category for his role as a Mexican day laborer in the film "A Better Life," has dedicated his nomination to the millions of undocumented immigrants in the nation.
The drama portrays the life of an undocumented gardener, Carlos Gallindo, in East L.A. The gardener struggles to keep his teenage son on the straight-and-narrow and give him a chance at "a better life" after his wife abandoned the two of them after crossing the border into the United States.
"A Better Life" is rather timely given the contentious national debate over immigration.
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The half brazilian documentary "Waste Land" Nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary.
Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores"—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz's initial objective was to "paint" the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT, COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.
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Javier Bardem nominated for an Oscar – Best Actor for "Biutiful"
Spanish actor, Javier Bardem, proves he remains a darling of Hollywood with the news that he has been nominated in the Best Actor category for this year's Oscars. It comes for his role in the Mexican film, 'Biutiful' and is his third nomination.
His first was in 2000 for 'Antes que anochezca' and then he won the gong in 2007 for his role in the Coen brothers film 'No Country for Old Men'
The film he stars in this year, from director Alejandro González Iñárritu, is also in the final nominations for Best Film in a Foreign Language, but the Spanish candidate in the category from Iciar Bollaín, 'También la Lluvia' has missed out.
The gala takes place on February 27.


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Feb 19, 2013
Hate speech case: Akbaruddin Owaisi appears before courtAkbaruddin has been facing charges of sedition and waging war against the nation among others for his "hate speech" in two different courts in Adilabad and Nizamabad districts.
Jan 15, 2013
Hate speech: Owaisi questioned for the fourth dayArrested MIM legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi, booked for alleged sedition and criminal conspiracy for his "hate speech", was questioned for the fourth consecutive day today.
Jan 10, 2013
Hate speech: Owaisi summoned by AP court again on 4 FebIn fresh trouble for jailed Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, a local court today took cognisance of a complaint against him for his alleged "hate speech" and issued summons directing him to appear before it on 4 February.
Jan 10, 2013
Court adjourns hearing on a police plea for Owaisi custodyThe magistrate's court in Nirmal town of Adilabad district adjourned the hearing on the police petition to on Friday.
Jan 10, 2013
Akbaruddin was demanding religious equality in speech: OwaisiAsaduddin Owaisi accused the media of targeting his brother and his party and said that the speech made by his brother was to demand communal equality and not to promote communal tension.
Jan 09, 2013
Why we are likely to hear more Owaisi-type hate speechesThe Owaisi hate speech should be seen in the larger context of Muslim parties seeking to get out of the secular umbrella.
Jan 09, 2013
AP police seek seven-day custody for OwaisiNirmal Police, which is investigating the case, filed a petition in the Nirmal Munsif Magistrate court seeking seven days custodial interrogation of Akbaruddin as part of further probe,
Jan 08, 2013
Owaisi case: Cong playing communal politics, says BJPPrakash Javedakar said in New Delhi that Owaisi should have been arrested immediately on his arrival from London.
Jan 08, 2013
Medical tests for Owaisi today to check if he's fit for questioningGovernment doctors will examine MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi today to find out if he is physically fit for questioning by police in connection with the case booked against him over his alleged hate speeches.
Jan 07, 2013
Police questions Owaisi over hate speechHours after Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi landed in Hyderabad, the Hyderabad Police reached his residence to question him.


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Don't expect another bull market
Stock returns may never be the same - at least for this generation of investors.
(Fortune) -- Although you won't find it listed on your calendar, we're approaching the anniversary of an epochal event. No, it has nothing to do with the NCAA basketball tournament. It's a different kind of March Madness: The end of the bull market that lasted for a generation and changed the way that Americans think about stocks.
When the greatest bull market in U.S. history started in the summer of 1982, only a relative handful of people owned stocks, which were cheap because they were considered highly risky. But by the time the Standard & Poor's 500 peaked in March 2000 amid a fully inflated stock bubble, the masses were in the market. Stocks were magical, a supposedly can't-miss way to pay for your kids' college, save for retirement, enrich employees by giving them options, and regrow hair. (Just kidding about the hair. Alas.)
Stocks might go down in any given year, the mantra went, but in the long term they'd produce double-digit returns. However, one of the lessons of the past eight years is that the long run can be ... really long. As I write this in late February, the U.S. market - which I'm defining as the Standard & Poor's 500 - is well below the high that it set on March 24, 2000. Even after you include dividends, which have run a bit below 2% a year, you've barely broken even, according to calculations for Fortune by Aronson & Johnson & Ortiz, a Philadelphia money manager.
Hello? Eight years of dead money in the broad stock market? How can that be, given that Ibbotson Associates says the S&P has returned an average of 10.3% a year, compounded, since 1926? Think of it as a six-foot man drowning in a pond with an average water level of six inches - if you step in at the wrong place, the water can be eight feet deep.
To be sure (the favorite phrase of us journalistic hedgers), this has been a flukishly bad period. Ted Aronson says that it's in the bottom 2% of the almost 900 different 96-month periods in the Ibbotson statistical universe. Nevertheless, it's the return we have.
Barring a miracle - or the creation of a New Math of the market variety - there's no way we'll ever see a bull market along the lines of what so many of us grew up with. During that enchanted period, the boring old S&P returned more than 19% a year. When you include compounding, your money more than doubled every four years. Pretty slick.
That was more than twice what stocks earned in the previous 56 years, when they returned about 9%. More than half of that was from dividends, which were almost triple their current level.
Roger Ibbotson points out that my eight-years-of-barely-breaking-even number comes from starting at an artificially high point. He's right, of course. Had I had begun with October 2002 - when the S&P bottomed some 49% below its peak - I'd have about doubled my money in less than six years. He predicts total returns of 8% to 9% over the long term, somewhat less than the 9.3% he forecast in Fortune in late 2005. But of course no one knows what stocks will do - other than fluctuate.
I'm reasonably sure, though, that stocks are likely to outperform high-quality bonds in the long term - not much of an accomplishment in a world where 30-year Treasuries yield about 4.5%. However, I don't expect to be able to earn almost 20% a year for 18 years owning an S&P index fund. The long bull market was great. But it's not coming back- at least for this generation of investors. Get used to it.
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By CNN Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jill Dougherty
The State Department says the Syrian government has delivered a diplomatic note of protest to the United States, expressing concern over U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford's visit Tuesday to the city of Jassem, 70 kilometers south of Damascus, without permission from the Syrian government.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the ambassador "wanted to see for himself what was up there. This has been another town that has been engaged in peaceful protest. He was there for about four hours. He had a chance there to talk to a number of Syrians, including those in the opposition, and then he drove back to Damascus."
The Syrian note, Nuland said, accused the ambassador of not following procedures that the government has requested U.S. diplomats follow.
Ford decided to go to Jassem, Nuland said, because the Syrian government repeatedly had denied him permission to travel. "So it was on that basis, the fact that he had been denied again and again and again permission to travel under their own system that they set up, that he made the decision ... to go."
Ford informed the Syrian foreign ministry only after the visit, Nuland said, "and he made clear to them that the reason that he didn't inform them before the visit was because they haven't been approving any visits by anybody anywhere. He has over the last six weeks three times requested permission to go to Aleppo, for example, and three times has been denied. So he chose to inform them afterwards."
The U.S., she said, has "continued to make clear to the Syrians that they have obligations under the Vienna Convention to allow diplomats in their country to do their job, which includes the ability to travel."
Six weeks ago Ambassador Ford sparked a diplomatic firestorm when he traveled to the restive city of Hama to express support for demonstrators and was welcomed with flowers by local residents who had suffered a brutal crackdown by government forces. The Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad called it an attempt to foment dissent.
Nuland said that, in contrast to his trip to Hama, when government security forces remained outside the town, in Jassem "there were security forces all over the place."
"So he was conscious of that, not wanting to make life difficult for those Syrians that he was speaking with, which is why he only stayed for four hours and then had some follow-up contact on the phone with them."
His message to the residents of Jassem, Nuland said, was, "We stand with them, and that we admire the fact that their action has been completely peaceful. And their message back to him spoke of their desire to continue to work with other folks around Syria who share their interest in a democratic transition."
Asked whether the Syrian ambassador to the United States has the ability to travel freely around the United States, the spokeswoman said he does. "He has to request permission. Permission is always granted."
Let them do what they want, they dont take care of there people as well as we do our own which is pretty poorly I might add, but we have alot more going for us here in the USA ! our military is larger than several other countries including russia and china combined, thats a fact look it up........if we get pissed enough they would all be owned.
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A World of Seasonal Spicescomments (0) December 22nd, 2012
While you were mixing the ingredients for that batch of gingerbread cookies, you probably weren't wondering how the ginger and cinnamon found their way to your kitchen.
But so many of the baking spices we rely on for our holiday sweets and other recipes came to us from around the globe.
The crusaders returned home from their travels in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and brought with them the spices we still use today. Our holiday baking wouldn't be the same without the nutmeg, allspice or cloves they brought home.
Here are some of the most common Christmas spices used in holiday treats and where they originated:
- Ginger...Southeast Asia
- Cardamom…India
- Star anise…China
- Cinnamon sticks…Ceylon
- Coriander….Mediterranean
- Clove and nutmeg…Indonesia
- Chili pepper….Central and South America
- Cumin…Mediterranean
- Vanilla…Mexico
A traditional German hot spiced wine called Gluhwein (Glow Wine) features some of these old-world spices and is served as part of family Christmas celebrations and at Christmas markets both here and abroad.
Holiday Spiced Wine
- 1 bottle (750 ml) red wine
- ½ cup water or black tea
- ¼ cup sugar
- 2-3 cinnamon sticks
- 3 whole cloves
- Zest of half a lemon or lemon slices
- Mix together sugar, cinnamon, cloves, lemon and water in a large pan and bring to boil.
- Reduce to a simmer and steep mixture 30 minutes or more.
- Add the wine; reheat until the mixture is steaming (not boiling).
- Strain the wine until mugs and serve hot.
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College is stressful, but enjoy it
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At the end of my second week of junior year, I attended X-Fest, with headliners Bastille and Highly Suspect. But as I struggled through the workload of these past weeks, my mind has been stuck on one of the opening acts: K. Flay.
I've spent all day listening to her album and trying to think about what I have learned at Point Park. I'm at the halfway point of my college career, so what have I learned and where do I go from here?
Well, K. Flay has a song titled "It's Just a Lot," and honestly, I don't think anything has better described what I've learned at college.
The chorus of the song perfectly sums up everything that I have learned about life during my time here: "It's just a lot, it's just a lot / I wanna hold onto the innocence I got / It's just a lot, it's just a lot / I wanna care for all the little things I got."
So, why those lyrics?
After the most overwhelming three weeks of my time here, I realized that's exactly what college is. It's just a lot. I could go into detail about why and break down every meeting I've attended and every assignment I've completed up until this point, but no one has the time for that. Those four words get right to the essence of my college experience.
However, if I must provide detail, one of the things I have learned is that you're forced to grow up overnight. Most of us had been getting accustomed to the adult life slowly over the summer leading up to our freshmen year, but the moment you step on campus, that's it. There is no turning back. You're an adult. You remember the years before fondly (or maybe not), but you can tell that the innocence is slipping away with every essay and presentation.
But from this I learned that the innocence you hold onto can be the simple things. You can hold onto the enjoyment of watching your favorite show in the comfort of your favorite shirt or the joy you feel when your high school friends visit you during breaks to play board games and buy you bubble tea.
I learned your innocence disappears for the most part, but in those moments, the innocence remains. By allowing yourself time to do the things that bring you happiness, you can hold on just enough to remind you that life is not all about stress.
Which is where the last portion of those lyrics comes into play. All I have done throughout these past two years is allow myself to enjoy the little things. While that wasn't something new I had learned to do (I had a sign in my high school cubicle that said "Enjoy the Little Things." It was from Claire's and covered in painted flowers), I thought it was something important to mention.
I've met so many people since I got here, and sometimes I think we do not stop to appreciate the little things we encounter. We are so focused on the next big step that we don't always appreciate things such as the milkshakes we buy or the people who stop to actually ask you how your day is going.
College is just a lot, and if I've learned anything, it's that we can't let college consume us. We have to be able to enjoy our time here. Enjoying the little things seems to be the only thing we have at times, so why not make it a priority?
We learn a lot at college, but what I've taken away from my time so far is that no matter how high the stress levels are, we still deserve to be happy and to feel innocent and carefree, if only for an hour. So from here, I'm going to keep enjoying the pictures I take with strangers' dogs and the concerts where I don't know a single lyric, because college is a lot, but it's not everything.