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VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) Will Bogan and Ben Boggs scored 12 points apiece and Valparaiso shot 56 percent from the field Friday night in beating Milwaukee 71-40.
The Crusaders (17-6, 7-2 Horizon), who had won six in a row before losing Wednesday night at Youngstown State, led by as many as 36 points in Friday's game. Valparaiso led 37-21 at halftime in running its home record to 11-1.
Ryan Broekhoff added 11 points and seven rebounds for the winners. Bobby Capobianco had a game-high nine rebounds and LaVonte Dority contributed five assists.
Jordan Aaron led Milwaukee (5-18, 1-8) with 17 points. The Panthers fell behind to stay 5 minutes into the game in dropping their fifth in a row, and they are 0-11 on the road this season.


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The priests and brothers of the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius serve in parishes and strive to help Catholics rediscover a profound sense of the Sacred through solemn liturgies, devotions, sacred art and music, as well as instruction. Read more...
St. John Cantius.
That He would deign to strengthen and increase the spirit of brotherly love and unity in the Holy Church, St. John Cantius, intercede for us,


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Member Agreement for 2018
Sandbox Organics
Section 1. Introducing Our CSA Farm
A. Becoming a Part of Our Farm
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a relationship between our farm and you as our customer. Rather than simply purchasing food, our customers become "members" of this CSA farm who receive a portion of the farm's harvest. Our CSA runs for 18 of weeks in the Summer (June 10th to October 7th) and 4 weeks in the Fall (October 14th to November 4th). The season start date might be moved back due to extreme weather conditions. Members will be notified via newsletter if this occurs. Members are responsible for showing up at their pick-up site each week or every other week (depending on share type) to pick up their share of freshly harvested produce. You will generally receive 9-10 vegetable items, equivalent to one full grocery bag of produce, with more during peak season. Detailed information regarding pick-up is discussed below in Section 3. Variety and quantity may vary as described below in Section 2.
B. Our Growing Practices
The farm is Certified USDA Organic. Organic produce is grown without using conventional pesticides, fertilizers made with synthetic ingredients or sewage sludge, bio-engineering, or ionizing radiation. For more information about organic production please ask. We'd be happy to tell you more.
C. The Products We Expect for 2016
Outlined below are some vegetables we hope to deliver and when you may see them in your share. This chart is based on our best estimate, but of course weather, pests, and other events will affect actual production.
Early Season: Arugula, Beets, Broccoli, Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage, Carrots, Rainbow Chard, Collard Greens, Green Garlic, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Radishes, Scallions, Spinach, Snap Peas, Turnips, Fresh Herbs.
Mid Season: Beets, Carrots, Celery, Chard, Collards, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Fennel, Fresh Garlic, Fresh Onions, Kale, Sweet Peppers, Zucchini, Heirloom Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Basil and other Fresh Herbs.
Late Season: Salad Greens, Beets, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Carrots, Chard, Collards, Garlic, Kale, Leeks, Lettuce, Onions, Potatoes, Pie Pumpkins, Radish, Scallions, Shallots, Turnips, Winter Squash, Fresh Herbs.
Section 2. Our Shared Commitments
A. Sharing in the Risk of Crop Failure
We promise to do our best to provide you with a bountiful share each week. The quantity of produce, however, may vary from week-to-week due to extreme weather, insects, or other production factors despite our best efforts. By joining our CSA, you are agreeing to share the risk of crop failure with us and other members. In the unlikely event of a crop failure, our procedure is as follows:
If only a small portion of crops fail, we compensate for the failed crops by filling your share with other crops grown on the farm that are ready for harvest at that time. We may cover for a crop loss by buying in from other local farmers generally with the same certifications as our farm. This may not be a feasible option for all crops because of cost or widespread failure.
B. Sharing in the Reward of Crop Surplus
In addition to our CSA, our farm sells to restaurants. We segregate our production for the CSA by allocating separate plantings to the CSA. When production of our CSA segregated crops are especially abundant, we pack as much as possible into your share. However, we don't want to overwhelm our members or deliver so much produce that it goes to waste. When we feel that members have received enough of certain crops, we handle the surplus by selling it to restaurant buyers.
Section 3. Picking Up Shares
You are responsible for picking up your share weekly or biweekly (depending on share type) from the designated drop site. You are responsible for observing our drop site rules, which are as follows:
1. Pick up your share within the time frame stated. Although we deliver high-quality produce to the site, it will decline quickly if not picked up in time.
2. Be respectful of our drop site hosts' property.
3. If you cannot pick-up your share, you must arrange for someone else to pick it up for you. You are responsible for explaining the pick-up location and procedures to your substitute. Shares that are not retrieved within the pick-up time will be donated. Members are allowed one make-up share to be picked up at the end of the season. We take the safety of your food seriously. For your added protection, wash all produce before eating.
Section 4. Member Fees
By selling membership in advance of the growing season, CSA reduces the burden of up-front costs for the farmer. Your membership fees provide us with money to purchase seed and equipment before the season starts, and we appreciate your commitment. Either full payment or down payment are due within 30 days of purchase. If using a payment plan, second installment is due by August 5th.
Section 5. Communicating with Us
The best way to communicate with us is via email or phone (found above). We will do our best to respond as soon as possible, but please understand that we are very busy and aren't always at our desk. Please contact us with any news of the following: changes to your postal or email address, problems with your drop-site, or dissatisfaction with your share. When you sign up, you will be added to our distribution list. Please read your emails from us. We depend on being able to communicate important information such as necessary changes to your distribution schedule or about farm events. Every week we will email a newsletter giving you information about the crops available that week, recipe ideas, or other farm related news.
Section 6. Hog Shares
(Note: for Hog Share members only)
By paying your security deposit you are committing to:
- Paying for all processing fees
- Paying remainder of Hog Share cost upon delivery
- Picking up the entirety of your share on delivery day


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Childrens Picture Dictionary
Children's Picture Dictionary is a neat
little tool on the iPhone/iPod Touch. I chose that word very carefully
because Children's Picture Dictionary is not really a game. It includes
a little matching mini game, but the core of this is the picture
dictionary. Before you freak out and think pre-school, please understand
there is much more in Children's Picture Dictionary.
The pictures look really nice in Children's Picture Dictionary. I enjoyed seeing all those photos. I also like how family friendly the pictures are in Children's Picture Dictionary. This also includes the words. There are over 1,700 words in this hand held dictionary. There are quite a few words that children will be able to use.
There is no music in Children's Picture Dictionary. So it is a rather quiet experience. Sort of like the library without all the shushing, and being told to be quiet. Or was that just me who had that experience? Any-who! Children's Picture Dictionary will give the child the word in a sentence. It does not always help with a comprehension of what the word is though.
Children's Picture Dictionary currently costs two dollars which is cheaper than most dictionaries out there. Unless you find one at the dollar store, and I don't think it will have pictures in it. One of my complaints about Children's Picture Dictionary is it can be difficult to find a word if you don't know what it is. There is a search button, and we can go through the dictionary alphabetically starting with any letter.
Let's be honest here. How many people go through the dictionary alphabetically? Lets say a child is looking for cedar, and starts in the 'S' section. Why would they do that? Because cedar sounds like it starts with an 'S'. Children's Picture Dictionary is a neat tool that is not as intelligent was we may want. But it can still help children learn words, and get a visual representation of them.
- Paul
Graphics: 85%
Sound: 76%
Replay/Extras: 85%
Gameplay: 73%
Family Friendly Factor: 90%
System: iPhone/iPod Touch
Publisher: Selectsoft
Rating: '4+' - 4+
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!! History Commons Alert, Exciting News
This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event February 28, 2003: Wilson Explains 'Shock and Awe' Strategy, Rationale for 'Re-growing the Middle East'. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.
Richard Perle. [Source: Public domain]The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, an Israeli think tank, publishes a paper titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm." [Washington Times, 10/7/2002; Chicago Sun-Times, 3/6/2003] The paper, whose lead author is neoconservative Richard Perle, is meant to advise the new, right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Other authors include: influential neoconservative academic and former Bush adviser Richard Perle, primarily responsible for the content of the paper; Meyrav Wurmser, the future director of the neoconservative Hudson Institute's Center for Middle East Policy; her husband David Wurmser, the future chief adviser for Middle East policy for future vice-president Dick Cheney; neoconservative Douglas Feith, who will be the prime architect of the Iraq war; and a number of lesser-known neoconservatives, including James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Jeffrey T. Bergner, Jonathan Torop, and Robert Loewenberg. Rebuilding Zionism by Abandoning Past Policies - It advocates making a complete break with past policies by adopting a strategy "based on an entirely new intellectual foundation, one that restores strategic initiative and provides the nation the room to engage every possible energy on rebuilding Zionism.…" [Guardian, 9/3/2002] Aggressive, Militant Israeli Policy towards Arab Neighbors - Much along the lines of an earlier paper by Israeli Oded Yinon (see February 1982), the document urges the Israelis to aggressively seek the downfall of their Arab neighbors—especially Syria and Iraq—by exploiting the inherent tensions within and among the Arab States. The first step is to be the removal of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. A war with Iraq will destabilize the entire Middle East, allowing governments in Syria, Iran, Lebanon, and other countries to be replaced. "Israel will not only contain its foes; it will transcend them," the paper says. [Perle, 7/8/1996; Guardian, 9/3/2002; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 3/19/2003] Iraq is first on the list of nations to be transformed. Saddam Hussein must be overthrown, the authors say. But Iraq has long served as a counterweight to the Shi'ite theocracy of Iran; with the two at loggerheads, neither could pose as serious a threat to Israel as it could if not opposed by the other. To counter this, Perle and his co-authors propose restoring the Hashemites (an ancient Arab dynasty; King Faisal I of Iraq was a Hashemite) to power. Instead of the largely Shi'ite Iraqis aligning themselves with their fellow Shi'a in Iran after Hussein's overthrow, the Hashemite government would align itself with the pro-Western Jordan, long a Hashemite regime. Unfortunately, the authors propose no plan to actually make such an extraordinary regime succession happen, nor do they seem concerned with some Iraqi Shi'ites' alignment with Islamist terrorists or with many Shi'ites' close ties to Iran. [Unger, 2007, pp. 145-148] Abandoning Oslo Accords, Militant Palestinian Policy - Other suggestions for Israel include abandoning the Oslo Accords, developing a foreign policy based on a traditional balance of power strategy, reserving its right to invade the West Bank and Gaza Strip as part of a strategy of "self-defense," abandoning any notion of "land for peace," reestablishing a policy of preemptive strikes, forging closer ties to the US while taking steps towards self-reliance, and seeking an alternative to Yasser Arafat as leader of the PLO. [Perle, 7/8/1996] 'Seeds of a New Vision' - All these questions need not be answered right away, according to co-author Meyrav Wurmser. The document is "the beginning of thought," she says, "… the seeds of a new vision." Similar to American Christian Right's Vision - According to author Craig Unger, the ideology of "ACB" is, in essence, a secularized version of the theology of the American Christian Right. Christian Zionists insist that Jews were ordained by God to reclaim the Biblican land of Judea and Samaria in the West Bank; the paper asserts that claim as well. The paper echoes Christian fundamentalists by demanding "the unconditional acceptance of Arabs of our rights, especially in their territorial dimension." Perle and his fellow neoconservatives want to push the boundaries even further: the Bible can be interpreted to countenance Jewish dominion over all or parts of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and even Saudi Arabia. Thusly, the authors claim that Israel and the US, by waging war against Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, would reshape the "strategic environment" in the Middle East and greatly expand Israel's influence in the region. Influence in Upcoming Bush Administration - Perle will later become chairman of President Bush's influential Defense Policy Board and will be instrumental is moving Bush's US policy toward war with Iraq after the 9/11 attacks, as will Feith and the Wurmsers. [Unger, 2007, pp. 145-148]
Entity Tags: Richard Perle, Robert Loewenberg, Meyrav Wurmser, Jonathan Torop, Richard V. Allen, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Benjamin Netanyahu, David Wurmser, Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, Jeffrey T. Bergner, Douglas Feith
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, Events Leading to Iraq Invasion, US International Relations, Neoconservative Influence
In early February, David Corn, an editor of the progressive magazine The Nation, asks former ambassador Joseph Wilson to write an editorial for the magazine. Corn believes that Wilson's "establishment credentials" give credibility to the antiwar views that Wilson and the magazine share. Wilson publishes an op-ed in the magazine titled "Republic or Empire?" Wilson, who staunchly supported the 1991 Gulf War (see After February 28, 1991), argues that the US has already succeeded in large part in its efforts to contain and disarm Saddam Hussein. Also, the US's new military basing agreements throughout the region give it what Wilson calls a "[h]egemony in the Arab nations of the Gulf… a dominant presence astride strategic oil reserves that would enable us to respond to crises in the region much more quickly and efficiently in the future than we had ever been able to in the past. Thus, the conquest of Iraq would not materially improve our influence from southern Asia to the Horn of Africa." The war is not about Iraqi WMD, nor Iraq's alleged ties to terrorism, or even about liberating an oppressed populace, Wilson writes. "The underlying objective of this war is the imposition of a Pax Americana on the region and installation of vassal regimes that will control restive populations." The neoconservatives in the Bush administration, Wilson asserts, "want to go beyond expanding US global influence to force revolutionary change on the region. American pre-eminence in the Gulf is necessary but not sufficient for the hawks. Nothing short of conquest, occupation and imposition of handpicked leaders on a vanquished population will suffice. Iraq is the linchpin for this broader assault on the region. The new imperialists will not rest until governments that ape our worldview are implanted throughout the region, a breathtakingly ambitious undertaking, smacking of hubris in the extreme. Arabs who complain about American-supported antidemocratic regimes today will find us in even more direct control tomorrow. The leader of the future in the Arab world will look a lot more like Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf than Thomas Jefferson." He concludes: "[W]ith the costs to our military, our treasury and our international standing, we will be forced to learn whether our republican roots and traditions can accommodate the administration's imperial ambitions. It may be a bitter lesson." [Nation, 3/3/2003; Wilson, 2004, pp. 318-319, 469-472]
Entity Tags: Joseph C. Wilson, Saddam Hussein, David Corn
Timeline Tags: Events Leading to Iraq Invasion, Neoconservative Influence, Niger Uranium and Plame Outing
President Bush gives a speech on the impending invasion of Iraq to a friendly audience at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute. In the audience are, among others, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; the wife of Vice President Cheney, Lynne Cheney; and an assortment of cabinet officers. Direct Accusations of WMD, Terrorist Ties - Bush accuses Saddam Hussein of "building and hiding weapons that could enable him to dominate the Middle East and intimidate the civilized world," and promises that "we will not allow it." He accuses Hussein of having "close ties to terrorist organizations," and warns that he "could supply them with the terrible means to strike this country—and America will not permit it. The danger posed by Saddam Hussein and his weapons cannot be ignored or wished away. The danger must be confronted. We hope that the Iraqi regime will meet the demands of the United Nations and disarm, fully and peacefully. If it does not, we are prepared to disarm Iraq by force. Either way, this danger will be removed." Bush states flatly that "[t]he safety of the American people depends on ending this direct and growing threat." Securing the Freedom of the World - Moreover, he asserts, "[a]cting against the danger will also contribute greatly to the long-term safety and stability of our world.… A liberated Iraq can show the power of freedom to transform that vital region, by bringing hope and progress into the lives of millions. America's interests in security, and America's belief in liberty, both lead in the same direction: to a free and peaceful Iraq." America will ensure that Iraq's oil resources will be used to "benefit… the owners—the Iraqi people." Bush evokes World War II when he says: "After defeating enemies, we did not leave behind occupying armies, we left constitutions and parliaments. We established an atmosphere of safety, in which responsible, reform-minded local leaders could build lasting institutions of freedom." And a democratic Iraq would have a positive influence on its neighbors, Bush says: "A new regime in Iraq would serve as a dramatic and inspiring example of freedom for other nations in the region." Resolution of Israeli-Palestinian Dispute - The overthrow of Saddam Hussein "could also begin a new stage for Middle Eastern peace, and set in motion progress towards a truly democratic Palestinian state," Bush states. "Without this outside support for terrorism, Palestinians who are working for reform and long for democracy will be in a better position to choose new leaders. True leaders who strive for peace; true leaders who faithfully serve the people. A Palestinian state must be a reformed and peaceful state that abandons forever the use of terror." If this comes to pass, Israel must recognize that state "and to work as quickly as possible toward a final status agreement. As progress is made toward peace, settlement activity in the occupied territories must end. And the Arab states will be expected to meet their responsibilities to oppose terrorism, to support the emergence of a peaceful and democratic Palestine, and state clearly they will live in peace with Israel." The Road Map for Peace - The occupation of Iraq, and the subsequent creation of a democratic Palestinian state, are the first steps in Bush's "road map for peace," he says. "We are setting out the necessary conditions for progress toward the goal of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security. It is the commitment of our government—and my personal commitment—to implement the road map and to reach that goal. Old patterns of conflict in the Middle East can be broken, if all concerned will let go of bitterness, hatred, and violence, and get on with the serious work of economic development, and political reform, and reconciliation. America will seize every opportunity in pursuit of peace. And the end of the present regime in Iraq would create such an opportunity." Internationalism at Work - "In confronting Iraq, the United States is also showing our commitment to effective international institutions," Bush says. "We are a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. We helped to create the Security Council. We believe in the Security Council—so much that we want its words to have meaning.… A threat to all must be answered by all. High-minded pronouncements against proliferation mean little unless the strongest nations are willing to stand behind them—and use force if necessary. After all, the United Nations was created, as Winston Churchill said, to 'make sure that the force of right will, in the ultimate issue, be protected by the right of force.'" Bush calls for the passage of the second UN Security Council resolution supporting a military strike against Iraq (see February 24, 2003), and notes that if the resolution does not pass, "the United Nations will be severely weakened as a source of stability and order. If the members rise to this moment, then the Council will fulfill its founding purpose." [White House, 2/26/2003; CNN, 2/27/2003] 'Presidential Seal of Approval' for War - Former ambassador Joseph Wilson will later observe, "With these words, the presidential seal of approval was stamped on a war to liberate an oppressed people and to redraw the political map of the Middle East." Wilson goes on to write: "It was hard to disagree with the president that exporting democracy and freeing people from dictatorial regimes are laudable goals. But I also knew that that is not what we've structured the US military to do for our country. Notwithstanding administration promises of a cakewalk in Iraq, I was concerned it would be enormously difficult, costly, and time-consuming to impose democracy there at the barrel of a gun, requiring, above all, a grateful and compliant population. If we didn't succeed, we would be forever blamed for the havoc we wrought in trying." [Wilson, 2004, pp. 319-320] Point-by-Point Rebuttal - Author and professor of politics Stephen Zunes will write a lengthy, point-by-point rebuttal to Bush's speech (see March 8, 2003).
Entity Tags: Clarence Thomas, Lynne Cheney, Joseph C. Wilson, George W. Bush, United Nations, American Enterprise Institute, Richard ("Dick") Cheney
Timeline Tags: Events Leading to Iraq Invasion
On PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers, former ambassador Joseph Wilson explains why he does not believe the administration's impending war with Iraq is necessary or warranted. Wilson, as he has said before (see February 13, 2003), is for aggressive, coercive inspections and what he calls "muscular disarmament." But, Wilson says, President Bush does not want a disarmed Saddam Hussein: "I think he wants a dead Hussein. I don't think there's any doubt about it." Bush is giving Iraq no incentives to disarm because he is not interested in disarmament, he wants nothing less than to overthrow Hussein. "I think war is inevitable," he says. "Essentially, the speech that the president gave at the American Enterprise Institute (see February 26, 2003) was so much on the overthrow of the regime and the liberation of the Iraqi people that I suspect that Saddam understands that this is not about disarmament." 'Shock and Awe' - Moyers asks Wilson about the US tactic of "shock and awe" that he has heard is being considered for the opening strikes of the US invasion (see March 19, 2003). Wilson says: "From what I understand about shock and awe, it will be a several day air assault in which they will drop as much ordinance in four or five days as they did during the 39-day bombing campaign of the Gulf War.… Missiles, bombs, precision bombs. I believe the president and our military officials, when they say they will do everything to minimize casualties to the civilian population. But it was difficult to imagine dropping that much ordinance on a population of four million people without having a lot of casualties that are unanticipated. A lot of civilian casualties." Wilson is pessimistic that even such a massive opening assault might, as Moyers asks, touch off a rebellion against Hussein or a mass retreat and exodus of Hussein's ground forces. While "you might well have a bloody uprising in Baghdad in which pits essentially the Iraqi population against the Republican Guard in Saddam's palace, I think far more likely, is that most Baghdadis will just simply go into hiding and try and avoid getting hit by this American ordinance and/or getting killed by the Republican Guard." Redrawing the Map of the Middle East - Wilson believes that one of the biggest reasons why Bush is invading Iraq instead of working to disarm the Iraqi regime is because Bush is committed to what he calls "re-growing the political map of the Middle East." He explains: "[T]hat basically means trying to install regimes in the Middle East that are far more friendly to the United States—there are those in the administration that call them democracies. Somehow it's hard for me to imagine that a democratic system will emerge out of the ashes of Iraq in the near term. And when and if it does, it's hard for me to believe that it will be more pro-American and more pro-Israeli than what you've got now." Wilson says that Bush is implementing plans drawn up in the 1990s by neoconservatives such as Richard Perle (see July 8, 1996), which provide "the underpinning of the—of the philosophical argument that calls for basically radically changing the political dynamics in the Middle East and… to favor American national security interests and Israeli national security interests which are tied." Recipe for Anti-American Demagoguery - Such a grand agenda will be far more difficult to implement than Perle, Bush, and others believe, Wilson says. "I've done democracy in Africa for 25 years," he says. "And I can tell you that doing democracy in the most benign environments is really tough sledding. And the place like Iraq where politics is a blood sport and where you have these clan, tribal, ethnic and confessional cleavages, coming up with a democratic system that is pluralistic, functioning and, as we like to say about democracies, is not inclined to make war on other democracies, is going to be extraordinarily difficult." Wilson provides the following scenario: "Assuming that you get the civic institutions and a thriving political culture in the first few iterations of presidential elections, you're going to have Candidate A who is likely going to be a demagogue. And Candidate B who is likely going to be a populist. That's what emerges from political discourse. Candidate A, Candidate B, the demagogue and the populist, are going to want to win elections of the presidency. And the way to win election is enflame the passions of your population. The easy way for a demagogue or a populist in the Middle East to enflame the passion of the population is to define himself or herself by their enemies. And the great enemy in the Middle East is Israel and its supplier, the United States. So it's hard to believe, for me, that a thriving democracy certainly in the immediate and near-term and medium-term future is going to yield a successful presidential candidate who is going to be pro-Israel or pro-America." Losing Focus on al-Qaeda - Wilson believes that the US has lost its focus on pursuing Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. "The game has shifted to Iraq for reasons that are confused to everybody," he says. "We have been sold a war on disarmament or terrorism or the nexus between terrorism and weapons of mass destruction or liberation. Any one of the four. And now with the president's speeches, you clearly have the idea that we're going to go in and take this preemptive action to overthrow a regime, occupy its country for the purposes, the explicit purposes of fostering the blossoming of democracy in a part of the world where we really have very little ground, truth or experience. And, certainly, I hope along with everybody that the president in his assessment is correct. And that I am so wrong that I'm never invited to another foreign policy debate again.… Because if I am right, this could be a real disaster." [PBS, 2/28/2003; Wilson, 2004, pp. 320-321]
Entity Tags: Richard Perle, George W. Bush, Bush administration (43), Bill Moyers, Saddam Hussein, Joseph C. Wilson
Timeline Tags: Events Leading to Iraq Invasion, Niger Uranium and Plame Outing
ABC's Nightline hosts a "town meeting" panel discussion with a number of experts and pundits on the subject of the impending invasion of Iraq. The proponents of the war include Senator John McCain (R-AZ), former CIA Director James Woolsey, and Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention. Arguing against the war are the former deputy chief of mission to Iraq, Joseph Wilson; Senator Carl Levin (D-MI); and the Reverend Susan Thistlewaite of the Chicago Theological Seminary. The advocates of the war had prepared for the discussion, even holding a mock debate the night before with Randy Schoeneman of the Iraqi Liberation Front. The anti-war panelists did not discuss their remarks until minutes before the broadcast. "[W]e were disadvantaged by our comparative lack of preparation," Wilson will later recall in his 2004 book The Politics of Truth. He remembers the panel discussion as "unpleasant," not the least because, during his remarks about achieving disarmament without occupation (see February 13, 2003 and February 28, 2003), McCain interrupts him and accuses him of "appeasement." Wilson will later write: "I take great offense at having my patriotism questioned by anyone. John McCain's service to his country is unimpeachable but that does not give him a monopoly on loyalty, nor is it equatable with wisdom on national security issues." Woolsey piles on, accusing Wilson of racism when Wilson notes that implementing democracy in Iraq would be "a stiff challenge." Wilson will write that the accusation, which he will term "an outrageously provocative insult," angers many of the African-American audience members, including "several members of the House of Representatives who had known me from my White House days managing African Affairs" for the State Department. Wilson will note, "The remark went over with a thud and was subsequently dropped from the standard set of neoconservative talking points spouted against me." At the end of the debate, host Ted Koppel tells the threesome in favor of war, "You have made some important points, gentlemen, but you have not made your case that war with Iraq now is necessary." Wilson calls it "a pyrrhic victory," in part because "the one person whom we would have liked most to influence by our arguments—George W. Bush—was probably already asleep. But then, as he later told Brit Hume of Fox, he gets his information straight from his advisers rather than from newspapers and broadcast outlets." [Wilson, 2004, pp. 321-323]
Entity Tags: Susan Thistlewaite, ABC News, Carl Levin, Joseph C. Wilson, George W. Bush, John McCain, James Woolsey, Richard Land
A building in Baghdad is bombed during the US invasion of Iraq. [Source: Reuters]The US begins its official invasion of Iraq (see (7:40 a.m.) March 19, 2003). While most observers expect a traditional air assault, the US planners instead launch what they call a "Shock and Awe" combination of air and ground assaults designed to avoid direct confrontations with Iraqi military forces and instead destroy Iraqi military command structures. [CNN, 3/20/2003; CNN, 3/20/2003; Unger, 2007, pp. 302] The initial invasion force consists of 250,000 US forces augmented by 45,000 British troops and small contingents from Poland, Australia, and Denmark, elements of the so-called "coalition of the willing." [BBC, 3/18/2003; Unger, 2007, pp. 302]
Entity Tags: United States
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, Events Leading to Iraq Invasion, Iraq under US Occupation
New York Post editorial writer Deborah Orin echoes charges made by previous columnists in the Wall Street Journal that special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is conducting a partisan political prosecution of former White House official Lewis Libby (see October 29, 2005 and October 31, 2005), and repeats charges by former Reagan Justice Department official Victoria Toensing that the CIA is behind the exposure of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert identity (see November 3, 2005). Orin repeats previously made assertions that the CIA allowed Plame Wilson's exposure by allowing her to send her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, to Niger (see February 13, 2002, February 19, 2002, July 22, 2003, October 17, 2003, and July 20, 2005), failed to have Wilson sign "the usual confidentiality agreement," and failed to require him to write a written report (see March 4-5, 2002, (March 6, 2002), and March 8, 2002). Orin accuses Wilson of only voicing his public criticism of the Bush administration's Iraq invasion after he "joined" the presidential campaign of John Kerry (D-MA) in May 2003, even though he began publicly criticizing the administration a year earlier (see May 2002, October 13, 2002, November 2002, December 9, 2002, January 28-29, 2003, February 13, 2003, February 28, 2003, March 3, 2003, March 5, 2003, and March 8, 2003), and the White House began its retaliatory attack against his criticisms in March 2003 (see March 9, 2003 and After). Orin also repeats Toensing's sourceless assertion that Wilson's New York Times op-ed about his findings in Niger (see July 6, 2003) "sharply conflicted with what he'd told the CIA." It was the CIA's actions, not the White House's, that led to Plame Wilson's exposure, Orin avers (see June 13, 2003, June 23, 2003, July 7, 2003, 8:30 a.m. July 8, 2003, July 8, 2003, 11:00 a.m. July 11, 2003, 8:00 a.m. July 11, 2003, Late Afternoon, July 12, 2003, 1:26 p.m. July 12, 2003, and July 12, 2003). Orin quotes Toensing, who said: "It [the Plame Wilson exposure] was a planned CIA covert action against the White House. It was too clever by half." The reason, Orin says, was to divert attention from its intelligence failures surrounding the US failure to find WMD in Iraq: "Having Wilson go public was very useful to the CIA, especially the division where his wife worked—because it served to shift blame for failed 'slam dunk' intelligence claims away from the agency. To say that Bush 'twisted' intelligence was to presume—falsely—that the CIA had gotten it right." The White House was merely defending itself from the CIA's propaganda onslaught, Orin writes, adding that since Plame Wilson was not a covert agent (see Fall 1992 - 1996), the agency was "dishonest" in claiming that its intelligence operations had been damaged by her exposure (see Before September 16, 2003, October 3, 2003, October 11, 2003, October 22-24, 2003, October 23-24, 2003, October 29, 2005, and February 13, 2006). [New York Post, 11/7/2005]
Entity Tags: Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, Central Intelligence Agency, Bush administration (43), Deborah Orin, John Kerry, Joseph C. Wilson, Victoria Toensing, Valerie Plame Wilson, New York Post, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, Wall Street Journal
Timeline Tags: Domestic Propaganda, Niger Uranium and Plame Outing
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Tortilla Chips With Crab & Avocado Dip Recipe
An easy party appetizer from Take Home Chef host Curtis Stone. "Crab and avocado is an age-old combination that has a bit of magic to it, which is why you see it in so many cuisines, from Asian to Italian. I'd never thought to make tortilla chips until I came to America, but they are so much better than store-bought. Salt them the minute they come out of the hot oil."
4 firm but ripe avocados, peeled, pitted, and coarsely chopped
1/4 cup sour cream
4 tbsp fresh lime juice
2 tbsp finely chopped fresh chives
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 cup fresh crabmeat
1/2 cup mayonnaise
3 tbsp thinly sliced fresh basil
1 red jalapeño, finely chopped
Canola oil, for deep-frying
12 fresh corn tortillas, cut into 8 wedges each
Fresh basil leaves, for garnish
Step 1: Mash the avocados, sour cream, 3 tbsp of the lime juice, and the chives in a large bowl. Season the avocado mixture with salt and pepper to taste. Spoon the mixture into a clear glass serving bowl, forming an even layer and smoothing the top.
Step 2: Squeeze the crabmeat gently to remove any excess liquid, and pick through it to remove any bits of shell or cartilage. Gently mix the crabmeat, mayonnaise, sliced basil, jalapeño, and the remaining 1 tbsp lime juice in another bowl. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Spoon the crab mixture over the avocado mixture, forming a second even layer and smoothing the top. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Step 3: Heat 3″ of oil in a wok or deep skillet over medium-high heat. Working in batches, add the tortilla wedges and fry, stirring often so that they cook evenly on both sides, for about 3 minutes, or until they are crisp and golden brown. Using a slotted spoon or a mesh strainer, transfer the corn chips to paper towels to drain any excess oil. While the chips are still hot, sprinkle them lightly with salt.
Step 4: Garnish the dip with basil leaves, and serve with the tortilla chips.
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Please welcome our good friend Toni Carrier back to the blog! She was gracious enough to do an interview with us earlier in the year, and we discussed her ongoing research involving Drayton Hall and her amazing work at Lowcountry Africana. (Click here to read the interview.) Now she's written a piece for our readers to enjoy about the first Emancipation celebration in South Carolina, which occurred in 1863. Incredibly enough, one of the participants of this joyous celebration was Samuel Ulin, the great-great-grandfather of Rebecca Brown Campbell and Catherine Brown Braxton, descendants of the Bowens-Johnson family formerly enslaved at Drayton Hall. Rebecca and Catherine are longtime supporters of Drayton Hall, and Catherine was just recently elected to our board. We love how Lowcountry Africana connects us to the past in such a tangible way. Thanks for blogging Toni!
The morning of January 1, 1863 was greeted with great excitement in the Union military encampment on the Old Fort Plantation of J.J. Smith near Beaufort, South Carolina, for on that day a great celebration was to take place.
Port Royal had been captured on the morning of November 7, 1861. In the days following the capture of Port Royal, some 5,000 African Americans enslaved in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida had escaped from bondage and volunteered to serve in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) to fight for the freedom of those still enslaved [1].
The first full regiment of United States Colored Troops in South Carolina had been mustered in in early November of 1862 as the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (later designated 33rd United States Colored Troops) [2]. Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, an abolitionist from Massachusetts, had received command of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry regiment, arriving in Beaufort in late November of 1862. Upon his arrival in camp, he commenced a journal of his experiences, and it is from his journal that we learn of the grand celebration on New Year's Day of 1863.Higginson had received regimental colors which were to be presented to the new recruits, but the day's focal point was the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln, which declared all slaves in the Confederate states forever free. For the men who had escaped bondage and lived as free since their muster into the Union army in November 1862, the morning of January 1 brought great joy, for their status would no longer be ambiguous – they would be officially free [3].
And so the day began with anticipation and excitement. Expecting a gathering of some 5,000 celebrants, Higginson had ordered ten cattle to be roasted. About 10:00 a.m. guests began arriving and soon every approach to the Smith plantation was thronged. The ceremony proceeded as planned, with the presentation of the regimental colors and reading of the Emancipation Proclamation. Then, as Higginson described, "followed an incident so simple, so touching, so utterly unexpected and startling, that I can scarcely believe it on recalling, though it gave a key-note to the whole day."
The moment the speaker ceased and as Higginson took and waved the flag, from out of the assembled crowd came a lone male voice in song: "My Country 't is of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty, of Thee I Sing." This spontaneous celebration was soon joined in by others in the crowd. Higginson described the moment:
I never saw anything so electric. It made all other words cheap. It seemed the choked voice of a race at last unloosed. Nothing could be more wonderfully unconscious; art could not have dreamed of a tribute to the day of jubilee that should be so affecting; history will not believe it and when I came to speak of it after it was ended tears were everywhere.
One of the celebrants who witnessed this event was Samuel Ulin, the great-great-grandfather of Rebecca Brown Campbell and Catherine Brown Braxton, descendants of the Bowens-Johnson family formerly enslaved at Drayton Hall.
Samuel Ulin had escaped bondage in Florida and made his way to Port Royal, where he enlisted in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) on November 11, 1862. Born in Duval County, Florida, Samuel was 39 when he enlisted in the USCT for a term of three years. Ulin was present at the grand celebration of January 1, 1863 and was one of the Union soldiers of African descent officially freed on that day [4]. Samuel Ulin fought and was wounded in battle on July 9, 1863, when United States Colored Troops in three Union gunships engaged Confederate forces at Willtown Bluff. Samuel was one of 250 troops in the 1st SC Volunteer Infantry who departed Port Royal in three Union gunships – the John Adams, an armed ferry boat steamer, the Enoch Dean, an armed transport and the Governor Milton, an armed tug, on an excursion up the Edisto River on the afternoon of 9 Jul 1863. Their mission was to burn a railroad bridge some 30 miles up the river.
After a difficult journey in heavy fog, they anchored about 4 a.m. near the Morris Plantation. The bridge was defended by a small force of Confederate troops who were forced to retreat, but in the battle Samuel Ulin was shot through the right hand and in the left side of his chest. He was admitted to the Beaufort field hospital where he remained for two months. He was never quite well again, and his disability ultimately resulted in paralysis and his death August 19, 1893. His wife Nora Singleton, Rebecca Campbell and Catherine Braxton's great-great grandmother, predeceased him in August of 1891 [5].
We do not yet know whether Samuel Ulin married Catherine and Rebecca's great-great grandmother Nora Singleton before or after his service in the Union army, but because he was among the first soldiers to enlist in the United States Colored Troops in South Carolina, a rich narrative of the events he witnessed survives in two books, now digitized and available on the Internet. The first is Thomas Wentworth Higginson's diary Army Life In a Black Regiment, which chronicles his experiences while commanding the regiment Samuel Ulin served in (the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, later designated 33rd United States Colored Troops). The second is Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops Late 1st S.C. Volunteers by Susie King Taylor, an army nurse whose husband was a soldier in the 33rd USCT. You can read the full text of each of these books in the South Carolina Full Text Reading Room on the Lowcountry Africana website.
Left: Detail from Compiled Service Record of Samuel Ulin. Source: Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served with the United States Colored Troops: Infantry Organizations, 31st through 35th. Database Online at Fold3.com, http://www.fold3.com/title_692/31st35th_infantry/, accessed 13 Dec 2012. Original Data from NARA M1992. Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Belonging to the 31st through 35th Infantry Units, Organized for Service With the United States Colored Troops (USCT).
For more information on the history of the 33rd United States Colored Troops, please see Who Lived This History? The 33rd United States Colored Troops (USCT) on the Lowcountry Africana website.
For Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Susie King Taylor's accounts of camp life among the 33rd USCT, please visit the South Carolina Full Text Reading Room on the Lowcountry Africana website.
[1] Rose, Willie Lee. 1964 Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment. Athens: University of Georgia Press, pp. 194-196.
[2] Rose 1964, pp. 194-196.
[3] Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. 1870 Army Life In a Black Regiment. Boston: Fields, Osgood and Company. Original from Oxford University, Digitized by Google Books 22 May 2007.
[4] Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served with the United States Colored Troops: Infantry Organizations, 31st through 35th. Database Online at Fold3.com, http://www.fold3.com/title_692/31st35th_infantry/, accessed 13 Dec 2012. Original Data from NARA M1992. Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Belonging to the 31st through 35th Infantry Units, Organized for Service With the United States Colored Troops (USCT).
[5] Jones, Keith J. 2011 The Boys of Diamond Hill: The Lives and Civil War Letters of the Boyd Family of Abbeville, South Carolina. McFarland Publishers; Civil War and Later Pension Files, Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15, National Archives, Washington, D.C. Widow's Pension Application No. 5833301, Nancy Ulin; Service of Samuel Ulin (Pvt., Co. G, 33rd United States Colored Troops, Civil War). Previous Invalid Pension No. 674522; Original Invalid Pension No. 652845.


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Free textures and stock photos& 3D models – online resource
Another handy resources I've come across, 10 Ravens a site that provides a variety of products such as textures, 3D models and stock imagery they have a large number of free and royalty free images. At some point I intend to collate all the resources that I have together to make it easier for everyone. Link – http://www.10ravens.com/
Resource: Free online stock photography
Something which is always a chore is finding the right image for your project especially in education where there often isn't the money to pay for images or the time to get the person with the purse strings to pay for a stock image.
Stock.xchng is a nice online stock photography site which I came across the other day which has a large amount of free (both cost and royalty wise), I've certainly found myself using it for a number of projects which required a quick turnaround.
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How to Work with Tomcat in the NetBeans IDE </div>
By: Daria Titova
May 2007
In this tutorial, you will convert Tomcat into a NetBeans project and learn how to run, debug, and profile the Tomcat project in the NetBeans IDE. </span>
This tutorial shows how to easily develop large (about a half of million lines of code) industrial-scale projects in the NetBeans IDE. The tutorial uses the Tomcat server as a project example.
The NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. The NetBeans IDE provides developers with all the tools they need to create professional cross-platform desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to convert the popular Tomcat project into a NetBeans project, which helps the user to develop, debug, and profile the Tomcat server within the NetBeans IDE.
For more information about the Netbeans IDE's features and supported technologies, see http://www.netbeans.org/products/ide/features.html.
For more information on how to work with the NetBeans IDE, see the Support and Docs page.
Software needed
Before you begin, you need to install the following software on your computer: NetBeans IDE 6.0.
Since NetBeans 6.0 is under development now, use NetBeans IDE 6.0 Preview (M9) available from NetBeans IDE 6.0 Preview (M9) Download, or visit http://bits.nbextras.org/netbeans/6.0/nightly/ for the latest working version.
You can also use the NetBeans 5.5.1 release. For more information about using the 5.5.1 version, see Addendum: Using NetBeans 5.5.1. Don't forget to install the NetBeans Profiler 5.5.1 because it is not part of the NetBeans 5.5.1 IDE.
Notations used in this documentation
- <NETBEANS_HOME> - the NetBeans IDE installation directory
- <USER_HOME> - the user's home directory. Example: "C:\Documents and Settings\user_home"
- <tomcat_root> - directory into which Tomcat sources are downloaded
Converting Tomcat into a Netbeans Project
Downloading Tomcat Source:
1. Go to http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi and download the .zip file from the Source Code Distributions section.
2. Unzip the .zip file (in our case, the file name is apache-tomcat-6.0.13-src.zip) into the <tomcat_root> directory.
After the Tomcat zip file is extracted under <tomcat_root>, you will see a subdirectory, in this case called apache-tomcat-6.0.13-src.
For example, on Windows, extracting the Tomcat zip file in the root of C:\tmp\ creates the following path: C:\tmp\apache-tomcat-6.0.13-src.
On Solaris/Linux, unzipping the Tomcat zip file in the /home/username directory creates the following directories: /home/username/apache-tomcat-6.0.13-src.
Creating Tomcat Netbeans Project:
1. Download the attached nbproject_NetbeansedTomcat.zip file and unpack it into the <tomcat_root> directory.
Note: if you installed NetBeans 5.5.1, use the nbproject551_NetbeansedTomcat.zip file instead.
2. In the <tomcat_root> directory, create a new file named build.properties. This file specifies the directory for external libraries (i.e. <tomcat_root>/jars) and, if needed, contains proxy configuration data. This step is required because Tomcat uses libraries that need to be downloaded from external sources.
Your build.properties file should look similar to this:
# ----- Default Base Path for Dependent Packages ----- # Replace this path with the directory path to where the binaries of dependencies # should be downloaded base.path=C:/tmp/apache-tomcat-6.0.13-src/jars # ----- Proxy setup ----- # Uncomment if using a proxy server proxy.host=my.proxy proxy.port=8080 useproxy=on
3. Start the NetBeans IDE.
Note: To build Tomcat, the IDE uses JDK 1.5. If you install NetBeans with JDK 1.6, change the IDE configuration to use JDK 1.5. To change the IDE configuration, open the netbeans.conf file in the <NETBEANS_HOME>/etc/ directory, and change the JDK location to point to JDK 1.5:
# Default location of JDK, can be overridden by using --jdkhome <dir>: netbeans_jdkhome="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_11"
Then, start the IDE.
4. In the IDE, choose Open Project from the main menu, and open the Tomcat project from the <tomcat_root> directory.
Note: Netbeans is showing red X's for Java classes, because you have not yet downloaded the required external libraries. You will do this in the next exercise.
Building the Tomcat Project
1. In the Projects window, right-click the Tomcat 6.0 project node and choose Properties from the pop-up menu. Select the Java Sources ClassPath category on the left and add the <NETBEANS_HOME>/java1/ant/ant.jar file to the classpath.
This step is required because the NetBeans editor does not pull classpath information from the Ant build script. Although the module will build, it will look not good in the editor.
2. Right-click the Tomcat 6.0 project's node and choose Download from the pop-up menu. The IDE downloads necessary libraries, unpacks them, and builds dependencies for Tomcat.
Wait until the download completes and you will see the 'BUILD SUCCESSFUL' message in the Output window as shown in the following figure.
Note: If you get any errors when downloading a file from a particular location, edit the .loc entry for that file in the original <tomcat_root>/tomcat/build.properties.default file. In the following example, the eclipse compiler was not found at the original sunsite location. So, we noted this location as errant and added a new location.
# ----- Eclipse JDT, version 3.2 or later ----- jdt.home=${base.path}/eclipse/plugins jdt.lib=${jdt.home} jdt.jar=${jdt.lib}/org.eclipse.jdt.core_3.2.3.v_686_R32x.jar # jdt.loc=http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.2.2-200702121330/eclipse-JDT-3.2.2.zip jdt.loc=http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.eclipse.org/eclipseMirror/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.2.2-200702121330/eclipse-JDT-3.2.2.zip
3. Right-click the Tomcat 6.0 project node, and choose Build from the pop-up menu.
Now you built the Tomcat server source code.
Running Tomcat
To run the Tomcat server, do the following:
1. Create a Tomcat user with the loginname admin and password adminadmin. To do this, modify the tomcat-users.xml file in the <tomcat_root>/output/build/conf directory to look as follows:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <tomcat-users> <role rolename="manager"/> <role rolename="admin"/> <user username="admin" password="adminadmin" roles="admin,manager"/> </tomcat-users>
2. In the Projects window, right-click the Tomcat node, and choose Start Tomcat from the pop-up menu.
Wait until you see a message like 'INFO: Server startup in 7019 ms' in the Output window.
In your web browser, type localhost:8080. You will see that Tomcat is running.
Explore what applications are deployed on your Tomcat server by default.
3. To stop running Tomcat, right-click the Tomcat project's node and choose Stop Tomcat from the pop-up menu.
Debugging Tomcat
1. Open the Bootstrap.java class from the org.apache.catalina.startup package, and set a breakpoint at line 387.
2. Right-click the Tomcat project's node and choose Debug Project from the pop-up menu.
The IDE opens the Debugger windows, and runs Tomcat in the debugger until the breakpoint is reached. You can perform Step Into, Step Over, and other debugging activities.
To finish debugging, press the Finish button in the toolbar.
Profiling Tomcat Server using Netbeans Profiler
1. In the Projects window, right-click the Tomcat project's node, and choose Profile Project from the pop-up menu.
2. In the Profile Tomcat 6.0 window, accept the default "CPU > Analyze Performance" option and click the Run button.
The Profiler tab opens in the IDE.
3. On the Profiler tab, click VM Telemetry to view memory (heap) changes and other data. Perform some activities on your running Tomcat, for example, run different web applications from the Tomcat Web Application Manager page, and you will see how the size of memory heap is changing.
4. To finish profiling, press the Stop button under Controls on the Profiler tab. Alternatively, right-click the Tomcat project's node in the Projects window and choose Stop Tomcat from the pop-up menu.
Addendum: Using NetBeans 5.5.1
If you use NetBeans 5.5.1, don't forget to install NetBeans Profiler 5.5.1 separately from the core IDE.
There is the only one difference in the steps for creating Tomcat NetBeans projects in 5.5.1 and 6.0 versions of the IDE.
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103. Missed Meeting
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In my opinion, telepathy does play a role in wanting to meet certain people or situations.ReplyDelete
I fully agree that meeting a person does not necessarily make a relationship better. There are subtle attractions and needs of every bond.... And in this case literature does indeed make a strange bond between writer and reader which exists "between the lines"ReplyDelete
It does not make the bond any less intimate, any less important for us....
Wonderful piece of memory. I never knew you took part in any such competition! How little we know about the people we think we know!
Similar to 'some people cause happiness wherever they go, and others cause happiness whenever they go' !ReplyDelete
good one !
wonderful sentiments well expressedReplyDelete
I agree with you...nice post and very nice blog!ReplyDelete
Chowlajee, do agree with you.ReplyDelete
Anunja, you were too young then.. but of course when did I know that you could write so well? Only after I read your blog :-)
Thanks Kavi, magiceye and gaurtalab.
Fully agree, I too have such relationship with many of my favorite writers. They are with me when I need them.so no question of missing them. Asha natyana thet bhetiche pariman nahi milale tari bighadat nahi.ReplyDelete
pk, glad to know that you feel the same :-)ReplyDelete


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The Florida Manatee: Biology and Conservation, by Roger Reep and Robert Bonde, is now available from the University Press of Florida. The authors engage the reader with a tale that weaves facts and real-life scenarios to explain what science has learned from the endangered Florida manatee. From complex long-range migrations to microorganisms that cause manatee die-offs during red-tide blooms, a range of issues affecting manatee survival are discussed in the book. The complex biology of the manatee, landmark legislation of the 1970s, and the biopolitics that result when science and wildlife management intersect are all vital aspects of the ongoing story of the manatee.
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Under constant watch by Debra (Jennifer Carpenter), this week's episode of Dexter, "Buck The System", sees Dexter (Michael C. Hall) finally reaching his breaking point. As uncomfortable as his sister may be with his murderous desires, Dexter attempts to help Deb understand that, even though she wants to be there for him, attempting to control his Dark Passenger will only lead to bad things. Things Dexter, himself, cannot control.
Though Debra may not be thrilled with the idea of Dexter running around on his own, she agrees to give him the space he needs, allowing Dexter to pursue another potential target, Ray Speltzer, a graveyard grounds keeper who has just been released on parole for battery. Unfortunately for Speltzer, his ties to too many unsolved murders places him in the cross-hairs for the Dark Passenger's justice.
In an attempt to bring some order into his life, Dexter begins to slowly remove all of the unneeded stress, beginning in Louis (Josh Cooke). Louis and Dexter's battle has been slowly brewing over these past few episodes, and while shunning Louis' video game may have rubbed him the wrong way, Dexter needs to take care of him once and for all. Just not with murder.
Dexter, making use of the information he found in Louis' apartment, creates a two-step plan to completely remove his new nemesis from every aspect of his life. Step 1: By using the Ice Truck Killer's stolen prosthetic, Dexter sets Louis up as the one who stole the hand, prompting Masuka (C.S. Lee) to fire him on the spot. Step 2: Moving a little closer to home, Dexter makes sure that any romantic relationship Louis had with Batista's younger sister, Jamie (Aimee Garcia), is ruined by sending her the tape of Louis sleeping with a prostitute – while they were together.
Perhaps a little harsh for someone who wishes to remain in the background, Dexter has, however, been pushed to the limits recently, so establishing some semblance of order is a must for him and his Dark Passenger, no matter how drastic the results of his actions may be. Even so, this time Dexter may have bitten off more than he can chew.
As Miami Metro continues to investigate a co-worker's shooting, it brings them closer to this season's "Big Bad", Isaak Sirko (Ray Stevenson), whose interest and involvement is finally revealed. Sirko heads up a highly profitable drug ring, making use of GPS to keep track of their shipments. Sirko, continuing to search for Basko, believes that his drug ring is in danger of being revealed. Unfortunately for Dexter, murdering Basko in the season 6 premiere means that his maritime hideaway is the last location listed on Basko's GPS.
After Sirko arrives at the docks, he begins to follow the GPS to locate the boat used in disposing of Basko's body. Upon approaching Dexter's boat, Sirko finds Louis there, attempting to sink the vessel by drilling holes in it. Louis, not knowing how dangerous Sirko is, says that he is the owner of the boat, which causes Sirko to threaten Louis with a drill to the head. Not wanting to die, Louis tells them about the real owner of the boat, Dexter Morgan. As Louis goes to leave, Sirko shoots and kills Louis, bringing an end to Dexter's nemesis.
Elsewhere, Dexter continues to investigate Speltzer, this time bringing Debra in on his actions, allowing her to see how his Dark Passenger can still provide justice, even if it's not within the law. Debra, rejecting her brother's philosophy, continues to pursue the case of Wayne Randall, the death row inmate who killed himself last episode. Randall's mother went to Miami Metro following his son's death, returning the trophies he had taken from his victims. To the surprise of everyone, Randall had more trophies than confirmed bodies, leading everyone to believe that more victims may be out there.
In an attempt to track down these additional bodies, Debra sends Dexter and Batista (David Zayas) out to pay a visit to Randall's former lover, Hannah McKay (Yvonne Strahovski). Hannah, now completely disassociated with Randall, isn't too interested in bringing up the past; however, a DNA sample is needed, even if she doesn't know about other victims. Like Randall, McKay is a unique individual in Dexter's eyes, as not many people have killed – or have loved a killer. Proving to be equally as alluring as she is intriguing, Dexter stumbles while in her presence, dropping the cotton swab as he attempts to collect DNA from her mouth.
Returning to Dexter's investigation (and hopeful murder) of Speltzer, Debra took time to consider the information Dexter presented her with. Instead of allowing her brother to release his Dark Passenger, Debra goes to LaGuerta (Lauren Velez) for advice. Though LaGuerta wasn't as helpful as Debra had hoped, questioning the Speltzer case did allow her to see things from her brother's prospective. "If you knew there was a murderer out there, and you could do something to stop him before he killed again, could you let it go?"
As the evidence that Speltzer will kill again grows, both Dexter and Deb follow their own paths of justice to bring him down. Unfortunately for Debra, the law doesn't provide as many opportunities for justice as Dexter's Dark Passenger. Debra, continuing to follow her brother's leads, finds herself at Speltzer's place in the midst of one of his ritual kills. With a dangerous obstacle course set up for his victims, Debra is mere moments away from death. Fortunately, Dexter, hearing Debra's voicemail about heading to the house, comes to her rescue - though Speltzer manages to escape.
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Sunday, October 07, 2012
Okay here my review of September 1. As a up an down with my weight
2. Lost sparklive
3. Got a treadmill at home
Here what I look forward to October
1. I will be spending the next week at hotel near work since mom and sis are in germany for 10 days
2. I will be eating all my meal out of the house for a week
Spending a week of vacation at home since mom and sis are I Europe
I will tried to eat sensible at the restaurants.
I will go to the exercise room everyday at the hotel.
I will use the pool everyday at the hotel.
I plan on losing 5 pounds over the month and get another 1000 exercise min awards.
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They had lived together in the backwoods for over fifty years.
To celebrate their fiftieth anniversary, he took her to a large
city and they checked into a plush hotel.
She said to the bellman, "We refuse to settle for such a small
room. No windows, no bed, no fan," she complained.
"But, Madam!"
"Don't `But, Madam' me," she continued. "You can't treat us
like we're a couple of fools just because we don't travel much,
and we've never been to the big city and never spent the night
at a hotel. I'm going to complain to the manager."
"Madam," the bellman said, "this isn't your room; this is
the elevator!"
Bill, Jim & Scott were at a convention together & were sharing
a large suite on the top of a 75-story skyscraper.
After a long day of meetings, they were shocked to hear that
the elevators in their hotel were broken & they would have to
climb 75 flights of stairs to get to their room.
Bill said to Jim & Scott, "Let's break the monotony of this
unpleasant task by concentrating on something interesting. I'll
tell jokes for 25 flights, Jim can sing songs for the next
25 flights and Scott can tell sad stories for the rest of the way."
At the 26th floor, Bill stopped telling jokes & Jim began to
sing. At the 51st floor Jim stopped singing & Scott began to tell
sad stories.
"I will tell my saddest story first," he said. "I left the room
key in the car!"
At 3 am a desk clerk at a hotel gets a call from a drunk guy
asking what time the bar opens.
"It opens at noon," answers the clerk.
About an hour later he gets a call from the same guy, sounding
even drunker. "What time does the bar open?" he asks.
"Same time as before... Noon," replies the clerk.
Another hour passes and he calls again, plastered, "Whatjoo
shay the bar opins at?"
The clerk then answers, "It opens at noon, but if you can't
wait, I can have room service send something up to you."
"No... I don't wanna git in... Ah wanna git OUT!!!"
A couple was checking out of the hotel after their honeymoon.
When the bill was presented an argument occurred.
"What is this item...$200. for meal?" inquired the groom.
"We have never eaten in your dining room. All I had was beer
in the suite, with eggs that I brought with me."
"Yes sir," replied the manager, "but the wedding package
included meals and the food was there for you. If you didn't
take them, it's not our fault."
"In that case," answered the groom, "we are even, completely
even...because you owe me $200. for making love to my wife!"
"But, I never touched your wife!" protested the manager.
"Well, she was there for you," said the groom. "If you didn't
use her, it's not my fault!!"
A couple just moved into hotel. And the hotel clerk asks the
man after helping him with his luggage.
Anything else?
NO, thanks,
Maybe, your wife needs something?
Oh, yeah. Thank you for your reminder. Do you sell postcards?
The drunk staggered up to the hotel reception and demanded his
room be changed.
"But sir," said the clerk, "you have the best room in the hotel."
"I insist on another room!!" said the drunk.
"Very good, sir. I`ll change you from 502 to 555. Would you mind
telling me why you don't like 502?" asked the clerk.
"Well, for one thing," said the drunk, "it's on fire."
Ramada Inns have offered to buy the White House.
"They're getting $100,000 a night for the Lincoln Bedroom,"
noted Ramada President James Wattles. "We've even offered
10% of the revenue to the DNC."
The White House was not amused.
"We think we'll get a better offer from the Japanese."
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Funny! Good luck staying on try while on traveling. You have a great plan.
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you have some good goals and thanks for the laughter
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Thanks for the laughter! Ha ha!!!
Great goals, hope you enjoy your trip.
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LOL to the jokes.
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Thanks for the jokes, had a nice moment to laugh! :-)
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I CANT USE HEALTH BARS! It says I can use it on a graphic so what DO I use it on? its really annoying because I want to make a game that uses it
I can't recreate this issue on my end. Health bars are working as intended.
Can you give a step by step description of what you're doing so I can recreate this issue?
We also received your email, and I tried replying but it's not working and bounces back. Please private message me on here with an updated email for your account or you may have issues logging in soon.
After reading your post again, and your email that you sent.. I think I figured out what you're trying to say.
Are you using the "add to health bar" behaviour (or some other health bar behaviour), then for the object selecting a graphic in your scene? If so, then you can't select regular graphics as health bars, You need to add a health bar object to your scene.
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"We can't all think about a thousand things at once, like you!"
"More's the pity…"
Peri's stepfather Howard is milling about among the gamers at a casino in space, several light years from Earth.
It seems that someone has cracked the casino code, breaking the bank with one big win after another. But will one person's greed cause catastrophic ripples in the timestream?
A light if accurate-feeling nod to the earlier Colin Baker Doctor episodes with Peri, Nigel Fairs' Prime Winner offers a particularly busy and self-absorbed if not arrogant Doctor and an overeager, desperate for affection (or at least some measure of attention!) Perpugilliam Brown.
There's less sniping and bitterness than one remembers from the teleseries (at least prior to the break and the very different, far warmer relations that ensued thereon), but this is a comparably bristly affair, akin to a funhouse mirror image of the Jon Pertwee/Jo relationship or perhaps more accurately and directly, the Peter Capaldi/Clara dynamic.
Newbies expecting a Tom Baker/Sarah Jane or David Tennant/Rose sort of Doctor-Companion partnership may find themselves a bit surprised, but this was how The Doctor rolled back in the mid-80's…
In the end, all (rather simple) mysteries are solved (and fairly simply at that) and all's right with the world. Hell, there's even a foreshadowing hint of the latter Baker/Bryant-era warmth to be felt between the characters by story's end – closing out on a nod to Baker's infamous Blakes 7 appearance, no less.
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Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, today deplored the killing of Khaled Reyadh Hamad, a cameraman who was killed in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood of Gaza City on 20 July.
"I condemn the killing of Khaled Reyadh Hamad," the Director-General said. "It is essential that all recognize the civilian status of journalists, who must be able to carry out their work keeping us informed of events on the ground. As stipulated by international agreements, journalists must be protected including when reporting from the scene," Irina Bokova concluded.
The Director-General's statements on the killing of media professionals are in line with Resolution 29 adopted by UNESCO Member States at the Organization's General Conference of 1997, entitled "Condemnation of Violence against Journalists." These statements are posted on a dedicated webpage, UNESCO condemns the killing of journalists.
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ISLAMABAD- Pakistan is all set to seek a bailout package of up to $5 billion from the International Monetary Fund to repay its loans as the IMF team is arriving Islamabad tonight on a five-day visit.
Sources say that during the first phase Pakistan and IMF would talk about the Post Programme Monitoring (PPM) and later a bailout package of $3 to $5 billion would be sought to repay loans.
Pakistan has to pay loans of $3 billion to the Fund during the financial year 2013-2014 for which the country needs foreign reserves.
"We will never accept any loan programme if IMF links it with quarterly increase in gas and power tariff", said a Finance Ministry official. He added that Pakistan would take loan on easy conditions.
He said that Pakistan would seek to get Letter of Comfort (LoC) from the IMF after assessment of economic situation that would help in getting loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and World Bank (WB).
Talking about the alternative plan, the official said 'we have also plan B that would help in generating foreign reserves of $3 billion to repay the loans.
He added that Pakistan would receive $1 billion by auctioning 3G licenses, $800 million was due on Etisalat against the privatisation of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and $1.2 billion was due under the coalition support fund of the United States. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar had said on Thursday that a new package would be negotiated with the IMF— but on Pakistan's terms.
Addressing the post-budget press conference, the finance minister said Pakistan will negotiate a new programme with the Fund to obtain a loan for meeting its obligations towards the institution, but "national interests" will not be compromised.
Dar said in its visit from June 19, the IMF mission would also review the country's ability to pay back the earlier obtained loans.
"Talks will also be held for a programme but on terms and conditions of Pakistan," said Dar. The IMF's dictation will not be accepted, he added. "We will take loans to the extent we owe to the IMF."
Pakistan had earlier obtained an $8 billion loan and has paid back $3.7 billion, leaving it with a balance of roughly $4.3 billion. The finance minister said there was no harm in obtaining loans to the extent of paying back earlier loans.
In November 2008, Pakistan had signed an $11.3 billion programme with the IMF to avoid possible bankruptcy. However, the monetary body prematurely terminated the arrangement following Pakistan's inability to initiate crucial fiscal and energy reforms. The budget 2013-14 carried the required level of fiscal adjustments that IMF had demanded.


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