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When you step out of the house, your clothes advertise much about you. Along with your face and hair, you clothing is one of the first things people will notice and they will judge you quickly on first impressions. When you are at work and about town, it is important to present a confident and capable appearance.
One would think that today's modern man would have good fashion sense already locked away in his brain, but one good look around will tell you differently. Every day, men are committing fashion suicide and this could be costing them at job interviews, meetings with the in-laws, or trying to get that all important phone number from Heather. Don't be that man. Follow these simple rules:
1. Don't look like you tried too hard. Unless you have a part time job as a clown entertaining at children's birthday parties, keep your look simple by not wearing more than three major colors. Also, keep the jewelry count low. There is only one Mr. T and you are not him. A good rule is one ring per hand and one necklace only.
2. Take a friend. When you go shopping for your wardrobe, take a friend. Even better if the friend you take is a woman. You want an honest opinion of what looks good on you from somebody else's view point.
3. Don't overlook your shoes. I have heard that women will judge you by your shoes. I'm not sure how true this why take chances. They seem to have a "thing" for shoes, as evidenced by how many pair they usually own. Check for dirt, scuffs, frayed laces, etc. Take the extra time to make sure your shoes are in top shape. Do not leave the house with ratty shoes.
4. Sandals are for the beach. Don't wear them out of earshot of the surf. Nobody wants to see your ugly feet and toes. If you insist on wearing sandals and think you can pull off a slick look...please, please, please do not wear socks, with them.
5. Don't spend too much. In other words, don't buy an article of clothing just for the brand name or the logo. You can find other brands that are just as good for less money. You can further enhance your wardrobe with the money you save.
6. Keep the PJs in the bedroom. Do not ever wear your pajamas out and about. I don't care if this is the latest fad and everyone else is doing should not. Some women can get away with women can't. Men can never pull this off.
7. Hats. Seems every guy is wearing ball caps these days. Ball caps are take them off when your not "playing". If you are not wearing shorts or jeans, you shouldn't be sporting a ball cap. Also, remove your hat indoors. This is a rule that never goes out of style. Don't wear your cap in a restaurant, movie theater, church, etc.
8. Look behind you. Don't forget to check out your backside in the mirror. You don't want to wear pants that give you a baggy butt.
9. Underwear should stay under. Nothing looks sloppier than several inches of boxer shorts sticking out of the top of your pants. Keep your pants around your your underwear in your pants. Wear a belt for crying out loud!
10. Dress for the occasion. You wouldn't show up for a job interview in shorts and T-shirt, would you? Make sure that you wear the right clothes for the right occasion. When in doubt, it is far better to over dress than under dress. Where a necktie. If that makes you over dressed, you can take it off and stuff it in a coat pocket for a quick dress down.
You may not be a fashion model, but follow these simple fashion rules and you will not fail. You will look sharp and, in turn, you will feel that, my friend, is the point. Look better, feel better.


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I recently inherited the job (ok, I offered) of scanning some old photos that were given to the local genealogy society. They are photos of people from here and the thought was that if we displayed them on the blog, we might be able to find the rightful owners of these treasured heirlooms. So, I set to work. In less than 5 minutes, I had scanned 12 photographs, both sides! It is so incredibly simple. Lift the lid, place the photo face down, push the button and seconds later, the photo is scanned. The display screen shows you where the scan is in terms of its progress.
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I love my new toy. And I wasn't paid or compensated in any way for sharing my enthusiasm. I just really love the device and wanted to spread the word about how simple it is to use. Not to mention how valuable it can be for someone who has loads of old photos or documents to scan.
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SECTION I—The Accounting Profession
Subject Author Volume-Page
The Arc of the Pacific: 1958-2000
Arthur B. Foye
58 — 25
The Accountant's Role in Our Rapidly
Changing Economy
Harold W. Scott
58 — 45
Speculation on California's Economic
Malcolm M. Devore
59 — 44
Accounting in the World Economy
Arthur B. Foye
59 — 40
Accounting—The Language
of Business and Finance
Maurice S. Newman
65 — 28
Continuing Adult Education for the
Public Accountant Elmer G. Beamer 57 — 9
What Can Be Done Currently to
Improve Educational Preparation for
Accounting Practice?
Thomas W. Hudson, Jr.
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Continuing Education: A Broad View
John W. Queenan
59 — 104
Excellence—The Goal of the Texas
Daniel M. Sheehan
Accounting Education in Review
Lawrence M. Walsh
59 — 115
The Co-operative System and
Education for Public Accountancy
Elmer G. Beamer
60 — 19
Furtherance of the Education of the
Accountant Who Has a Certificate
Curtis H. Cadenhead
60 — 31
The Common Body of Knowledge of CPAs
Elmer G. Beamer
61 — 31
The CPA Examination
Jerry W. Kolb
61 — 38
Accounting Education in a
Free Enterprise System
John W. Queenan
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WALTHAM, Mass.- The No. 7 Harvard men's
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On the women's side, Harvard earned all nine points in the foil, eight in the sabre and seven in the epee to down Air Force 24-3. The Crimson picked up eight points in the sabre and foil competitions and scooped up the crucial fifth point to win all three weapon competitions.
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Mona's recent article "Why Do They Hate Us" in Foreign Policy (complete with a picture of a nude woman painted in black paint representing niqab. Nice way of tackling already over riped stereotypes of Muslim women) has caused much furore and debate.
One of the major issues I have with the article is the often used argument of the Muslim women needing to be rescued by Western powers because they are just, upholders of law and virtue and generally more concerned with human welfare. Campaigns which encouraged and eventually led to to the Arab spring were effective because they were internally driven, not brought in guns blazing by the US or UK (who provided reluctant cheering as they most probably have their own agenda's to toppling the despots – they remain silent where they have no vested interests e.g. Bahrain) and the same principles can apply to changing discriminatory laws. It's this which should be emphasised, not pandering to the Western sentiments, already exhausted Orientalist notions and stereotypes of Arab women. Lauding a them vs us dichotomy can never be any good, regardless of the reasons behind it.
Much of the misogyny in the Arab world is also seen across other nations, such as South Asia – women from Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and other faith groups experience much of the same in terms of treatment and attitudes. This points to a patriarchial stronghold which prevent progressive laws – and its these patriarchial hierarchies within the various fields of law, health, social welfare and others which need to be eradicated. If the Arab people came together to topple their despot leaders, they can also work together to change the lives of their people for the better.
Sadly all Mona did in her article was flog a dead horse.
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By Lindsay Whitehurst
The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Fourteen families who live in a community once controlled by polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs could be evicted from their homes on the Utah-Arizona border in the coming weeks if they don't begin paying a $100-a-month fee to authorities appointed to oversee their property.
Eviction notices began going out about two weeks ago to people who have not paid the fee in the nine years since the state of Utah seized a trust that holds most of the land and houses in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, amid allegations of mismanagement by polygamous leaders.
"Our goal is not to evict anyone, it's just to get them to pay," said Jeffrey Shields, an attorney for the accountant appointed by the state to manage the trust. Residents can stop the eviction process by agreeing to pay the fee, he said, and two have already done so.
Many of those who live in the community are followers of Jeffs, who maintains control of the group despite serving a life sentence in a Texas prison for sexually assaulting underage girls he considered wives.
But not all of those who got eviction notices are part of the sect, trust employee Isaac Wyler said. He taped notices to doors of a handful of homes in Hildale. Chosen arbitrarily based on location, the homes represent only a few of those who collectively owe millions in back occupancy fees.
Some residents have refused to pay on the instructions of polygamous leaders, said resident Lorin Holm, a former member of Jeffs' group. Others who aren't part of the sect have said they don't pay because they don't have a say in how the trust is run.
Furthermore, the fee can rankle because some residents can trace their property back for generations and most built their homes.
"Everyone says, 'Why do we have to pay for our homes?'" Holm said. "I built my home, it's a million-dollar home, and now they want $100 a month?"
Residents at all the homes at risk of eviction have signed occupancy permits agreeing to pay the fee, though in some cases the person who signed no longer lives in the home.
The sect is known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which is a radical offshoot of mainstream Mormonism whose members believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven. Polygamy is a legacy of the early teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but the mainstream church and its 15 million members worldwide abandoned the practice in 1890 and strictly prohibit it.
A state judge ordered the eviction process to begin in June and has expressed frustration with residents.
"We have had a free-rider problem here for a long time," Judge Denise Lindberg said at a court hearing. "There needs to be action, or otherwise the law means nothing."
Combined unpaid occupancy fees totaled $4.18 million at the end of 2013, The Salt Lake Tribune reported earlier this year.
Lindberg said she wants to hand control of the trust to a board that will oversee the redistribution of about 750 homes but needs a revenue stream first.
Bruce Wisan, the accountant who manages the trust, said this month that he would start giving 26 homes back to people who agreed to pay an approximately $6,500 land-transfer fee for a 1-acre parcel.
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Too Cruel for School: The Rise of Bullying
Intimidation, harassment, threats, abuse. Bullying among students has reached epidemic proportions, and it's taking a heavy toll on our kids. Learn what's behind the surge and why parents must be part of the solution.
When Jill Jones sent her 10-year-old, Kacey, off to school in Lewisboro, New York, she knew it was a big day for her little girl. A reserved, self-conscious child, Kacey was wearing new white capri pants she'd insisted her mother buy. All went well until lunchtime, when the fifth-grader sat at a table with some popular girls. "Kacey knew them and liked them but didn't feel like she was in their inner circle," says Jill, 51. Things didn't go as Kacey had hoped. The girls were openly hostile; then, suddenly, one of them dumped ketchup on her lap. When Kacey, already thoroughly humiliated, jumped up and tried to wipe it off, the girls laughed and mocked her for "getting her period."
As soon as Kacey came home, recalls Jill, "I knew something was wrong, but she didn't want to talk about it." After a few probing questions, the whole story spilled out. "When I realized Kacey had been bullied, I was furious," says Jill, "Then I wondered if I was overreacting. But when I saw how traumatized Kacey was, I knew the incident had crossed the line." Jill realized she needed to take action. "I had to find the best way to intervene so it wouldn't happen again," she says.
School bullying has many parents worried, and not just those whose kids have been on the receiving end. A series of shocking incidents has garnered headlines and provoked outrage and soul-searching in communities across the country. In Columbus, Indiana, a 13-year-old was charged with felony intimidation after he held a knife against a fellow student's throat in a classroom while the teacher's back was turned. In Yorktown, Virginia, 16-year-old Christian Taylor took his own life shortly after his mother, Alise Williams, complained to high school officials that her son had suffered months of relentless bullying by classmates, including one student who she says told Christian to "just go ahead and commit suicide and get it over with." And in South Hadley, Massachusetts, 15-year-old Phoebe Prince hanged herself early this year after reportedly being tormented by classmates who called her "Irish whore" and "stupid slut" and sent cruel texts and messages—even after her death. Six teens are now facing charges in that case, ranging from harassment and stalking to violation of civil rights with bodily injury.
A Frightful Epidemic
Those cases have prompted parents and school officials to ask whether we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg, since bullying often takes place off the radar screen of grown-ups. While overall incidents of school violence, such as assault and theft, have declined in the last decade, bullying is on the rise. Just ask our kids. According to a 2009 federal survey of school crime and safety, 32 percent of middle and high school students said they'd been victimized during the academic year, compared with 14 percent in 2001. Among that group, 21 percent had been made fun of; 11 percent were pushed, tripped or spit on; and 6 percent were threatened.
But is any of that really worse than the verbal jabs, social slights and hard shoves today's parents endured while they were growing up? Most kids tease others and are teased from time to time; it's part of the harmless rough-and-tumble environment at all schools. Bullies, on the other hand, tend to target victims and subject them to repeated abuse. There is frequently a striking power imbalance between perpetrator and prey, whether it's a matter of age, size, academic achievement, popularity or economic status. This more virulent type of harassment has become all too common, according to experts. "The amount of bullying in schools is unprecedented," says Marlene Snyder, PhD, director of development at the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program at Clemson University in South Carolina. "The public is becoming aware of how serious it can be."
Indeed, researchers have found that kids are particularly sensitive to intimidation and emotional cruelty. It makes them feel more fearful and anxious than if they were the victims of theft or a physical attack. And the suffering goes far beyond momentary humiliation. They are more likely to be distracted from learning, get poorer grades and become victims of violent crime. "They feel powerless," says Snyder, "and lose faith in the ability of adults to help them."
Legislators are recognizing that schools and communities need help to deal more effectively with the problem. Last spring Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed a bill that requires teachers to report incidents of bullying, and principals to investigate them. Forty-three other states now have laws against bullying and student-to-student intimidation, whether it takes place in the classroom or hallway, or on the playing field. The Department of Education recently unveiled the Safe and Supportive Schools grants, a $27 million discretionary fund for states to use to create in-school programs to prevent harassment and violence. Parents also need to be part of the solution. Learn what the experts have to say about who's hurting whom, the reasons why, and the steps you can take to keep your kids safe from harm.
The New Bully on Campus
Peer abuse has always existed at school, but the kinds of kids who are harassing others have changed. The stereotype of yesteryear—a physically intimidating, low-achieving, socially maladjusted loner—no longer applies. Instead, bullies these days are, often as not, popular kids and academic achievers. "They are alpha girls and quarterbacks and not necessarily kids struggling to gain a social foothold," says Elizabeth Englander, director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State College, which runs anti-bullying programs in K-12 schools. Girls are slightly more likely than boys to act out against others—not physically, but by using tactics like alienation, ostracism and deliberate rumors calculated to inflict maximum psychological damage.
So what causes a student who is doing well to go out of his or her way to hurt another? For one, there's the momentary rush kids get from being perceived as dominant in a group situation. But research suggests that the growing frequency and intensity of bullying may be the result of a troubling decline in social skills among adolescents. In a 2009 study, researchers asked teachers whether they thought children's ability to get along with one another and resolve disputes had improved over the last decade, stayed about the same, declined slightly, or declined significantly. Their response was overwhelmingly negative: 75 percent of educators perceived a significant drop and 25 percent said they saw a slight decline.
Psychologists say that these changes may be connected to the way we're raising our kids. In the last 20 years opportunities for preschoolers and elementary school kids to engage in free play with other children have pretty much evaporated. Instead, parents relentlessly cram their kids' schedules with an array of adult-led academic and sports enrichment activities. While those certainly have their upside, unsupervised interaction teaches young kids impulse control and enhances emotional stability, which in turn helps them manage friendships and other relationships. "In our enthusiasm to make our children smarter and stronger, we've forgotten that they need time and opportunities to learn how to be competent social beings, which is every bit as important as knowing algebra and grammar," says Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a professor of psychology at Philadelphia's Temple University who has researched and written extensively on the social, cognitive and emotional growth that accompanies play. While there is no direct evidence to suggest that enrolling your kid in pee-wee soccer or conversational Mandarin will increase the likelihood that he'll turn out to be a bully, research indicates that free play—and plenty of it—does indeed enhance skills needed to avoid the aggressor/victim dynamic.
Technology is short-changing our kids as well. According to a 2010 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, children between the ages of 8 and 18 now spend about 7.5 hours a day tethered to smart phones, laptops or other devices, up from about 6 hours in 2005. And that doesn't include the 1 1/2 hours they spend texting or talking. It adds up to 63 hours of media every week—and it comes at a price, says Gary Small, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind (Harper). "The time young people spend engaged with technology is time not spent playing on the playground, or learning verbal cues and face-to-face skills, like maintaining eye contact," he says. "Those are all things that could help reduce the surge in school bullying."
Turning the Tide
Like Jill Jones, parents across the nation are uncertain about how to deal with bullying. Experts say the worst thing adults can do is to ignore it. "There's a common—and very mistaken—belief that it's okay," says Julie Hertzog, director of the Bullying Prevention Project at Pacer, a Minneapolis-based organization for children with disabilities. "Adults say things like, 'It's a normal part of childhood' or 'Boys will be boys,' but that's just plain wrong. And it's not only the targets who suffer. Kids who witness bullying are uncomfortable as well. They often want to help but don't know how to—and fear they could be next."
But as teachers and administrators can tell you, creating a safe environment for students isn't easy. One of the oldest and most respected bullying prevention programs used by K-12 schools across the country is Olweus, which focuses on improving peer relations by identifying and dismantling the group interaction that gives rise to abuse. Research has found that when onlookers provide an audience for bullying by standing around, watching or laughing, they unwittingly encourage and prolong the behavior. The Olweus program, which includes teacher training and community outreach, tries to curb bullying by discouraging "hangers on" from participating. "We help kids recognize that when there is an incident everyone who is involved—or even aware of it—plays a role," says Marlene Snyder of Olweus, who conducts training sessions for teachers to help kids stop bullying as it happens. "Some kids are disengaged onlookers, others know better but enjoy watching, and some egg the bully on. We teach them that the best way to defend others is not to give your power to someone who wants to harm others." Olweus, which costs about $1,500, is paid for by school districts, parent groups, federal grants or private foundations. Many consider it a worthy investment, including schools in California and Virginia, which saw an average 15 percent decrease in bullying after one year.
But even the best of such programs are no silver bullet. In a study published this year, longtime bullying researchers Susan Swearer and Dorothy Espelage found that the most effective interventions are "whole school" approaches that include establishing rules and consequences for bullying, teacher involvement, conflict resolution strategies, classroom curriculum and individual social skills training. "All parts of the school should be brought into the conversation," says Swearer. "What's more, special attention and training must be given to some perpetrators to help them come up with socially acceptable ways of dealing with peers." But none of the programs she and Espelage studied really snuffed out abuse; while one-third of them improved kids' level of knowledge, attitude and perceptions about bullying, they did not reduce the number of incidents. Even more disheartening, some remedies—like the assembly-type program that encourages children to write down the names of aggressors and hand slips of papers to the teacher—can actually contribute to a climate of shaming and blaming that fosters bullying.
Some experts believe it takes even more of a village to curb cruelty and that students should participate in setting limits. Sam Chaltain, author of American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community (Rowman & Littlefield Education), believes that bullying is a sign that young people—even high-achieving ones—feel invisible, unconnected and unsure about how to act appropriately. "Like any democratic environment, a school community should have civic ground rules that govern personal behavior. That will help kids understand what is acceptable to say and do so they can become their own anti-bullying program."
Fortunately for Jill Jones, Kacey's elementary school made the right moves. "Her grade had already been organized into teams, so I called the teacher who was her team leader and related what had happened in the cafeteria," Jill says. "This man was not only an excellent instructor but also a supersensitive dad of four kids. He was outraged." The teacher called an emergency meeting of the team leaders, who met with each of the girls involved and laid down the law. They would be suspended if they picked on Kacey again, conspired against her in any way or were even caught talking about the incident. "Believe it or not, the bullies were duly chastened and never seemed to hold it against my daughter," says Jill. Kacey is now a thriving student with plenty of friends. "She's lucky because the teachers at her school embodied the social lessons that they were teaching," says Jill. In other words, they walked the talk. And that made all the difference.
When Push Comes to Shove
- Bullying starts in elementary school, peaks in middle school, then tapers off in high school.
- 79% of incidents take place in hallways, cafeterias and classrooms, 23% outdoors, 8% on school buses, and 4% someplace else.
- Emotional abuse is the most prevalent type of harassment, followed by pushing, shoving, tripping and spitting.
- Sixth-graders are the students most likely to sustain an injury from bullying. After that, the odds steadily decrease through 12th grade.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
Originally published in the October 1, 2010, issue of Family Circle magazine.


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Harangue Origin
- late Middle English: from Old French arenge, from medieval Latin harenga, perhaps of Germanic origin. The spelling was later altered to conform with French harangue (noun), haranguer (verb).
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Looking for a great book? Earlier this week, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award announced its 2013 shortlist.
The selection process for this award is unusual because it begins with libraries. Each year over one hundred public libraries from around the world each nominate up to three novels of "high literary merit" written in or translated into English--alas, this effort does not include Oakland Public Library. (It is worth noting that the list of countries represented by these libraries weighs heavily European, and so do the finalists.) The shortlist and the winner are then selected by a panel of judges which varies every year. This year's winner will be announced on Thursday, June 6.
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award was established in 1994 and first awarded in 1996. Past winners include Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann, Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, The Known World by Edward P. Jones, and My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk.
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by Andrew Miller
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by Haruki Murakami
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by Julie Otsuka
Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
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by Arthur Phillips
When their long-imprisoned con-artist father reaches the end of his life, Arthur and his twin sister become the owners of an undiscovered play by William Shakespeare that their father wants published, a final request that represents either a great literary gift or their father's last great heist.
by Karen Russell
The Bigtree children struggle to protect their Florida Everglades alligator-wrestling theme park from a sophisticated competitor after losing their parents.
From the Mouth of the Whale*
by Sjón
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The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty, and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn's horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret, and both books and men are burnt. Jonas Palmason, a poet and self-taught healer, has been condemned to exile for heretical conduct, having fallen foul of the local magistrate. Banished to a barren island, Jonas recalls his gift for curing "female maladies," his exorcism of a walking corpse on the remote Snjafjoll coast, the frenzied massacre of innocent Basque whalers at the hands of local villagers, and the deaths of three of his children.
The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am*
by Kjersti Skomsvold
Translated from the original Norwegian by Kerri A. Pierce
Mathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people. After a lifetime, her only real accomplishment is her longevity: everyone she reads about in the obituaries has died younger than she is now. Afraid that her life will be over before anyone knows that she lived, Mathea digs out her old wedding dress, bakes some sweet cakes, and heads out into the world--to make her mark. She buries a time capsule out in the yard. (It gets dug up to make room for a flagpole.) She wears her late husband's watch and hopes people will ask her for the time. (They never do.) Is it really possible for a woman to disappear so completely that the world won't notice her passing? The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am is a macabre twist on the notion that life "must be lived to the fullest."
Caesarion (Little Caesar)*
by Tommy Wieringa
Translated from the original Dutch by Sam Garrett
Pianist Ludwig, whose life was derailed when his artist father left his family when he was a boy, embarks on a journey around the world, while coping with the discovery of his mother's former career as a pornographic actress.
*Most of these finalists are available at Oakland Public Library and the rest can be borrowed through Link+. If you haven't tried Link+, you can read more about it here.
Posted on 4/12/2013 by Christy Thomas, Librarian, Main Library.


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In an essay in Foreign Affairs last spring, I wrote about the obstacles impeding the emergence of a more liberal polity in Egypt. Although popular demands for political change have intensified in the past decade, the prospects for reform remain dim.
Over the years, foreign observers have argued that Egyptians favor political change by parsing the statements and actions of Egyptian activists of all stripes: the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood, a small group of liberals, Nasserist holdovers, judges, bureaucrats, and labor protestors. But these observers have never been able to identify an actual pathway to political reform. In fact, Egypt's political order has produced a system that seems impervious to change. The Egyptian regime of President Hosni Mubarak has proven adaptable to both internal and external pressures, not brittle and vulnerable to political challenges.
In the last six weeks, however, two new developments have emerged with the potential to affect Egypt's political trajectory dramatically. In early March, Mubarak underwent an operation to remove either his gallbladder (according to the German hospital) or a benign tumor (as reported by the Egyptian press). He remained in intensive care for five days and continues to convalesce in Heidelberg University Hospital. Regardless of what ails him, Mubarak is now 81 years old, an age when people can die suddenly or never recover from seemingly routine illnesses or medical procedures. His extended stay in Germany has left many Egyptians wondering not only whether he will run for reelection in 2011 but who is actually running the country right now. Mubarak's illness has served to only intensify the decade-long national discussion of who will be his ultimate successor. Although the mechanics of the transition appear to have been determined, there remains uncertainty about precisely who will follow Mubarak. Much of the publicly available evidence, however, suggests that it will be his second son, Gamal Mubarak.
Perhaps more important was the return to Egypt in February of Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic
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The USA v. the FARC
Newly disclosed details about the US role in Colombia.
The Washington Post has a very interesting, and lengthy, piece on the role played by the US in helping the Colombians combat the FARC and ELN in the last decade: Covert action in Colombia.
First, some basic background.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (in Spanish the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC) are a guerrilla group that has been operating in Colombian since the early 1960s (and has its origins in the Colombian civil war of the 1940s and 50s known simply as La Violencia).* The FARC's stated goal for many decades has been social revolution, i.e., the utter change of social, economic, and political life in Colombia. On the one hand, they have not been successful in that goal (nor will they ever be), but on the other, they have been able to persist over a lengthy amount of time as a serious thorn in the side of the Colombian state. The FARC was once only one of numerous such groups operating in Colombia over the decades, although it has long been one of the more prominent. Currently it is only one of two prominent groups in operation–the other being the National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional, or ELN).
The FARC has also long been funded by the cocaine trade. A decision was made in the early 1980s that, basically, if the gringos wanted to fund the revolution by spending literally tons of money to snort the white powder, the FARC were more than happy to oblige. The FARC also obtained a great deal of revenue from kidnapping. The group has had a history of attempted settlements with the government over the years, including a current peace process that is being negotiated in Havana. Past attempts were not especially successful. For example, an attempt to create a non-violent political party of the left, the Patriotic Union, for example, led to its members being systematically assassinated by right-wing paramilitary groups, which in turn has made the FARC suspicious of any attempt at entering civilian politics.** The UP was not, per se, an arm of the FARC, but the UP was an experiment, after a fashion, linked to the peace process in the sense that it was supposed to demonstrate a viable non-violent path for the left (which was linked to peace talks at the time). Additionally, an attempt in the late 1990s by President Andrés Pastrana to cede a Switzerland-sized demilitarized zone as a basis for negotiations eventually failed miserably.
The 1990s and the early 2000s were especially violent and difficulty times in Colombia. Here are some charts from my book, Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia that underscore the situation:
A couple of things to note in this graph. First, the spike in the 1940s and 1950s was La Violencia noted above. The upward trend from the mid-1970s that peaked in the early 1990s was driven heavily by the drug war (and especially the conflict between Pablo Escobar and the Colombian state). Drug violence and growth in right-wing paramilitaries (which really start to be a major player in 1980s) help maintain the violence once Escobar was gone (he was killed in 1993), as well as fuel the spike in the early 2000s. Colombia violence, it should be noted, is a complex mix of guerrillas, cartels, paramilitary groups, and the state. It is also worth noting that those categories are not always mutually exclusive.
Here's Colombia's murder rate in comparative perspective:
Some additional indicators can be found below:
The WaPo piece fills in some more recent figures, as well as providing some additional info:
Ok, enough background, on to what the WaPo piece reveals.
The article itself is quite through and it reveals two key pieces of information about US involvement that had not been previously public: the extent of US intelligence help in finding FARC and ELN leadership and the use of smart bomb technology to target those individuals:
The secret assistance, which also includes substantial eavesdropping help from the National Security Agency, is funded through a multibillion-dollar black budget. It is not a part of the public $9 billion package of mostly U.S. military aid called Plan Colombia, which began in 2000.
The previously undisclosed CIA program was authorized by President George W. Bush in the early 2000s and has continued under President Obama, according to U.S. military, intelligence and diplomatic officials. Most of those interviewed spoke on the condition of anonymity because the program is classified and ongoing.
The covert program in Colombia provides two essential services to the nation's battle against the FARC and a smaller insurgent group, the National Liberation Army (ELN): Real-time intelligence that allows Colombian forces to hunt down individual FARC leaders and, beginning in 2006, one particularly effective tool with which to kill them.
That weapon is a $30,000 GPS guidance kit that transforms a less-than-accurate 500-pound gravity bomb into a highly accurate smart bomb. Smart bombs, also called precision-guided munitions or PGMs, are capable of killing an individual in triple-canopy jungle if his exact location can be determined and geo-coordinates are programmed into the bomb's small computer brain.
It should be noted that US foreign aid to Colombia is not, in and of itself, news. Colombia has been for some time the third largest recipient of US foreign assistance behind Israel and Egypt. It was, if memory serves, moved to fifth place with the insertion of Iraq and Afghanistan into the mix. Regardless of specific rankings, the US has been spending a lot of money in Colombia for a rather long time (even if this is rarely commented upon in the US press—you would think we would, collectively, care more about the billions flowing southward than we do).
The usage of high-tech surveillance in Colombia by the US is not especially surprising, and ranks (to me) as not all that revelatory in the grand scheme of things. The US used high tech surveillance to aid the Colombians to track Pablo Escobar in the early 1990s,*** so it stands to reason that similar tactics would be used against the guerrillas—especially after US policy towards the insurgents shifted post-9/11. In the pre-War on Terror world, US policy was that aid was for fighting drugs, not guerrillas. However, after 9/11, US policy shifted, as underscored by the following statement from US Ambassador to Colombiam Anne Patterson (2000-2003): "the U.S. strategy is to give the Colombian government the tools to combat terrorism and narcotrafficking, two struggles that have become one. To fight against narcotrafficking and terrorism, it is necessary to attack all links of the chain simultaneously."****
Of course, it is worth noting that the FARC and ELN were already on the US list of official terrorist organizations and, as already noted, the FARC was already involved in the drug trade. On one level, therefore, the shift in US policy was rhetorical.
As the WaPo piece notes, a main catalyst for the shift was especially acute after the FARC kidnapped three US contractors (and killing another):
The new covert push against the FARC unofficially began on Feb. 13, 2003. That day a single-engine Cessna 208 crashed in rebel-held jungle. Nearby guerrillas executed the Colombian officer on board and one of four American contractors who were working on coca eradication. The three others were taken hostage.
The United States had already declared the FARC a terrorist organization for its indiscriminate killings and drug trafficking. Although the CIA had its hands full with Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush "leaned on [CIA director George] Tenet" to help find the three hostages, according to one former senior intelligence official involved in the discussions.
The FARC's terrorist designation made it easier to fund a black budget. "We got money from a lot of different pots," said one senior diplomat.
US actions should also be understood in the context of the Uribe administration in Colombia. Uribe came to office with a clear hardline against the guerrillas and as one of the most pro-US Colombian presidents ever (and keep in mind, US-Colombian have generally been amongst the best in the hemisphere over time).
The intriguing part of the story is the use of GPS guided bombs:
Locating FARC leaders proved easier than capturing or killing them. Some 60 times, Colombian forces had obtained or been given reliable information but failed to capture or kill anyone senior, according to two U.S. officials and a retired Colombian senior officer. The story was always the same. U.S.-provided Black Hawk helicopters would ferry Colombian troops into the jungle about six kilometers away from a camp. The men would creep through the dense foliage, but the camps were always empty by the time they arrived. Later they learned that the FARC had an early-warning system: rings of security miles from the camps.
By 2006, the dismal record attracted the attention of the U.S. Air Force's newly arrived mission chief. The colonel was perplexed. Why had the third-largest recipient of U.S. military assistance [behind Egypt and Israel] made so little progress?
"I'm thinking, 'What are we killing the FARC with?' " the colonel, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said in an interview.
The colonel said he told then-defense minister Santos about his idea and wrote a one-page paper on it for him to deliver to Uribe. Santos took the idea to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In June 2006, Uribe visited Bush at the White House. He mentioned the recent killing of al-Qaeda's chief in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. An F-16 had sent two 500-pound smart bombs into his hideout and killed him. He pressed for the same capability.
The piece goes on to describe the process of adapting the technology to be used by the Colombia air force.
The number of successful airstrikes after that point in time is quite remarkable:
The article also discussed use of human intelligence, specifically the use of deserters:
The CIA also trained Colombian interrogators to more effectively question thousands of FARC deserters, without the use of the "enhanced interrogation" techniques approved for use on al-Qaeda and later repudiated by Congress as abusive. The agency also created databases to keep track of the debriefings so they could be searched and cross-referenced to build a more complete picture of the organization.
The Colombian government paid deserters and allowed them to reintegrate into civil society. Some, in turn, offered valuable information about the FARC's chain of command, standard travel routes, camps, supply lines, drug and money sources. They helped make sense of the NSA's voice intercepts, which often used code words. Deserters also sometimes were used to infiltrate FARC camps to plant listening devices or beacons that emitted a GPS coordinate for smart bombs.
"We learned from the CIA," a top Colombian national security official said of the debriefing program. "Before, we didn't pay much attention to details."
There is more to the story, but this post is already extremely long. It is worth noting that the FARC has faced a number of setbacks in recent years, and many of them are clearly linked to these successful attacks (dating especially to the strike in Ecuador against Raul Reyes' camp, which is also discussed in the article). There is also little doubt that these setbacks have been a major reason for the current talks. It should be noted that the current president, Juan Manuel Santos, was Defense Minister during much of this period. Santos will be running for re-election in May. In addition to the attacks and tactics discussed here, it is worth noting that Uribe (2002-2006, 2006-2001) took a very aggressive approach to the guerrillas when he came to office in 2002 and also was able to demobilize some of the paramilitary groups. The shift in the managerial nexus of the cocaine trade to Mexican cartels has also contributed to changes in Colombia.
Regardless of anything else, the story also illustrates a variety of issues pertaining to US capabilities and the synergy between intelligence and military capabilities. It also provides insight into activities in the ongoing war against terrorists groups in other parts of the globe.
Note: all of the following are written for broad audiences (indeed, all were written by journalists if memory serves).
*One of the best book in English that I have seen on the FARC is Garry Leech's The FARC: The Longest Insurgency.
**For anyone interested, I would recommend both Steven Dudley's Walking Ghosts. Along these lines I would also recommend Robin Kirk's More Terrible than Death.
***A great read on the war against Escobar is Mark Bowden's Killing Pablo.
****I discussed the merger of the WoD and the WoT in an article for Stategic Insights back in 2005: "When Wars Collide: The War on Drugs and the Global War on Terror".


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The film is about summer adventures of the two 12-years old girls. The one of them has grown up in a big city, goes to ballet school and sings in the prestige chorus attached to the Philharmonic House. The chorus is getting ready for guest perfomances in France, but an incident has happened, such as she took part with her girl-mate who is held up to mockery and insults by the boys. She enters fearlessly the skirmish, wins a victory and leaves the tour deprived in result. As a punishment she is sent to the remote cape with the lighthouse where her mother's brother works. He is retired military and her mother hopes that Alina will be taught discipline. On her arrival it happens to be that her uncle is at the sea for a long time and Alina finds a long-awaited freedom at last.However in a while she becomes stale and here our new heroine appears. This is local girl, a fishman's daughter, grown up in that wild but wonderful place by the sea, shore rocks and of endless steppe. The film is about friendship, beauty of a human and nature,and their harmonious unity.


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My husband's family is very large and many of them are very Mormon. We didn't know how they were going to take the wedding. They chose to think of our wedding as a "pirate themed wedding". My mother-in-law got our nephews some pirate swords, and all the kids at the wedding had a lot of fun.
Our whole wedding party, including our Irreverent (who is a good friend and an honorary member of the party) had pirate swords. And one of our groomsmen wore an awesome pirate hat :D
I just asked my bridesmaids to try to wear something that matched with our wedding colors of red, black, and white for accents...I decided long ago that I didn't want to be the bride that makes people spend hundreds of dollars on a dress they'll never wear again. :)
We did our wedding on a budget. All the decorations were made or purchased by us, his family did the cooking, and our wedding was held in a very nice pavilion at a local park. Our fancy tiered wedding cake was very small, and we got sheet cakes form Costco for the guests. We provided three types of drinks for our guests: Water with lemon, water with limes, and plain water. Altogether, everyone agreed our wedding was very very nice :)
I'm using the "share with public" links from Facebook for these pix. If you can't see them, let me know and I'll upload them to Photobucket.
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Wedding party:
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My sword and sash on my wedding gown (some of the stuff from the sword rubbed off onto my dress but it came out after I had it cleaned):
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Guests and people:
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We served spaghetti and sauce to honor His Noodlyness:
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(we also had a delicious cheesy potato casserole that Mormons usually call Funeral Potatoes because that's where they're served most )
One of our sheet cakes for guests:
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Our centerpieces - pirate ships made of maps (which I got for free for being a AAA member), filled with chocolate gold coin booty:
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Our ceremony:
(processional ends)
(to the couple) Are ye ready to walk the plank together and thereby engage in legal matrimony?
Arrrrrgh, let us begin!
Dearly beloved Pirates, Wenches and fellow Pastafarians and assorted landlubbers. We be gathered here today to marry this here wench to her pirate.
Let us pray.
Hail Marinara,
Full of Spice,
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is filled with thee.
Tasty art thou amongst sauces,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy jar, tomatoes
(although fools believe they are vegetables).
Holy Marinara,
Chief Amongst Toppings,
Save a plate for us now,
and at about 6 o'clock when dinner is served, if you would be so kind.
Any Scurvy dog who has a problem with this here union should be saying Yarr right about now. Otherwise shut your noodle hole so we can get on with this and get to the part where we get wasted on rum.
Now both of ye say yarr where it concerns you, understood.
Do ye wench take this here pirate to be ye lawfully wedded pirate. To be liking a lot through the good stuff and the bad stuff, to be caring for him in the healthy times and the scurvy times, to be loving him during the times of great booty and the times without, to be having fun together while adventuring at sea and while home in port, and to be upholding the word of the great noodly gospel as long as ye both shall live?
(arrrrgh, I do)
And do ye pirate take this here wench to be your lawfully wedded wench. To be liking a lot through the good stuff and the bad stuff, to be caring for her in the healthy times and the sick times, to be loving her during the times of great booty and the times without, to be having fun together while adventuring at sea and while home in port, and to be upholding the word of the great noodly gospel as long as ye both shall live?
(arrrrgh, I do)
Ye may now exchange the rings, which are shaped in the unending circle of his great noodly appendages.
And now, by the power vested in me by the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the State of Utah, I pronounce you pirate and wench, husband and wife!
Ye may kiss the wench.
May I introduce ye all to the new Mr. and Mrs. -------------!
(applause and such; recessional)
I will be uploading the video when I can - I have to do it when no one's home or everyone's asleep because otherwise people complain about me using all our bandwidth :lol


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Stormwater Management - Maintenance
The following work needs to be performed on a regular basis unless there is a specific maintenance plan for the facility.
Debris Removal
- Debris consisting of leaves, dead vegetation, branches, paper, trash, and other materials that may accumulate within the stormwater area must be removed regularly.
- Accumulation usually occurs at the outlet structure, low flow channels, and the inlet and outfall sites.
- The debris must be disposed of in an appropriate location but never within the vicinity of the stormwater management facility.
Erosion, Animal Burrows, & Woody Vegetation
- All eroded areas and animal burrows must be filled, compacted, and stabilized with reinforced erosion control products or turf reinforcing mats, reseeded, and replanted.
- Woody vegetation should be removed from all slopes and embankments.
Grass Mowing and Trimming
- To minimize erosion, grass within the stormwater area that is not under water shall be mowed and trimmed to a minimum height of three inches and a maximum height of eight inches.
- Clippings shall be either disposed of in an appropriate location or reduced to fine mulch and distributed over the grassed area. Disposal cannot be within the vicinity of the stormwater management facility.
- A 10-foot-wide access path must be maintained around the perimeter of the facility and to all structural components such as inlets, outfalls, and outlet structures.
- All stormwater management facilities must be inspected by the maintenance organization in the spring and fall of every year and after heavy rainfall in excess of two inches.
Maintenance Log
- A stormwater management facility inspection and maintenance log must be maintained by the maintenance organization.
Minor Sediment Removal
- The outlet structure, low flow channels, and headwall aprons must be kept clear of sediment at all times.
- If a forebay is provided, sediment should not accumulate in more than half of the structure.
- All sediment collected from the stormwater management facility area shall be disposed of in an appropriate location, but never within the vicinity of the stormwater management facility.
Organization Annual Registration
- The maintenance organization must register every year with the Department of Special Services.
- New Castle County Code Section 40.27.620 provides that maintenance organizations not registered with the Department of Special Services shall not be eligible for New Castle County financial assistance with major work of stormwater management facility clean-out and replacement of structural components.
- New Castle County Code also provides that the county will be responsible for major maintenance only if the maintenance organization has performed all required minor maintenance.
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Fra: J. H. Drummund Hay Til: H.C. Andersen
Sprog: engelsk.
Tangier 22 Nov. 62.
My dear Mr. Andersen,
As Lady Hay is a little indisposed she has deputed me to reply to your welcome letter from Seville. - We were very much pleased to hear of your progress through Spain and were delighted to learn that you could look back without regret to your short visit to this Barbarous land. - We are your debtors for having afforded us all so much pleasure and we shall often recall the memorable visit of the Danish Poet. - I hope you arrived in good health at Madrid, though I fear you will find the Spanish capital a cold residence in this season. Our wet weather has at last set in.
My sister Mrs. Norderling and her daughter arrived by the same vessel in which you departed. - This has lessened a little the dulness of our life here. - We lately received letters from Denmark in which much enquiry was made about you. - The papers announce the arrival of the Princess Alexandra in England and there are long accounts of her beauty and character. Her virtues appear to excel even her comeliness - and all my countrymen unite in welcoming the Dane.
My wife requests you to tell Mr. Collin that she was about to write to say the net could not be found when his second letter arrived. I hope he has made a good collection of reptiles in traversing Spain. If he ever thinks of revisiting Africa he will always be a welcome guest here. - We all unite in kindest regards to yourself and Mr. Collin. I have read your interesting tales and the children have devoured them. Believe me,
Yours very sincerely,
John H. Drummond Hay