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Uganda: History Of War And Deception
The Uganda government and the international community have been very central in telling a twisted version of history of Uganda so much to the extent that people are made to think that the LRA have been the major cause of this conflict.
[Uganda Commentary: A Personal Account]
A glimpse of hope and relative peace has prevailed in northern Uganda for the last two years since rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) declared a ceasefire in an agreement with the government.
The guns had roared for over 22 years since 1986 when Yoweri Museveni took over power from the late Gen. Tito Okello Lutwa, leader of the military government that unsuccessfully offered Yoweri Museveni an olive branch for peace in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985.
Northern Uganda has never been peaceful and has never been the same ever since. Today, in the wake of the stalemate in the peace talks between government and rebels, the Uganda government is bracing for more war with the LRA rebels, a war they have all fought without winning.
Many people have been made to believe that the war in northern Uganda started with Joseph Kony's LRA. The Uganda government and the international community have been very central in telling a twisted version of history of Uganda so much to the extent that people are made to think that the LRA have been the major cause of this conflict.
You need to understand the historical contexts as to why and how the conflict started. It must be understood that when Museveni's National Resistance Army (NRA) which was also composed of child soldiers commonly known in Uganda as kadogos, took over power, they employed a revenge policy toward the defeated Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) in Acholi, Teso and West Nile regions.
They started arresting the former officers, jailing them, killing them and in many cases, looting their properties and attacking their families. In many cases these former soldiers and members of their families were taken to Luzira Prison in Kampala and others were taken to Kigumba and Kiburara to toil in farms. Hundreds of these inmates died in these detention centers and they were not given fair trial.
It was from these fears for revenge that the remaining former soldiers decided to reorganize, arm themselves and start defending against the atrocious attacks. The first group to form was the Uganda People's Democratic Army (UPDA), a disciplined army that had peaceful co-existence with the local people and in many ways, defended the locals from being attacked by Ugandan troops as well as cattle rustlers from Karamoja.
Once the war started, another group also emerged in Teso known as the Uganda People's Army (UPA), the ranks of which were also mostly former soldiers who were being persecuted by NRA.
Although these two rebel groups reached would-be peaceful settlements with the government, most of their leaders and commanders were later jailed, or mysteriously disappeared while others were killed. Many other rebels groups also emerged in West Nile, Central and even Western regions of Uganda.
Meanwhile, the new government continued to persecute anyone who was part of or is alleged to have been part of the previous government. By 1987, the regime had extended this persecution to the locals especially in Acholi where NRA commenced what they called "Operation North," "Operation Mobile" and so many other campaigns.
This was a scorched-earth policy by the NRA in which fighters were ordered to kill anything that walks. Adults, babies, goats, and chicken were killed; banana trees and houses were burned down; bridges were destroyed; and human waste was dumped into drinking water to poison water wells.
At the time, I was a young boy in Alero, one of the villages that experienced the worst atrocities. I remember one quiet and peaceful afternoon in 1987 that was interrupted with gunshots and immediately, the entire village was surrounded.
I ran desperately and escaped barely with my life, with bruises all over my body and foot. Unfortunately, my grandmother, a cousin, a brother, my mother and countless others were not so lucky. They were killed; some relatives were burnt alive in the houses.
My mother was one of the few survivors; she had been shot across the face, cut with machetes on the back and other parts of her body. For some unexplained reason, she survived the carnage.
When I ran back to see what had happened five hours later, I found her writhing on the ground. Another villager who survived came and found me trying to save my mother. We wrapped up her wounds and carried her into the woods where we started to nurse her.
The next day, we returned and buried the dead. My mother was paralyzed for the rest of her life. She only died earlier this year in Gulu.
Of course my mother's tormentors and the killers of the countless villagers have never been arrested. The Uganda government has never addressed the incident and the so-called International Criminal Court (ICC) will never hear of this atrocity.
While this plunder, killings and destruction were going on, another rebel group emerged named the Holy Spirit Movement, under Alice Lakwena, a woman who claimed she had mystical and spiritual powers.
Lakwena's was a formidable force that threatened to take over the government. She was eventually defeated in Iganga. After her defeat, Kony appeared on the scene, a man who also claimed mystical and spiritual powers.
Kony's armies have expanded in number, changed its identities and even its names. They have been the longest headache to the government of Museveni since 1987. The group was formally known as the Holy Spirit and later changed its name to the LRA.
There have been many attempts to talk peace with the LRA going way back into the 1990s. Most of the attempts failed. The main reasons for these failures have been because the Ugandan government has always pressed to continue fighting instead of talking peace.
Also, individuals involved in coordinating peace talks, especially those with interests or connection with Uganda have had the motive to grab money, become famous, while sometimes wrecking the peace process. Those who want to have the peace talks drag on see them as a lucrative source of revenue.
Every time peace efforts have failed with the LRA, the Uganda movement and its backers around the world look for someone to blame. Traditionally, they would blame local Acholi people in the villages and their leaders.
Now that the LRA rebels have relocated into Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the blame has been switched to Acholi who live in the Diaspora; mostly in USA, Canada, UK, and other Western European countries.
The most recent case of accusation of the Acholi Diaspora has been orchestrated by Uganda government agents. The Resident District Commissioner for Gulu, retired Col. Walter Ochora, who himself was once a rebel leader in the UPDA and later served with the Uganda army, went on local FM radio station and declared that Obonyo Olweny, Joshua Otukene, Alex Oloya, Col. Wilson Owiny Omoya, Dr. Ocan Otim, and Peter Oola as "spoilers" of the peace process.
Ironically, some of these mentioned individuals have been the ones promoting the peace process around the world. Now they are accusing them of destroying the very things they are working hard for?
Many people inside Uganda and even within the international community and donors had high hopes that finally this war would come to an end. It almost did and it still might. The Final Peace Agreement (FPA) was supposed to be signed in April 2008 but Kony refused to sign it, claiming he did not agree with some of the components.
The outstanding disagreement was on the question of the International Criminal Court, which has indicted the top leadership of the LRA, including Kony. Ironically, the Uganda army has also been accused of committing the same crimes in and outside Uganda.
The LRA have suggested the way forward now that Juba has not yielded the fruits that many have been waiting for. Even Vice President of Southern Sudan, Dr. Riek Machar has called upon the Ugandan government, LRA rebels and the international community not to give up on the peace process.
Dr. Machar wants the peace talks to continue and has condemned intentions of the Uganda government to declare renewed war. The LRA on the other hand has suggested a start on a Juba II peace process to continue with what Juba I has accomplished so far.
The door to the peace talks should be left open. Uganda government and the international community have to be patient with the process. It took South Africa, Northern Ireland decades to achieve peace; Israel is still searching. Why are we in such a hurry to call it quits in Uganda?
The donor community and backers of both the LRA and the Uganda government have to learn to be patient; stop being greedy, and focus on a better future for Ugandans.
The author may be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com or on his blog at www.peterokema.com
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And so, as with all good things, my journey through the bible has come to an end*. I set out on 1st January 2011 to follow a reading plan and work through the whole bible in a year. Okay so there appear to have been a few days when I didn't manage it but there were good reasons, being unwell, being too busy or away and being not-bothered to name a few. However I have now reached the end. I have also written mini book reviews of each book of the bible along the way. I tried to review them in the light of what they were about and how they read, in other words to be quite subjective. I didn't write any theology along the way… well I may have lapsed once or thirty odd times. I haven't checked but I think I managed to write something about every book, so not bad going.
As I read through the whole bible I did have one or two thoughts that I will share. The first is how much emphasis my own religious tradition puts on certain passages above others. I suppose this is only natural but you can see where over the years the church and its various incarnations and denominations have chosen one passage to have significant importance above others. The whole faith verses works issue is one that springs immediately to mind.
In a similar vein is how some people take some passages literally and others not. This is quite difficult and people far more cleverer than I spend time mulling this over. The problem, in my humble opinion, is when people far less cleverer than them decide what verses they will or will not take literally.
Finally, and this did make me think quite a lot about how I live each day. There is far, far more in the bible about how we should live our lives full of justice, mercy and love to one another than getting into heaven. I don't want to make light of the eternal nature of the bible, but it does put a much bigger emphasis on how we live now, than how we will live one day.
Ever onwards
I'll probably return to some of the issues that I have mentioned above, but not for a little while. I thank you for sharing this journey with me. I decided to create these posts to make myself accountable, so dear reader, thank you for keeping me to account.
If you want to see all the posts they are tagged 'bible in a year' so you can browse through them at your leisure.


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Delays were so bad that developers bid for a place in the queue in the very early stages of planning a project. Grid problems led to curtailment and wasted wind power. In Texas, the most severely affected state out of six studied by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 17.1% (3,872GWh) of wind was curtailed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot), which operates 75% of the state's grid.
But since then, enough lines have been added - or are planned - to enable US grid to cope. By early 2013, the interconnection backlog had fallen to 136GW, says AWEA's annual report, published in April.
Similarly, Ercot's wind curtailment is expected to have dwindled to almost nothing by the end of 2013, says Michael Goggin, AWEA's transmission expert. And by 2020, planned onshore transmission projects could carry an additional 70GW of wind, AWEA estimates.
"I would say that we're doing fairly well," Michael Skelly, president of transmission-line developer Clean Line Energy Partners, says about the state of US wind-friendly transmission. "We've been proving out the thesis that the US can actually build transmission projects around renewables." Clean Line is developing four long-distance high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) lines, each of which will "uncork" transmission for 3.5GW of wind power by around 2018.
What is not yet clear is how easily transmission policy will allow the next generation of wind expansion. "Until we deal with the base problem - the incumbent utilities using transmission to protect the equity in their own high-cost generation - it's going to be tough," says Ron Lehr, former chair and commissioner of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. Lehr works with the Western Grid Group, which is trying to secure transmission for wind power in the US West.
The US grid comprises around 322,000 kilometres of high-voltage transmission lines and was designed for utility-owned fossil-fuel plants, which are not as location-constrained and dependent on interstate transmission as wind. Typically, the grid was constructed by local utilities, although independent transmission companies have proliferated more recently. Most of the grid, however, is more than 25 years old and predates America's surge in wind capacity.
Still, as the transmission market has become more competitive, the rate of building new capacity covering greater distance has increased. In the past five years, this rate has accelerated by 230% says the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), which oversees grid reliability. Current plans suggest the rate will increase by another 64% over the next five years. NERC further estimates that almost a quarter of new transmission is specifically linked to the integration of renewables generation.
Regional initiatives
Also important to the surge in transmission are the policies of three key regional transmission organisations - Texas' Ercot, the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (Miso), and the Southwest Power Pool (SPP). Each allows for regional planning and wider sharing of costs.
Ercot has introduced a system of competitive renewable energy zones, which streamline major wind-friendly transmission lines and allocate costs across Texas. Some $7 billion of projects to be completed by year-end will be able to transmit 18.5GW of wind from the windy parts of the state in the west and the Panhandle to its cities and industrial centres.
Miso's multi-value projects (MVPs) were likewise established to ease transmission's planning, financing and building. The region includes most of the Upper Midwest, a hotbed of wind development. By 2020, MVPs could carry 14GW of wind, says AWEA. Within Miso, the CapX2020 transmission programme - a smaller MVP-style project - could connect an additional 5GW of wind by the end of 2013.
SPP's region includes another wind development hotspot: Kansas and Oklahoma. SPP's priority transmission projects could unlock 3.2GW of wind projects by 2017.
A second broad improvement, which has helped reduce interconnection times, is a reform of the queuing systems, says AWEA's Goggin. In the areas covered by Miso and SPP, as well as in California, a project can now keep its place in the queue for connection even if it reduces its size.
Bottlenecks remain
However, transmission bottlenecks still exist, and they can occasionally lead to negative pricing, when power generators sell power for less than $0. The two worst bottlenecks for wind power are currently for transmitting eastwards from the western part of Miso's range, and eastwards from west Texas.
Another area known for congestion is New York state, which has significant wind curtailment due to constraints moving power from the north to the heavily populated south.
In the longer-term, it will still be policy, rather than technical or economic barriers, that will hamper the building of more wind-friendly transmission. More specifically, policies for siting, planning and cost allocation should be improved, say experts. AWEA argues that the siting issue would be eased if the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Ferc) had the sort of exclusive siting authority it has over interstate natural gas pipelines, which allows Ferc to intervene if one state is dithering over approving a gasline, says AWEA.
Cost allocation
Another fundamental issue is how to split the cost of transmission lines. "The next generation of transmission lines will not happen if we do not have good cost-allocation policies," says AWEA's Goggins.
Cost allocation and planning are addressed in Ferc's ground-breaking Order No. 1000, which could lead to the biggest transformation of the grid in decades. The order was issued in July 2011 and proposes requiring transmission operators to plan regionally, usually at the multi-state level, and to allocate project costs to the beneficiaries regardless of their location.
Strict enforcement of Order 1000's requirement for cost allocation would alleviate the "chicken and egg" dilemma of whether project or grid investment comes first, and also the problem of a pioneering power plant having to shoulder all of the needed grid upgrades, which can cost millions of dollars and then benefit the pioneer's competitors.
Last year, transmission operators had to state how they were planning to comply with the order. But two of the transmission operators with the most planned wind projects could scupper the aim of Order 1000. Miso and PJM Interconnection - which covers Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey - suggested that individual states should have more say in allocating cost.
Transmission lines will not be built if any one state has the power to veto, AWEA argues. But Ferc accepted Miso and PJM's proposals in March. While AWEA's Goggins says that adoption of any part of Order 1000 is a step forward, he adds: "It's just not as much as we would have liked."
Ferc is expected to rule on other compliance filings over the next few months. Then it will become clearer how easy it will be to build the grid needed for the government's goal of 20% of theUS's electricity to come from wind by 2030.


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From what Nissan would like us to believe, the Altima Coupe will not be missed. It's done after 2013, likely because no one bought it. Which is odd, because I keep seeing them everywhere.
Something tells me that even though Nissan didn't really release sales figures for the Altima Coupe since it went on sale for 2008, they were primarily sold to men in Southern California. It's like every time I think I haven't seen an Altima Coupe in a while, one speeds right past me. They're actually everywhere, which you might think is unusual for a car being outright killed by its maker. I used to think they were driven exclusively by men in their 20s living in San Diego, but it turns out they're driven by men of all ages living in California – and not in any other state, apparently.
But then this is the case for a lot of cars that only attract buyers in certain cities and then nowhere else.
Photo: Volkswagen
The Volkswagen Touareg is a seriously unpopular car from what is considered to be a mainstream manufacturer. VW shifted just 705 of them last month, just 5,638 so far this year and 10,553 for all of 2012. For the record, Porsche has moved 12,517 Cayennes so far this year. And yet every time I hit up the local Target or Trader Joe's there's a new-shape Touareg.
Photo: Nissan
And to pick on Nissan again, what about the newest Sentra? More than 12,000 of them were sold in August alone, and more than 90,000 so far this year. And yet, after driving all over California this year, I've seen just a handful of them. Are they so bland to look at that they're just blending into concrete barriers?
So what are the cars that are everywhere in your daily travels that apparently Americans just don't buy? Of course, if you say you see Cadillac CTS wagons everywhere and you live near the plant we shouldn't have to spell out why they're so common in your neighborhood.


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Suzanne Kasler gives an Atlanta dad and his Buckhead home a fresh start with a redesign rooted in tradition yet young enough for three girls
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Moving day jitters stood no chance of getting in Steve Fallon's head, let alone taking up residence. Yes, the Atlanta entrepreneur had just bought a 12-year-old Buckhead house that was a bit dated, a bit dark—not quite the place that teen and twentysomething daughters Darby, Ellie, and Grayson might consider prime real estate. But Steve wasn't worried. He had a couple of trusted friends—designer Suzanne Kasler and architect Rick Spitzmiller—along for the journey.
Gracious new dormers and a slate roof imbue the house with the Country French style that Steve loves.
Photography: Emily Jenkins Followill
Produced by Lisa Mowry
Architect: Spitzmiller & Norris, 349 Peachtree Hills Ave. N.E., Suite C-5, Atlanta, GA 30305; 404/812-0224, spitzmillerandnorris.com.
Interior designer: Suzanne Kasler, 425 Peachtree Hills Ave., Suite 21B, Atlanta, GA 30305; 404/355-1035, suzannekasler.com.
Entry Hall
"The house had great bones, but it needed to be rethought for the Fallons' tastes and the way they live," Spitzmiller says. That meant a more open, sociable floor plan, along with architectural upgrades such as coffered and beamed ceilings, paneled walls, and character-rich moldings.
Wall, ceiling, and trim paint ("Linen White" #OC-146): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Chandelier ("Courcelles"/Giltwood #CL0052.GI): Vaughan, vaughandesigns.com.
Area rug (Turkish): antique.
Leather chair: Jerry Pair, jerrypair.com.
Console table ("Dalmore Console" #142, by Macrae Designs): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Art (Halien landscapes in handpainted frames): Fred Reed Picture Framing, fredreedframes.com.
Stair Hall
"In doing a renovation, we look for the weak points," Spitzmiller says. "The entry, for instance, didn't have visual cues to give it architectural scale or make it welcoming." New moldings now match the sophistication of a grand curved staircase and set the stage for Kasler, famed for her elegant interiors, to ply her considerable talents.
"My design is all about the architecture," she says. "I simplified the whole-house palette to make it more architectural."
Wall, trim, and ceiling paint ("Linen White" #OC-146): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Flooring: white oak, stained.
Sisal area rug ("Pecola"/Seagrass): Stark, starkcarpet.com.
Hanging light ("Glass Bell Jar Lantern" #F-LN16): Formations, formationsusa.com.
Armchair ("Campagne Armchair" #DL-CH41): Dennis & Leen, dennisandleen.com.
Wall sconces by door ("Cardiff Sconce"/small #8037): Gregorius/Pineo, gregoriuspineo.com.
Lamp on credenza ("Feather Lamp," discontinued): Baker, bakerfurniture.com.
Planter on credenza ("Roman Planter" #F-PL06): Formations, formationsusa.com.
Mirror behind credenza ("Brass Mirror with Rivets"): Antonio Crespo, Loft Antiques, antoniojcrespo.com.
Carpet on stairs ("Pecola"/Seagrass): Stark, starkcarpet.com.
Credenza at end of hall (19th century, French); side chair: owner's collection.
Skirted Table
As a foundation, she coated many of the home's walls in Benjamin Moore's "Linen White." "I went with a soft white to blend with the architecture and provide a really pretty background," Kasler says. "I love a neutral background with accents of color."
A big skirted table is designer Suzanne Kasler's trick to bring pretty fabric into a room that has French doors—and no draperies.
Table: custom.
Table lamp: Joseph Konrad, josephkonrad.com.
Chair ("Campagne Armchair" #DL-CH41): Dennis & Leen, dennisandleen.com.
Elegant Living Room
That's evident in the living room, where a calm canvas allows the details of the coffered ceiling and expansive arched window to shine. "There was no way to drape the window and no need to drape it," Kasler says. "I like it as a feature in the room." She had the wood muntins painted black to look like steel, giving the classic space a contemporary edge.
Pretty Space
To complement the size of the room, the designer scaled up furnishings as she catered to comfort. "I wanted the casual elegance appropriate for a city house," she says. "It's loungy and comfortable, a great room to hang out in."
The primarily new pieces mingle with Steve's antiques, all dark-stained wood furniture that grounds rooms without defining them. "We wanted a foundation of traditional, but lighter and younger—not overdecorated," Kasler says.
"The goal was a beautiful home for a young family—chic-looking but easy to live in," Kasler says. In this hangout spot, a TV hides in the antique armoire, and a traditional chandelier contrasts with contemporary art by Heidi Berrin Shonkoff.
Wall and trim paint ("Elephant Tusk" #OC-8): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Chandelier ("Eternity Chandelier" #2099); mirror over mantel ("Bramble Mirror" #5039): Paul Ferrante, paulferrante.com.
Sisal rug: Stark, starkcarpet.com.
Pair of sofas (discontinued): Verellen, verellen.biz.
Seat cushion on wing chair ("Canvas Cloth" #2121/01, colorway discontinued); aqua pillows on sofa (discontinued): Rose Tarlow-Melrose House, rosetarlow.com.
Beige patterned pillows on sofa; pair of white urns on console: Erika Reade, erikareade.com.
Throw on sofa ("Bamboo Throw"/Spa #123): B.D. Jeffries, bdjeffries.com.
Coffee table ("Tavolino Wood & Iron Coffee Table" #F-TB04); hurricanes on coffee table ("Hanging Hurricane" #F-AC49); spheres on coffee table ("French Cannon Ball" #F-AC31); wing chair by mantel ("Wooden Barrel Chair" #F-CH02): Formations, formationsusa.com.
Vase on mantel (product line varies): Bungalow Classic, bungalowclassic.com.
Andirons ("St. Pierre Andirons"): Jerry Pair, jerrypair.com.
Console table at window ("Large Console Table"/oak): Holland & Co., hollandandcompany.com.
Lamps on console (green temple lamp with gold base): Joseph Konrad, josephkonrad.com.
Slipper chair ("Madeleine Slipper Chair" #1518-23 by Suzanne Kasler): Hickory Chair, hickorychair.com.
Slipper-chair and drapery fabric ("Timur"/Sage, #JW 7209, by Jasper): Michael S Smith Inc., michaelsmithinc.com.
Side table by slipper chair (product line varies): Mrs. Howard, mrshoward.com.
Artwork to right of window (Rubato, by Heidi Berrin Shonkoff); artwork to left of window (Simple Garments, by Heidi Berrin Shonkoff): Pryor Fine Art, pryorfineart.com.
Vase holding plant on side table; armoire: owner's collection.
Artfully Arranged
In tune with that fresh vibe, she layered in subtle color with pillows, throws, and art. "It's the perfect way to get color while keeping a room tailored and low-key," she says.
Above the mantel of the living room fireplace, the branch motif of a convex mirror by Paul Ferrante nods to views of nature just outside.
Lovely Dining Room
Color crescendoes in the dining room, where Kasler sheathed walls in a sage hue that shows off the fluted crown molding and mirror-front china cabinets Spitzmiller designed. "Together with Suzanne's touch of color, they make the room sparkle," the architect says.
A stained-wood Regency table, its curves echoed by svelte armless chairs, puts classicism at the center of the formal dining space. Walls in Farrow & Ball "Blue Gray" mesh with silk taffeta draperies in Schumacher fabric.
Wall and ceiling paint ("Blue Gray" #91): Farrow & Ball, farrow-ball.com.
Trim paint ("Linen White" #OC-146): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Area rug (Turkish Oushak): Moattar, moattar.com.
Table ("Regency Pedestal Dining Table"); dining chairs ("Pella Upholstered Side Chair"): Holland & Co., hollandandcompany.com.
Dining-chair fabric ("Jolie Velvet" #34781-14): Clarence House, clarencehouse.com.
Dining-chair trim ("1-inch Sabine Border"/Ivory #977-56043-13): Samuel & Sons, samuelandsons.com.
White vases on table (product line varies): Erika Reade, erikareade.com.
Drapery ("Anniston Silk Taffeta"/Mineral, colorway discontinued): Schumacher, fschumacher.com.
Drapery trim (#302505-847): Janet Yonaty, janetyonaty.com.
Landscape artwork seen in mirrored door (by Charlotte Terrell): Pryor Fine Art, pryorfineart.com.
Chandelier (19th century, French); leather chair by window (Paris flea market): owner's collection.
Sparkle & Shine
He also designed both mirrored and glass-front cabinetry for the kitchen, which serves as the hub of the home. "It's where we love to gather," Steve says.
A mix of styles on cabinet fronts dials up the interest.
Spacious Kitchen
To provide plenty of room for family, friends, and moments of shared culinary creativity, Spitzmiller annexed adjacent square footage to nearly double the size of the original kitchen. "Now it's wider, more functional, and a whole lot prettier," he says.
Activity in the airy, casual space revolves around a center island with comfortable bar stool seating. Calacatta marble tops counters in the U-shape work zone and also serves as a luxe backsplash.
Classic cabinetry pairs with rustic beams and hammered-metal pendants by Edgar-Reeves.
Cabinetry (custom): Spitzmiller & Norris, spitzmillerandnorris.com.
Cabinetry hardware: Matthew Quinn Collection, matthewquinncollection.com.
Marble countertop and backsplash: Calacatta Gold.
Sink (Allia collection): Rohl, rohlhome.com.
Bridge faucet ("Kitchen Faucet with Sidespray, Lever Handles" #P23051, For Town by Michael S Smith): Kallista, kallista.com.
Window shades ("Dupont"/Moonstone Blue #1005-04): Kerry Joyce, kerryjoyce.com.
Trim: slubby linen.
Hanging lights over island ("Hand--Hammered Hanging Metal Shade"): Edgar-Reeves Lighting & Antiques, edgar-reeves.com.
Slipcovered bar stools ("Campaign Counter Stool" #5206-51): Lee Industries, leeindustries.com.
Range: Wolf, subzero-wolf.com.
Breakfast Room
A fireplace warms the breakfast room where a cottage table and Windsor chairs invite casual dining.
Ceiling and trim paint ("Linen White" #OC-146): Benjamin Moore, benjainmoore.com.
Drapery ("Dupont"/Moonstone Blue #1005-04): Kerry Joyce, kerryjoyce.com.
Drapery trim: slubby linen.
Area rug (custom, handwoven): Lyn Sterling Montagne, lynsterlingmontagne.com.
Chandelier: existing.
Dining table ("Cottage Breakfast Table in Oak"); dining chairs ("Windsor Stickback Arm Chair in Oak and Elm"); antlers (antique): Holland & Co., hollandandcompany.com.
Bowl on dining table (product line varies): Erika Reade, erikareade.com.
Pool Den
The kitchen opens to the family's other go-to spot, the pool den. "It was a storage space with no windows. But I saw it as the best real estate in town," says Spitzmiller, who installed a NanaWall, glass doors that open the entire wall to the patio, pool, and beautiful view beyond. "It's a spectacular change," Spitzmiller says.
Steve agrees. "It's so fun. We love to hang out there and watch college football in the fall or just be around the pool. The light and view are wonderful."
Pecky cypress—seen on beams in the kitchen—is used here in a coffered ceiling treatment. A wall of glass bifold doors makes it easy to blend indoors and out.
Folding doors to patio: NanaWall, nanawall.com.
Wall and trim paint ("Manchester Tan" #HC-81): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Area rug ("Pecola"/Natural): Stark, starkcarpet.com.
Sofa ("Monroe" #1525-84 by Suzanne Kasler); coffee table ("Morris Cocktail Table" #1581-10 by Suzanne Kasler): Hickory Chair, hickorychair.com.
Sofa fabric ("Mission Cloth"/Malt #92508-07); wing-chair fabric ("Vellino"#92213): Rogers & Goffigon, rogersandgoffigon.com.
Wing chair ("Fairway Wing Chair" #77428): B.D. Jeffries, bdjeffries.com.
Ceramic stool beside wing chair: Mrs. Howard, mrshoward.com.
Wicker basket: Pottery Barn, potterybarn.com.
Framed map, box on coffee table; wood sculpture on coffee table: owner's collection.
The wood paneled walls of the library are a departure from the linen white used throughout the rest of the house. Drapery panels from Cowtn & Tout pull together all the colors of the cozy, classic space.
Ceiling paint ("Carrington Beige" #HC-93): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Sisal rug ("Natura"/Seagrass): Stark, starkcarpet.com.
Hanging light ("Darlana Medium Lantern" #CHC2165): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Drapery (from Cowtan & Tout): existing.
Chest of drawers at window ("Antique Chest of Drawers in Oak and Walnut"): Holland & Co., hollandandcompany.com.
Circle sculpture on chest; box on chest (antique Chinoiserie box): Jerry Pair, jerrypair.com.
Sofa ("Southworth" #1521-85, by Suzanne Kasler); sofa fabric; coffee table ("Montpelier Cocktail Table with Clear Glass Top and Shelf" #1579-10 and #1579-12, by Suzanne Kasler); lounge chairs ("Monroe" #1525-24, by Suzanne Kasler): Hickory Chair, hickorychair.com.
Pillows on sofa ("Labyrinth"/Beige #34129-1): Clarence House, clarencehouse.com.
Lounge-chair fabric ("Mission Cloth"/Flan #92508-03): Rogers & Goffigon, rogersandgoffigon.com.
Art behind sofa (by Peter Burega): Pryor Fine Art, pryorfineart.com.
Sofa end tables ("End Table in Oak with Shelf"): Holland & Co., hollandandcompany.com.
Table lamps ("Porcelain Gourd Lamp"/Tan, product line varies): Erika Reade, erikareade.com.
Master Bedroom Sitting Area
When Steve's ready for some quiet time, the reimagined master suite, a neutral cocoon that shows off his carved antique bed and new freestanding tub, beckons. Beautiful blue linen draperies add a splash of classic color.
Wall, trim, and ceiling paint ("Linen White" #OC-146): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Drapery ("Sablon Linen"/Water Jardin, discontinued): Calvin Fabrics, calvinfabrics.com.
Mantel (custom): Spitzmiller & Norris, spitzmillerandnorris.com.
Sconces above mantel ("Small Chateau Wall Sconce"): Dennis & Leen, dennisandleen.com.
Artwork between sconces; pillows on chairs: Mrs. Howard, mrshoward.com.
Botanical print on mantel: Lauren Lachance Collection, laurenlachance.com.
Area rug: Stark, starkcarpet.com.
Pair of lounge chairs ("Virginia" #1527-24 by Suzanne Kasler); side table by lounge chair ("Eden" #1385-10 by Suzanne Kasler); sofa facing mantel ("Leigh Armless Sofa" #1504-51 by Suzanne Kasler): Hickory Chair, hickorychair.com.
Sofa and chair fabric ("Bryton Linen Herringbone"/Ivory #54925): Schumacher, fschumacher.com.
Bedskirt fabric ("Silk Canvas"/Azure #NC0105-101, discontinued): Nancy Corzine, nancycorzine.com.
Duvet (custom, "Montague"/Bay Blue on Natural #2111/05): Rose Tarlow-Melrose House, rosetarlow.com.
Bed cover and shams (Ivory): Gramercy Fine Linens & Furnishings, shopgramercy.com.
Bed: owner's collection.
Master Bedroom
An antique four-poster mingles with new seating area furniture by Suzanne Kasler for Hickory Chair.
Wall, trim, and ceiling paint ("Linen White" #OC-146): benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Bed: owner's collection.
Duvet (custom, "Montague"/Bay Blue on Natural #2111/05): Rose Tarlow-Melrose House, rosetarlow.com.
Bed cover and shams (Ivory): Gramercy Fine Linens & Furnishings, shopgramercy.com.
Throw pillow on bed: Mrs. Howard, mrshoward.com.
Bedside chest (19th-century, French): Huff Harrington, huffharrington.com.
Table lamp; mirror behind bed: Joseph Konrad, josephkonrad.com.
Art behind chest: owner's collection.
Master Bath
Set against a backdrop of elegant Calacatta Gold marble, a Waterworks tub steals the show in Steve's bath space.
Wall and trim paint ("Linen White" #OC-146): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Marble on floor perimeter and on wall behind tub: Calacatta Gold.
Bathtub ("Candide"); flooring (custom); bath fixtures: Waterworks, waterworks.com.
Window shades ("Silk Canvas"/Azure #NC0105-101, discontinued): Nancy Corzine, nancycorzine.com.
Master Bathroom
A custom double vanity continues the elegance.
Vanity cabinet (custom): Spitzmiller & Norris, spitzmillerandnorris.com.
Countertop: Calacatta Gold.
Pair of sinks; faucets: Waterworks, waterworks.com.
Sconces: discontinued.
Art seen in mirror: owner's collection.
Daughter's Room
Each Fallon girl also has her own bed-and-bath space. Colorful, playful patterns are used judiciously against plenty of airy white. "It gives them a great backdrop to personalize their spaces the way they want," Kasler says.
Wall paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Area rug ("Cape May"/Chowder, by Helios Carpet): Myers Carpet, myerscarpet.com.
Bed: existing.
Bed fabric ("Kochi"/Kashmir, discontinued): John Robshaw, johnrobshaw.com.
Bedside table ("Albert Side Table" #660033): Bungalow Classic, bungalowclassic.com.
Table lamp ("Suzanne Kasler Gourd Lamp," Large #LA136): Ballard Designs, ballarddesigns.com.
Sitting Area
"I like how Grayson, who's an equestrian, displays her ribbons on a pair of dress forms. It's fun and young, and it makes this a place the girls want to come to. It's wonderful to create a family house that truly resonates with the entire family."
Steve concurs. "We love it," he says. "It's more than a beautiful house. It's something incredibly special created just for us."
Youthful patterns, colors, and attitude put some pop in this cozy sitting area.
Wall paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Chandelier (painted Benjamin Moore "White Dove" #OC-17): existing.
Area rug ("Cape May"/Chowder by Helios Carpet): Myers Carpet, myerscarpet.com.
Window shade ("Calicut"/Meadow, discontinued); patterned pillows on sofa ("Mathura"/Kashmir, discontinued): John Robshaw, johnrobshaw.com.
Sofa fabric ("Moed Texture" #1677, discontinued): Calvin Fabrics, calvinfabrics.com.
Sofa; coffee table: owner's collection.
Girl's Bath
What teenage girl wouldn't love a pristine white bathroom with a chic cheetah-pattern shower curtain?
Wall, ceiling, and trim paint ("White Dove" #OC-17); paint on back of shelves ("Manchester Tan" #HC-81): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Flooring (field tile in statuary, honed): Waterworks, waterworks.com.
Window shade and shower curtain ("Saba on Linen"/Crème #5562/01, discontinued): Rose Tarlow-Melrose House, rosetarlow.com.
Dressing table (custom): Spitzmiller & Norris, spitzmillerandnorris.com.
Stool at dressing table: owner's collection.
Sconce ("Reed Double Sconce" #TOB2126, by Thomas O'Brien for Visual Comfort): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Homeowner Steve Fallon with daughters Grayson, Darby, and Ellie.
Designer Portrait
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Where did the week go? I can't believe it's Friday already, but it is and another wonderful Presto Pasta Night is here. Lots of fresh produce from the garden - tomatoes, zucchini, snow peas and more. This time around, though, the focus seems to be on using unique pasta shapes to go along with some incredible sauces.
First up this week is Marta, An Italian in the US. She's back with a very lovely, very international dish - Japanese Tagliatelle. I love it when different cultures marry so well!
Myriam of Once Upon a Tart was in a hurry and very hungry. Check out this gorgeous Cavatelle with Porcini & Morels. Who says quick can't be elegant?
Rosa Jackson shares a wonderful story, great photos and a terrific recipe for Homemade Tortellini. Seriously...how cute is that tortellini? Sounds like a fantastic rainy day project with or without kids .
Holler of Tinned Tomatoes always has something wonderful to share. This time it's a glorious green and yellow dish Lemon Courgette & Mascarpone Tripoline. Nothing says "Summer" better than this.
Amy of Tart Reform is back and even though it was hot outside, the air conditioning had her craving some Chunky Chicken & Vegetable Soup with orzo. Wish I had some yesterday for our rainy cold weather.
Alyce of Mantia's Musings joins us for the first (and hopefully not last) time and shares not one but two perfect fresh tomato sauces. Here's a photo of the Sicilian Marinated Tomato Sauce with Seared Shrimp, but read the post carefully for the other version.
Sharon of BirdFood (I'll be the bird that gets her food anytime) is another PPN first timer - welcome! She shares a perfectly sinful Fried Pumpkin & Sage Ravioli with a Creamy Hazelnut Sauce. How decadent!
Kevin, the wonderful Closet Cooking fiend is back with a truly wonderful Szechuan Shrimp on Soba Noodles. He's just realizing what a great food group "shrimp" is. I could eat them everyday.
Sarah, la Cucina Bella is back with not only a mouth-watering dish of Pasta with Tomatoes, Olives and Artichokes, she also links to some of her other great pasta dishes as well.
Katie from Thyme For Cooking is back with a very funny post about salads. She shares this beautiful Fresh Tomato & Green Olive Salad. Check it out and then let us know which camp you fall into - salad HAS to have lettuce vs. anything cold with a dressing is ALSO a salad.
Tigerfish of Teczcape is back after quite a hiatus. She also has a question for us...this one about instant noodles. Do you have any on your shelf? She makes a great
Indian-style Instant Ramen with Tuna & Edamame Beans using hers.
Sara of I Like to Cook is back too. She brings a fantastic Zucchini and Tomato pasta dish this time that looks great.
Pamela, the Cooking Ninja is another first time PPNer and so glad she joins the party. Check out this awesome Char Kway Teow that stars my favorite...shrimp.
Marye of Apron Strings & Simmering Things is also new to PPN and has a really interesting dish. She whipped up a Fusili with Chipotle Cream Sauce.
Mandy of Fresh From the Oven is addicted to salami - me too! This Antipasto Salad is an awesome way to dress it up.
Haalo of Cook (Almost) Anything and a terrific PPN regular came up with this Pipe Rigate with Pancetta and Beet Greens & Stems. Pretty fantastic for a dish out of "nothing".
Dayna, the awesome Vegan Visitor is back with Conchilioni Primavera. What a fantastic way to use fresh produce.
Rebeca of Dinner at the Yellow House hasn't been around PPN lately, but she's back, I'm pleased to say and shares a great dish of Prawns with Snow Peas. She's looking for other ways to serve up the snow peas inadvertantly planted in her garden. Personally, I love them right off the vine in a salad. They're so crunchy and delish.
Amy of Nook & Pantry is back with another fave combo of mine - Farfalle with Smoked Salmon, Artichokes and Cream Cheese. Delish!!!
S'kat of S'kat & the Food shares a great dish filled with my favorite things...Italian Sausages, Zucchini & Summer Squash, Ripe Tomatoes...the list goes on.
Chris of Mele Cotte showed up a bit late, but who could say no to this scrumptious looking Guacamole on Soman Noodles. Don't you just love that green!
And now for me...I'm still hunting for the pasta pot. Thank goodness for the fantastic Italian Market 5 minutes away. We had 4 kinds of lasagna...my pick - the mushroom & ricotta.
Remember - anyone out there with a pasta dish, I will continue to add submissions until Saturday . After that, I will add them to next week's PPN Event. So don't forget to join in with the rest of us Presto Pasta Nighters. It's easy and fun. Remember that ALL noodles dishes count as pasta and "presto" (ready) or "lento" (slow) are perfect. Find out how right here. In the meantime... Happy Pasta Eating!!!
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Stanley Mauldin
BA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
MA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BIOL 415/ 416 Modern Concepts in Biochemistry I and II
BIOL 120 Biological Principles I
BIOL 209 Cell Biology
BIOL 330 General Immunology
BIOL 408 Cell and Molecular Techniques
BIOL 427/428 Research Internship
BIOL 206 Microbiology
CHEM 120/121 General Chemistry I and II
GSCI 106 Chemistry and the Environment
GSCI 107 Fundamental Concepts of Biology and Chemistry
GSCI 105 Living in the Environment
Students, especially students of the sciences, need to be challenged and actively involved in their education. For undergraduate education to have a long-lasting and meaningful impact on a student's life and career, it is the responsibility of the instructor to encourage the development of a student's scientific ideas by guiding the student in the areas of experimental design, outcome, and data analysis. Laboratories should be hands-on for every student, both individually and in groups; they should be open-ended, i.e. not necessarily finished within one lab period; they should call on the student's knowledge from other areas of scientific study; and they should require the students to report results formatted after peer-reviewed manuscripts. I feel that the newest technology (computers, the Internet and Web-based learning, data analysis and presentation software, etc.) should be used whenever possible to enhance the learning experience. Lastly, I think that it is important to involve all undergraduate biology majors in faculty research; for it is here that they get a real feel for the use of the scientific method as it relates to hypothesis, experimental design, troubleshooting, and data analysis/presentation.
Dissertation title: "Studies on the Biotransformation of Two Second Generation cis- Platinum Antitumor Drugs"
Mauldin, S.K., Getts, R.C., and Stamato, T.D. (2002) DNA-PK-Dependent Binding of DNA Ends to Plasmids Containing Nuclear Matrix Attachment Region DNA Sequences: Evidence for Assembly of a Repair Complex. Nucleic Acids Res., 30: 4075-4087.
Ostrowski, R. and S.K. Mauldin (2006) The Expression of the RAD51 Gene during the Growth and Differentiation of the Cellular Slime Mold, Dictyostelium discoideum. Presented at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) held at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, April 2006.
Thomas, C. and S. K. Mauldin (2008) Analysis of PSO2 Gene Expression During Differentiation and After DNA Damage in the Cellular Slime Mold, Dictyostelium discoideum. Presented at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) held at Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD, April 2008.
Smith, R., Burns, M., Mauldin, S.K., and Cordero, R.E. (2011) Analysis of Anti-Bacterial Properties and Cytological Location of Allelochemicals in Several Varieties of Hosta. Proceedings of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.
Yorty, B. and S. K. Mauldin (2013) Analysis of Pso4 gene expression upon interstrand crosslink damage in the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. Presented at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) held at Weber State University, Ogden, UT, April, 2013.
2006 Ray Taylor Memorial Award for Faculty Development, for the project "The Role of the PSO4 Protein and the Nuclear Matrix in the Repair of DNA Damage during Growth and Differentiation in Dictyostelium discoideum.
2011 Ray Taylor Memorial Award for Faculty Development, for the project "Chemical Ecology using Hosta Lilies" with Dr. Robert Cordero.
2012 Ray Taylor Memorial Award for Faculty Development, for the project "Computational Analysis of Structure and Biological Function of Translesion DNA Polymerase Zeta from Dictyostelium discoideum", with Dr. Dian He.
My area of research involves the understanding of the mechanisms of DNA interstrand crosslink repair in both dividing cells and cells that have undergone differentiation. I use as my model system the cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium discoideum. As a developmental model system, this organism allows me to study repair both during active cell growth and during differentiation and development.
Published 9-8-16
Drs. He and Mauldin Present at American Chemical Society National Meeting


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Seven prints by Russian-born American artist Raphael Soyer are on view near the auditorium through April 29. The grouping includes five self-portraits Soyer did between 1933 and 1982, among them the hand-colored lithograph at right, which dates from 1954.
Five of the works were recent gifts from UR alumna Diane Ambler '71 and her husband Ethan Grossman. The couple also donated funds for a brochure that visitors may pick up. See the brochure


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Note: Things you buy over the internet will have the same rules, duties and screening processes applied as any other import. You will need to pay duties, charges and taxes on some items if applicable.
"Khatam" means "incrustation", and "Khatam-kari" means "incrustation work". This craft consists in the production of incrustation patterns (generally star shaped), with thin sticks of wood (ebony, teak, ziziphus, orange, rose), brass (for golden parts), camel bones (white parts). Ivory, gold or silver can also be used for collection objects.
Sticks are assembled in triangular beams, themselves assembled and glued in a strict order to create a cylinder, 70 cm in diameter, whose cross-section is the main motif: a six-branch star included in a hexagon. These cylinders are cut into shorter cylinders, and then compressed and dried between two wooden plates, before being sliced for the last time, in 1 mm wide tranches. These sections are ready to be plated and glued on the object to be decorated, before lacquer finishing.
The tranche can also be softened through heating in order to wrap around objects. Many objects can be decorated in this fashion, such as: jewellery/decorative boxes, chessboards, cadres, pipes, desks, frames or some musical instruments. Khatam can be used on Persian miniature, realizing true work of art.
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'Fiscal Cliff' Leverage Shifts to Obama
Jerry Seib on The News Hub looks at four ways leverage has tilted--slightly but perceptibly--toward President Obama in the current budget showdown with Congress. Photo: AFP/Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... while sleek countdown to the fiscal cliff those it looks like present Obama has the edge that's according to Jerry side he joins us now from ... Washington DC and Jerry Wright poem you've written um ... he said small ... things a Kenyan President Obama is trying to ... tell us how ... well I think the leverage meter tilted a little bit in the favor of the president as a result the election not just because the obvious reason which is ... he won ... and Democrats wanted pick up seats in the Senate and the house ... the dogs to get settled gets a little ... more leverage but this of some of things that work is well what is the fact that you know he's not just one ... he does not ever have to run for re-election again ... that's kind of a liberating position to be in you can take some chances you can run some risks you can ... even endorser short-term failures in order to get your long-term goals in a way that people have to face the voters again soon ... Ms can't necessarily ... get a story afford to do ... it you know the other thing I think is really a court here ... the consequences of failure for President Obama are much lower than they were a year ago to members on a year ago ... all summer long there was this debate about makeup with a big deficit cutting deal ... he and the consequence of failure for present Obama ... was the ... possibility that the ceiling the debt ceiling would not be raised and the US would default on its payments to its creditors which would set off a potentially a huge international financial catastrophe will accept a pretty big downside risk ... another downside risk for failures not so bad it's okay yes they were the giant ... tax increases and Jen spending cuts that would kick in automatically at the end of the year ... that might tip economy backwards for a while but there'll be renegotiated next or what ... I think present Obama in this position could take failure where as I'm not sure that anybody really believe he could accept failure a year ago ... that's eyed great chance that your leverage position in a negotiation ... Melbourne ... based on new reading of the tea leaves in Washington I'm and ... for many people it says this latest month but given watching and for such a while now the new Anido some insight ... a weekend ... deal of an anti let works quite year rented isn't just some of the fall with discusses again a couple weeks ... a couple months old well ... it is I think yes Augusto get something done and I think that after getting something done it in general is an unclear when it's basically a two step solution ... they agreed that a being the White House and congressional Republicans in some fashion agree ... to a down payment on some ... revenue increases and spending cuts now ... and then agree also that in perhaps six months time Bill set some targets set cutters to work to come up with a bigger broader up that deficit reduction plan never the changes to wait that tax rates are put into effect in this country ... that's the idea ... the obstacle to getting to that idea though is still considerable it is ... that the insistence by present Obama the White House that ... nothing will happen nothing will be signed in less than income tax rates on the top eight two percent of Americans are raised at the end of the year while everybody else is a steady ... and the Republicans insist that no we are not going to raise tax rates here we can raise revenue but not rates ... I still will see how that she says get past that obstacle if they can get past that I think the rest of it is is ... a ... potential units for the potential for fall into place quickly is really there to get Jerry aam on top of that that the fig leaf that was the news was that if if that top two percent paid more whether it was via a an increase in tax rates when it was just a ... an elimination of loopholes so one half of ... all war and some so the changing definition of what incumbents that stood for ... and that will be okay as I no longer the case of a dumbed deals and once again ... well that's the sense to Republicans are offering and the White House view is ... a look that's fine if you're closing loopholes ... reduce some deductions baby cap deductions ... but from our point of view from the White House for that you cannot get enough revenues ... by doing that to make ... the serious dent in the deficit that we think is necessary so ... that's all well and good but it's not sufficient ... to do what we wanna do long term deficit reduction package so ... that that view the White House's that's not enough and if that's continues to be the impasse something will have to happen to break the impasse ...


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Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari heaped praise on midfield pair Ramires and Bernard after the Selecao's thrashed Australia 6-0 in an international football friendly here.
Atletico Mineiro forward Jo netted a brace while Neymar, Ramires, Pato and Luiz Gustavo also scored in the victory at Brasilia's Mane Garrincha stadium, reports Xinhua.
Ramires and Bernard shone in midfield having been drafted into Scolari's starting lineup after injuries to Hulk (hamstring) and Oscar (ankle) during the week.
"He is agile, fast and can be used either as an attacking midfielder or defender," Scolari said of Ramires, who also provided the assist for Neymar's goal
"The more versatile the player is, the better he is for me. He is a modern player who can help change the team's setup during a match if needed."
Bernard, who moved to Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk from Atletico Mineiro last month, set up both of Jo's goals and troubled Australia's defence with his pace on the right wing.
"He was great. He can play on either the right or left-hand side with excellent tactical awareness," Scolari said. "He is gaining points and cementing his place in the team."
Brazil will have just three days to recover before their friendly against Portugal in Boston while Australia's next match is against France in Paris, Oct 11.


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[font=Verdana]I should probably mention this is my first robot and the only reason i got is because no one else wanted itbut thanks just the same [/font]
The teacher wants to skip the USB shield and just wire it right in to the board
[Paul's just being funny, he'd like a free laser too].
If the laser and motor controller are orphans, please send them to me. They areMUCH better items than I ever get to play with! And in return, I'll send you a little $100 sumo robot that's all put together and works. Fair trade, as it has $4000 worth of s.w. development time.Just kidding - yeah, read the datasheets first. That's what all the rest of us do.[Paul's just being funny, he'd like a free laser too].Also, I agree with J_Z. You can in fact go back and edit your original post, and kill the banner.
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Global Ocean Development, Let us create the future with the hope.
Let's create the hopeful future, the harmonic, peaceful, sustainable and modern social structures in the world. Let's create those Harmonic Worlds such as Heavens or Paradises were made by the gods and many ancestors. It will be able to make those world. I think it is possible to make up them. Let's create those New Global World like Paradises of the Super Floating Structures such as the ancient Noah's Ark with people having the good will in the international cooperation at the ocean's surfaces.
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Global Trend in Sustainable Energy Investment 2010
Analysis of Trends and Isssues in the Financing of RenewableEnergy and energy Efficiency
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【Let's create hopeful future.】
Prisident Obama 氏の支援グループへの私の過去のメール
President Obama 氏の支援グループへの私のメール
How do you do.
My name is yuuji matuoka , as a civil ocean engineer in japan , age 61. I want to show my presentation about the ocean development aiming at making the peaceful world to the President of Obama USA. ( : My this presentation is always my lifework. ) How do you come to be able to do it from poor life in rich life? How to change to be able to do it from the poor people to the plentful people? The Ocean Development was presented by J.F.Kennedy before about 40 years ago. Here are many objects on the subjects in these difficult big projects, but I believe it will be possible and succeed. Those many projects will be able to make up many jobs for worldwide people. The best leader will be present both The hope and The Dream for many people believing the leader. Please show to USA President Obama my presentation. I hope USA President Mr.Obama will succeed as Best excellent top leader in the world at 21century.
This is my presentation. : 私の海洋開発提案 : ノアの箱舟を創ろう-Super Floating Structure
OREC- Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition
OREC- Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition
Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition http://www.oceanrenewable.com/
President Obama Announces Ocean Task Force On June 12, 2009, President Obama announced the formation...
Markey/Waxman legislation on Climate Change Released; News for Marine Renewables Developers On May 15, 2009, Representatives Waxman and Markey...
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Matt R. Simmons to Address GMREC III during Thursday, April 15th Luncheon
March 12, 2010 by TMarieHilton
Filed under Announcements, Blog, OREC Newsroom
Matthew R. Simmons is Chairman Emeritus of Simmons & Company International, a specialized energy investment banking firm. The firm has completed approximately 770 investment banking projects for its worldwide energy clients at a combined dollar value in excess of $140 billion.
Mr. Simmons was raised in Kaysville, Utah. He graduated cum laude from the University of Utah and received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School. He served on the faculty of Harvard Business School as a Research Associate for two years and was a Doctoral Candidate.
Mr. Simmons began a small investment bank/advisory firm in Boston. Among his early clients were several subsea service companies. By 1973, almost all of his clients were oil service companies. Following the 1973 Oil Shock, Simmons decided to create a Houston-based firm to concentrate on providing highest quality investment banking advice to the worldwide oil service industry. Over time, the specialization expanded into investment banking covering all aspects of the global energy industry.
SCI's offices are located in Houston, Texas; London, England; Boston, Massachusetts; Aberdeen, Scotland and Dubai, UAE. In 2007, Mr. Simmons founded The Ocean Energy Institute in Mid-Coast Maine. The Institute's focus is to research and create renewable energy sources from all aspects of our oceans.
Simmons serves on the Board of Directors of Houston Technology Center (Houston) and the Center for Houston's Future (Houston). He also serves on The University of Texas' M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Foundation Board of Visitors (Houston) and is a Trustee of the Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences. In addition, he is past Chairman of the National Ocean Industry Association. Mr. Simmons is a past President of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association and a former member of the Visiting Committee of Harvard Business School. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council, Council on Foreign Relations and The Atlantic Council of the United States. Mr. Simmons is a Trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, The Island Institute and Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine.
Mr. Simmons' recently published book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy has been listed on the Wall Street Journal's best-seller list. He has also published numerous energy papers for industry journals and is a frequent speaker at government forums, energy symposiums and in boardrooms of many leading energy companies around the world.
Mr. Simmons is married and has five daughters. His hobbies include watercolors, cooking, writing and travel.
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Five-time New York Times/Wall Street Journal bestselling author Larry Winget will be a featured speaker at "Outlook 2013: A Golden Opportunity," the opening breakfast program kicking off the 50th National RV Trade Show on Nov. 27 in the Kentucky Exposition Center (KEC) South Wing Ballroom in Louisville, Ky.
The event is sponsored by the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA).
According to an RVIA news release, Winget is an accomplished author and speaker who believes that hard work and excellence are the keys to success and he communicates that in a back-to-basics, common sense approach. With his direct, irreverent, hilarious delivery, he is a frequent and popular guest on Fox News, Fox Business, CNBC, MSNBC and The Today Show.
"We are excited to have Larry join the Outlook program. We think that attendees will really enjoy hearing his advice and insight on achieving business success," said James Ashurst, RVIA vice president of public relations and advertising. "He challenges you and makes you think by proposing common sense solutions that are almost impossible to argue with. And, he does so in a way that is inspiring, engaging, and humorous."
Hosted by RVIA Chairman of the Board Doug Gaeddert, "Outlook 2013: A Golden Opportunity" will also feature "A Time to Shine" with RVIA President Richard Coon providing his thoughts on the RV market and where it is headed.
In "Mining Media Gold," Go RVing Co-Chairs Bob Olson and Tom Stinnett will team with RVIA Public Relations Committee Chairman B.J. Thompson and RVIA Vice President of Public Relations and Advertising James Ashurst for a fast-paced multimedia presentation highlighting high-impact advertising and public relations achievements in 2012 and previewing what is on tap for 2013.
The "Outlook 2013: A Golden Opportunity" program and breakfast are free for attendees on a first-come, first-serve basis. All National RV Trade Show attendees are welcome, and no reservations are necessary. Show badge registration will be available in the South Wing Lobby C Entrance prior to the event.


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The Harvard Computer Society is a student-run organization at Harvard College that has been a "driving force" in the development and deployment of computers at Harvard since well before the fall of the Soviet Union (or the very least, we've met weekly to talk about computers and technology and eat pizza since at least 1983). We do whatever we're interested in (and, by proxy, whatever you're interested in, if you join us) but we have a number of ongoing and currently active projects that tend to consume our time. They're listed below: if any of them strike your fancy, come visit us! Want to start your own project? Pitch it to us and if we like what we hear, we would be happy to fund you! To apply click here.
HCS runs the web server www.hcs.harvard.edu, and the mailing list server lists.hcs.harvard.edu. This means that most student groups on campus use our Linux machines to host their web sites and administer their email lists. More info on Systems can be found on the Systems page. Thanks to a recent grant from FAS IT, we've just spent over $30,000 completely rebuilding our systems from the ground up, which means we're now in a position to do lots of cool projects.
Account Services
All those student groups have accounts on our servers, and the Account Services team is the group of people that makes their user experience as pleasant as possible. Like helping people? Want a fun, easy way to put off doing your homework? Account Services might very well be your cup of tea.
This semester, HCS is providing an open forum for speakers from around the Harvard community to give talks to interested students about computer-related topics ranging from UNIX to web design to the moral issues of patenting integers. We also give annual talks to student groups about the cool services we offer such as access to Content Management Systems, like Drupal, which was used to create this web site. This year some of our seminars are going to help extend the CS50 curriculum and help students become more familiar with Linux. If you like to teach, or want to learn yourself, this might be a good way to get involved!
HCS often brings big-name speakers to campus. In 1993, we had Steve Ballmer for a visit. In the more recent past, we've had Steve Wozniak, Stephen Wolfram, Paul Graham, and Cory Doctorow. Most recently, we had Larry Wall, inventor of Perl. In general, we try to contact well-known people in the computer and technology sectors and bring them on campus to interact with students.
Advocacy for Good Computing at Harvard
Harvard is a great place with a great computer network, but its policies need to be mindful of students' fair access to computing resources while protecting their privacy and security. We keep an ongoing dialogue with the people in power on campus and we try and talk through policy changes with them to encourage transparency and student-friendly rules and regulations. We've also had an HCS member on the faculty oversight committee for information technology for many years now.
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We work closely with a lot of organizations at Harvard to promote the visible use of advanced technology. Some of our more important collaborative projects receive credit here. Other ideas? Just stop by. We're always looking for new project ideas.
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As noted earlier today on Scrapbook Update, Provo Craft has filed a lawsuit against software company Make The Cut over an issue that is somewhat new to the scrapbook industry: digital copyright security protection.
One issue seems to be of particular interest to Provo Craft in the lawsuit. Make The Cut recently provided an update that included a new feature they described as "experimental": cartridge backup. Although Make The Cut indicates that their software doesn't create a full reproduction of cartridge date, even partial data copies was apparently enough to warrant major attention from Provo Craft's lawyers. This may explain why Provo Craft has chosen to take action against Make The Cut while seeming to leave alone Craft Edge, the maker of Sure Cuts A Lot software which also allows cutting from a computer with Cricut machines. The Sure Cuts A Lot software doesn't access Cricut Design Studio or allow the use/copying of cartridge images.
Creating backups via cracked security protection has long been a fought-over issue in the technology world. The issue has been fought about regarding DVD's, gaming cartridges, and other types of media. Media companies have pretty much always held that it violates their copyrights to create back-ups of the media they sell, or to transfer those media to other formats for use (such as ripping DVD's to store and watch on your computer). But software, which doesn't always work but still exists, to crack the copyright protection on DVD's continues to be distributed via the internet. An exception to this are CD's, which iTunes even has a built-in feature for importing, because there are usually no copy protections installed on them. (One notable exception: Sony BMG got in a lot of trouble several years back for installing computer-damaging root kits on some of their CDs that caused problems for users who inserted those discs into their Windows computers. They ended up as the subject of a recall, several class action lawsuits and state & federal sanctions.)
The creation and maintenance of closed operating platforms (where a company uses copyright protections and proprietary technology on equipment or systems to control how purchasers may use them) is also a highly controversial issue to many. Apple is (in)famous for doing this with the iPhone to control what applications users may run on their phone. The phone's lockdown has resulted in a practice called "jailbreaking" where some users hack the phone so that they can install applications other than the officially approved ones sold in the iTunes App Store. The result has been a running battle between Apple and the jailbreakers, where the iPhone is repeatedly secured with a new operating system update, and then hacked again by jailbreakers. The same battle has already started over Apple's brand new iPad device. (This differs from devices like a personal computer, which is designed as an open system designed to have any compatible software you can get your hands on – or even write yourself – installed on it.)
Provo Craft has in essence created a closed operating system for the Cricut with the secure proprietary software that runs the machines. Only their cartridges can be used in the machines, and only their Design Studio software or Gypsy can be used to access the machines for cutting. Companies like Apple say that a closed system provides a better user experience by eliminating outside errors being brought into a system. Many users agree and like the natural simplicity of a closed system.
So why does Make The Cut (and iPhone jailbreaking) exist? Because some users feel that once they buy something they should have the right to do with it whatever they want. A certain segment of consumers sees the purchase of an item as absolute. It's a black-and-white philosophy: "I own it, so I should be able to do what I want with it." These users chafe under limitations of a closed system.
These issues may be new to the scrapbook industry, but they certainly aren't new to technology. As technology invades the scrapbook industry more, we will see more and more of them.


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Genealogical Society of South Africa: http://www.genza.org.za/
National Archives of South Africa: http://www.national.archives.gov.za/index.htm
Genealogical Institute of South Africa: http://www.gisa.org.za/site>/a>
South African Genealogy, Sharon Warr: http://www.sagenealogy.co.za
Ancestry24 – no longer available. Ancestry.com has acquired the records and will make them available soon. "Anyone looking to find out more information about the records should visit http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry24, as Ancestry24.co.za is officially closed as at 22 Oct 2013." Ancestry has the Emigrant's Guide to South Africa, 1880 and also collections of Reformed Church records from FamilySearch.org
South African History Online: http://www.sahistory.org.za/
'Boer War' digitized diary of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (1876-1932) (published as The Boer War Diary of Sol T Plaatje), written during the Siege of Mafikeng, 1899-1900. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg: http://www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/?inventory_enhanced/U/Collections&c=17073/R/A2550-1
Mole Genealogy Blog, South African passenger list info and more: http://molegenealogy.blogspot.com.au
Genealogy Notes and News, Steve Hayes and Val Greene: http://hayesgreene.blogspot.ca


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Multisocket enthusiasts and/or anyone itching to upgrade to a new workstation have been waiting for Intel's major new Xeon refresh with bated breath. Santa Clara may have made us wait for dual-socket Nehalem goodness, but benchmarks suggest performance will be worth the delay. Rather than launching a handful of high-end models, as it did with Core i7, Intel is debuting a total of 12 new Xeon processors that span a range of capabilities and core counts.
At the top-of-the-line, there's the Xeon W5580 (3.2GHz, quad-core, 8MB L3 cache, 6.4 GT/s QPI, 1333MHz memory speed, and a 130W TDP. If that seems a tad beefy, chances are that Intel's got something else in the new lineup you might be interested in, including low-power Xeons (L5520 and L5506). All of the new processors are quad-core save for the bottom-line entry model E5502 (1.86GHz dual-core, 4MB L3 cache, $188), but hyper-threading support remains something of a premium feature. Of the twelve Xeons launched today, the top eight use HT while the last four do not.
The harsh realities of competition
Just last week we examined current Shanghai performance vs. Harpertown, and we noted that Sunnyvale's 45nm processor was actually in a strong position vs. Harpertown and was holding its own (or beating Intel back) on a number of application fronts. Intel didn't seem too concerned, either, over our findings or what they might mean for Harpertown in 2009, and now we see the reason why. Nehalem-EP is an equal-opportunity behemoth—Anand's results show it laying waste to both Harpertown and Shanghai across their entire battery of tests. Normally you've got to pay a subscription to HBO if you want to see this kind of pounding.
The strong performance of the Xeon EP is no surprise, and it hasn't caught AMD by surprise. Our own benchmarks and Anand's data suggest that AMD won't—physically can't—reclaim the total performance crown from Intel in the server market. Fortunately for AMD, it doesn't need to. Shanghai has proven it can scale, and while we won't see any 4.5GHz wunderprocessors, a solid launch schedule that first hits and then inches past the 3GHz mark should keep the smaller company competitive, particularly if other chipset improvements become available in a timely manner.
For now, Nehalem-EP has swept performance and price efficiency. There's room in the midrange for AMD to carve itself a position, but it's going to keep consistently excellent execution through the next 9-12 months, followed by a flawless transition to 32nm (or wherever the company is headed next.)


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Welcome to IBEW98.org
International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers Local Union 98
"Welcome to the official website of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 98. We appreciate your interest in our local union and thank you for taking the time to visit. Here you can learn more about our 100 year-plus history, our mission, our leadership, the unmatched training we provide our members, our signature projects, and our commitment to the people of the City of Philadelphia. Please visit us often!
I have always said that the best way to never forget where you come from is to never leave. Since 1993, I have been honored to serve as the Business Manager of IBEW Local 98. This place is home to me. Our 5,000 members are not only the best in the electrical industry, they also are some of the best people I've ever known. Likewise, our signatory union contractors are the best in the business. We appreciate their loyalty and are grateful for our mutually beneficial business relationships. We have come a long way over the past 21 years and stand now as one of the most successful and respected local unions in the nation. We reached this pinnacle through hard work, smart politics, effective organizing, and the development of a highly educated, unparalleled union workforce. And the journey's just begun. We'd love your company along the way."
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Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. During 2019, he is serving on the State Department's Policy Planning Staff in the office of the secretary. He is a 2017 winner of the ...
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During a trip to CalTech to give an invited talk in December 2003, I was briefed by Colin Camerer and his team about an fMRI project that they were performing. The project, within the realm of neuroeconomics, centered on gathering and analyzing signals from the brain during decision making under uncertainty. Views of brain activity? Decisions under uncertainty? Even if preliminary, such an effort seemed intriguing. When offered a chance to have my own brain imaged before my presentation, I agreed. So, I served as a subject in the study. The experiment was set up to study differences in signals associated with decisions in the face of different kinds of lotteries--some including explicit information about probabilities of outcomes and others where explicit probabilistic information was not revealed. Decision theory prescribes how to react under such "ambiguity." The lotteries had real payoffs; I came away from the lotteries with enough money to buy lunch. I have wondered if my signals may have been influenced by my knowledge about ideal expected-value decisions under uncertainty. Perhaps a follow-up study comparing signals from decision-analystic savvy versus other folks would reveal something about the influence of such knowledge on sensed activity.
Here is my "profile," derived from the MRI at CalTech.
Here are some views from a substraction analysis of signals from my CNS from data collected during the study, showing differences in signals in different lottery situations.
The article by this team on this project appeared in Science in December 2005:
M. Hsu, M. Bhatt, R. Adolphs, D. Tranel, and C.F. Camerer, Neural Systems Responding to Degrees of Uncertainty in Human Decision-Making. Science, 310(5754), 1680-1683.
Here is a short overview:
If you have access to Science Online, you can read the full article here: here.
Thanks to Ming Hsu for sharing out my data.
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