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Gerard Kennedy is a University Drop-Out!
So let's recap: Gerard Kennedy is not fluent in French, has no university degree and worked giving away food.
Ah, but he was Ontario Minister of Education. As his website brags, he had responsibility for two million students, 4,800 schools and a $17 billion annual budget.
Last time I checked, school boards ran the Ontario school system in Ontario.
Gerard Kennedy's main qualification is he has empathy for poor people. That's not nothing in today's political climate, but couldn't he have more impact as a cabinet minister in Ontario's largest province? I mean what can the federal government do about poverty, really? They can fix the Employment Insurance program, they can make unionising easier in some industries and they can raise the federal minimum wage.
But provinces control the minimum wage in most industries, are responsible for social assistance and, most importantly when it comes to poverty, are responsible for land-use.
What has the Ontario Liberal Government done to alleviate poverty in Ontario: NOTHING. At least they didn't make it worse. But I would have expected them to raise the minimum wage and welfare rates to pre-Harris level. But no, all they have done was raised them with inflation.
Did they fix the housing situation? Nope, new green belt around Toronto (granted, that could have a trickle down effect if land prices go up and developers build at a higher density).
In my book, giving away food and running a department that simply overviews school boards does not make one qualified to be Prime Minister. If he had other qualities sure. But it just gets worst. No education to speak of, inadequate French, and not a good public speaker.
But people seem to like him in person. 30 million people in Canada, you do the math.
The Toronto Star article says Gerard Kennedy has supporters that are "cult-like in their devotion". Looking at the comments to my Just Say No to Gerard Kennedy post yesterday, I believe it.
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You need professional help. Get it.
- 8 October 2006 at 15:11:00 GMT-3
More lies from you, gee, what a surprise. I am a delegate and I am part of a group of 12 delegates voting together. Due to your lies and rude behaviour, we have officially eliminated Ignatieff off of our possible list of leadership choices.
Keep up your lies and smear posts and I'm sure you will be successful at driving delegates away from Ignatieff in droves.
- 8 October 2006 at 15:15:00 GMT-3
- Winnipeg Liberal said...
As an Ignatieff supporter, I am embarrassed by posts like this. I suspect Ignatieff would be embarrassed by them too.
Do yourself and Ignatieff a favour by removing this post and apologizing.
- 8 October 2006 at 15:22:00 GMT-3
- The New Liberal Movement said...
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- 8 October 2006 at 15:27:00 GMT-3
- The New Liberal Movement said...
Even without a University degree, Kennedy did a great job in the Ministry of Education:
He came in at a time of extreme labour strife in the education field of Ontario, and tension between the government and the teachers. He came in, fixed the problem, and came out of it being Ontario's most popular politician. As a Minister of Education, he ran the Ministry with the largest budget in Ontario's government.
I read the same article you did. There was a lot of positives in that article. Why highlight only the negatives?
The line is not so fine between fair criticism and a smear campaign so as to not be able to present a fair assessment of the man.
The article in question is a lot more positive towards Kennedy than what you make it out to be...
- 8 October 2006 at 15:41:00 GMT-3
The individual that runs this blog is not interested in balanced discussion, that is obvious. He/she has one goal in mind: character assasination of Mr. Kennedy by spreading lies about him.
Unfortunately, the only thing being accomplished is driving delegates away from Ignatieff. It also demonstrates that some are driven to spreading lies because they know Mr.Kennedy is doing well.
I think the person that runs this blog should join the "Stop Iggy" people because they are one of the same.
- 8 October 2006 at 15:47:00 GMT-3
- Altavistagoogle said...
Name one lie on my entire Blog!
- 8 October 2006 at 15:53:00 GMT-3
- Kevrichard said...
see for me this is old news, I knew this in the middle of May when I saw him speak. It wasnt that he couldnt handle finishing his degrees, he just had other oportunities in his life. TO me he sounds like an inteligent guy, and if he could get away from the label of not being able to speak french, he might be a good leader.
- 8 October 2006 at 16:10:00 GMT-3
If this post is the result of a University degree, I'd say that those degrees are highly overated.
- 8 October 2006 at 16:13:00 GMT-3
height impaired,
You make a good point. Kennedy actually has 4 years of university education. Quite frankly, 80% of the Canadian population does not have a university degree and they do not care if their prime minister has one. They want a leader who has a record of delivering results and can relate to them. Kennedy is one of those leaders.
As for the French, Kennedy's French is actually pretty good and getting better all the time, despite what some fanatical bloggers supporting other candidates may tell you!
- 8 October 2006 at 16:22:00 GMT-3
- Altavistagoogle said...
Chantal, Kennedy's French is terrible (by Liberal Party standards). There are plenty of journalists who used similar language to describe it.
Yes, having a University degree is important. A masters degree even better. A PHD, well that is just showing off.
- 8 October 2006 at 16:31:00 GMT-3
- Altavistagoogle said...
Who was the last Prime Minister without a university degree? I can't think of one.
- 8 October 2006 at 16:33:00 GMT-3
- KC said...
I am assuming you have a University degree yet you dont seem very smart. Michael Ignatieff has a PhD yet supported Mr. Bush's march to war--a war that has since been thoroughly discredited. Bob Rae has more education than Gerard yet didn't have the necessary foresight to implement economic policies to preserve his provinces economy. Stephane Dion... well I like Dion but he is imperfect. Meanwhile Gerard Kennedy has had a successful career in government and the non-profit sector.
I am surrounded everyday by people who have at least one degree, and I would choose Kennedy over any one of them for leader.
Harping on Gerard's french is one thing--that is fair game--but this is just assinine.
- 8 October 2006 at 16:36:00 GMT-3
This is not helping the Liberal Party at all. People like you do the Conservatives' work. Don't think for a moment that the Conservatives are not taking notes of all those things. They will use it against whoever is elected Liberal leader.
People like you will have to accept responsibility should the Liberal Party implode as a result. All I can say is, shame on you - and get professional help, as already suggested by several others.
- 8 October 2006 at 16:41:00 GMT-3
Right on, Winnipeg Liberal: Iggy is a great human being and would be ashamed to have someone like this blogger among his supporters. I think I am going to forward all these articles to the Iggy campaign.
- 8 October 2006 at 16:42:00 GMT-3
Just contacted the Iggy campaign and forwarded all these articles to them, telling them that they should clearly distance themselves from supporters such as the author of this blog.
- 8 October 2006 at 16:45:00 GMT-3
If you think having a university degree is essential than you have no idea how to beat Stephen Harper. Do you think the Conservatives won the election by making policies for people with Masters degrees?
I have 5 degrees and it doesn't qualify me to do anything except be a researcher.
You need some education in the school of hard knocks where the average Canadian has been.
- 8 October 2006 at 18:45:00 GMT-3
Shame on you Werner.
check the current crop of Conservative MP's with a focus on the Alberta caucus. The vast majority have little more than bible school education ,LITERALLY. The current PM has never held a legitimate job though has been touted as a lecturer at university which was more likely a post as a teaching assistant. The entire caucus is a bloody sham, short on education, common sense and work experience. Church attendance was the qualifier for most of them .... and you're worried about Gerard?
- 8 October 2006 at 23:07:00 GMT-3


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Book Review: Power of Babel
John McWhorter, professor of linguistics at the University of California Berkeley, has authored The Power of Babel, an overview of linguistic change. The book is aimed at the layperson and attempts to convey linguistic "truths" and smash popular myths about the nature of language and how it changes.
McWhorter does a superb job of taking what should be an impossibly broad topic, the history of language—all language—and distilling it down into a small number of discrete principles of change. Humans have been speaking languages for 150,000 years. There have been tens of thousands of languages throughout the millennia. Yet they all share common features and they change in patterned, if unpredictable, ways.
The Power of Babel frequently turns commonly held beliefs and perspectives on their head. For example, most people would accept that written language is "standard" and that spoken language is a poorer cousin. Actually, the opposite is true. We have been speaking for some 150,000 years, but writing for only 6,000. The oral properties of language are dominant and tend to drive change, with written language lagging behind and struggling to keep up. Writing, or more specifically printing, has had an impact on the pace of language change though. Just compare the difference in two centuries of change between Chaucer and Shakespeare with the four centuries between Shakespeare and today. The pace of change has slowed considerably since printing press came into widespread use. This is not just true of English, but also of other languages. The codification of grammar and spelling that comes with printing retards, but does not stop, language change.
Another widely held misperception is that the languages of primitive peoples are also simple and primitive compared to the languages of technologically advanced societies. Actually, the opposite is usually true. Grammatically, the languages of hunter-gatherers tend to be far more complex than modern European languages. McWhorter gives the example of the West African Fula language, which has some sixteen different grammatical genders (grammatical gender has only a tangential relation, at best, to sexual gender). Furthermore, within each gender the markers vary arbitrarily among the nouns, and there can be as many as four different variants for each marker. Fula makes one long for those days in 8th grade English when the teacher tried in vain to instruct us in the proper use of the subjunctive case.
Perhaps the most disturbing myth for many will be the fact that there is no "proper" way to speak or write. There are endless grammatical options and none is inherently superior to another. It doesn't matter if you designate syntax through markers or through position in the sentence; both are equally effective. There may be social consequences and communications problems for individuals who speak in a non-standard fashion, but linguistically there is no good or bad and changes in grammatical patterns don't mean a "dumbing down" or degradation of a language.
Each of his seven chapters and the epilogue address a particular aspect of language change. The first chapter deals with specific forms of linguistic change. McWhorter identifies six different types of linguistic change that are common to all language. The second chapter addresses dialects and how the concept of individual "languages" is a false one—there are only dialects. The third chapter deals with how languages mix and borrow—not just words but also linguistic concepts—from one another. And so on.
The book does suffer somewhat from the lack of a central organizing theory of language change. There is a unifying topic, language change, and some metaphors that are used consistently throughout, such as comparing language change to biological evolution. But he provides no central theory for historical change that unites the chapters. Perhaps though, this is too much to ask for. The individual chapters stand on their own. Essentially, the book comprises eight independent, but topically related, essays on linguistic change.
McWhorter writes in a readable and entertaining style. He peppers the text with references to popular culture, Asterus & Obelix cartoons, jokes, and personal reminiscences.
Still, The Power of Babel is not a casual read. Despite the non-academic style and references to The Simpsons, it is at its core a serious book. It is filled with examples of linguistic concepts and changes from a staggering number of different languages: English, Hindi, Fula, French, Zulu, Cheyenne, Turkish, Japanese, and many others. While these are interesting and compelling examples and the variety of languages represented contributes to the richness of McWhorter's arguments, the continual examples in foreign languages disrupt the narrative flow. The book is better for the examples; it's just that sometimes the reader is in for some heavy slogging in the middle of the chapters.
For the academically trained linguist, The Power of Babel offers little that is new. But for the layperson it is a (mostly) readable overview of how languages change and why. It dispels some common myths and provides insight and perspective on the one thing that makes humans unique in the animal kingdom, language.
Hardcover, 384 pp., W.H. Freeman & Co., Feb. 2002, $26.00.
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By Margaret McGoverne
We snuggled in the dark, the two of us, waiting for a car to come along and make Shadow Man materialise. Bella lay on her back, cold feet on my legs. We anticipated the light show as the headlamps and street light bisected, framing the window for a sweeping moment and painting a fleeting portrait of a face, Shadow Man's face, on the ceiling.
I was older than my sister, nearly nine, and I knew that Shadow man was just lights from cars on the road outside the window; our makeshift bedroom was in the front parlour on a sofa bed we tucked away every morning. And yet, if I believed very hard, maybe Shadow Man could be real, and could make things better for us. Maybe then we could move back home where our bedroom overlooked the back garden, dark and calm, with no rushing pictures on the walls, no need for comforting night treats.
My sister often struggled to sleep; she cried for our mother, who lay in the hospital. She was an annoyance to me and often tried to bend my fingers back, but when she moulded into me in the dark-light of our bed, I felt the warmth of home. I was glad she was with me, even though she yanked my ponytail. I felt the length of the four years between us, and I tried to make things better for her.
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Things that happened redrew us as adversaries; we never visited the beach with our mother again. But sometimes when I lay in bed with the lights off, Shadow Man appears, a shade of light of his former self.
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Google messaging service, Gmail, provides such 2-step authentication. There is two ways I know of to enable it, either by asking Gmail to send a SMS with the verification code, or by installing Google Authenticator application on your smartphone, which generates verification codes. Either way, you have your usual credentials, login and password, and a verification code.
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM ?Gmail 2-step system also adds two kind of other codes : Application Specific Password (ASP) and Backup One Time Password (BOTP). BOTP are to be used when you do not have your smartphone with you for any reason (lost it, broken, or because it was stolen). Your credentials are still needed, both login and password, and BOTP can be used as a verification code. Once one BOTP is used, it is automatically expired by Google, and you receive a nice email telling you that someone just used a backup code to enter your account. When you enable 2-step authentication, by default ten BOTP are created. It is advised to print them and to store them in a safe place. Regarding BOTP, so far so good, they cannot be used to lessen the 2-step authentication security, and are a convenient recovery way to getting back access to your account.
Application Specific Password (ASP) on the other hand, are to be used for devices that are not 2-steps compatible, such as a smartphone for instance. On a typical smartphone, if you just register your Gmail account, enter your login and password, it cannot log into your account, because it is not "2-steps aware". For this kind of devices, Google created ASP that can be generated for them. Using ASP bascially means you just need a login + ASP for the concerned device, nothing else. What that means more globally, is that you can log from anything (smartphone or computer) with just a login + ASP, without the account password, bypassing the very principle of a 2-steps authentication. Also, if you have a strong account password, it may even be easier to use the ASP instead to hack into your account. Apparently a specific request to android.clients.google.com is also required, as tested on duosecurity.com. So it's not as easy as using just your browser and enter the login and ASP only, but if instead of entering your account password you just need an HTTP request, that's still a serious weakness. You could also enter the login+ASP on a smartphone for an easier procedure.
It seems that Google from the above link is aware of the issue and has already taken steps to mitigate the risks (like not granting access to account security settings when accessed with an ASP). Also, when you create such ASP, Google clearly warns that it grants full access to your account. Nonetheless, you Gmail access is not a true 2-steps authentication with this ASP hole. If you feel really concerned about it, and that you must have a true 2-steps authentication, the only thing you can do is to not create any ASP. Does it means that you cannot read your Gmail from your phone ? Fortunately on Blackberry 10, such as the Q5 for instance, the smartphone is natively 2-steps aware, and upon entering your login and password, you have a true Gmail web page asking for a verification code. I have no idea for other smartphones, but I hope it holds true for Android as well :-)
I have read that Google is planning this year to allow the native use of a YubiKey instead of the Google Auhtenticator. A YubiKey is simple USB devices seen as a keyboard by the OS, and upon a press on it with the finger, sends an encrypted One Time Password (OTP), different for every touch, and which by definition cannot be reused. A Yubikey is more secure than an application such as the Google Authenticator because it does not require any driver or software, is not connected to any network (unlike a smartphone), and is waterproof, crush safe, and has no battery. Also each Yubikey has it's own unique identifier and AES secret key used by Yubico's servers to validate the OTP, that even Google or any other service does not know about. Please note that currently using a Yubikey for Gmail is possible but really cumbersome : you have to download two software, one to customize the Yubikey second slot, one to challenge it and to send back the answer to Google. Also you have to follow an inconvenient procedure to make this setup, and on every computer you will log in you will need to install a software. To sume it up that's possible, but it's not a native support. A Yubikey can be used for other online services such as Lastpass (Password Manager), or the new encrypted email messaging service Lavaboom (now in BETA).
CONCLUSIONAll in all, enabling a multi-factor authentication is far better than not using it, even with Gmail. Just be aware about the Application Specific Password weakness, and let's be ready for Google next move on this area, if they decide to enable native Yubikey support for public accounts. Besides the multi-factor authentication to your emails, if you also value your privacy, and do not like your emails to be read by someone else, you can take a look at Lavaboom encrypted email service as mentioned above, or stay tuned for Darkmail by the authors of the now closed Lavabit encrypted email service, used by Snowden. You may also check the Unseen.is service. I hope more online services will use the Yubikey in the future, as it is far stronger than just a password, and more secure than generating a code with a software on a computer or a smartphone.
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Antigen: RAC-gamma serine/threonine-protein kinase
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Antigen Species: Human
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Isotype: MIgG2a
Depositors Institution: EMBL MACF
Host Species: mouse
Depositors Notes: This antigen is also known as v-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene homolog 3 or PKB gamma.
Positive Tested Species Reactivity: Human
Gene: AKT3
Antigen Molecular Weight: 55.7 kDa
Alternate Gene Names: MPPH, MPPH2, PKB-GAMMA, PKBG, PRKBG, RAC-gamma, RAC-PK-gamma, STK-2
Predicted Species Reactivity: Mouse, Porcine, Rabbit, Zebrafish
Clonality: Monoclonal
Immunogen: E. coli expressed recombinant protein
Epitope Mapped: No
Myeloma Strain: SP2/0-AG14
Immunogen Sequence: 40 kDa Protein fragment
Uniprot ID: Q9Y243
Additional Information: Akt3 is a member of the RAS pathway related proteins. RRID:AB_2617437
Entrez Gene ID: 10000
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Recommended Applications: ELISA, Microarray
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A roadmap to generate renewable protein binders to the human proteome.
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ProteomeBinders: planning a European resource of affinity reagents for analysis of the human proteome.
Uhlén M
Nature methods 4.1 (2007 Jan): 13-7.
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A roadmap to generate renewable protein binders to the human proteome.
Gräslund S
Nature methods 8.7 (2011 May 15): 551-8.
ProteomeBinders: planning a European resource of affinity reagents for analysis of the human proteome.
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Back when the schedules came out for this season, some said the path to the playoffs for the Patriots would be easier than usual. It turns out, they may be correct.
Back when the schedules came out for this season, some said the path to the playoffs for the Patriots would be easier than usual. It turns out, they may be correct.
Based on each team's record from 2011, the Patriots were given the easiest schedule in the league for 2012. They were to face only four playoff teams from last year and three of those, Denver, San Francisco and Houston, at home. The only road game all year against one of last season's playoff teams was the one at Baltimore.
Some dismissed the numbers because the power in the league tends to shift so much from year to year. But it turns out the Patriots do have an easier road than most, based on the first month of this season, too.
The next time the Pats play a team that currently has a winning record, it will be well into Christmas shopping season, Dec. 10 when Houston visits. The Pats face a lot of mediocrity, according to the records, over the next two months.
None of their opponents over the next eight week are among the 10 teams currently with a winning record.
The next five foes, Denver, Seattle, the Jets, St. Louis and Buffalo all stand at 2-2. From that group, perhaps only Denver looks to be a strong playoff contender.
After that stretch, the Pats host 1-2 Indianapolis, then the Jets for a second time on Thanksgiving night and finally 1-3 Miami before Houston visits Foxboro. Houston and San Francisco are the only two lefts left on the schedule which currently have winning records.


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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Where is your favourite place to be?
My most favorite place to be is outdoors, in the country. When I was a child I grew up in the country, out in the middle of nowhere and I only had my two younger sisters to play with but we stayed busy. I spent all my time outside. I can remember coming home from school, doing my homework and then dashing outside to play because it was all I could think about. I would climb to the tops of trees, swing on the crazy vines that grew in our woods and run around in the creek with my bare feet trying to catch frogs or minnows. Those were the happiest times of my life, just being outdoors, playing with my sisters, petting our many chickens or scratching my cat's belly in the sunshine. I still am an outdoors girl but now I live in the city and I miss it so much...someday when we have enough money I hope to live in the country again and raise my children to love the outdoors as much as I did.


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The Guru – Go Easy (2012)
The Guru return triumphantly with their new album "Go Easy" and it expands on the promise of last years "Native Sun" in a whole bunch of ways!The title track opens the album and what a track! It stands out as a sleek radio single ripe with top notch pop sensibility but nothing is quite like the surprisingly tasteful saxophone on this track. It hints at a campy attitude but is still played expertly and extravagantly over this song. This is a party song all over the place and is sure to cause tons of involuntary head bopping no matter where it ends up.
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Hope you all had a fantastic weekend. I rested and got caught up with work around the house.
Also made some announcements on our facebook page for the new venture, Shoxie {Shock-see}. Feel free to click on each social media account for updates – we'll be sharing behind-the-scene photos until we go live!
You can also see photos of our office (as we decorate) on instagram.
Thank you all so much for your well wishes and support. It means a lot to the Shoxie team 🙂
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Polka dot blouse; Option 1 (2 color ways) | Option 2 | Option 3 (this is quite vintage)
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You look fabulous darling. Those sandals are blingtastic 🙂
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Welcome to the RCA Library. Below you will find all of the documents relating to the formation, management, and ongoing activities of RCA. They are arranged in broad categories. We have also included links to useful resources.
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Riverside County General Plan
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This delicious homemade tomatillo salsa recipe is sponsored by Heinz. It is the perfect accompaniment for your summer grilling recipes. It's savory and flavorful, and easy to make!
At our house, we eat salsa on just about everything. Scrambled eggs, tacos, burritos, enchiladas… we even love it on grilled chicken or fish! My kids love mild red salsa, but I've always been a green salsa girl. I love that it's tangy, and I like it with some heat to it. This homemade tomatillo salsa is full of delicious flavor from roasted garlic, tomatillos, and Anaheim peppers, and gets a delicious smoky flavor from roasting the vegetables in the oven. I've never made tomatillo salsa before, and I was really surprised by how simple and easy it is!
You'll start by husking your tomatillos and placing them on a foil-covered baking sheet with some onions, garlic, and peppers.
Roast the vegetables at 500 for 15-20 minutes, or until they are lightly charred. Those darker brown bits give the salsa extra flavor and make it super delicious!
After the vegetables have cooled a little, you'll peel the skin from the peppers, then add the vegetables to a blender or food processor. Add some cilantro, lime juice, and vinegar, and then process it until it's the consistency you like.
I used Heinz® Distilled White Vinegar, and it worked great. It's all natural and made from sun-ripened corn, which makes it perfect for this simple and delicious recipe.
Let the salsa simmer 5-10 minutes, then ladle into clean jars. If you're planning to can the salsa, make sure your jars, lids, and bands have been sterilized. If you don't want all the bother of canning, the salsa will keep in the fridge for about a week. I think it makes a fun gift to share with friends!
If you're canning the salsa, I would definitely suggest doubling the recipe to get a full canner load. I got around 3 1/2 cups of salsa from one batch.
This homemade tomatillo salsa is delicious with tortilla chips, but it's also a perfect complement for your summer grilling recipes. Try it with grilled chicken, fish, or pork.
Homemade Tomatillo Salsa
- 2 pounds tomatillos, husks removed
- 1 large onion, cut into quarters
- 8 cloves garlic, peeled
- 2 Anaheim peppers
- 1 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
- 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
- 1/2 cup Heinz® Distilled White Vinegar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1/2 cup water, more or less as needed
- Preheat the oven to 500. Line a baking sheet with foil and spray with cooking spray. Place the tomatillos, onion, garlic, and peppers on the baking sheet. Roast 15-20 minutes, or until the tomatillos have charred slightly and are starting to release their juices. Remove from oven and let cool slightly.
- After the peppers have cooled, carefully peel off the skin. It's a good idea to wear gloves to prevent getting spicy pepper juice on your hands and then inadvertently rubbing it in your eyes. If you want your salsa spicier, leave the pepper seeds in, or for a milder salsa scrape them out.
- Add the tomatillos, peppers, onions, and garlic to a blender or food processor. Then, add the cilantro, lime juice, vinegar, salt, cumin, and red pepper flakes, and pulse until it's as chunky or smooth as you would like it. Add water as needed to thin to desired consistency.
- Pour the mixture into a medium saucepan and heat just to a simmer. If you're planning to refrigerate the salsa, ladle into clean containers, then let cool. Use within one week.
- To use this recipe for canning, start by doubling the recipe. After the salsa reaches a simmer, ladle into sterilized jars, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Add sterilized lids and bands. Process in a water bath canner for a minimum of 15 minutes, adding 5 minutes for each 2000 feet of altitude above sea level. Let cool, then store in a cool, dry place. Use within six months.
For more delicious recipes, visit the pickling and canning section of Kraft foods!
This post is sponsored by Heinz. As always, all opinions and text are my own.


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Are you an avid Ragnarok player and you want to try and play the new version of RO? Then you're like me! I'm also a certified RO addict and I really want to try, and maybe, switch to RO2 for good. The RO2 game servers are up and running for the Open Beta. Open Beta started last December 27, 2012! That's just 2 days ago!
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Matthew S. Chan is president of Ascend Beyond Publishing. In publishing, Matthew is the author of several business books and business audio programs. They include The TurnKey Publisher Series, The TurnKey Investor Series, and The Intrepid Way.
In addition to his media business interests, Matthew is a seasoned real estate investor and continues to oversee the property management of his and his investment partners real estate investment properties.
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Fun fact: some of my earliest memories are about loving dinosaurs. As a child I was pretty obsessed...my favorite movies were Land Before Time and Jurassic Park (gotta the love the '90s). I loved to draw, and most of my art was of dinosaurs. I even had dreams of becoming an archaeologist but when I realized that big dino digs are not likely to occur in one's lifetime I let go of that dream...
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Elkhart, Ind.-based supplier ASA Electronics announced the purchase of Marine Audio Engineering and Sales. According to a press release, the acquisition will diversify ASA's portfolio allowing the company to add additional outdoor electronics to its lineup.
Marine Audio, a St. Louis-based company, has been an established leader in the audio entertainment industry for many years and is regarded as one of the leading suppliers of environmentally engineered outdoor entertainment systems.
"I am confident that with ASA's commitment to the industry the Marine Audio brand will continue to enhance the electronics market for years to come," said Dick Baker, CEO of Marine Audio.
ASA Electronics said it has built a reputation in the RV industry due to their unique ability to design, engineer and test their products in their in-house R & D facility. "ASA has always respected and admired Marine Audio as a competitor because of their business philosophies and expertise in the industry," said Tom Irions, CEO of ASA Electronics. "We are pleased to add Marine Audio to our extensive electronics line."
Marine Audio will continue to service their customers through May 31. Inquiries related to this acquisition or customer support should be directed to Pat McCullough at [email protected] or 800-688-3135.


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Amy has a calming presence that makes you feel relaxed the moment you walk into her space. She talks to you and really takes the time to get a clear sense of what your expectations are. Her healing sense of touch and confident, rhythmic hands set her apart from other therapists. You can tell she has a sincere interest in not only what's going on with your body, but in who you are. ~Raven K., Portland, OR
From the moment we met, I felt safe and supported in her presence. Her warm energy and professional know-how put me at ease, and allowed me to truly relax into the healing benefits of massage. Because of her knowledge of Fibromyalgia, I have been able to receive an excellent, relaxing, therapeutic massage, without the usual "rebound" pain that I experienced with so many other therapists. Amy's hot stone massages are incredible; I always leave the therapy warm to my bones and relaxed to the core. ~Nicole A., Portland, OR
After many Chiropractic visits for numbness in my arms and hands, and chronic lower back pain, I tried massage therapy. After only a few visits my circulation is much better, the numbness in my arm is gone, my hands are practically pain free, with more flexibility in my back and my sleep has improved. I leave with a new sense of rejuvenation and balance; spiritually mentally and physically, looking forward to more visits, and feeling so much better. ~ Diana L., Portland, OR
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Jill's Birthday Party!
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A few weeks ago Jill had her 24th birthday party in Long Beach. Friends from near and far came to celebrate and enjoy this day with her. There were guests from Sacramento and Texas! Drinks, laughter, painting, dancing to win prizes, and an awesome venue thanks to Mr. Anthony Cruz!
Hope you all enjoy the photos!
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In February 1979, Professor George Rathjens called the editors of The Progressive, urging them not to publish a story in the works, which included a journalistic best guess as to the design of a hydrogen bomb. The Progressive refused to squelch the story, and the professor of poli-sci (not nuclear physics) contacted the Department of Energy, which sued to suppress the article.
The Progressive defended itself on free speech grounds.
Fast forward to today, with progressives screaming to squelch the freedom of speech and press of Defense Distributed, an Austin, Texas, organization, which expressed its intention to publish easily downloadable plans* to print plastic guns using 3D printing technology.
This hit the news first as the result of a court decision early in the month,** but now Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) blames the Trump administration, not the court. "Donald Trump will be totally responsible for every downloadable, plastic AR-15 (gun) that will be roaming the streets of our country."
Why blame the administration? Because the administration settled its lawsuit holding up the publication.
Amusingly, back in 1979, the government dropped its suit against The Progressive.
Progressives were definitely not for nuclear bombs 40 years ago, and The Progressive had its own agenda in publishing a version of the article that saw print in the magazine's November 1979 issue. Now progressives express more alarm about private individuals having weapons, not about the government's weaponry.
But the biggest change? It has something to do with free speech.
This is Common Sense. I'm Paul Jacob.
* I say "easily downloadable" because plans like this have been available on the not-exactly-easy-to-access Dark Web for some time.
** The decision is clear: "Arguments for tighter restrictions on firearms are, in this case, directly opposed to arguments for the unfettered exchange of information on the internet."
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Not likely a plastic AR-15. More likely a klunky pistol. But that would not sound as sensational would it?


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1. last real day of classes
2. anticipation of friday
3. anticipation of the whole weekend ahead of you
4. middle school memories of thursday early-out day, taco bell, and disneyland
I can't think of many more reasons but I know there are some. I really have this strange deep connection with this day and always feel happier than normal when Thursday comes around. This feeling has deep roots.
Can anyone think of other reasons? Or an argument against Thursday? (but I will still fight you to the death that Thursday is the best day of the week!)
p.s. Thursday gets better when it's raining and pizza is involved.


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Burnley Grammar School
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There's pleny of room in the modern-styled gymnasium for muscle developing, where the boys are supervised by Mr. R. Parry, the physical education instruction.
Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, December 1959
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Ross. It was same for us. We always had to bring our trainers to every PE lesson in case we switched from inside to outside. Those who did not have trainers for outside did it in bare feet. This was the rule as some tried to get out of PE by deliberately forgetting their trainers for outside PE.
A few times we switched at the last minute from inside to outside as we lined up for gym. So we all did it outdoors in just our shorts.
How did you feel when your mum took you to get fitted for your first bra? Rather than take me for a fitting, my mum just went ahead and bought me a couple of bras as an unexpected birthday present. This was in May of my first year at secondary school. I was rather taken aback as neither of us had brought up the subject beforehand. Also, I was a bit of a tomboy, so it took me a while before I came to terms with the fact that I needed to wear one, so it wasn't until I went back to school at the start of the second year that I started to do so regularly.
I was by no means the first in my class to wear a bra (a few did so before we left Primary school and more started during the first year at Secondary) but I still felt a little apprehensive the first time I went into the PE changing room one. As it happened, several other girls had also got them over the summer and our PE teacher obviously thought a few others should have as she told them to ask their mothers for one.
Talking of quaint terms, our teacher referred to them as 'brassieres' rather than bras.
Andrea - Looking back to my school PE days, I realise my Mum was quite perceptive towards the needs of developing girls, or "young ladies", as she so quaintly put it. So, when I started developing "up top", she lost no time in getting me properly fitted for my first bra, so although I wasn't the first in my class to get one, I was probably the first to get one at the right time! I was also one of the first to go without a vest all the year round but as we had a "proper" PE kit, and proper changing facilities, the only issue there was a certain amount of jealousy from the kids with more conventional mothers.
James & James B,
Yes, I guess talking to parents about supportive underwear was embarrassing at the time. I think my Ex would have preferred the option of buying a supporter at school, rather than going to the local sports shop with his dad.
The timing of us girls getting our first bras varied back then. Some girls seemed to get one almost before they needed one, whereas others needed a prompt from our PE teacher to ask their mums for one.
To answer Andrea and Gavin (although I did mention the same thing quite a long time ago, the PE department at our school sold some items of kit, including jockstraps. My father wasn't the slightest bit sporty and, for some reason I just couldn't see how to bring up the subject of underwear with either of my parents, so I just bought one at school.
As far as washing was concerned, we had a swimming pool at school and many of us would just go through the showers after games lessons with shorts and jocks on and then go into the pool after school. The white nylon shorts did become transparent though)! We had our own lockers so I just left the wet things hanging in my locker to dry off.
Yes, it was exactly the same as your Ex had explained. At the first PE lesson after the summer break we were in the gym and the PE teacher raised the matter. He explained that now that we were older we should consider using a supporter and that these were available from the PE Dept office. There was no mention of this in the School Prospectus. As I say, most boys bought one over the next few weeks.
I agree with your Ex, some boys should have been given the opportunity to buy one much earlier and some boys didn't really need to bother - well, not at that time anyway.
I suppose the same could be said for girls in your PE class. I recall you indicated earlier that the PE teacher needed to speak with girls who should have been in a bra earlier!
Hi guys, I was reading these posts and I noticed that I was not the only one who was tortured for punishment. Like Jason said, in page 2 of this forum, also in my school there was a sort of pole where we were tied if we did something wrong. It happened to me and it was not a nice experience because my school mate made fun of me. They punched me kicked me and also put on my chest water taken from sewage. Obviously I was bare chested too. I think it is unfair but it is an equal punishment because obviously if you torture one of youre school mate then he can torture you so you cannot exaggerate. Have you ever tried an experience like this?
Ross, no doubt you got used to your uncertain routine. We had two PE lessons per week in the gym, which might include a surprise cross country run through local woodland and countryside, but still wearing just our black shorts and plimsolls.In the summer we went outside for athletics or cross country. Plus, we had a double lesson, referred to as Games,for soccer in the winter, when we wore full soccer kit, or cricket in the summer. After all the above activities, apart from cricket, we always had to get our kit off and go in the open communal showers.Times have changed since then and it seems that generally this practice has been discontinued in schools.
James B,
Did the PE uniform list that went to your parents say that supporters were allowed from the 3rd year, or were you told this by your PE teacher (which is what happened with my Ex)?
He said that some boys could have done with one earlier, whereas others didn't really need one at the start of their 3rd year!
Yes John the nylon white shorts did become transparent when playing when pe was outside(football or cross country) At least it was an all boys school and no one seemed bothered, and the playing fields were secluded.
Rob, we were allowed to wear trainers outside. Our PE lessons were 3 times a week and wed generally do the same activity for a week but week to week we didnt know what we were doing. One week could have been gymnastics and the next rugby or we could be doing a week of gymnastics and have a surprise cross country. So yeah we had to bring our trainers to every lesson and those that didnt had to go outside and take part barefoot.
@ James B, my experience exactly!
I attended a grammar school from the mid 60''s and our kit was as shown in the picture. The 'no underpants' rule applied and was monitored. From year 3 we were allowed a Litesome supporter which could be bought from PE Dept. Most boys bought one.
Ross, so did wear plimsolls or trainers outside and did you know when you were going to need them or did you always have to bring them in case?
Rob, our PE kit was white shorts and pumps and nothing allowed underneath the shorts. Black shorts would have been more sensible as the white nylon shorts of the 1970s could become transparent.
Hi Rob, my uniform list actually required a change of underwear not that anyone checked or probably even dared to have checked. We werent however allowed plimsolls or trainers for indoor activities inside the gymnasium, it was strictly bare feet.
Ross, It looks very much like the gymnasium at my school at that time.Our kit was just black shorts and plimsolls. We weren't allowed anything under our shorts, which was normal at the time, probably including the lads in the photo.
Looking at the gymnasium it doesnt look too dissimilar from the one I used in high school and I went in the early 2000s !!! This is from 1959.
The kits were different though as we wore a white polo shirt, navy shorts and bare feet.
I agree with Chris G about wearing them under shorts, and even trousers, in the summer. They are a lot cooler to wear than briefs. I still go to a gym a couple of times a week even though I gave up playing actual sports long ago, and I still wear a jockstrap under my shorts there. I am possibly the only one who does - but who cares? I also agree with Chris that it is sad that shops such as Debenhams and sports shops no longer seem to stock them. I bought a couple recently via the internet. There are a few UK suppliers to buy them from without having to import them from the USA - even Amazon seems to have them.
Philip - For everyday underwear, Dad was very much a vest and briefs man, as were many men half a century ago, but with Singapore having a hot, humid climate, and taking the advice of both Mum and colleagues who had been there before him, he decided that he wouldn't need to take any vests but that he would need something less enveloping than his briefs but sufficiently supportive of his lower anatomy. Once back in the UK climate, he instinctively reverted to vast and briefs, leaving half a dozen nearly-new Litesome jockstraps up for grabs. Mum was all for throwing them away (there weren't any clothing/textile recycling oppportunities back then) but my brother and I had other ideas, and rapidly added them to our respective wardrobes. Alhtough we occasionally wore them in more formal situations, we generally wore them under shorts, both for sports and for general use in the summer, until they died of failed elatic, as most jockstraps do in the end. Even now, I prefer a jock to briefs in hot weather, although they are increasingly hard to find in the high-street shops. Until about five years ago, Debenham's had them in their Active Sport underwear range but, sadly, not any more.
Arby and Chris G
Yes unfortunately the lifespan of a Litesome Jockstrap was rather short lived due to wear and tear, often found lying around damp on changing room floors etc. We could have of course just go down to the school outfitters and purchase a new one, but often, being boys, we couldn't be fagged. So often knots were tied in the straps to keep some kind of tension when the elastic went. Wasn't ideal but it worked to some extent. Yes, like you I have never stopped wearing a jock for sport. Like you l wear narrow bands. Youngsters are so spoilt for choice these days.
To ChrisG.
Why did your dad just want jock straps to wear in Singapore and didn't want them any more when he returned?
As with Chris G I too used to wear mine often. I found them to be comfortable. I still wear one under shorts in the summer. Very cool to wear. Although a bit difficult to buy in shops now they are not difficult to find on the internet. As you say Chris, the narrower waist bands are preferable.
Gavin, James - just the question I was going to ask. I think that I wore mine (and Dad's) for most of the first summer that I had them, and fairly regularly from then, until they wore out, which was generally when the leg elastic perished from too much washing. I still wear jocks in the summer when I can get them, although I prefer a narrow waist-band now.
Why wouldn't you tell your parents about your wearing a jockstrap? Who washed your sports stuff?
I assume that it was the fact that you wore your jockstrap under your ordinary clothes that you didn't tell your parents? Presumably your mum knew you had one in the first place by the fact that it appeared in the washing basket?
Also, were either of your parents with you when you purchased it?
In answer to ChrIS G, yes once our PE teacher had suggested that some of us would be more comfortable if we wore jockstraps i got one. It was so comfortable and different that i would wear it for pe and games but also whenever i could, but i never told my parents.
In classrooms slippering was done over skirts, but in PE it was over gym knickers.
As it was an all girls school, we didn't have many male teachers. I can't recall any of them administering corporal punishment, but don't know whether that was because they weren't allowed to.
Likewise - Congratulations on reaching 2000 posts - and half a million views.
I'm not sure when I made my first post ... some years back, I know. This is always an interesting read ...
1999 Posts!
So who is going to be the 2,000th poster?
Unless someone is waiting for his post to be approved I might be the one. :)
Andrea, how were you slippered or otherwise at secondary school, over skirt or some other way?
Were male teachers allowed to physically punish girls in your secondary school?
Yes we girls became adept at putting on our PE shorts before removing our skirts!
Mixed changing did start to become an issue for a few girls who started to wear bras rather than vests in our final year at primary. They were allowed to change separately in the toilets. Was this the same in your primary school, or did all your classmates remain in vests until the end of primary?
By the time my son was at primary, boys and girls changed in separate classrooms for the final two years.
Yes we had corporal punishment at secondary school too. Fortunately I was quite well behaved, so it only happened to me on a couple of occasions.
Andrea, it was the same at our primary school, we all changed in class, both boys and girls, into PE shorts and T shirt under the supervision of our class teacher.
It was no big deal for any of us since this was the routine throughout primary school.
It was actually easier on the girls since they put their shorts on under their skirt before taking it off while we boys had to take our pants off to wear our PE shorts.
Slipperings and sometimes the ruler were also more or less common in class, depending on which teacher you had that year. But during PE the teachers would usually just smack your legs or thighs or shorts bottom with their hand for misbehaviour.
The older teachers usually used corporal punishment the most while the younger new ones rarely used it. I think they were already being taught in their teaching course to avoid physical punishment.
Except for the first year or two in Secondary it was subsequently banned. Were you also physically punished in secondary school?
When I was at secondary school in the early to mid 1970s, corporal punishment, was still reasonably commonplace. In PE it consisted of a plimsoll while wearing our PE kit (gym knickers and polo shirt).
At primary school we changed into pe kit (shorts or skirt and a T shirt) in class, but this meant stripping down to vest and pants before putting on our kit. Girls and boys did this in the same classroom; was this the case in your primary school?
Gavin A & Chis G,
I think there must have been a similar spike in sales at the sports shop near the school my Ex attended when their PE teacher advised them to buy a supporter at the start of their 3rd year.
I had to buy my son a supporter and 'box' when he started to play junior cricket for a local club. I suppose the sports shop was used to it as they had boys size boxes close by the till.
I guess the equivalent 'right of passage' for girls - getting our first bras- was more spread out throughout the year, although underwear buying generally formed part of our back to school shopping trip towards the end of the summer holidays.
What about punishments during PE?
Were you slippered on your PE shorts or having to take them down?
Or was some other physical punishment given?
When I was in Primary school physical punishments were given by teachers in class, but by the time I got to Secondary school it was outlawed.
I assume that most posters here are talking about their school in the 60s and 70s at most which was a different time when physical punishment was normal in most schools.
I also read that some primary schools did PE in just underpants for both boys and girls. Was this the case at your school?
At our school we all changed into PE shorts and shirts in class.
Also I was not aware before reading about it on the internet that some schools required boys to be nude during swim classes. How common was this practice?
We had a school clothes shop or rather outfitters that largely catered for all our clothing needs. I think the shop were rather amused when year after year 'first year senior' boys would troop in asking to buy their first jockstrap! Of course some boys' fathers looked after them. As I did with my own boys, in due course.
Andrea - forgot to mention that when I changed schools for 6th form, I was a boarder. There were no facilities for buying uniform items or sports equipmenet in-house, ad we were rather too far away from the nerest town for shopping to be practical, so everything had to be bought at home. I remember my Mum got me my first one at home and posted it to me.
Gavin A,
As it was a boarding school did they sell supporters at the school, or did you have to wait until the next holidays to purchase one?
Gavin/Andrea yes I think peer pressure and coming of age had a great influence on boys second year onwards particularly amongst the Rugby team.
Most started to wear a jockstrap at the age of around 13 to 14 in my school. I would add that I was a boarder. I guess it was either older brother or possibly fathers that were the main influence for some, but for the rest like me it was peer pressure and wanting to follow the older boys in order to be seen as one and not left behind. Might even be put down to a 'coming of age' ritual!
Did any of you wear your jockstrap as underwear outside of PE? Towards the end of my time at school, my Dad had to work in Singapore for a couple of months, and he stocked up with several Litesome jocks for daily wear. When he got back, he didn't want them any more, so I started wearing them as regular underwear. Mum thought it a bit strange, but they were really quite comfortable.
Adrian, Stuart - like you I never heard anything about supporters at school - I didn't play cricket but I do remember hearing about "boxes" from those that did. I see that some people who wore jockstraps were very keen on them but I don't think any-one at my school ever suffered as a result of wearing nothing under their shorts, or nothing apart from their shorts for that matter.
At a boys' grammar school in the '60s boxes were available for cricket but I never saw or heard of athletic supports. Up until the fifth form we wore shorts but no pants for gym, athletics, cross-country, rugby and hockey. We thought nothing of it because we knew no different.
Frank and others
We were encouraged to wear a jockstrap supporter by PE staff from the age of about 16. Certainly by the time we got into the 6th Form most of us wore them for PE and sport. It made us feel very "manly". They were good to wear. It is a pity that they are no longer popular with young lads although sports briefs seem to have replaced them.
Gavin A,
If wearing a supporter wasn't mentioned by your PE teacher, then presumably the first boys in the class to wear them were influenced by older brothers or fathers?
Your comment about wanting one once your best friend had one reminds me of a few of my classmates wanting a bra when their friends had one!
How old were most of the boys when they started to wear supporters?
Frank/Adrian/Stuart, At our Sec.school in the 60s athletic supporters were never mentioned and don't know of anyone who wore them.
But we kept our underpants under our PE shorts so it would be different if they had to be taken off for PE as some mention here in their school.
We did not have cricket at our school either, only the occasional football game in the large school yard.
Paul, I assume that you were taken to the pool and supervised there by teachers. Were there ever female teachers or staff supervising the nude boys at the pool?
I recently read in a local paper of men complaining that they could not use the council pool changing and shower room during school lessons because there were female teachers supervising the boys in the male changing/shower room.
The school boys swam in suits but they were supervised by female teachers in the changing/shower room.
The teachers replied that they had strict instructions that they must not leave the boys out of their sight, including in the showers, for safety reasons.
My experience too! Public school, late 60s early 70s. Boys in senior school not so much advised to wear a genital support but increasingly did so as they got older. I have to say that once my friend had one I wanted one as well. An almost 'becoming of age' ritual! Obviously we all wore a box for cricket but who wouldn't when batting!
Adrian, I agree , never heard PE teachers make any mention of athletic supports growing up, but yes always wore a box when batting in cricket!
Strange! Just shows how schools can differ from each other despite our going to the same type of school and in the same time period.


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Cardigan is considered to be the progenitor of all sweaters, sweatshirts, jumpers, pullovers and turtlenecks. It's believed to appear as far as Ancient Egypt, although there's no proof. Our adorable sweaters came from England, fishermen and sailors were the first ones who appreciated this type of clothing. Sportsmen didn't stand aside and by the end of the 19th century sweaters became very popular as their main advantage was lack of buttons or any other fastener. But the moment of glory for sweaters came at the beginning of the 20th century. Since then we have become big fans of sweaters. So what will designers please us with this season? First of all knitted women's sweaters should be voluminous and mostly made of mohair. However natural rustic yarn is trendy as well. If we speak about colours black, white, bright green and berry are preferable this season along with pastel shades. But sweaters with large bright prints either abstract or flower are just chic. Stripy sweaters are fashionable, too. There's one hint – stripes (thin or thick) should be horizontal. And don't forget about sweaters decorated with ethnic motif – they as popular as used to be.
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PSA: please avoid all Inside spoilers
Why it's best to resist reading about this game until you've finished it.
Playdead's INSIDE
From the Creators of LIMBO
It starts with a boy, a dark wood and the sense that you should probably start running. Or start hiding. Or both.
There's definitely something sinister going down in INSIDE, but it's never clear exactly what. You'll leap across chasms, pull levers and shove boxes onto switches to make your way through the game's world. But all the while, there's that creeping feeling of dread. Your next move could be your last.
From those panicky opening moments onwards, this game escalates in breathtaking fashion. Reach the conclusion of this thrilling puzzle-platform game and you'll be left agog at what you've just witnessed. Seriously. So please, don't search online about INSIDE before you play it right through to the end.
And when you have finished it, you won't be able to resist heading online to join the debate around what it all means.
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The way you've described it the chain should work.
There are three fields in the klist
The field types and sizes are the same in the klist and the first three keys in the logical
All three fields in the key list are populated with values that are virtually identical to the values in the first three keyfields on the logical file.
I was suggesting you use the actual values in the chain. Not %kds
My thoughts center around the klist not being setup properly with the actual access path of the file.
Yes, didn't write the reply very well - tried both and still no joy.
I've also written a dummy prog to check there is nothing wrong with the file setup and it writes, updates okay so problem is within the real prog.
Prog uses two logicals with different keys to access the pf - could this be causing issues? No record locks reported and all set to share?
Put a dow read loop in there and set to kick out when my record came up - but it never did - yet when I shwfc the file I can see it there
Making my brain bleed now.
Turns out there is an undocumented opnqryf removing some records based on one of the fields not being updated in this prog. Status gets set to R in a callp and R is not in the opnqryf file so the record "doesn't exist" for the main prog.
Thanks for your input
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We've been spared the clashes up close here in the Northeast, for now, but the "Battle of Berkeley" merits a watchful eye from afar. In short, the left-wing "Antifa" thugs whom the mainstream Left has largely tolerated and excused have now drawn out a right-leaning counterpart, which seems to be stronger, thus far. If you want the next step to the WhatCheer? Street Band's silencing speakers with noise at a Providence Trump rally, listen to the victors singing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" after violently driving Antifa off the streets of Berkeley at the end of the video at the bottom of this post on Ace of Spades.
This is not a positive development, but as I've written before, when every speaker to the right of Obama is branded a Nazi unworthy of rights, when every reservation expressed about radicalism is proclaimed racism, when conservatives are blocked from professorships, and when the bias of the news media is blatant and undeniable, the Right is freed of the restraints of polite society.
David French draws an important angle on this point:
Every single time the progressive establishment ignores, minimizes, or whitewashes leftist violence, it sows the wind. Americans have watched mobs attack police and burn buildings in Baltimore, Ferguson, Charlotte, and Minneapolis. They have watched mobs riot over politics and free speech in Middlebury, Berkeley, Portland, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Is anyone at all shocked that when the police hang back, others will step into the void? Leftists are fond of saying "violence begets violence." If we don't restore the rule of law, we'll all find out just how right they are.
French says we're "one trigger-pull away from a slaughter." How about three?
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit periodically suggests that the law is in some respects there to protect criminals from the harder justice of their victims. Radicals have long taken advantage of the strength of our government and the bias of our institutions to behave in fascist ways. David French notes that not a single person has faced consequences for the anti-free-speech outrages on American campuses, recently.
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