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Hotel Holiday Calbis brings Dalyan and its Turkish hospitality to your door. Surrounded by spectacular nature, Holiday Calbis is perfect for a relaxing holiday.
We invite you to enjoy the comfort and convenience of our hotel. Take a refreshing dip in our outdoor pools, relax on our shaded terraces or have a cocktail in our bar. We promise you will find plenty of ways to relax.
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Hotel Holiday Calbis gives you a pleasant choice of standard rooms, Grand family rooms, family rooms, rooms with interconnecting doors, suites and bungalow suites.
Recently, the rooms have all been built new or have been renewed. They are furnished in an elegant style and have balconies and modern amenities. Also available are two private villas that accommodate up to either 8 or 10 people.
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Dalyan is known for its striking nature, delta and beach. It's a protected area.
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Our terrain stretches out to 15.000 square meters of tropical garden with three pools and three unique buildings with comfortable rooms. Even if our 81 rooms are fully booked, you will find space, peace and quiet all around you. You'll never feel crowded. Our third pool is a quiet – adults only – area.
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ALFRED — A Thomaston man who is accused in an alleged prostitution operation in Kennebunk failed Friday in his attempt to have the judge in the case recuse herself and to have his case dismissed.
Mark Strong Sr., 57, an insurance agent and private investigator, was charged in July with promotion of prostitution, a misdemeanor. No one else has been charged in the case.
His attorney, Daniel Lilley, argued that the case should be dismissed because prosecutors have not followed the rules of discovery. Lilley said he should have received documents and other evidence from prosecutors by Aug. 10 but still has not.
York County Superior Court Justice Joyce Wheeler ruled that dismissal was not appropriate because there was no evidence that prosecutors acted in bad faith.
"I would say maybe the state has gotten in a bit over its head in terms of the sheer volume and managing it," Wheeler said of the evidence.
Wheeler said she expects parties to follow the rules of discovery and told the prosecution that it must be more responsive.
Lilley said that two calls to the York County District Attorney's Office were not returned — the prosecutor said she did not get the message — and that he filed his motion two weeks after the Aug. 10 deadline to get the judge's attention.
He said he didn't get a call from prosecutors until this week. He was then able to see the quantity of evidence at the Kennebunk Police Department but was not allowed to examine it, he said.
Prosecutors are dealing with an extremely large amount of data, said Deputy District Attorney Justina McGettigan.
Authorities gathered evidence in February from Alexis Wright's home in Wells, the fitness studio in Kennebunk where she taught Zumba classes and her nearby office space. In July, police searched Strong's home and office in Thomaston.
According to a police affidavit, the searches of Wright's home and workplaces turned up evidence of significant business and personal connections between Strong and Wright. They also found video of Wright engaged in sexual acts, a price list and "meticulous" client records, according to the affidavit, which was for Strong's arrest.
The existence of a list of alleged clients — rumored to include prominent figures — has fueled speculation about who was involved. Defense lawyers in southern Maine have said that clients have been seeking legal representation.
Lilley has said he will subpoena the alleged clients and anyone else involved in the case.
He has said that Wright hired Strong to investigate her complaints of harassment by Kennebunk police. Strong loaned Wright money, thinking he was investing in a legitimate business, according to Lilley.
Assistant Attorney General Gregg Bernstein, who investigates financial crimes, formally joined the case two or three weeks ago.
The affidavit says authorities have Maine tax returns filed by Wright and estimate that the sex acts would have generated $150,000. The document also indicates that authorities have footage of Wright asking Strong to check license plate numbers, but it does not explain why.
McGettigan said it was surprising how much evidence was discovered in Thomaston, given how much time Strong had to destroy evidence. The affidavits for the searches in Thomaston remain sealed.
The information that prosecutors have leads in many directions and involves many parties, and the state wants to make sure that if it charges someone it will be able to, without the cooperation of others, prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime has occurred, she said.
"There's some suggestions … that Mr. Strong is being selectively prosecuted. We just want to assure the court that is not the case," McGettigan said.
Wheeler said she wants a report by Sept. 21 on what has been provided to Lilley so she has some oversight of the process. Strong has a court appearance scheduled for Oct. 4.
Lilley told reporters after the hearing that his client has suffered under intense media coverage and can't get balance unless more information is made available to the defense.
"If we can get a trial and an acquittal, my client might be able to resurrect his life," he said.
In a separate motion filed this week, Lilley asked Wheeler to recuse herself. He said there is possible bias or the appearance of bias because one of the prosecutors, Kate Lawrence, is married to Jonathan Nathans, a law clerk for Wheeler.
McGettigan and Bernstein joined Lilley in his motion.
"I will just point out we have no problem with your honor's ability to sit on this case; it would be the question of how it would be viewed," McGettigan said.
Wheeler said Nathans is one of four law clerks based in Cumberland County who work with her and several other judges, primarily on civil cases. She said he has had no involvement in the case and he will not work on it.
She said she reviewed the section of the code of conduct regarding bias and found that none of the categories apply.
Superior Court Chief Justice Thomas Humphrey specially assigned Wheeler to the high-profile case. There was concern that if a judge who normally sits in York County knew any of the witnesses, he or she would have to be recused.
Strong did not attend Friday's hearing.
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THE national secretary of the Australian Workers Union, Paul Howes, has told those accusing Julia Gillard of wrongdoing as a lawyer almost 20 years ago to put up or shut up.
With the Deputy Opposition Leader, Julie Bishop, claiming Ms Gillard to be "less than honest" in her answers about the matter and vowing to pursue the matter in Parliament next week, Mr Howes said that other than innuendo and accusation, no-one had produced a skerrick of evidence against the Prime Minister.
"This is all smear," Mr Howes told Fairfax Media of accusations concerning Ms Gillard's knowledge of the antics of her former boyfriend and AWU union official, Bruce Wilson.
As an industrial lawyer with Slater & Gordon, Ms Gillard represented Mr Wilson and the AWU from 1992 to 1995.
With Ms Gillard's assistance, Mr Wilson and his colleague, Ralph Blewitt, established a fund, called the Workplace Reform Association. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were siphoned from construction company Theiss into the fund for the personal use of Mr Wilson and Mr Blewitt.
Ms Gillard says she had no idea the fund was to be used for improper purposes and said she helped with the legal work to set it up, believing it would be used for legitimate union purposes such as workplace safety and re-election of officials.
"I provided advice as a solicitor. I am not the signatory to the documents that incorporated this association, I was not an office bearer of the association," she told reporters in August.
"I had no involvement in the working of the association. I provided advice in relation to its establishment and that was it."
During this period, Mr Wilson organised the purchase of a $230,000 property in Fitzroy, Melbourne.
It was bought by Mr Blewitt as an investment property and Mr Wilson lived in it.
It was later discovered that more than $100,000 of the purchase money was taken from the union association by Mr Wilson.
Ms Gillard attended the auction with Mr Wilson and visited the house regularly as his boyfriend.
At all stages she has denied knowing at the time that money from the fund was used to buy it.
On Melbourne Cup day this year, she said: "I was not in charge of the conveyancing file".
There is pressure for police to reopen the investigation into the rorting and Mr Blewitt has returned to Australia from Malaysia, where he now lives.
He says he will talk to police if granted immunity from prosecution.
But there is no suggestion he has anything linking Ms Gillard to the wrongdoing of himself and Mr Wilson.Mr Howes said the matter was investigated exhaustively all those years ago.
"Ultimately, the union tried to pursue these people 17 years ago. We provided all the evidence we had on file to the DPP in Western Australia and Victoria. We provided it to the police," he said.
"The authorities in WA and Victoria declined to prosecute. They said the union wasn't the aggrieved party. The aggrieved party was Theiss."
The opposition is striving to keep the matter in the public spotlight to damage Ms Gillard. Ms Bishop is promising more next week.
But Mr Howes said it was time to produce some evidence or go away.
"There's been a lot of innuendo and accusation. I've yet to see a single scrap of evidence that shows anyone other than Ralph Blewitt and Bruce Wilson did anything wrong."
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New Year, New Books!
I scored a few new sewing books over the holidays! They are all amazing and if you are in the market for some inspiring photos and projects, you should definitely consider these.
The first is Scandinavian Stitches: 21 Playful Projects with Seasonal Flair. This book is full of little mini decorative quilts, bins, dolls, and other cute applique items that I normally don't make. But that is all going to change this year because the projects in this book are super cute.
The second book is Material Obsession 2: More Modern Quilts with Traditional Roots. I have the first book, which is nice, but I love this one even more. There are so many quilts in here that I am already mentally adding to my to-do list.
The third book is Fresh Quilting: Fearless Color, Design, and Inspiration.Last Christmas I received Malka Dubrawsky's first book, Color Your Cloth, and learned to dye fabric. This book is even more beautiful, if that is possible. Malka can do no wrong, IMO! Her sense of color and style is so addictive.
Finally I have Elizabeth Hartman's (of Oh, Fransson) book The Practical Guide to Patchwork: New Basics for the Modern Quiltmaker coming my way. I don't really need a basics book...but I saw it in my LQS and I loved having all her wonderful projects and fabric choices put together in a book. I mean, when Elizabeth Hartman writes a book, you buy it, am I right? She is so talented! I also think it would make a great gift for someone new to modern quilting, and will be keeping that in mind this year.
Did anyone else get any new books or fun fabrics over the holidays?


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News Flash, I love brownies. I really can't get enough of the gooey chocolate deliciousness. We grew up on Betty Crocker boxed brownie mix. Seriously, back then those were the bomb, all fudge with that extra fudge pack you'd add just in to really make sure thy were fudge-y enough. Times have changed and we try to stick to a healthier diet of wholesome ingredients so when I crave chocolate I scour the internet in search of the perfect treat. I stumbled upon Paleo Grub and a particular recipe by REBECCA BOHL jumped right out at me. Yes it is a brownie recipe and yes I made them twice in two days, and yes I ate most of them!
the cool thing about these is that they have no grain, the star of these is almond butter, who knew? They don't taste like almonds and the texture is very brownie like. As good as these are I needed a bit of sweet on top so I went a step further, yes I did. The brownies were so delicious but I needed more, I was having a bad sweet tooth. I created this dairy free recipe for icing using the Kelapo Oil. It does have sugar so it is not entirely Paleo but you can create your own from this base recipe, go for it!
Recently I received a bunch of Kelapo Coconut oil and I'd been thinking of using it but hadn't quite put my finger on anything. (lightbulb moment coming) Frosting for these healthy brownies, what a great way to test out the new coconut oil. We use a lot of coconut oil on our house from skin and hair moisturizer to sweet and savory recipes. The Kelapo oil is so coconut-y, it is very delicious and I can't wait to use it again in another recipe.
All I can tell you is beware because this icing is way too easy to just eat by the spoonful!
Dairy Free Coconut Icing
Makes approximately 1 1/2 cups
2 Tbs Kelapo Extra Virgin Organic Coconut Oil
2 Tbs room temperature Earth Balance or Butter (if you are not dairy free)
3 Tbs coconut butter
pinch salt
2 Tbs almond milk or milk (if you are not dairy free)
1 1/2 cups organic powdered sugar
Mix the butters and salt in a bowl with an electric mixer until very smooth. Add sugar a half cup at a time mixing until smooth.
Use immediately. To store chill for up to a week. To use from refrigerator let sit at room temperature for 30 minutes to soften and stir vigorously for easy spreading.


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As several of you requested, I'm sharing my healthy variations to Crystal's Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins. These were a big hit yesterday morning when I served them in our marriage class.
If you'd like to read more about how I adapt a recipe to make it healthier, check out this post. You'll find a free, downloadable recipe conversion sheet which you can tack onto your refrigerator to reference when you need to convert a recipe.
Whole Wheat Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins (adapted from MoneySavingMom)
3 cups whole wheat flour (I used freshly ground hard white wheat)
1/2 cup sucanat
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
4 eggs
2 cups pureed pumpkin (or one 16 ounce can)
1 cup melted coconut oil (or butter)
1 cup chocolate chips (I prefer either homemade chocolate chips or soy free chocolate chips)
In a large mixing bowl, stir together all dry ingredients. Add eggs, pumpkin and oil. Mix well. Fold in chocolate chips. Spoon batter into 24 paper lined muffin cups. Bake in a 400° oven for 16-22 minutes or until the muffins are golden brown.
These are easy to put together and make your house smell just like the fall season is supposed to smell. Pumpkin and cinnamon smell awesome. Plus, adding chocolate to a muffin never, ever hurts my feelings. :)


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HAYWARD — At first glance, the magenta field slashed down the middle by a multicolored strand could be an abstract painting in an art gallery.
The striking image, though, is the work of aerial photographer Barrie Rokeach of Berkeley, who elevated a sight familiar to Bay Area residents — salt ponds along the Hayward shoreline — to a work of art.
His photo of the ponds will grace one of 15 "Earthscapes" stamps being issued Monday by the Postal Service.
Rokeach shot the ponds, which no longer exist, in 1983 and he has been creating images of the San Francisco Bay ponds from the air for decades.
"I see patterns emerge, forms that change with the seasons, time of day and lighting," he said. "As the water evaporates, the colors evolve into unpredictable shapes, shades and hues, replacing the monotone blues."
The photo is a shot of Cargill salt ponds just south of the San Mateo Bridge. Cargill sold most of its Bay Area salt ponds in the 1990s to the state and federal governments for wetlands restoration.
Rokeach shot the photo from a plane in the middle of the day. "That's the actual color it looks if one had flown over it," he said.
He said that salt ponds are formed by enclosing the area with an earthen berm and waiting for the water to evaporate, leaving the salt. As the water evaporates, various microorganisms concentrate.
"As they concentrate, they change colors. It goes from orange to yellow, magenta, pink — all the warm colors that you could possibly imagine," he said.
Rokeach has been an aerial photographer for about 40 years. Hundreds of his photos have been used in books, posters and calendars, he said, "but this is my first postal one." The photographer said he was contacted by the Postal Service, which let him know the image had been chosen for the "Earthscapes" series.
Images for stamps are first narrowed down by about a dozen citizens from around the nation, said Augustine Ruiz, spokesman for the Bay-Valley District of the Postal Service. "The members come from different backgrounds, including artists, teachers, professors and sports announcers," Ruiz said.
Postal Service art director Howard Paine made the final selection of the 15 photos used in the "Earthscapes" series.
The stamps, which all feature aerial shots, are being issued as Forever stamps. Forever stamps are equal in value to the current first-class mail one-ounce rate.
On Monday, Rokeach will be at the main Hayward Post Office, 24438 Santa Clara St., from 10 a.m. to noon for the release of the "Earthscapes" stamps. "Earthscapes" stamps and prints can be purchased. A pictorial postmark created to mark the event will be available at the post office.
Although the image appearing on the stamp no longer exists, there are still colorful ponds in the South Bay, Rokeach said.
"Anyone flying into the Bay Area in an airliner can see them."
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Is it possible to reinvent solar control glass? Most certainly: it is now possible to cover the entire range of architecture with just four different coating variants. This revolutionary solution is the brainchild of arcon, which has launched a new product range: the sunbelt A-Series: A70, A60, A50 and A40. The products are categorized according to light transmittance percentage. All layers are designed in both temperable and non-temperable versions, either in stock sheets or final cut-to-size. Despite their different characteristics, these new sunbelt coatings are visually harmonized, allowing them to be installed alongside each other. That is also a novelty in the glass industry.more »
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The Berchtesgaden National Park is Germany's only high alpine nature reserve, covering 210 square kilometers. Aside from promoting environmental protection in this unique southeastern Bavarian region, environmental research and information is offered to visitors interested in the local flora and fauna. The Bavarian government invested 15 million euros in an environmental information center too, known as "House of the Mountains / Haus der Berge". Here, special sunscreen glass from arcon is being used to enhance the building energy efficiency and environmental friendliness.more »
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Excellent question! Normally a Bob-and-Mickey diavlog would be showing up about now, but this week Mickey phoned in with a lame excuse. Bob, in a desperate attempt to appease Mickey's fans, has lined up several non-lefty bloggingheads for the remainder of the week: Jonah Goldberg, Ann Althouse, and a well known conservative blogger mystery guest who will be making his bhTV debut in a diavlog with Bob. Also debuting will be globetrotting foreign correspondent Joshua Hammer. If all goes according to plan (Hah!), one of these three diavlogs will show up some time tonight. --Dec. 7So it's a veritable Bloggingheads logjam (of the Mickeyless kind). It takes a while for them to put the video together for a Bloggingheads episode. Apparently, it's a technical feat of some difficulty. I recorded a diavlog at 10 a.m. yesterday, but the video that went up last night is Bob with Joshua Hammer. If mine goes up next, it will be quickly pushed down from the top spot by that third one. So I guess it's better to come in third.
I have this blogger's angst about all the topics going stale. Blogging makes you feel that everything must go up immediately. But Bloggingheads is more like the podcast. You look back over what you blogged about recently to come up with some topics, then you talk about that... and digress. Did we get some good digressions in? I think so. I had to listen to my recording to pick the segment breaks and titles, but that mean I only heard my side of the diavlog, with all the long empty spots. Something makes me roll my eyes way more conspicuously than I've ever done on Bloggingheads. Anyway, stay tuned.
UPDATE: Actually, the news is that Jonah's computer crashed! I still have my end of the conversation, with me rolling my eyes at now I'll never know what. As Jonah puts it:
Due to technical disasters at Bloggingheads HQ, my hour long conversation with Ann Althouse for BloggingHeads has been lossed [sic] to history forever. We discussed everything from transgender issues to "liberaltarians" to the author of The Conservative Soul. Gone, gone forever.Except my side. Someone could take my video and add an audio track making up amusing stuff for the other side of the conversation.... A project that would appeal to my blogger-enemies, probably.
Anyway, it was great fun talking to Jonah! Wish you all could have listened in.


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SHELBY � Each time Shelby has hosted the American Legion World Series, attendance has increased by the thousands.
And each time the World Series has returned to Veterans Field at Keeter Stadium, the facility has greeted fans with an array of upgrades � from a new scoreboard to more seats � to improve the experience.
Those changes have brought increased national attention to Cleveland County � through ESPN3 coverage, Shelby being named the official home of the World Series and more. But the changes have also created big needs for the stadium that hosted more than 100,000 fans last August for the national tournament.
Last year, the crowds in the stadium put a strain on the Internet service. And new expansions to the stadium created spots the sound system didn�t reach � meaning fans in far corners couldn�t hear announcements.
Work is underway to address both of those challenges � a new Internet system that will serve all stadium visitors and plans for a sound system to make announcements and music available at all points in the stadium.
Sponsors and donations will make both projects possible, and ALWS leaders are currently seeking assistance with funding for the sound upgrades, which are expected to cost about $30,000.
Earlier this month, MaxPreps.com � an online high school sports media outlet � ranked Keeter Stadium No. 2 on a list of America�s best high school baseball venues. ALWS leaders have said this year�s upgrades would make it the top high school venue in the country.
Help needed to improve stadium sound
Seating and concourse expansions in recent years have stretched the size of the stadium.
This year, the stadium is growing again with the construction of a Plaza of Champions entryway.
The current sound system does not reach the outlying areas down each base line or areas surrounding the stadium.
�If we turn up the volume loud enough for those people to hear, people sitting close are going to have their eardrums burst,� said David Grose, an ALWS executive committee member who oversees communications.
Grose and other ALWS leaders plan to increase the amount of sound equipment at the stadium through the addition of speakers, amps and wiring to reach all sections of the complex.
�The goal is that regardless of where you sit, you should be able to hear,� he said. �If you�re getting a hot dog or walking through the concourse, you should be able to hear. And we can have music or announcements in the plaza and different sound in the stadium for the ball game. We�ll be able to zone the sound.�
ALWS leaders hope to use some existing equipment � items no longer used in the Shelby High football stadium � to help with the upgrades. Grose said that could save an estimated $8,000 in upgrade costs.
But other equipment will be needed, and the ALWS is seeking sponsors to help fund the planned upgrades in time for this year�s World Series.
�We really need to do this,� said Eddie Holbrook, co-chairman of the ALWS executive committee.
�We just need to get help,� Grose said. �Everything we do depends on the generosity of the community.�
By the numbers
* Anticipated sound upgrade costs � About $30,000, with help needed from sponsors.
* How can you help make it happen? � Contact the American Legion World Series office at 704-466-3103 or visit at 117-A W. Warren St. in Shelby.
Source: David Grose
Stadium Internet service getting major upgrade
Revo Communications is installing fiber optic equipment in the stadium to significantly improve services through more bandwidth, which means faster service for Internet users.
�We�ve had a limited business class service that�s a step above what you�d have at home. That�s not really enough to do the work we need to do,� Grose said. �We�re really a small industry when the World Series comes to town. We needed to upgrade and do something.�
The improved Internet service will benefit ESPN for its online broadcasts via ESPN3, media covering the World Series in the stadium and fans.
�We�ll have public WiFi for use on phones, iPads to upload pictures and video to send back home from the stands,� Grose said. �Last year, we maxed out with the Internet service with so many people using it. Just as the crowds have expanded, so has the need for (Internet) speed.�
By the numbers
* Costs for the upgrade -- $20,000 a year for five years
* Current Internet speeds � 50 MB/s downloads, 5 MB/s uploads
* Planned Internet speeds � 100 MB/s downloads, 100 MB/s uploads, with plans for an antenna to add another 100 MB/s each to downloads and uploads.
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Nigerian amnesty plan for oil militants falls flat
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria's latest plan to end militant attacks in the volatile Niger River delta that have cut oil production to a 20-year low appears to have collapsed.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsed the plan during a visit to Nigeria earlier this month, in hopes of bringing some semblance of peace to a region that is a major U.S. source of foreign oil.
But the delta's main militant group over the weekend dismissed the three-week-old plan as "a charade" and vowed to resume attacks after a ceasefire expires Sept. 15.
The plan, which offered amnesty to any militant who laid down his arms during a 60-day period, began with fanfare three weeks ago, but it now seems unlikely to achieve anything more than a brief respite from the violence.
Experts and activists say the plan doesn't address any of the rebels' key demands: jobs, economic development and a greater share of oil wealth for the delta, where millions live in extreme poverty while Western energy giants and Nigerian politicians pocket billions of dollars annually in oil revenues.
Critics call it a half-hearted measure by a government desperate to shore up a listing industry that's contributed to instability in world energy markets. Nigerian crude exports have fallen by nearly 40 percent from 2006 amid an escalating militant campaign of sabotage, oil siphoning, kidnappings of foreign oil workers and confrontations with security forces.
"It looks like the bottom line is to rein in the violence to allow the oil production and export to continue, and then get back to business as usual," said Nnamdi K. Obasi, a Nigeria-based analyst for the International Crisis Group research agency. "People in the delta say this doesn't respond to their demands."
Nigerian officials insist the program is off to "a good start," and media reports over the weekend said that militants turned over hundreds of automatic rifles and rocket-launchers. Several high-profile militia leaders have accepted the pardon, even meeting Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua in a ceremony here in the capital.
Two weeks ago, however, gunmen reportedly tied to the main militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, bombed a major oil pipeline belonging to Royal Dutch Shell. The attack signaled that the vast, decentralized militias — with thousands of fighters and countless weapons scattered throughout the delta's mazelike creeks — were unconvinced by the peace plan.
In a statement Saturday, MEND denounced the militants who accepted amnesty and said that it had already replaced at least one key commander.
"Things are actually getting worse," said Sebastian Spio-Garbrah, an analyst with the Eurasia Group, a New York-based risk consultancy. "(The pipeline attack) may indicate that with the deepening organizational disarray of the militias, more random attacks on all classes of energy facilities throughout the delta may be coming."
The Obama administration has a major stake in what happens in turbulent Nigeria, the fifth-largest U.S. oil supplier. Besides the two-decade-long insurgency in the southern delta, where millions live without steady power and clean water despite the staggering oil wealth, Yar'Adua's government is also facing growing dissatisfaction in the Muslim-dominated north ahead of elections scheduled for 2011.
On her recent visit, Clinton urged Nigerian officials to direct more funds toward jobs and development. But she generally backed the government's amnesty plan and said the U.S. was considering offering military assistance.
"I think that the government, under the president's leadership, has the right idea of having a multi-pronged approach to dealing with the Niger Delta," Clinton told an audience in Abuja.
The last amnesty offer, in 2004, fell apart after militants squabbled over disarmament payments and found no jobs waiting for them. Last year, government forces launched a major land, sea and air offensive that badly destabilized the militants' camps, but security didn't improve much. In the first nine months of 2008, 1,000 people were killed in the delta and Nigeria lost nearly $24 billion to oil theft and sabotage, according to the International Crisis Group.
After security forces and MEND announced a ceasefire last month, officials introduced the amnesty, which grants immunity from prosecution to any militant who renounces violence before Oct. 4. It also offers ex-fighters up to $430 in food and housing allowances and the chance for education or job training, officials said.
"Nothing can happen in an atmosphere of insecurity and crisis," said the spokeswoman for the amnesty committee, Timiebi Koripamo-Agary. "The amnesty is to start the process of building peace in the region."
The government also freed Henry Okah, a purported MEND leader, in what appeared to be a show of good faith. But Okah, who suffers from kidney ailments and is seeking medical treatment overseas, likely had his own reasons for wanting out.
"The government is trying to deal with individual militant leaders, maybe bribe them to come out," said Anyakwee Nsirimovu, a leading human rights activist in the delta. "If I just pack some weapons, go to one of the centers and say I'm a militant, they accept me and I get my hands on the (disarmament) money. It's not an organized approach."
In December, an expert panel recommended amnesty as part of a comprehensive peace process that included raising the delta's share of oil and gas revenues from 13 percent to 25 percent. Many believe that Nigerian officials, who've reportedly pocketed untold billions of dollars in illegal oil money, are unwilling to pledge more money to the region.
"It shows that this government isn't serious about resolving the real issues," said Youpele Banigo, a member of the panel. "The government is suffering from (the drop in) oil production. So all this is directed to ensure that oil production will flow."
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's Sacramento Zoo is urging homeowners to think of their tree trimmings and other yard waste as a potential meal for its animals.
Zoo officials have been placing door hangers in some neighborhoods asking for donations of clippings from trees and shrubs that various animals, including giraffes and zebras, find tasty, the Sacramento Bee reported on Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1wwLa3n ). Officials want to supplement the trimmings from trees on zoo property.
"We hope that it will take off so that donations can provide what we need instead of cutting on zoo property," said Melissa McCartney, primary keeper of ungulate stock at the Sacramento Zoo. "The tree trimmings we need to provide the animals are more than what we can get."
McCartney said branches are better for the animals than food pellets because they also give them something to do.
The sitatunga, a marsh dweller from central Africa, for example, plays with his food.
"He likes the elm and mulberry, and after he strips all the leaves off, he likes to fight the branch with his horns," said McCartney. "He gets the most enjoyment out of it."
The list of desired plants includes many that are common in Sacramento, such as ash, bamboo and cottonwood.
The plants must not be treated with pesticide, and must be free of disease. There are also some trees and shrubs that are toxic to animals. That list includes oleander, oak, camphor and most pines.
At least 40 animals at the zoo receive trees and shrubs each day, though giraffes get the most. An adult giraffe can consume 75 to 100 pounds of leaves a day. The zoo has five giraffes.
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Need to raise your blood pressure in a hurry? This is the docu for you. If your ears aren't burning red with anger twenty minutes in, you must be in top percentage of U.S. Citizens, wealth-wise. To make us feel better, this show might have begun with a clip from John Ford's classic Stagecoach, specifically the scene where the scurrilous banker character is caught and hauled away in irons, screaming in outrage. Somewhere in the extras for Inside Job, director Charles Ferguson says that the financial meltdown of 2008 was a bank robbery committed by the president of the bank. After watching the show, we're of the same mind: compared to the Wall Street pirates, thieves that walk into a bank with guns are far more honest about what they do.
I've already seen several documentaries on the 2008 meltdown, and none of them has been particularly useful in formulating a 'big picture' of the crisis. One docu concentrated on the mortgage crisis in a way that made us feel frustrated and angry and little else. Inside Job expertly tells us what happened, why it happened, and who's responsible. It's not a partisan docu. Although Reagan initiated the snowball of Wall Street deregulation and greed and George W. Bush opened the floodgates for abuse, President Clinton promoted the same destructive policies.
Inside Job's passages of explanation and exposition are set over images of modern cities and the beautiful corporate headquarters of the handful of Wall Street brokerages and investment banks that, the docu maintains, have become the acting government of the United States. Director Ferguson doesn't need to exaggerate when he explains that the big push to "lower taxes" benefits the top 1% of the wealthy -- one sequence is a calmly-edited image orgy of beautiful mansions, country estates, Manhattan penthouses, exotic cars, gleaming yachts and private jets. One brokerage head owns six private jets, plus a helicopter. Brokers frequent expensive houses of prostitution and spend fortunes on cocaine. All the while, the docu explains, the average American is both poorer and less well educated than his parents were: a quality college education is exceeding the reach of most citizens.
In fewer minutes than you'd think, the docu tackles the hard facts of the meltdown, defining terms and showing that the "puzzle" is less complicated than it looks. When cornered by reporters or investigators, the Wall Street thieves tend to answer direct questions by telling the questioner that the answers are too complicated to understand. Only the genius bankers have the necessary knowledge and they'd prefer to regulate themselves. Nevertheless, after watching Inside Job one will understand the role played by newly invented investment "products": derivatives, credit default swaps, toxic CDOs.
The deregulation band wagon launched by the Reagan administration opened the financial industry to risky practices that, once the mathematical experts worked out the details of the "complex financial products" being sold, gave enormous profits to the industry while leaving the risk to others. Ferguson charts the incestuous relationship between Wall Street, various Presidents' financial advisors and the regulators. Officials that came from the industry and would return to it acted as cheerleaders for Wall Street, while regulators did essentially nothing. Ferguson shines a light on the little-publicized fact that many academic experts in the most prestigious schools in the country are essentially on the Wall Street payroll, receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly for consultancy work.
Inside Job is particularly good at explaining practices that enriched Wall Street while destroying everyone else, sucking the wealth from the people who actually earned the money. We see the mortgage default crisis as an enormous Ponzi scheme that used predatory lending to inflate a giant balloon of false wealth. The big investment banks were able to loan money to home buyers who couldn't possibly pay it back, and through credit default swaps, profit when the housing market collapsed. Wall Street companies laundered money, defrauded investors and cooked their books. Ferguson establishes that this wasn't accidental but an inside job, that they knew very well that they were gaming the system. "Deregulation" means removing the legal barriers to unbridled greed.
If anything in the show makes one angry, it's watching the industry leaders squirm and offer pitiful prevarications as they testify before congress. It's too complicated for you to understand, they in effect keep repeating. It's a shame they aren't wearing prison jumpsuits and iron manacles. No kidding, this is what the facts make us feel at this point in the game.
The show uses the example of Iceland to show how deregulation destroyed a thriving and prudent economy and as a side effect despoiled the country with rapacious, ecologically unsound industries. Perhaps more disturbing is Ferguson's assessment of where things are now (2010): Almost nobody in the Wall Street culture has been prosecuted or arrested. This is despite the fact that the conspiracy of silence might be easily broken by Wall Street's weakness for whores and cocaine -- the culprits could be reached through their vices. Europe has retrenched and re-regulated its financial industries but the U.S. government under Obama has seen no meaningful reform. The same culprits are back at their trade, spending millions lobbying to suppress any new legislation to curb the industry's excesses or limit its power. Industry bonuses are bigger than ever. One interviewee says right out that, "It's a Wall Street Government".
Meanwhile, millions have lost their life savings and the U.S. economy was dealt a near death blow. Millions of jobs have been lost, most of which aren't coming back. With the property and sales tax base way down, state and local governments can't function. Politicians still talk about "stimulating" the economy by keeping taxes down, but that just funnels more money to the wealthy.
Inside Job is an excellent alternative to snarky docus that use sarcasm and irony to make their points. Michael Moore directs attention to his own celebrity, and even if one likes his personality, it's no fun seeing him engage in ambush interviews where the most active ingredient is his indignant predisposition. We voters don't need self-appointed Galahads, we need sound advice from sources with no partisan axe to grind, that is strong enough to cut through the information quicksand of modern media. You don't watch Inside Job for a handful of funny "gotcha" moments. The joke is on us, at all times.
I reviewed Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight, a superior examination of the criminal mishandling of the Iraq war. Inside Job is truly about a subject none of us can ignore. A grassroots movement out there (financed by ultra-wealthy industrialists) screams that "big government" is the problem. The solution to the nation's problems is to re-regulate the financial industry and purge its influence on a government that is supposed to protect its citizens and not a select group of financial billionaires. To this viewer Inside Job played as a worthy educational tool -- certainly to be questioned and cross-referenced -- that could do a lot of good.
Sony Classics' Blu-ray of Inside Job is a sparking transfer of this handsome production, in color and widescreen. We have to admire the judgment of editors Chad Beck and Adam Bolt, whose organizational skills make Inside Job communicate its ideas so clearly. They're also listed as co-writers, which is exactly what docu editors do when they give shape to a mountain of undigested interviews. It's nice to see title credits that reflect that fact.
Inside Job comes with a making-of docu that serves to explain where Charles Ferguson is coming from; several of his main interviewees are contacts and friends from his own business exploits -- his company was in early on the Internet business and developed FrontPage. If this director has some hidden motive for making Inside Job, I don't see it. Ferguson and his producer Audrey Marrs also contribute a full-feature commentary. Also included on the Blu-ray is a large selection deleted scenes and outtakes.
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Raw emotions bubbled just below the surface Wednesday as the Supreme Court considered a crucial North Carolina groundwater pollution case.
WASHINGTON � Raw emotions bubbled just below the surface Wednesday as the Supreme Court considered a crucial North Carolina groundwater pollution case.
For experts, the case called CTS Corp. v. Waldburger centers on the relationship between state and federal laws and the ticking of the courthouse clock. Simply put, it�s about how long people have to sue polluters when they�ve been harmed. Being the law, though, it�s rarely that simple.
�This is angels on the head of a pin, isn�t it?� Justice Antonin Scalia asked Wednesday, after one abstract exchange in an argument that periodically seemed to favor CTS.
For a host of North Carolina residents and former Camp Lejeune Marines, the technical argument Wednesday rarely touched the personal depths that carried them to court in the first place. It comes down to this: If CTS Corp. and its Obama administration allies win, as they well might, a number of North Carolina-related environmental lawsuits and health claims will fail.
�This is a sad day,� said retired Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger, who came up from his home in Elizabethtown, N.C., for the argument. �Basically, what the Department of Justice is trying to do here is take away the very rights that we fought for.�
Ensminger served 24 years in the Marine Corps. He did multiple stints at Camp Lejeune, where he and his family members were unknowingly exposed to contaminated water. His daughter Janey was subsequently diagnosed with leukemia when she was 6; she died when she was 9, in 1985.
Along with many others who served at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Ensminger is pursuing a claim against the federal government. The government�s defense relies, in part, on the same position CTS Corp. took in the separate case heard Wednesday. Consequently, the court�s eventual ruling in CTS Corp. v. Waldburger will also affect the Camp Lejeune cases.
CTS owned, until 1987, a manufacturing facility in Asheville, N.C. The land was subsequently sold and developed as a residential subdivision. More than a decade after CTS sold the land, residents began learning that their well water contained carcinogenic chemicals, including trichloroethylene, one of the chemicals also found in Camp Lejeune water.
The ensuing litigation crashes into a North Carolina �statute of repose,� which requires that certain lawsuits be filed within 10 years of the last allegedly harmful act. This is supposed to protect corporations or other property owners from an endless threat of litigation.
�The statute of repose is intended to provide certainty at the back end to a defendant so it can order its affairs, have insurance policies that make sense,� Joseph R. Palmore, assistant to the solicitor general, told the justices Wednesday.
Brian J. Murray, the Chicago-based attorney for CTS Corp., added Wednesday that the time limits help �avoid vexatious litigation designed to shake down settlements 40, 50 and 60 years after you�ve abandoned a site.�
The time limits pushed by CTS Corp. and the Obama administration seemed to appeal to Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. in particular. All eight of his questions Wednesday were aimed at the other side, which is often a reliable sign of which way a justice is leaning.
The time limits imposed in North Carolina and a few other states also mean, though, that the 10-year limit may slam the courthouse doors shut before an individual even discovers he�s been exposed. This happened at Camp Lejeune and at the former CTS Corp. site.
The legal question pressed Wednesday was whether Congress, through a law called the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, pre-empted the state�s 10-year limit. A provision of the federal environmental law starts the hazardous-waste litigation clock ticking only after someone discovers harm, rather than the longer-ago moment that the harmful acts ended.
�Congress was concerned about people not having their day in court,� John J. Korzen, the director of the Appellate Advocacy Clinic at Wake Forest University School of Law, told the justices Wednesday, adding that �Congress wanted polluters to be on the hook as long as it took to clean up.�
Students at the Wake Forest law clinic had represented the Asheville-area residents suing CTS Corp. at an earlier appellate hearing, and 10 or so clinic alumni traveled to the Supreme Court for the argument Wednesday. They heard, throughout the give-and-take, Justices Elena Kagan and, in particular, Ruth Bader Ginsburg reveal themselves as potentially sympathetic votes.
�If you were to prevail,� Ginsburg told the CTS Corp. attorney, �then the parties concerned might well go to their state legislatures and say, �Enact a statute of repose. That would get us off the hook, even before the injured party is aware of the injury and of the cause of it.��
Justice Clarence Thomas, as is his custom, did not speak or ask questions during the hourlong argument. Justice Stephen Breyer, uncharacteristically, also stayed silent. A court decision is expected by the end of June.


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- Connecticut school massacre prompts a number of proposals in Washington aimed at curbing gun violence
- They include a ban on assault weapons that insiders say has little chance of getting through Congress
- Some bipartisan support for proposals to expand background checks around gun purchases
Washington (CNN) -- December's school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, has prompted congressional lawmakers and the White House to offer a number of proposals aimed at curbing gun violence.
Here are some of the measures garnering the most attention:
The White House plan
President Barack Obama signed 23 executive actions, which don't require congressional approval, to strengthen existing gun laws and take related steps on mental health and school safety.
He has also called on Congress to reinstate the Clinton-era assault weapons ban that expired in 2004, to restrict ammunition magazines to no more than 10 rounds, and to expand background checks to anyone buying a gun, whether at a store or in a private sale at an auction or convention.
Assault weapons ban revisited
A proposal by Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-California, would not ban ownership of assault weapons outright, but would prohibit new ones from being manufactured, sold or imported. It would also outlaw ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.
She said the goal is to "dry up the supply of these weapons over time." The measure, along with a companion bill in the House, is opposed by the nation's powerful gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association.
Cracking down on straw purchases
Vermont Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has called for stronger background checks and a crackdown on so-called straw purchases, in which people who can pass background checks buy weapons for others. Leahy has proposed a measure to increase penalties for straw purchasers.
Curbing gun trafficking
A new House bipartisan gun control bill seeks to make gun trafficking a federal crime. It has some bipartisan support and mirrors a measure proposed in the Senate.
House Democratic efforts
A group of House Democrats, who were part of the chamber's Democratic Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, unveiled 15 proposals to address gun violence. The measures largely echoed those previously backed by the White House.
The package is similar to other Democratic measures that would address background checks, ban high capacity magazines, and crack down on gun trafficking.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Viginia, told CNN that he supports beefed up background checks for gun sales.
Closing gun show loophole
A group of four senators working behind the scenes on a bipartisan bill to expand background checks on gun sales is making significant progress, according to sources in both parties familiar with their work.
The group includes Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, who has an A rating with the National Rifle Association, and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, a long time advocate of gun rights.
The legislation would effectively require background checks on private gun purchases made with non-licensed gun dealers, according to sources in both parties. That would include closing the so-called gun show loophole.
Political play
House Speaker John Boehner has said he has no plans to bring any measure up for a vote until the Senate acts first.
Republicans oppose any assault weapons ban and rural-state Democrats facing tough re-election fights are unlikely to support it as well, meaning that proposal has little chance of passing Congress.
There is some bipartisan support for expanded background checks, especially to keep guns out of the hands of people with mental illness. A number of lawmakers may also support limiting the size of ammunition magazines.
Some lawmakers have said that various gun proposals may be addressed in separate bills, rather than a comprehensive package, which could more easily be targeted by opponents.
The top Democrat in Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, has a good rating from gun rights groups and has said he would work to ensure that a variety of proposals are brought to the floor for consideration.
He opposed the 1994 assault weapons ban and has indicated support for expanding background checks but refuses to endorse a new weapons prohibition.
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On sale today is Christopher Wakling's acclaimed novel What I Did, written from the point-of-view of six-year-old Billy as he sets in motion a series of unexpected, family-altering events. Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room, raved about the book, "This is family life today at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging...I LOVED it." And Publishers Weekly says What I Did is "much in the vein of Atonement." Read on for more information about the book and for a Q&A with Christopher.
"This is a story about a terrible thing which happens to me. I have to warn you that nobody is bad or good here, or rather everyone is a bit bad and a bit good and the bad and the good moluscules get mixed up against each other and produce terrible chemical reactions. Did you know cheetahs cannot retract their claws?"
Six-year-old Billy loves animals, David Attenborough documentaries, and sneakers that flash when he runs. He does not love sitting still, the blood-soaked sky in Watership Down, or his father's cell phone.
When Billy runs into a busy street, ignoring his father's commands, he sets in motion a series of unexpected, family-altering events. What I Did is a heart-wrenching reminder of how best intentions can lead to disastrous consequences, and how one rash decision can take on a life of its own.
Q: How difficult was it writing in the voice of a six-year-old boy for the duration of the novel? Were you ever tempted to break from that structure as you progressed through the story?
The difficult – but fun – part was coming up with a convincing voice for Billy in the first place. It emerged in my notebooks over a couple of years. Once I had the voice I was determined to stick with it for the duration, with the aim of making the story, like childhood itself, a focused, hectic rollercoaster ride.
Q: What research did you do while writing the novel?
Aside from speaking to child protection workers, pediatricians, lawyers, schoolteachers and parents, to work out the practical and legal ramifications of Billy's story, I spent a great deal of time listening to my own kids. I wrote down what they said, imagined what they might be thinking, and made notes about that, too. In the park I looked like a hack journalist trailing miniature dictators.
Q: Did anything surprise you when you interviewed different people (especially professionals) about corporal punishment?
I suspected I'd encounter a wide range of opinions about corporal punishment, and I did. The only real surprise was how vociferously people held their opinions.
Q: Throughout the novel the reader only has access to information gained from Billy's perspective. Were you concerned about readers literally having doors closed on them during some of the more intense family scenes where Billy isn't present?
No. If I've done my job properly the reader should know what's going on amongst the adults, even if Billy doesn't. Sometimes he's present. And when he's not there, there are clues. If readers feel some of Billy's disorientated confusion, so much the better. It's his story after all.
Q: Billy's fascination with nature and animals is a predominant theme throughout WHAT I DID. Do you see parallels between the animal kingdom and humanity when a crisis hits?
I do, yes. In particular, the instinctive drive many animals have to defend their young. At one point I have Billy think the thought: you should never get between a leopard and its cubs.
Q: Rather early on, Billy remarks that "nobody is bad or good here, [but] rather everyone is a bit bad and a bit good." Do you think Billy would agree with his assessment ten or fifteen years into the future, looking back on the events of the novel?
I hope so, because that's how I see it. Jim - Billy's father - is a flawed character, but he's not evil. The passer-by who intervenes at the scene is only trying to help. Likewise, the child protection workers wreak havoc, but they're doing their duty in good faith. Billy's Mum could be more forceful, his Grandma more helpful, his schoolteacher more insightful, the doctor less quick to jump to conclusions, but ultimately they're all trying their hardest to do what's best for Billy. He's not blameless himself. What Billy does to begin with helps create the problem, and he subsequently plays a part in making everything worse. That said, he's six.
Q: You've said, "Fatherhood is fantastic. It has also exposed some interesting character flaws. Hence WHAT I DID." How was the experience of WHAT I DID – writing it, seeing it published, seeing critical reception – different from those experiences with your earlier books?
There's a personal element to all of my books, and I've published each of them with similar feelings of pride, hope, and apprehension. But WHAT I DID is particularly close to home, yes. It owes a debt to my own children. The nice things that critics have said about the novel resonate for me because of that.
Q: If readers could take only one thing away from this novel, what would you like it to be?
A renewed appreciation of the intensity of childhood.
Q: Corporal punishment is obviously a hot-button issue, as can be the good intentions of social services. You must have some thoughts about both.
I do, lots. But I have no axe to grind. Social workers in child protection are as routinely damned for intervening too hastily as they are for failing to act quickly enough. Corporal punishment of children was normal throughout the world until very recently, and is now illegal in many countries. The book explores these moral minefields. Readers will draw their own conclusions.
Q: Will you allow your children to read WHAT I DID when they are of age? Do you think they will see themselves in it?
I hope they want to read it, and see I wrote it in part as an act of love, and know they transcend the novel either which way.
What I Did is on sale now wherever books are sold. For more with Christopher Wakling, follow him on Twitter, visit his website, and read his blog written from the point-of-view of six-year-old Billy. Book club members can check out the reading group guide.


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I Heard the Prophet
1. I heard the prophet speak:
"The time has come to stand."
To keep the faith with courage,
do good with heart and hand.
Do good with heart and hand.
Yes, I will follow the prophet.
I have no need to fear;
for as I follow the prophet,
I can feel the Savior near.
2. I heard the prophet speak.
And peace has filled my heart.
The kingdom's moving forward;
I'll stand and do my part.
I'll stand and do my part.
3. I heard the prophet speak,
with blessings on us all,
that as we walk in faith,
the Lord will hear our call.
The Lord will hear our call.
Text: Carol Lynn Pearson
Music: Janice Kapp Perry
Artist: Pearson/Perry
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: Friend
Composition Date: 2012-10-01
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SOW Team: A Day in the Life of a TYO Volunteer
I woke up feeling a little nervous, like the first day of school when you don't know anyone yet. I walked down to the main floor of the Nablus Center to see many kids sitting along four tables, wide-eyed and restless. Who do I talk to when I can't say more than ten words? I walk up to a small boy in an orange Holland jersey fumbling with his backpack, "Marhaba, Shooo issmek?" I say, still unsure if I'm pronouncing it correctly. He stares at me with a worried look and I back away embarrassed. Ala, a Core Child teacher at TYO who teaches IT skills, and my only friend who speaks English, points me in the direction of one of the classrooms. I can't tell who's more nervous at this point, the kids or myself.
I feel like the new kid again. I shyly introduce myself and take the open seat next to the kid in the Holland jersey. The teacher continues talking in Arabic as a few kids continue to stare in my direction. When your ability to communicate is taken away, you have to rely solely on universal gestures. The fellow volunteers start to hand out blank paper. Are those really butterflies in my stomach? I feel as if I am five again and have to hold the urge to grab the crayons first. It's only been five minutes and I'm already uncontrollably smiling.
It's no wonder TYO has so many volunteers. They have over 100 for the summer session, mainly from An Najah University, and overwhelmingly female. They actually started out with only 12 volunteers, all males, but with the increase in numbers each year, more and more women started to participate. After snack time, we prepare for our morning field trip to the Nablus Fire Department. I don't remember the last time I visited a fire station, probably when I was about this age. After settling who travels on what bus (the kids must be separated by where they're coming from, Askar, Balata, Khallet al Amood) we make our way down to the Nablus Fire Department.
It would seem that fire stations are impressive everywhere. The firemen greeted us in their typical outfits. There were then some demonstrations. Even though I couldn't understand, Ala was quick to translate whenever there was a funny moment, such as when one kid, when prompted by the firemen if he had any questions, asked about a monster that attacked his foot last night. I enjoyed the children's Q&A very much, but I had a question of my own so I conversed with one of the volunteers at the fire station. He told me that it was a long process to become a firemen and that he has volunteered for about seven years!
It seems as if volunteering is a natural option for those at the University because they are able to get professional skills they wouldn't otherwise have access. Similar to the United States, where internships are the norm before getting a real job, volunteering has become increasingly common in the West Bank. Professor Jawad Fatayer, of An Najah University, stresses that this desire is more than just professional. It is also personal. Volunteers feel a sense of community through their work, that they are making an impact. That is probably why so many of the volunteers stay. Most of the volunteers we interviewed had been with TYO since the beginning. It is great to see how comfortable they are with the kids.
After waiting for a bit, our bus arrives. I thank the firemen for their time and prepare for a relaxing and reflective ride back. I am starting to feel less like the new kid and more like a new friend. When we get back, Alaa, Haitham, and Jawad, the Core Child teachers, even invite me to sit with them for lunch. I am touched. I have been used to the familiar territory of the sixth floor; however, it is nice to be around the volunteers whose faces I frequently see, but I've never had the opportunity of working side-by-side with. They tell me that all of the volunteers stay throughout the day despite having a break between the morning and afternoon programming. I notice them hanging out in front of the center, or talking in the computer class.
It is a warm feeling coming back to TYO and I understand a little bit better what it means to be a volunteer. It is not just a role, but a mindset. You can tell that it must not always be so easy to work with the kids but the volunteers genuinely enjoy their work. They continue to come and be a part of TYO and the bond is obvious. I become slightly jealous that I don't have a place like this back home, and a little guilty that I maybe haven't searched for it as much as these students have. I walk upstairs feeling that sense of accomplishment and fulfillment that Dr. Jawad described. For a little while, it is easy to feel hope and love, to feel an impact, to feel a connection.
- Sarah
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Clambering to proclaim victory after more than three years of bloody narcotics warfare, Mexican authorities paraded a Texas-born accused kingpin before the media Tuesday and offered abundant details of his climb through the violent drug underworld before his capture Monday in a mountain hideout.
While speculation surged that Mexico would deport Edgar Valdez Villarreal, a 37-year-old former football star from Laredo, Texas, to stand trial in the United States, where he's still a citizen, there was no immediate sign of action by Mexico or the US.
Federal Police commissioner Facundo Rosas said the capture of Valdez, who's known by the unlikely nickname of "La Barbie," came after a yearlong hunt that involved as many as 1,200 law enforcement officers.
By Monday afternoon, a ring of security officers encircled the rustic mountain house in Salazar, about 20 miles west of Mexico City, where Valdez had holed up, Rosas said. Mobile phone service in the area was spotty, and the target and six underlings couldn't summon backup to fight their way free, he said. They were detained around 6:30 p.m. without any gunfire.
"Intelligence information indicates that 'La Barbie' trafficked one ton of cocaine each month," Federal Police counternarcotics chief Ramon Pequeno said at a news conference Tuesday.
His capture gives a boost to President Felipe Calderón, who declared war on drug cartels after coming to power in late 2006. The death toll, which recently soared past 28,000 people, has soured many Mexicans on Calderón's tough drug-enforcement policies. Valdez is the third top drug lord to be arrested or killed in nine months.
Government officials seemed to be seeking to regain support by offering abundant details about Valdez's background and capture.
Poire declared that Valdez maintained ties to drug gangs operating in the US and Central and South America, and a series of arrests during the day in Colombia appeared to bear out that claim.
From Laredo to Mexico City
Born in Laredo, Valdez's moved to Mexico City, where in 1998 he met Arturo Beltran-Leyva, a drug lord working for the surging Sinaloa Cartel, Pequeno said. As the Texan worked his way up the criminal chain, first in Nuevo Laredo along the border, then starting in 2004 in the Pacific Coast resort of Acapulco, he nurtured a reputation for extreme violence, including frequent beheadings of the Beltran-Leyva group's enemies.
The grisly reputation contrasted with his unlikely nickname, given because of his blue eyes and fair complexion – reminiscent of Ken, the Barbie doll's companion.
By 2007, Valdez ranked senior enough to take part in a meeting in the weekend getaway of Cuernavaca in which bosses of the Sinaloa, Juarez and Gulf cartels – along with the Gulf Cartel's armed wing, Los Zetas – gathered to hash out an end to conflict between the rival groups, Pequeno said.
Valdez had many enemies, but one of his bitterest feuds dated to his stint in Nuevo Laredo, where he battled the Gulf Cartel and its henchmen, Los Zetas, for smuggling routes, Pequeno said. His hatred of the No. 2 Zetas leader, Miguel Trevino Morales, alias "El L-40," was so severe it nearly caused a falling out with his own boss, Pequeno said.
Seizing control in Sinaloa Cartel
Eventually, Beltran-Leyva and his underlings broke from the Sinaloa Cartel, and when the drug lord died in a shootout in December with Mexican marines, his gang was ripped apart by violence, with "La Barbie" seizing control of a faction and becoming a major trafficker in his own right.
Valdez entrenched himself in Guerrero state, surrounding Acapulco, but also had operations in the states of Morelos, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Quintana Roo, and in Mexico City, police said.
Narcotics agents hunting "La Barbie" got a lucky break in a raid on Aug. 9 in the elegant Bosques de las Lomas district of Mexico City, which turned up evidence leading them to the accused drug lord's mountain safe house in Salazar, Rosas said.
The State Department had offered a $2 million bounty for Valdez and Mexican authorities held out a similar reward of around $2.2 million.
Narcotics charges in three US states
Valdez faces numerous federal narcotics charges in Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia, the earliest dating back to 1998 and the most recent announced in June in Atlanta.
Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration held Valdez on marijuana charges briefly in St. Louis when he was 19 but let him go, Pequeno said.
Under Calderón, Mexico has extradited scores of wanted criminals to stand trial in the US, breaking with the nation's past refusal to do so. Prison escapes are frequent in Mexico.
Mexico's most wanted drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, embarrassed Calderón's predecessor, Vicente Fox, in 2001 when he escaped from federal prison. Guzman remains on the loose, and rival cartels claim the government battles them but has given the Sinaloa Cartel free rein.
Other arrests in the hemisphere underscored cooperation between police and counter-drug agencies, including the DEA, in the move against "La Barbie."
In Colombia, the national police said they'd detained 11 people in the cities of Bogota, Medellin, Cali, Buenaventura and Pereira. One of them, Julio Cesar Pina Soberanis, a Mexican, is believed to be Valdez's emissary to traffickers in that country. Another, Denis Alvarino Gomez, is accused of serving as a go-between with members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a guerrilla group deeply involved in cocaine trafficking.


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By TOM HAYS Associated Press
NEW YORK June 14, 2013 (AP)
A former New York state senator who was accused of looting health clinics to pay for extravagances including pony rides and who pleaded guilty to tax fraud charges has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Pedro Espada Jr. was sentenced Friday in Brooklyn.
The once-influential Democrat also was convicted in a separate case alleging he looted the taxpayer-subsidized clinics.
Espada operated the clinics in the South Bronx for three decades until prosecutors accused him of turning the network into a personal ATM.
Espada offered no signs of remorse before sentencing. He instead talked about the clinics' history of providing care to poor New Yorkers.
Ex-NY Senator Gets 5 Years in Prison in Tax Case – ABC News


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Don't Fear The BufferPosted in How To: Body Chassis on July 1, 2012
If you're like us, there's a payment book that came with that 4x4 in your driveway. And if you're like us, you'd like your 4x4 to look decent for a long time after all the payments are made. After all, rust, oxidized paint, and scratches look like crap and undermine the value of your expensive investment. But if you're like us, finding the time to maintain the exterior of your rig just isn't happening. Heck, we can hardly find time to wash our rig. Fortunately, there are options to make the job thorough and quick.
We recently received a call from the folks at Shurhold Industries. It's like the company was telepathic or something, because it was really beginning to bug us that our seven year-old Dodge Power Wagon was beginning to show the effects of virtually no exterior maintenance. Shurhold is a Florida-based company that has been around for 39 years and it specializes in designing and manufacturing innovative specialty care and accessory products for the marine, RV, and auto industries. Shurhold offered to send us several items from its product line so we could show our Power Wagon some love. Here's what we used and the outcome.
The first thing we did was wash the truck (which is kind of a foreign concept for us). Per the instructions we mixed three ounces of Brite Wash soap with two gallons of water and rubbed off months of slime. Normally we don't get too excited about brushes and stuff, but we have to say that the adjustable Telescoping Handle with Deck Brush is pretty cool and it worked great for getting to the hard-to-reach windshield and hood on our lifted Power Wagon. It sped up the overall washing process, too. The brush has split-end fibers that hold ample soap and water so we weren't driving the dirt into our trucks paint. One of the handle's cool features is a quick-release system that allows for easy removal and installation of the brush or any one of Shurhold's 40 different attachment heads.
Bottom Line
As you can see in these before and after photos, the Shurhold products worked wonders on our Power Wagon's finish. Look at how mirror-like our rig's finish is in the after photo when compared to the before photo. In addition, we were able to eliminate many of the scratches that had accumulated over the years. The shine looks great, but we were even more interested in the practical aspect of protecting the finish on our Midwest-based truck from the road salt and mud that is inherent to the area. With that said, we were pleased when a couple of days after we used the Shurhold products we got our truck muddy off-road and were amazed at how easily the mud rinsed off the polished finish and there was no mud staining. As a bonus, even after buffing and polishing our big Quad Cab Power Wagon we still have approximately 80 percent of the 22-ounce Buff Magic and 16-ounce Pro Polish remaining so we should be able to buff and polish at least four more vehicles, depending on their size, before needing to purchase more chemicals.


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CLINTON, Iowa -- Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said Tuesday that he and running mate Mitt Romney would help more Americans find jobs so that they can pay taxes.
At a rally on the front lawn of a county courthouse, the Wisconsin Republican faced a question from a voter about why so many people don't pay federal income taxes. Romney recently was embarrassed when a secretly recorded video showed him telling donors that he would never win the votes of those Americans who don't pay federal income taxes. Democrats have been merciless in criticizing Romney for the remarks.
"We have 47 percent of the people in the United States pay no taxes, federal income taxes," the voter told Ryan. "Is there any way possible that this 47 percent can pay a nominal fee or something so that they feel that they have small ownership of the government and maybe they don't take all the handouts?"
Ryan said the answer was more jobs.
"I have an idea: Let's help them get jobs so they can get good paychecks and then they're good taxpayers," Ryan said, ignoring the fact that military members serving in war zones and seniors were among the millions who do not owe federal income taxes.
Ryan acknowledged, however, Romney's comments about the 47 percent muddled the political landscape.
"Sometimes the point doesn't get made the right way," Ryan said, but stood by the Romney campaign's standard rhetoric that the economy under President Barack Obama has been lousy and a GOP White House would fare better for workers.
Romney's campaign has suffered from the release of a hidden-camera video of Romney saying 47 percent of Americans see themselves as victims who depend on government help.
Last year, 46 percent of U.S. households paid no federal income tax, according to a study by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. Most do pay other federal taxes, including Medicare and Social Security withholding. And they're not all poor. Some middle-income and wealthy families escape income tax because of deductions, credits and investment tax preferences.
As Ryan set out on a bus tour of eastern Iowa, he tried to keep the campaign focused on Washington's spending and the Romney-Ryan ticket's plan to reduce it.
"We have a culture here in the Midwest that says you live within your means, you save, you don't waste," Ryan said. "You make sure your leave your children and your grandchildren better off."
He cautioned that deficit spending was leaving America weaker.
"We have a debt crisis on our horizon. We know this," he told the crowd on a chilly autumn morning. "Our debt is getting so big, so fast that it's going to surpass the debt levels that they have in Europe."
That, he said, threatens U.S. national security.
"Forty-eight percent of our debt is owned by foreign governments, China number one," Ryan said. "For every dollar that our government spends today, 36 cents of that is being borrowed, and about half of that is from countries like China. This means we have to rely on foreign governments to lend us their money to finance our government. We can't keep doing this. We have to put this to an end. We have to stop this because we lose our sovereignty and our independence and our ability to chart our own future."


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Today is a sad day indeed The greatest women pilot of all times just disapeared. President Roosevelt has sent out 66 planes and 4,000 men but they can't find any thing. Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were trying to fly around the world. They had some trouble but they kept trying until one day they were flying from Papua New Guinea to Howland Island. Some ship captain heard the report but the repair crew never came and they disapeared. So this were we are today mourning the loss of the beloved pilot Amelia Earhart.
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MILPITAS, California, June 1, 2007 - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) announced today that an Administrative Law Judge for the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) issued an Initial Determination that found that ST NAND flash memory infringed multiple claims of SanDisk United States Patent 5,991,517 ("'517 Patent") but that these claims of the '517 Patent were invalid. The Initial Determination found that ST NOR flash memory did not infringe the claims of the '517 Patent. The Initial Determination further found that ST NOR did not infringe certain claims of SanDisk United States Patent 5,172,338 ("'338 Patent"). As a result of these findings, the Initial Determination ruled that STMicroelectronics had not committed a violation of U.S. trade laws.
"SanDisk is disappointed in today's findings by an Administrative Law Judge of the ITC," said E. Earle Thompson, SanDisk's Chief Intellectual Property Counsel. "While SanDisk is pleased that the court found that the accused ST NAND flash memory infringed the '517 Patent, we believe the court erred in its finding that the claims of the '517 Patent were invalid and that the '338 Patent was not infringed. SanDisk is in the process of reviewing the Initial Determination and determining how it will respond to the findings of the Administrative Law Judge. SanDisk is also in the process of assessing its options to respond to the recent announcement by STMicroelectronics that it will spin off its NAND and NOR flash memory business. The Initial Determination will not have any impact on existing license agreements or the royalties expected from those agreements."
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate and may significantly and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
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Can you believe it is nearly December.... scary how quickly time just seems to fly, but I guess, better than being bored.....
Thanks for stopping by today and again, welcome to my new followers! I really enjoyed making these two calendar months, makes a nice change from all the autumn and wintery projects. If you have missed the previous months, you can find them HERE and HERE, so without further ado, here are May and June:
Call me Victorian. I have linked to my favourite one, but there are several other ones too.
Have a great weekend everyone!!
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What's Ailing America's Cattle?
Scientists Suspect Livestock-Feed Additives Are Behind Distress
A growing number of cattle arriving for slaughter at U.S. meatpacking plants have recently shown unusual signs of distress. Some walked stiffly, while others had trouble moving or simply lay down, their tongues hanging from their mouths. A few even sat down in strange positions, looking more like dogs than cows.
"I've seen cattle walking down a truck ramp tippy-toed," said Temple Grandin, a doctor of animal science and consultant to the livestock industry. "Normally, they just run down the truck ramp and jump...


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